Lapis Lazuli
Healing Benefits
A stone of protection that may be worn to guard against psychic attacks, Lapis Lazuli quickly releases stress, bringing deep peace. It brings harmony and deep inner self-knowledge. Encourages self-awareness, allows self-expression and reveals inner truth, providing qualities of honesty, compassion and morality to the personality. Stimulates objectivity, clarity and encourages creativity. Lapis Lazuli assists to confront and speak one’s truth and inspires confidence. It bonds relationships, aiding in expression of feelings and emotions.
Lapis Lazuli boosts the immune system, purifies blood, lowers blood pressure, cooling and soothing areas of inflammation. It alleviates insomnia and vertigo, and overcomes depression. Lapis Lazuli benefits the respiratory and nervous systems and the throat, vocal cords, and thyroid, cleanses organs, bone marrow and thymus.
Feng Shui Benefits
In feng shui, lapis lazuli is used for many purposes. When it has speckles of gold in it, lapis lazuli becomes a perfect feng shui cure for wealth & abundance. A deep blue color sphere can bring protective energies to one's home, as well as help neutralize negative energies present in the family. The energy of lapis lazuli is also used as a health cure. And lastly, lapis lazuli is used as a feng shui cure for success in studies (for children) or business success and career advancement.
Depending on the energies you want to work on, you will place your lapis lazuli in the following feng shui Bagua areas: Southeast (Wealth & Abundance), East (Health) or North (Career & Path in Life). A small lapis lazuli sphere in your child's room or the living room is always a good idea. You can also place the lapis lazuli on your altar, or have a small tumble stone close to your bed.