Colour and Crystals

CROWN	BROW	THROAT	HEART	SOLAR PLEXUS	SACRAL	BASE

CROWN CHAKRA	COLOUR - VIOLET
	AMETHYST		Aids spiritual wakefulness, quietens the mind. Links to reverence for all life and high ideals.
	AMETRINE		Yellow/violet for inner well-being. Enhances autonomic nervous system.
	APOPHYLLITE		Aids conscious connection between physical and spiritual. Calming, helps overcome uncertainty. Helps rid negative thought.
	PREHNITE		Helps overcome fears, nightmares and phobias. Encourages serenity, dignity and service to others. Encourages contact with higher self.

BROW CHAKRA	COLOUR - INDIGO
	DIAMOND		Encourages spiritual freedom. Helps develop clear insight, integrity and justice. Enhances our qualities and fortifies control in the body.
	SODALITE		Also for throat chakra.
	LAPIS LAZULI		For wisdom, honesty, reveals own inner truth. Helps to open higher awareness, thus aiding understanding of ancient wisdom.
	SMOKEY QUARTZ		Increases stress tolerance. Relaxing, encourages sobriety, pragmatism and realistic consideration. Can help pain relief.
	ANGELITE		Sometimes known as the awareness stone. Can enhance telepathic communication, aids atonement.

THROAT CHAKRA	COLOUR - BLUE
	SODALITE		Brow and throat chakras. Helps us find our 'own truth'. Calming. Helps dispel rigid thought patterns, phobias.
	MOONSTONE		Helps composure and emotions. Calming.
	AQUAMARINE		Harmonizes thyroid. Helps hay fever, immune system, allergies. Enhances relaxed disposition. Encourages foresight.
	SAPPHIRE		Throat and brow chakras - aids communication with higher self. Helps to expel fears, bringing peace. Enhances ability to listen and understand as well as communication.
	TURQUOISE		Bestows inner calm. Helps with control of viral infections, anti-inflammatory, relaxes cramps. Powerful healer strengthening entire anatomy and in absorption of nutrients.
	KYANITE		Strengthens the throat and larynx, but can actually helpful for all chakras, especially the throat, brow and crown as it aids connections with Universal energy.

HEART CHAKRA	COLOUR - GREEN
	EMERALD		Encourages harmony and justice, friendship and unconditional love. Can help to strengthen the respiratory tract and immune system.
	JADE		Balancing, calming for irritability. Can be helpful for encouraging tranquillity, kindness and nurturing.
	ROSE QUARTZ		Gentle but firm helpfulness for openness, sensitivity and empathy. Encourages proper self-love and ability to love others unconditionally. Aids calming of stress.
	AVENTURINE		For relaxation, patience, tolerance. Regenerates heart energies.
	AGATE		Good overall healing stone - all chakras. Acts as a bridge between the physical and etheric/spiritual.
	DIOPTASE		Links solar plexus and heart energies. Transmutes negative energies to positive.

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA	COLOUR - YELLOW
	AMBER		Encourages a sunny nature, self confidence. Can help problems with the stomach and spleen, liver and gallbladder.
	CITRINE		Encourages self confidence and self realization free from oppressive influences. Can help to stimulate digestion.
	MALACHITE		Can be helpful for the liver, travel sickness, dispelling inhibitions, encouraging quick thinking and de-tox.
	TOPAZ		Can help to strengthen the solar plexus chakra.
	RHODONITE		Restores energy depleted by trauma or shock. Helps heals wounds both emotional and physical and aids forgiveness. Heart/solar plexus chakras.
	RHODOCHROSITE		Symbolic of re-birthing. Helps to bring painful events to the front so they can be cleared and we can move on. Can also aid emotional stress and the circulatory system. Helpful in heart and solar plexus chakras.

SACRAL CHAKRA	COLOUR - ORANGE
	BLOODSTONE		A member of the Jasper family, it improves sense of creativity and intuition.
	CHRYSOPRASE		Enhances feelings of trust, security and independence and our sense of contentment with ourselves. Can help sexual problems, fertility and de-tox. Can help us to 'let go' and 'move on'.
	ORANGE CALCITE		Fortifies the body, balances emotions, and aids feelings of stability. Gall bladder and reproductive organs. (Lower three chakras.)
	CARNELIAN		Encourages a spirit of community, lifts emotions, dispels apathy. Can be helpful for rheumatism, arthritis, neuralgia, infertility and depression.

BASE CHAKRA	COLOUR RED
	RUBY		Fires enthusiasm, courage, drives away sadness and melancholy. Useful for adrenals and circulation and for protection.
	HEMATITE		Restores strength, regulates blood flow, strengthens will, vitality. Can aid pain relief.
	GARNET		Fortifies inner flame, strength of character, stimulates metabolism.
	JASPER		"Grounding", Stimulates determination and courage and stimulates the circulation.
	APATITE		Aids motivation and drive, enlivens, helps dispel apathy and lack of incentive.

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