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May/June 2008 Featured Stories
Gemstone Energy Medicine

by Dr. Ada González

Gemstone energy medicine offers simple, powerful tools to expand consciousness and achieve lasting transformation. Therapeutic gems present an incredible resource for healing. Remarkable for their wide range of health benefits, these gems are providing consistent and exciting results.

Energy medicine aims not only to improve health but totransform it. In my practice and in my own life, I have found gemstone energy medicine to be one of the most powerful approaches to energy healing available today. Gems are a gift from the heart of the Earth with unique energetic properties. When we use properly shaped gemstones in simple, systematic ways their energies neutralize impurities and blockages in our auras and bodies, eliminating the very causes of disease.

In Europe, gems are widely recognized as healing tools. In England, high quality gems are even covered by national health insurance. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we are in the hub of research on the use of gems as precise and powerful medicine. Based on the pioneering works of Michael Katz, a Portland-based author of seven books on the therapeutic use of gems, gemstone energy medicine is being taught to medical doctors, acupuncturists and other holistic physicians.

Reaping the rewards from gem therapy can be as simple as wearing a necklace of therapeutic gemstone spheres. Truly natural gemstone spheres promote remarkable healing because their energies can affect every dimension of our being. They help us cleanse, heal and awaken on every level - body, mind, emotions and spirit.

As a research scientist, I was originally skeptical about the efficacy of gems as healing tools. A test came in working with Olympic athletes. They were already performing at peak level, so I might have expected only subtle changes. Yet by simply wearing green tourmaline, the gemstone for enhancing masculine energy, the athletes' improvements in performance, stamina and strength were so dramatic that I knew only quantum healing could account for them.

Gems work so well because they are powerful containers of energy and they resonate with the human field. They can help us change our vibration and remove the blockages in our own energy field that are the true underlying causes of disease. For instance, patients who use therapeutic quality quartz for hypertension or stress will report that not only have their symptoms improved, but it seems like the whole world got nicer.

What has changed, of course, is not the whole world, but the individual's vibration, producing both clinical results and deep healing on every level. Quartz helps us become more balanced energetically, and when we are more balanced and harmonious, we necessarily attract more positive and harmonious circumstances. It is the law of attraction in action on a therapeutic level.

Here is an overview of areas addressed effectively by gemstone energy medicine.

Physical Healing and Purification

The green gems like emerald, bloodstone and malachite deeply purify and support the physical body. They can:

• Release toxins and resolve illness.
• Boost the immune function, and increase vitality and energy.
• Relieve pain and soothe the body after trauma or surgery.

Emotional Healing and Upliftment

Gems to help with the emotions are predominantly red or pink like ruby, pink sapphire, rhodonite and roselle. They help:

• Improve emotional balance and promote peace and happiness.
• Soothe a wounded heart and release suppressed feelings.
• Increase the experience and expression of divine love.

Karmic Healing and Resolution

Resolving karmic patterns with gems like opalight and rhodochrosite can help release limiting conditions. These gems help:

• Break bad habits and resolve old karmic patterns.
• Eliminate a pattern of destructive relationships.
• Align your dreams with your life path.

Mental Clarity and Expansion

Blue gems like lapis lazuli, blue sapphire and sodalight expand mental potential, improve memory and:

• Bring balance and clarity, protect mental agility, and improve focus.
• Clear out mental clutter and expand the mind to its fullest potential.
• Harmonize the heart and mind, and increase creativity.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Awakening

Indigo or purple gems like amethyst and purple rainbow fluorite help:

• Awaken higher consciousness, heighten awareness and inner wisdom.
• Strengthen intuition and movement to higher states of consciousness.
• Illuminate your true purpose and diminish attachments.

Masculine and Feminine Healing and Empowerment

Pink tourmaline for women and green tourmaline for men work to:

• Improve confidence and physical vigor.
• Resolve relationship issues and create harmony with a mate.
• Improve fertility and repair endocrine imbalances.

Healing and Nourishing with Earth Energies

The earthy gems like poppy jasper, onyx and leopardskin jasper help:

• Nourish and energize the body.
• Attract whatever your physical body needs for healing.
• Increase energy and achieve a more joyful, productive state.

Dr. Ada González is a naturopathic physician and an international speaker. She is the primary trainer for Gemisphere, a therapeutic gemstone pharmacy and educational institute in Portland. Meet González on June 5 when Gemisphere opens a new gallery showroom for therapeutic gemstones in Portland's Pearl district at 604 NW 12th Ave. González also provides free monthly gemstone therapy teleseminars. On July 24-27, she presents the workshop "Physical Healing and Empowering the Masculine and Feminine with Therapeutic Gems."Visitwww.gemisphere.com.

Gems for Pets

Therapeutic gemstone necklaces are highly suitable for animals too. Like people, our pets face a variety of stresses that can be aided with gem therapy. Some wonderful choices are carnelian for immune support, rhodonite for a fearful pet, aventurine for physical healing and onyx for separation anxiety.

- Dr. Ada González