Powers: Peace, spirituality, luck, protection, anti-nightmare, love

Lepidolite is a stone of serenity, and this trait extends in many directions. It encourages one to respond to hostility without putting up defences, to find the path of harmonious action and to see problems as opportunities to learn. It enhances physical grace and can be of great help to self-conscious dancers. It lends effortless eloquence to one's speech and teaches one to listen to others with compassionate, patient attention. It encourages the eyes to see beauty, even in tarnished surroundings.

Lepidolite is most effective in calming frayed nerves, helping one to release stress and worry, and setting one on the path of willing acceptance. It is at its best when life is at its most challenging—when one is faced with angry people, financial woes, loss of job or relationship, or the need to make major changes in a short time span. Lepidolite not only brings calm to stormy emotional seas, it also provides an energy of enlightened awareness, so one can handle the situation in the highest way, preserving one's integrity and well-being. If one is depressed, it allows for the willing descent into the grief beneath the depression, and the understanding that most of the suffering was not in the grief, but in one's resistance to feeling it. It can dispel negative thoughts and remove negative emotional attachments such as resentment and envy. It dissipates negativity. It activates and opens the throat, heart, third eye*, and crown chakras*, clearing blockages and bringing cosmic awareness. This stone aids in shamanic or spiritual journeying and accesses the Akashic Record*. It tunes you in to thoughts and feelings from other lives that are creating a blockage in your life now. It can take you forward into the future.

Lepidolite offers support to those with depressive tendencies or who experience extreme worry. It can help slow down one's thoughts, assisting one to live in the moment. It halts obsessive thoughts, relieves despondency, and overcomes insomnia. Lepidolite enhances standing in your own space, free from the influences of others. It is very useful for hyperactivity and attention deficit. It is excellent for children, particularly those with sensitive emotional natures. Lepidolite can be helpful in preventing nightmares and in releasing fear of the unknown or one's concerns about the future. It is a calming stone that soothes sleep disturbances and emotional stress, bringing deep emotional healing. Lepidolite is a high-lithium stone and is very useful in balancing one's emotional body and calming the mind, and is helpful in stabilizing mood swings and bipolar disorders. It is excellent for overcoming any kind of emotional or mental dependency, supportive in releasing from addictions and complaints of all kinds, including anorexia. Lepidolite assists one in finding a strong emotional center, unaffected by the dramas and events of one's external experience. It helps balance the emotions and prevents extreme emotional shifts. It activates the heart chakra, releasing an expansive, loving energy through the auric field. Lepidolite is deeply relaxing and is one of the most powerful stones for countering stress, worry, fear, grief and other traumatic emotional frequency. As a "stone of transition," it releases and reorganizes old psychological and behavioural patterns, inducing change. Lepidolite encourages independence and achieving goals without outside help.

HEALING: Lepidolite locates the site of dis-ease*. Placed on the body over an area of dis-ease, it vibrates gently. Lepidolite relieves allergies, strengthens the immune system, restructures DNA, and enhances the generation of negative ions. It relieves exhaustion, epilepsy, and Alzheimer’s. It numbs sciatica and neuralgia, and overcomes joint problems. It is a detoxifier for the skin and connective tissue. Lepidolite is excellent for the menopause, especially as a gem elixir. It treats illnesses caused by "sick-building syndrome" or computer stress.

POSITION: Place or wear as appropriate. Place under pillow for relief from sleep disturbances. One can take a Lepidolite bath,' placing one or more stones in a warm tub, lighting a candle and allowing the soft energies of the stone to permeate one's energy field. This is one of the most effective ways to receive Lepidolite's calming influence. Lepidolite clears electromagnetic pollution and should be placed on computers to absorb their emanations.