Black Tourmaline

Manifestation

This incredibly grounding stone clears distractions and deterrents from your mind, helping you walk forward on a clearly laid out path towards your goals, one step at a time, strident and sure. As you work with black tourmaline you’ll notice yourself naturally moving forward and progressing on your goals, finding more clarity and the ability to structure your days to focus your energy on accomplishing what you set out to.

You can use it to help you bring your dreams and ideas and intentions down into the real world through taking practical daily actions and strong, confident steps forward toward what you want for your life. It helps you stay rational, grounded, disciplined, and patient towards getting what you want but helps you see the big picture of the path that’s been paved for you, directing you right towards where you want to go.

You can hold it, place it in your lap or down by your feet as you sit and journal about your goals or write out your plans or to-do lists, or while you sit in meditation or contemplation about your purpose and what you want for your future. It helps you stay grounded and realistic while also clearing out the fog and clutter so you can focus on the highest, most aligned goals that will help you serve your soul’s purpose here on Earth.

Love & Relationship

Black tourmaline is an excellent crystal to help you stay grounded, clear-headed, and rational when making decisions in your relationships, especially if you’re mind or emotions have been running away with you. If there’s been heavy drama, tension, stress, or anxiety in your relationships, sitting with black tourmaline, having it on you or in between you both as you’re discussing things, can help cut through the fog of emotions to the core reality of the matter at hand, and lead to a balanced conclusion.

It’s a good stone to keep at the center of the room where people gather, to keep the vibes clear and absorb any heavy or toxic energy out of the space. It’s a good companion stone to pair with heart-healing crystals such as rhodonite, rose quartz, or emerald so that as they work to bring wounds up to the surface for healing, processing, and repair, black tourmaline can come in and sop up the mess, clean up what’s left, and make sure there are no energetic crumbs or debris remaining.

Black tourmaline is also a great stone for business relationships or to keep with you at work, to bring clear, focused, pragmatic energy to the surface, to boost work ethic and integrity in those relationships, and increase everyone’s feeling of responsibility for doing their part in making things work out harmoniously.

Shadow Work

One of the best stones you can use for shadow work, black tourmaline is psychically and spiritually protective to help you move into the deep dark places within yourself while feeling a sense of inner security and support. It will show you the pathway through the darkness, the way to the wisdom and lessons and learning that lie on the other side of the pain.

Like a bridge, it supports you in processing and moving through the dark and heavy energies and density of life, the toxic and traumatic moments, the repressed shame and blame, through to the other side where there is light, awareness, peace, balance, and a deeper understanding of yourself, why you’re here and what you’re meant to do in this world.

Lay down and close your eyes with black tourmaline placed on your lower abdomen or down between your legs, and feel it or sense it like a psychic vacuum sucking up the densest, darkest, heaviest energies you’ve been carrying within your psyche, within your subconscious, dragging them down deep into the Earth where they will be turned into compost to nourish new growth and the expansion of who you are.

You can also hold black tourmaline in your dominant hand as you intend in your mind or recite out loud to release any energies you’ve been carrying that don’t belong to you, to release fear and shock and any secrets hiding in the shadows down into the earth, to release anything that’s been hindering and weighing you down… and focus on your exhales, as you let the black tourmaline sop up all the mess, absorbing it into itself, with the strength to hold all the darkness you could possibly throw at it.

Physical Healing

Physically energizing and strengthening, black tourmaline is a great stone to have on you or near you when you need a boost of energy or to build up your endurance and resilience. In Daoist stone medicine, it’s associated with the kidneys which are like our energetic batteries, and this shiny black stone helps recharge those inner batteries so your overall vitality is enhanced.

It’s also physically detoxifying and purifying to help rid the body of toxins and waste and lower the viral load, boosting your immunity, attacking chronic disease, and reducing heavy metal toxicity and radiation. Bring it with you next time you need an x-ray or sleep with it when you’re feeling sick or exhausted.

It’s also a good protector from EMFs and for electronic sensitivity and to generally clear toxicity in the environment or space around you. You can keep a black tourmaline pyramid or sphere near your wifi router, computer, or other electronics to help mitigate and transmute any harmful effects. You can also place your black tourmaline on or near any area of pain in your body and breathe with it for a few moments and it will work to absorb the pain and dense energies.

Self Care

Black tourmaline is a great stone to wear or carry with you throughout the day to help you deal with any daily stress, tension, anxiety, anger, or overstimulated nerves. It will absorb and transmute any toxic or dense energies within you or that you encounter throughout the day. It’s also highly protective in blocking external interfering and detrimental energies that are all around you, from wi-fi and EMFs to manipulative information to harmful intentions from others. Black tourmaline will keep you feeling strong, stable, secure, and safe within yourself.

It’s also a beautiful confidence booster and encourager, with supportive energies that can help you escape the derailment of self-criticism, get you out of analysis paralysis, and back into your body, taking action on your goals. Use it to help you stay focused and committed to any self-care goals you have, or just to stay present and engaged with whatever’s in front of you at the moment.

You’ll also want to reach for black tourmaline anytime you feel like you’re emotionally sensitive or overly empathic, too absorbing of other people’s energies, and no longer want to carry the emotional burdens of others. Simply wearing it or carrying it in your pocket and holding it with the intent to keep your aura strong and impenetrable will help you walk through crowded spaces and places and interact with all sorts of different energies with a sense of inner strength, from a grounded, centered place within you.

You can also use black tourmaline each evening or before bed to help you discharge and release any excessive or detrimental energies you’ve picked up throughout the day, as a great nightly self-care ritual. It’s also a good choice to help you develop and stick to the habit of energetically cleansing yourself, and the perfect tool to do it with.

Intuitive Development

Although it’s a grounding, earthy crystal, black tourmaline has a knack for plugging us into the deep intuitive wisdom that we carry in the dark and unconscious parts of ourselves, the knowing that’s in our bones and DNA, instilling us with a strength of purpose and agency that can only come from our soul. It’s also an amazing tool to keep us grounded, connected, and protected from harm as we explore the astral and play in the realms of spirit in an effort to know ourselves better.

When you’re ready to stop questioning yourself and stop ignoring those intuitive hits you get, black tourmaline is an amazing choice to help you harness your inner power and act on the guidance of your soul. Just wear or carry it with you, work with it over time, and you will slowly but surely notice that you’re beginning to trust yourself more and trust that the path will rise to meet you wherever you walk.

Black tourmaline increases instinctual intuition, the ability to act and move and make choices by trusting your body and innate urges, as well as your ability to connect with the very clear voice of reason that pierces through the mind and emotions, which can often get in the way of hearing your intuition clearly. Lay with it placed on your forehead over your third eye chakra to cleanse and clear through all the gunk that’s in the way of you receiving clear intuitive guidance.

Meditation

Black tourmaline is one of the best grounding crystals to meditate with when you need to escape mental and emotional turmoil and connect with the center of peace within your body. It will drop your energy down into your root, into your internal power and physical strength, reconnecting you with the roots of who you are and with the power and strength of the Earth beneath your feet.

Whenever you feel heaviness, density, ickiness, or darkness within you, meditate holding black tourmaline, or with it placed behind your tailbone in between your legs at your root chakra, and allow it to guide your awareness back into your body and into all the answers that exist right here and now.

🖤 Our guided black tourmaline meditation takes you through a purifying practice to release dark, heavy energies and strengthen your internal sense of purpose so you can bring your highest goals to life. 🌟