Crystal Chakra Essences 　 Amethyst A quiet mind, peace and comfort Amethyst is known as the peace stone. It works on the upper chakras to quieten the mind and enhance meditation, inspiration and imagination. It also helps us to cut through illusion and to trust our intuitions. Amethyst essence additionally brings peace and comfort. It repels negative energy and, therefore, makes a useful spray to use on the aura or environment.   Bloodstone Relationships and growth Bloodstone essence is particularly useful when emotions, relationships, personal growth or personal space need balancing in our lives. Bloodstone helps to overcome any distress relating to any of these issues. It helps us revitalise love, relationships and friendships. It additionally helps us to develop relationships which will enhance our lives, and encourages us to release those that are preventing us from moving on.   Blue Lace Agate Clear thinking and communicating Blue Lace Agate opens the throat chakra and neutralises any 'red' energies caused by anger or resentment. This helps us verbalise and release our thoughts and feelings rather than covering them up.  Furthermore, it will help us do this with clarity and diplomacy. Blue Lace Agate also works through the upper chakras on our thoughts.  Where these are jumbled or confused it helps us "think straight" about what is happening around us and to make better decisions.  Where the mind is troubled, it will lighten our darkness and bring inner peace.   Carnelian Journey's end A useful essence to help us face our immortality and the inevitability of natural life cycles.  For those who fear death, Carnelian provides protection, acceptance and support to ease the final stages of our journey.  For the family of a loved one approaching death, Carnelian helps us cope by bringing stability and anchoring us in the present.  It will protect against anger and resentment in ourselves and others.  It additionally provides help and guidance to move us from our inevitable sense of loss and heartbreak to joy for the life we have shared and the riches it has brought us. Citrine Cleansing and regenerating A wonderful cleansing essence that can clear, ground, disperse or transform negative energies.  Use it to clear and balance an overloaded mind or body.  Emotionally it will help remove negative or destructive tendencies and promote a positive attitude, increasing self esteem and self confidence.  The essence also helps us release regrets about the past whilst encouraging optimism about the future.   Clear Quartz Finding authenticity, balance and direction This is a useful essence for when we are feeling torn apart, out of balance, disorientated, lacking direction, disconnected or simply not knowing who we are.  It resonates with all the chakras above the crown that link us to the Universe.  In containing the four elements of creation, it also aids the development and integration of our whole being.  These qualities assist Clear Quartz in enhancing and clarifying the subtle systems of the body bringing about a state of harmony and oneness with oneself and the Universe. Emerald Recovery Emerald not only helps us to recover from misfortunes and mishaps but helps us learn from our experiences.  In this way we can emerge stronger and be from the events that befall us.  Use for short or long-term shocks, traumas, incidents, accidents, periods of bad luck or imbalance.   Fire Opal Vitality and drive A wonderful essence for re-balancing our energies and lighting our inner fire.  Opal is also useful for restoring a love of life, confidence, sense of fun, warmth towards others and self motivation.  Fire Opal also sharpens self-perceptions and helps us to let go of the old and adopt the new with positive self-belief and vitality. Garnet Unconscious sabotage Sometimes our behaviour is self defeating.  Indications for this essence include frustration at not being able to achieve what we wish in life or disappointment in ourselves, whether it is our appearance, work, love life or relationships.  Garnet helps us accept responsibility for our life and our responses to it and exposes the areas of progress that, deep down, we are sabotaging.  Once revealed, Garnet gives us strength, courage and enlightenment to either remain happily as we are, or to make the necessary changes for progress.   Haematite Energy synchroniser Haematite essence strenghens our base chakra whilst helping our energetic body synchronise positively with the energies and rhythms of our immediate surroundings. Thus we can settle and function in new environments and adjust to changing weather, sights sounds, mealtimes, light intensity, altitude, etc.  Additionally, 'natural owls' and 'larks' synchronise their energy levels more easily to available daylight.  Finally, if used with the higher chakras, Haematite has been known to facilitate the skills of astral projectiobn and time travel.   Jade Guardian angel This essence helps us to strengthen our connections with our Guardian Angel so that we can feel more protected and less vulnerable.　 From this safe position it is easier to recognise, and thus take advantage of, all the good fortunes and opportunities that are constantly being brought our way. Jade will also provide help and guidance through vivid dreams.  This makes it particularly useful for those learning to control their dreams for positive life-changing or enhancing purposes.  But help and practice may be required to use or interpret these guiding messages, and so keeping a dream diary is adivsed so that expert opinion may be sort. Lapis Lazuli Peace and connection Linking to the base, solar plexus and brow chakras, Lapis Lazuli provides a deep sense of peace and connection, encouraging hope and optimism.  The essence also stimulates the high faculties of the mind such as intuition, perception and understanding.  These qualities promote a soothing release of old memory patterns so that we can forgive and move on. Orange Calcite Worry, shock and trauma Orange Calcite helps dissolve blockages caused by worry, shock or trauma.  This not only brings cheer and comfort, but allows our natural, creative powers of expression to flow so that we can reach full potential. Orange Calcite is also useful when shock or trauma is leading to lethargy and inability to do even normal, everyday things.  The essence additionally brings help when worry is causing creative block, inability to perform, feelings of being 'stuck' or 'unable to produce the goods', etc.   Peridot Heart aches and hurt feelings Peridot acts as a powerful healer of hurt feelings.  It is implicated wherever sadness or hurt has been caused by another's actions or words.  Peridot is also the healer of broken hearts, whether the cause is disappointment of not achieving what the heart has been set upon or where lack or loss of love has left emotionl pain or damage.  The essence additionally promotes inner vision, providing clearer view of opportunities and potential for those resisting following their hearts.  Working with the higher chakras, Peridot also helps with the development of occult powers. Rainbow Fluorite Balancing A useful essence for balancing all the chakras and meridians.  As a spray it will additionally cleanse the aura and encourage the integration of beneficial subtle energies into it.  Rainbow Fluorite is also effective in clearing unwanted environmental energies   .     Rose Quartz Emotions and over sensitivity Linking the base and heart chakras this essence calms and reassures.  It is helpful at times when we are in a highly emotional or sensitive state.  Rose Quartz also heals the suffering caused by emotional trauma or neglect.  It promotes forgiveness and love, thus hastening the recovery and gladdening of the heart.  It additionally helps us release those unexpressed emotions that are causing dis-ease or thwarting personal growth.   Silver and Iron Pyrites Balancing wants and needs Sometimes, we think we know exactly what we want, yet our dreams seem blocked at all levels.  Over time, hopes become disappointments, actions simply lead to exhaustion and optimism turns to anxiety and negativity.  We no longer feel confident and in control.　 Indeed, the future seems too uncertain, even frightening, and we begin to lose faith and confidence in ourselves.  The two elements in this combination work closely together.  Silver activates links between the throat and brow chakras so that our conscious and unconscious needs are connected and more clearly vocalised.  Iron Pyrites now strengthens the astral body and balances logic and emotion.  Suppressed concerns about change are brought to the fore for us to examine and we begin to see where we may be sabotaging our own progress and why.  We begin to express more clearly our real hopes and desires for the future.  Finally, the combination reinstates our trust and confidence so that we become more open to guidance towards our needs rather than wants. Smokey Quartz Grounding A useful essence for grounding, cleansing, balancing and protecting the aura.  By opening the third chakra, Smokey Quartz helps replace negative states such as  'fright, fight and flight' symptoms with inner peace.   Tanzanite Care for carers Tanzanite is one of the most balancing crystals and is thought to have been used by the Lemurians for personal advancement.  This essence provides TLC for hardworking, busy people.  Therapists, practitioners and others in the caring professions should take it regularly.     Tourmaline Frustration, disappointment, dread For times when we cannot have what we want in life.  It is very frustrating and disappointing when we have clear goals in our mind and yet circumstances constantly thwart or sabotage their actualisation.  Tourmaline helps in several ways.  It, first, works at a physical level, integrating and balancing and replacing our sense of frustration and disappointment with patience and acceptance.  It then links our physical to our spiritual being, so that our trust is renewed and our disappointment replaced with a conviction that we are being guided to what we really need on our journey to a better and happier future. Tourmaline is additionally helpful at times when we are highly suggestible, regressing in our behaviour or developing fixations or fantasies.  Here the protective, grounding and supporting qualities of the crystal shine through.  Tourmaline quietens alarm signals and helps us both clearly see and face up to the real-life challenges that we are trying to avoid.  It does this by providing the strength and courage we need to live more securely and contentedly in the real world and to return to our intended path in trust and hope.