Stones & Crystals for Stress & Anxiety
Stones and crystals have been used for centuries to block or absorb negative energy, alleviating stress and certain medical conditions. The following stones and crystals are most commonly used to relieve stress and anxiety. You can wear them as jewelry, use them in prayer, or place them around the office and home to harmonize personal and environmental energies. When worn as jewelry, try to wear the stones close to your heart.
- Agate is often yellow-colored with shimmering bands running through it. Agate is associated with Earth and helps to stabilize and center the individual who feels anxious or out of sorts. It helps settle conflicts and enables you to regain balance in life. Because it is a grounding stone, it benefits someone who experiences panic attacks or agoraphobia. Agate's vibrations are softer and slower than many other crystals, which helps to calm stressful situations. Moss agate, a green-colored variety of agate, is known to help people persevere, especially when overcoming addictions. It also helps with fungal infections. Blue lace agate is believed to aid in the healing of eye infections.
- Amethyst is a luxurious-looking lavender or purple-colored crystal that helps one relax. It protects the human electromagnetic energy field (the aura) and draws in spiritual intervention and blessings. Amethyst is considered a protective stone, mainly concerning finances and work-related issues. In some cultures, amethyst is believed to magnify prosperity by encouraging wise and intuitive decision-making skills. It is also thought to inhibit drunkenness.
- Aventurine is a green-colored stone that helps individuals overcome obstacles and accept challenges head-on when making tough decisions. It is often referred to as the gambler's stone, as it is believed to bring confidence, luck, and perhaps even wealth. It is an excellent stone to choose when one's fate needs a positive change. It also calms negative emotions and restores positivity, thankfulness, and appreciation.
- Azurite is a blue-colored stone that works to activate one's spiritual quest. It enhances intuition and spiritual wisdom. It also increases creativity and is an excellent stone for initiating projects or studying for final exams. It promotes communication by helping individuals find their voice and speak their truth. Azurite connects an individual to the divine.
- Black tourmaline (my personal favorite) is a black, jagged-looking stone with a white or silver layer running through it, which protects one from dangerous energy drainers, such as black magic, psychic vampires, toxic individuals, and abusers. It is one of the most powerful stones for protection. When worn on the body, it is said that this crystal redirects evil intentions from others back to themselves. When placed anywhere in a room, it helps to drive away negative energy. When placed near electrical devices (such as computers, microwaves, and televisions), it reduces the harmful effects of electromagnetic energy fields. Tourmaline, in general, can also release guilt. Green tourmaline can repair holes in the aura.
- Celestite is a beautiful, sky-blue crystal with a high vibration that helps alleviate anxieties related to relationship turmoil and calms the emotional storm that dysfunctional relationships bring in their wake. It is also a stone of reconciliation, helping to reduce chaotic thoughts and quiet the "monkey-chatter" in the mind while trying to sleep.
- Chrysocolla is primarily a sea blue-colored stone with black speckling or swirling through it. It helps an individual stop living in a dream world, to make a choice, commit to it, and begin taking steps to manifest desires in the real world. Chrysocolla is associated with increasing one's capacity for self-love, relieving burnout, and facilitating new beginnings.
- Citrine is a highly energetic, transparent yellow crystal that lightens one's load and promotes optimism and cheerfulness. It is an excellent stone for enhancing mental abilities, which in turn increases motivation toward achieving personal goals. Citrine is beneficial whenever there's an intention to increase happiness. Citrine also promotes prosperity.
- Clear quartz is a transparent crystal that resembles ice and is often found in the first aid kits of healers and practitioners of witchcraft. It is known as one of the master healers. It brings enlightenment and clarity, dispels negativity, and helps one to focus and manifest one's goals and desires. The quartz will amplify any energy surrounding it, whether positive or negative. Therefore, this stone must be cleaned regularly to maintain positive energy. Smokey quartz can align the chakras from the head to the toes. Also, see Rose quartz below.
- Fluorite is a multi-colored stone (primarily greens, browns, and lavenders) reflecting different colors when UV light is exposed. It absorbs and neutralizes negative energy in its vicinity, clarifies emotionally clouded situations, and clears the chakra pathways. Fluorite can help to relax the overwhelmed mind and is especially useful for Highly Sensitive People and those with ADD. It also helps to promote a better night's sleep. Fluorite can also be used to magnify the power of other stones. Fluorite is also considered the "go-to" stone for protection against viruses. However, NEVER use stones and crystals as a single source of protection from illnesses.
- Garnet is a deep red gemstone that provides grounding energy and encourages living life through the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch (to live life fully). It enhances the laws of attraction and deepens love between partners. Garnet helps to relieve depression and promote courage.
- Hematite is a dark stone with a silvery sheen. It is the best stone for clearing one's mind and becoming more grounded physically. Whenever toxic emotions are causing unsteadiness, hematite can help. It is known for reducing tension in times of turmoil. This stone can help to promote positive outcomes in legal disputes and court cases. Additionally, because of its high iron content, it supports blood circulation.
- Holed rocks are natural rocks found at beaches and rivers that have formed a natural hole in the center. Holed rocks are not crystals but, as mentioned earlier, are composites of one or more different minerals. Holed rocks offer protection specifically against lousy weather or home invasion.
- Iolite is a black and dark-blue stone that helps an individual or company escape financial debt. It provides a push in determining what caused economic problems, such as poor money-handling habits or oversights. It can help one to rework budgets and get back on track by avoiding financial pitfalls.
- Jade is a green-colored stone used mainly for luck, wisdom, and fortune. It's particularly prized in Asian cultures. It promotes financial prosperity and success in all areas by helping individuals overcome previous self-limitations, including negative self-talk, and encourages them to visualize a new existence. It is also used for love and protection.
- Moonstone is a white, feminine stone with traces of other colors (blue, yellow, grey) that brings out receptiveness, sensitivity, and tenderness. It can help an individual connect with their feelings while soothing emotions and going with the flow. It helps reveal hidden secrets to those seeking to understand what's happening in any situation, including secret enemies. Moonstones can also help with hormonal issues, such as puberty, PMS, and menopause.
- Pyrite (fool's gold) is a jagged, silvery, shimmery stone with strong protective powers that guides a person to higher wisdom and attracts wealth, prosperity, and abundance. It improves determination and persistence, motivating one to stop fence-sitting and take action.
- Red jasper is primarily a red stone. However, it can also contain beige, white, and black colors. It is another stone best used for grounding and feeling more stable during stress. However, it also shakes a person up in a positive way and helps one to acknowledge and align oneself with their passions. Red jasper increases creativity, strength, and courage.
- Rose quartz is a pink-colored glassy crystal with a high vibration that drives away negativity and hurt. Rose quartz is primarily associated with romantic love, feelings of affection, and contentment in loving relationships. It opens the heart to friendship, love, and forgiveness, promoting compassion in every area of life. Rose quartz can help one to find true love (their soul mate).
- Rhodochrosite is a primarily white and pink-colored stone that may also include smatterings of black and light-brown colors. It enhances feelings of self-worth by fostering unconditional love toward oneself. As a result, rhodochrosite helps one to love again after being hurt by encouraging trust once more. At the same time, it allows one to break free from harmful scripts that can lead to poor relationships in the first place.
- Selenite is a lower-vibrational, opaque, white stone that brightens the energy of people and spaces. It is a stone that cleanses and purifies. It subtly raises one's energy levels, drives away negative emotions such as fear and grief, and promotes a sense of calmness and happiness. It helps an individual pinpoint personal issues that need to be addressed and provides ways to solve them. Selenite also boosts the metaphysical powers of other stones and crystals.
- Sodalite comes in shades of black and blue with white or light brown rivers running through it. Sodalite is most effective in addressing issues of self-esteem and self-confidence. It reconnects one with their true self and the strength to express themselves creatively. Sodalite also helps to calm overstressed adrenal glands and to handle stress more effectively, thereby increasing harmony and balance.
- Tiger Eye (also known as Tiger's Eye) is a brown-colored stone with yellow-gold bands, believed to protect against the evil eye, a malicious glare intended to harm another person. Meaning it prevents and removes curses. It also resolves internal conflicts. Tiger eye is also the "go-to" stone for strength, courage, maximizing focus, and brainstorming new ways to handle life's significant challenges.
- Turquoise is a blue-green stone that contains iron oxide, giving it a speckled, Easter egg-like appearance. It is considered the master healer of stones. Native Americans believe it to be the bridge between heaven and earth. Turquoise fosters honest communication and promotes healing of the body, mind, and spirit through open dialogue. It's a protective shield against anything that invades one's aura negatively. It brings tranquility and calms the wounded heart.
