Tourmaline is a type of semi-precious stone that comes in a wide range of colors including green, red, blue, and yellow. In Eastern philosophies, each color of tourmaline is associated with a different chakra, or energy center in the body. According to Eastern beliefs, a blockage in one of these areas causes emotional, physical, or spiritual sickness. Certain colored gemstones are believed to have healing properties to help release these energy blocks. Green tourmaline is specifically associated with the heart chakra and healing areas affected by this energy center.
The therapeutic ability of any gemstone is based on philosophical, folk and oral traditions. This information should not be used in lieu of, or to replace, standard medical advice.
Emotional Healing Properties
As a gemstone associated with the heart chakra, green tourmaline is believed to assist with opening up emotional blocks that prevent or hinder the wearer’s ability to connect to others. Green tourmaline is believed to promote compassion, patience, tolerance, and understanding. It is also thought to help increase and focus mental energy, and is recommended to help with anxiety and to support creativity.
Physical Healing Properties
Green tourmaline is traditionally believed to help assist in healing heart conditions—due to its association with the heart chakra. It is also believed to help with treating nervous conditions and to help those suffering from chronic fatigue. Some believe that green tourmaline is a gem that has a masculine energy; these gemstone healing practitioners recommend green tourmaline to help with promoting male sexuality and increasing a man’s physical prowess.
Spiritual Healing Properties
Tourmaline stones in general are believed to help with expanded consciousness; green tourmaline specifically is thought to increase the circulation of spiritual energy. Green tourmaline is said to help those who are disconnected from their spirituality reconnect to their spiritual selves.
Considerations
The theoretical healing abilities of green tourmaline or any gemstone is unsupported by scientific evidence. The therapeutic ability of any gemstone is based on philosophical, folk and oral traditions. This information should not be used in lieu of, or to replace, standard medical advice.
Some alternative medicine practitioners believe green tourmaline increases what they call “masculine energies”; these practitioners believe that the stone could cause an imbalance in women and they discourage women from wearing this stone in order to avoid disrupting a woman’s feminine energies.
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