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Gemstones have a long tradition of being used for healing.  Placed on or around the body, the color, shape and composition of the stones are thought to create a resonance that encourages healing to take place. 

Below are some gemstones used in Jill's Necklaces, earrings and bracelets.

• Apatite is a stone that mystically can stimulate the thoughts and ideas. It is said to increase intellect, imagination, and intuitive awareness. As a meditation or awareness tool It is said to help you maintain focus, learn, concentrate effectively, think clearly, and communicate better. Apatite can be used to enhance the energies of other crystals and stones. Having apatite near you can bring harmony on all levels, and brings inner peace. Apatite is reputed in mystical lore to physically apatite assist with nail problems, allergies, arthritis, bones, muscles, nervous system. Apatite is primarily related to the throat chakra.
  
• Amethyst a violet form of quartz has always been prized as a beautiful gemstone and master healer.  Amethyst is calming and stabilizing to all areas, particularly the mind.  It can be a useful stone to reduce restlessness, irritation and worry. 
• Aquamarine is excellent for energizing the immune system  and is useful in the recovery from debilitating illnesses, where it provides an energy boost, helping the body to get rid of the underlying causes of disease.  Aquamarine can be stimulating and purifying.
• Aventurine’s strongest mental healing characteristic is its ability to ground an individual emotionally, thus allowing for thought that is free of fear, troubled emotions, indecisiveness, and anxiety. This clarity of mind and self confidence that result from wearing this powerful stone energize, inspire, motivate and enhance one’s ability to relate to others on an emotional level. It is a stone for leaders, for protectors and counselors; wear it when making critical decisions, when anxious or when feeling overwhelmed by life’s problems and it will amplify your ability to focus and find creative solutions. 
• Blue lace agate is one of the most striking varieties of quartz.  The stone encourages the flow of energy and has a natural affinity with the throat chakra, our means of communication and expression.  A feeling of pressure is often felt at the throat when emotional stress is being released.  A piece of blue lace agate placed at the base of the throat will quickly ease and release the energy.
• Blue topaz brings leadership ability to anyone who wears or carries it. It also enhances and improves psychic knowledge, spiritual growth, and psychic insight. It also lends and air of tranquility in those endeavors.
• Carnelian is an agate class of chalcedony that is a stone of creativity, individuality and courage. Like all agates, it has protection energies. It can aid memory, including recall of past lives. It can assist one in finding the right mate. It is also a stone of protection in general and from anger, jealousy and fear. In addition it can help with manifestation of one's desires, and brings good luck. Carnelian can help ease or remove sorrows. It also helps stabilize energies in the home. It is sometimes called the "actor's stone". Carnelian is associated with the root and sacral chakras. Physically, carnelian has been used to heal open sores, rejuvenate tissues and cells, rheumatism, kidney stones and other kidney problems, gall stones, colds, pollen allergies, and neuralgia.
• Chalcedony is worn by many to promote calm and peace. Chalcedony also stimulates creativity.
• Citrine quartz is invaluable as a healing stone.  Citrine is gently warming, soothing and integrating.  Working in harmony with the solar plexus chakra, it is effective at increasing self-confidence and the achievement of personal goals.  This crystal soothes away areas of irritation and friction, creating more optimism and relaxation through the body, emotions and mind.  Thought processes especially are helped with citrine - the grounding qualities prevent the build-up of anxieties.  Citrine has a calming effect on the nervous system, bringing clearer thought and improved memory.
• Coral primarily acts as a balance for the emotions - its watery origins suggest this function- and it will work well for the maintenance of energy levels, enthusiasm and practicality.
• Garnet is the finest energizing stone for the body.  Especially when cut, it can amplify and energize the properties of other stones.  Cut faceted stones of most crystals increase the liveliness of the stones and can act like a lens, focusing light with more intensity.  Garnet can act as a 'starter motor' for the body's repair mechanisms.
• Gaspeite is thought to reduce stress and help with heart, gallbladder and lung problems. Metaphysically, it is thought to bring spirituality into everyday life.
• Iolite is one of the best stones to use in psychic, healing, and spiritual activities. It can open one to psychic talents and expand them.
• Jade increases the sense of belonging.  Jade can help to create the fine balance that we need in order to live harmoniously with the world without suppressing our own desires. 
• Jasper is a stone of gentleness and relaxation. It enhances one's ability to relax and brings tranquility, comforting, wholeness, healing, and gentle endings. It is sometimes called the nurturing stone for its nurturing and protective energies.
• Kyanite is useful for bridging the gap between the spiritual and the physical.  Kyanite can be used in meditation, for manifesting, to reach the higher vibrations of the subtle bodies and to assist with attuning to the spirit guides. Chakra: Throat
• Labradorite (also called Spectrolite sometimes) is a considered by mystics to be a stone of transformation. It is said to clear, balance and protect the aura. It is purported to help provide clarity and insight into your destiny, as well as attract success. It is used in metaphysics for dream recall, and finding ways to use dreams in daily life. Mystically, energies of stress and anxiety are reduced by labradorite. Labradorite is said to increase intuition, psychic development, esoteric wisdom, help with subconscious issues, and provide mental illumination. Labradorite is associated with the solar plexus and brow chakras.
• Lapis Lazuli - for many people all over the world Lapis lazuli is considered a stone of universal truth and friendship.  The blue stone is reputed to bring about harmony in relationships and to help its wearer being an authentic individual who may openly state his or her opinion.  Lapis Lazuli is a powerful stone for those who seek spiritual development. It brings mental clarity & emotional healing, and enhances judgment and wisdom.  This stone is also considered strengthening to mind and body. Lapis lazuli allows us to tap our own inner power while purifying the soul and the thoughts. Helps us contact our spirit guardians.
• Onyx is associated primarily with the root chakra. It assists with challenges in life, especially those caused by a drain of energy. It prevents the draining away of personal energy and can be used for protection from such. It also helps with grounding and controlling or eliminating excess or unwanted energies.
• Peridot is associated with the heart chakra, and can be used to balance and stimulate that chakra. It is a stone of compassion. It has a friendly energy and is excellent for healing. It assists in rebirth and renewal of all kinds. Peridot also bring abundance and prosperity. It enhances the healing and harmony of relationships of all kinds, but particularly marriage. Peridot can lessen stress in relationships, anger and jealousy, slow aging, and heal ulcers and digestive problems. It also assists in finding what is lost, and strengthens ESP abilities. It has been said to make a shield of protection around the body of any wearer of peridot.
• Picture jasper helps create harmony, proportion, creative visualization, positive things in business pursuits. It brings and shows hidden messages from the past as well as hidden thoughts, fears, and hopes. These qualities make it useful as an emotional/psychological healing stone.
• Prehnite is a calm-producing stone for dreaming and remembering dreams. Spiritually provides a sense of knowing, insight and reliable predictions.
• Quartz placed anywhere within the aura will help to bring balance. 
• Red coral primarily acts as a balance for the emotions and it will work well for the maintenance of energy levels, enthusiasm and practicality.
• Red jasper is called a stone of fairness and justice because mystical lore claims that it decreases unjustness and helps in unfair situations. It is also said to enhance responsibility, choice, and compassion.
• Rhodonite- the deep pink to magenta colors reflect the practical, down-to-earth vibration of caring for oneself, having confidence and a sense of self-worth while remaining aware of the needs of others.  The black or brown veins and patterns anchor rhodonite's energy into the solidity of the base chakra and through that to the earth itself.  Because of its combination of colors, rhodonite works well at the base and sacral chakras.  Rhodonite will restore a sense of equilibrium without stifling the release processes that are underway.  Rhodonite can help to remove doubts about self-worth that prevent us from striving to achieve desired goals in life. 
• Rhodocrosite:  In situations where there may be fear for one's safety, whether it is real or imagined, wearing a deep pink stone will help to reduce any anxiety or tension that themselves may create inappropriate reactions to those around you.  Breathing through the stone, visualizing pink light around you, and allowing tensions to drain through the soles of the feet all help to achieve equanimity.  If there is any doubt about which crystal will resolve an imbalance, consider using a pink stone of some kind.  This will always allow deep healing to take place.  Pink stones not only help to clear emotional stress, they can also be powerfully protective, expressing as they do the energy of unconditional love, perhaps more accurately called compassion.  This quality of non-judgmental, unequivocal understanding and acceptance is a result of deep experience of the underlying unity of life.  When this unity is felt there can be no fear, and without fear, aggression melts away.
• Rose quartz can act like a safety valve, allowing a sudden release of emotional pressure.  Emotional stress can become locked in any part of the body, and where it settles tension develops, restricting the flow of energy.  Rose quartz is also felt to encourage love and harmony.
• Ruby brings integrity, devotion and happiness. It also enhances generosity and brings prosperity. Ruby brings and increases romantic love. Ruby is a stone that has been known to be very protective of home, worldly possession, children, and psychic protection. It is a stone of high energy and power that promotes healing on all levels. Ruby is associated with the root chakra.
• Serpentine, which is also called New Jade, is a beneficial and versatile stone. It is said by mystics to help with emotional cleansing, psychic powers, and attract love and money.
• Smoky quartz carries the same basic energy as clear quartz but absorbs and stores it rather than radiating it.  This gives the crystal a quieting and calming quality that makes it a help in focusing energy internally.  The absorbing quality of smoky quartz makes it an excellent stone for meditation as it stabilizes the body and mind.
• Turquoise is among the most-used light blue stones, which work with the throat chakra.  Turquoise is one of the most universal and oldest of gemstone amulets worn for protection.  The color of turquoise has a strengthening and supporting effect on the thymus gland, which is located just below the throat where the collarbones meet.  This gland is one of the main organs of the immune system.  In complementary medicine, it is of vital importance to the levels of life-energy available in the body.  Turquoise encourages the functions of this gland and so increases available energy, protecting the body from negativity.