Soothing Gems for Stress Relief: Which Do You Need Most?

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At the Gemstone Therapy Institute, we believe that gemstones work better together. Instead of necklaces made of only a single gem, we pair all our stones with their symbiotic partners. The resulting gemstone formulas optimize each gem’s energies, qualities, and effects.

Our collection of Gemstones for Calmness and Relaxation includes thirteen gemstone formulas with soothing energies to help you unwind. Each offers its own unique benefits to promote inner peace and support stress relief.

In this blog post, you’ll learn about the unique benefits each one offers to promote inner peace and support stress relief. Then, you’ll learn three simple ways to help figure out which calming gems can best support your current goals and needs.

Moon Quartz & Purple Tourmaline offers a comforting energy that is ideal for periods of change or transition, times that can often be stressful and daunting. By aligning you more fully with your highest vision of your goals fulfilled, this formula can help you feel more optimistic about the possibility of change and confident in your ability to achieve your goals. In addition, these gems work together to help you evaluate your goals and identify which ones will serve you best.

The energetic support of this healing formula can help you grow beyond your limitations and let go of what’s holding you back. With its transmuting effect, it can help turn energies that stand in your way into more positive, supportive energies. It also can neutralize unwanted energies that might otherwise cause you harm. By clearing the path to the personal transformation that you seek, Moon Quartz & Purple Tourmaline can help ease your way into a new, desired reality.

Mother of Pearl & Blue Chalcedony is another excellent formula for letting go of stress. With the gemstones’ calming and comforting energies, this formula promotes rest and relaxation and can help you unwind after a long day. In the mental body, these gemstones promote the release of accumulated thoughts, so you can more easily quiet your mind in times of stress, when it’s overactive.

Mother of Pearl & Blue Chalcedony also provides soothing support during times of grief or loss, helping to ease your stress and balance your emotions. Mother of Pearl energy helps remind the cells of their divine ocean origin and let go of what separates them from it. This way, they can reconnect with this relaxing ocean so you can feel more in touch with its divine love.

Our Tranquility formula consists of Blue Chalcedony, Blue Sapphire, and Blue Topaz. These gemstones are ideal for soothing mental stress. They vitalize your mind and allow it to relax, release unwanted energies, and receive the nourishment it needs for optimal function. As a result, you may find that you’re more able to think clearly and focus your attention when it feels scattered.

This is an ideal formula to wear when your mind is tired or overworked. It works to release mental stress and quiet overactive thoughts so you’re more able to relax and find inner peace. This can be especially helpful when you want to calm your mind so you can sleep. By giving your mind a break, Tranquility also enables you to work more from your heart, your inner source of wisdom and guidance.

Tranquility’s gemstone energies help dissolve mental blockages, so wearing this formula not only brings mental stress relief, but it can also enhance creativity and support you in making positive changes in your life. It can also help you overcome resistance to healing and identify limiting thoughts that may be contributing to pain or holding you back.

When you feel ungrounded or unbalanced, Agate & Citrine can help you feel calmer, more centered, and in touch with the Earth. The combination of these two gemstones’ energies represents the yin and yang aspects of the earth element as described in Chinese medicine, which supports balance, neutrality, and stability.

By providing nurturing Earth energies, Agate & Citrine helps settle your own energies so you can feel more focused, secure, and comfortable in your body. They can also help settle your emotions when you feel anxious, worried, or overwhelmed, making it easier for you to calm down and recover from emotional stress.

Agate & Citrine is an ideal formula for those who tend to get distracted easily and want help staying on task, those who travel often or tend to get jet-lagged, and those who can’t seem to find anywhere they feel at home.

The Blue Topaz & Australian Opal formula helps the mind relax by expanding its boundaries. This makes it easier for the mind to receive nourishment and to release toxins. Australian Opal helps free you from limiting beliefs or attitudes, allowing creative thoughts to flow more smoothly and act as a powerful healing force.

Together, these gemstones’ energies help calm and soften the mind so that it’s less susceptible to stress. You can also wear this formula to enhance your ability to visualize good health, either overall or in specific areas, and help free yourself from limiting habits and addictions that may cause stress and be detrimental to your health, whether directly or indirectly.

Blue Topaz & Australian Opal are also the vitalizing gemstones for the sensory system.

Our Living River formula consists of Blue-Green Fluorite, Carnelian, and Citrine, the vitalizing gemstones for the urinary and reproductive systems. We include Living River in our collection of Gemstones for Calmness and Relaxation because of its ability to clear stagnant energy and enhance the flow of energy moving down the body, which has a calming effect.

Difficulty falling asleep is often associated with excessive energy buildup in the head and upper chest. This is likely the case when you find yourself lying in bed awake at night with racing thoughts. Wearing Living River at night helps mobilize downward flows and draw away that extra energy, taking the attention off the mind so you can relax, find peace, and fall asleep more easily.

Our Mountain Pose formula, which is made up of Black Rhodonite and Onyx, supports calm and steady emotions. Black Rhodonite has an affinity for emotional energies, reining in scattered emotions to help build your emotional foundation. Onyx is known for its strong grounding properties. It helps settle the body while also supporting Black Rhodonite to settle emotions.

Together, these gems can help you feel calmer, more centered, and more comfortable in your body. You may also notice that your body awareness improves, you develop a stronger sense of self, and you feel more emotionally balanced and in control.

Mountain Pose is an ideal formula for those who have experienced long-term anxiety, extreme stress, grief, and anger, jealousy, or other intense emotions, as these lead to scattered emotional energies that can make you feel disassociated from your life. They can also cause you to lose touch with yourself and your higher purpose and make it very difficult to focus. Working with Mountain Pose can combat these negative effects and help you feel more grounded both emotionally and physically.

Opalite & Golden Beryl has a calming effect that supports its key benefit: to help you sort out past events so that lessons can be learned and karma resolved. The calmer you are, the more clearly you can see into the past, and the less reactive you’ll be to the memories that surface. This allows you to better identify root causes of experiences, resolve issues from the past that affect you in the present, and become more accepting of your current circumstances. This formula also provides the nourishment and strength you need to be able to face certain issues and work them out appropriately.

Because of the calming energy it carries, Opalite & Golden Beryl can also help reduce stress and supports rest and relaxation. It is a go-to necklace for those who want to sleep better and move easily into the dream state.

Our White Flash Moonstone & Emerald formula supports youthfulness, enhances self-protection, and provides a kind of moisture that makes all body functions work better. As the body receives nourishment and depletion diminishes, it stops being in a state of constant alert and can enjoy greater peace, calm, and relaxation.

This formula supports youthfulness in a number of ways. It helps reduce muscle stiffness by bringing lubricating energy to dehydrated tissue, strengthens the body’s ability to get rid of toxins, and vitalizes the integumentary system to improve the health of hair, skin, and nails. It can also improve cellular membrane health and cerebrospinal fluid health, enhance certain metabolic activities such as immune responses, nervous system communication, and muscle maintenance and development, and ensure correct DNA replication during cellular division, thus potentially slowing the aging process.

Energetically, this formula also helps maintain vibratory boundaries and governs how we wish to be perceived by others.

Pink Chalcedony & Pink Spinel supports stress relief by working in the emotional body. There, it calms and relaxes emotional energies that can make you feel overreactive, excitable, irritable, agitated, or anxious.

When you wear this formula, it helps give you an emotional pause so that you’re less likely to overreact and instead can respond to situations more calmly and intelligently.

Another benefit of this formula is that it helps separate tangled emotional and mental energies so that your thoughts are less likely to interfere with your emotions. As a result, you can more easily follow your heart’s wisdom and act according to your emotional intelligence.

Pink Chalcedony & Pink Spinel is especially useful for those who experience an excessive amount of stress, tend to overreact or react too quickly to a situation and then regret that reaction, or feel emotionally scattered or unsure of what they’re really feeling. With the support of this formula, they can feel more emotionally balanced, centered, and in touch with their emotions.

Ruby & Onyx represents the yin and yang aspects of the water element of Chinese medicine, which supports processes of rest, restoration, storage, endings, subconscious, intuition, deep reflection, and integration.

Together, the gems in this formula work to settle your energies so you can feel calmer, more grounded, and connected with the Earth. Both Ruby and Onyx have an effect on the root chakra. Ruby carries the red color ray, which nourishes, heals, and sustains the root chakra, while Onyx helps relax it. This allows the root chakra to flex downward to help the body both release toxins and receive Earth energies. As a result, the body is more able to enter a deep state of relaxation.

When you wear Ruby & Onyx, the gemstone energies support your personal vortex, which surrounds the physical body and helps keep the cells and organs vitalized.

This formula also vitalizes the heart, stabilizes energies in the body so that healing can occur more easily, helps balance the emotion of fear, and supports your ability to make intelligent decisions and move forward in life while handling whatever challenges come your way.

Our formula of Sugilite & Indigo helps locate and clear accumulations of unwanted energy in the body and aura that can interfere with health and healing, including toxic energies absorbed from a polluted environment and those produced by negative thoughts and emotions.

The gemstones then help replace those with energies that bring calmness, peacefulness, and joy. These uplifting feelings make it easier to let go of unwanted energy and move into a new, healthier state.

Sugilite & Indigo is an ideal formula to wear when you are frequently exposed to or hypersensitive to environmental toxins; experiencing chronic physical or emotional pain, stress, or anxiety; overcome by the limitations of your allergies; or struggling with unresolved negative patterns. By clearing the unwanted energies affecting you, these gems can help you feel freer and less burdened.

Finally, the Foundation Five gems support optimal health by balancing the five elements of Chinese medicine as they manifest throughout your body and being. Agate & Citrine balances the earth element; Mother of Pearl & Blue Chalcedony, the metal element; Ruby & Onyx, the water element; Dark Green Aventurine & Tsavorite, the wood element; and Rhodonite & Pink Tourmaline, the fire element. Draping these five necklaces on your body has a deeply healing and relaxing effect.

These gems are ideal to work with when you feel scattered or ungrounded; need to let go of stress and balance your emotions; and want to get more in touch with the Earth and the nourishment and abundance it provides.

Which Soothing Gems Do You Need Most?

No matter which gemstones you decide to work with, these 13 formulas can help provide stress relief whenever and wherever you need it. Their calming, comforting, and relaxing energies can support you through periods of change or transition, soothe your overactive mind or grieving heart, or simply help you handle the stress you encounter in your everyday life.

But if you want to use calming gemstones to work with specific issues, aspects of yourself, or areas in your life you want to improve, here are a few simple ways to choose which gemstones can give you the support you need right now.

Take the Quiz!

Answering the questions below will help you determine which healing formulas can serve you best for stress relief. They may not be the only ones, but they’ll be good gems to start with.

The following evaluation includes three questions and a list of possible responses below each one. Consider each question and choose the best option(s). Then, write down the gemstones associated with each response. When you’ve completed the three prompts, review your list. If you find that a gemstone came up more than once, you’re likely in need of the healing energies it carries.

1. What type of stress do you experience most?

• Mental Stress – Moon Quartz & Purple Tourmaline, Tranquility, Blue Topaz & Australian Opal, Opalite & Golden Beryl
• Emotional Stress – Mountain Pose, Pink Chalcedony & Pink Spinel 
• Physical Stress or Sleeplessness – Living River, Ruby & Onyx, Agate & Citrine, Mother of Pearl & Blue Chalcedony

2. Which words help define the type of stress you struggle with?

• Anxiousness – Agate & Citrine, Mountain Pose
• Change, Transitions, Travel – Moon Quartz & Purple Tourmaline, Agate & Citrine
• Constant Alert – White Flash Moonstone & Emerald
• Depletion – White Flash Moonstone & Emerald
• Environmental – Sugilite & Indigo
• Grief and Loss – Mother of Pearl & Blue Chalcedony
• Letting Go – Mother of Pearl & Blue Chalcedony
• Limiting Habits and Beliefs – Blue Topaz & Australian Opal
• Mental Stress and Blockages – Tranquility
• Overreactive, Excitable, Irritable – Pink Chalcedony & Pink Spinel
• Scattered and Unsure – Pink Chalcedony & Pink Spinel
• Scattered Emotions – Mountain Pose
• Sense of Not Enough Time – Opalite & Golden Beryl
• Sleeplessness – Living River, Opalite & Golden Beryl
• Traumatic, Painful Memories – Opalite & Golden Beryl
• Ungrounded – Ruby & Onyx
• Unsettledness – Agate & Citrine
• Worry – Agate & Citrine

3. Which words help define the type of state you want to have?

• Calmness in the Body – Living River
• Courage and Self-Confidence – Mountain Pose
• Emotionally Balanced, Peaceful, and Centered – Pink Chalcedony & Pink Spinel
• Emotionally Calm and Settled – Mountain Pose
• Focus and Clear Thinking – Tranquility
• Free Thinking and Creativity – Blue Topaz & Australian Opal
• Setting and Achieving Goals – Moon Quartz & Purple Tourmaline
• Groundedness – Ruby & Onyx
• Relaxed, Rested, and Peaceful – Mother of Pearl & Blue Chalcedony
• Settled and Centered – Agate & Citrine
• Youthful Feeling – White Flash Moonstone & Emerald

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