Best Crystals for Mood Swings (15 Soothing Gemstones)
By Giselle L.
What crystals help with mood swings?
Anger, sadness, intense happiness. The whole spectrum of feelings, from one moment to the next.
Sounds like mood swings.
Crystals are powerful tools for returning to balance when you feel yourself getting moody.
Here are our top picks to help combat those uncontrollable moods and bring back feelings of joy.
1. Black Tourmaline
Black tourmaline is always in our lists of top grounding stones.
Its highly protective properties help repel negative energies, including intense mood swings, anger, depression, and sadness.
Black tourmaline is also often used to improve self-esteem and confidence.
It clears negative thoughts and removes stress, which often spiral out of control and make anxiety worse.
Wear black tourmaline on a bracelet or necklace to keep it close. I like to keep a piece of this crystal in a small baggy and keep it in my purse.
2. Tiger’s Eye
Tiger’s Eye is honestly one of my favorite crystals for its strangely reflective, cat-eye-like appearance.
Its golden brown bands shift colors under light, giving it shiny caramel-like tones.
Just holding a tiger’s eye stone between my fingers and watching the golden stripes change as I turn it around brings me a sense of calm.
This stone is also believed to bring good luck and happiness. People who wear tiger’s eye jewelry believe it brings them good fortune and success.
3. Amethyst
Amethyst has been used for centuries to bring balance to the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
This beautiful purple stone is believed to protect against psychic attacks, boost intuition and enhance spiritual awareness.
Wearing amethyst helps protect against negativity while bringing confidence and optimism.
Because of its ability to increase focus, concentration, and memory, amethyst is highly recommended for gaining back control of mood swings.
4. Citrine
Citrine is one of the top popular gems in the world for its sunny-golden glow.
Its yellowish appearance makes it look like a small piece of a solid sun ray.
Who wouldn’t want a bit of sunshine in their pocket?
Citrine helps calm anxiety and anger, boosts energy levels and alleviates depression. It strengthens relationships too, which makes it great for couples.
This gemstone also gives you more confidence and helps you focus on new things in life, such as trying new hobbies or switching jobs.
5. Clear Quartz
Clear quartz is an amazing crystal with strong healing properties.
With its soothing clarity which emits a calming energy, clear quartz helps to balance our emotions.
It helps us release negative emotions such as anger, fear, guilt and resentment, which make it perfect for meditating.
Clear quartz may also increase self-esteem, helping us feel more balanced and confident in ourselves.
This is especially helpful if mood swings give you low energy levels, fatigue and exhaustion.
6. Rose Quartz
Rose quartz is one of the best crystals for positive feelings – not only towards others, but to ourselves.
The gentle pink hues and warm energy radiating from this stone calms the mind when we’re feeling annoyed, irritated, or just plain moody.
Rose quartz vibrates at the heart chakra which is responsible for our connection to love and compassion.
These qualities help us to maintain a steady state of peace and happiness, even when life throws us curveballs.
7. Turquoise
Turquoise is a stone of transformation.
Its known as a “stone of balance” because its stark color contrasts represent duality, both light and dark, male and female.
Turquoise also encourages self-reflection and meditation. It helps us become more aware of our inner world and our outer environment.
This self-awareness is important for controlling our mood swings and balancing our emotions.
As a popular gemstone in jewelry, it’s easy to wear turquoise and keep it close.
8. Carnelian
Carnelian’s earthy red tones create a passionate energy, which boosts confidence and motivates you to achieve goals.
This crystal gives you the courage you need to walk away from negative energies that contribute to mood swings.
If you feel stressed, angry or depressed wearing carnelian can help you feel calmer and more peaceful.
Carnelians also stimulate the mind. This means that wearing them can make you more creative and improve your memory.
9. Aventurine
The jade-like green color of aventurine evokes a sense of Mother Nature’s healing energy.
It’s the perfect stone for grounding and bringing ourselves back to earth, especially when we’re feeling stressed or angry.
Its stimulating energy creates positive vibrations, which promote optimism and confidence.
Aventurine also stimulates the mind and encourages creative thinking.
It helps us discover new ways of looking at things, and encourages us to keep our eyes wide open to opportunities for growth.
10. Bloodstone
Bloodstone is a unique crystal for its green jasper appearance with flecks of red hematite.
The result is a stone that looks doused in drops of blood, hence its name.
Bloodstone is an excellent gemstone if you suffer from stress and tension. It helps to relieve feelings of nervousness, agitation and restlessness.
Meditating with this crystal calms the mind and reduces mood swings. This ensures emotional balance – the foundation for peace of mind.
11. Selenite
Feeling constantly overwhelmed? Maybe you’re drowning in deadlines at work, or family issues are stressing you out?
Then selenite is the crystal for you.
This stone is often used to cleanse other crystals, but its purification properties make it a strong healing stone on its own.
Selenite also improves mental clarity and concentration, boosting brain power.
These qualities make it powerful for fighting against anxiety, promoting positive thinking, and battling depression.
12. Shungite
Shungite looks like a cross between obsidian and hematite, but this black stone has incredible healing properties of its own.
This gemstone is famous for its ability to cleanse the body, balance emotions, and relieve stress.
Shungite is very useful for cleansing us from harmful energies, which includes unattractive qualities within ourselves – such as short tempers, impatience, or jealousy.
Clearing out this negativity from within ourselves helps with balancing our emotions and stabilizing mood swings.
13. Moonstone
Moonstone is a great gem stone for grounding and emotional balance.
It reminds us that life is cyclic – our lives pass, and we should enjoy every day as it comes.
Moonstone’s grounding energy encourages us to accept change and look forward to what lies ahead.
It’s a great stone for for battling existential anxiety, which can cause intense mood swings without any warning.
As an added bonus, moonstone’s beauty makes wearing it feel extra special. When worn, it enhances confidence and self-esteem.
14. Sunstone
Sunstone occurs in fiery orange colors clouded in white, looking like an image of the sun from outer space.
Its fierce energy brings light to the darkness, calm to the storm.
Like the sun, it rejuvenates and promotes positive energies to bring cheer, joy, and happiness to your life.
If your mood swings are so intense that you don’t even remember what it feels like to be happy, keep sunstone close.
Meditate with this stone and keep it in your pocket to bring a little ray of sunshine to your daily life.
15. Opal
Opals enhance our intuition and sense of direction, which help us navigate our emotions easier.
They also protect against negativity. If you feel yourself becoming too stressed out, angry, or depressed, wearing opals may give you relief.
Gaining back control of these negative emotions help keep mood swings at bay.
Opal is a popular gemstone in jewelry, so it’s the perfect addition to your everyday wear as a necklace or on a ring.
How to use healing stones for mood swings
Once you’ve chosen your crystals for mood swings, there are several ways to gain their benefits:
1. One popular way to relax and reduce stress is to meditate with gemstones. Meditation has been proven to lower blood pressure, increase brain activity and improve memory.
Try taking a few minutes each day to sit quietly, close your eyes and focus on your breathing. Hold your crystals in your hands and use them to visualize emotional balance and tranquility.
Breathe slowly and deeply inhaling and exhaling fully.
2. Try wearing a crystal necklace or bracelet.
Crystals are powerful energy tools that absorb negative energies.
By wearing them you can balance out your emotions and clear away negative feelings.
3. Place your crystals throughout your home to fill your space with healing energy.
Not only may crystals transform the energy in your home, but they also serve as gorgeous decor.
Having crystals around your home also gives your eyes an easy focal point whenever you feel moody. They’ll serve as a visual reminder to take a mental break, slow down, and relax.
Balancing mood swings with crystals
Crystals aren’t magic, but they can be helpful in better regulating your emotions.
Once you choose a crystal that resonates most closely with you, you can start the path to healing.
Whether it’s a stone that symbolizes strength, love, harmony or joy, choose one that best represents your personal energy.
This connection is key to your path to balance and tranquility.
Please note: We at Maple Crystals recognize there are no substantial scientific studies that prove the effectiveness of crystal healing. But we believe crystals can be used to center one’s self for positive manifestation. Crystal healing is not to replace treatment from medical professionals.