Emerald opens the heart chakra* and has a calming effect on the emotions. This stone ensures physical, emotional, and mental equilibrium. It eliminates negativity and brings in positive actions. Focusing intention and raising consciousness, it brings about positive action. An open heart allows the cornucopia of universal blessings to flow into one's life, and perhaps this is why Emerald is also known as a stone of prosperity. Wearing Emerald helps attune one's vibrational pattern to the spectrum of abundance, allowing one to attract what one needs and desires.
Emerald has also traditionally been used to stimulate both wealth and abundance. Wealth represents one's physical and material possessions and financial standing. Emerald assists one in creating wealth by removing thoughts and feelings of unworthiness from one's energy field. When these blocks are removed, wealth can naturally develop if desired. Emerald also assists in experiencing true abundance, which is not the same as wealth. Abundance describes one's ability to receive the gifts of Spirit within all of life's experiences. It is a sense of opening one's life to the Divine and embracing all its manifestations with gratitude. True abundance is knowing that all is provided and that there can be no lack in reality.
It enhances psychic abilities, opens clairvoyance*, and stimulates gathering wisdom from the mental planes. Traditionally, emerald was said to protect from enchantment and the ploys of magicians, and to foretell the future.
Emerald is also a stone of courage—another emotion which emanates from the strong and open heart. It helps one move forward on the 'path with heart,' regardless of any threats or dangers which seem to threaten one. Emerald gives the strength of character to overcome the misfortunes of life. It is a stone of regeneration and recovery and can heal negative emotions. It enhances the ability to enjoy life to the fullest. It is helpful in cases of claustrophobia. Emerald is a wonderful emotional healer. It allows one to display one's compassionate, caring nature without fear of vulnerability. It encourages one to trust the Divine in all things and to surrender one's personal version of what reality 'should' be. Emerald can assist in overcoming feelings of unworthiness, fear of scarcity and abandonment. It encourages acceptance of others without judgment or imposition of one's own views of reality.

Emerald imparts mental clarity, strengthens memory, inspires a deep inner knowing, and broadens vision. It is a wisdom stone, promoting discernment and truth, and aiding eloquent expression. It helps bring to the surface what is unconsciously known. Emerald is extremely beneficial to mutual understanding within a group of people, stimulating cooperation.

HEALING: Emerald stimulates the physical heart and clears the emotional body of patterns of victimization and rejection of personal power. It brings a freshness and vitality to, the emotional and physical heart. Emerald cures a variety of diseases, assuages fear, improves memory, enhances persuasiveness, brings joy and even bestows the gift of prophecy. Emerald is a strong heart healer and can assist the physical heart in recovering from all manner of imbalances or diseases. Emerald aids recovery after infectious illness. It treats sinuses, lungs, heart, spine, and muscles, and soothes the eyes. It improves vision and has a detoxifying effect on the liver. Emerald alleviates rheumatism and diabetes. It has been used as an antidote to poisons. Worn around the neck, Emerald was believed to ward off epilepsy. Its green ray can assist healing of malignant conditions.

POSITION: Wear on the little finger, ring finger, over the heart, or on the right arm. Position as appropriate for healing. Do not wear constantly it can trigger negative emotions. Opaque Emeralds are not suitable for mental attunement.