The Jumpstart Stone
Emotional Balance, Inner Peace, Awareness
Metaphysical Properties
- Helps you find joy in little things
- Can bring about an attitude change
- Can increase drive and self confidence
- Aligns and activates the chakra column
- Helps you let go of patterns that no longer serve you
- Harmonizes all the emotions within your body, mind, and soul
- Cuts down on the harmful side effects of electromagnetic pollution
- Helps you pay attention to the synchronicities in your life, which creates more deja vu moments
- Help to clear any blockages from the Heart Chakra, the Third Eye Chakra, and the Crown Chakra
- Helps remind you that you need to start somewhere, which is why it is referred to as “ The Jumpstart Stone”
- Helps soften energies affecting the emotional body, which helps keep your mental state operating in a calm manner
- Creates a connection between the heart and the third eye, which helps you become more in touch with your emotions
- Helps reorganize and restructure your behavior patterns and thoughts, and helps embrace times of change, flux, and flow
- Recognizes imbalances between self and shadow self, and works with us to move to a place of long-term healing and harmonious self-love
- Teaches you how to self-soothe and make choices that come with a heightened sense of awareness and commitment to your own health and happiness.
Affirmations
- I maintain my center through the storm of life
- I am emotionally balanced and filled with inner peace
- Every breath I inhale calms me and every breath I exhale takes away tension
Correspondence
- Chakras: All
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Jupiter, Neptune
- Element: Water
- Zodiacs: Libra, Pisces
- Number: 8
Physical Properties
- Color: Colorless, Gray, White, Pink, and Purple
- Habit: Masses, Plates, Aggregates, Stacked sheets, and Prismatic crystal
- Rarity: Rare
- Luster: Vitreous to pearly
- Species: Mica
- Zoning: Yes
- Gravity: 2.8–2.9
- Fracture: Uneven
- Cleavage: {001} perfect
- Hardness: 3-4, Can only be cut and polished when found within Quartz
- Twinning: Rare, composition plane {001}
- Locations: Worldwide, but abundantly in Brazil, Madagascar, Australia, Russia, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and the United States
- Fluorescence: Possible, not common
- Pleochroism: X = almost colorless; Y = Z = pink, pale violet
- Birefringence: 0.0290–0.0380
- Transparency: Transparent to translucent
- Named After: The Greek word "'lepidos'' for scale and "lithos'' for stone. A name that pays homage to the dragon-like texture of this dreamy high fantasy feeling stone. It was first called Lilalite because of its lavender coloring
- Classification: Phyllosilicate
- Melting point: 1170C
- Discovered In: First discovered in the 19th century
- Luminescence: Yes
- Discovered By: Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
- Chemical Name: Lithium Mica
- Refractive Index: 1.554–1.586
- System/Structure: Monoclinic
- Chemical Formula: KLi2Al(Si4O10)(F, OH)2 to K(Li1.5Al1.5)(AlSi3O10)(F, OH)2
- Inclusions (streak): White
- Chemistry Classification: Lithium, Aluminum, Potassium mineral
Health Benefits
- Stabilizes Moods
- Increases dopamine levels
- Boosts the immune system
- Harmonizes the immune system
- Most effective crystal for anxiety
- Known to help numb sciatica and neuralgia
- Reduces problems associated with Alzheimer’s
- Aids in calming newborns and preventing anxieties and depressions in their future
- Helps the body and mind deal with changes brought on by hormonal cycles and menopause
- Used as a source of lithium - a remedy often turned to for those who suffer jangled emotions, high mood swings, and symptoms of bipolar