Carnelian: Meaning, Benefits, Uses, Healing, & More

 

Get stabilized and put your life into balance. Carnelian is the stabilizing stone and is ready to become your best companion through all the ups and downs.

What Is Carnelian?

Carnelian is a mineral belonging to the chalcedony variety. It often appears in reddish-white or dull red colors.

It’s a beautiful sem-precious stone but has amazing healing benefits to it.

Carnelian healing crystal is often used as one of the seven chakra healing stones and is very important in combining and boosting the 7 chakra energies.

It gets its beautiful red color from iron oxide and has a hardness of 6-7 on Moh’s scale.

Carnelian is mostly found in India, Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, and Germany.

What Is Carnelian Stone Good For?

Carnelian healing crystal is a stabilizing stone. It enhances creativity, restores motivation and vitality, and gives courage.

Carnelian is also known to ward off apathy and promote positive life choices. With this healing stone, one feels more motivated and determined towards success.

This healing crystal is just as good for physical healing too. Carnelian healing crystal aids in the healing of lower back problems, rheumatism, neuralgia, arthritis, and depression.

 

Who Can Wear Carnelian?

Though anyone can wear Carnelian healing crystals for their healing benefits, people who want stability and balance in their life must wear Carnelian.

Carnelian is also the birthstone for people born between Aug.23 and Sep.22, that is, the people born with the sign Virgo. It is also the alternative birthstone for Aries.

Along with the healing benefits mentioned above in this blog, Carnelian healing crystal is also great at boosting fertility and stimulating sexuality.

Thus, people looking to boost their fertility and sexuality should wear Carnelian Jewelry so that it’s touching them throughout the day for sharing energies.

 

Carnelian healing crystals can fill one with zest, energy, joy, gratitude, happiness, and warmth.

What Does Carnelian Symbolize?

Carnelian’s healing crystal symbolizes warmth, joy, and energy. As explained, it is the stone for courage, leadership, endurance, motivation, and protection.

Since ancient times, carnelian has been used for boosting purposes - Boosting fertility, courage, or motivation.

People in ancient times used to wear carnelian to survive the fatal challenges so that they can live life with power and strength. For them, it was the symbol of royalty, health, and luck.

Can Carnelian Be Worn every day?

Carnelian is not a tough stone as it has a hardness of 6-7 on Moh’s scale. However, it isn’t a delicate stone either.

If you’re wearing a Carnelian ring then you may avoid rigorous activities to prevent the stone from major cracks or scratches.

Though, if you’re wearing a Carnelian pendant or bracelet, then these may be worn on the daily basis.

Make sure that the stone is actually touching your skin to synchronize its healing benefits with your body energies.

How Do You Use Carnelian For Healing?

Carnelian healing crystal brings healing to your lower body area where the Sacral chakra is located.

Carnelian can easily be combined with high vibrational healing energy stones. Use Carnelian to stimulate your Solar Plexus and Power Chakra

The best way to experience all-day healing through carnelian healing crystal is to wear a carnelian bracelet, ring, or neckpiece. Since the stone touches your skin and you can wear the jewelry all the time, it’s an excellent way to use it for healing.

Which Chakra Is Carnelian Good For?

Carnelian healing crystal is associated with the Sacral Chakra.

Using Carnelian to open your Sacral Chakra simply enhances your stability as that points to the center of the gravity of your body.

It promotes serenity and calmness and dissipates them throughout the body.

How To Meditate With Carnelian?

- Find a calm and quiet place to meditate. Choose a place away from daily chaos and noises. Sit in a comfortable meditation ‘aasan’ and hold the Carnelian palm stone in both your hands.

Feel the supple feel of the palm stone brushing against your palms holding it.

Start inhaling and exhaling deeply while feeling the flow of breath in your stomach to lungs to the throat, and finally your nose. With each release of your breath, feel the vibrations of Carnelian healing crystal flowing through you.

Let the vibrations of the Carnelian stabilize your emotions and thoughts. (blog link)

- Another way of meditating with Carnelian healing crystal is to perform reiki practice.

Lie down on your back in a comfortable and relaxed position.

Place the Carnelian healing crystal, sphere, or Carnelian Wand between the space of your eyebrows (the Crown Chakra), chest (Heart Chakra), and on your belly button (around the Sacral Chakra).

If you just have one Amethys healing crystal, it’s important to place it on your Sacral chakra, as this stone is associated with the Sacral Chakra.

- People also choose to wear Carnelian Jewelry like bracelets or pendants or earrings so that the stone is touching them wherever they go and they experience 24/7 healing.

How Can You Tell If Carnelian Is Real?

Carnelian is easily impersonated by dying the agate with orange dye which can be easily mistaken for real. A single shade of orange on Agate will show striping when held against the light.

A natural Carnelian must display a cloudy distribution of colors.

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Final Words

Carnelian is an excellent stone for stability, courage, grounding, and warmth. There are several healing benefits that one can get by using the carnelian healing crystal - physical as well as mental.

By stimulating your csacral chakra, it helps be more stable and clear as all the roots of energies are bound to it.