Tourmaline - Color, Facts, Power, Mythology, History And Myths

The benefits of tourmaline are:

• Physical Energy

Tourmaline is believed to kindle the reflex points of human’s body, which are linked to the legs, ankles, lower back, and feet, and may be used to straighten the spinal column. It delivers relief to strained or torn muscles, coldness, arthritis, and scar tissue.

Tourmaline protects against devastating disease and reinforces the immune system, adrenal glands, and heart. It is also favourable in treating constipation, IBS, bowels, and the ailments related to the colon. It also helps the human being in getting rid of the toxins and pollutants that enter the body.

Tourmaline is a splendid gemstone for keeping the balance between both the hemispheres of the brain. It brings a positive alignment to the chakras and the aura of the body.

• Emotional Healer

Being the stone of purification, Tourmaline cleanses the negativity of the body and pacifies the feeling of anger, anxiety, and unworthiness. It helps in overcoming the suicidal thoughts and tendencies of self-harm. Tourmaline is also beneficial in treating compulsive and obsessive behaviour.

• Heals and balances the chakras

Tourmaline is also used as a grounding stone between the base chakra and the centre of the Earth. It provides overall well-being to the wearer by controlling the kinesthetic movement and feeling.

The base chakra is the basis of inculcating physical and spiritual energy in the body. When any of the energies are out of balance, a person feels sluggish, lethargic, and less enthusiastic. Tourmaline helps in regaining the stamina and strength of the body, and rekindling security and power.  It also times and again leads to freedom and impulsive leadership.

• Enhances spirituality

Tourmaline is great in bringing clarity to the expression and drawing power from the lives. The wands of natural tourmaline are considered great and special in channelling high energy and healing power.

• Used as a Feng Shui amulet

Tourmaline utilizes the energy of water, the energy of immobility, noiseless strength, and refinement. It symbolises through its energy of water the power of regeneration and rebirth. Tourmaline is the energy of life force, and the circle of life from birth to death. As an element of Feng Shui, Tourmaline must be kept in the North area of your room or office. Its flowing energy assures a balance in life and career.

• Different colors provide different energies

There are various colors that one can find in this crystal which gets transformed in beautiful tourmaline jewelry pieces.

Blue Tourmaline is soothing and comforting and helps in stimulating clarity and understanding between relationships. The deep blue color of tourmaline promotes better communication.

Brown Tourmaline has a centring and strong energy, which helps in healing suppressed emotions and feelings. It can also instil one with confidence and courage.

Yellow Tourmaline as is the quality of its color spreads joyful energy that and help the wearer in reinforcing love in his life, and his self-esteem. Yellow is the color of third or solar plexus chakra.

Green Tourmaline signifies abundance in vigour and health thereby improving the energy levels. It is also helpful for those people who feel uncomfortable in connecting with other human beings, or are timid, or lacks strength.

Tourmaline is also used in hair straightening devices.

Tourmaline is a crystal boron silicate mineral compounded with various other components such as iron, aluminium, sodium, lithium, magnesium, or potassium. It has a trigonal crystal system with six member ring cyclosilicate. It is different from other stones because of its three-sided prisms as no other common mineral has three sides. Tourmaline comes in the variety of colors. Usually, Tourmalines, which are rich in iron are black in color, while the varieties which are magnesium-rich are brown to yellow, and on the other hand the varieties which are rich in lithium are of red, blue, green, pink, and yellow. Multi-colored and bi-colored crystals of tourmaline are very common, and the transparent crystals are rare to find. There is one more variety of tourmaline, which is called as watermelon tourmaline as it is green on the outside and pink inside.

On Moh’s scale of hardness, Tourmaline weighs in between 7 to 7.5.