Healing stones and crystals

[Changing4Best]

I have been collecting stones all my life. Little things like this, especially when polished and made pretty and colorful have always been precious to me. I have a pretty good sized collection of them and I usually carry some around with me in my pocket these days. I sometimes meditate with one in my hand even. They make me happy to look at them and they can be used to calm one's spirit or just in general for healing.

Here is a website that has a lot of info about healing stones and their various benefits:

Healing Stones Meanings, Discover the Gemstone Healing Power

I've got some hematite and a rose quartz as well as an amethyst and a regular piece of quartz in my pocket right now. Also a carnelian. This combination of stones has helped me get through the last few days when I needed their properties to get me by in life better. I am grateful to God for these stones and the many others that I have in my collection. I am awed by their beauty and often marvel over the fact that they came from somewhere deep within the earth or from somewhere in creation.

Do you have any special stones? Do you meditate with them or use them for healing at all? Tell me about your collections and I will tell you about mine!

 

[Ronin]

I have shitton special stones and given I can't throw them at anyone that hurt me&mine, their meditative & healing properties been pretty much wasted.

 

[Changing4Best]

I have shitton special stones and given I can't throw them at anyone that hurt me&mine, their meditative &...

Well, let me tell you about the first rock that ever caught my eye. It was pink in color, smooth and had little colored stones embedded in it. Each one was a different color, but this rock was smooth and fun to hold in my hand. All the embedded rocks didn't stick out of it at all. The whole thing was smooth all the way around. I found it on the beach. So I think the ocean and the sands ground it down for me and made it like it was, so smooth. I think it was the most unique rock I had ever seen at that point. I was maybe 6-7 years old when I found it. I used to carry it around in my pocket. I loved taking it out and looking at it and holding it and running my fingers over it. That is how my rock collection started.

Do you have any hobbies? I guess this is my hobby, so it makes me happy. It was probably my first or second hobby in my life. So if you have any hobbies, maybe you could understand how it makes me feel to collect rocks and stones and gems.

 

[Ronin]

Good for you, Sheila. :)

I'm glad you have interests that make you happy.
It's just I'm not a big believer in healing magic (TM) of the stones. Herbs, more like. Actual chemistry to back that up. Other traditional healing practices? Ditto: community and basically powerful psychology and strong source of support and peopley-connectedness in those rites.

 

[Changing4Best]

Actually, the Native Americans use healing stones in their practices, I was told by the lady who sold me some of them this past weekend. She had a book that was written by a Native American woman. I will have to get its title, so I can share it with you here. I will maybe get a chance to do that today even. We shall see. It being a holiday, I don't know if she is open or not....

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

I have a few stones/gems that were gifted to me that I keep in my sacred spaces. Rose quartz, amethyst, turquoise, tigers eye, and citrine are the ones I specifically recall. I also have a tuning fork that was gifted to me, and on occasion, I'll use it on certain acupressure points and use the rose quartz stone between my skin and the end of the tuning fork. The ritual itself is super calming and relaxing, so I can't speak on the actual benefits of the stone. I also have little "river rocks" (some gathered on walks, others bought at the dollar store craft area) I'll make pocket rocks or magnets out of by writing messages on them and sealing them with polyurethane or some other crafty sealant and sharing with folks. To me, they're very much a part of nature and are one of the many things I admire and embrace about it.

 

[Hopefully]

I actually bought a peridot pendant at the weekend to wear as I have been looking at crystals to help with healing.

It's meant to clear out toxic emotions, open your mind to healing and be good for increasing self esteem. When I picked up the crystal book in the shop I opened it straight onto the peridot page, I took it as a sign! It is also my birth stone.

 

[Changing4Best]

I have a few stones/gems that were gifted to me that I keep in my sacred spaces. Rose quartz...

WOW that tuning fork thing sounds like a really neat idea. I will have to look into that. I do have a rose quartz too.

I have 2 moonstones, one black and one white, a sunstone (I bought it on the day of the eclipse), tiger's eye, carnelian, moss agate, snowflake obsidian, pyrite, serpentine, amethyst, quartz, rhodacrosite, Shiva Lingham, Zeolite (green), and some lava rock. I have a few others that I am not sure what they are. I will take them to the proprietor of this store in town and she can probably identify them for me, as she has several books on the subject. I walked there today, hoping to get more info from her, but she was out to lunch. Some other day....

 

[Changing4Best]

I actually bought a peridot pendant at the weekend to wear as I have been looking at crystals to help...

Peridots are pretty, I love green. It is my favorite color. I hope your stone gives you all the help you need!

 

[NatBird]

I love this thread - thanks @SheilaKathy

I like to work with stones. It seems carnelian likes me as I have had it for many years now. I use shungite for water, phones and general protection and recently started working with Malachite which I find to be a beautiful stone to look at. Within a week some very intense heart shifting started happening and a week later I lost it along with a napsack of stones: ruby, garnet, lapis, citrine, celestine and a few others. I'm guessing I wasn't meant to be working with them at this time. Does anyone believe that?

Has anyone here worked with Moldavite.
I've been wanting to and been hesitant to about creating more intense change. I can barely handle what I've got. Has anyone here worked with Moldavite?

 

[Changing4Best]

I love this thread - thanks @SheilaKathy

I like to work with stones. It seems carn...

You are very welcome. I found this page on the Moldavite:

Moldavite Meanings and Uses | Crystal Vaults

Which you might find interesting. Be well!

 

[Changing4Best]

I actually bought a peridot pendant at the weekend to wear as I have been looking at crystals to help...

PS. Here is a page that has some info about your stone that I think might be of interest to you:

Peridot Meaning and Uses | Crystal Vaults

I thought it was interesting anyway!