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Tourmaline
Color: include blue, green, pink, red, yellow, brown, black, bi-colored,
tri-colored, and colorless
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Trigonal |
Composition:
Complex borosilicate |
Hardness: 7.5 |
Green and Yellow Tourmaline:
Yellow-green is the most common of all Tourmaline color varieties, but
emerald green is much rarer and more valuable. Indeed until the 18th
century it was often confused with emerald.
Occurrence:
Emerald green stones are found in Brazil, Tanzania and Namibia. Fibrous
yellow material occurs in Sri Lanka.
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Metaphysical:
Tourmaline is a wonderful stone, with a color for
each of the main Chakras. Excellent channeling stone for communication
with higher forces. Tourmaline helps to break up energy blockages, which
we mentally experience as anxiety, stress or confusion.
Tourmaline helps you to move beyond limited thinking, to an expanded
sense of reality, and see past experiences in new ways. It teaches us
that we are light beings in physical form, and helps us to experience
the physical and spiritual worlds as one.
Pink Tourmaline is a good choice for children recovering from abuse, and
healing the inner child. (ACOA) Brings deep comforting love energy.
Transforms negative behavior into positive. Love, spirituality, joy,
peace, understanding. Emotional and spiritual love, healing emotional
loss and emotional pain, fear, instills self-gentleness (especially with
severe illness like cancer, emphysema, etc.).
Pink Tourmaline is also associated with the spine, particulaiy pain
associated with Scoliosis, spinal injuries or spinal surgury. It
improves the vertebrae's alignment and draws additional healing energy
to the area.
Most powerful when combined with Kunzite or Rhodocrosite. Self-love,
compassion, release of old hurts. Trust. Corresponds to the heart Chakra
and crown Chakra, and the astrological sign of Libra.
Black Tourmaline: Protects against negativity. Powerfully
deflects/shields against unwanted or dark energies, (anger, resentment,
or jealousy) especially for sensitive people. Encourages intellectual
thought, vitality. Corresponds to the root Chakra, and the astrological
sign of Capricorn.
Blue Tourmaline: Communication, psychic awareness, peace, balance,
eloquence and emotional purification. Wonderful for aligning with higher
self for deep insight, vision, intuition. Corresponds to the throat and
third-eye chakras, and corresponds to the astrological signs of Libra
and Taurus.
- Green Tourmaline: Creativity, prosperity, abundance, compassion.
Represents life energy and life force. Excellent for people who work
with herbs for healing. Enhances cooperation and healing, especially
good at relieving chronic exhaustion, attracting abundance, and
expressing creativity. Opens the heart Chakra, and corresponds to the
astrological sign of Capricorn.
- Rubellite (dark pink) Tourmaline: Creativity, love, devotion. Unites
heart and body for love, courage, passion, energy, stamina, steadiness.
High lithium content (thus pink/red color) brings emotional balance,
lovingness, devotion in a down-to-earth way. Releases reproductive
Chakra blocks; stimulates fertility. Used to strengthen and detoxes
blood and immune system and to ease radiation effects. Corresponds to
the root and heart chakras, and the astrological signs of Sagittarius
and Scorpio.
- Watermelon Tourmaline: (Red/pink and green) Brings together compassion,
emotional and spiritual love (light pink) expressed in the physical
heart Chakra. Activates the heart Chakra. Excels for immune system and
life-threatening illnesses. Balances metabolism, endocrine system..
Empowers other tourmalines. Corresponds to the astrological signs of
Virgo and Gemini.
- Brown
Tourmaline is grounding, encourages stability and practicality.
- Yellow
Tourmaline brings heightened intelligence and spiritual
awareness.
- Black Tourmaline crystals inside of clear crystals. Balances and unites
conscious with subconscious, male with female, spirit with matter,
heaven with earth. Brings harmony to any polarity and brings moderation
and unity to all situations.
Attracts Inspiration:
Tourmaline comes in many colors, the most common being black. It also
comes in pink to red, blues, yellows, browns, greens, oranges and then a
combination of two or more of these colors. This is referred to as the
rainbow tourmaline. The energy of the tourmaline relates to each of the
chakras. It helps to clear and maintain and stimulate each of the energy
centers. It attracts inspiration. It will diminish fears by bringing
understanding and encourages self-confidence.
~forum post from stones.
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Physical:
Especially for nervous system; blood/lymph toxins, Neutralizes fears,
resentment, neurosis, obsessions, intestinal or spine energy blocks,
toxins, constipation, neuralgia, migraine headache, burns , lungs,
asthma, Arthritis, pain, swelling and immobility. Lower back pain
Enhances flexibility, happiness, objectivity, compassion, serenity,
balance, positive transformation, healing, strength, tolerance, and
understanding. inspiration, confidence. Balances male/female energies
and the mind.
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Keywords:
Enhances flexibility, happiness, objectivity,
compassion, serenity, balance, positive transformation, healing,
strength, tolerance, love, spirituality, joy, peace, understanding..
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