TOURMALINE
COLOR: Black, brown, green, pink, red, yellow, blue, watermelon, blue-green
APPEARANCE: Shiny, opaque, or transparent, long striated or hexagonal structure. All sizes
RARITY: Easily obtained from specialist stores
SOURCE: United States, Western Australia, Africa, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Afghanistan, Italy
ATTRIBUTES: Tourmaline cleanses, purifies, and transforms dense energy into a lighter vibration. It grounds spiritual energy, clears and balances all the chakras, and forms a protective shield around the body.
Tourmaline is a shamanic stone that brings protection during rituals. It can be used for scrying and was traditionally used to point to the culprit or cause in times of trouble, and indicate a "good" direction in which to move.
Natural Tourmaline wands are useful healing tools. They clear the aura, remove blockages, disperse negative energy, and point to solutions for specific problems. They are excellent for balancing and connecting the chakras. At a physical level, they rebalance the meridians.
Tourmaline has a strong affinity with the devic energies and is extremely beneficial for the garden and plants. It can act as a natural insecticide, keeping pests at bay, and, buried in the soil, encourages the growth and health of all crops.
Psychologically, Tourmaline aids in understanding oneself and others, taking you deep into yourself, promoting self-confidence and diminishing fear. It banishes any feeling of being a victim and attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity.
Tourmaline is a powerful mental healer, balancing the right-left hemispheres of the brain and transmuting negative thought patterns into positive ones. This stone brings the mental processes, the chakras, and the biomagnetic sheath into alignment. It is helpful in treating paranoia, and for overcoming dyslexia, as it improves hand-to-eye coordination and the assimilation and translation of coded information.
Emotionally, Red, Yellow and Brown Tourmalines are beneficial for sexuality and the emotional dysfunction that can lie behind loss of libido. Physically, Tourmaline releases tension, which makes it helpful in spinal adjustments. It balances male-female energy within the body.
HEALING: The striations along the side of Tourmaline enhance energy flow, making an excellent stone for healing, energy enhancement, and removal of blockages. Each of the different colors of Tourmaline has its own specific healing ability
POSITION: Place or wear as appropriate. To stimulate meridians, place with the tip pointing in the same direction as the flow. Excellent for gem essences which work quickly and effectively.
SPECIFIC COLORS
In addition to the generic properties, certain colors have additional attributes:
Black Tourmaline (Schorl) protects against cell phones, electromagnetic smog, radiation, psychic attack, spells and ill wishing, and negative energies of all kinds. Connecting with the base chakra, it grounds energy and increases physical vitality, dispersing tension and stress. Clearing negative thoughts, Schorl promotes a laid back attitude and objective neutrality with clear, rational thought processes. It encourages a positive attitude, no matter what the circumstances, and stimulates altruism and practical creativity. In healing, Black Tourmalines placed point-out from the body draw off negative energy. Black Tourmaline defends against debilitating disease, strengthens the immune system, treats dyslexia and arthritis, provides pain relief, and realigns the spinal column. Wear around your neck or place between yourself and the source of electromagnetics.
Blue Tourmaline (Indicolite) activates the throat and third eye chakra and stimulates the urge for spiritual freedom and clarity of self-expression. This color aids psychic awareness, promotes visions, and opens the way for service to others, encouraging fidelity, ethics, tolerance, and a love of truth. It carries the ray of peace and dissolves sadness and blocked feelings, bringing them up gently to the surface to be healed and dissipated, and assist in developing an inner sense of responsibility. This stone promotes living in harmony with the environment. It is an excellent stone for healers, as it prevents negativity from sticking.
In healing, bright Blue Tourmaline is a useful diagnostic tool and helps in identifying underlying causes of dis-ease. Blue Tourmaline benefits the pulmonary and immune systems and the brain, corrects fluid imbalances, treats kidney and bladder, thymus and thyroid, and chronic sore throat. It is helpful for insomnia, night sweats, sinusitis, and bacterial infections. It is traditionally used on the throat, larynx, lungs, esophagus, and eyes. It soothes burns and prevents scarring
Dark Blue Tourmaline is particularly helpful for the eyes and brain and can be made into an elixir. Blue Tourmaline can be placed anywhere there is dis-ease or congestion. It helps to overcome speedh impediments.
Brown Tourmaline (Dravide) is an excellent grounding stone, clearing and opening the earth chakra and the grounding cord holding the physical body in incarnation. It clears the aura, aligns the etheric body and protects it. Encouraging community spirit and social commitment, Brown Tourmaline makes one feel comfortable in a large group. This stone heals dysfunctional family relationships and strengthens empathy. Brown Tourmaline is pragmatic and promotes creativity. In healing, Brown Tourmaline treats intestinal disorders and skin diseases, and stimulates regeneration in the whole body.
Colorless Tourmaline (Achroite) synthesizes all other colors and opens the crown chakra. In healing, it aligns the meridians of the physical and etheric bodies.
Green Tourmaline (Verdelite) is an excellent healer and is helpful for visualization. It opens the heart chakra, promotes compassion, tenderness, patience, and a sense of belonging. This nurturing stone brings balance and joie de vivre. Transforming negative to positive energy and dispelling fears, Green Tourmaline promotes openness and patience. It rejuvenates and inspires creativity. With this stone, one is able to see all possible solutions and to select the most constructive. It magnetizes the wearer to prosperity and abundance. Green Tourmaline overcomes problems with father figures. It facilitates the study of herbalism and enhances the application of remedies, and has the power to heal plants.
In healing, as with all green stones, this color aids sleep and quiets the mind. It fortifies the nervous system and prepares it for a vibrational shift. Green Tourmaline treats wyes, heart, thymus, brain, and immune system; facilitates weight loss; and relieves CFS and exhaustion. It assists in realigning the spine and aids strained muscles. Green Tourmaline is a useful detoxifier and heals constipation and diarrhea. It can reduce claustrophobia and panic attacks. Green Tourmaline is beneficial for hyperactive children.
Multicolored Gem Tourmaline (Elbite) contains all colors and, as a result, it brings the mind, body, spirit, and soul into wholeness. It is an excellent stone for imagery and promoting dreams, inspiring creativity and enhanced imagination. This stone provides a gateway
into the inner self and the higher spiritual realms.
In healing, Multicolored Tourmaline stimulates the immune system and the metabolism.
Pink Tourmaline is an aphrodisiac that attracts love in the material and spiritual world. Providing assurance that it is safe to love, it inspires trust in love, and confirms that it is necessary to love yourself before you can hope to be loved by others. This stone assists in sharing physical pleasures. It disperses emotional pain and old destructive feelings through the heart chakra, which it cleanses, and synthesizes love with spirituality. Promoting peace and relaxation, Pink Tourmaline connects you to wisdom and compassion and stimulates receptivity to healing energies.
In healing, Pink Tourmaline balances a dysfunctional endocrine system and treats heart, lungs, and skin. Place on the heart.
Purple-Violet Tourmaline stimulates healing of the heart and produces loving consciousness. It connects the base and heart chakras, increasing devotion and loving aspirations. This stone stimulates creativity and intuition. It unblocks the third eye chakra, stimulates the pineal gland, and strips away illusions. This is a useful stone for past-life healing, taking you to the heart of the problem and then dispersing it.
In healing, Purple Tourmaline reduces depression and releases obsessional thoughts. It treats sensitivity to pollutants, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, and CFS.
Red Tourmaline (Rubelite) strengthens the ability to understand love, promotes tactfulness and flexibility, sociability and extroversion, balancing too much aggression or over passivity. It heals and energizes the sacral chakra and increases creativity on all levels. This color offers stamina and endurance. In healing, Red Tourmaline gives vitality to the physical body and detoxifies. It heals the heart; it treats the digestive system, blood vessels, and the reproductive system; it stimulates blood circulation and spleen and liver function; and it repairs veins. It is useful for muscle spasms and chills.
Watermelon Tourmaline (pink enfolded in green) is the "super activator" of the heart chakra, linking it to the higher self and fostering love, tenderness, and friendship. This stone instills patience and teaches tact and diplomacy. Alleviating depression and fear, it promotes inner security. Watermelon Tourmaline assists understanding of situations and expressing intentions clearly. It treats emotional dysfunction and releases old pain. Watermelon Tourmaline is beneficial for relationships and helps to find the joy in situations.
In healing, Watermelon Tourmaline dissolves any resistance to becoming whole once more. It encourages regeneration of the nerves, especially in paralysis or multiple sclerosis, and treats stress.
Yellow Tourmaline stimulates the solar plexus and enhances personal power. It opens up the spiritual pathway and benefits intellectual pursuits and business affairs.
In healing, Yellow Tourmaline treats the stomach, liver, spleen, kidneys, and gallbladder.
COMBINATION STONES
Black Tourmaline with Mica returns ill-wishing to its source so the perpetrator learns from it. This combination stone is particularly efficient at nullifying electromagnetic smog.
Black Tourmaline rod in Quartz Quartz containing chunky Black Tourmaline rods, as opposed to the strands in Tourmalated Quartz, is excellent for neutralizing psychic or actual attack, strengthening the person on the receiving end and enhancing their well-being. It can be used to guard against terrorist attack and to heal the effects of such an attack. This stone has the ability to go beyond dualities and to integrate the shadow into the whole personality.
Tourmaline with Lepidolite on a matrix is excellent for giving up addictions of all kinds, for understanding the reasons behind addiction, and for accepting that denial has been present. It then helps you to live life without the spurious support of the addictive substance or behavior, replacing it with the love and protection of the universal energies and powerful self-healing potential.
From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press
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