Amber
Healing Overview
Key Attributes: Master Healer, Emotional Mastery, Creativity, Gaia, Ancestral Wisdom, Power, Empowerment
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Amber is fossilised tree resin that preserves prehistoric insect or plant matter. It is extremely soft, measuring 2–2.5 on the Mohs Scale, and comes in a range of colours, including yellow-orange, brown, pale lemon yellow, red, and nearly black. Some green and blue amber exists, but it is extremely rare. Amber should be translucent, transparent, or opaque, and contain insect or plant matter. Amber from Ukraine (Baltic Amber) is the most desirable and considered the best quality. Most amber on the market comes from places such as Colombia and Madagascar, which makes it too young to be considered genuine amber, because genuine amber needs to be at least 100,000 years old. The oldest amber recovered dates back 320 million years to the Carboniferous period. Most amber on the market is 33.9 to 59 million years old, so it is still very old and suitable for metaphysical practitioners and purposes. Amber from the Dominican Republic ranges from 23 to 5.3 million years old, and Mexican amber ranges from 15 to 23 million years old. Amber is also sourced from places such as Myanmar, although this form is usually cloudy, and Canada has amber with preserved insects and plant matter. Blue amber is primarily sourced from Italy. Lebanon has some of the oldest ambers, along with Indonesia, Sumatra, and Borneo. New Zealand has a rare form of amber fossilised in the Kauri Tree.
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Metaphysical Attributes
Amber is considered a Master Healer for the physical body. This may be because it is associated with the Sacral Chakra, the centre of passion, emotions, and creativity. The Sacral Chakra stores emotional imbalances, so when we recalibrate and heal it, we step into our personal power and make informed decisions that are not clouded by emotion. We become less reactive to people and events. Historically, Native American people considered amber a sacred stone and used it in spiritual ceremonies when a person was dying, the soul was in ‘transition’, or as part of funeral rites. They believed that it purified spaces and acted as a bridge between the earth and spiritual realms. Other primary attributes for metaphysicians include that amber connects a person to Gaia/Mother Earth and planetary energy, including the wisdom of ancient humans and the ancestors. When establishing the healing properties of your specimen, remember that whatever plant or insect matter is in the crystal will hold additional energy, such as the ‘wisdom’ or ‘medicine’ of the plant or insect. Spiders, for example, are weavers associated with manifestation and achievement, and they remind you to work diligently toward your goals. Because amber comes in a range of colours, wear the one most aligned with the chakra you are working on. For instance, if your goal is to overcome betrayal and rebuild trust and feelings of empowerment, use yellowish-hued amber. If it is about creativity and emotional expression, or artistic pursuits, seek predominantly orange pieces, although reddish orange works well. For anchoring, grounding, and emotional stability, select a brownish orange piece. Red/orange-coloured amber also supports behaviour change.
Spiritual
Ancestral Wisdom: Access ancestral knowledge as it applies today.
Animal Wisdom: Access the wisdom of animals (Animal Medicine) for healing purposes.
Aura: Balance the Electromagnetic field
Businesses: Protection and good fortune; place it in the environment to protect the business from being drained of creativity.
Communication: Celestial and Light Beings, Higher Realms
Creativity: Expands and enhances
Chakras: Connect and unify the base, sacral, and solar plexus chakras. Link the aura and anchor it to the Earth Star chakra.
Environmental Purification: Place it in the environment as a purifier to promote creativity or motivate goal achievement.
Gaia: Connects to the Planetary and Environmental Energy
Good Luck and Good Fortune: Attracts all types and is recommended for people attending a job interview. Opens pathways to receptivity.
Guides and Guardians: Supports access to guides and acting on intuitive guidance.
Life Purpose/Life Path: Aids finding life direction and purpose, and opens the pathway for the Divine Journey.
Life Force: Expands the energy body and revitalises.
Magic and Magical Abilities
Manifestation: Across all areas of life (Mind, Body and Spirit), turn dreams into reality.
Nature Kingdom: Connect to Earth Elementals and Devas
New Beginnings: Promotes spiritual rebirth and awakening.
Past Life: Access and recollection of previous incarnations for healing purposes in the current life, to find cause and release.
Purification: Removes negative energy from the emotional body and purifies it.
Psychic Gifts: Access to prophecy and predictions, and removal of blocks (such as fear of power) to the gifts.
Spiritual Rebirth: Wear as a talisman during the process to ease the ‘shift’.
Physical
Animals: Kennel cough in dogs.
Asthma: Recommended for protection against attacks, to promote healthy breathing, and to open the throat and lungs.
Babies: To soothe teething issues. Buy a necklace that meets child safety requirements to protect against choking. Never leave baby unattended while wearing a necklace or sleeping. Place in the sleep environment. Not suitable for a teething ring, as it is listed as a potentially toxic mineral.
Bladder and Urinary Tract: Recommended for people with bladder and urinary tract infections and related issues.
Blood: Oxygenation and circulation; recommended for detoxification and treatment of blood clots when worn as a talisman.
Brain: Supports construction of neural pathways for new beginnings.
Cancer: Wear as a talisman during treatment to support detoxification.
Detoxification: Antioxidant for the body; supports healthy waste elimination and organ function.
Diabetes: Helps release bitterness and open you to life's sweetness. Wear as a talisman.
Endocrine System: Balances and rejuvenates the endocrine system after prolonged worry and anxiety.
Goitre: Treatment option; wear as a talisman.
Health Tonic: For general overall wellbeing, wear as a talisman, or make a non-water immersion elixir. Supports physical regeneration and recovery from ailments.
Heart: Recommended to promote and strengthen heart health and to alleviate chest pains.
Joints: Calms inflammation in the joints.
Kidney: Supports kidney health and is recommended for sufferers of kidney disease.
Lung Conditions: Asthma, breathlessness, bronchitis, coughs, lung congestion, and whooping cough.Muscular System: Enhances and strengthens muscles and ligaments.
Neuralgia: Calms and soothes neuralgia.
Organs: Heals and regenerates the kidneys and spleen.
Teeth: Relieves and calms toothache.Throat: Calms irritation and soothes conditions such as tonsillitis and quinsy.
Vocal Cords: Protect and strengthen; recommended for public speakers and singers.
Whooping Cough: Recovery from it.
Thoughts/Beliefs
Adaptation and Change: Builds resilience to change and acceptance of what is inside and outside personal control, and helps you accept and go with the flow.
Addiction: Particularly during the withdrawal phase, to reduce symptoms and discomfort and to support construction and reconstruction of healthy neural pathways.
Attitude: A positive outlook on life, enthusiasm, happiness, and joy. Fosters appreciation and gratitude, especially for life's beauty.
Boundaries: Promotes awareness of what is and isn’t ‘ours’ and helps build the pathways for healthy relationship boundaries (construction and maintenance), and offers inner peace.
Character: Strengthens and builds integrity.
Courage: Builds upon.
Decision making: Enhances and promotes feelings of confidence and security, in the knowledge that there are NO mistakes, simply learning opportunities, and remaining open to change if needed.
Emotional Intelligence: Promotes understanding of emotions.
Empowerment: Releases and helps you recover from beliefs in victimisation and powerlessness; and teaches that power is there, ready to be claimed.
End of Life: Recommended as a treatment for people struggling with end-of-life thoughts to help them see the light at the end of the tunnel, and rebuild hope, while balancing and regulating negative thoughts.
Forgiveness: Promotes a desire to release anger in healthy ways, and to forgive ourselves (and others) for failing to meet our expectations, hopes and desires.
Knowledge and Learning: Supports the integration of new information and provides clarity (especially when used at the Solar Plexus).
Memory: Supports and aids the retention of new information, especially recommended for people suffering from short-term memory loss.
Mental Illness: Recommended for sufferers of significant mental illness including Psychosis, Delusions, Seasonal Affective Disorders, Anxiety and Depression Disorders, Personality or Mood Disorders.
Motivation: Motivates and inspires.
Outlook: Promotes seeing the ‘silver lining’ and positivity, with the recognition that life experiences have a natural rhythm and cycle and that any challenges are temporary.
Purpose: Reignites life purpose and provides Direction.
Resilience: Builds upon internal resources and provides resilience during adversity.
Self Acceptance: Recognition that any ‘mistakes’ are ‘mis-takes’ and opportunities for ‘re-takes ’; we are all in an ongoing state of growth, and making mistakes are part of life and part of growth.
Self Control: Teaches self-mastery, impulse control, and self-regulation.
Self-Awareness: Builds understanding of self and limitations, including emotional triggers and root causes.
Self Mastery: Builds a person's ability to master themselves and their reactions, thoughts and beliefs and to live positively and in upright ways.
Sexuality and Sensuality: Heal any issues around our beliefs associated with sex and sexuality. A balanced libido is healthy and necessary for creativity. Guilt and shame around being a passionate person can block emotional expression and creative pursuits. (Note: Overactive libido can result in angry outbursts or immoral activities; underactive libido can result in repression of emotions and blocks to creativity – Creativity is centred in the sacral ‘orange’ chakra).
Surrender: Teaches to release and let go of what is outside of personal control, and to trust in the Divine and Life.
Willpower: Promotes and strengthens
Emotions
Adaptation: Supports adjustment to changing circumstances by releasing resistance to change and overcoming fears of the unknown.
Appreciation and Gratitude: Promote gratitude and appreciation for life, people, and the environment.
Behaviour: Motivates and inspires new beginnings. Use when you need behaviour change, or when behaviour is reckless, foolish, or disordered.
Communication: Clears the pathway to honest, calm emotional expression, especially when feeling blocked.
Confidence: Promotes confidence in self and abilities, and the capacity to express emotions and be understood.
Conflicts: Place in the shared living environment where family units experience emotional volatility.
Creativity: Opens the channel to creative expression; recommended for artists, musicians, and singers to support artistic achievement and overcome writer's block.
Decision making: Promotes healthy decision making by ensuring decisions are made rationally and when calm, and removes the clouded, blurred vision caused by overemotional reactivity.
Depression: Relieves symptoms of depression and resistance to change.
Emotional Expression: Clears the pathway to positive expression and access to healthy release of emotions (especially pent-up ones) through creative or verbal expression.
Fear: Supports healthy processing and identification of fears, including those that are figments of imagination, and helps overcome barriers.
Feelings: Dissolves hard and bitter emotions such as resentment.
Grounding: Helps to stay present in each moment and to take practical actions to support a healthy physical life.
Happiness: Removes blocks to happiness and invites more happy times and opportunities.
Hope: Restores hope and faith during challenging times, especially emotional challenges and uncertainty.
Humour: Restores happiness and joy, and promotes cheerfulness.
Identity: Promotes security and comfort with an inner knowing of who you are and what you stand for, including your strengths, vulnerabilities, desires, and goals.
Impulse Control: Supports managing emotions and behaviour through emotional self-mastery.
Mood Regulation: Supports creative responses to challenges rather than reactive ones, and offers emotional and mood stability.
Motivation: Builds motivation and enthusiasm, inspiring emotional release and courage to take on endeavours that bring joy.
Passion: Invigorates and restores; recommended for people who feel stuck and stagnant.
Peace: Invites peace and calm through conflict resolution.
Power: Helps you recover from ‘victimisation’ and ‘victimhood’ and supports releasing fear around being powerful; motivates and empowers you to claim your personal power.
Relationships: Promotes commitment and healthy emotional exchange. Recommended as a talisman when renewing marriage vows.
Strength: Provides a sense of inner strength and capacity to rise to emotional challenges, and builds courage and endurance, allowing a person to remain upbeat during difficult times.
Trauma: Recovery from betrayal (particularly childhood Trauma).
Vitality: Energises and invigorates, motivates, and inspires.
Worries: Relieves and calms symptoms of stress and anxious feelings.
Crystal Care
Amber is incredibly soft (2.5 on the Mohs Scale) and requires sensitive care when handling. Never expose it to chemicals or harsh cleaning. If you have amber jewellery, remove it before swimming in chlorinated pools or salty oceans, and put it on AFTER you have applied your perfume, make-up, and lotions. If it needs cleaning, use a soft cloth dampened with tepid water and a drop of mild, organic, unscented soap. Avoid soaking amber in water for long periods, and never use ultrasonic cleaners. Be aware that much of the amber on the market has been ‘colour enhanced ’, and these colours may leach after being soaked in water. When you aren’t using your amber, wrap it in a soft cloth to protect it from contact with harder items and gems that might scratch it, and never expose your amber to heat or direct, prolonged sunlight, as this will darken it and may even result in cracks. For metaphysicians, you can clear, cleanse and recharge your amber in a variety of ways - such as exposure to the moonlight, grounding and earthing or smudging with purification incense and herbs. Crystals such as selenite and amethyst are a good option for clearing and recharging your amber. You may need to rest the amber on a soft cloth between the selenite and amethyst to protect it from damage (and to protect the amethyst points).
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