Healing Effects of Crystals and Gems

Crystal and Gems are known for their healing properties. Their quality to heal an ailment and their effects on it are known since the ages. Positive effects of the color and vibration energy can be noticed with a pleasant change within ourselves. Those persons recognize crystals they know the influence and positive effects of crystals and gems.

Given below are certain facts about crystals that can be considered important while introducing a crystal to your life:

Crystals & Their Meanings

•    Violet/Purple color is related to the clarity of mind and wisdom, it is most effective in reining spiritual growth and awakening enthusiasm for life
•    Pink color is connected to love, it is most effective if you mean to make someone feel they are loved or if there are pains that need to be alleviated.
•    Clear color is for clarity of intuition and effective communication. Use this in moments of decision making
•    Green is the color for healing
•    Indigo color is for meditation and sensitivity. It is most effective when you feel blinded or vulnerable by     negative thoughts
•    Red is the color of energy and is often used to lighten depression and boredom
•    Yellow color is for controlling the activities of the mind. Use this when you feel indecisive in your life's direction
•    Blue color is linked with peace, so you may use this when you feel restless, anxious or nervous
•    Black color is most powerful for all the colors are within, this will help you to get insight on all possible decisions or situations in life
•    Orange color is associated with friendliness and influence. Use it in times of insecurity.

How to Choose Your Crystal

Which crystal is suitable for you and how you are going to determine? You must choose your crystal on the basis of your intuition. When you buy a crystal you should be aware which color has a soothing effect on you. When your eyes perceive a color be aware of that soothing effect. Touch that crystal, feel and notice the color which brings you calm, joy and courage. Your bodily sensation is best guide for your own needs; you only need to recognize it.

Caring for Crystals

After buying crystal, first put it in a container  filled with salt water for 24 hours then wipe it with a clean cloth. Take a caution that no one else touches your crystal since their vibrations and energies can be imprinted on it. For the proper and correct usage of your crystal it is important that it should have an imprint of only your vibrations and energies.

Now, you can use your crystal for all therapeutic purposes and they can also be used as accessories as well. Only thing that you need to know is crystals and gems have energies of their own and they constantly radiate this energy. Choose your crystal correctly and wisely and notice their positive healing effect on your mind and body.

Testing real & artificial Gems

The following notes are written in the hope that they may put readers upon their guard against some common deceptions and prevent disappointment which with a little knowledge can be avoided.

The qualities which make gems valuable are beauty of color, brilliancy or fire, and hardness, in which they excel all other substances known.

Dealers in gems are amongst the shrewdest of mankind, and from continually handling and examining stones become wonderfully keen in judging them from their appearance and feel, and are very seldom mistaken in distinguishing the real from the imitation, and no novice will get the better of them in a deal, so that intending purchasers who have no practical experience of gems are advised to buy from established firms with a reputation to lose, or on the advice of an expert, rather than rely upon their own judgment.

Before the full beauty of a stone can be appreciated it has to be cut and polished, either with facets, or in the form known as cabochon. Practically all transparent stones are cut with facets, the best and most popular form being the "brilliant" cut which has been found so effective with diamonds that the term "brilliant" has become the recognized name for a diamond cut in this manner.

With oblong stones "trap" cutting is followed, Emeralds being the principal stones cut in this fashion. "Rose" cutting is the form generally adopted with very small diamonds nowadays, although it is a much older form than the brilliant, and large antique stones are to be found cut in this fashion, culminating in a point formed by six triangular facets in place of the table of the brilliant. Semi-transparent and opaque stones, such as Moonstones, Opals, Agates, Turquoises, and Carnelians are usually cut en cabochon, and Amethysts, Rubies, Emeralds, and Sapphires are also frequently cut in this fashion.

The Psychic and Magnetic Influence of Gems

From remotest times, back even to the birth of humanity, Precious Gems  have been held in high estimation by all nations; the former, primarily because of their beauty, and the latter on account of their virtues, as transmitters of good luck and to avert misfortune. The association of Gems with power, civil and religious, has ever been noticeable; and to the fascination of antiquity may be added the allurement of mystery. Moreover, of the many and varied signs of wealth and luxury, jewels have played a most important part in the lives of the great, not only on account of their beauty but because they contained in a small compass the equivalent to a large sum of money and in times of danger could easily be concealed and carried from place to place.

Evidence of undoubted authenticity of wonderful occult powers and experiences has within recent years become readily accessible to all. Psychometry [the art of sensing past happenings to individuals from the handling of something belonging to them, such as a glove or jewel] may be said to be established as a fact.