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Amethyst: Meaning, History & Properties

Amethyst: Meaning, History & Properties

   Amethyst: Meaning, History & Properties

Hello Everyone! I am the lapidary artist, I’ve been a crystal enthusiast for as long as I can remember myself. My Passion about the gemstones started since I was a child. Not only because of my love towards gemstone I choose to be an artist but gemstones offers us so many things like, protection, peace, and so on!
In this blog I will talk about one of my favourite gemstone which is available in purple colour and guess what it's Amethyst.  In the following blog you’ll get to know more about Amethyst like its meaning and its properties. So let’s begin!

Amethyst Meaning

Amethyst is the most popular diversity of quartz crystals that is considered the most protective & powerful. It is an idolized violet stone that is often used in jewellery and for healing purposes. It has been sought after throughout the ages for its stunning colours and ability to energizing the mind and emotions. It not only give the protection but it’s filled with beauty that cinches everyone's heart.
In today’s world, Amethyst is viewed as a beloved crystal but in traditional times, it was considered as a very precious stone. The beauty of Amethyst is evident whether the stone is in its natural state, cut or polished into jewels. It is also known as birthstone for Pisces.
Amethyst properties

Amethyst History

The eye-catching amethyst crystals have a long history of meanings and properties, all of which are positive in nature. As they were known to bring forth the purest aspirations of mankind & humanity. Amethyst acquire its name from the Greek word “ametusthos” which means ‘not intoxicated’.
For centuries, Amethyst has been thought to be useful in the prevention of drunkenness and overindulgence, which is why Ancient Greeks wore amethyst and carved out drinking vessels from it. Now Ancient Egyptians gave another meaning to this crystal and started wearing jewellery with amethyst to protect themselves against guilty and fearful feelings, along with a protection from witchcraft. There are examples of the amethyst stone being used in Egypt as far back to 4000 BC.

Amethyst Healing Properties and Benefits

As we now know the history and meaning of amethyst so lets now understand the benefits and healing properties of amethysts.

  • Natural tranquilizer: Amethyst relieves an individual from strain and stress, soothes irritability, balances mood swings, dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety and so on to calm the mind.
  • Activates spiritual awareness: This precious stone has outstanding healing and cleansing abilities. It does this by opening intuition and enhancing psychic abilities of a person. It is one of the best gemstone to awaken the spiritual awareness of a person.
  • Enhances sobriety: It makes a person have a sober mind in times of over drinking or overindulgence in other activities that may lead to addictions. Amethyst does this by producing a calming effect to the mind and stimulating the body. Hence keeping people focused and aware of occurrence in their surroundings.

Amethyst Jewellery

  • Insomnia relief: With Amethyst in place, you can be assured of plentiful amounts of sleep at night. Which is important to every human being to sleep peacefully. It further helps in remembering and understanding of dreams.
  • Hormone production: Amethyst plays a very important role in general metabolism especially it assists the body in fighting and eliminating diseases. It also brings balance to the endocrine system by helping in the active production of hormones for use in the body.
  • Boosts immune system: This gemstone helps to purify blood thus reduces physical, emotional and psychological pain or stress. It is helpful for protection from diseases. Amethyst is useful for people suffering from diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract, skin conditions, disorders in cells and diseases of the digestive system.
  • Guards against psychic attack: By wearing the protective Amethyst crystal, one gets protection from all types of suffering including spiritual assault and those that may be as a result of external sources such as people.
Healing properties of Amethyst gemstone:- Healing of any gemstone is divided in several parts like:
1- Mind: Let’s first talk about mind. It helps the person to stay calm and stimulate the new ideas, it is one of the property of keeping the mind stress free and enhance the ability to keep mind in freedom motion. One of the best property that everyone want in real life. Hence in short we can say, it is useful to keep mind in calm and healthy.
Amethyst crystal
 
2- Body: Now second most important point is body. Having a perfect mind comes from a perfect body. Amethyst gemstone keeps the life balance by maintaining body and mind balance, it is always helpful for the people who struggle between the feeling of sadness and anxiety and more, so this gemstone is useful to keep body and mind in proper balance.
 
3- Spirit: Last but not the least is spirit. Amethysts have the impact on living life with high spirit. It helps the person to live life stress free. It help you to stay calm and face the chaos with full energy. Amethyst is the one which can provide you all these benefits.

Where to buy Amethysts from?

After knowing all the wonders which an amethysts wearer gets, you must be wondering from where we should buy the natural amethysts. Don’t worry Lapidary artist have so much to offer visit our store and buy the 100% natural amethyst for your jewellery needs. You can also check out our Instagram page.
I hope you like this blog & thank you for reading till the end keep supporting, and stay tuned for our upcoming blogs.
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