Liberty™ Bracelet: Sodalite with Blue Chalcedony & Blue Sapphire

Benefits of Sodalite with Blue Chalcedony & Blue Sapphire Formula:

The Liberty gemstone formula was designed to help you realize the positive potential of your mind. To do that, it supports your ability to choose positive thoughts by clearing away negative ones, foggy ones, and ones that aren’t yours.

When these thoughts collect in your body and aura, they inhibit the flow of creative mental energy coming into your life and can interfere with healthy mental, emotional, and physical function. Negative thoughts also tend to attract and incite more of the same. If accumulating in your body, they can lull you into a downward spiral of limited, close-minded, and unhealthy thinking.

Wear Liberty When You Want to:

• Let go of limiting beliefs and thought patterns.
• Become resilient to the effects of others’ negative thoughts.
• Free yourself of negative thoughts and the tendency to self-sabotage.
• Overcome creative blocks and improve mental clarity.
• Think more positive and uplifting thoughts.

Wear Liberty When You Feel:

• Mentally sluggish, blocked, and unfocused.
• Overwhelmed and pressured.
• Burdened by foggy thinking.

Liberty is Ideal For Those Who:

• Rely on a high level of creative output and problem-solving for their livelihood.
• Have difficulty distinguishing between what they want to do and what others want them to do.
• Realize the unhealthy impact of negative thinking on their health and wellness.

To read more about the benefits of this bracelet, see its corresponding necklace:

Liberty™ Necklace

Liberty Healing Quality

Therapeutic Sodalite Quality Parameters

Natural Sodalite spherical gems vary quite a bit in appearance. No two beads are alike. This variation should be kept in mind as you compare your necklace with our color and clarity criteria. Regardless of color grade, it is particularly important that a therapeutic-quality Sodalite necklace be comprised of spheres with consistent blue and white coloration throughout the necklace.

The consistent blue and white coloration gives the necklace a distinct character that expresses its own range of vibrations. Necklaces with too much variation in the beads’ color express a wide range of vibration that is unorganized and scattered. The more consistent the color, the more focused the necklace’s work can be. Collecting spheres of relatively consistent color and clarity variation is challenging because Sodalite spheres vary so much. But we make the effort because we know that it will make a difference in the healing value of the final product.
You may be attracted to a lighter or darker variety of Sodalite, regardless of its color grade. Follow that attraction, because it will lead you to Sodalite that is more harmonious with you, and therefore more effective.

Color

Therapeutic-quality Sodalite is a blue and white stone. It ranges in color from light to dark blue, and rarely may be violet-blue. It is free of color impurities such as yellows and reds. Sodalite naturally occurs with veins and patches of white, which are a therapeutically important part of the stone.

Our color rating focuses on the intensity of the blue coloration, which is caused by the presence of colloidal particles of metallic sodium in the Sodalite. The darker the color, the more sodium present in the stone.

5A color quality is awarded to bright, royal blue specimens.

4A color rankings are awarded to Sodalite that strays slightly from the ideal, either one way or the other; it’s typically a medium-light, denim color or a dark medium blue.

3A color quality is given to Sodalite whose color appears in a wider range. It may be a light denim blue or dark blue.

2A colors are either very light blue or indigo blue and are barely to somewhat therapeutic.

1A see 2A parameters.

Recently, Sodalite with a silvery gray sheen has become prevalent in the market. Based on tests performed by a G.I.A. certified gemologist, this shimmer is an optical phenomenon caused by the arrangement of Sodalite molecules. We usually find that optical phenomena like this support the healing properties of the gemstone, and this silvery sheen would do that too if it were blue. But we have only seen it in patches of gray or black Sodalite in an otherwise blue bead. Because the shiny gray Sodalite replaces the amount of healing blue Sodalite in the bead, we must consider it an inclusion.

Some gray sheen is acceptable if it doesn’t interfere with the overall blue appearance of the stone. A stone that appears overly gray does not have enough blue Sodalite to give you the desired healing benefits. A stone that has any amount of gray on it will not be given a grade higher than 3A.

Clarity

Sodalite is an opaque stone. We grade its clarity based on the quality of the white veins and patches that are a natural characteristic of Sodalite.

5A Sodalite contains minimal, well-defined, relatively equally distributed white veins or patches that do not overwhelm the blue coloration, which remains distinct.

4A Sodalite strays from the ideal, as it contains either fewer or more well-defined streaks or patches of white that may not be as well distributed, and the blue color is distinct.

3A Sodalite contains an even wider range of white veins and patches that have indistinct edges randomly distributed throughout the stone, or that may be pale or only visible up close under bright lighting. The blue color is obvious but may be tinted with white.

2A Sodalite has blotchy white patches or whiteness that overwhelms the stone.

1A See 2A parameters.

Candescence

Candescence relates to a gemstone’s interaction with light, and can include any special benefit-enhancing optical phenomena it displays. We generally grade Sodalite candescence 3A unless something about its shine or optical phenomenon is particularly special.

Gem-quality Sodalite, which is translucent and features white streaks, is rare to find and would be given a 4A or 5A rating depending on the degree of the translucency.

Cut

Our quality-grading criteria are based on the unique properties of each type of gemstone. Opalite, for example, has varying degrees of mineral hardness within any given bead. This makes it nearly impossible to cut into a perfect sphere, so a 3A-quality Opalite sphere may have minor bumps or dents, because that is “near perfect” for Opalite.

Sodalite is usually cut by machine, so our spheres are very well shaped when we receive them from the cutters. After inspecting every bead by hand in-house, we high-grade out every sphere we catch that has a divot, flat spot, or broken drill hole, or that isn’t quite perfectly round. Sodalite receives a 3A-quality cut rating due to its near-perfect shape when cut into spherical beads.

How to Use This Sodalite Formula

1) Wear Liberty for Short Periods of Time at First

Liberty has an interesting effect that gives you a good reason to wear it for short periods of time at first, perhaps a few hours a day. As the gemstones help liberate trapped thoughts from your body, you may be faced with them temporarily as they arise and return to their origins in the universal mind.

If you realize this is happening, you can watch the thoughts come up and let them pass. If you’re not prepared for it, your once-cherished opinions and beliefs may be challenged. The test can come from anywhere in your life. Perhaps you read something, or a friend expresses a different belief or viewpoint, or you find yourself debating with your spouse or a colleague.

If you become defensive or react to these exiting thoughts in any way, they will return to where they were accumulating in your body. If this occurs, remove the Liberty necklace and cleanse it, give yourself a break, and then a day or two later put it back on for another try. This time, you’ll be more prepared for what to expect.

If you haven’t been challenged in any way, continue wearing the Liberty as you have been doing, or gradually increase the amount of time you wear it daily. After a few months, take a break for a while. Return to the necklace when you’re ready for another round of thought-accumulation flushing.

2) Keep Liberty with You While You Sleep

Another option is to keep the gemstones on the bedroom dresser, placed on a crystal cluster, so they can work with you while you sleep. Sleep is a natural time for the body to release. The thoughts that Liberty helps your body release may be processed through your dreams.

For a stronger effect, keep the gemstones in bed with you. You may drape them over an area of your body that you sense may be affected by negative thoughts, or lay them beside you. Be prepared to write down your dreams when you wake up. They can hold insights into the karmic thoughts and situations related to the placement areas.

When you sleep with your gemstones, you’ll need to cleanse them in the morning or before you wear them next using the GEMFormulas cleansing sprays. Gemstones worn at night tend to accumulate more unwanted energies than those worn during the day.

How to Cleanse Your Necklace

Use the GEMFormulas clearing sprays for most efficient and effective cleansing. Unlike any other cleansing method, the sprays have the unique ability to clear unwanted energies collected at any level, whether from the body, emotions, memory, or mind.

Avoid cleansing Sodalite with water, which can dull the gems’ surface with repeated use. For this reason, be sure to carefully dry the necklace after the spray cleansing. When you’re not wearing Liberty, unclasp it and lay the necklace in a spiral shape to allow it to rejuvenate.