What Stones Help With Stress & Anxiety?

People have used stones and crystals for centuries to block or absorb negative energy, easing 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 stabilize and center individuals who feel anxious or out of sorts. It helps resolve conflicts and restore balance. Because it is a grounding stone, it benefits someone who experiences panic attacks or agoraphobia. Agate's vibrations are softer and slower than those of many other crystals, which helps 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 help heal 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 amplify prosperity by fostering wise, intuitive decision-making. 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 called the gambler's stone because it is believed to bring confidence, luck, and perhaps even wealth. It is an excellent stone to choose when you need a positive change in your fate. It also calms negative emotions and restores positivity, thankfulness, and appreciation.
• Azurite is a blue stone that helps 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 stone with a white or silver layer running through it that protects you from dangerous, energy-draining forces 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, this crystal is said to redirect others' evil intentions back to them. 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. In general, tourmaline 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 stone with black speckling or swirling throughout. It helps an individual stop living in a dream world, 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 to achieve personal goals. Citrine is beneficial whenever you intend to increase happiness. Citrine also promotes prosperity.
• Clear quartz is a transparent crystal resembling ice and is often found in the first-aid kits of healers and witchcraft practitioners. It is known as a master healer. It brings enlightenment and clarity, dispels negativity, and helps you focus and manifest your goals and desires. Quartz amplifies any energy around it, whether positive or negative. Therefore, you must clean this stone regularly to maintain positive energy. Smoky quartz can align the chakras from head to toe. Also, see Rose quartz below.
• Fluorite is a multi-colored stone (primarily greens, browns, and lavenders) that reflects different colors under UV light. It absorbs and neutralizes nearby negative energy, clarifies emotionally clouded situations, and clears 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 promote better sleep. Fluorite can also 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 the sole source of protection from illness.
• 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 the mind and becoming more physically grounded. Whenever toxic emotions cause instability, hematite can help. It is known for reducing tension during 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 individuals or companies escape financial debt. It helps identify the causes of financial problems, such as poor money-management habits or oversights. It can help one 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 across all areas by helping individuals overcome past self-limitations, such as negative self-talk, and encouraging them to visualize a new life. 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, soothe emotions, and go 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 red. However, it can also contain beige, white, and black colors. It is another stone best used for grounding and feeling more stable during stress. It can also shake a person up in a positive way, helping them acknowledge and align with their passions. Red jasper increases creativity, strength, and courage.
• Rose quartz is a pink-colored, glassy crystal with a high vibration that dispels 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 find true love (their soulmate).
• Rhodochrosite is primarily white and pink, with smatterings of black and light brown. It enhances self-worth by fostering unconditional self-love. As a result, rhodochrosite helps one love again after being hurt, 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 cleanses and purifies. It subtly raises one's energy levels, drives away negative emotions such as fear and grief, and promotes calmness and happiness. It helps an individual pinpoint personal issues that need addressing and offers 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 you with your true self and gives you the strength to express yourself creatively. Sodalite also helps calm overstressed adrenal glands and handle stress more effectively, increasing harmony and balance. 
• Tiger Eye (also known as Tiger's Eye) is a brown 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's eye is also the "go-to" stone for strength, courage, and maximizing focus, as well as for 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 is a 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 negatively invades one's aura. It brings tranquility and calms the wounded heart. ​