The Amethyst Gemstone

I am a lover of gemstones and one of my favorites is the Amethyst. It's beautiful purple color is stunning. I have an amethyst gemstone that I keep in a pouch, in my purse at all times for constant spiritual enlightenment. Read on for more information about the Amethyst gemstone.

Amethyst is an extremely powerful and protective stone with a high spiritual vibration. It guards against psychic attack and transmuting the energy into love. A natural tranquilizer, Amethyst blocks stress and negative energies. It enhances higher states of consciousness and meditation. Amethyst has strong healing and cleansing powers, and enhances spiritual awareness. Traditionally, it was worn to prevent drunkenness and has a sobering effect on overindulgence, physical passions and supporting sobriety. It overcomes addictions and blockages of all kinds. Used at a higher level, Amethyst opens to another reality.

Amethyst is extremely beneficial to the mind, calming or stimulation as appropriate. When you meditate, it turns thoughts away from the mundane into tranquility and deeper understanding. Mentally, it helps enhances the assimilation of new ideas and connects cause with effect.

This stone facilitates the decision-making process, bringing in common sense and spiritual insights, and putting decisions and insights into practice. Mentally, it calms and synthesizes and aids the transmission neural signals through the brain. It is helpful where insomnia is caused by an overactive mind and protects against recurring nightmares.

Amethyst is one of the most spiritual stones, promoting love of the divine, giving insights into its true nature, and encouraging selflessness and spiritual wisdom. It opens intuition and enhances psychic gifts. This is an excellent stone for meditation and scrying and can be placed on the third eye to stimulate it. Sleeping with Amethyst facilitates out-of-body experiences and brings intuitive dreams. It transmutes lower energies to the higher frequencies of the spiritual and etheric realms.

Amethyst boosts production of hormones, and tunes the endocrine system and metabolism. It strengthens the cleansing and eliminating organs and the immune system. Amethyst relieves physical, emotional, and psychological pain or stress, and blocks stress. It eases headaches and releases tension.

Amethyst balances and connects the physical, mental and emotional bodies, linking them to the spiritual. It cleanses the aura and transmutes negative energy and stimulates the throat and crown chakras. It is helpful for people about to make the transition through death.

Wear or place as appropriate, especially as jewelry. Amethyst is beneficial worn over the throat or heart.