Many crystals have healing properties that you can discover. Crystals vibrate to at different frequencies to enhance healing.

Quartz crystals have excellent healing properties. Quartz also has the ability to transform an imbalanced energy field. When you feel stressed the crystal can balance your energies and revitalize you.

Others minerals besides quartz crystals - display healing properties. Small quartz crystals left in water will ionize the water and is a good drink for healing.

You can use crystals yourself to heal or find a qualified healer. Most crystal healing is guided to the healer by Spirit - who will tell the healer which crystals will be most effective and the patterns the crystals should be placed on or around the person's body. The length of time used with the crystals will vary with each patient and healer. The healer must determine the person's frequency and attune it to the crystals that will create healing and balance. All healing is about placing the body in balance.

Treatments will vary in length and number of times required. They may not always work.

Owning a crystal that you carry with you - or keep in the area you spend most of your time - can enhance the healing after you work with the healer.

It's always good to have a few quartz crystals around your home to balance the energies, even if you do not need healing.

Many people connect the color frequency of a specific chakra with that of the stone being used. For example - if one were healing the throat chakra - one would use one or more blue stones placed on the throat chakra alone - or in patterns.

Amber: This "good luck" stone brings the purifying, revitalizing force of the sun and the absorptive, transmuting energy of the earth together to create a powerful tool. Draws disease out of the body and transforms it. Clears negativity. 2nd chakra.

Amethyst: Spiritual Upliftment.

Aquamarine: Remind one of the Ocean of Love and Mercy. Stone of the new heart chakra center.

Aventurine: Helps heal the Heart, lungs, and adrenals. 4th chakra

Amethyst: Inner alignment. Helps heal arthritis, hearing, and bones. 6th chakra.

Azurite: Helps - Surfaces psychic blocks that form physical blocks-- Helps to let go of old belief systems - Helps heal throat, arthiritis & joints, spleen, and spine. 5th and 6th chakras.

Bloodstones: Helps heal all blood disorders, lungs, eyesight, and heart. 1st chakra.

Carnelian: Balance creativity and mental processes. Helps asthma, and blood pressure. 2nd chakra.

Citrine: Upliftment - Helps digestion, circulation. 2nd, and 3rd chakra's

Coral: Emotional balance

Diamond: Increase personal clarity. Balances metabolism, de-toxifies the body, and strengthens the eyesight. Vivifies all chakras

Emerald: Physical and emotional healing - tranquilizing affect on the heart and mind, inspiring calm, clear assurance. 4th chakra and higher.

Hematite: Helps heal, tumors and anemia. 6th, 7th chakras

Herkimer diamond: My personal favorite: Chakra cleanser. Protects against radiation. De-toxes the body.

Jade: Strengthens the heart , kidneys and immune system. Helps cleanse the blood. Increases longevity and fertility. Aids in eye disorders and female problems.

Jaspar: Helps tissue regeneration and smell. 1st, 2nd chakras

Kunzite: Heals the heart. 4th chakra and up

Lapis Lazuli: Strengthens the immune system. 6th chakra.

Malachite: Harmony and balance

Moldavite: Take you out of your body--very power for astral travel

Moonstone: Absorbs pain and illness. Regenerates the tissues and organs. Heals reproductive system. 4th chakra.

Black Obsidian: Grounding stone.

Onyx: Helpful in treating glaucoma, epilepsy, and cell damage. Attuned to 1st and 5th chakra's.

Opal: See possibilities; Discover a broader view. Heals and clears eyesight, and balances the metabolism. 5th, 6th, and 7th chakras.

Peridot: Strengthens, and regenerates all organs, stimulating new, healthy growth. Balances bio-rythmic cycles. Protects the user from negativity. Helps heal infection, ulcers, and thyroid. 4th chakra.

Quartz: Removes negative energy - Universal conduit. Amplifies, focuses, stores, transforms, energies.

Rose Quartz: Heart chakra

Rhodonite: Emotional support. Helps one take the next step emotionally

Ruby: Helps heal the heart and all blood impurities. De-toxes the body. 4th chakra.

Sapphire: Mental Clarity; Clear mental garbage. Carrier of the Blue ray.

Sodalite: Protection from external negative energy.

Tourquoise: Aligns all chakras, Strengthens and calms the mind and body. 5th chakra.

Tiger's Eye: Helps heal wounds, bruises, eyes and throat. 5th chakra.

Topaz: Helps to break up stagnation of energy within the body, and assists with the elimination of toxins. 3rd chakra and higher.

Ancient Civilizations often used crystals for healing, magic, spiritual and energy work. They understood how the energies of crystals amplify the healing process.

Atlanteans allegedly erected huge crystal healing temples. Their civilization was based on the use of stored - and directed use of crystal technology.

The ancient Mayans, Hebrew, Vedic and Native American cultures used crystals and gemstones both in spiritual rituals and as aids to physical healing. Those who practice the ways of the ancient cultures continue to use crystals as healing tools.

Crystals were used in the earliest shamanic rites as tools for initiation and healing, as talisman, and meditation.