Powers: Protection, healing, overcomes depression and negitive emotions, psychism, power, lactation

A strong, steady, and powerful stone, smoky quartz increases the powers of perception, confidence, and stamina. Offering greater insight into your own stores of unconscious wisdom, it is able to dispel negativity in even the most extreme circumstances. Because this crystal promotes stability and practicality, it can be of great aid in helping you stay on a particular path and avoid the pitfalls of making decisions based on purely emotional concerns. It offers strong grounding energies for those who are experiencing a sense of weakness, confusion, or bewilderment, and has a way of playing up your strengths while playing down your shortcomings.

Smoky quartz is an anchor stone for its ability to moderate mood swings, worry, and exhaustion. It alleviates unwarranted fears and can be of great aid for people who are suffering from insomnia. As a strong balancer of emotions and supporter of physical wellness, it works to help you better care for yourself, especially when others seem unavailable for help or comfort. For that reason alone, it is especially useful for people who are grieving a loss or otherwise coping with life's big events, such as births, deaths, moving, and marriage. Encouraging a higher sense of compassion, it enhances the spiritual aspect of any emotional upheaval without the need for martyrdom or needless self-sacrifice. Even in times of considerable stress, smoky quartz is wonderfully comforting and calming, enabling you to get through the toughest times and offering great clarity when "the smoke clears."

PROPERTIES: Smoky quartz is one of the most efficient grounding and anchoring stones and at the same time raises vibrations during meditation.This protective stone has a strong link with the earth and the base chakras*. This stone is a superb antidote to stress. It assists in tolerating difficult times with equanimity, fortifying resolve.

Grounding spiritual energy and gently neutralizing negative vibrations, Smoky quartz blocks geopathic stress*, absorbs electromagnetic smog*, and assists elimination and detoxification on all levels. It brings in a positive vibration to fill the space. Smoky quartz teaches you how to leave behind anything that no longer serves you. It can be used to protect the earth chakra below the feet and its grounding cord* when in an area of disturbed earth energy.

Psychologically, Smoky quartz relieves fear, lifts depression, and brings emotional calmness. It alleviates suicidal tendencies and ambivalence about being in incarnation. Smoky quartz aids acceptance of the physical body and the sexual nature, enhancing virility and cleansing the base chakra so that passion can flow naturally. This crystal alleviates nightmares and manifests your dreams. When it comes into contact with negative emotions, it gently dissolves them.

Mentally, Smoky quartz promotes positive, pragmatic thought and can be used in scrying to give clear insight and to neutralize fear of failure. It dissolves contradictions, promotes concentration, and alleviates communication difficulties. Smoky quartz facilitates moving between alpha and beta states of mind and aids clearing the mind for meditation.

Physically, because Smoky quartz is often naturally irradiated, it is excellent for treating radiation-related illness or chemotherapy. However, care should be taken to select naturally formed stones with minuscule radiation rather than ones that have been artificially treated with radiation (these stones are usually very black and nontransparent). Tolerance of stress is much improved with the assistance of relaxing Smoky quartz and this stone provides pain relief. In healing, a layout of slow-release Smoky quartz pointing out from the body can prevent a healing crisis from occurring.

HEALING: Smoky quartz is particularly effective for ailments of the abdomen, hips, and legs. It relieves pain, including headaches, and benefits the reproductive system, muscle and nerve tissue, and the heart. Smoky quartz dissolves cramps, strengthens the back, and fortifies the nerves.This stone aids assimilation of minerals and regulates liquids within the body.

POSITION: Anywhere, especially base chakra. Under pillow, by a telephone, or on geopathic stress lines. Wear as a pendant for long periods. To dispel stress, place a stone in each hand and sit quietly for a few moments. Place over painful point to dissolve pain. Place point away from body to draw off negative energies, point toward to energize.