The Practical Use of Gemstones

Gems have long been used in spiritual practice and as aides in mindful self improvement. Both worn in jewelry and held in hand, their effects are said to be both direct and indirect. Ascribed to a specific chakra or said to apply a specific effect, each stone is different but most match well with the chakras by their color theory. These pure mineral structures each have specific characteristics when it comes to their conductivity, magnetic field and resonant vibrational frequency. We, as creatures with an electrical field generated by our heartbeat, circulatory and nervous systems, feel the things around us in an almost imperceptible, subconscious way. Intention and vibration are able to work through this field, all it takes is a quiet mind and self discipline to feel them.

As meditation aids, gems and minerals are wonderful focusing points. It is said that you can reach supreme enlightenment if you can maintain a quiet mind for only 40 seconds. For those of us that are not awakened masters, a specific intention can go a long way toward progress. In order to get started, you just have to identify the things that you are working on in yourself, and then look for a gemstone that has a similar benefit. The best way is to learn the functions of each chakra. Once you identify what areas you need to work on, finding a gemstone that helps will be easy.

Intention is as important as anything, and if you see your applied effort making progress, you know that this is true. The placebo effect is one of the most powerful tools that we have, as humans, to help ourselves to exist and be the best versions of ourselves. A positive outlook will assist in creating a positive outcome just the same as a negative outlook will result in a bad one. So, as we work on ourselves, as we obtain tools and use them with intention, we will do better and be better, sooner. This is why working with crystals is so popular and widely recommended for anyone that is working to progress spiritually.

Applying culturally accepted and commonly corroborated effects to each gemstone, there are easy maps to follow in order to find the right stone for anything you’re working on. Obtaining that stone, and putting the intention in to do the work that it is said to help with, will assist you in multiple ways. First, you now have a pretty stone! Second, you have a reminder of the work that you intend to do whenever you see it. That mindfulness trigger can be very helpful in re-focusing your intention. And third, the actual effect that the vibrational, electrochemical and magnetic properties of the stone has on your electric field and the resulting sensation and feedback with your physical, spiritual and psychological self. Even if that may be hard to define or measure and difficult to describe, it exists. You can allow this to work on you subconsciously, by wearing jewelry with that stone so that it is always in your electric field, or consciously, directly, by meditating with that stone and focusing all your intention.

from the blog at lasertrees.com