Natural rocks, crystals and gemstones are often used in context with energetic types of healing. The stones interact with our energetic body by reacting to the electricity that we produce. Their own energy responds by harmonizing and balancing our energetic field. There have long been associations with the chakras and stones for this very reason. Below, we have listed crystals and gemstones associated with each of the seven chakras.

Stones associated with the first chakra:

Black tourmaline: This is a protective stone when you feel threatened at the survival level.

Hematite: This stone helps you to set protective boundaries when you feel as if others are intruding into your private space.

Black and snowflake obsidian: help you to see what material things you no longer need for growth.

Smoky quartz: the lightest of the dark stones, helps to blend the energies of the first and seventh chakras.

Tiger Eye: helps you to feel secure about physical existence.

Stones associated with the second chakra:

Bloodstone: can stimulate energy.

Carnelian: is associated with creativity and decision-making.

Red Garnet: encourages patience.

Red Jasper: helps to connect us to the flowing energies of the earth.

Ruby: the stone of passion, enhances sensory awareness.

Ruby in Zoisite: is a way to benefit from ruby's energy in a grounding form.

Stones associated with the third chakra:

Aragonite: has a calming and stabilizing effect, especially on emotions such as anger and stress.

Citrine: is the stone most related to manifesting abundance and to the balanced use of will.

Golden Calcite: helps to integrate new energies and beliefs areas related to personal empowerment, such as relationships and business.

Malachite: releases congestion in the solar plexus, and aids creativity.

Rhodochrosite: assists in deep breathing, thus helping to relieve anxiety and tension.

Rutilated quartz: helps to add enhanced creating energy to our dreams.

Pyrite: helps us to come up with creative ideas which can help bring abundance in our lives.

Tiger Eye: helps to teach us good timing in terms of when to act on a dream.

Unakite: helps us to understand the mental and emotional sources for it. It is also believed to help release conditions which have been inhibiting personal growth.

Stones associated with the fourth chakra:

Aventurine: is the stone most related to physical health and heart balancing.

Emerald: relates most directly to the spiritual aspects of love.

Green Calcite: eases old, limiting beliefs (especially those based on fear) from the mind so that new ideas can flourish.

Green Tourmaline: opens the creative elements of the heart, i.e., adding an emotional depth to one's creations.

Lepidolite: helps to calm the heart and relieves stress.

Malachite: releases congestion in the solar plexus, and aids creativity.

Malachite-Chrysocolla: blends malachite's ability with chrysocolla's gift of soothing and calming.

Pink Calcite: helps to release old and hurtful emotional patterns so that the heart can be open to receive and give unconditional love.

Rhodochrosite: helps to relieve anxiety.

Rhodonite: helps us to be patient with others.

Rose Quartz: is the stone for helping to create unconditional self-love.

Stones for the fifth chakra:

Angelite: helps us to communicate with angels and other nonphysical beings, as well as aiding in long-distance communication. It also helps to dissolve anger.

Aqua Aura: teaches us self-expression through service to others.

Aquamarine: helps us to express ourselves in a tranquil way.

Blue Lace Agate: helps to ground our communications with a sense of what can be accomplished.

Blue Topaz: helps us to communicate fearlessly that which we know to be true, and also stimulates creativity.

Celestite: helps to calm the over-active mind and teaches us how to be receptive

Chrysocolla: helps one to have self-confidence in personal expression.

Larimar: enables us to communicate with others that which we feel deeply in our hearts and souls.

Turquoise: helps us to enroll others to help in the manifestation of our desires.

Stones associated with the sixth chakra:

Amethyst: known as nature's tranquilizer, helps in sleep and in peaceful dreams.

Azurite: helps us to consciously look at old programmed beliefs and dissolve them.

Charoite: helps to dissolve fears, both known and unknown.

Hawk's Eye: helps us to see our lives as with aerial vision.

Kyanite: reminds me that everything which happens is for a purpose, and that we are ultimately in charge, and often brings to surface beliefs we have accepted as fact.

Lapis: helps us to discover our hidden beliefs and bring them to the surface.

Sodalite: helps in balance when one is emotionally or mentally confused.

Moss Agate: helps to balance the left and right sides of the brain.

Sugilite: helps to release resentment and guilt.

Seventh Chakra (crown of the head)

Clear Calcite: brings spiritual understanding to problems on the earth plane.

Clear Quartz: There are many forms of clear quartz.

Danburite: helps us to view what happens in our lives from the soul perspective and have a feeling of calmness and serenity even when life seems very difficult.

Herkimer: this form of clear quartz is especially brilliant, and has a particular ability to dissolve chakra blockages.

Selenite: has a very fine vibration and helps bring clarity of mind