I love working with crystals, playing with and healing with crystals and simply connecting with their energy. I believe that everything in our universe has consciousness. With that in mind, understand that you don’t simply pick a crystal because you think it’s pretty. You want to tune into it with your intuition. When I first started waking up to this world, I visited my first metaphysical shop and became friendly with the owner. I was constantly drawn to the crystals in various forms, candle holders, tumbled stones, raw stones, jewelry and crystal decorations. All these years later I still remember picking up crystal after crystal saying, what’s this, what’s this, like a young child. The owner and her niece would patiently answer my questions. What was really odd I thought at the time was that I kept picking up the same stone in various forms! I thought to myself, what are the odds? They would look different but I kept being drawn to the same stone. That’s not a coincidence but an important fact. First thing to know is that we are drawn to the crystal that we need to work with, whether we need it physically, emotionally or spiritually. The other important thing to understand is that the crystal picks you too. In the past I have felt the energy of a crystal and realized that it didn’t want to work with me. I have also experienced when a crystal had a strong allegiance with me and wanted to work with me. I’ve even had friends tell me that a crystal was pulling hard to get to me. Another important thing is to respect someone else’s crystals. Do not hold them without permission. Unfortunately I’ve had other people’s crystals switch their allegiance to me. I am very careful not to touch people’s crystals. Another fact to be aware of is to pay attention to the energy of crystals that are stored in the same location. My friend who helped run the shop was aware that one of her pendulum’s had a jealous energy towards the other pendulum. She never thought harm would come to the less dominant crystal, (I believe Rose Quartz) and she still kept them both securely in a special padded box in her bedside table. Every time she would use the rose quartz the other crystal got jealous. The next time she opened the box she noticed that the jealous crystal (Amethyst I think) was fine but the rose quartz was cracked! No one else had access to her crystals. Very strange experience indeed. I would say that it is an unusual experience, and there is so much to be gained from the crystal kingdom. It is a powerful source to work with and should be respected. There are so many ways that we can benefit from working with crystals.
A Must In Your Spiritual Toolbox Is Black Tourmaline
I believe this stone is a basic for every beginner and for advanced spiritual work. I love it because when you are starting out sometimes we can attract energy that in my personal opinion is to frighten you off of your spiritual path. This is my opinion, and it seems the bigger your dharma the more you may have experienced intimidation tactics. The important thing to remember is that you’re light, you’re the one with power and strength of Source energy. When we stand with God/Source energy we are the ones that have the true power. A very wise friend of mine told me that she received a message that when we are in fear we see them as demons, when we stand in our power we see them as angels. I believe this may be true. I am still growing and evolving and I am not 100% sure yet. I do wonder if that is part of our major life lessons to no longer stand in fear but to recognize ourselves as huge and immensely powerful beings, we are co-creators.
It all comes down to simply a different perspective.
If there is indeed negativity in our world black tourmaline will act as one of your very best friends. Some of the ways to use this gifted stone is to cleanse your energy body by the stone absorbing the lower vibrational energy, auric field, and meditate while holding it with selenite. You can use these two stones together while you work, the energy joins forces to help you. I also recommend having them on your bedside table or under your bed in a grid while you’re sleeping for both protection and to bring calmness and peace for you to relax and fall asleep.
Fortifying Your Home
We all crave that we feel safe and secure in our homes. This protection pertains to keeping your home safe from physical beings, from psychic attack and generally repelling negative energy from entering your space. People say our homes are our castles, we want to feel comfortable, relaxed, secure and not nervous and anxious. When we don’t feel safe it impacts our energy, our health and mental wellbeing. It’s very easy to work with black tourmaline, and you can incorporate simple steps that you can use in your home, work space and even your car. You can place nice size pieces about the size of a half-dollar on either side of your entrance into your home, just inside the doorway. A positive thing to add to the entrance of your home is to add a piece of jade to welcome in good fortune, wealth and abundance. You can also go the extra mile and place smaller stones on either side of the windowsill with the intention that no lower negative vibrational energy may enter through the glass. You can protect your home by placing a tourmaline in the four corners of the home or the four corners of any room you want extra protection. In the past I’ve had to really fortify my home at times due to people sending me very negative energy. My response was to put a black tourmaline crystal in each of the four corners of my property programmed as an energetic barrier from any and all toxicity and ill intent from entering the property. People’s thoughts can bring negativity towards us and this is one way to block it. Another way is to put a circle of light protection around you, your family and one around your home.
There was a time where I had so much negative and hateful energy directed at me, and it would impact major aspects of my life. This was before I had the wisdom on how to protect me and my loved ones. I did realize that there was much more at play here than simply life can be hard or believing in bad luck. It actually had the opposite impact. Instead of crippling me, I became determined to succeed, yes a bit of a stubborn attitude. It wasn’t the belief of don’t fall down but instead to focus on how quickly I would get up. I was totally committed to succeeding and having a happier, healthier and more fulfilled life. Working with crystals helped me to heal and become empowered. I truly love having crystals in my life.
Energetic Properties
This stone is believed to work in a harmonious relationship with the element of water, which makes sense. A big part of what black tourmaline assists us with is our emotions, thoughts, and negative energy. Water is associated with our emotions, hence why the two work so well together. This stone acts as a strong vacuum that absorbs the toxic thought patterns, anger, past emotional trauma, anxiety and even helps with absorbing electromagnetic stress from our bodies. An important bit of information to know is that it’s a must to frequently clear the tourmaline that you’re working with. This is necessary to help clear all the toxic energy that the stone has absorbed from you and the environment. You can do this by simply running it under tap water, or place in a bowl of water, or a bowl of himalayan sea salt for several hours. Another way to clear stones is to put them near the selenite, laying side by side or placing the black tourmaline on top. Do this for several hours, some recommend doing it for 12 hours. In most everything, I believe in using your discernment to know when it’s been cleared. Make sure your chakras are open and balanced so you can properly use your intuition.
If you take a bath with your tourmaline as you pull out the stopper, use your third eye to envision all the negative energy released from your body and the stone falling down the drain.
Black tourmaline is one of the very best stones to purify and detox your energy, helping you to eliminate stagnant energy, and lower vibrational energy. It’s also beneficial in aiding you with trying to give up addictive substances or behavior.
As previously stated, this stone has an association to water, it cleanses our energy similar to us taking a shower. It nourishes and revitalizes our core strength.
Health Benefits of Black Tourmaline
Research says that tourmaline has health benefits because it has ions, negative ions that promote oxygenation. This helps the brain, regeneration of the blood which helps the whole body. It also says that it emits infrared radiation in the 4-14 micron wavelength, this in turn boosts the immune system and detoxifies the body. Tourmaline has so many benefits to our physical, emotional, mental and energetic bodies. I also came across information saying that it detoxifies and cleanses our nervous system and our whole body. It’s claimed to have the ability to deflect radiation energy, ability to absorb electromagnetic radiation (EMF’s).
Black tourmaline is believed to represent growth, helping individuals to expand and transform on their spiritual path. To go further down this path it does seem to work hand in hand that this stone helps to clear away stuck and stagnant energy. If it clears away blocked energy in your physical and etheric bodies which can be causing physical, emotional and mental ailments or distress. This would make sense that once you clear away that lower vibrational energy, the past pain and trauma, then it would open you up to receive healing and more light into your heart and whole body. It’s said that this stone brings balance into your life and your being while protecting you from receiving any harm in the future. It protects one from psychic attack while transmuting negative energy into positive energy. This is a great stone to wear, be kept in a pouch in your pocket, to put a grid under your bed, in your work space and can be used in many more ways. The beauty of this powerful stone is it helps break thought patterns of anxiety, repetitive negative and compulsive fear driven thoughts and behavior. In many ways it acts as a miracle stone by helping us on so many levels. I always felt that it metaphysically detoxes the body but was surprised to see that there is science behind it. In all things I recommend you do your own research and see where it leads you.
Spiritual And Emotional Well-being
I consider this stone to be a cornerstone to have in your spiritual practice. The reason is because it easily grounds your energy, connecting your energy to the earth, acting like an anchor. In this way you are a conduit for light energy to enter into your vessel, overflow goes into the earth.
A great practice is to not only carry a black tourmaline but putting a piece in your pillowcase or under the mattress. While you sleep it will clear your auric field, clear your energy and help you to heal. It will also protect your body and your spirit astral travel while you’re sleeping.
Other beneficial ways that this powerful stone will help you to heal and have new beginnings by ridding you of negative thoughts, releasing anger, feelings of unworthiness and giving you psychic protection from negative entities.
The Spiritual Impact Of Tourmaline
One of the healing properties is that tourmaline helps you to lovingly observe yourself, better understand yourself and brings in more self-confidence. As we see ourselves as the powerful co-creators that we really are, it automatically lessons our fears and anxieties. The result is to attract inspiration, prosperity and compassion into our lives, we become more tolerant. This shift helps us to become spiritual magnets for positive situations to enter our lives.
Black tourmaline is believed to balance both the right and left hemispheres of the brain. In this way it’s a powerful mental healer. There are several ways to balance ourselves but working with tourmaline is inexpensive and easy. Benefits of being in balance is it helps with reconciliation, cool headedness, helps bring in compassion and patience. If you think about these qualities it does stand to reason that it would attract friendships, healthier relationships, and attract more money into your life.
Effectively Working With Black Tourmaline
When you buy a crystal you want to feel that it’s the right one, a strong connection, you don’t choose it just because it looks pretty. Once the crystal is brought home and cleansed, it’s time to program it with your intentions so your crystal works for you. You want to be grounded, clear of thought, close your eyes and hold your crystal to your heart. You may decide to incorporate within yourself, or in your life what properties this crystal represents, and how it can support your goals. Direct the energy of this crystal by declaring your desires and have the crystal work with you to attain your goals with its special properties. It’s beneficial to carry the stone around with you for a few days, carrying it in a pouch over your heart to help your energy bond with the energy of the stone. Remember to charge it frequently to keep the energy high in this hard working purification crystal.
Best Ways To Cleanse and Care For Your Crystal
Again, this crystal needs frequent cleansing because it absorbs the lower, negative vibrational energy and helps to purify either the person, space or situation. If you’re going through an especially challenging and difficult time you will cleanse it even more frequently. The better you take of your crystal the more your crystal will be able to aid and assist you through your most challenging times in your life. The good news is, this is a very easy process, choose what you like best or what you have time to do and have the supplies.
Simply place the stone under running tap water. Even better if you could place it in a spring or stream. If you pressed for time you can hold the intention that the stone is being cleansed and purified. It’s as easy as imagining your stone in a freshwater stream and as the water runs over it you can visualize the impurities washing away and floating downstream.
You can expose the black tourmaline for an hour of direct sunlight energy. This process cleanses and charges the stone. Place on the ground to absorb the sunlight, recharge and transmute all the energy into a higher vibration. Be careful not to leave the stone out for too long for danger of bleaching. I would check it or have it outside while you meditate or absorb the sun’s energy for yourself to recharge your own batteries.
One of my favorite ways is to bury your crystal to cleanse and again absorb the energy from Gaia mother earth. It’s best if you can place the stone in the ground overnight, even better during a full moon. Mother earth will soak up all the negative energy from the crystal, transmute it and charge. With this procedure you can set the intention to not only release the negative energy but charge it with positive and loving energy.
Easy but incredibly effective place the stone in a bowl of salt.
Cleanse over a flame of a candle by carefully running it through the flame of a candle or using sage to smudge it.
You can fill a bowl with dry brown rice and bury your black tourmaline in it beneath the grains. Leave it overnight or follow your own intuition on how long to leave the stone in the rice. When you are finished make sure to throw away the rice, you absolutely don’t want to use the rice. Why would you want that energy inside of your body that the rice absorbed from your stone?
When Is A Good Time To Use Black Tourmaline?
This stone is amazingly beneficial in helping to ground our energy. Perfect to use during times when we need to focus, calm our emotions, release fear, negativity and anxiety. In the morning if there is a heavy foreboding feeling, grab your favorite black tourmaline. Have the intention that the crystal will not only protect you but absorb all that negative energy like the best bounty paper towel in the world! This is also a wonderful technique to use to relax, feel safe and calm while in bed right before you fall off to sleep. The added benefit is to protect your physical body while you sleep and are vulnerable but it also protects you while your spirit leaves your body to travel in the astral realm. Many of us do a tremendous amount of work during our sleep. A little test for yourself is to notice if you wake up even more tired than when you went to bed. If so, you may be frequently leaving your body at night and working in the astral realm. If you’re doing this during your sleep I highly recommend working with this stone for your physical life and spiritual life for the protective energetic shield.
Anytime you feel that you need to recharge your batteries, rest, need to do deep-reflection, this is a beneficial crystal to work with. Even helpful while praying or meditating. This can be viewed as traveling or connecting and working with the higher realms, it all ties together the benefits of working with black tourmaline. It is also regarded as a stone representing new beginnings.
To Consecrate Your Crystal
Before you set to consecrate your crystal you want to first make sure that you are in a good energetic state. Think about it, if you are trying to work with or train someone and you’re in a terrible, angry mood, the person will not pick up what you’re trying to teach them but feel your toxic energy. It’s best to make sure that your own energy is in a good state. You can do this in several ways like listening to crystal bowls, 528 frequencies, smudging, showering, working with healing crystals, etc.
You can hold the crystal in your hands, or hold it near your heart, you want to connect your energy to the crystal’s energy. Show the crystal gratitude for working and helping you. While you’re holding the crystal and are energetically connected you can then speak your intention from your heart to program it. It’s best to be in a quiet place, especially if you can do it in a sacred place like your altar or in nature, wherever you feel connected to Source energy and at peace. Remember that everything is energy. If you don’t feel a connection to your stones yet, no worries, it takes time.
You can use this or better yet tweak it to make it your own.
Thank you God, my higher-self for your love, support and guidance always. I am in a state of gratitude and I dedicate this crystal with our combined energies and the intention of the highest and greatest good for all. Thank you for your dedicated service of ……. Example of protecting our family, or filling this home with peace, etc. You can program this crystal to do what you desire, but keep in mind to draw upon its strengths.
As you move forward with your spiritual practices I hope you develop a strong connection with your crystals and enjoy their support and gifts that they have to offer.
Key Takeaways from what you have read…
Connection with Crystals: Daniela emphasizes the deep, intuitive connection one can form with crystals, highlighting that individuals are often drawn to the crystal they need most at a given time. This connection is mutual, as crystals can also “choose” their human counterparts.
Respect for Crystals: It’s essential to respect others’ crystals and not touch them without permission. Crystals can switch their allegiance based on energy interactions.
Black Tourmaline’s Significance: This stone is fundamental for both beginners and advanced spiritual practitioners. It acts as a protective shield against negative energies and can help deter energies that might divert one from their spiritual path.
Home Protection: Black tourmaline can be used to fortify homes against negative energies. Placing it at entrances, windows, and property corners can create an energetic barrier.
Energetic Properties: Black tourmaline is associated with water and emotions. It acts as a vacuum, absorbing toxic thought patterns, anger, and past traumas. Regular cleansing of the stone is crucial to maintain its effectiveness.
Health Benefits: Tourmaline is believed to promote oxygenation in the brain and regenerate blood. It also has potential benefits against electromagnetic radiation.
Spiritual and Emotional Well-being: Black tourmaline grounds energy, connects it to the earth, and acts as a conduit for light energy. It can clear the auric field, protect during astral travel, and help release negative thoughts and emotions.
Spiritual Impact: Tourmaline fosters self-observation, understanding, and confidence. It reduces fears and anxieties, attracting prosperity and compassion.
Effective Usage: To harness the full potential of black tourmaline, one should form a bond with the stone, program it with intentions, and carry it regularly. Regular charging and cleansing are essential for maintaining its energy.
Cleansing and Care: The stone can be cleansed using various methods, including running tap water, sunlight exposure, burying in the earth, or using salt. Regular cleansing is vital due to its absorptive nature.
Consecration: Before setting intentions with the crystal, ensure you’re in a positive energetic state. Connect with the crystal’s energy, express gratitude, and then program it with your desired intentions.
Overall Message: Crystals, especially black tourmaline, offer powerful support in spiritual practices. They provide protection, grounding, and healing, aiding individuals in their journey towards self-awareness and spiritual growth.
Test your knowledge of Black Tourmaline with this Quiz!
1. **Intuitive Connection with Crystals**:
– What is the primary reason for choosing a crystal according to the article?
a) Its appearance
b) Its price
c) Intuitive connection
d) Its popularity
2. **Respecting Crystals**:
– Why should you avoid touching someone else’s crystals without permission?
a) They might break
b) They can switch allegiance
c) They are fragile
d) They might lose their shine
3. **Significance of Black Tourmaline**:
– Which stone is described as essential for both beginners and advanced spiritual practitioners?
a) Rose Quartz
b) Amethyst
c) Jade
d) Black Tourmaline
4. **Protection of Homes**:
– Where can you place black tourmaline to protect your home from negative energies?
a) In the bathroom
b) At entrances and windows
c) In the kitchen
d) On the roof
5. **Energetic Association**:
– Black tourmaline is associated with which element?
a) Fire
b) Earth
c) Air
d) Water
6. **Health Benefits**:
– What does research suggest about the health benefits of tourmaline?
a) It promotes oxygenation in the brain
b) It helps in weight loss
c) It improves eyesight
d) It strengthens bones
7. **Spiritual Impact**:
– Tourmaline helps in fostering which of the following?
a) Physical strength
b) Self-observation and understanding
c) Cooking skills
d) Artistic abilities
8. **Effective Usage**:
– How can you form a bond with your black tourmaline stone?
a) By burying it
b) By selling it
c) By carrying it around for a few days
d) By gifting it
9. **Cleansing Methods**:
– Which of the following is NOT a method mentioned for cleansing black tourmaline?
a) Exposing to sunlight
b) Running under tap water
c) Keeping in the freezer
d) Burying in the earth
10. **Consecration of the Crystal**:
– Before setting intentions with the crystal, what state should you be in?
a) A state of anger
b) A state of confusion
c) A good energetic state
d) A state of sadness
Click to get the answers
1. c, 2. b, 3. d, 4. b, 5. d, 6. a, 7. b, 8. c, 9. c, 10. c.
