Peridot
Healing Benefits
Being a power cleanser, it releases and neutralises toxins on all levels. It helps to alleviate jealousy, resentment, spite, bitterness, irritation, hatred and greed. At the same time it also reduces stress and anger.
Peridot opens our hearts to happiness and new relationships, enhancing confidence and assertion that motivates growth and change. It sharpens and opens the mind to new levels of awareness banishing lethargy, apathy and exhaustion. It also enables you to take responsibility for your own life.
Peridot would also boost ones immune system, metabolism as well as skin condition. It aids disorders of the heart, thymus, lungs, gallbladder, spleen and intestinal tract. It treats ulcer and strengthens the eyes. It also helps to balance bipolar disorders and overcome hypochondria.
Feng Shui Benefits
Peridot can be placed in the home, and is often used in Feng Shui effectively. In Chinese astrology, it is considered the birthstone of those born in the Year of the Monkey. Green is seen as the color of abundance, and Peridot uses in Feng Shui are often designed to enable you to welcome bigger paydays and better career opportunities.
This crystal also promotes positivity and kindness, so it can help to ensure that good relations grow between you and your family and loved ones. It is also a refreshing energy in Feng Shui, and it can bring a more consistent level of energy to the home in terms of keeping you active and not inclined to just laze around feeling demotivated.
It is often encouraged to be placed by a window that captures a lot of sunlight, which will help to keep this stone refreshed and recharged. As for positioning the stone in the house according to many Feng Shui directives, it all depends on the color of the piece you’re thinking of. For example, yellow Peridot would be better suited towards the southern area of your home, which has ties to the Fire element. This will invite confidence, passion, creativity and a lot of courage into the lives of your loved ones, and you. Similarly, Peridot that is more green in color is best suited to positions in the eastern portions of your home. Green promotes tranquility and abundance in Feng Shui. Such that is put in the eastern side of your home in this way will really help to soothe and calm the family.