The word chakra comes from the Sanskrit word for “wheel” or “disk”. It first appeared in Hindu texts around 3,000 years ago and is an art of ancient Vedic healing practice and techniques. The chakras are energy portals running through the center of our body. As life has its ebb and flow, and our chakras can quickly become unbalanced creating unease in the body. Each chakra corresponds to an area within our physical body where we can work to create balance. Learn what crystals will support each chakra on your journey to self-awareness. 

Root Chakra

  • Black Tourmaline — Black Tourmaline is one of the most powerful crystals for the protection and elimination of negative energy. This stone is a wonderful stone for grounding and creating energetic boundaries between you and others. 
  • Red Jasper — Red Jasper is a wonderful mood stabilizer as it allows you to grab hold of your root chakra. If you find yourself a worrier, Red Jasper is known to dim the non-stop thoughts and allow yourself greater ease. 
  • Hematite — Hematite is known for connecting our bodies to the earth. This stone is known to nourish the root chakra and wash away self-doubts, creating a space of clarity and creativity.

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Sacral Chakra

  • Carnelian — This crystal is all about vibrancy, from its color to its energy. If you feel trapped or bored, Carnelian holds the energy that you want to invite. Use this crystal as a new outlook to approach your life from a different point of view. As you activate your sacral chakra, Carnelian keeps you out of your overactive mind and connects you to your instincts instead. This stone is wonderful for creative humans. 
  • Sunstone — This stone will breathe life into your creative spirit. It promotes energy, vitality, and creativity. This stone nourishes the sacral chakras to create confidence, power, and leadership within your being. A sunstone stone is the yang that balances the yin of Moonstone, and when worked together, they create a beautiful harmony, connecting you with the energies of the Sun and the Moon. Using labradorite stones also marries very well with Sunstone and Moonstone, bringing out the magical energy, helping to manifest blessings. 
  • Orange Calcite — This stone is a strong sacral chakra stone and gets the positive energy moving. Orange calcite is ideal for those who are looking for new and innovative ideas or solutions to ongoing problems. It gets the energy moving, encouraging you to look at things in a different light. It is a catalyst for inspiration, sparking your creative fire. The orange calcite healing properties are powered by the Sun and are very energizing and healing. 

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Solar Plexus Chakra

  • Citrine – This stone is known as the money stone. It is believed to elevate optimism and energy, bringing you to a place of opportunity, prosperity, and abundance. Citrine is known to work with the solar plexus chakra. A unique stone because it doesn’t absorb negative energy. It clears it — creating happiness and light in your space. This stone will rid yourself of fear and self-doubt so you can take on challenges with a sense of optimism.
  • Amber— Although technically not a crystal, Amber is one of the best minerals to use for the Solar Plexus. Its purification powers easily help physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual blockages in this chakra, and the feelings of warmth it gives off support a positive mental attitude.
  • Pyrite — This stone also known as Fool’s Gold works with us to align our energy of abundance. Attract an abundance of good luck and positivity in love, business, or your personal life by connecting to the pyrite stone properties. Pyrite stones’ energy can carry away self-limiting beliefs and negative thoughts, allowing you to focus on the things that matter most. This stone is like a financial advisor and life coach as it encourages you to go for the gold! It’s also a great negative energy protective shield. 

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Heart Chakra

  • Rose Quartz– This stone is all about love. Rose Quartz emits strong vibrations of love and helps to heal all aspects of the heart chakra. It is all about making you more approachable through brightening your aura with love and understanding. It focuses on loving ourselves first and then recognizing the love all around us. It helps us to understand self-compassion for ourselves. And is a wonderful reminder for us to always act in a state of love. 
  • Green Aventurine— This stone is known to open up our heart chakra and create abundance in our lives. Bringing together harmony between our mind, body, and spirit — this stone’s properties induce a sense of completeness to the spiritual space that will often translate into newfound confidence. It helps us to recognize what truly excites us in life. 
  • Peridot — This stone is known to inspire the seekers of the Universe. It works to promote abundance, prosperity, and happiness in your home. It also helps dissipate negative patterns and old vibrations that play over and over, keeping us from realizing we are deserving of success. As we work with Peridot, we can remove blockages and move forward quickly, opening the heart and mind more fully to receive from the Universe with grace and gratitude.

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Throat Chakra

  • Blue Lace Agate– This crystal connects to the throat chakra to empower you with the peace of mind you need to relax into your words. It helps to clear the blocks between your mind and throat with soothing energy. It allows you to express yourself in a way that is both authentic and articulate. Blue Lace Agate is a wonderful stone when feeling stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed. 
  • Celestite — This stone inspires deep peace and happiness. It can bring clarity and instilling you with a calm approach so you will be better equipped to handle whatever life brings you. A perfect stone to work with for those who are quick to react and quick to regret. A Celestite stone encourages you to do that thing your mother always told you to do: Think before you speak. Taking slow breaths with this stone in hand creates balance in the mind. When you feel balanced and centered, it becomes easier to approach difficult situations with a level head.
  • Sodalite — This stone is wonderful for creating the energy of self-acceptance, self-esteem, trust, and confidence in ourselves. By fusing with your throat chakra, sodalite cleanses you of the blocks that are inhibiting you from your self-expression. As you work with this stone, it will have you thinking like your best self again as it creates positive thoughts. And an important property about this stone is that it provides you insight into the self, helping you to take a deeper look at your strengths, weaknesses, and your desires, and goals. 

To learn more about your throat chakra and the power of healing, check out this blog.

Third Eye Chakra

  • Lapis Lazuli — This stone is known to help you realize your spiritual potential. It’s a high vibration stone awakening our third eye chakra, creating trust within our inner knowing. Lapis Lazuli is a wisdom stone and helps us to realize we already have the answers within us. It’s a wonderful stone to use during meditation as it brings forth total awareness, helping us to connect to our higher truth. 
  • Amethyst — This stone is known to work with the third eye and crown chakra as it indulges in our intuition. It has numerous benefits, from helping us to let go of any stresses throughout the day, creating a restful night’s sleep, to amplifying our intuition through the waking hours. As it increases our intuition, it’s the perfect stone to hold as you are deciding what direction you would move to next. 
  • Tanzanite — This stone is known for its ability to transmute. Tanzanite brings together all aspects of community and psychic abilities. The high vibration energy of this stone invites protection and safety as you link with the higher realms. It’s wonderful to connect the heart and mind, allowing us to act in a state of love and compassion for all we encounter in life. 

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Crown Chakra

  • Amethyst — This stone is known to work with the third eye and crown chakra as it indulges in our intuition. It has numerous benefits, from helping us to let go of any stresses throughout the day, creating a restful night’s sleep, to amplifying our intuition through the waking hours. As it increases our intuition, it’s the perfect stone to hold as you are deciding what direction you would move to next. 
  • Selenite — This stone is all about activation and reaching higher planes. It’s known for opening the crown chakra as it radiates light and energy, promoting purity and honesty. It creates a space for us to be honest with ourselves. Once the power of the selenite flows into the crown chakra, it will open, clear, and activate the energy. Selenite is ideal for connecting with our spirit guides. This stone is a rare one as it does not hold negative energy. By having selenite in our aura’s, we can block toxic energy and prevent our light from being sucked away. 
  • Clear Quartz — This crystal is the all-time go-to for manifesting realities, programming intentions, and raising your vibrations. After you have taken the time to program your crystal with your intention, it will constantly put your intention into the Universe. Clear Quartz brings clarity to our minds, helping us focus on our dreams and desires. It is known to assist with spiritual development as it raises our vibration to another realm. While this crystal connects with all chakras, it’s best known to work with the crown chakra as it opens up the portal to the Universe by amplifying our energy. By adding Clear Quartz to your combination of crystals, it’s been said the energy of this crystal is so high — it will amplify the energies of the other stones and magnify your intention.

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