Monday, June 11, 2018

Everything you need to know about Lapiz Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli is a blue colored gemstone with inclusion of white calcite and silvery pyrite and has been a long time treasured gemstone. Did you know that during the Renaissance, Lapis was processed to make the pigment ultramarine, which was used in oil painting? There’s so much more to this beautiful gemstone than it seems.


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Today, Lapis Lazuli is being used to make handmade jewellery and people are drooling over its beauty. You can get it crafted in either precious metals like Gold or artificial jewellery metals like brass.

Here’s everything you need to know about Lapiz Lazuli.

Meaning and Healing Benefits:

Lapis Lazuli is a dark blue micro-crystalline rock. Treasured by the ancient Egyptians for its powerful ability to bring spiritual transformation, the Lapis Lazuli crystal has practical healing applications. Being an excellent remedy for migraines and headaches, it is a natural alternative to aspirin.

This stone is also known to stimulate the third eye chakra. Here’s how to do it:

Place it on your forehead and inhale deeply while feeling its rays of light infuse into your body and fill it with its healing energy. On the exhale, imagine all the bad energy being released.

In earlier times, Lapis Lazuli was thought to be a strong medicine. The Romans believed Lapiz Lazuli to be a powerful aphrodisiac. In the Middle Ages, Lapiz Lazuli was used to keep the wearer healthy and free the soul from negative vibes, envy and fear. Buddhists believed that Lapiz Lazuli was associated with inner peace, brought wisdom and clear judgement.

Lapis Lazuli is a semi-precious gemstone and it helps to create awareness about the spiritual purpose in your life. It is also known to alleviate stress and bring relief.

Lapis Lazuli is a powerful crystal known for activating the higher mind and enhancing the intellectual ability of a person. It stimulates the desire for knowledge, truth and understanding. It also aids the process of learning and enhances memory. Lapis Lazuli also encourages self-awareness, allows self-expression and reveals an inner truth. It also provides encourages honesty, compassion and morality, stimulates objectivity, clarity and encourages creativity as well.


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Lapis Lazuli helps to confront and inspires confidence. It bonds relationships and aids in an expression of feelings and emotions.

Lapis Lazuli, the blue colored gemstone helps to improve the immune system, purifies the blood, and lowers the blood pressure. It also has cooling and anti-inflammatory properties. Lapiz Lazuli also alleviates insomnia and helps to overcome depression.

It can alleviate eye infections. A Lapis heated in sunlight, reduces bruising and is good for skin problems and alleviates insect bites as well.

Source:

Mines in northeast Afghanistan and Pakistan are the major source of lapis lazuli. Major amounts of Lapis Lazuli are also produced from mines west of Lake Baikal in Russia, and in the Andes mountains in Chile. Smaller quantities of Lapiz Lazuli are mined in Italy, Mongolia, the United States, and Canada. In the US Lapis Lazuli is mined in Colorado and California.

Do you know more about this beautiful gemstone? Drop comments and let us know!

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