​When we look at the history of charm stones, we find a variety of meanings and mystical powers associated with them. 

In some cultures, a charm stone is a good luck talisman. It can be a gemstone, a crystal, a pebble or a rock of some mineral origin, that is believed to have special healing, mystical or at times even paranormal abilities or energy. It is said that President Roosevelt and Napoleon both wore charmstones on their jackets to help them in battle. Charmstones are also worn as inspirational charms by many people. In fact, you can find many historical charmstones displayed in different museums throughout the world.

We find that charm stones came in various shapes and sizes… and also as different articles. They were embedded in a piece of jewelry like a pendant or a ring that someone could wear, or set in breast-plate or body armor, particularly for the army men and other warriors. 

Sometimes these charm stones were carried around by the individual in their pocket to imbibe their positive energies and at other times, they were displayed it in their immediate environment like their home or work area. 

​We find that charm stones were traditionally made from crystals, gemstones or other special rocks and pebbles. They were just a tumbled stone by itself or set in wood, metal or leather. Sometimes, people would energetically enhance these charms by saying various chants or spells to 'program' the object for a particular purpose.

A popular stone for lucky charms is amethyst, which helps us manifest our dreams and achieve our goals. It is a powerful amulet with strong psychic effects.  

Another powerful charmstone that has been used over the years, is the moonstone. It is a very feminine stone and its milky luster is reminiscent of the moon light. It was considered as a very nurturing and protective stone, particularly while traveling thru the rough seas. So, it was a favorite stone for sailors and travelers. This stone was also used as a protective amulet. 

Another famous traditional charmstone is lapis lazuli. The dreamy blue color of lapis lazuli has made this stone the perfect choice for a charmstone. However, it can be a bit delicate, so it should be handled with care. 

Lapis Lazuli is believed to have many benefits in crystal therapy, but when used as a charmstone, the deep blue color with flecks of gold is supposed to induce a soothing and calming effect. It is also considered an excellent aid in achieving mental clarity and removing negativity. 

Lapis lazuli is also believed to surround a person with positive vibrations, thus possibly helping to bring about an emotional balance by warding off depressive tendencies. A lapis lazuli charmstone is believed to reduce hopelessness in a person and to make the wearer feel more positive and optimistic about themselves and their life-situation.

Though it is believed that charm stones utilize the positive beneficial energies of various crystals, we cannot state this conclusively! 

We find that many a times, a particular charm stone has a certain effect on one individual but may/not have a similar effect on another person. Because of this, there are many people who believe that charm stones do not have any intrinsic positive vibrations of their own, but are effective because of the wearer's 'belief'… displaying a placebo-effect… to bring about their desired outcomes. It is possible that there is some truth to such line of thinking. 

As individuals, we are seeking good, positive experience in our life and in this regard, if a particular crystal or stone can make us feel good, help us feel positive and hopeful, then why not benefit from their positive presence in our life? 

Till we are aware that like any other external tool, such charm stones are a temporary prop to help us on our life-path and our spiritual journey, then we can consciously and with complete awareness utilize their help, while simultaneously working on our inner being. 

Because ultimately, we need to enhance our inner self and raise our consciousness-level, so that we can experience ascension to higher states of existence.

​Aside from its calming effects on the nervous system, amazonite has numerous physical benefits. Its properties include opening the throat chakra and enhancing love communication. Furthermore, it opens the connection between the thymus and the throat. Thus, amazonite is also effective for easing rheumatic and joint problems. It can also improve one's character and sense of humor. In addition, amazonite is considered a powerful stone for healing the heart and other chakras.

Another of Amazonite's many benefits is its ability to restore hope. The crystal works to realign the chakras and restore emotional balance. It also balances the male and female energies and clears the mental fog caused by modern technology. The crystal is also effective for overcoming obstacles in the physical realm. It helps to create a positive mindset, allowing people to achieve their goals. This powerful crystal is beneficial for the entire family, as it is good for all ages.

​Besides being a wonderful healing crystal, Amazonite is an effective way to enhance one's self-esteem. It helps one's self-esteem and teaches one to celebrate joy in life. It also encourages people to trust their own intuition and to be true to themselves. By enhancing self-esteem, Amazonite helps people to experience happiness in relationships. It helps them become open-minded, nurturing, honest, and optimistic, a great combination for anyone.

In the ancient world, Amazonite was used by indigenous tribes as a tool for healing. Ancient Amazonite women wore these stones as adornments for shields and to heal wounds and sickness. 

Amazonite is also known as the "hope stone" because it inspires confidence and produces hope in manifesting desires. It also aids in communication and energy work, as it promotes transformation.  Amazonite also helps to make one be more cognizant and aware of the impact of one's words on others. It also helps one to overcome emotional challenges and assists people to speak their truth. It also aids enhancing one's EMF sensitivity. Being a powerful healing crystal, amazonite can be a useful addition to a collection of other crystals.

Amazonite crystals stimulate the Heart Chakra and help people understand the other's point of view. Moreover, they help in manifesting dreams and desires.

The positive energy emitted from the amazonite stone is particularly useful when dealing with emotions such as fear and anger. It can change the way you express yourself and help you cope with emotional pain. The energy it embodies can make you more positive and compassionate.  In addition, it can also help you to understand and cope with the sadness you're feeling. Consequently, the amazonite crystal is an excellent choice for any situation, especially if you're facing grief or sadness.

The Amazonite stone also helps clear congestion in the respiratory system. It balances thyroid gland energy and promotes clear thinking. Hence, it is a useful tool for people who want to deal with various challenges in their lives. 

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​Amethyst is known for its calm, peaceful and serene energy. It can help you to relax and rejuvenate. It can relax the body and help to reduce anxiety. Because of this amethyst crystal is great for those times when you feel anxious, jittery, and nervous. In these situations, holding a small piece of tumbled amethyst will relax your muscles, and instantly make you feel more peaceful… mentally and physically relaxed.

We can benefit from this relaxing effect of Amethyst by simply holding an amethyst tumbled rock in your hand or sitting next to a large geode of amethyst.

It is believed that Amethyst emits small, but noticeable amounts of magnetic field and this naturally occurring magnetic field is supposed to be very beneficial for our body. In addition, it is also believed that amethyst can beneficially interact with the far-infrared light.

Ofcourse, more study is required to determine the scientific basis for such claims, but it has been found that amethyst exhibits several of the benefits, that come from emitting small amounts of natural magnetic fields and having energetic interactions with the far infrared wavelengths!

So, even though there is no firm scientific evidence to support these beneficial claims, considering the fact that we are using this crystal externally (in a non-intrusive manner), it is fairly cheap in cost and it is quite easy to obtain a small piece of tumbled amethyst; it may be wise on our part to take these beneficial observances by others into consideration… and include this crystal in our spiritual and physical wellbeing tools-repertoire!!

Amethyst is believed to exhibit positive health benefits such as promoting growth and regeneration of healthy cells as well as heightened exuberance and increased physical energy levels.

In addition, amethyst has been shown to have a beneficial effect on the body’s endocrine system (hormonal system), particularly the pituitary gland, thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, as well as pineal and reproductive glands. It is the pineal gland which gets activated as we go into deep meditation, and it is the pineal gland that has been associated with spiritual progress and prowess. But more on that in another post…

Another benefit that has been observed is that amethyst seems to help with balancing our metabolism and also assist with eliminating toxins. This cleansing effect has been observed at a physical level and also in the spiritual sense, by cleansing the body’s energy centers (called chakras). Amethyst has been known to burn calories at a more rapid pace and thus assist with weight loss. This could also be because of the positive balancing effect that amethyst has on the overall hormonal system.

Sitting next to an amethyst-geode for prolonged periods of time or meditating while holding a small, tumbled piece of amethyst in your hand or placing it on your physical self such as over your forehead (third eye region) while doing a laying down meditation, can work wonders to improve your overall health and well-being.

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We are all looking to have caring, loving and helpful people in our life. We want to feel loved and also experience love, warmth and sweet emotions for those special people in our life like a life-partner, close buddies and so on. Even though we may feel that there are many people surrounding us- as friends, family and coworkers, this does not necessarily equate to helpful and loving people around us. And particularly in today’s day and age, where broken families and single people are more of a norm rather than an exception; it seems like everyone is so caught up in their own mind and their own web of repeated though patterns that no one is really taking the time or making an effort to really being there or paying attention to others around them, leave alone be loving or caring towards those people!!

This is where Rose Quartz crystal can be very helpful. Its peaceful and loving vibrations emanate love and attract loving energies from the Universe. It helps to attract love, caring and helpful people into your life. It helps you to build loving relationships that are not one-sided or codependent but are built on strong foundations of healthy love and universal brotherhood (divine love).

There are many ways in which you can use rose quartz so as to benefit from its loving and soothing energies.

​For starters you can keep a piece of rose quartz on your desk or at your prayer altar. You can wear rose quartz jewelry- such as a ring, bracelet or even earrings to feel its presence and its energies very close to your body. As we know, anything that is on our person, on your body (as in jewelry) that helps to more easily assimilate its energy into our aura. This further amplifies a crystal’s efficacy- i.e. effectiveness.

In addition, you can also hold a small crystal of rose quartz in your palm while you meditate. Doing this can be very powerful. So, it needs to be done with complete focused intension and without any attachment for the outcome!! Even as you focus and meditate on loving energy entering your life, let the Universe handle all the details. 

To do this- you can hold a crystal of rose quartz in your hand and visualize having loving and caring interactions with people. Visualize having loving and helpful people in your life who care for you and you in turn care for them. Visualize and feel loved and cared for- by the many people in your life and also by life itself. Believe that you are truly loved and cared for by the Universe, the Divine.
 
As mentioned earlier, simply do such a visualization with complete faith and focused intension, but do not get into the details or get attached to the outcome. Do not worry about timelines or the fact that there are still many uncaring people around you or that you have not met that special companion, that life partner that you are looking to spend your life with… all that will come in due time and as per the Divine schedule. 
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Now do remember that rose quartz will not only help to attract ‘love’ as in emotional relationships in your life; but it will also help to bring in all kinds of loving relationships- such as friendships, mentors, teachers and guides and nice, kind people into your life. Also, rose quartz can help to pacify strife and arguments within your existing relationships. 
 
What you are doing here with rose quartz is focusing your attention and sending forth your wish, your want and your intension into the cosmos. Then the Universal Law of Attraction will formulate (create) and give you what you are seeking in due time as per your karma- your past actions (which determine your fate or destiny) as well as your current karma- your actions which you perform under free-will. 

Basically, the calm, peaceful, loving and soothing energies of rose quartz will help to attract loving energies and people presence into your life.

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We have been using crystals and gemstones as items of beauty and mysterious gifts for centuries. When the energy fields of your body are depleted due to constant suffering from illnesses, emotional outbreaks or stress, specific crystals have the capability to stimulate these energy fields and establish the much needed energy equilibrium.

​Crystals contain spiritual energy that brings balance to your body’s energy and cleans negativities. People around the world have increasingly been looking for crystal healing to treat asthma, insomnia, stress, depression, colitis and many other diseases. 

Healers place the crystals on specific areas of your body called chakras. You can also carry, wear or place the rightly chosen crystals to feel the healing vibrations.

Crystals can help you live a healthy and peaceful life in the following ways:

Protective and Shielding Crystals
Wearing or carrying the shielding amulets can protect you from a number of negative influences. They work by absorbing all the negativities from your body through vibrations. Since crystals become impure after picking up bad vibrations from your body, you should know how to cleanse them properly to make the crystals pure again. Fluorite and diamond are the two most popular protective crystals. 

Energizing Crystals
Crystals like topaz and opal help you by providing energy boost from time to time. Very high vibrations of these crystals make them extremely powerful, and this is why they are considered very important when going through bad times. You can use these super-charged stones when feeling weak, broken or fatigued. 

Love Gemstones
Love and forgiveness are the things that can change your whole perspective towards life. When you love someone unconditionally or forgive a person who betrayed you, your heart and soul feels at peace. There are certain gemstones that help people attract love. Rose quartz, Apatite and Colbaltocalcite are such crystals that make you feel compassionate towards everyone around you.

Record Keepers
Certain crystals are very wise and can retain information for a very long time. You can easily identify such gemstones because they have one or more raised triangles. These crystals not only help you retain the information, they also help you maintain focus. Students are advised to keep Ruby, Garnets or Turritella Agate when in class, especially during the exams. 

Chakra Balancing Crystals
Chakras are the specific parts of body where energy imbalances could occur. Using different gemstones, the practitioners can determine where the imbalances are. There are some crystals used to align all your basic chakras. The color of a gemstone and the chakra it is placed on are usually the same. It allows the better transfer of energy and vibrations. 

Meditation Crystals
Focus and clarity of thinking keeps people productive for a very long time. Amethysts, Alabaster and Iolite are such stones that help you increase focus and connect with your inner self. In Eastern cultures emerald has been known to strengthen intelligence.

Crystal healing is very powerful, but as the crystals absorb your negative vibrations, they become impure. You need to maintain the crystals by washing them in salt water or by covering them with table salt. Further you need to wash them in clean tap water before using again.

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​As we all know, crystals are believed to have many healing and beneficial energies. They have been used for beauty and healing since time immemorial.

​You can absorb the beneficial energies of crystals in many ways- typical uses are to have them around you in your immediate space like on your work desk or as a room décor-piece. You can even wear them as jewelry. 

One of the simple ways to imbibe the wonderful crystal energy is to simply hold some of the smaller crystals in your hand and feel deeply to absorb their beneficial energies. 

Crystals have also been utilized for a long time as a divination tool. One can ask a question while holding a pouch of crystals and then pick out the one which feels ‘right' and interpret the answer.  

You can check the Crystal Wisdom   category for description of several crystals that are typically used in Crystal Divination.

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Rose Quartz is the stone of Universal Love.

The soothing light and pink color of Rose Quartz crystal is not only appealing to the eyes but it also helps to attract love in all forms into our life. Rose Quartz helps to attract and bring loving people and situations into our life.

As per astrology, Rose Quartz is believed to have the energy of Venus- a planet (graha) which is the archetype for, i.e. rules the energy of, love and relationships.

​There are many ways in which you can tap into and benefit from the lovely energies of Rose Quartz. You can keep a Rose Quartz crystal on your bed stand. You can also keep a crystal on your prayer altar. You can light a pink or red candle near the rose quartz crystal while sending out the intension that you are attracting friends and a loving relationship into your life. 

You can also wear Rose Quartz jewelry such as a ring with a similar intension of inviting loving people and relationship into your life. 

You do not need to get into any specifics!! In fact, it can be very detrimental to get into too many details! You simply have the intension and let the Universe handle all the details!! 

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