Apache Tears: Heaven and Earth - Jewelry, Crystals and Gems

key words.  Grounding, protection, enjoyment .  of physical experience, emotional cleansing. element.  Earth, Fire. chakras.  Root (1st), Sexual/Creative (2nd), .  Heart (4th) . Apache Tears are a variety of Obsidian, a silica-rich, glassy volcanic rock with a water content of less than one percent. Its hardness is 5 to 5.5. Apache tears are native to Mexico and the Southwest in the United States. Their name derives from a story about an Apache Indian tribe pursued by cavalry. It is said that the warriors were forced over a precipice to their deaths and that the dark tears of grief of the Apache women solidified into the droplet-shaped stones which can be found in that area. Apache Tears are roundish, about 1/2 inch to one inch in diameter, and are usually semi-transparent and black-brown in color.. Robert simmons.  Apache Tears, like most types of Obsidian, can be used for grounding and for protection from negative energies. They are convenient to carry in a pouch or pocket, because of their size and rounded form, and they feel 'friendlier' than any other variety of Obsidian. They link easily with one's emotional body and can be used to cleanse and heal old wounds or emotional 'baggage' one may be carrying from the past, whether in this life or a previous one.. Apache Tears facilitate processing and release of frozen emotional patterns, especially those held below one's level of awareness. They are ideal helpers when one is working to uncover and release such blockages - in spiritual counseling, therapy, breathwork or rebirthing. Meditation with Apache Tears can open the floodgates of grief, allowing cleansing and release of feelings of woundedness or victimization. . Apache Tears can be excellent talismans of protection from all sorts of negative forces. They raise one's level of psychic attunement, so one can 'feel' the approach of threatening per-sons, situations or energies. They can be a sort of 'vacuum cleaner' for negative vibrations, keeping one clear by magnetizing and neutralizing disharmonious frequencies. Thus they can also be used to cleanse one's own auric field and etheric body of all sorts of unpleasant influences, whether they are astral parasites or one's own chosen limitations and burdens.. Apache Tears ally themselves with other grounding and protective stones such as Smokey Quartz, Black Tourmaline, Aegirine, Red Garnet, Midnight Lemurian Jade and Healer's Gold. They also have a strong affinity with Moldavite, Tibetan Tektite and Libyan Gold Tektite. Though these stones have extraterrestrial origins, their structural similarity to Apache Tears provides an avenue for resonance. In these instances, the Apache Tears can help to ground in one's body the high frequencies of the various Tektites, allowing one to more easily integrate their energies. For emotional healing, Rhodochrosite can assist Apache Tears in awakening one to catharsis, forgiveness and release.. Naisha Ahsian.  Apache Tears are a form of Obsidian, often containing iron-based min-eral inclusions. Apache Tears carry a strong Earth element energy that assists one in connecting with the sacred aspects of the physical realm. Like other Obsidians, Apache Tears are also resonant with Fire energy, having been birthed from the volcanic crucible. This balance of Earth and Fire energies assists one in grounding energy and purifying the meridians and chakras. This ally assists in the creation and strengthening of the grounding cord extending from the base chakra through the Earthstar chakra below the soles of the feet, and into the heart of the planet. . Sometimes people on a spiritual path may deny the Earth plane and its lower-frequency energies. They may feel that the Earth is not spiritual and that one must move beyond the physical in order to attain spiritual understanding. They may even believe that only high-frequency energy is 'of the Light,' and that low-frequency energy is negative. Apache Tears remind us that Spirit is all around us - within every particle and wave of this dense material plane. Apache Tears help us understand that all frequencies of energy have emanated from the Divine Source and each fits into the Divine's plan for its creation. You can't have a rainbow with just the color purple! Apache Tears remind us that the lower frequencies of the Earth plane can also be sources of spiritual teaching and knowledge. They assist us in finding the humor in our human limitations and in the limitations of the material realm. They can aid one in discovering the joy in physical experience and in the beauty of the world. . Apache Tears teach us of the movement of energy throughout the natural world. They are excellent allies for the shaman because of their ability to assist one in crossing between the lower world and the Earth plane. They open the portals to the interdimensional worlds of Nature, helping one connect with the realms of Faery, the elemental beings, Devic energies and other sources of natural spiritual knowledge and energy.. Apache Tears are valuable for regulating excessive Fire element energy. They can be useful for the type A personality who may need to learn the value of stillness. They are strengthening to the blood and the immune system - especially useful for countering blood-born disease. They can help calm fever and lend general vitality and strength to the body. . Spiritual.  Apache Tears help one understand the value of the physical plane and the spiritual lessons it has to teach us. They are useful for psychic protection and can help one open to the realms of Nature spirits and other Earth cohabitants from this and other dimensions.. Emotional.  Apache Tears help those who feel trapped in physicality to find the joy in physical experience. They are useful in gently pointing out the value of this life to those who may tend toward depression. They help counter negative thought patterns and can assist one in finding more positive thoughts with which to create one's reality.. Physical.  These stones lend general strength and stamina, help to vitalize and purify the blood, stimulate hair and nail growth, and boost the immune system. . Affirmation.  I affirm that the Earth is my home, that I am grounded, safe and protected, and I release any wounds or negativity that might hold back my spiritual growth..

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