This beautiful red-orange crystal can boost your creativity and give you inspiration! It connects to your Sacral Chakra to unblock anything unhealthy that inhibits your vision. This orange chakra crystal is associated with creativity, passion and standing in your power. When it is blocked, you can experience feelings of self-doubt, isolation, and lack of motivation. Carnelian can help remove fear and boost your confidence.
Carnelian, also known as the "Artist’s Stone," helps to manifest creativity and motivation! If you're experiencing the dreaded "writer's block," work with Carnelian to open up the channels of inspiration and tap into your own creative muse. Its warm, vibrant energy will boost your confidence and the power of your true expression. Meditating with a palm stone or building a crystal grid with tumbled stones can reignite the artist within. Place a piece near your work space or sleep with it to inspire your creations and colorize your dreams.
If you’re gearing up for an interview or a big performance, bring Carnelian with you to feel it’s constant flow of warmth and support. The boost of courage and self-confidence will allow you to bring your best self forward, even if you’re feeling some self-doubt. Carnelian allows your talents to shine by creating harmony between mental focus and creativity.
Carnelian helps add vibrance to your life! When your passion for life is low, tune into its energy to unblock your frustrations or low lying energy. We are all creative beings of the divine that are meant to thrive in our each unique, authentic spirit!
The Heart Chakra is a sacred energy center and the gateway to bringing in and holding love and compassion. It is key to unlocking the true essence of our being by blending the energies of the lower and upper chakras and creating a harmonious flow of empathy and connection with all living beings.
What is the Heart Chakra?
The Heart Chakra, known as Anahata (meaning "unhurt") in Sanskrit, is the fourth chakra of the seven main energy points in your body. Located at the center of the chest, it radiates a vibrate green color, symbolizes compassion, emotional and spiritual balance, and to be free of judgement. It is associated with the air element, and is represented by a green lotus flower with 12 petals. The heart chakra resonates with the F note and 639 Hz solfeggio frequency. The best crystals to work with the Heart Chakra are Rose Quartz, Kunzite, Malachite, Rhodonite, Ocean Jasper, Eudialyte, and Pink Opal.
How Does the Heart Chakra Work?
The Heart Chakra opens and expands when we embrace love, compassion, and forgiveness. It allows love to permeate every aspect of our lives. When the Heart Chakra is in balance, we experience joy, inner peace, and a deep sense of interconnectedness with all living beings. We are also kind, gentle, and loving with ourselves.
The higher Heart Chakra or ascended Heart Chakra is located at the thymus gland. This represents unconditional Divine Love and working with both chakras in tandem can help nourish this energy center.
What Happens When the Heart Chakra is Blocked?
When the Heart Chakra is blocked, it can lead to emotional distress, and a sense of disconnection. This can manifest as feelings of loneliness, bitterness, and an inability to form meaningful relationships. Past trauma, in this lifetime or ancestral, can also block the Heart Chakra leading to distrust, inadequate coping skills, and repetitive poor relationships. We can become resentful and unable to give or receive love. The Heart Chakra can also become overactive and result in poor emotional boundaries, overcommitting, martyrdom, and difficulty controlling emotions.
How to Balance the Heart Chakra?
Fortunately, there are practices that allow love to flow freely once again. Engaging in heart-opening activities such as yoga, meditation, and breathwork can help release energetic blockages and promote a sense of harmony within. Surrounding yourself in the solitude of nature, listening to high vibrational music, and practicing acts of kindness also nourish the Heart Chakra.
Additionally, incorporating crystals that resonate with the Heart Chakra into your daily life can amplify the healing energy of the Heart Chakra. Essential oils such as Rose, Bergamot, Ylang Ylang, Frankincense, and Neroli can be used to assist in unblocking the Heart Chakra and bring in love and peace. They can be diffused in your personal space or applied directly with a carrier oil on the chest/heart space. These crystals and essential oils resonate with the frequency of love, assisting in the restoration of balance and emotional well-being.
A Reiki session is another great way to bring your Heart Chakra into balance. Reiki practitioners are able to assess the Heart Chakra for imbalances and make recommendations to maintain its integrity.
Embrace the Power of the Heart Chakra
Letting love in is dependent on you! Make sure to follow your intuition for need for self care, set healthy boundaries and work on ways to maintain a flow of love in everything you do!
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Element: Air or Vayu - associated with our emotional balance and sense of joy
Color: Green - nature and tenderness
Location: Chest, Heart, Cardiac Plexus
Your Heart Chakra is your energy center for love, and it brings in the vibration of compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, strength, and unconditional love. When your heart space is open, you can easily give and receive love, however, sometimes it can become blocked or unbalanced if you're experiencing stress, grief, conflict, or trauma. Connecting with your heart can bring balance to your emotions and relationships and align you with the vibration of universal love.
Many green and pink crystals are amazing for heart healing, but these are our top seven when we want to open or heal our Heart Chakra!
1. Rose Quartz is always a popular choice and for a good reason! Rose Quartz is the stone of unconditional love and plus it's part of the Quartz family - a master healer. It is one of the most important stones for Heart Chakra work, as it opens that heart to all types of love—love of the self, love of family, love of friends and romantic love. The soothing energy of Rose Quartz fosters empathy, encourages forgiveness, and lowers stress and tension in the heart.
2. Kunzite strengthens the heart and is the Attunement crystal of universal love. It helps you understand others and deepens your emotions of empathy and tenderness. Kunzite’s calming, proactive energy clears emotional blockages and raises your vibrations to a higher spiritual level.
3. Malachite is the crystal of transformation and brings balance to the heart. Malachite is the guardian of the heart and facilitates the release of negative experiences so you can heal and regain hope. It is very inspiring, purifying, and compassionate, attracting love by opening the heart.
4. Rhodonite is a supportive crystal that helps to balance the emotions, attract love, and ease emotional pain. Place Rhodonite over your Throat Chakra to facilitate the expression of feelings from the heart so you can share it with others. It will also help improve areas of your life that need improvement and boost your self-love!
5. Ocean Jasper is an excellent healing stone that encourages feelings of joy and elevates your spirit! This is an excellent stone to help you if you need a "lift". As they help you to release negative feelings, you feel more optimistic and positive. Ocean Jasper is associated with the unconditional love that comes from lighting a fire in the Heart Chakra which promotes a higher consciousness.
6. Eudialyte has a lively, uplifting energy that helps us to embrace the fullness that life has to offer and to understand our value. Combining the power of green and pink healing energy, it also activates, clears, and settles the Heart Chakra for a profound sense of satisfaction, joy, and exhilaration!
7. Pink Opal offers a peaceful energy that is incredibly healing and balancing to the heart. It is one of the most powerful Heart Chakra crystals that's known to clear and calm the heart to bring a sense of love, peace, and hope. This is a great crystal for sensitive people and deepens your sense of compassion and empathy. It encourages you to release fear, worry, and anxiety.
Bonus! Heart shaped crystals are perfect for heart healing! Not only do hearts represent divine love, they also symbolize where our spirit lives. It holds the energy for our intentions, creative spirit, and emotions and also gives us courage and passion.
Anatomical crystal hearts represent love, health, and unity of life-the human heart is at the heart of life. They activate your heart’s energy to bring in love and light which brings in a pure and powerful vibration!
The Heart Chakra is the bridge between the spiritual and physical realms and your lower grounding chakras and higher spiritual chakras. It is also the center of your emotional well-being. When the heart space is fully balanced you are able to give and receive unconditional love, which manifests as compassion. Working with your crystals will help keep your heart open and resonating with the vibration of love! You can also learn more about Understanding the Heart Chakra on this blog post.
February's official birthstone is Amethyst. It's a well-known crystal and often times one that people include in their collection, especially as they're just beginning their crystal journey. Its rich purple hue makes it a natural stress reliever and can be used in spaces or situations when you need to bring in a calm or protective energy. Amethyst offers clarity, balance, and harmony, and its peaceful, blissful energy makes a great addition to your bedside table or under your pillow for a good night sleep.
Amethyst vibrates with the energy of the Violet Ray and can be an integral part of your practice if you're seeking spiritual growth. It vibrates at a high frequency and can assist in accessing a higher consciousness and higher realms. It surrounds you in a shield of Light and is important for Lightworkers and energy healing practitioners to incorporate in their practices. Wearing Amethyst as jewelry or carrying pocket stones can bring this protective energy close into your energy field and foster feelings of peace and safety. Because Amethyst is so protective and shielding, it's necessary to keep it cleansed and charged. Routinely smudging with sage, under the Full Moon, or using sound vibrations from a singing bowl or drum can keep your Amethyst positive and bright with energy.
For those seeking to develop their intuition, it opens up your Crown and Third Eye Chakras. If the Third Eye Chakra is blocked you may experience difficultly with decision making, negative thought processes, or nervousness. Opening up or unblocking your Third Eye Chakra can help you clearly navigate challenges, receive inspiration, and promote an optimistic perspective. Amethyst can be used for 3rd Eye Chakra healing.
Check out our large collection of Amethyst crystals, carvings, and jewelry to see what resonates with you!
Garnet is the official birthstone of January and associated with the astrological sign of Aquarius. It brings passion into your being. Not just love, but passion for life, creativity and spirituality. It fosters self-confidence and gives you inspiration, whether you're working on an important project or starting a new job or school. Those with birthdays in January aren't the only ones who can benefit from the beauty of Garnet. It works with your Root Chakra to stoke your inner fire and ground you to Earth's energy.
Working with Garnet to improve any relationship, whether it's love, family or business, can remove blind spots and negativity so you are able to see your own personal truth and worth. If you're trying to manifest your heart's desire, incorporate Garnet in a crystal grid. The red ray of life force energy helps to bring your desires into your reality so you can manifest your hopes and dreams. Tune into Garnet's energy, your heart space, and your higher consciousness to bring in what you want to create!
Check out our amazing collection of Garnet crystals and jewelry if you are celebrating a January birthday or if you feel called to work with its beauty and magic.
