Herkimer Diamonds are not actually Diamonds, but naturally six-sided, double terminated Quartz crystals. Herkimer Diamonds are often so bright and shiny that they resemble Diamonds. The name comes from Herkimer, New York where these bright, double terminated crystals were originally found. Herkimer Diamonds are called “attunement stones" and are useful in attuning you with others, your surroundings, or new energies. This makes Herkimer Diamonds a natural choice to assist in Reiki attunements and other types of energy work.

Herkimer Diamonds help to relieve tensions, producing a peaceful calm. Working with Herkimer Diamonds is said to bring visions and an increase in psychic experiences. Great for meditation, Herkimer Diamonds can help one to experience true Divine Grace and bring Divine energy down into the Third-Eye and Crown Chakras. As such, Herkimers have the capacity to aid in astral travel and lucid dreaming.

The Herkimer Diamond is a stone of release and relaxation. It helps to clear the mind/body of unconscious fears and repressions, allowing for a complete and total relaxation and expansion of life energy. The Herkimer Diamond can also be helpful to release and remove toxins from the body.

Herkimer Diamond Physical Healing Energy

Herkimer crystal is a supreme remedy for fighting pain. Placed on the afflicted area, the energetic current begins to circulate in as little as three to four minutes, reducing the pain until it disappears.

Herkimer Diamond is a powerful purifier, ridding the body of toxins, and has been used to correct imbalances in RNA/DNA, cellular disorders, and metabolic rate. It is helpful in preventing physical exhaustion and burnout, and stimulates immune defenses.

Herkimer alleviates tension in the outer and physical bodies, and helps to re-align the energy structure. It also releases tensions and rigidities of body tissues, allowing for memory recall in these areas to help facilitate healing.

Herkimer is also supportive of the eyes and is useful in eyesight correction or healing.

Herkimer Diamond Emotional Healing Energy

Herkimer Diamond carries an energy of delicate harmony and an understanding of the essential being within the self. It allows for appreciation of all that is within us, and encourages us to recognize that there is "nothing to become," that we already are what we are seeking and only need to allow the actualization. [Melody, 319]

Herkimers encourage the concept of beginning again in this lifetime, clearing the body-mind system of unconscious fears and repressions, and allowing for total relaxation and expansion of the Life energy.

Rare, water-included Herkimer Diamonds are special healers of the emotional body, helping to see one's deepest self and in bringing the light of Spirit into dark places. In clear Herkimers, water inclusions stimulate the heart center, creating an illuminating and uplifting energy that may bring on feelings of rapture. In foggier Herkimers, water inclusions allow one to see what one fears most within oneself, without judgment or losing heart. Water-and-carbon-included Herkimers assist in removing energetic chords, arrows or patterns from the emotional body.

Physical and Metaphysical Properties for

PROPERTIES FOR STONE: Herkimer Diamond

PRIMARY CHAKRA: Third-Eye-Chakra

SECONDARY CHAKRA: Crown-Chakra

CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Trigonal-Crystal-System

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: SiO2 Silicon Dioxide

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aries-(March-21-to-April-19), Sagittarius-(November-22-to-December-21)

NUMERICAL VIBRATION: Number-3

HARDNESS: 7-Hardness

COLOR: Clear

LOCATION: Herkimer, New York, USA

RARITY: Common

PRONUNCIATION: HUR-kuh-mer DIE-muhnd

MINERAL CLASS: Silicates-Mineral-Class

ISSUES AND AILMENTS (PHYSICAL): Balances-Metabolism, Bronchitis, Cancer, Cellular-Disorders-and-Healing, Chemotherapy, Colds-and-Flu, Detoxifying, DNA-Damage-or-Repair, Mental-Clarity, Radiation, Throat

ISSUES AND AILMENTS (EMOTIONAL): Fear, Letting-Go, Peace-and-Peacefulness, Relaxation, Repression

ISSUES AND AILMENTS (SPIRITUAL): Ancient-Knowledge-and-Wisdom, Angel-Communication-and-Connection, Animal-Communication, Ascension-Process, Attunement, Aura-Revitalizing, Clairvoyance, Clarity, Dream-Interpretation-and-Recall, Electromagnetic-Frequencies/Smog/Pollution, Enhancing-Psychic-Abilities, Growth, Guidance, Healing, Shielding, Visualization

EXTRA GRADE: Ice water clear, transparent, minor inclusions, < 10% matrix

A GRADE: Clear, partially translucent, 10% - 25% matrix

B GRADE: Clear to white, opaque, and/or > 25% matrix

AFFIRMATION: I easily manifest my desires.

QUESTION: Do you participate in any manifestation practices?

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