CRYSTALS & THEIR HEALING PROPERTIES

ZEOLITE GROUP

overview

The Zeolite Group of crystals belong to the Tectosilicate Subclass of minerals. The Zeolites combine rarity, beauty, complexity and unique crystal habits. They typically form in the cavities (or vesicles) of volcanic rocks. Zeolites are the result of very low grade metamorphism. They currently are undergoing extensive research into their formation and unique properties.
The zeolite group is very diverse in their crystal habit. There are about 45 natural minerals that are recognized members of the Zeolite Group, I have listed only some here on this page.
Zeolite occurs with other crystals generally in a matrix form. They include Apophyllite, Okenite, Pectolite, Prehnite and Stilbite.
Collecting zeolites can be very enjoyable and fulfilling. Most Zeolites are sold as specimens rather than cut or tumbled crystals because the beauty of the original crystal stone is lost with processing.

Zeolites are typically soft to moderately hard, light in density, transparent to translucent and have similar origins. Zeolites occur in a variety of colours.
Zeolites have basically three different structural variations:

There are chain-like structures whose minerals form acicular or needle-like prismatic crystals, ie natrolite.
Sheet-like structures where the crystals are flattened platy or tabular with usually good basal cleavages, ie heulandite.
Framework structures where the crystals are more equant in dimensions, ie Chabazite.

All Zeolites are excellent reiki stones, they will help you with attunement to the energies within the body, and they enhance the healing response.
All Zeolites can be used to treat goitres and ease bloating, They release toxins from your body including drugs and alcohol. They will support you during addiction withdrawal.
All Zeolites are also said to be useful for agriculture or gardening, especially when they are buried in the field or garden.
Zeolites are said to remove negative energy and bring in happiness where the negative energy was.

images of the zeolite group of crystals

Analcime on Calcite

Chabazite

Goosecreekite on Quartz

Heulandite

Natrolite on Prehnite

ANALCIME

Analcime is a member of the zeolite group of minerals. Anaclime is composed of hydrated sodium aluminium silicate and occurs as shiny trapezohedral cubes also as granular compact aggregates often lining cavities within basaltic lava. Analcime is transparent to translucent and has a vitreous lustre.
Anaclime is usually white, colourless, gray or pink and may have a yellow or greenish tint.
Anaclime can be found in Canada, Iceland, USA and Switzerland.

It is said to heighten mental clarity in a creative and individual way.
This brings more individuality and creativity into life, especially where others try to constrain the two.
Analcime has stabilising energy that can help stabilise you on all levels.
It is particularly useful for energy work, for teamwork, harmonious relations with others, coping with change, and comfortable transformations.
Analcime is used for diabetes, pancreas problems, water retention, strengthening muscles and muscle structure, organic problems that reduce mental clarity such as brain tumours.
Analcime is stimulating to the heart chakra. Analcime encourages creativity and your own sense of individuality.
It can help to maintain a healthy mental, emotional and physical state when facing major life change and/or transformation.

CHABAZITE

Chabazite is composed of hydrated calcium aluminium silicate and occurs as pseudo-cubic rhomboidal crystals often as twins. Some crystals may show a crackled appearance just under the surface of the faces. Chabazite occurs in the colours orange-pink, pink, red, yellow, white, greenish and colourless.
Chabazite usually forms within volcanic rocks. Chabazite is a vitreous transparent to translucent crystal. These crystals can be found in India, Iceland, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Germany and Switzerland.

Chabazite is very rare; it is said to be a good material for meditation on the theme of Mother Earth.
This stone can be used in helping to structure your life
It will help healing energy focus on the area it is most needed or beneficial
Chabazite helps to provide centering and contemplation when meditating.
This stone will allow your intellect to adjust to higher realms and stimulate higher learning
Chabazite is helpful in ridding you of addictive habits and behaviors, it also instills the initiative for you to take control of your life.
This stone encourages you to increase your endurance, perseverance, and tenacity

GOOSECREEKITE

Goosecreekite is a hydrated calcium aluminium silicate that belongs to the zeolite group of minerals. Goosecreekite is named after the location where it was first discovered in Virginia in the USA. It occurs as irregular aggregates and prismatic crystals that are found in the vesicles or bubbles of volcanic rock. Twinning is common with these crystals. Goosecreekite is very rare as it is only found in two places in the world India and the USA. The crystals are vitreous, transparent to translucent and their colour is clear or white.

When you hold Goosecreekite in your hand it seems to have a similar energy to most other zeolites.
They act as a cleanser of toxins from the physical and spiritual body.
Goosecreekite will help you defend against negative energy and psychic attacks.

HEULANDITE

Heulandite is a Hydrated Sodium Calcium Aluminium Silicate, and is a member of the Zeolites group of crystals. Heulandite crystals can also have significant amounts of strontium, potassium, magnesium, and barium in their chemical makeup. Sometimes if one of the additional minerals it high enough in the composition of the crystal, then it will be called for example strontium rich heulandite. It comes in both massive, blocky and crystalline forms. Heulandite is a vitreous to pearly, transparent to translucent crystal with colours ranging from colourless, grey, pink, yellow, red , brown, white, green, black and peach. This mineral is readily available in countries such as India, Iceland, USA, Canada, Iran, Italy, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, UK and Switzerland.

Heulandite is an excellent emotional healer for dealing with loss and grief.
This crystal can assist with weight loss, balance-inner ear problems, and the respiratory system.
Heulandite will improve your mobility by improving movement and reducing pain in the joints; especially the knees, back and feet. This stone will repair damage to your nervous system and liver. It encourages the efficient processing of nutrients and assists in overcoming food intolerances. It will ease breathing difficulties. Heulandite will unpack complex illnesses into their component parts so that lingering viral or bacterial infection which is slow to clear can be efficiently and effectively treated.

Heulandite reduces the power of addictions particularly ones associated with the mouth. This stone is ideal for those who are undertaking gradual weight loss based on healthy eating. All nutritionists and weight loss centre managers should have heulandite in their centre.
This stone sends warmth and healing energies throughout the home and workplace. Heulandite is helpful during disputes at work to embrace the situation with open mindedness and positive negotiations for resolving disagreements without litigation.

When placed on the Third Eye chakra, heulandite will access visions and memories of your past cultures. This stone will bring harmony to a group of people with disparate cultural backgrounds, bring unity to companies who do business on an international level. It controls sarcasm and criticism in those people who drain energies and inhibit decision making in meetings. If place near the public access to your home or business, heulandite will encourage those who overstay their welcome in leaving without any negative feelings.

Heulandite is a powerful meditation tool, mainly owing to its very high vibrational frequency. It helps you focus your energy and thoughts towards what is truly important in life, while neatly sidestepping the many distractions thrown in your path.
It is a crystal for connecting with past life experiences that are relevant for today.
Heulandite is a crystal of transformation, helping you bring change to your life in a very practical, focused and balanced way.
It synchronises and balances both hemispheres of the brain, and brings balance to the yin and yang aspects of the self.
Heulandite enhances your psychic abilities, spiritual vision, and lucid dreaming capabilities. As it connects the third eye with the brain it allows for better connection and indexing of the akashic records.

NATROLITE

Natrolite is a member of the zeolite group, it is composed of hydrated sodium aluminium silicate and occurs in slender or acicular prismatic crystals with vertical striations. It is found in radiating groups also in fibrous granular and compact masses. Natrolite is usually found lining the walls of cavities in basalt. Natrolite has a vitreous to dull lustre and the crystals are transparent to translucent. Natrolite may be colourless, white; also tinted yellow and brown. Some Natrolite will fluoresce orange in ultraviolet light.
Natrolite can be found in India, USA and Canada.

Natrolite Crystals are possibly the most powerful variety of the zeolites.
They are stones that will create amazing personal shifts, as they are high vibration crystals with amazing energy.

Natrolite is an excellent tool to use for Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, stroke and brain damage that has been caused by accident and/or injury. It can energetically assist the brain in compensating for damaged areas and rebuild your neural networks. It is also helpful for other nervous system disorders, particularly degenerative nerve diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). This stone is beneficial for correcting fluid imbalance in the body, bloating and oedema. It will assist in removing goitre, controlling iodine and zinc absorption. Natrolite will control your blood pressure to maintain it at healthy levels. Reduces the risk of pre-eclampsia in pregnant women. Assists in improving your night vision and halts the natural degeneration of eyesight due to age.

Natrolite assists you in overcoming self judgement and inclinations toward self abusive behaviour. It can assist you in feeling more confident about your abilities and your knowledge. It helps you become fearless in your spiritual growth and exploration. Natrolite relieves excesses, such as overeating, drinking or smoking too much, gambling or over spending, over reliance on prescription drugs or painkillers. It will balance your unfounded emotional outbursts. It will assist in controlling the side effects of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

There is a positive effect on the nervous system, and its ability to harmonise the nervous system with the aura when you use this stone for meditation. Natrolite can be used in rebirthing, where people relive in therapy their birth and in the womb experiences, this stone makes the process a gentle and emotionally releasing one. As a light bringing stone, natrolite dissolves rather than banishes negative energy, it kept in the workplace or home it will protect you from tension and malice.

Natrolite helps you understand your spiritual nature and can be valuable in overcoming confusion about your path of service. It facilitates your psychic abilities and promotes the development of your latent talents such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, telepathy and telekinesis It can assist in astral travel and inter-dimensional communication. Natrolite is excellent for channellers and others who wish to open to entities of higher frequency.

If you are working on your spiritual growth these crystals are extremely beneficial, and they work well in combination with other high energy stones.
Natrolite is an excellent stone to have in your home, but it is its metaphysical properties that make it most desirable to own. Natrolite brings profound spiritual shifts and has a marked effect on those who are using it. The vibration of this stone helps you to make contact with the Spirit and it may help you to develop the gift of automatic writing.

SCOLECITE

Scolecite is a member of the zeolite group, and is composed of Hydrated Calcium Aluminium Silicate. It occurs as prismatic slender striated crystals often grouped in radiating fibrous masses in bubbles of volcanic rocks. Scolecite is vitreous to silky, is transparent to translucent and is either white or colourless.
Scolecite can be found in India, USA, Iceland, Scotland and Brazil.

Scolecite will ease the symptoms of blood related disorders such as anaemia, haemophilia, blood clots and blood cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. It improves blood circulation particularly to the extremities of the body. This stone if beneficial for the heart, adrenal glands, liver, spleen and the nervous system. It is excellent for weight loss and increasing mobility. Scolecite helps you to have a full and restful nights sleep as it discourages insomnia and other sleeping difficulties.
Scolecite can be used to help bring a sense of peace and calm when you are distraught or when mental imbalance or brain disease causes violent behaviour. It is gently stimulating to the brain and can help support proper serotonin levels.

Scolecite encourages an inner calmness, that reflects on the outside with a relaxed attitude to life. With this stone in hand, be confident that you will be able to comfortably and confidently handle social occasions and business meetings. It assists in reducing anxiety and panic attacks when preparing for or participating in unfamiliar situations. Scolecite is a stone of kindness, gentleness and non-reaction. It teaches you the power of receptivity and expansion and helps you become more balanced when faced with difficulty.

Scolecite enhances the heart chakra energies, making the spontaneous expression of love a more frequent experience. It is a good stone to be exchanged between lovers, helping to establish a constant invisible connection between their hearts.

This stone encourages teamwork and joint efforts at home or at work. It encourages communication between generations both at home and in the workplace. If you feel as though you are being constantly pulled in many directions; scolecite will help you to resist trying to please everyone all the time. It also enables you to delegate tasks to others without feeling guilty.
Place a tumbled stone of scolecite under your pillow or a specimen on your bedside table to encourage lucid dreaming, an awareness that you are dreaming and past life recall. Scolecite will assist you to bring into your life; your dream lover or significant other where you will blend mind, body and spirit. This stone assists in safely communicating with Angels, Diva's and spirit guides. It assists with deep calming meditation, astral travel and speaking with your ancestors.

Scolecite purifies, clears opens and heals the crown chakra and your connections with the Light. This stone aligns and balances the crown chakra with the physical body, resulting in oneness, inner peace and awareness that you are safe, loved and not alone. It brings in the Goddess and the Goddess's love to you in times of need.
Scolecite promotes contact with light beings, goddesses, gods and the angelic realm
Scolecite allows you to gently open to your higher nature and the expanded realms beyond the physical plane. Its soft, peaceful energy invites interaction with other peace loving beings for the purpose of healing the Earth and humanity of violence and chaos.

STILBITE

Stilbite is a Hydrated Sodium Calcium Aluminium Silicate. Stilbite crystals can aggregate together to form a structure that resembles a wheat sheaf. It also can look like several fan shapes stacked one on top of the other with the middle thin and broadening out toward the edges. Stilbite has a vitreous to pearly lustre. It is transparent to translucent and the colours are pink, white, tinted yellow and red.
Stilbite can be found in India, Scotland, Iceland, USA and Canada.

Stilbite is helpful in removing toxins from the physical body. It eases laryngitis and the associated viral infection; sore throat, hoarseness, difficulty swallowing and swelling in in the throat. This stone will reduce the effects of sever sunburn, melanoma and skin pigment conditions such as vitiligo. Stilbite reduces the pain and speeds the healing of torn ligaments, sprains and strains. It will reduce and stop any negative reaction to prescription drugs.

Stilbite is a gentle healer for those who have had or are in the middle of a relationship breakdown, particularly if a partner or parent has walked out, there has been a sudden death or disappearance especially if the the one who has gone is the mother. This soft and delicate crystal resonates with the vibration of Universal Love, helping you to open the heart and overcome fear and loss. Sleeping with it by the bed, it is a soothing ally for those suffering insomnia or nightmares.
Stilbite is a wonderful support for those who feel overwhelmed with too many tasks or have difficulty making decisions.
Stilbite will help you to focus on which tasks are most important to take on first.
Stilbite allows you to be free from too many external influences including fear, and assists you in making decisions and choices that are correct for your current time and place.
Stilbite will also help you to make good decisions by showing you that there are no such things as “wrong” decisions it is just the decision that is best for you at the time.

Stilbite helps to balance the hemispheres of the brain. This stone can help ADD and ADHD patients as it helps to quiet the mind. It’s calming influence brings inner peace and in meditation it gently expands our consciousness to be aware of other realms and dimensions. It clears the mind of unconscious clutter, it creates a state of clear, positive thought and helps the mind to focus.
Stilbite is a stone that connects the heart chakra with the throat, brow and crown chakras. This stone guides the unconscious mind up to the higher planes of existence where deep insights and intuitive thought patterns are to be found.

When stilbite and apophyllite occur together, this enhances the effect of their energy. This combination of stones, which is pretty common, will allow inter-dimensional travel from apophyllite to become more heart centred and gentler by the stilbite energy. It assists in communication with your spirit guides and guardian angels.

THOMSONITE

Thomsonite is incorrectly known as Eye Agate.
Thomsonite is one of the rarer zeolite minerals. It is composed of hydrated sodium calcium aluminium silicate. It forms tight acicular radiating clusters and sphericules as well as some blockier crystals that are found in the vesicles or bubbles of volcanic rock as are most other zeolites.
The crystals are transparent to translucent and have a vitreous lustre. Thomsonite occurs as clear, white, and yellow crystals.
Thomsonite can be found in Germany, Italy, Faroe Islands, Scotland and the USA

Thomsonite is related to the heart chakra and will protect you from the evil eye and psychic attacks, nightmares and other negative energies. It reflects negative energy back to the sender.
Thomsonite is particularly helpful in assisting in the removal of toxins from the body.
Thomsonite unites your emotions with your thinking.
It may aid clarity of thought, and help you if you are suffering from brain fog.