If you entreat crystal healing into your everyday life, to help prevent the travesty of addiction to continue haunting your life, jeopardizing your happiness, health, and the ability to achieve your full potential, using crystal healing to address your psychological concerns and everyday struggles will help you stay on the road to recovery- allowing growth spiritually, emotionally, and psychologically. In traditional means of rehabilitation, clinical workers focus on what the causes of addiction are, and root them out through means of therapy. Healing stones for depression, anxiety, anger, stress, clarity of mind, and communication combat the resulting turmoil.
Crystals cannot cure depression, but they allow us to assume the correct state of being to actively confront depression from its source; they help us to be open when we would otherwise continue to shun ourselves into submissive silence. Healing crystals can help us feel comfortable enough to confront our inner demons and ready ourselves emotionally to address the underlying causes of our downward spiral.
Amazonite:
Uses: Writing, happiness, lightness if mind
Helps us to remember we are the masters of our own fate, and allows us to take up the role again; this bubbly stone prompts feelings of joviality, encouraging excitability to explore passions and hobbies forgotten when worked with. (It is also a great writing aid!)
Citrine:
Uses: Joviality, energy, sparks new ideas
Guards against outward conflicts affecting us inwardly. Protects us from the energies around us, and reminds us to take responsibility for the energy we project into our environment. Citrine acts as a source of vitality, and can help mobilize our minds and bodies when we have slumped into the drudgery of staying in bed for far too long.
Dumortierite:
Uses: Discovery, communication, identifying underlying problems
An excellent stone to keep at hand for therapeutic purposes, dumortierite allows us to openly communicate our feelings of depression, and hone in on the source of our anguish. If you struggle to open up to those close to you- or your therapists, who you actively seek to resolve inner feelings of conflict- this healing crystal can help open your mind and heart to see the truth of internal conflict. Selecting a blue specimen will aid in communication further, as this resonates with our throat chakra, which may be blocked, and causing further imbalance in our willingness, or ability, to communicate.
There are times I have personally wanted to speak about my feelings openly, but for whatever reason, was unable to muster up the ability to do so. If you find yourself in this situation regularly, as I often did, placing this crystal pendant to rest on your throat (the location of your fifth chakra) can help immensely.
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Opal:
Uses: Happiness, wholeness, motivation, gentle calm, introspection
Reigning in the joy once bourgeoning, and reminding us life is brimmed with delight, opal compels us to take care of ourselves, and to find the verve in living again. This crystal is particularly useful when you cannot motivate yourself to do anything physically or mentally stimulating. If there is a particular objective you want to complete, but cannot seem to muster the strength to accomplish, opal should be one of the immediate crystals in your arsenal of change and transformation.
Rutile Quartz:
Uses: Grounding, clarity, openness of mind
Reminds us we are not alone, and that we certainly do not have all the answers. This crystal opens up new possibilities of recovery by allowing us to experiment with other methods of recovery. We can become closed off to alternative avenues and traditional means of healing, because we believe we have "already tried it" or some tactics "just do not work." Rutile Quartz assists in lifting the box we can sometimes place ourselves in inadvertently.
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Gold (Yellow) Topaz:
Uses: Happiness, self-love, eliminates doubt
Assists with all sources of depression, and serves as the font of sunshine we need to continue forth in the journey of recovery- often fraught with self-doubt, indecision, and crippling depression. Topaz allows us to reclaim control of our emotions and feelings, forcing us to set the stage of our lives on our own terms. This is a stone of manifestation, and will assist you in completing your goals and objectives you set out for yourself.
Rhodonite:
Uses: Overcome grief, inner love, healing, emotional intelligence
Untreated substance use disorders and relapse arenotorious for causing overdoses, and fomenting thousands of deaths. Many havelost friends and loved ones to the travesty of overdose; this state of panic,loss, and absolute heartbreak stays with us, and may lock us in thenever-ending cycle of addiction. Despite logically knowing addiction andsubstance use was the source of our initial heartbreak, sometimes we are unableto forge beyond our immediate cravings. Rhodonite is used to heal minorphysical wounds, but is also an excellent enabler of allowing us to accept thedeath of loved ones and overcome our grief.
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Sugilite:
Uses: Inward understanding, spirituality, wholeness, confrontation of fears, self-awareness
Helping us delve deep into discovering the forces manifesting our anxieties and fears, Sugilite is a keystone crystal to combat the inkling forcing us into submission. With the help of this crystal, we are prompted to actively confront the source of fear (which may stem from irrational, or deep rooted traumas) and begin working towards accepting the past and moving on to the future. Illumination stumbled upon with the help of Sugilite will catapult you forward in recovery, and assist in discovery of new planes of indwelling awareness.
