Earth's Treasures

All throughout the ages, the healing properties of gemstones, their beauty, and magic have been recognized and harnessed. As far back as the Stone Age, men and women wore crystal jewelery. They had a protective, as well as a decorative function, guarding their wearer against harm. The ancients employed gemstones for protection, adornment, healing and for seeing into the future. Gemstones were frequently worn and carried by ancient Egyptians as amulets and charms. Greek mythology frequently refers to gemstones, and many have been discovered in the tombs of Chinese rulers. Gemstones were used extensively in ceremonies and initiations by the Native Americans, the Mayans and Aztecs. The breastplate of the Jewish High Priest was set with precious stones; it conveyed power to the wearer. Gemstones today carry the same power and jewelry can be selected, not just on the basis of its beauty. Here, you will discover that wearing gemstones is a highly effective way to promote health and healing. They can boost your energy; clean your space; attract wealth; enhance your intuition; increase mental abilities; boost your confidence; bring abundance; or even attract love.

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	Agate is an excellent stone for re-balancing and harmonizing body, mind and spirit. It cleanses and stabilizes the aura, eliminating and transforming negativity. Agate enhances mental function, improving concentration, perception and analytical abilities. It soothes and calms, healing inner anger or tension and creates a sense of security and safety.
	Amethyst is a powerful and protective stone. It relieves stress and strain, soothes irritability, dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety. Alleviates sadness and grief, and dissolves negativity. Amethyst activates spiritual awareness, and opens intuition. It has strong healing and cleansing powers. Amethyst encourages sobriety, having a sobering effect on overindulgence of alcohol, drugs or other addictions. It calms and stimulates the mind, helping you become more focused, enhancing memory and improving motivation. Amethyst assists in remembering and understanding dreams. It encourages selflessness and spiritual wisdom.
	Aventurine is a stone of prosperity. It reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. Promotes compassion and empathy. It stabilizes one€™s state of mind, stimulates perception, enhances creativity and calms anger. Aventurine balances male-female energy.
	Chrysocolla calms, cleanses and re-energizes the body. It is thought to draw out guilt, heal heartache and increase the capacity to love. It encourages self-awareness and inner balance. Imparts sensitivity and inspires creativity. Helps to overcome phobias by drawing out negativity and supplying motivation.
	Garnet cleanses and re-energizes the body. It revitalizes, purifies and balances energy, bringing serenity, passion, and love. Garnet helps to alleviate emotional disharmony. It activates and strengthens the survival instinct, strengthening courage and hope. It sharpens perceptions of oneself and aids in removing inhibitions, while opening the heart and bestowing self-confidence.
	Jade is a symbol of serenity and purity. It increases love and nurturing feelings and helps the bearer to attract and recognize good luck and friendship. Jade brings harmony and stabilizes the personality. Soothes the mind, promotes self-sufficiency, and helps the release of negative thoughts. Jade is considered to be a €œdream stone€, and helps to bring insightful dreams. Jade encourages you to become who you really are.
	Jasper is known as the supreme nurturer. It it known to help sustain and support through times of stress, bringing tranquility, protection, and absorbing negative energy. Jasper clears electromagnetic and environmental pollution, including radiation. It encourages honesty with one's self and provides courage to assertively tackle problems. Jasper stimulates the imagination and helps transform ideas into action.
	Kyanite is an excellent stone for meditation and attunement. It will not retain negative vibrations or energy, and as such it will never requiring clearing. It provides balance of energy and helps energy to flow gently through the body, generating a calming effect on the whole being, bringing tranquility. Kyanite drives away anger, frustration, confusion and stress and helps to provide a capacity for linear and logical thought. It provides a stimulating energy, and helps with dream recall. Kyanite is also known to promote emotional healing within one's dreams.
	Moonstone is a stone for new beginnings and emotional balance, promoting inner growth and strength. Moonstone carries lunar energy and is known to soothe emotional instability and stress, and stabilize the emotions, providing calmness and serenity. It promotes inspiration and the desire to nurture.
	Obsidian is a strong protective stone, helping to form an emotional shield against negativity. Obsidian draws out mental stress and tension. It stimulates growth on all levels, urging exploration of the unknown. Brings clarity to the mind and clears confusion, helping you to know who you truly are. Obsidian dissolves emotional blockages and ancient traumas. Promotes compassion and mental strength.
	Opal is an emotional stone and reflects the mood of the wearer. It intensifies emotions and releases inhibitions. Encourages both freedom and independence. It stimulates originality and creativity. Helps to release anger and claim self-worth, aiding in accessing and expressing one€™s true self. Opal strengthens memory. Wearing Opal brings loyalty, faithfulness and spontaneity.
	Peridot is a powerful cleansing gem. It releases and neutralizes toxins, alleviates resentment, spite, bitterness, hatred and greed. It reduces stress, anger and guilt. Peridot is known to enhance confidence and assertion. It sharpens and opens the mind to new levels of awareness. Peridot enables you to take responsibility for your own life.
	Quartz is known as the "master healer" and will amplify energy and thought, as well as the effect of other crystals. Quartz crystals have 6 primary properties. They are able to structure, store, amplify, focus, transmit and transform energy, which includes matter, thought, emotion and information. Quartz draws off negative energy of all kinds. It balances the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual planes. Quartz also aids concentration.
	Rose Quartz is the "stone of universal love". It restores trust and harmony in relationships, encouraging unconditional love. Rose Quartz purifies and opens the heart at all levels to promote love, self-love, friendship, deep inner healing and feelings of peace. Rose Quartz helps dispel negativity, replacing it with loving energy. It encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance invoking self-trust and self-worth, and is useful to overcoming addictions and deep-seated guilt.
	Tigerseye is known to bring good luck to the wearer. It is a beautiful form of chalcedony, with the power to focus the mind, promoting mental clarity, assisting one to resolve problems objectively and unclouded by emotions. It is used for dispelling fear and anxiety, as well as for recognizing one's own needs in relation to the needs of others. Tigerseye promotes emotional balance, stabilizing mood swings. It imbues the bearer with willpower, purpose, courage and self-confidence.
	Topaz soothes and heals emotional distress, directing energy to where it is needed most. It promotes truth and forgiveness, bringing joy and generosity. It is known as a stone of love and good fortune. Topaz promotes openness and honesty, self-realization and self-control. Topaz aids in making one's self receptive to love from all sources.
	Turquoise is a purification stone. It dispels negative energy and can be worn to protect against outside influences. Turquoise balances and aligns energy, instilling inner calm. It is excellent for depression and exhaustion, and it also has the power to prevent panic attacks. Turquoise promotes self-realization. It symbolizes friendship and stimulates romantic love.
	Unakite is a stone of vision. It balances emotions with spirituality, providing grounding when needed. It facilitates the gentle release of conditions that inhibit spiritual and psychological growth. Unakite can be very helpful in the steady release of feelings long held in.