Healing Properties of Spinel
Spinel is a stone of hope, revitalization, and feeling the joy of being alive. It comes in a wide range of colors, which means it can be used to revitalize every chakra. Spinel is perfect to to reach for when you’re feeling a lack of energy or enthusiasm, or finding it hard to pull out of negative thoughts. Spinel helps bring fresh energy to your mind, body, heart and spirit.
Mentally, Spinel is helpful for inspiring new ideas and getting you to think differently about any situation where your thoughts feel mired or stuck. It can widen your perspective to get you thinking beyond the limiting confines of old beliefs.
Emotionally, Spinel brings the same fresh energy of renewal, helping to sweep out the old negative thought patterns and beliefs and usher in a new way of looking at yourself. It can deepen your sense of self-acceptance and help you transform into the highest version of yourself.
Spinel is a good stone for stressed out, type-A, go-go-go personalities who need some help to switch into a lower gear and let themselves relax. It makes a great gift for any workaholic friends in your life to help them calm down and see the bigger picture, and receive the abundance they already have all around them.
When you’re hustling and hurrying through life to get to a finish line (that doesn’t actually exist) you can very well miss the view along the way. What’s the point of working so hard if you aren’t enjoying the fruits of your labor? Spinel’s energy helps you sit back, reflect, relax and relish in all that you’ve built along the way, and all that you already have.
The time is now to enjoy the beauty of the world around you, and spinel will help you open up to seeing and receiving it. It’s a great overall energy enhancer to help any dull or down mood. You can increase any chakra’s energy by choosing the relating color of spinel to which one you want to focus on most.
If you feel called to re-align your life to one of joy and inspiration, fully backed by the supportive hands of the Universe, spinel is the stone for you!
Spinel as a Gemstone
Spinel is a fairly hard mineral composed of magnesium aluminum oxide. It comes in many shades from transparent (colorless) to shades of pink, red, blue, yellow, green, black, and brown. It is sometimes mistaken for other precious stones, particularly ruby. It is also sometimes artificially created for industrial use.