7 Most Powerful Crystals for the Heart Chakra

The heart chakra is the blessed place where love can awaken and blossom. An unbalanced heart chakra can affect emotional life. When it is unbalanced, you start to feel alienated from the world around you, the people you love.

If the energy is low in the heart chakra, you feel lonely and depressed. With an energized and balanced heart chakra you:

• manifest compassion, forgiveness, and empathy
• feel and manifest unconditional love
• radiate the energy of pure love
• feel self-love, love for others, love for everything that surrounds you
• begin to open to the universal energies of love
• your relationships strengthen and you begin to feel aligned with yourself

Meditating with heart chakra crystals, carrying and wearing them opens and balances the heart chakra.

1. Rose Quartz: Peace & Self Love

With a balanced heart chakra, you'll find peace and compassion during difficult times. Rose Quartz is one of the best crystals you can have to help in healing emotional traumas.

Rose Quartz with its soothing energy is ideal to work with when we go through hard times: divorce, break-up, or grief. The light pink stone carries the energies of compassion, nourishment, tenderness, peace, and pure, unconditional love. How to use your Rose Quartz:

• Wear Rose Quartz jewelry to enjoy its gentle energy all day long
• Place Rose Quartz palm stones on the heart chakra area during healing sessions
• Hold Rose Quartz palm stones in your hands during meditation and relaxation
• Create a Rose Quartz crystal grid to attract loving relationships

2. Rhodochrosite: Fear & Trauma

When your heart chakra is harmonious you can manifest compassion and self-love. Rhodochrosite helps emotional healing, raises self-esteem and a sense of self-love. Rhodochrosite is a powerful emotional release crystal. It awakens control over emotions.

Rhodochrosite is known as the "Stone of the Compassionate Heart" or "The Inner Child Stone". It can focus the energies of love toward the self for emotional healing. Its nurturing energy brings forgiveness, compassion, peace, and renewal.

When to use Rhodochrosite:

• It is a valuable stone for those who want to heal old emotional wounds
• Aids in healing childhood or past lives traumas
• Helps those who feel unloved or abandoned
• Valuable in healing sexual abuse

3. Aventurine: Luck & Abundance

Aventurine shifts your focus from your mind to your heart and helps you to live life to the fullest. The abundant positive energy of the Aventurine is complementary to the energy of other healing gemstones. It also brings protective energies that encourage you to grow and blossom.

Aventurine can also help us to let go of unhealthy relationships without anger and resentment.

How to use Aventurine to energize your heart chakra:

• Use it alongside Amazonite in charm bags to attract luck and abundance
• Hold an Aventurine palm stone in your hand when you feel overwhelmed with negative emotions
• Place Aventurine palm stones on your heart chakra while relaxing or during healing sessions

4. Jade: Abundance & Balance

Cleanse and balance your heart chakra to attract love into your life. Jade attracts more love energy into your life and helps in healing the matters of the heart. Thanks to its prosperity and abundance bringing energy, this heart chakra stimulator is known as the ultimate lucky gemstone.

Jade also has protective properties and helps to release tensions. Mayans, Aztecs, Maoris, and Chinese believed in Jade's powerful healing properties. It is highly valued in China, there is a saying that says, "Gold is valuable, but Jade is priceless."

How to use Jade:

• Display Jade sculptures in your home
• Place Jade palm stones on your heart chakra
• Wear Jade jewelry to attract love in your life
• Carry tumbled Jade in your pocket

5. Prehnite: Peace & Protection

Connect the Third Eye with the heart chakra, to gain control over your emotions and bring compassion into the spiritual transformation process.

Prehnite is considered a stone of unconditional love. Energy healers highly value this stone, it is known to help in connecting with Archangel Raphael. Prehnite connects the heart with the willpower to awaken and strengthen self-discipline.

How to use Prehnite:

• Display it in your home, it not only brings protection, but it's also a beautiful home decor element
• Hold Prehnite palm stones in your palm, and ask the angels to help you balance your heart chakra
• Place Prehnite hearts on your heart chakra area when you relax
• Hold tumbled Prehnite during meditation to balance your heart chakra

6. Amazonite: Harmony & Adventure

Amazonite stimulates your Heart Chakra and awakens compassion. The revitalizing energy of Amazonite will help you bring harmony to your relationships.

Amazonite helps to get tuned to the sense of adventure. It connects the heart chakra with the throat chakra. Amazonite also known as the "Stone of Courage" can help us deal with loneliness. Its calming energy brings harmony to relationships.

When to use it:

• Wear Amazonite jewelry while working to attract success and new business opportunities
• Display Amazonite in your home or office to benefit from its energy
• Place Amazonite palm stones on the heart chakra when you relax

7. Malachite: Love & Protection

Malachite is another powerful heart chakra stone. It helps to balance and clear the heart chakra. It also helps to relieve any stress from your heart and to heal yourself through acceptance and forgiveness, the first two steps to letting go and moving on.

This beautiful stone with such an intense green color is associated with Venus and it's said that it can attract love and loving relationships.

How to use it:

• It was often worn as a protective amulet, the stone has a long history of having protective properties
• Malachite jewelry can complement even the most elegant outfits
• Display tumbled malachite in a bowl in your home or office, it's one of the most beautiful gemstones

+1 Crystal for Emotional Healing - Uruguay Amethyst

When it comes to crystals for matters of the heart, we also recommend the Uruguay Amethyst Heart Geodes that fascinate us with their stunning appearance. Uruguay Amethyst it's one of the highest grade and most sought-after Amethyst.

Its striking deep purple hue and high level of durability make the Uruguay Amethyst the finest Amethyst. Uruguay Amethyst comes with soothing energy that helps to heal emotional wounds. We also recommend for everyday use our collection of small or middle-sized Uruguay Rainbow Amethyst hearts. You can carry them with you to benefit from their energy throughout your day.

Some of our Uruguay Amethyst hearts:

• Small Uruguay Rainbow Amethyst hearts
• Middle-sized Uruguay Amethyst hearts

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