Loving the Rose Quartz

When I was in my late teens, I was going through a tough time with feeling insecure and having a low self-esteem.

I hung out with the wrong crowd, had terribly self-destructive behavior, and was basically hating myself so much that I woke up everyday wishing I was dead.

Not a good way to live.

When I finally got myself out of the situation I was in, I realized that while I no longer wanted to die, I was a long way from healing and loving myself again.

I remembered reading about Rose Quartz being used for self-love and emotional healing, and I thought, hey, I need that. Rose Quartz is generally associated with love, gentleness, releasing stress, and the Heart Chakra. There are people who use it to attract love, spread compassion and kindness, and even for help in healing physical problems of the heart.

I believed that gemstones do store some energy, to an extent, but I didn’t believe enough to think that a rock was so powerful as to be able to magically turn me into a strong and self-confident teenager overnight after the months of emotional beating I had. Let’s face it, I wanted it mostly because it was a pretty piece of jewellery, and retail therapy has been proven to work!

So I bought one, and it looked like this:

Beautiful, isn’t it? Mine was a pendant that I wore on a gold chain everyday.

Surprisingly, within a couple of weeks, it had begun to work. Since then, I have never underestimated the power of stones again. I bought it with the intent of healing myself emotionally and to help me love myself again, I was not looking for love from anyone else. However, that was what I got, at least initially.

I’m not sure how to say this next thing without sounding vain and egotistical, but I swear this is the truth; no less than seven guys started going after me. I wasn’t attracted to any of them, and I wouldn’t say that they “loved” me exactly (the Rose Quartz is meant for love, not lust or infatuation, after all), so it’s not like the Roze Quartz was a magic love potion or anything.

However, I did start feeling more strong and confident. I was starting to love myself again, accept myself for who I was, cut myself some slack for making mistakes, and was ready to help myself back up again after my bad falls.

It might have been because I was starting to regain my confidence that attracted those guys to me, or maybe it was those guys going after me that helped me regain my confidence. The chicken and egg question. Either way, I have no doubt that the Rose Quartz played a huge role in my emotional healing. Sometimes, when you experience things like these, you just know, you know?

I still have a lot to learn about stones, and even the Rose Quartz itself, but one lesson I never forget about stones is how powerful they actually are.