We thought it would be helpful to include brief descriptions about the gemstones used in jewelry and prayer malas available on the Sananda site. They are listed here in alphabetical order.

Amethyst:
Inner Wisdom ~ Offers a peaceful, centered awareness. Clears, harmonizes and stabilizes all levels of positive consciousness. Helps protect the wearer in stressful situations.

Aventurine:
Renewal ~ Green Aventurine. Renewal. Removes hurts of the heart and encourages new, healthy growth to take place. Balances male/female energies. Orange Aventurine. New Growth in the Emotions. Removes hurts and encourages new, healthy growth to take place.

Black Onyx:
Self-Mastery ~ Helps you center and align yourself with the higher states of consciousness so that you absorb the energies you require. Helps banish frustrations and grief, encourages self-control and self-mastery. Helps to perceive dualities.

Carnelian:
Confidence & Creativity ~ Helps you see the universe as a loving, supportive home. It provides you with the inner confidence to create your own stabile, supportive environment. Helps with career success & personal power.

Chrysocolla:
Health, self-confidence and prosperity as you grow and change, clearing subconscious imbalances.

Citrine:
Prosperity ~ Works on the psychic level to bring prosperity and warm sun qualities into your energy field. Transmutes negative energies. Helps you manifest your personal power in original ways.

Clear Quartz:
Power ~ A communicator stone, working at all levels to give you access to energy by clearing and balancing the field. The classic shaman's stone. Used in watches, radios, computers, and psychically, to transmit information for specific use. Also used in meditation and Feng Shui practice.

Rainbow Flourite:
Psychic Clarity ~ Pulls out imbalances from a situation, offering clear, balanced vision and action.

Frosted Quartz Crystal:
Angelic Peace ~ Angelic peace and compassion, especially useful when experiencing the uncertainties that come with growth. Offers compassionate love and protection when insight is not operating due to inner change.

Garnet:
Self-Esteem ~ A “sacred” stone, transmuting negative to beneficial energy. Balances kundalini. Attracts loving assistance for the wearer. Moves courageously and swiftly, helps with self-esteem and bonding in love.

Hematite:
Protection ~ Helps define your energy field. Protects you from the ill-wishes of others. Helpful for travel, business, martial arts, legal issues. Excellent base chakra stone: it is actually red but polishes black. Folk medicine: strengthens the blood.

Howlite:
Strength ~ Combines the power of reasoning with observation and patience, dispelling the energy of confrontation. Encourages tact. Folk medicine: helps strengthen bones and releases muscular tension

Iolite:
Shadow-Keeper ~ Combines the power of reasoning with observation and patience, dispelling the energy of confrontation. Encourages tact. Folk medicine: helps strengthen bones and releases muscular tension.

Jade:
Ancient Wisdom ~ Connects you with the wisdom of the universe. It does so through the heart, which knows all things come in the proper time, with patience. New Jade (Serpentine). Gentle wise heart stone. Brings you the blessings of your ancestors.

Lapis Lazuli:
Initiation ~ A stone of “initiation’ permitting access to mystic knowledge. Protects from harm by clearing negative energies from your energy field, cleansing your aura. Balances forces so you can walk safely through the situation.

Malachite:
Decision Maker ~ A powerful grounding stone that clears obstructions and helps avert confusion and apathy. Helps with business success, vision quests, meditation. Folk medicine: helps strengthen immune system.

Moonstone:
Intuition ~ Balancing, introspective, reflective and lunar. It brings calmness united with awareness. Helps you to know what to do intuitively; excellent during times of change.

Peridot:
Auric Protection ~ Helps healers to heal themselves. Useful to wear when assisting others as it helps keeps your energy field from being affected by theirs. When meditating for your own change, remove, then replace when finished to help “seal” the change.

Rainbow Tourmaline:
Disperses Negativity ~ Clears and aligns your existence, subtle to physical. This stone gives insight as to who/what is the cause of a problem. Eliminates victim complex, gives strength, laughter.

Rhodochrosite:
Responsible love ~ An earth stone, for helping to heal the earth. Helps balance mind, emotions, male/female.

Rhodonite:
Unconditional Love ~ Resonates with the yin/yang nature of unconditional love, uniting you with the universe. Helps ground universal potential in the heart’s love and from there to the body. Helps with self-esteem and self-actualization.

Ruby:
Heart's Strength ~ Helps to strengthen your resolve, permitting one to rise above victimhood to standing tall in your own power. These are commercial quality rubies.

Rudraksha Seed & Quartz Crystal:
Mind/body/spirit balance ~ Rudraksha seeds are used in the far east to heal all manners of imbalance. With clear quartz, it is a favorite of ayurvedic doctors for balancing the body’s system-wide energies.

Sodalite:
Communication ~Enables you to communicate your truth in a manner acceptable to those in your community. Encourages self-esteem and self-trust. Helps you access the sacred laws of the universe and communicate them to others.

Tiger's Eye:
Good Luck ~ Grounds prosperity and good luck in your energy field. Helps you unite scattered details into a cohesive unit, finding a workable solution for all persons involved.

Turquoise:
Prosperity ~A stone for protection, prosperity, good luck and goodness. It brings together the blessings of heaven and earth, spirit and matter. Helps you find creative solutions to issue

Unakite:
Change ~ Helps you energetically align with earth’s shifting energy fields. Helps you understand other people while remaining stabile within yourself. An energetic buffer for manmade electromagnetic fields.

Yellow Calcite:
Cheerfulness ~ Clears, then amplifies the clearing. Releases joy into the energy field, helps you cheerfully reach for new goals. Helps you remember your own perfection, inwardly and of the body’s energy.