Gemstone Therapy: Grounders

Gemstone Therapy: Grounders

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What is Gemstone therapy?

It is using the innate energy of a particular gem, crystal, stone, mineral or set thereof to boost, catalyze, influence, initiate, or prop up your own energies.

Example: you’re having a horrid day and your feeling really down in the dumps. So you go over to your mega-positive friend’s house and hang out with them for a while. Strangely, you feel a lot better. You leave and the uplifted feeling stays with you. That, in a nutshell, is what crystals do.

What do crystals do?

A lot of different things! They can de-stress, help jettison emotional baggage, keep you in a sunny state of mind, bring harmony to a home, help to facilitate honest communication, etc

Today though, I am focusing on Grounders!

Definition:

Grounding: an energetic and mental state of being present, in your body and in the here & now.

That doesn’t sound so hard, right?

WRONG!!!!

In the day-to-day stresses and struggles, we often forget to be IN the moment.

So worried about all that needs to be done, or all that should have been done.

We pile on oh so much worry and anxiety,

when we really need to realize- the past is over, the future is yet to be, and the present is all that we can truly effect.

Some side effects of not grounding:

Anxiety

Irritability

Excessive fatigue

Stress (& stress-related illnesses)

Daydreaming

Dizziness

Feeling checked out (if this happens a lot, it's time to take up dance and meditation)

Forgetfulness

Light sensitivity

Noise sensitivity

Feeling drained, panicked, angry, overworked, overwhelmed, etc and the thoughts /mental state that goes with these emotions

Falling asleep during meditation

We make ourselves SICK (Mentally & physically) with worry, and so other than breathing or using sound therapy or yoga to find our calm stillness within, I give you CRYSTALS!!

Some Top notch Grounders:

Hematite- Grounding & stress relief

Amber- grounds you & reminds you of all of the blessings that you have.

Ruby-grounding, vitality

Garnet-strength, courage, grounding

Smokey quartz-grounding, organization, tunes you into the cosmic energy flow, removes negative energy

Red coral- motivation, ambition, relaxation, removes negative energy, optimism, and enthusiasm, abates depression & lethargy

Black onyx-grounding & protection from negative energy

Citrine– muzzles an overactive inner critic, keeps you centered in positivity, reflects outside negative energy

Tiger eye-grounding, protection from negative energies, concentration, energy

Obsidian- grounding & protection from negative energies

Black tourmaline-Grounding & empathic blocking

Sodalite-calming down a busy mind, quieting mental chatter, grounding the mind

Red Jasper- is a softer grounding crystal, a crystal of empowerment, it brings strength to resist emotional domination by others, and also the courage to overcome domestic violence. *

*It will sustain those in the process of healing & recovering from a variety of violent Trauma & sexual experiences.

These crystals do MORE than what is listed, but these are the most relevant attributes that they convey concerning this particular article.

There are other crystals for different types of grounding, but I'v found these are great starters.

****But don’t just take my word for it, get out there and research it!****

~Alicia Anspaugh-Mccullough, DMNAS