For centuries gemstones have been used for medicinal purposes. Jade was thought to protect the kidneys, liver, spleen, and heart; beryl to heal eye lesions and carnelian to purify the blood and relieve menstrual cramps. However, the properties assigned to gems in the past tended to be general and ambiguous. No more. Today, gemstone therapy has become an art and science, and a sophisticated energy medicine modality.
Gemstone therapy is based on gemstones in a spherical shape. The main advantage of spheres over crystals is the ability of a sphere to radiate its energies in all directions. The body’s energy field is able to moderate the amount of energy it wants and can direct the energy where it is needed. This is impossible with a crystal, which points its energies in only one direction. Also, when a sphere is cut from a crystal, it captures the finest essence of that crystal, leaving behind the slag.
Gemstone therapy began in 1987 when Isabelle Morton investigated the missions and essential effects of gemstone spheres by intuitively communicating with the devas, or guardians, of the individual healing stones. Back then, gemstone therapy was limited to wearing therapeutic-grade gemstone sphere necklaces to support physical and life issues, as well as concerns involving emotions, memory, and mind. Some techniques for placing necklaces on the body over diseased organs were also taught.
Today, many new applications are available for therapeutic gemstone necklaces, including special techniques for applying them to the aura. Gemstone therapy has also expanded into two more branches: single sphere applications and gem formulas, which are homeopathic-like remedies made from the energies of gemstones. Gem formulas are the next generation of gem elixirs. They are imprinted with the energies of therapeutic gemstones that have been arranged to produce energy fields for unique purposes.
These two new branches make gemstone therapy more affordable and offer the layman great versatility for self-therapy. This is what makes gemstone therapy stand out from other energy medicine modalities, which are based on practical applications. With gemstone therapy, the gems do the job.
Gemstone energies work throughout your body and aura. They are also adaptogens in the sense that your body’s energy field can direct gemstone energies wherever they are needed and in whatever amounts are required. Gemstone energies have a normalizing effect on the emotions, mind and body, including all physiological systems. Because gemstones are energy-efficient, they can be safely used in conjunction with any other natural or allopathic medications. In addition, they are ideal self-therapy tools, allowing people to take an active role in self-care and a more direct responsibility for improving their health.
Affordable self-therapy involves the use of individual gemstone spheres. The individual spheres can be used in a variety of ways, such as placement at acupuncture points and special energy “windows” of organs and tissues. The spheres can also be arranged in patterns or small mandalas, called “mini-gemandalas”, which are supported by a beeswax disk attached to a therapy rod and applied to the aura.
Mini-gemandalas can tackle a wide variety of health problems. Each gemstone provides its unique benefits, plus you get the added support of the numerology and geometry that you use when making the gemandala. Even with a relatively small collection of individual spheres, you can make an almost unlimited number of gemstone settings, each tailored to your unique energy needs at the time the treatment is applied. Instructions on how to perform self-therapy with mini-gemandalas can be viewed on the Gemstone Therapy Institute Certification Series DVD # 1 “Mini-Gemandalas for Self-therapy” available from GEMFormulas, LLC.
The Gemstone Therapy Institute offers the Gemstone Therapy Practitioner certification to students who complete the three-part training. A gemstone therapist can also use gemstones to diagnose the energy picture of a disease; address the energy patterns and accumulations that underlie disharmony; correct chakra and aura abnormalities; loosen the limiting patterns of emotions, habits and beliefs; unwinding the energies that keep life’s problems in a negative rut; directly addressing local and systemic conditions, as well as alleviating emotional, karmic and thought-based disharmony; and more.
Gemstone therapy offers something for everyone – from the layman who wants meaningful self-therapy to the healthcare professional looking for effective ways to add energy medicine to their practice.