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      Pink, green, blue, and black tourmaline

      Benefits of Tourmaline in Your Everyday Life

      Posted by Tiffany Winn ·

      Tourmaline is a gemstone associated with protection, grounding, health, happiness, and positivity. It is available in various colors like green, pink, blue, yellow, white, orange, red, purple, black, and brown, and its clarity is nearly as good as diamonds. Black Tourmaline is considered the most powerful healing crystal by many and is regarded as one of the only gemstones that protects and heals on all levels.

      Gemstone Tourmaline Jewelry 

      Black tourmaline healing stones

      Tourmaline is a hard gemstone available in various colors, with the most common color being black, also known as Schorl. This black color contains the most iron, accounting for both the color and the gemstone’s reputation as the best all-around protective energy magnet. Many people keep a piece with them all the time, in their pocket or purse. 

      Origin of Tourmaline

      Dutch traders first discovered tourmaline off Italy's West Coast in the late 1600s. The name tourmaline is derived from the Singhalese term “turmoil,” which means “stone of mixed color.” Initially, green tourmaline gemstones were mistaken to be emeralds, and pink and red tourmaline gemstones were supposed to be rubies. Pink tourmaline is the birthstone for October.

      Tourmaline is found in many places around the globe. Mindat.org lists more than 8600 locations, including the following:

      • Brazil
      • Africa
      • Pakistan
      • Sri Lanka
      • Afghanistan
      • North America
      • Australia
      • Italy
      • Switzerland

      Tourmaline as a Healing Crystal

      Colorful tourmaline gemstones

      Known for its beauty and healing properties, tourmaline is a popular gemstone with several healing crystal characteristics.

      Common Healing Properties of Tourmaline:

      • Protects you against electromagnetic pollution
      • Protects you against negative energy.
      • Enhances grounding.
      • Increases your physical energy.
      • Reduces negativity and negative thoughts.
      • Enhances positive thinking and creativity.
      • Reduces geopathic stress.
      • Strengthens your immune system.
      • Aids in decreasing arthritis pain.
      • Relieves anxiety by keeping you mindful of the present moment.

      Tourmaline releases the tension you may carry in your body, which makes it helpful in chiropractic spinal adjustments as it works to balance yin and yang. As a healing crystal, tourmaline enhances energy flow, making it a gemstone for removing blockages. Many hold tourmaline healing crystals over the body's chakras to clear the aura, remove blockages, break up negative energy, and point to specific problems that one may be carrying.

      As a healing crystal, tourmaline helps you understand yourself and others, promotes self-confidence, and lessens fear. It attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. As a powerful mental healer, tourmaline balances the right and left hemispheres of the brain and changes negative energy into positive. It has also been known to treat paranoia and dyslexia and improve coordination.

      ​​Tourmaline cleanses, purifies, and transforms dense, slow-moving energy into lighter vibrational energy. It grounds spiritual life to the physical plane. This gemstone clears and balances all the chakras and forms a protective shield around your body.

      Black Tourmaline Healing Crystal

      Piece of Black Tourmaline healing crystal

      As you use black tourmaline, the healing crystal helps draw out negative emotions and dark thoughts that may prevent you from savoring the joys of life. The tourmaline gemstone is valuable when you find yourself reacting uncontrollably. It helps you uncover deeper hidden reasons for adverse actions or reactions you may have towards others.

      The healing crystal abilities of black tourmaline can help you identify the source of your emotional problems and work to help you heal from any trauma you may be experiencing. If you’ve experienced obsessive or compulsive behaviors, black tourmaline can help you release those behaviors and emotions. If you’ve ever felt scattered and off-center, black tourmaline’s healing crystals are known to bring balance and allow you to remain focused on the task and help you achieve your goals. This gemstone is known to protect you from jealous tendencies.

      ​Using tourmaline in your everyday life will ground your spiritual practice. You’ll want to keep the healing crystal nearby while doing readings and spiritual healings. This gemstone provides important mindfulness, awareness, and peripheral vision in spiritual practice.

      Ways to Use Tourmaline in Your Life

      Many people like to keep black tourmaline in their office, workplace, and areas with electronic equipment. The gemstone is known to protect against electromagnetic frequencies electronic devices such as computers and cell phones. This gemstone helps draw out toxins from your body. Just as it helps to clear away spiritual, mental, and emotional angst, this gemstone enables you to become conscious of what needs to be cleared to have a healthy body. 

      There are many ways to use tourmaline gemstones in your everyday life to see the best of the spiritual benefits it offers. The easiest way to incorporate tourmaline is to wear it as a piece of jewelry. Tourmaline is a beautiful, high-quality gemstone that can be made into rings, pendants, or necklaces and work to heal you throughout the day. Tourmaline is a versatile gemstone, often found in different colors and set in a variety of materials. Many celebrities, such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Emily Blunt, and Scarlett Johansson, have been spotted wearing tourmaline pieces on the red carpet. 

      You may want several tourmaline jewelry pieces in your collection, as the color of the gemstones and chakras influences our physical and mental well-being. Seven total chakras run from the base of the spine to the head's crown, each attached to a specific meaning and associated with a particular color. The colors follow the same pattern as a rainbow.

      Tourmaline as Home Decor

      Healing crystals displayed on a table

      If you’re not big on wearing a tourmaline gemstone jewelry piece but are still looking for the protection the healing stone represents, you could carry tourmaline healing crystals in your handbag or pocket. As long as the healing crystal can always be touched and bring reassurance, it will continue to influence your spiritual well-being.

      Decorating your home with tourmaline would also be a lovely way to surround yourself with healing crystals. The crystal's vivid colors make the perfect accent to any room in your home. You could add the crystals to a mantel above the fireplace, a bookcase in your office, a coffee table in your living room, or a nightstand in the bedroom. 

      Tourmaline is known as a powerful gemstone that promotes love and positivity. Whether you’re wearing tourmaline for its metaphysical healing properties or simply for its beauty, it is truly one of Earth’s most precious creations.