The Systems of the Body in Gemstone Therapy
Exploring how the body’s systems function throughout our physical and subtle bodies—and the therapeutic gemstone formulas that support them.
By Isabelle Morton
The Body's Systems Are More Than Physical
When we think about the body’s systems, we usually think about their physical functions. Muscles move the body. The respiratory system supports breathing. The eliminatory system helps the body release what it no longer needs.
In Gemstone Therapy, we take a broader view.
We understand these systems to function not only in the physical body, but also in the emotional, causal, and mental bodies.
This opens an intriguing way of understanding both the human energy system and the therapeutic actions of gemstones.
A 20-Week Exploration
In the coming weeks, I’ll explore the body’s systems one at a time through our weekly newsletter, Healing Gemstone News. If you’re not already receiving it, subscribe here to follow along.
As we go, I’ll be adding what we learn to this page.
Some of this material comes from decades of working with the Systems gemstone formulas. Other insights are emerging as I look more deeply at how each system’s fundamental activity expresses itself throughout the subtle bodies—and whether some of these same activities can be recognized within the larger natural world.
Consider this a living document. It will grow as our exploration continues.
New material added weekly.
What Do We Mean by a “System”?
In Gemstone Therapy, we don’t think of a system only in terms of its physical organs, tissues, and functions. We also look for the fundamental activity that defines the system and how that activity is expressed throughout the physical and subtle bodies.
The Muscular System
gives us a good example. The fundamental activity of the Muscular System is movement.
Physically, muscles move the body.
In the emotional body, this may involve moving emotional energy toward physical expression.
In the causal body, we are exploring how movement may operate within the dynamic threads associated with memory.
The Eliminatory System
gives us another example. Its fundamental activity is letting go.
Physically, the body releases what it no longer needs.
Emotionally, the Eliminatory System helps the emotional body let go of emotional energy so that it can move toward physical expression.
Mentally, it may help us let go of thoughts and beliefs that no longer serve us.
The way a system’s activity is expressed can change dramatically from one level to another.
But its fundamental activity remains the same throughout the physical and subtle bodies.
Each System Has a Vitalizing Gemstone Formula
Through decades of work with therapeutic gemstones, I have identified gemstone formulas that help vitalize and support the body’s individual systems.
Each system has its own formula, combining gemstones whose therapeutic properties work together in a particular relationship.
As we explore each system, we’ll also explore why its particular gemstones are used—and what their therapeutic properties may teach us about the system itself.
EXPLORE THE SYSTEMS
MUSCULAR SYSTEMRose Quartz & Red Spinel · Fundamental Activity: Movement
Fundamental Activity: Movement
Vitalizing Formula: Rose Quartz & Red Spinel
Physical Body
Muscles create movement in the body and help move substances within it.
Emotional Body
The Muscular System helps move emotional energy toward the physical body, where it can be expressed.
Causal Body
My current thinking is that the Muscular System may support movement within the dynamic threads of light and sound associated with memory. This raises intriguing questions about memories that become haunting or difficult to access.
The Gemstones
Rose Quartz is the primary gemstone used to vitalize the Muscular System. Its relationship with the causal Muscular System raises an interesting possibility: perhaps Rose Quartz supports the free movement of memory within the causal body.
ELIMINATORY SYSTEM Rhyolite & Gray Moonstone · Fundamental Activity: Letting Go
Fundamental Activity: Letting Go
Vitalizing Formula: Rhyolite & Gray Moonstone
Healthy elimination is not simply about releasing more. It involves letting go of what is no longer needed while retaining what continues to serve us.
Physical Body
The physical Eliminatory System identifies, sorts through, and releases substances the body no longer needs through its natural avenues of elimination.
Emotional Body
The Eliminatory System helps the emotional body let go of emotional energy so that it can move toward physical expression. When this function is underactive, emotions such as anger, resentment, or hurt may linger and accumulate.
Causal Body
My current theory is that healthy causal elimination may not involve letting go of memories themselves, but rather regulating the amount and type of energy available to our memories. This could help explain why some memories remain accessible without continuing to haunt us.
Mental Body
At the mental level, the Eliminatory System may help us let go of thoughts and beliefs that no longer serve us—including beliefs that were once useful but are no longer appropriate for who we are or our present circumstances.
The Gemstones
Rhyolite helps the body identify, sort through, and release unwanted energies through its natural avenues of elimination. Gray Moonstone helps the supraphysical body let go of unwanted energies, extending the reach of the formula beyond physical elimination.
Rhyolite is also a volcanic rock—an intriguing parallel with the way the Earth releases material from within itself to the surface.
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM Dumortierite & Carnelian · Fundamental Activity: Transport
Fundamental Activity: Transport
Vitalizing Formula: Dumortierite & Carnelian
The Circulatory System transports and distributes materials that are already present, making them available where they are needed. Movement is necessary for circulation, but movement is the means; transport is the fundamental activity.
Physical Body
The physical Circulatory System transports blood throughout the body, carrying oxygen, nutrients, hormones, immune cells, wastes, and other materials to and from the tissues where they are needed.
Supraphysical Body
The supraphysical Circulatory System closely mirrors physical circulatory function and anatomy, but exists at a vibration just beyond the realm that our physical senses can access.
Emotional Body
My current thinking is that the emotional Circulatory System transports and distributes the raw materials from which emotions are formed. More complete distribution may allow more of the emotional body to participate in forming an emotional response, helping us recognize what we feel with greater completeness and precision.
Causal Body
My current thinking is that the causal Circulatory System transports and distributes the constituent causal raw materials that form memories.
Mental Body
The mental Circulatory System may transport and distribute the constituent materials needed for thought, allowing a fragment or initial thought to develop into a more complete thought and connect with other thoughts.
Intuitive Body
My current thinking is that the intuitive Circulatory System transports and distributes the resources needed for intuition throughout the intuitive body. When circulation is inadequate, those resources may be unevenly distributed, giving us strong intuitive access in some areas of our lives but little in others. Ideally, they are appropriately distributed so that intuition can serve every aspect of our lives.
The Gemstones
Dumortierite supports and vitalizes the structures through which energies flow. In the physical Circulatory System, these are the blood vessels, and the energy flowing through them is blood. Carnelian vitalizes what flows through these structures and encourages its healthy movement.
That relationship may help us understand the formula’s role throughout the subtle Circulatory Systems: Dumortierite supports the structures through which circulation occurs, while Carnelian vitalizes the materials being transported.
When a System Is Underactive, Balanced, or Overactive
As this project develops, we’ll explore what underactive, balanced, and overactive expressions of each system may look like throughout the physical and subtle bodies.
The Muscular System
When the Muscular System is underactive, movement may become sluggish or impeded. When it is overactive, movement may become excessive or difficult to regulate.
Healthy muscular activity allows movement to occur freely and appropriately.
The Eliminatory System
When the Eliminatory System is underactive, we may have difficulty letting go. When it is overactive, we may let go too readily.
Healthy elimination supports the natural relationship between letting go and receiving: we let go to make room for something new.
The Circulatory System
When the Circulatory System is underactive, materials that are already present may not be adequately distributed throughout the body in which they exist. Healthy circulation makes those materials appropriately available where they are needed.
Overactive circulation may also create an imbalance, although how that imbalance is expressed may differ from one body to another.
In the intuitive body, overactive circulation may create an imbalance of attention rather than clearer or more accurate intuition. Intuitive information may become disproportionately prominent, so that everything begins to seem meaningful or symbolic, distracting us from ordinary engagement with our lives.
More Coming Soon.
What If Our Systems Are Part of Something Larger?
As I’ve explored these systems more deeply, I’ve begun asking another question:
Are the functions we recognize within ourselves also expressed in the larger natural world?
With some systems, intriguing parallels may be readily apparent. With others, they may not be.
The Muscular System
The fundamental activity of the Muscular System is movement. One possible parallel in the natural world is the movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates.
Could plate tectonics represent an expression of this same fundamental activity on a planetary scale?
The Eliminatory System
Deep within the Earth, magma rises and can be released at the surface. Material once held within the Earth becomes part of its exterior and can contribute to new land and new structures.
The inside lets go. The outside receives.
And Rhyolite—the primary gemstone used to vitalize the human Eliminatory System—is itself a volcanic rock.
The Circulatory System
Ocean currents transport heat, nutrients, organisms, and other materials across enormous distances, while atmospheric circulation transports heat and moisture around the planet. These may offer natural parallels to the Circulatory System’s fundamental activity of transport.
This is an area I am only beginning to explore.
As meaningful parallels emerge during the Systems project, I’ll add them here.
Follow My Exploration
Each week in Healing Gemstone News, we’ll explore another aspect of the body’s systems and their gemstone formulas.
As the project unfolds, I’ll continue adding new insights, articles, videos, illustrations, and developments in the Systems framework to this page. You can return at any time to see what’s new.
Isabelle Morton, B.S., is the founder of the Gemstone Therapy Institute and GEMFormulas and the original visionary behind Diamond and Gemstone Therapy, which she began developing in 1987. She continues to study and explore the therapeutic properties and applications of gemstones and Diamonds. Isabelle continues to expand her library of educational material. Thousands of people and pets around the world have benefited from her work. Her dream is to see Diamond and Gemstone Therapy recognized as meaningful energy medicine modalities.
