Wearing a bracelet made of healing gemstones can help you feel more grounded, clear, and nourished—benefits of all therapeutic-quality gems—while also allowing you to experience the specific effects of that bracelet’s stones.
While this is also true of healing gemstone necklaces, bracelets have their own unique benefits.
Benefits of Healing Gemstone Bracelets and Necklaces Compared
When you wear a gemstone bracelet, you focus its energies on the side of the body on which it is worn, particularly on that hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder. In contrast, when you wear a gemstone necklace, it addresses the whole of you, working with the left and right sides equally.
A bracelet would be preferred when tension and stress are distinctly present on one side. By wearing your bracelet on one wrist or the other, you can focus the gemstone energies on the side of the body that needs more healing attention. You can also wrap a necklace around your wrist for the same purpose.
Another reason you might opt for a bracelet over a necklace is if you want to address issues along your maternal or paternal lines of ancestry.
Healing Family Karma with Gemstone Bracelets
People tend to inherit certain conditions and tendencies from one side of the family or the other. Either their mother and her ancestors or their father and his parents and grandparents have passed down certain traits or challenges from one generation to the next. Some of these may be considered positive, like inner strength and a desire to see a job through to completion. Habitual behaviors like alcoholism or qualities like stubbornness, narrow-mindedness, and a short temper can also run in families.
Wearing a gemstone bracelet (or a necklace wrapped around your wrist) allows you to focus on one side of your family history at a time. You get to address the traits you picked up as a child, become more aware of why you’ve taken them on, and work to resolve them.
So which side relates to which parent?
In my work with Green Tourmaline and Pink Tourmaline, gemstones that vitalize the masculine and feminine energies respectively, I’ve learned that one side of the body relates to the paternal lineage and the other to the maternal.
In Gemstone Therapy, the right half of the body relates predominately to the masculine and the left half to the feminine.
Gemstones worn on the right wrist will therefore help you work through issues brought on by your father and his lineage. Bracelets worn on the left will help you with issues bestowed by your mother and her side of the family.
How I Wear Gemstone Bracelets to Heal Issues with My Mom
You can also intentionally wear a bracelet on one side or the other to strengthen or remind yourself about a positive trait you have inherited, or even one you would like to inherit.
One of the things I loved about my mom was her untiring energy. I know that I can call upon this energy through the genetic connection she and I share. When I wear a gemstone bracelet on my left side, it helps me to do this.
My mother also had a certain rigidity that I never cared for. When I see it appear in me, I remind myself that this trait isn’t really mine. I wear a bracelet on my left side to untangle its energy and release the karmic influence.
While one parent may be primarily responsible for an undesirable behavior, the other parent usually allows or enables it. For this reason, lessons can be learned and insights received by wearing bracelets on either wrist—so you can’t go wrong.
Most of the time, when you reflect on a certain trait you have and then think about your parents, the source is apparent. But if you’re not sure, try wearing a bracelet on one wrist for a while, and then switch it to the other.
Healing Gemstone Support for the Family
Another reason to wear healing gemstone bracelets is to shore up specific vulnerabilities to karmic patterns when visiting family. All healing gemstones have a grounding and uplifting effect. That alone can help you get through trying situations. Think about the weakness that you know has roots in your family line, then choose any of the bracelets in your pharmacy that calls to you. This will give you extra energetic support.
In this situation, I’d also suggest wearing a gemstone necklace so that you can feel the full strength, nourishment, and protection most gemstone necklaces naturally provide. Gemstone necklaces radiate their energies evenly throughout your body and aura. They’re the preferred option for overall nourishment.
If your family events are prone to tension and discomfort, wearing gemstones will not only help you around others, but also other family members around you. That’s because gemstone energies nourish the aura, and those with well-nourished auras are easier to be around. Others will be less likely to instigate or exhibit uncomfortable behaviors in your presence.
Gemstones also naturally raise vibrations. When vibrations rise, unwanted energies are naturally released, and healing occurs. The light within you—and those around you—brightens. Look for this inherent light in others, and enjoy the blessing of family in your life. The challenges they may bestow are the bedrock of growth and healing.
More Ways to Work with Healing Gemstone Bracelets
If your body calls for several gemstone bracelets, you can safely combine them and wear them at the same time. This allows you to receive the different benefits each one offers without having to choose or switch bracelets to do so.
Like our necklaces, our gemstone bracelets are safe to wear when you sleep, but they offer an extra advantage. Since you wear them on your wrist, you can place the palm of your hand at a specific area you want to work with when you fall asleep. The gemstones will continue to provide direct support for as long as your hand remains in that position, and then indirect support all night long.
You can also target a specific area without having to wear the gems around your wrist. Simply place the bracelet on your body as a poultice.
If you’re familiar with Gemstone Therapy procedures, you may choose to work with a bracelet instead of a necklace. Common necklace applications can easily be done with a bracelet instead.
You can lay a necklace or bracelet on the body or wrap either of them around a therapy wand to be applied in the aura.
Whether you’re giving a session to someone else, performing a self-therapy, or simply wearing them, gemstone bracelets are a safe and effective healing tool.
No matter how you choose to work with your bracelets, you’ll receive the natural healing benefits the therapeutic gemstones offer.
How to Wear Healing Gemstone Bracelets
Remember to first think about why you want to wear the bracelets. Focus on your specific intention if you have one. This will make you more receptive to whichever ones call to you from your personal pharmacy, so the choice will be clearer. If you select a bracelet and then discover which side of your body wants to wear the gems, that might give you insight into the ancestral relationship with your intention.
When I wear a bracelet to feel more emotionally balanced and my left wrist calls for it, I can draw upon what my mother and grandmother learned about this topic. If the gems seem drawn to my right wrist, then I’ll be supported by the progress my paternal line made in learning emotional balance.
If my intention is physically based and a bracelet is drawn to one side more than the other, it may simply mean that side is weaker or needs more support.
How Do You Know Which Wrist to Wear Bracelets On?
To choose which wrist to wear a healing gemstone bracelet on, let your body decide. With your reason for wanting to wear the gems in mind, hold the bracelet in your right hand and see if it draws toward your left wrist. Change hands and repeat with your right one.
One side will accept, receive, or pull in the gems far more readily and easily than the other. This is the side where the bracelet should be worn. Nonetheless, there’s no wrong way to wear a bracelet. Healing gemstones are both safe and effective no matter how you wear them.
