I’m going to go ahead and say it: you need Black Tourmaline in your crystal collection. It’s the crystal equivalent of full body armor, both inside and out.

Black Tourmaline is a complete psychic armor and auric cleanser, both shielding you from the effects of stressful situations (and people) and helping you to shed your own anxious or obsessive thoughts. We’re usually our own worst critic, and we all know how easy it is to fall into the downward what-if spiral. Instead of letting your anxiety win, Black Tourmaline grounds you, and then takes the energy you would be putting into that and redirects it into something useful.

This isn’t a stone of optimism, it’s a stone of regulation.