Guilt, shame, hatred, frustration, anger – these are all emotions associated with unforgiveness, the prison that holds you back from living your best life.
Most of us would, at some point in time, have held on to unforgiveness. Perhaps it was a friend who lied to you or your parent who opposes something you would like to do, or a colleague who has stabbed you in the back.
Amid our anger, we may think that these people do not deserve to be forgiven. No, not after what they have done knowingly or unknowingly.
Guess what… Forgiveness is not about them. It’s all about YOU.
By holding on to unforgiveness, whether towards others or yourself, you are allowing yourself to re-live the pain you experienced over and over again. You spend time thinking about that terrible moment you screwed up or got screwed by another person. Your mind latches on to the negative feeling and it causes you to recreate the negative emotions all over again.
Yet forgiveness is hard. I get it. But you have to forgive. Only then can you find the freedom you truly deserve and move on to live the awesome life you deserve.
In our last post, we talked about using forgiveness affirmations to help you reprogram your beliefs and make the process of letting go easier. In this post, we list down the best healing crystals that would complement your forgiveness journey.
Which are the Best Healing Crystals for Forgiveness?
Forgiveness does not come easy. In these challenging times, we believe that crystals can help. Whether as a tool to generate the right vibes for forgiveness or as a reminder of your intentions to forgive, healing crystals can do plenty to aid your progress.
Using these crystals for healing is quite simple. You can wear crystals as jewellery, carry them around in your pocket or purse, and also use them in meditation. Crystals can be programmed by setting intentions that are aligned to the crystal’s natural properties, then visualizing the intentions manifesting through the help of the crystals.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and cannot give out medical advice. Crystals and energy healing should be used as a complement to other therapies and not as a replacement for regular medical care.
Rose Quartz for Unconditional Love
Rose Quartz crystal ranges from very pale pink to deep bright pink and is known as the stone of universal love. A crystal that attracts and promotes unconditional love, it is believed to purify and open the heart at all levels.
This crystal is known for its heart healing properties. The love and healing vibrations help replace toxic emotions and blockages that clogs the heart chakra and replaces it with the energy of unconditional love. Therefore, this stone is one of the more powerful stones to use for your forgiveness journey – it encourages emotional healing, acceptance, trust, worth and love.
This crystal is known for its heart healing properties. The love and healing vibrations help replace toxic emotions and blockages that clogs the heart chakra and replaces it with the energy of unconditional love. Therefore, this stone is one of the more powerful stones to use for your forgiveness journey – it encourages emotional healing, acceptance, trust, worth and love.
Rhodonite for Compassion
Rhodonite is a beautiful rose pink / red stone with blackish veins. It resonates with the energies of love and compassion. It activates the heart and throat chakras and is ideal for helping us to be compassionate not only to ourselves but to others.
As Rhodonite crystals stimulate acceptance and balance emotions, they can help you rein in anger in stressful situations or bring peace to troubled relationships.
Wear rhodonite crystals if you are finding it difficult to let go of the hurt or pain inflicted on you. It helps to keep you calm, panic less and heal your mind and body from tension and stress.
Morganite for Emotional Healing
Similar to Rose Quartz, Morganite is predominantly a pink crystal and has an immediate connection with the heart chakra and love. This love goes beyond just human relationships, but also includes the love for the universe, planet and all living things.
It is a great crystal to wear when you are dealing with emotional issues and will help you to come to terms with pain from past experiences. As such, Morganite can be used to help you release and heal from hurt, grief, feelings of betrayal or heartache. This is a crucial step in the forgiveness process that will allow you to eventually heal and move on.
Blue Chalcedony for Calming and Balancing Emotions
Crystals with lighter shades of blue will enable you to better find acceptance, forgiveness, patience, and dealing with guilt. They are also tempered with subtlety and hence help in curbing tempers and enabling us to be mellower.
Blue Chalcedony is a demure crystal with a soft blue translucence. It is a stone of communication because it stimulates the Throat Chakra. It is believed that Blue Chalcedony eases self-doubt, removes hostility and encourages a light-hearted optimism. It is seen as a nurturing stone that absorbs negative energy and dissipates it before it can be transferred.
As a stone of peace and peace-making, Blue Chalcedony encourages stillness and calm in situations of conflict or animosity. It is also a great crystal for those who tend to think too much or who experience random episodes of anger, panic or anxiety.
Blue Lace Agate for Overcoming Bitterness and Negativity
Blue agates are extensively used as healing stones for the throat chakra. Wear or use blue agate when you need patience or when you need to seek/give forgiveness. Of this family, the Blue Lace Agate possesses one of the more powerful vibrations that help deal with emotions due to unforgiveness.
Commonly mistaken as the same crystal as Blue Chalcedony, Blue Lace Agate is different in that it has bands of darker blues and whites which gives it an energy-moving effect. It is, therefore, a much more strengthening and energizing crystal to use than Blue Chalcedony.
Using Blue Lace Agate during meditation can be uplifting, useful for neutralizing anger and replacing it with love and courage to start over.
Rhodochrosite for Selfless Love
Rhodochrosite is a pink and red coloured stone with white swirls. Similar to Rhodonite, Rhodochrosite also works with the heart chakra and promotes self-love and love of others. However, Rhodochrosite has a happier and gentler vibe to it; Its vibration of self-love, forgiveness and compassion is more suitable for the inner child in you, or use with children.
It is also known as the Compassionate Heart stone. It empowers users to honestly examine old wounds and traumas, acknowledge the associated pain and releasing it together with any negative behaviours that were adopted as coping mechanisms.
Obsidian for Letting Go
Only by closing the old doors of negativity can we allow new doors to open in our lives.
Black Obsidian is one of the best stones to encourage letting go of the past and helping users or wearers release toxic self-judgment or unforgiveness that are holding them back from happiness and freedom. It cleanses you from negative ties of the past and recalibrates your energy vibrations to free you from the burden of emotional trauma.
The stone acts as a grounding force during intense episodes of anxiety, bringing the user back to calmness.
Peridot for Transformation
Another heart chakra stone, Peridot is one of the more under-appreciated crystals whose popularity has fluctuated over centuries. Peridot comes in shades of translucent pale to vibrant olive, is one of the few gemstones that forms in only one colour.
Peridot is a mentally stimulating crystal, allowing its user to sharpen the mind and opening it to new levels of awareness. It is very helpful for dissipating negative behaviours or patterns that hold users back from their full potential in life.
Known as a stone of transformation, Peridot is excellent for healing emotional wounds. Place Peridot over the Heart Chakra to relieve heaviness of heart, encourage forgiveness, or hurt caused by betrayal in past relationships
This is by no means an exhaustive list of forgiveness crystals, but they are a good place to start if you want to integrate crystals into your healing journey. It is important with all healing practices that you take a holistic approach, and adopt methods that assist you in your mind, body and soul wellness.
I hope that those of you reading this article will find the best methods to heal from the past and finally manage to let go.
Further Reading
- 45 Forgiveness Affirmations to Let Go of Pain and Find Freedom
- Healing Crystals Guide: What Science Says and How to Use Them Effectively
- Mala Beads 101: Benefits and How to Use Them for Meditation
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The YogaMad is founded by Mila, an avid yogini who is passionate about inspiring others to live their best lives while finding mind-body-soul balance. She has a background in business consulting but has left the corporate world in her quest to live out her dreams as a yoga nomad.
