This 6mm mala features, from the guru bead upwards:
 
Snowflake Obsidian - 12mm guru bead
Garnet - 6mm
Rose Quartz - 6mm
Onyx - 6mm
Gold-filled spacer beads - 3mm
 
This mala has an anchoring energy, that helps you feel reassured in your body and mind. Calling on the strength of onyx, the emotional support of rose quartz, the harmonising quality of garnet and the protection of snowflake obsidian this mala is a useful ally in bringing you back into your body,  offering a grounded, embodied presence whilst promoting feelings of resilience and direction. It is really helpful if you feel lost, dissociated or mentally scattered and unable to be focus.
 
The heart-activating garnet and the heart-soothing rose quartz  help you to get back in touch with your heart, so you can listen with greater awareness to this centre of intuition, passion and emotion. We speak of allowing our heart to lead the way, so this mala helps you hear your heart whilst feeling directed, stable and able to take effective action and create positive change.
 
SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN (black with white snowflake-like patterns)
A calming and soothing energy that also lends us support, protection and has a gentle grounding energy. It helps connect us to guides and guardians and enhance our sense of security. It also helps put us in a receptive frame of mind for introspection and examining our thought patterns, helping us recognise ingrained conditioning and imprints that do not serve us well. It brings us wisdom when reflecting on our achievements, helping us value mistakes just as much as successes and leading us to be all that we aim to be. It has a soothing action also, bringing balance to the mind and the body, effective at removing toxins on every energetic level and keeping unwanted energies away.
 
GARNET (deep red)
Garnet is a powerful energy regulator and regenerator, inspiring love and devotion, alleviating emotional disharmony and bringing either passion or serenity depending on what is lacking. It therefore restores balance too and works across the entire energy system but particularly resonates with the heart. This fiery stone is associated with blood and circulation and is therefore full of life force energy that boosts our awareness, sharpens our perceptions, eases us into letting go of our out-dated habits and limitations and ultimately bringing us more confidence and strength.
 
ROSE QUARTZ (pale pink)
A stone of unconditional love and infinite peace. It resonates with the heart chakra, purifying the heart and opening it up, bringing deep healing and promoting self love. It is calming, reassuring and excellent in trauma or crisis. It invites love into your life and brings harmony to relationships. It gently draws off negative vibrations, strengthens empathy and increases sensitivity. It can aid in accepting necessary change. It helps to release unexpressed emotions, and transmuting emotional conditioning that no longer serves. It is a loving crystal that calls on the energy of the Divine Feminine principle, holding Mother energy which can bring healing to relationships of all kinds but especially the mother line. It offers comfort, refuge and safety.
 
ONYX (opaque black, polishes to a high shine)
A stone for strength, stability, self control and for centring energy. It is very supportive in times of heightened stress. Useful in releasing past or indeed past-life pain and stuck emotions, it integrates dualities in the self, calms overwhelming worry and fear, promotes wisdom and helps align with the higher self to receive guidance. It is also useful for carrying one forward into the future, helping to build personal power and encourage being the master of your own destiny.
 
GOLD-FILLED SPACERS
Gold is one of the most stable minerals and so energetically is promotes balance and stability. It carries the frequency of abundance, connecting us to the energy of the Earth and Sun. It is amplifying and helps to regulate the energies of other precious metals or crystals. It connects us to Christ/Buddha-consciousness or Oneness. It’s frequency helps us to connect to the whole, to feel supported in this incarnation through our intrinsic relationship to our Highest Self or I AM presence. Gold-filled refers to a much heavier and durable plating.