Benefits
Wear this Necklace When You Want to:
- Energetically support heart health.*
- Enhance and fine-tune healthy rhythms and rhythmic flows throughout your body and being.
- Enhance your muscular capability during exercise and daily living.
- Nourish the mitochondria and the energy-producing processes in your body.
- Establish healthy circadian rhythms including sleep cycles.
This necklace provides excellent gemstone energy support for athletes, such as runners, whose sport involves rhythmic movement and cardiovascular fitness.
*If your heart health is a concern, be sure to visit a cardiologist or speak with your primary care provider.
The Spinel family of gemstones are the keepers of rhythms. Life is maintained and sustained by energies in motion. Red Spinel helps keep them in motion in the physical body; Pink Spinel in the emotional body.
Supporting Muscular Vitality
Red Spinel and Rose Quartz (or RoselliteTM) are the vitalizing gemstones for the muscular system. Physically, this system consists of skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle. Skeletal muscles are found in the limbs and are controllable. We can move them when we want to. Our internal organs are surrounded by smooth muscle, which we cannot feel nor move at will. For example, the smooth muscle surrounding the digestive tract is responsible for peristalsis. Cardiac muscle comprises the heart and rhythmically contracts to pump blood through the circulatory system.
Red Spinel energy has an affinity with each of these types of muscle.
Skeletal muscle does not move rhythmically unless we ask it to, which is when Red Spinel will have its greatest effect on the muscular system. Runners, walkers, and rowers can benefit from the energetic support of Red Spinel during sustained rhythmic movement.
Yet no matter how muscles are used, they always contract and relax. Red Spinel can expand your range of skeletal muscle contraction and relaxation if you work the muscles while wearing the gemstones.
Red Spinel supports the energetic function of expansion and contraction, and of opening and closing. In the respiratory system, expansion correlates with the inhale, and the opening and relaxation of the lungs; contraction correlates with the exhale. In the heart, opening and closing occur synchronously among the heart’s four chambers. As a valve opens, the associated chamber opens, relaxes, and expands to fill with blood; the valve then closes, the chamber contracts and expels the blood. In the muscular system, the muscles “open” as they relax; when muscles work, they contract.
Other examples of expansion and contraction can be found in the body, for example, in the cerebrospinal system, among the chakras, at a whole body level where the subtle bodies gently and rhythmically expand and contract, and also at the cellular level where mitochondria take part in a similar activity. Ideally, all the rhythms of the body should be in synchrony with each other, and Red Spinel energy encourages this.
Red Spinel, although a pure red, does not carry the red color ray. That color ray is carried by Ruby. Ruby’s red color nourishes the entire body and being–wherever the red ray is needed. The red color of Red Spinel focuses on muscles. Besides improving muscle function, it also helps the muscle cells to manage, organize, and store their supply of red color ray.
Because smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle are all vitalized by Red Spinel, this gemstone’s energy helps muscle cells work more efficiently and with better coordination—even within a single muscle. Red Spinel also helps individual muscles throughout the body work together as a unit.
Once muscles begin working together efficiently, flexibility and range of motion can improve. Red Spinel’s effect on smooth and cardiac muscle is to promote enhanced autonomic rhythm. This includes the potential for greater lung capacity, which is governed by muscle activity surrounding the thoracic cavity.
Another reason Red Spinel energies can improve muscle vitality is due to its affinity with cellular mitochondria, which we discuss later on this page.
Promotes Regular Rhythms in Target Tissue
Every living cell and tissue vibrates with life energy. This vibration among cells and tissues produces a rhythm. In some cases, the rhythm is obvious, such as that of the heart and lungs. Yet all organs and cells rely on their own inherent rhythms for proper function.
By tuning the inherent vibration of organs and cells, Red Spinel normalizes their rhythm, which then improves function.
Function can be inhibited when blockages prevent an organ or cell from being able to “breathe,” or, in other words, for its energy field to expand and contract, in response to its inherent blueprint vibrations. Red Spinel can open the blockages that inhibit coordinated, concurrent, autonomic, and synchronized movement.
Synchronizes Rhythms Throughout the Body
The body is a sum of systems that function based on synchronized rhythm. As the body ages or is overcome by disease, these rhythms can soften and wane, and, at worst, become out of step with each other or become frozen. The more well-known arrhythmias include heart arrhythmia or imbalanced circadian rhythms.
Lack of rhythm can also manifest as poor circulation and inadequate coordination or communication between organs that otherwise should work together, for example, when the heart and lungs are not supplying enough oxygen to the muscles.
Red Spinel energy encourages rhythm, not only at the organ and system levels, but also between the physical and subtle bodies. Red Spinel energy also encourages cooperation and a common rhythm among cells.
With Red Spinel, those rhythmic relationships that are already in harmony become more congruent. Their vibrations become more concurrent. Red Spinel synchs the waveform. Therefore, this gemstone doesn’t add to the system but rather synchronizes what is already there to support positive changes.
Circadian Rhythms, Mitochondria, and Heart Health
Circadian rhythms characterize the physical, mental, and behavioral changes that regularly occur about every twenty-four hours. They include patterns of sleeping, eating, core body temperature, brain wave activity, heart rate, hormone production, cell regeneration, and other biological activities. Disturbances in the circadian rhythm can lead to health problems including insomnia, fatigue, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, auto-immunity, and inflammation.
Circadian rhythms are physical evidence of the rhythmic energetic flows that sustain and maintain life. These flows exist at all levels of manifestation, from the atoms and molecules, to the emotions, memory, and mind. Gemstone Therapy techniques are particularly effective for evaluating and correcting these flows, and wearing the Rhythm necklace is fundamentally supportive.
Circadian rhythms have also been shown to affect the cells’ mitochondria. Specifically, researchers found oscillations in mitochondrial respiration, protein abundance, and enzymes that process different nutrients. Mitochondria may be best known as the “powerhouse of the cell” in that they produce the energy our body needs to function. Mitochondria have many other functions as well. Among other things, they maintain calcium levels, build hormones and certain parts of the blood, detoxify ammonia, and play a role in the process of apoptosis or programmed cell death.
Mitochondria are of particular significance to heart health. For one, the heart relies on mitochondria to provide the energy needed to pump blood. The heart is also one of the most frequently affected organs in mitochondrial disorders.
We believe Red Spinel and the Rhythm necklace it comprises to serve as energetic support for healthy mitochondria, especially those in the heart. Red Spinel is a very warming gemstone, and mitochondria have shown to be receptive of infrared heat. It is possible that the red color of this gemstone strengthens its infrared emissions. Red Spinel’s activating properties may stimulate mitochondria and the opening of blocked flows between the physical and emotional counterparts of the cells. This may release the unwanted energies that inhibit optimal mitochondrial function.
Why Mitochondria Need Support
Mitochondrial Disorder (MID) affects nearly 1 in 4,000 people. Symptoms include poor growth, loss of muscle coordination, muscle weakness and pain, seizures, vision and/or hearing loss, gastrointestinal issues, learning disabilities, and organ failure.
When Mitochondria don’t function as they should, they are unable to produce energy for the cell. This can lead to cell injury and even death. If the problem spreads throughout the body, entire systems can begin to fail, severely compromising a person’s quality of life. Mitochondria diseases appear to cause the most damage to cells of the brain, heart, liver, skeletal muscles, kidney, lungs, and endocrine glands.
Symptoms can include loss of motor control, muscle weakness and pain, gastro-intestinal disorders, swallowing difficulties, poor growth, heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, respiratory complications, seizures, visual/hearing problems, developmental delays, and susceptibility to infection.
Keeping your mitochondria healthy and happy should be a key part of a health maintenance program.
Symbiotics
Symbiotic Gemstones Enhance the Work of Red Spinel
Pink Spinel
As Red Spinel energy tends to focus on physical rhythms, Pink Spinel focuses on the emotional body’s rhythms. A healthy emotional body takes part in an ongoing rhythmic contraction and relaxation cycle.
When the emotional body contracts, emotional energies move to the physical body. When the emotional body relaxes, it takes back spent emotional-body energies from the physical body.
When we feel strong emotions, the rhythm is loud and hard, like drumming. But most of the time, the rhythm is like gentle ocean waves, and we don’t notice the associated emotions, or else they are easy to ignore. These feelings run in the background, so to speak, and include feelings of peacefulness, contentment, humbleness, and patience as well as impatience, submissiveness, acquiescence, intolerance, stubbornness, or the feeling of being pressured.
A healthy rhythmic flow of energies between the emotional and physical bodies allows emotional energies to keep moving. Nothing stagnates. Emotions aren’t held or suppressed, nor do they become stuck in the tissues, particularly muscle tissue. This rhythmic process allows you to feel negative emotions without getting overwhelmed by them or stuck in them. The anger or jealousy comes in, you acknowledge it and learn from it, and then it passes.
Healthy emotional rhythms also allow you the freedom to make choices about how you feel. With every outflow of emotional energy from the body, you have the opportunity to change how you feel, to let go the impatience or intolerance for example, and replace it with something else.
When the emotional body’s rhythms are poor or absent, emotional energy gets sluggish and attracts unwanted energy. To the degree that these rhythms are off, the individual can feel irritated, cranky, unhappy, stubborn, lazy, and despondent, or be quick to feel anger and other negative emotions.
Restore an individual’s emotional rhythms, and he or she can suddenly feel a surge of joy and happiness. Correct the suffocating lack of emotional-body rhythm, and it can feel truly liberating.
Pink Spinel is an essential symbiotic to a Red Spinel necklace or bracelet. The quantity of Red Spinel in these therapy tools places so much emphasis on physical rhythms that an imbalance could occur if emotional-body rhythms aren’t also supported. Healthy physical rhythms coincide with emotional rhythms, as though they are one. An incongruence between them can make it very difficult to let go of negative emotions or change how you’re feeling.
Rosellite
We add high vibration Rose Quartz to our Rhythm formula for a few reasons. It supports cooperation between the emotional and physical bodies, so that a healthy flow of energies can pass between them. It helps the physical and emotional bodies to clear accumulated emotional energies that can dampen and restrict healthy energy flows. As a gemstone whose energies are generally supportive of the emotional body, it’s a good choice for a third gemstone in the formula, to add additional numerological influence.
Rosellite has a cooling nature, while Red Spinel has a strong warming nature. Because Rosellite is in such small quantity compared to Red Spinel, its nature does not counteract Red Spinel’s. Instead, it helps to regulate it. When you wear the Rhythm formula, your body will be better able to moderate how much of Red Spinel’s heat to accept because of the presence of cooling Rosellite. If the necklace’s heat gets too strong, the body can focus on the Rosellite’s cooling effect. If this still is not enough, you’ll probably start to get signals that it’s time to take off the necklace.
Numerology
Numerology
Key numbers in this necklace are four and twelve.
Twelve represents wholeness. A multiple of twelve Red Spinel gems are present in the front of the necklace, and another multiple of twelve separate the two sets of symbiotes. Any multiple of 12 or 4 gems can be strung next to the clasp as this is where we accommodate varying lengths.
The influence of the number twelve allows the effects of the Red Spinel to work throughout the wearer’s body and being. More importantly, because rhythms throughout the body are interdependent, it ensures the gemstones’ effect on these rhythms will support the entire body, rather than any one portion of it.
Four is a number of stability and focuses gemstone energies on the physical body. This formula consists of symbiotic sections with four Pink Spinel and four Rosellite gems. These help regulate the amount of support given to the body’s rhythms. Because rhythms are so important to health, imbalances in them can be critical. Worn by itself, Red Spinel could emphasize the imbalance rather than rein it in. The influence of four provides that safety net.
At the same time, the influence of four is also moderated by the distribution of the Pink Spinel and Rosellite. The four pairs of symbiotic gemstones in this necklace are not identical. In the front, each of two Pink Spinel are flanked by two Rosellite. Yet at the back, Pink Spinel stands on its own. This arrangement allows energies to flow back and forth from the rear of the necklace to the front. This supports rhythm, but in the context of restraint.
Quality
Therapeutic Quality Red Spinel
Because of the clear, bright red color of therapeutic-quality Red Spinel, it is often mistaken for the highest quality Ruby—except for the price, which is substantially less.
Color
Red Spinel comes in a range of colors from pinkish red to rich burgundy red. Therapeutic quality Red Spinel may be slightly pinkish red as long as the gems look primarily red. We would grade this color quality 3A. Higher grades are given to Red Spinel that has a purer, clearer red or a richer, burgundy red. Price variations are usually significant between color grades, although size is the greater price determinate.
Size
Red Spinel crystals typically grow very small. Crystals that are large enough to make rondels 5mm in diameter and larger are very rare, and so command the highest prices—especially when they have good color and clarity.
Clarity
Therapeutic Red Spinel with a 3A clarity has some colorless inclusions. We would give a grade of 4A if the inclusions are minimal, and 5A if the inclusions are very, very slight.
Candescence
Candescence grades are given based on how well the gems shine. Therapeutic-quality candescence would be given a 3A grade, and when the gems appear to shine especially brightly, they would receive a grade of 4A or higher.
Cut
Cut grades are based on the evenness and smoothness of the rondels. A grade of 2A is common when the rondels have variations in these two parameters. Higher grades for cut are awarded as the quality and consistency in the cut improves.
How to Use
General Guidelines for Wearing Rhythm
For best results, take one of two approaches to wearing these gemstones: Either wear them night and day, or just during the day. If ongoing, be sure to cleanse the gemstones once a day. If you’d prefer to wear them daily, put them on as soon as you wake up to energize your system and help you start your day. The more regularly you wear and cleanse, the more you’ll support the manifestation of good rhythm.
For energetic support for the rhythms in your body, give these gemstones time to work. Unwanted energies may need to be cleared and fresh resources brought in. Old patterns dismantled and new ones brought to light. Evaluate your progress after a few weeks. However, you may notice right away the warming effect of Red Spinel, especially when held as a poultice.
Rhythm Poultices
Gently wrap the necklace around your fingers to make a series of circlets, then place them over the area where you’d like therapeutic support. The warmth that Red Spinel radiates feels healing and restorative. We suspect it rejuvenates the mitochondria, which provide energy for cellular activity. The healing effect of the gemstones may be accentuated if you keep your hand over the gem poultice. Otherwise, attach the necklace to the body with a gauze bandage and first aid tape if necessary.
Cautions
When worn by itself, Red Spinel’s energy can pool to excess in the body during relative inactivity, especially sleep. This is not a concern with symbiotic Pink Spinel and Rosellite, which maintain a connection with the wearer’s emotional body, and maintain a flow of energy between it and the physical. However, if you notice that Rhythm keeps you awake at night, only wear it during the day.
Athletes
To boost athletic performance, wear Red Spinel during workouts, plus for a while before and after. The exact amount of time depends on the carat weight and how well your body utilizes this gemstone’s energy, but one hour is a general guideline. Wearing Red Spinel before a workout can enhance coordination, so an athlete can get the most from her body during an athletic performance. Afterward, the gemstones will help the body incorporate the information it gained during the workout to increase efficiency in the future.
Athletes who work with a Red Spinel necklace may notice better coordination among the cardiac, respiratory, and muscular systems in particular as these have fundamental expansion/contraction motions. Athletes may also notice that the range of this motion increases with regular use of Red Spinel. This results in stronger and more efficient cardiac, respiratory, and muscular function.
Kathryn –
I have fallen in love with the Rhythm necklace. I wear it every day and my heart just adores it. It actually complains if I forget to put it on in the morning. I also feel as if my muscles in general are gaining support to strengthen and it’s even a little easier to climb the stairs.
LM –
No matter how much energy work I do on other layers such as emotional/causal/mental, I usually feel generally awful in my physical body. I have had lots of diffuse genetic issues with sluggish methylation and being able to metabolize nutrients from food. With Rhythm I actually feel physical energy. Its amazing! This should defineatly be a necklace worth considering for certain kinds of burnout and fatigue.
Prefer not to share –
I got a Rhythm necklace a couple weeks before Christmas. It was much more versatile than I expected. I have been healing from abuse and have done all the therapy, somatic experiencing, trauma resolution, etc as well as Liberty for PTSD and Rose Quartz for emotional healing. Nothing else has reversed the beaten-down discouraged feeling like Rhythm.
Anon. –
My partner is a medical dr. and he has learned to feel what kind of energies are coming off on the gems. He often mentions mitochondria when I take the necklace off and ask what he can pick up from what its working on.
Diamond Level 2 student –
Rhythm usually feels revitalizing for me. Recently it has been supporting healing heartbreak from a life situation. I was surprised this necklace was the one to help and not one of the designs specifically for the emotional body.