THIS IS THE MOST COMPLETE GUIDE TO AMETHYST HEALING PROPERTIES
INSIDE: With this complete guide of amethyst healing properties, you’ll discover the myriad of ways that amethyst can transform your mind, body, and spirit. It’s our favorite healing stone, and for good reason!
Amethysts are jam-packed with powerful healing properties and they can be used in a multitude of ways to impact your life for the better. They seem to almost magically stimulate and soothe the mind, body, and emotions simultaneously, causing a calm yet focused effect.
Apart from being a beautiful addition to any space, amethysts also provide a positive influence, a tranquil feeling, and they counteract all negative energy. They are without a doubt our favorite healing stones, and that’s why we’ve compiled this complete guide to amethyst healing properties.
AMETHYST HEALING PROPERTIES & CHARACTERISTICS
The amethyst stone is one of the most popular and highly prized crystals, and it is also one of the most spiritual stones. This variety of quartz is a transparent semi-precious stone that is purple in color.
Composition – clear quartz, iron, and sometimes manganese
Shape – geodes, clusters, single points
Size – points range in size from small to large; geodes range in size from a couple inches to fifteen feet
Color – ranges from light lavender to deep purple
Source – Brazil, Uruguay, East Africa, Siberia, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, United States, Russia, Britain, Canada
Amethysts are formed under intense pressure and heat over millions of years. We’ve written an entire article about the way amethysts are formed, and it’s pretty fascinating!
The deeper the color and the larger the points, the stronger the healing properties. Darker amethyst originates from Uruguay, while Brazil offers the largest quality amethyst geodes.
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WHAT HEALING PROPERTIES DOES AMETHYST HAVE?
SPIRITUAL BENEFITS OF AMETHYST
Enhances communication from the Divine
Counteracts negative energies in the environment
Protects against psychic attack
Expands intuitive and psychic abilities
Helps induce a deep meditative state
Cleanses the aura of negative energy
Forms a protective bubble around the body
Raises our vibration
Heals, protects and cleanses the spirit
Reduces selfishness and inspires selflessness
MENTAL BENEFITS OF AMETHYST
Deepens understanding of oneself and others
Improves cognitive function and mental clarity
Helps us achieve our goals
Improves mental focus
Sparks new ideas
Improves decision-making
Enhances memory
EMOTIONAL BENEFITS OF AMETHYST
Provides a sense of calm and wellbeing
Provides comfort during times of grief
Sparks creativity, inspiration, and passion
Relieves stress and anxiety
Reduces emotional charge
Soothes and uplifts at the same time
PHYSICAL BENEFITS OF AMETHYST
Promotes healthy cell regeneration
Improves blood circulation
Inhibits bacterial growth
Promotes hormonal balance
Helps with weight loss
Detoxifies the body physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually
Improves headaches and migraines
Reduces insomnia
AMETHYST HEALING PROPERTIES
Amethyst is one of the best all-purpose crystals in existence, and it has a myriad of benefits for the mind, body, and spirit.
CALM, SOOTHE & RELIEVE STRESS
One of the most loved healing properties of amethyst is its ability to soothe and calm the body, mind, and spirit. It is a natural tranquilizer that stills an overactive mind, melts away stress and anxiety, and promotes inner peace.
Its energy is highly comforting and is, therefore, an effective natural solution for nervousness, tension, overwhelm, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It also calms negative emotions like anger, fear, and sadness, and brings a comforting energy that encourages patience, composure, and compassion.
Amethyst is a wonderful crystal to keep by your bedside to promote a restful night of sleep as it helps reduce insomnia and nightmares. It is also useful for homesickness and hyperactivity in children and animals.
HEALING & CLEANSING
Amethyst is a highly effective healing stone with powerful healing and cleansing properties. Just by being it its presence, you can cleanse your aura, recover faster from illness, and balance all parts of the self (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual).
Amethyst can be used to cleanse the environment of electromagnetic smog and negative energy. Likewise, it can be used with people, pets, and plants to cleanse the negative energy and help them flourish. Amethyst also has the ability to cleanse other crystals.
PROTECTION
The amethyst stone is often used for protection, and that includes any kind of protection possible. Physically, it provides protection against misfortune, malicious attacks, burglaries, and accidents. Mentally, it offers protection from negative thoughts and emotions, while spiritually, it protects its user from psychic attack, witchcraft, and black magic.
CREATIVITY
The focused yet calm state that is brought to us through the amethyst is the prime state-of-mind for creativity to flourish. It helps bring ideas to fruition and provides clear, guided inspiration that promotes new ideas and creative solutions.
TRANSFORMATION
The amethyst stone is like a compass, showing us the way to new ideas and pathways that will help us transform our lives. With clarity of mind, intuitive insights, and a peaceful courage to move forward, we are inspired to pursue what is necessary for our personal growth.
PROSPERITY
While amethyst isn’t typically thought of as a crystal that promotes prosperity, it does ward off overindulgence. Therefore, it helps to reduce the urge to overspend and helps resolve gambling addictions. It also allows us to make better choices in regards to investments and money.
SOBRIETY
Amethyst’s ability to reduce overindulgence is the reason it has been used for sobriety for many thousands of years. It is a powerful tool for assisting with addictions, bad habits, and any type of obsessiveness.
LOVE
One of our favorite things about the amethyst is its ability to transmute negative energy into loving, positive energy. The loving energy that amethyst puts out can help us develop deeper connections with our loved ones and ourselves, and it can help us respond with more compassion, allowing us to improve our relationships.
EMOTIONAL HEALTH
Amethyst is wonderful for calming and releasing negative emotions like fear, overwhelm, stress, anger, sadness, and grief. It balances the emotions, brings understanding to the issue, and helps us get to the root cause of the emotion.
The amethyst stone boosts emotional strength, uplifts and improves our mood, and increases our self-image. It reduces depression and assists with addiction.
MENTAL HEALTH
The amethyst offers its user incredible mental health benefits that are almost unmatched because of its ability to stimulate and calm the mind at the same time. This dual effect brings us a peaceful mental focus that is not bogged down with negative emotion and stress, and we are able to weigh cause and effect with more clarity.
With the help of the amethyst healing properties, we get to enjoy a brain that is more focused and in control, and less scattered. We come up with new ideas, make better decisions, and have an improved memory. Amethyst grants us common sense mixed with spiritual insights that bring us deeper understanding and wisdom.
SPIRITUAL HEALTH
As a highly spiritual stone, the amethyst deepens our connection to spirit and helps us achieve altered states of consciousness. It promotes intuitive guidance and insight, accelerates the spiritual journey, and assists us in surrendering to the Divine.
Amethyst has a high spiritual vibration that also serves to raise our vibration so that we can enjoy more happiness, love, compassion, gratitude, and selflessness.
Amethyst is one of the best meditation crystals, as it helps to quiet the mind, impart spiritual wisdom, and bring us closer to our inner spirit. It provides spiritual protection and cleanses the personal energy field, removing attachments, influences, and other negative energy. It has also been known to improve out-of-body experiences, and dream recollection and interpretation.
PHYSICAL HEALTH
In terms of physical health, amethyst is probably most known for its effects on the nervous system. It balances neural signals and helps them function more efficiently, thereby relieving stress and the symptoms related to stress, like headaches and migraines.
Amethyst’s cleansing properties allow it to strengthen the immune system, as well as the liver and other cleansing organs. It also improves oxygenation of the blood, which brings vitality to the whole body.
Amethyst optimizes the endocrine system and promotes hormone production, serving to improve hormonal health. It also balances metabolism and helps us burn calories more efficiently so we can lose weight.
Digestive health is another benefit that the amethyst has up its sleeve. It balances intestinal flora and removes parasites that hinder digestion.
AMETHYST GEODE HEALING PROPERTIES
Amethyst geodes are one of the most beloved ways to enjoy amethyst healing properties. They come in various sizes from ones that fit in your hand to ones that are larger than humans. The larger the amethyst geode, the greater the healing properties.
Amethyst geodes carry the same healing properties as other forms of amethyst, but the depth and degree of their healing energy is enhanced and carries a wider range in larger specimens.
VARIATIONS OF AMETHYST
Chevron Amethyst Healing Properties – When amethyst is layered in a V-shape with white quartz, it is called Chevron Amethyst. Chevron amethyst healing properties come from both stones. Amethyst gives this stone its stress relieving and intuitive qualities, and white quartz provides strength and healing. It is a highly spiritual stone that opens us up psychic channels while protecting us from negative energies.
Banded Amethyst Healing Properties – Banded amethyst is similar to chevron amethyst in that it is also a combination of amethyst and white quartz, but instead of a V-shape, the stones are layered in less-pronounced stripes. Banded amethyst healing properties are the same as the healing properties of chevron amethyst.
Ametrine Healing Properties – When amethyst is combined with citrine, it is called ametrine. This harmonious blend improves mental clarity and spirituality, brings feminine (amethyst) and masculine (citrine) energies into harmony, and helps us make powerful changes in our lives.
Smoky Amethyst Healing Properties – When amethyst and smoky quartz combine in one stone, it is called smoky amethyst. The smoky amethyst healing properties are vast. It is often used to heal and protect the soul, connect with higher consciousness, and ground spiritual energy into the body. With this stone, we can remove unwanted attachments and protect ourselves from psychic attack.
Green Amethyst Healing Properties – Green amethyst is known as prasiolite. Instead of occurring naturally in nature, this stone is produced when Brazilian amethyst is heated to about 500 degrees centigrade. Prasiolite is a pale-green color, somewhat similar in to peridot. The healing properties of green amethyst comes from the combined spiritual nature of amethyst and the heart-centered properties of green stones.
Black Amethyst Healing Properties – Black amethyst is amethyst that has heavy inclusions of hematite. Black amethyst healing properties combine the two stones. As such, black amethyst can boost your psychic powers while also grounding you and protecting you at the same time.
Pink Amethyst Healing Properties – When amethyst crystals are lighter in color, they often look lavender, lilac or even light grey in color, all of which are referred to as pink amethyst. Pink amethyst healing properties include those of purple amethyst healing properties, but they also provide the balance, healing and loving energy that comes along with heart-chakra stones.
AMETHYST HISTORY
Amethyst can be traced as far back as 25,000 B.C It has been used as a signature of wealth throughout history, and was therefore placed in the crowns of kings, queens, and bishops, including Queen Elizabeth II of England.
The ancients considered amethyst to be a precious stone and it was therefore highly valuable. It has always had strong spiritual significance, especially as a tool for developing a connection to higher spirit. The word “amethyst” comes from the Greek word “ametusthos,” which means “not-intoxicated.”
Amethyst has a long history of being used for protection. It was prized for its beauty and healing properties by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and it adorned their goblets to ward off intoxication. Travelers and soldiers wore it for protection, and it was used to protect against witchcraft. It was considered a royal stone that provided protection against disease and contagion.
Ancient Egyptians – It was used to reduce fear and guilt, and it was used in amulets for burial.
Hebrews – It was the ninth stone in the breastplate of the High Priest.
Eastern Cultures – It was used in the tree of life and for worship.
Catholic – Still to this day, it is the Bishop’s Stone and is worn by the bishop on the second finger of the right hand.
Tibet – It was called the Stone of Buddha and was often used in Buddhist prayer beads.
China – It was rented to people going through lawsuits to help bring a favorable outcome.
AMETHYST CHAKRA INFORMATION
The amethyst resonates with the energy of the crown and third eye chakras. It improves our connection to higher consciousness and helps us improve our spiritual practices. It brings us awareness and perception in relation to the self and helps us connect with our inner spirit. Learn more about amethyst and the chakras here.
AMETHYST FENG SHUI
Amethysts can be used in Feng Shui to improve the flow of energy in any space as it can be used in all areas of the Bagua map. We’ve explained how to use amethyst in each area of your home or room here. It is used most often in the Knowledge & Wisdom area (northeast area) to reduce stress, increase self-love, enhance meditation, and promote healthy sleep.
AMETHYST WARNINGS
Don’t place amethyst in sunlight because it can fade.
According to Judy Hall, you should not use amethyst for paranoia or schizophrenia.
Always clear your amethyst after someone else has handled it, before and after healing sessions, and as regular maintenance.