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    8 Powerful Crystals for Self-Love

    Are you looking for a way to amplify your self-love journey? Below, discover 8 powerful crystals for self-love. These high-vibe crystals will help you to release what no longer serves you so you can focus on the love, joy, and peace you deserve.

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    Your Self-Love Journey

    Self-love is a lifelong journey that involves looking deep within, releasing what no longer serves you, and making space for new beliefs that support your total well-being.

    It also involves a lot of self-compassion.

    Because, as much as I sometimes wish it was, the journey to unconditional self-love isn’t linear. Sometimes, you might feel like you’re on top of the world, only for something to happen that causes you to crash land back to earth, leaving you to desperately try to pick up the pieces.

    And that’s okay. It’s okay that the journey can be a little messy at times, because that’s what being a human is all about. We often thrive in that space of messiness, but in our striving to be perfect, we don’t give ourselves time to see that the messy parts of life can sometimes be a gift.

    No matter where you are in your self-love journey, I hope you’re able to embrace this moment right now, exactly as you are, without changing a thing. I’ve been on this self-love journey for many years, and I promise, you are so worth the time and energy you invest in yourself.

    Because with time, unconditional self-love becomes something you no longer have to try to acquire.

    Rather, it becomes who you are.

    Below, I’ve listed 8 powerful crystals for self-love. Whether you wear them as jewelry, meditate with them, keep them somewhere you can see throughout the day, or use them in another capacity, these crystals will help you to look within and find the place inside yourself where you hold the key to the unconditional self-love you deserve.

    For more details on how to use crystals to protect your energy, manifest your dreams, and help you heal from within, check out my post, How to Use Crystals: Grids, Pendulums & More.

    Crystals for Self-Love

    Rose Quartz

    Rose Quartz is associated with your heart chakra, which is your body’s energy center for love, peace, compassion, and kindness. When your heart chakra is balanced, you are completely open to giving and receiving love, and you feel a deep sense of connection with others. You also become more accepting and forgiving, and you feel a deep empathy and understanding for friends, loved ones, and even strangers.

    But what makes the heart chakra special is that all of these really wonderful qualities it possesses don’t just apply to your relationships with other people; they apply to your relationship with yourself as well.

    A balanced heart chakra means that you become more accepting, more forgiving, more understanding, more connected, and more loving towards yourself.

    All of your body’s energy centers play an important role in cultivating self-love, but the heart chakra plays arguably the most important role of all.

    And Rose Quartz is undoubtedly one of the most powerful crystals in helping you to heal, balance, and restore harmony to your heart chakra. Rose Quartz is a crystal that gently guides you to a place of pure love and light. It’s known as the stone of unconditional love, and it works for every relationship in your life: romantic relationships, friendships, familial connections, and maybe most importantly, your relationship with yourself.

    What makes Rose Quartz so special is that it doesn’t just work at the surface to cover up your old wounds and current pain like a band-aid. Rather, it goes deep beneath the surface to heal those wounds completely.

    Once your heart has been fully healed, you’re able to truly nurture the relationship you have with yourself. You become more compassionate and forgiving with yourself, and you realize that you are worthy of love exactly as you are, without having to change a thing.

    From personal experience, I can tell you that I spent many years with an imbalanced heart chakra. I believed that I had to be absolutely perfect to be loved, and I tore myself apart constantly. But when I began working with my heart chakra, I finally realized that none of these limiting beliefs were true. Rose Quartz was one of the powerful crystals I used during this time, and I was (and still am) often pulled to its gentle, loving energy.

    Are you having trouble allowing yourself to accept love, both from yourself and others? When I first started my self-love journey, the universe softly placed into my heart this practice that I still use to this day: whenever my inner bully spoke to me from within, instead of trying to suppress it, I acknowledged its presence. And then I would place my hands out in front of me with my palms facing the sky, and I’d softly say, “I accept love. I receive love.” I’d then let myself feel the love of the universe entirely. For me, this practice meant that even though I wasn’t perfect, and even though the inner bully was speaking, I was worthy of love, and I allowed myself to be loved in that moment.

    Rhodonite

    Like Rose Quartz, Rhodonite is a beautiful heart chakra healing stone that promotes unconditional self-love. It helps you to heal old wounds as well as gain confidence and cultivate deep compassion within your mind, body, and spirit.

    What makes Rhodonite really special, though, is its characteristics that have caused it to be known as the rescue stone. Rhodonite is a powerful aid if you’ve experienced trauma, emotional abuse, and other deep emotional pain that’s caused you to construct barriers around your heart. This stone will gently help you to dismantle these barriers so you’re no longer tied to the negative emotions of the past.

    If you’ve experienced deep emotional heartache, trauma, or pain that has caused your self-love and self-worth to be diminished, Rhodonite is the stone that will help you to mend your heartbreak, heal your pain, and move on from the past with a newfound confidence.

    (And it’s also a really powerful stone if you need to forgive yourself or someone else so you can finally release the shadows of the past that have been weighing down on you.)

    Rhodochrosite

    To finish up the R triology, Rhodochrosite is a lesser known stone that shouldn’t be overlooked when it comes to cultivating feelings of unconditional self-love, compassion, and positivity. This is another heart chakra stone, and I especially like this one specifically for promoting self-love and working on your own inner world. Its powerful energy is specifically geared toward going within, opening your heart, and embracing wholehearted self-love.

    Rhodochrosite works with your heart chakra to lift your spirits and boost your self-worth. If you feel like you’ve been living in a fog, this stone clears away the haze and stimulates a bright, sunny outlook. This is another powerful stone that can heal past trauma and pain by gently bringing repressed emotions to the surface so you can let them go.

    One profound aspect of this stone’s properties is its ability to guide you toward self-forgiveness. If you’ve been clinging onto mistakes you’ve made in the past, this crystal will help you to clear out any negative thoughts and feelings you have toward yourself, opening up a gateway to unconditional self-love.

    Just like you’d clean a new house before moving into it, you want to make sure to cleanse any new crystals you get to remove the old energy of previous owners. Here are a few methods for cleansing crystals:

    • Sage: Light your sage and immerse the crystal in the smoke for thirty to sixty seconds. Be sure to use a firesafe bowl or abalone shell to catch burning embers and ash. It’s best to do this outside or near an open window.
    • Water: Rinse your stone under the running water of a creek or stream. If this isn’t possible, you can also use a faucet. Just be sure to check first that this is safe for your stone.
    • Use Selenite or Clear Quartz: Both of these crystals have the ability to cleanse and purify other crystals. Lay your crystal on top of (or next to, as long as they’re touching) a piece of Selenite or Clear Quartz for at least twenty-four hours.
    • Nature: Place your crystals outside on the soil, on the branches of a tree, on a potted plant, or anywhere else outdoors where you feel a sense of peace and balance. If possible, try to keep your crystals outside for at least a full day, avoiding dew and prolonged exposure to sunlight.

    Pink Opal

    Pink Opal is often known as the “Stone of Resolution,” which may give you a glimpse into what makes this stone so special for promoting self-love. Often, what holds us back from accepting love from ourselves is the pain of past hurts and old wounds we still haven’t resolved. You may also experience deep fear that keeps you stuck in one place for too long. This resolution stone helps you to resolve the pain and fear you hold deep within. In turn, this opens up the stagnant energy you may be holding in your heart chakra and promotes the flow of energy deep within this energy center.

    An added bonus to using Pink Opal is its ability to promote calm within. If you’re feeling stressed, tense, or anxious, this stone will gently restore peace and tranquility within your mind, body, and spirit.

    Aquamarine

    What do you think about when you think of the ocean? Maybe its beautiful, bluish green hue. Maybe its calming allure. Maybe the strength and resilience it represents. Or the way it seems to reach deep inside of you whenever you look out on it, cleansing and restoring your soul.

    Aquamarine is a great alternative to the stones I’ve listed above (you can always choose to pair two of these crystals together to strengthen their benefits) if you feel a deep connection to the sea or water. All of the qualities of the ocean I listed are also represented in this powerful healing stone.

    Like the waves of the ocean, Aquamarine will wash away the negative feelings that pervade your being and instill a sense of tranquility and calm within. This is especially true if you’re feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or fearful. This stone gently guides you to go with the flow and cultivates deep inner peace.

    By working with the throat chakra, Aquamarine will help you to find your courage and speak your truth. It’s a powerful stone for promoting self-worth as well as bringing forth your inner strength and resilience. (In fact, it’s known as a stone of calm and courage.) All of these attributes combine to ease you into a place of unconditional, wholehearted self-love.

    Moonstone

    Just like you can associate Aquamarine with the ocean, you might think of Moonstone like the night sky: glittering with radiant light, expansive, and filled with endless depths just waiting to be explored.

    And just like the sky, you also possess endless depths within. Moonstone is the stone that will guide you to discover these expansive, hidden depths inside of you.

    This stone is all about your divine, feminine energy. Working with your sacral chakra, it unlocks your inner goddess and brings forth your confidence, creativity, and sensuality. Furthermore, it also works with your third eye chakra to enhance your intuition and help you to get in touch with your inner knowing. As a result, you’re less likely to get frazzled by external circumstances because you possess deep clarity and understanding within.

    This is the perfect stone for embracing your beautiful, divine, passionate self, connecting to your intuition, and exploring the deepest parts within you.

    Clear Quartz

    In some ways, using Clear Quartz almost feels like you’re cheating. Why? Because it actually works with all of your chakras to promote balance, harmony, and peace within. Clear Quartz is known as a master healer due to its ability to heal any and all spiritual and emotional imbalances among your energy centers. This is the stone you’re going to want with you for the long run. It works to get rid of negative energy and promotes a sense of positivity and joy within.

    This is a crystal of light and high vibrations, and it’s also a crystal that will guide you when you’re feeling lost and unsure what you want out of life. One of my favorite aspects about Clear Quartz is its powerful ability to support you during your entire journey, from the moment you set your goals to taking each next step. When you can’t see the path ahead of you, Clear Quartz will not only reveal it to you, but it’ll navigate you through all of the fallen trees, forks in the road, and unplanned stops along the way.

    Blue Lace Agate

    When I first started learning about crystals, Blue Lace Agate was one of the very first stones to immediately jump out at me, and it has been one of my absolute favorites ever since. This stone is foremost known as a calming stone. If your life is often filled with stressful situations, this is the stone you want to calm your inner anxiety and release tension. For me, this is my go-to stone whenever I need to inhale peace and release what no longer serves me.

    Stress, anxiety, worry, and fear can often be a distraction in your journey of self-discovery and self-love because they pull you away from the present moment. Instead of focusing on the present moment, these negative emotions leave you replaying the past or worrying about the future. That’s why I love using Blue Lace Agate as part of my self-love toolkit: because it gently guides me back to the present moment and instills me with a sense of calm and tranquility.

    An added bonus to using this stone is that it’s associated with the throat chakra and is used to help you clarify your thoughts and express yourself clearly.

    If you’re feeling overwhelmed and disconnected from your true self, hold Blue Lace Agate in your hands as you focus on your breathing, and allow it to guide you back to yourself.


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    Are you curious to learn more about chakras? Check out my chakra series below!

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    Chakras,  Crystals,  Self Love,  Spirituality

    7 Chakra Healing Crystals to Restore Inner Harmony

    Discover 7 powerful chakra healing crystals to balance your energy and restore harmony within, plus get some bonus crystals for each chakra! And be sure to check out the recommendations and links below to start adding to your crystal collection today! (Scroll to the bottom of this post for some beautiful chakra healing crystals and stones sets!)

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    Chakra Healing Crystals

    The word chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning “wheel” or “disk.” In your body, you can think of a chakra like a wheel of energy that allows energy to flow freely within you (when your chakras are open). When one or more of your chakras are blocked, this energy stagnates, and you may experience mental, emotional, spiritual, and even physical misalignments.

    (To read more about chakras, check out my complete beginner’s guide here.)

    Your body has seven main chakras, starting at the base of your spine and working upward: Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third Eye, and Crown.

    Each of these chakras is responsible for the total wellbeing of your body, mind, and spirit. When all of your chakras are open and the energy is flowing freely through these energy centers, you become aligned with your highest and most authentic self. This is the you that is confident, creative, passionate, loving, truthful, intuitive, and connected to your purpose and truth.

    If any of your chakras becomes blocked, there are ways to unblock and open that chakra back up again so that energy can flow freely through it. Some of these methods include meditation, yoga, color therapy, spending time in nature, journaling, and using positive affirmations.

    One of the most powerful ways to heal a blocked chakra is through crystal healing.

    Each chakra has powerful crystals associated with it, and these crystals can be used various ways to balance and heal the energy within. For instance, you can meditate with crystals, wear crystals as jewelry, keep them in your pocket throughout the day, create crystal grids, or keep them in a prominent spot nearby where you can easily see them.

    For more details on how to use crystals to protect your energy, manifest your dreams, and help you heal from within, check out my post, How to Use Crystals: Grids, Pendulums & More.

    Below, I provide you with info on the most powerful chakra healing crystals for each of your body’s main energy centers, plus I share some awesome links and recommendations so you can start building your crystal collection today. And at the end of this post, I even share my recommendations for some beautiful chakra healing crystals and stones sets so you’ll be able to heal imbalances in any of your chakras whenever your energy becomes misaligned.

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    Root Chakra

    Located at the base of your spine, the root chakra is your energy center for safety, security, and stability. When your root chakra is balanced, you feel grounded and centered. This energy center truly represents your foundation, so if it’s not balanced, it’d be nearly impossible for the energy in the rest of your body to be in harmony.

    When you feel like your foundation has been shaken, Hematite is the ultimate grounding stone to pull you back to the earth. Hematite will restore your steady foundation while also guiding you to release feelings of stress, worry, and insecurity.

    Another major benefit of this stone is that it’s a protective stone. So not only will it help you to feel grounded and centered when you’re feeling off-balanced, but it will protect you from negative energy and toxic vibes.

    Read more about the root chakra here.

    Hematite Recommendations

    • I absolutely love this Triple Protection Bracelet with Hematite, Black Obsidian, and Tiger’s Eye. Hematite and Black Obsidian are both powerful root chakra stones, and Tiger’s Eye is associated with the root, sacral, and solar plexus chakra to protect you from negative energy. This is a powerful trio that will work together to keep you grounded, secure, and safe from external negative energy.
    • There’s something about this Natural Hematite Healing Guardian Elephant that amplifies the stone’s protective vibes. It’s a beautiful stone that’s also small enough to keep in your purse!

    More Root Chakra Healing Crystals: Obsidian, Onyx, Smoky Quartz

    Sacral Chakra

    The sacral chakra is your energy center for creativity, passion, pleasure, and pure joy. This energy center reminds you that life isn’t all about work and to-do lists. Fun and play aren’t just frivolous, impractical activities; they’re an essential part of your total self-care routine. And creativity isn’t just for people who work in creative jobs. (In fact, even those working in a creative field often need a stress-free, non-work-related creative outlet to unwind.) It’s important for all of us to embrace our playful, imaginative side.

    Within you, you have access to an infinite source of creativity. I know it may not always feel like it (hello, writer’s block), but that’s because your inner creative source can become blocked or obscured. This is where Carnelian comes in. Carnelian is a powerful stone that unlocks your inner power and boosts your confidence. It also unlocks your passion and excitement for life while stimulating your creativity.

    Carnelian is often associated with the element fire, not just because of its outer appearance, but because of its ability to light a fire within your spirit. Carnelian will truly make you feel more of everything: more passionate, more motivated, more confident, more spontaneous, and more creative. It’s the perfect stone to ignite your passion and heal any energy imbalances in your sacral chakra.

    Bonus Fact: Carnelian has often been nicknamed The Artist’s Stone.

    Want to learn more about the sacral chakra? Check out my post here!

    Carnelian Recommendations

    More Sacral Chakra Healing Crystals: Orange Calcite, Jasper, Red Tiger’s Eye

    Solar Plexus Chakra

    The solar plexus chakra is your energy center for confidence, positivity, and empowerment. This energy center is associated with all the powerful “self” words: self-esteem, self-respect, self-image, and self-worth. Furthermore, a balanced solar plexus chakra means you’re aligned with your purpose and core values and have a high sense of integrity. You do the right thing not because you have to, but because you want to. When your solar plexus chakra is in harmony, you have an influx of empowering self-belief, and you feel secure, driven, and above all, confident.

    Confidence can be fickle, though, and all of us experience lapses in confidence from time to time. That’s where Citrine comes in. Citrine is a stone of pure sunshine. It’s a stone of joy, positivity, and good vibrations. It allows you to release any negative emotions that don’t serve your wellbeing so you can embrace your inner light.

    Citrine will help you to feel more positive, optimistic, and joyful while boosting your confidence so you can go after what you want most in life, whether that be a job, a relationship, or something else you feel called to pursue. You might imagine it’s like pure, beautiful sunshine filling your soul and radiating through your entire being.

    (And an added bonus? Citrine is also associated with manifesting abundance!)

    Learn more about the solar plexus chakra here!

    Citrine Recommendations

    • This Tumbled Grade A Citrine Crystal is the perfect stone to keep with you throughout the day. It’s small enough to keep in your pocket, purse, or even your wallet, allowing you to keep a little burst of sunshine with you all day long.

    More Solar Plexus Chakra Healing Crystals: Carnelian, Topaz, Tiger’s Eye

    Heart Chakra

    Located in the center of your chest, your heart chakra is your energy center for unconditional love, compassion, peace, empathy, and connection. When your heart chakra is balanced, your thoughts and actions are aligned with pure, genuine love, and your heart is open to forming deep connections with others. One of my favorite things about a balanced heart chakra is that it allows you to become more compassionate and forgiving, not just toward others but toward yourself as well. This means finding grace in your imperfections and knowing you are worthy of love, even when you make mistakes.

    Rose Quartz is the ultimate heart chakra healing stone. When you use Rose Quartz, you aren’t simply allowing yourself to feel more loving. Rather, you’re opening yourself up to deep, powerful healing. Rose Quartz opens up your heart chakra and helps you to heal past pain that you might still be holding onto. And once your heart is fully healed, you’re able to open up your heart to love, connection, and trust.

    While we often think of romantic love when it comes to matters of the heart, Rose Quartz will gently guide you to open yourself up to all kinds of love: romantic, friendship, familial, and perhaps most importantly, self-love. This stone will help you deepen your relationships and strengthen your bonds both with others and yourself.

    Learn more about the heart chakra here!

    Rose Quartz Recommendations

    • This Rose Quartz Crystal Stone is undoubtedly one of my favorite products on this list. It’s absolutely gorgeous and can balance on any flat surface, so you can keep it nearby at work or in your home to keep your heart center open to love, compassion, and trust.

    More Heart Chakra Healing Crystals: Apophyllite, Rhodonite, Pink Opal

    Throat Chakra

    Your throat chakra is your energy center for communication, and a balanced throat chakra means you’re able to speak with clarity, calm, and confidence. But this energy center is about so much more than just speaking. It’s about living authentically and speaking your truth. And it also means having a high sense of integrity and speaking with honesty, no matter what.

    With a balanced throat chakra, you speak your authentic truth and remain true to yourself and your guiding principles.

    Blue Lace Agate is one of my personal favorite stones, but beyond that, it’s a powerful stone for healing your throat chakra. First and foremost, Blue Lace Agate is a stress-relieving stone. It gives off calm and soothing vibrations to lift anxiety and soothe your spirit. Stress and anxiety are often major factors that hold us back from speaking our truths, so Blue Lace Agate clears the way for you to speak with clarity and confidence.

    If you have a big speech coming up, or if you have trouble expressing yourself in your daily life, Blue Lace Agate will work with your throat chakra to release fear and embrace a peaceful sense of calmness and tranquility.

    Want to learn more about the throat chakra? Check out my post on the throat chakra here!

    Blue Lace Agate Recommendations

    • I love the idea of wearing throat chakra stones as necklaces to keep them physically near this energy center and remind you of your own inherent power to speak your truth. This beautiful and dainty Teardrop Genuine Stone Pendant Nacklace is the perfect piece to soothe your spirit. It also comes beautifully packaged and makes a great gift!

    More Throat Chakra Healing Crystals: Celestite, Aquamarine, Turquoise

    Third Eye Chakra

    Located at the center of your forehead (between the eyebrows), the third eye chakra is your energy center for intuition, insight, imagination, perception, and clarity of vision. When your third eye chakra is balanced, you feel aligned with your inner knowing, and you trust your intuition to guide you in the right direction. Furthermore, you’re often more open-minded, imaginative, and mentally strong.

    I like to think that all the lower (location-wise, not lesser) energy centers fill you with confidence, passion, and power to live an authentic life in which you’re connected to your purpose; your third eye chakra gives you the vision and clarity to take that first step and walk forward in your journey.

    Amethyst is an absolute must-have for anyone who is on a spiritual journey. Like other crystals, using Amethyst doesn’t immediately connect you with your intuition. Rather, it’s going to do the deep work first, clearing out anxiety and worries that may prevent you from accessing your inner knowing. Amethyst is a stone of peace, tranquility, and stillness. When you’re feeling stressed and anxious, Amethyst will restore inner balance and harmony. (Plus, it helps you to get better sleep!)

    This calm feeling will clear out any lingering negativity in your mind. And once you’re in a state of trust and surrender, you can find clarity in your vision and connect to your inner knowing. Spiritually, Amethyst will deepen your sense of self and work with your third eye chakra to connect you to your innate intuitive power within.

    Learn more about the third eye chakra here.

    Amethyst Recommendations

    More Third Eye Chakra Healing Crystals: Lapis Lazuli, Lepidolite, Apophyllite

    Crown Chakra

    The crown chakra is your energy center for spiritual connection, inner wisdom, and enlightenment. Located at the top of your head, this energy center helps you to connect to your highest self and allows you to feel more peaceful and trusting so you can surrender control to a higher power.

    And while the “surrender” part might seem kind of scary, I promise, this does not mean you give away your personal power. When you have the strength and courage to surrender and trust your path (even when it doesn’t make sense to the outside world), you discover that you possess a power you never knew you had before.

    I know that I just said this above with Amethyst, but Selenite is another incredibly powerful stone you want to have on your spiritual journey. In fact, if you were to ask me what one stone you should have to start your journey, I’d tell you Selenite, without hesitation. Why? Because Selenite has the ability to clear up any heavy or stagnant energy in the air, and it has the unique ability (along with Clear Quartz) to cleanse the energy of other crystals. This means that as you add more crystals to your connection, Selenite will help to cleanse any remaining energy from previous owners so you can start anew with your healing stones.

    Beyond that, Selenite is connected to the crown chakra, and by using this stone, you’re able to connect to your highest self and raise your vibrations, which enhances your manifesting power. It’s also going to help you release any negative energy that’s holding you back from stepping into your purpose. Furthermore, it’ll act as a spirit guide and help you to tune into signs, synchronicities, and messages from the Universe.

    Discover more about the crown chakra here!

    Selenite Recommendations

    • This Selenite Skyscraper is the perfect start (or addition) to your crystal collection. It’s about four inches tall and is both beautiful and soothing.

    More Crown Chakra Healing Crystals: Amethyst, Clear Quartz, Lepidolite

    Bonus: Chakra Healing Crystals Sets


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