Self-Love seems to be a common term bounced around in our culture, especially in the self-help realms. We are told again and again that we need to fall in love with ourselves, while everywhere we look we are being told how imperfect wear and how much better we have to “get” before we can be perfect. We are in a constant flux and flow of this and it is up to the individual how much they allow the influence of our cultural norms (newspaper, tv, magazines, online media, etc.) in their lives.
One thing is for sure. When you fall in love with yourself something magical happens because you glow. People in love with themselves tend to be in love with their lives or at least working towards it. And they radiate something that makes them stand out of the crowd. They value themselves. They know their worth. They know that whatever happened in the past is the past.
These are crystals that can help you facilitate these feelings and help you on your own journey to self-love.
Bixbite – recommended as a gem for engagement/wedding rings because it can bring hearts into harmony with each other. It can help facilitate self-esteem, and can help heal sexual abuse. It helps to prevent self-destructive tendencies such as self-sabatoge or self-mutilation.
Crocite – helps to release emotional baggage, patterns and imbalances. Helps one to open the heart and to radiate a powerful frequency of love. Helps one to activate others hearts.
Emerald – Can help heal heartbreak. Reminds you to give love to yourself. Gives yourself courage to enact the heart. Alleviates heavy energy in your auric field. Helps to release patterns of victimization and rejecting personal power. Powerful heart healer. **Attracts love. Traditionally used as a stone of love because of its strong clearing and strengthening abilities of the physical and emotional heart centers.
Lepidocrocite – Assists in self-acceptance and self-love. Helps to relieve self-punishing disease and actions. Help heal self-loathing.
Lepidolite – Helps to release trauma and victim mentality. Helps to release excessive worry/fear.
Rhodonite – Helps to realize your gifts and the where and how they can be applied. Helps to understand your purpose and to increase self-worth. Creates a strong sense of self and clarity of your path.
Rose Quartz – Assists in releasing past emotional trauma, worries, fears, etc. Opens you to receive and give more love.
Pink Calcite (Transparent) – Helps to generate compassion, unconditional love and non judgementalism for oneself and then others.
Pink Tourmaline – Heals old emotional wounds, especially childhood wounds. Strengthens the heart chakra. Calming, releasing of patterns no longer serving. Alleviates stress.
What other stones do you think should be added to this list?