Gem Stone Healing
July 7, 2009 by natalina
Filed under The Unexplained
I have always been interested in the healing power of stones and really anything provided by nature. As I was paging through my archive of downloaded Coast to Coast AM programs, I came upon an old favorite of mine.
George Noory interviewed a fun and informative woman named Dr. Shelley Kaehr. She’s a world renowned authority on holistic healing, and is really just the most bubbly and fun personality to listen to. She’s written many books about the healing properties of nature, as well as several novels.
I enjoyed the program so much, I decided to give it another listen. She explains that different stones contain varying vibrations. In order to tap into these vibes, you must place the stones on different points of the body, or chakras. They work best if you leave them there for approximately 20 minutes while you take a nap.
Dr. Kaehr laid out her list of the Top 10 most powerful healing gems and their properties.
- Rose Quartz: brings love, weight loss, and helps reduce wrinkles.
- Hematite: useful for grounding, and absorbing negative energy.
- Amethyst: fosters psychic development, helps battle addictions.
- Citrine: tends to attract financial abundance.
- Aventurine: alleviates aches and pains, and also attracts money.
- Sodalite: assists with thyroid and hypoglycemic issues.
- Lapis: most recommended by Cayce, helpful with migraines, acid reflux.
- Fluorite: relieves allergies and aids in concentration.
- Serpentine/Infinite: used for various kinds of healing and can turn dark when people use it because it takes on the person’s energy so they can heal.
- Bloodstone: a miraculous stone that works opposite to infinite because the user actually takes on its properties.
I just love the idea that these minerals created naturally contain some kind of healing or transformative quality. My father was always a collector of stones. Anywhere we went he’d search for rocks and he knows all of their names. My favorites are Bloodstone (not extremely pretty, but I love that it fades the more you handle it) and Amethyst. My dad has a raw Amethyst that he displays in a china cabinet, and as a little girl I would take it out and just hold it, looking at it, marveling at how the outside just looked like an ordinary rock, but inside was purple magic.
So what do you think? Can the human body and mind benefit from gem stones?
I don’t mean to poo poo anyone else’s beliefs but this one is one of my pet peeves. A gemstone is a rock – albeit a pretty one – and I can’t for the life of me believe that they could possibly have any power to do anything but look pretty and make a nice ornament. I’d love to see some scientific data on it. You know, like a scan while someone is using them to see what, if anything, happens to the body and brain.
I think it’s entirely possible that a person’s reaction to gemstones is psychosomatic.
Then again, there have been studies that have recorded unique “vibrations” given off by different types of stones, so who knows. Perhaps these vibrations do react with different aspects of human physiology.
Most mainstream researchers who’ve studied gemstone therapy and noted positive results feel that it has more to do with the way the brain reacts to colors than the stone’s vibrations.
I’ve never personally tried working with gems. With as often as I played with that big Amethyst as a kid, you’d think I would have developed crazy psychic powers by now!
I love amethyst. I have a big chunk of it somewhere that someone gave me as a gift. I wish I could find it, it’s so pretty! The power of the mind can be a strong healer there’s no doubt about that.
Me too. I have an amethyst and onyx necklace that I wear all the time. I kind of just love purple things. It is a color that works well for me, I guess.
Your daddy had a geode! I’m surprised I don’t recall ever seeing it. But then again, I probably passed by it several times and probably commented on its purdiness each time. You then probably told me I’ve seen it before, I probably got mad and swore I hadn’t, and then I probably forgot the conversation ever happened. That’s probably what happened.
So…speaking of citrine…ticket in ticket out, Baby!
DOGIM, you cheeky little so and so! Nice to see you around the blog sweetheart. Next time we’re home I’ll bring you over to the house and show you. It’s real real pretty. Don’t you remember all of the agates and polished stones my dad had around??
I’m sure you’ve seen the amethyst. Is it time to refill that ginkgo biloba??
Oh yeah…ticket in ticket out. Chaaaaching! I forgot about the citrine experiment! I guess I have worked with gemstones! I don’t think we had very good results, as I recall
Btw, Daughter of Goat Island Man, if you check back on this little sucker, can you please explain to me why we haven’t attempted to give the citrine experiment another go? I was thinking like…maybe this weekend? Hehehe! I’m so bad. Would it help if I told you you’re super pretty and I have a car on Saturday night??? Hmmmm?? Maybe I should just call you! Ha! Sorry I’ve been bad at keeping in touch. I miss your pretty face.
Maybe we should try something a little less expensive and do fries and gravy, and work our way up? Screw that, ticket in, ticket out. Hells Bells, Angel face, that sounds like food for the soul right now!
I do think stones have healing properties. Why is quartz used so extensively in electronic equipment, timepieces and other devices? It is a miraculous material and powerful energy conductor. The energy produced by certain stones is measurable, as I discovered when trying to use my cell phone in a crystal shop. Another thing is that I will read about the benefits of the stone/crystal after I have gotten it and will usually find that stone fit the need at the time. If I can give feelings about a stone not having read any documentation about it, and later find they are verifiable, then it is likely that the claims that crystals have healing properties may be true.
Charlene, I tend to agree with you that something is going on with gemstones. Where it comes from is a mystery, but there’s something there. A friend recently gave me a healing bloodstone and I grip it in my palm daily. It tends to ease my bones… what this means and where it will lead I do not know. But there are many healing things of the earth, why shouldn’t a gemstone be one of them? Thanks for contributing dear.
Natalina