Green Tourmaline

All tourmalines are striated crystals, which means they are useful at moving energy along their axis. They are found in many colours and have very different properties and uses according to their colour. The very best quality coloured tourmalines are hard to find in the healing crystal market (at least at good prices!) as most of the top material is snapped up by the jewellery trade for cutting as gemstones. Tourmalines can also be multi-coloured - bi-coloured ones having 2 colours present within / adjacent to each other; watermelon having a pink central core within a green outer layer. The latter ones make one of the very best crystals for working with the heart and high heart centres - in fact all green and pink tourmalines are good with the heart. Green is also very balancing and cleansing, having an aura of 'fresh air' about it. Tourmaline is often found is association with quartz and is a common inclusion, when the quartz acts to strongly amplify and broadcast the tourmaline's energies.