Strong Crystals For Emotional Healing

May Help At Difficult Times

➤ By Liz Oakes

Using crystals for emotional healing can be helpful when you are going through difficult situations and feel overwhelmed by what has been happening.

At times when you are feeling the pain of emotional issues, the healing power of crystals can increase peace, harmony and tranquility.

Using specific stones that lift your spirits and ease emotional trauma may assist you when painful feelings and negativity may be overwhelming you.

There are quite a few crystals that aid the release of emotional pain and help to create an increase of harmony in your life.

When your life feels unbalanced, these stones may assist you to deal with deep emotional responses to situations so that you can release them and let them go.

Crystals For Emotional Healing And Strength

If you are wondering why you might choose to use crystals for emotional healing, there are a number of powerful positive crystals that help to bring inner peace by boosting positive emotions.

Using crystals is simple, and these stones are practical tools that are an easy way to help you to work through the difficulties that negative feelings can create in your life.

It is important when you are suffering emotional pain and trauma to take action that may assist you to move forward on your healing journey to feel better quickly.

In order to move forward with life changes you do need to find helpful ways for you to release old issues and embrace new beginnings.

The transformative energy of crystals for emotional healing can bring powerful positive energy into your life, and the use of crystals is easy.

Strong and intense feelings that you are experiencing can be discounted by some people, so it is helpful to be able to find a simple way to help yourself by using healing crystals.

The role of crystals to aid healing has been well known for a very long time and there is quite a bit of scientific evidence that backs up their use.

Crystals For Emotional Healing: The Essential Guide

The purpose of this article is to give you an essential guide to the optimal crystals to use in your everyday life when you are suffering from emotional trauma and related stressful situations.

There are times in all of our lives when we are in severe difficulty and need help to overcome emotional pain caused by sadness, grief or heartache. 

I have created detailed profiles of the healing properties of the each of the stones below, related to emotional issues that the individual stones are known to assist.

As much as possible these properties are outlined here, but in addition, as they are popular crystals they all have a dedicated article listing more attributes for this purpose.

Many of you may not be aware of how powerful stones and crystals can be as practical tools to bring both physical and emotional pain relief. 

Clearing negative feelings from your energy field can aid you to deal with emotional blockages during tough times and let it pass.

Crystal healing is quite well known and regardless of what else you are doing to assist yourself emotionally, it may be beneficial to find alternative ways to boost your healing.

There are many powerful crystals that help to prevent negative thinking that can also be used with the following stones.

FAQ's About Different Ways To Use These Crystals

FAQs About Different Ways To Use These Crystals

One of the most frequently asked questions is how to use these crystals.

There are a number of different ways that they can be utilized so I have tried to create a user-friendly guide to make it easier for you.

The method or approach you choose can be all or any of the following, depending on personal choice.

• Choose a place to keep these crystals where you spend the most time.
• Use your crystals and stones when doing meditation.
• Wear them on your body as jewelry, in a macrame crystal holder or place them in your pocket using a small pouch so they don't get lost.
• Create a crystal grid using one or more of the stones below.
• Make an elixir using them.

Keep Your Crystals Close By & Using Crystal Grids

Keeping your crystals where you spend the most time is beneficial as they will resonate into the area closest to where they are placed.

This also applies to setting up a crystal grid. Some people like to place the grid in a special area such as a sacred space or altar, depending on what you intuitively feel.

I personally like to place any crystal grids I create in the area where I am going to be spending the most time.

Most grids contain clear quartz crystals, also known as the master healer. Did you know that these quartz pieces in your grids can be programmed if you wish?

Note: The grid shown above contains Purple Amethyst, Black Tourmaline, Hematite, Rose Quartz and Clear Quartz, including a clear quartz wand to use to activate the grid, and a Selenite Tower in the center.

Setting Up A Crystal Grid

When setting up the grid, first fill the area around the grid with white light, then set your intention.

When deciding what to use in the grid, see if you can incorporate as many stones as possible from the complete guide below.

Using the crystals for emotional healing that are listed will be helpful. Using pieces of Clear Quartz in any grid you create is very helpful. 

A powerful intention to use is to make the purpose of the grid to increase peaceful harmonious energy that releases grief, sadness and painful emotions.

The purpose you choose needs to be one that will release negative energies and increase positive energy in the area where it is located.

If you don't know how to program crystals, learn more here. 

It is not just the clear crystals that can be programmed, as any of the quartz varieties shown below can easily be programmed for any purpose that is important to you.

Any type of quartz crystal can easily be programmed to aid your emotional trauma, and this is an excellent way to use your crystals.

Meditation With Crystals For Emotional Healing

Using any of the stones below in mediation is advantageous, but especially the stones known for the relief of stress, tension, fear or grief.

Doing meditation and learning more about mindfulness practice may assist you to feel more peaceful and aid you to let go of any strong emotional problems that are bothering you.

This does depend on what your emotional state is at the time and this can be affected by world events such as those that most of you have been experiencing.

For those of you who are not totally sure about how to do meditation, there is an article about Easy Meditation Techniques, to get you started.

Strong Spiritual Energy

You will also note in the individual sections below that some of the stones not only aid emotional stress but have a strong spiritual energy.

Crystals that resonate within the higher chakras, and in particular those crystals that are known to be potent crown chakra stones, will also help spiritual healing.

There are stones featured below that aid the development of psychic powers as well as having excellent healing properties.

Some of the crystals for emotional healing may also be a strong protective stone as well, and you may see that mentioned in the section below about the individual stone.

Using a psychic protection stone is recommended when meditating, as they help to prevent negative entities from connecting with you, and many are also known to release negativity and bring increased strength to deal with this.

Wearing Your Crystals 

Many people buy crystal jewelry as they love how the piece looks, but of course this is also a great way to keep the energy within your energy field.

The healing powers of crystals are fairly well known, and most of you may find that wearing any of the crystals for emotional healing is helpful.

Many of these beautiful crystals have positive effects that will benefit you when you wear them, and the longer the stone is within your auric field, the more it will benefit you.

This applies to any stone you might choose to wear as keeping them close is highly beneficial.

Making An Elixir

Making an elixir isn't covered here, but be aware that many stones contain minerals that can be toxic.

These toxic minerals may have excellent metaphysical properties so it may be helpful to be able to use their vibration to help you.

When making an elixir, always assume that a crystal could be toxic, even if it is just a problem caused by a cleaning product used on the stone.

In this case you would not want to drink water that has this in it, so use a special bottle that is known to be safe. 

Specific bottles are sold with a separate chamber in which to place your stone.

This is an excellent way to use any stones to make an elixir, but they do need to be quite small crystals to fit into the chamber.

Because the water is in a different separate chamber, it only absorbs the vibration of the stone, so is quite safe to use.

The Complete Guide To Crystals For Emotional Healing

This is the list of the most well-known and effective crystals that aid emotional healing. 

There are a large number of different types of crystals for this purpose but they all have a strong energy to give you the strength to help you to heal. 

In the section below you will find a small amount of information about each of the stones that are on this list, but if you need to know more click through to their individual page.

There are other crystals for emotional healing, and they can be found on various pages on this site, but the ones below are the most well known and effective stones that you can utilize.

Amethyst

Amethyst Crystals are a well known purple variety of quartz that is very popular as they embody feelings of tranquility, peace and serenity.

They are well known as strong healing crystals that have a powerful vibration to aid emotional wounds and sadness caused by the loss of a loved one. 

They are excellent crystals for emotional healing and are especially helpful to give you the strength to deal with issues from the past.

They aid the release of bad memories that you have buried to protect yourself, such as childhood trauma, fear and depression.

These purple stones are one of the most powerful crystals to use for healing as they embody the healing attributes of the violet flame healing energy.

The violet flame healing energy is a powerful vibration that has many unique properties, and is well known as a great tool to help past trauma.

Amethyst are good healing crystals for you to use to aid the physical body and they may help both the digestive and immune systems, and may assist the nervous system.

These gorgeous stones may help you to work through substance abuse and may assist both physical pain and emotional distress and may aid your mental health. 

For trauma survivors who need special help as you may suffer with mood swings related to bad memories from past experiences, using one of these quartz crystals may be advantageous.

Black Tourmaline

Black Tourmaline is a very powerful stone that may help you when you experience any type of difficult emotion that you are unable to deal with.

This is one of the more powerful crystals for emotional healing and is an excellent stone to use if you need help to release negative energy.

They are powerful crystals that help to prevent negative thinking that are known to assist those who are dealing with any type of difficult thoughts.

It's easy to buy Black Tourmaline and they help you through their action to transmute or change negative feelings into positive feelings.

Their healing action includes helping you to sleep better, aiding allergy and helping adrenal fatigue.

These black crystals have excellent healing properties, and they can help you in quite a few ways.

Their action to help stress, tension and anxiety is very helpful as these are often caused by reactions to intense responses to your state of mind. 

They are excellent crystals for pain relief that are good healing crystals for arthritis that also aid problems in the muscular, spinal and immune systems.

They are a powerful bodyguard stone with a highly protective vibration to block negative entities from attacking you, and are strong crystals for EHS.

These grounding stones have a wonderful energy to bring increase strength and fortitude, that is advantageous to assist with grounding you quite easily.

There are also quite a few other powerful crystals that aid grounding that are also helpful and you can see more listed on the page about grounding stones.

Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz is one of the most popular crystals and is well known for its loving energy that helps relationships of all types, but especially with your partner.

This pink stone is a strong higher heart chakra stone and has a potent heart chakra vibration that enhances feelings of compassion for yourself and others.

These stones are some of the most powerful crystals to encourage you to love yourself which is valuable for your emotional health and healing.

They are most serene stones with a powerful energy to release emotional distress, which makes them strong crystals for emotional healing.

They are also excellent stones to calm others. I have placed them along the side of my house near where cranky neighbors live, and it has calmed them down.

Rose Quartz crystals have a good energy for meditation.

They can be used by simply placing one in the area where you spend the most time, as its serene calming energy resonates to all in the vicinity.

Rose Quartz Crystals energy is primarily about love, and this can be love for anyone in your life.

They are strong crystals for love, and while some people think love only relates to intimate relationships, this is of course not true, as loving energy benefits all your relationships.

Apache Tears

Apache Tears are helpful at times of loss as their vibration releases grief, sadness and painful emotions when you lose a loved one.

They are strong crystals for emotional healing that help the release of negative thoughts caused by unhappy situations that arise in your life.

Events may occur that can be caused by issues totally outside your control, so their healing energy is good to be aware of, before they are needed.

These stones have a quite friendly vibration and are well known as helpful grounding stones that also are highly protective.

They are a type of Black Obsidian, that cleanses your auric field of negative energy which is helpful to allow you to become more positive and emotionally uplifted.

Loss and sadness is not always related to death, but often can be. But in the course of life there are often other types of loss that can dismay and traumatize you.

The energy of these black stones is quite powerful. It is helpful to find a way to release trauma from negative energies that may fill you during times of loss.

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli is one of the more well known of the blue crystals. It was used in ancient cultures as it's healing action was recognized as being beneficial to help the people who used it.

It has a number of powerful qualities in addition to being one of the crystals for emotional healing, and has a powerful action to aid emotional distress.

It's impressive crystal energy releases pain and anguish, especially when you are finding that you are suffering feelings of emotional distress over which feel you have no control.

The energy levels of these blue stones are helpful if you are feeling depressed, and this may enable you to feel more composed and calm during difficult situations.

It has many unique properties that may help you to accept yourself and the way you are feeling at these demanding times. 

Its easy to buy Lapis Lazuli and its action may help to boost spiritual healing and growth and it also works powerfully when used in meditation to boost psychic gifts.

It is known as a stone of transformation that aids you to understand enlightenment, and may aid you to gain an awareness of past lives and how they affect your current life.

Lapis Lazuli also has a large number of physical healing properties including assisting the healing of inflammation, and is known to give pain relief and may help headache pain.

Tiger’s Eye

Tiger’s Eye is a wonderful stone that many of you may have been attracted to as they are very beautiful crystals.

These crystals for emotional healing enhance the growth of balance and harmony, and encourage you to live life with compassion and acceptance of others.

This is a protective stone that can be used in everyday life to prevent fear and anxiety and they have a good vibration to help to release negative thoughts that may cause negative feelings. 

They are a great tool with an energy that may aid you to better handle waves of emotions and allow them pass.

Their action within the root or base chakra aids you to feel grounded and centered and they also strongly resonate at both the sacral chakra and the solar plexus chakra.

Within the solar plexus it works to release fear and aids personal growth, boosting optimism, self worth and self confidence.

Tiger’s Eye stones have a number of other powerful metaphysical properties and aid spiritual healing through their action within the third eye chakra and may also boost psychic gifts.

Tiger’s Eye are great stones with a strong energy that works within your auric field to balance the energy of the brain, and may help to stabilize your physical symptoms.

Strawberry Quartz

Strawberry Quartz have a beautiful energy that settles you emotionally during difficult times and is excellent to assist stress and tension.

They have a deep heart based vibration that boosts compassion for yourself and others by helping you to let go of anger and resentment.

They are good crystals for emotional healing as they may help to uplift you when you are feeling down by heightening feelings of happiness and joy.

These pink crystals also have an excellent energy to use in meditation, as they are strong crown chakra stones.

During meditation they help you to make a good connection with the Divine, and with spiritual beings who may give you guidance on your way forward.

They are useful crystals for groups to use, to bond members towards a common cause and are known to be quite shamanistic in their vibration.

Strawberry Quartz is easy to buy, and may help to release emotional wounding from the whole group, when you are feeling a common sense of grief or loss.

Crystal Tip: Strawberry Quartz is like all the other colors and types of quartz, so it can be programmed to boost the way that it can be used to help you.

Citrine Crystals

Citrine is a bright yellow crystal that is most well known for its action to stimulate abundance and prosperity as well as aiding manifestation of money and other beneficial things.

Their action as crystals for emotional healing is less well known but they have a good energy to assist you when you are feeling anxious or stressed.

Citrine crystals help to relieve anger and fear which are strong emotions that are well known to cause emotional instability and erratic uncontrolled feelings.

By helping to calm you, they aid the lowering of feelings that are out of control, and they help to bring emotional balance during challenging situations.

These beautiful yellow crystals have a good action to stimulate the solar plexus chakra and this can boost personal growth, self esteem and personal power.

They also resonate within the third eye and crown chakras and their action there makes them excellent crystals to stimulate clearer thinking.

Of course they are strong manifestation crystals too, and are powerful crystals for emotional healing that also embody many other excellent metaphysical properties.

Citrine may boost spiritual growth and healing and may enhance your intuitive ability as well as encouraging a heightened level of imaginative thinking.

Mangano Calcite

Mangano Calcite has a strong vibration that helps to enhance the growth of feelings of love, compassion and forgiveness.

Like other types of Calcite they may help to amplify energies that you have embodied within your being over time.

These pink crystals have a strong heart chakra energy, that is known to increase feelings of harmony, tranquility and peace. 

Mangano Calcite are helpful crystals for emotional healing that may be advantageous when you are holding onto old feelings about specific things that have happened in the past.

If these issues relate to times when you were young you may not have been able to let go of the sadness or grief that the event in the past created.

If you have suppressed feelings from these past situations, these pink crystals may help you to release old beliefs that are not benefiting you.

Many of you may not be aware of the negative vibrational frequencies that you are holding onto, but once you gain this understanding you may be able to take steps to let go of them.

Aquamarine

Aquamarine are excellent crystals for emotional healing as they help you to handle emotions such as grief, sadness and sorrow from the loss of a loved one.

They are excellent stress relief crystals that assist you to release anger when you feel that a specific situation in your life is upsetting you.

These crystals help to increase serenity, calm and focus and will aid you to ride the wave of emotions that are causing you to feel out of control.

They are powerful crystals for communication that assist you to share ideas and thoughts with others in a clear and simple way.

They are one of the most well known birthstones, and a lot of people buy them for this reason, but we are all different, so it's fortunate that each of the signs have a number of zodiac birthstones.

They have a soothing and compassionate vibration but even so some people find that their energy isn't compatible. If you wish to use them, use them gradually, a little each day to see if you have an issue.

Aquamarine stones are easy to buy. These lovely stones help you to feel courageous and resolute at times when life is difficult, and you need courage to go on with your life.

Crystal Tip: Use these stones in a meditation to release negative energies. There is a specific meditation in the Aquamarine article, so check it out.

Lepidolite

Lepidolite enhances feelings of tranquility, peace and quiet calmness and is an excellent healing crystal that can help you in quite a few ways.

These purple stones are excellent crystals for emotional healing as they embody an effective energy for aiding stress, tension and anxiety.

They are some of the most serene stones to utilize, as they encourage the growth of joy, peace and love to flow within your being.

They are advantageous when you are experiencing feelings of grief or loss after the death of a loved one as they help your emotions to settle.

Their strong calming energy may partly be related to the fact that they contain good amounts of the mineral lithium.

These stones encourage coincidence and synchronicity to occur in your day to day life, so be aware that this can happen and understand how beneficial this is.

They have a beautiful energy that is highly beneficial to use in meditation as they relax your senses and bring serenity and calmness to your thinking.

This may be helpful to aid you to totally and fully relax and enable you to get deep enough to obtain the benefits that meditation can bring.

While in meditation they may assist you to connect with your spirit guides and with your higher self and can assist a stronger, deeper spiritual connection.

Lepidolite crystals are easy to buy and are beneficial to help you to connect with a most profound part of yourself known as The Divine Presence.

They are good stones to clear negativity that needs to be released from within your energy field, in order to allow you to embrace positive thoughts and feelings.

Lepidolite are excellent healing crystals for women to use during menopause as they may assist you if you experience mood swings at that time.

Petalite Lepidolite

A sister stone to Lepidolite is fairly new stone to become available. This stone is calle Petalite Lepidolite as it is a blend of these two minerals.

It is a higher vibration than Lepidolite alone as Petalite is a high vibration crystal.

Some stones like the one pictured below are a quite obvious half and half blend but others will have more of one of the minerals.

These crystals are excellent crystals for emotional healing and are powerful to aid stress and tension too. One of their best uses is for meditation as they resonate within the very highest chakras.

Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite are quite beautiful reddish pink crystals that have a strong resonance within the heart chakra.

They are powerful crystals for emotional healing with a potent energy to assist you to heal the inner child and may help to boost self compassion and acceptance of life situations.

Inner child healing relates to events that happened when you were very young, and is about helping to heal childhood trauma and abuse from that time.

Part of the healing of emotional damage is about allowing compassion for yourself and others as you deal with emotions that are affecting you.

Rhodochrosite crystals help you to have a better opinion of yourself after situations that have occurred that you regret, but that weren't your fault.

This may be because you would rather have handled things differently if you had only known how.

This includes issues such as sexual abuse that happened when you were very young.

Rhodochrosite have a calming energy that may soothe you and aid you to gently accept the past and to deal with mood swings that occur when these memories surface.

More Crystals For Emotional Healing

As well as the stones that have their properties outlined above, there are also  more crystals for emotional healing that you could also choose to use.

There are a few more crystals that have a powerful energy to ease emotional trauma and lift your spirits when you are undergoing traumatic situations.

Those that have their properties outlined above may be used in combination with some of the other stones that have a powerful energy for this purpose.

While these are not the strongest crystals to to heal you emotionally they still have an advantageous energy to help you.

Many of these have a strong resonance within the heart chakra including the lovely pink heart based stones such as Rhodonite, Cobaltian Calcite, Peruvian Pink Opal and Pink Tourmaline.

Other crystals you might choose to use in combination with these stones includes all of the crystals pictured below.

There are also a number of green heart chakra stones such as Tsavorite Garnet, Uvarovite, Chrysocolla and Green Diopside that also have a good action.

More Stones That Heal The Emotions

There are a number of other stones that will also work well to assist with healing the emotions.

See those stones shown below, as there are quite a few crystals listed that have an excellent energy to aid you emotionally.

This includes Morado Violet Flame Opal, Peruvian Blue Opal, Rainbow Mayanite, Galaxyite, Hanksite, Faden Quartz, Pecos Diamond, Vatican Stone, Vivianite and Blue Hemimorphite.

Other stones that will also assist you if you need extra help to heal emotional problems includes Rainbow Obsidian, Green Heulandite, Petoskey Stone and Orange Aragonite Star Clusters.

More helpful crystals for this purpose includes Oligoclase, Stichtite, Stellerite, White Aragonite, Rubellite Red Tourmaline, Ussingite, Smithsonite of various colors, Lake Superior Agate, Orange Calcite and all colors of Scapolite.

Other crystals that will also help you to feel emotionally balanced include Kornerupine, Kutnohorite, Snow Quartz, Cleavelandite, Rainforest Jasper, Tinaksite, Turritella Agate and Grape Chalcedony also called Grape Agate.

Final Thoughts: Using Crystals For Emotional Healing

Many of you may already have some of these crystals, and if that is the case use the stones you have on hand first.

Look through the metaphysical properties above to see if any of the crystals for emotional healing may stand out as possible additions to help you.

Emotional healing has a large number of aspects as you no doubt know.

So think about exactly what it is that is especially bothering you, and look for one of the healing stones that mentions this aspect.

If you haven't already bought a book about crystals, think about getting one so that you can look up the many properties of various crystals.

Checkout my article about some of the crystal books that are selling and look for a unique crystal book that you feel fits your personal approach.

You may discover that many books include excellent information to help you emotionally, and you may also find healing rituals listed within them.

They may also contain emotion-specific guidance that can be used to aid the release of old feelings that do not benefit you.

In the section on FAQ's above there are a number of ways listed to utilize the crystals for emotional healing.

Note: that if there are other ways that aren't listed follow your intuition.

Be gentle with yourself and compassionate towards yourself and others as you go forward with your healing, and let yourself heal.

Love and light Liz