Gemstone energy medicine is based on the principle "as above, so below." The energy field of the body exists "above" at a higher vibration than physical tissue. Another underlying premise is that the energetic condition of tissue and cells precedes its physical manifestation. Health concerns, diseases, weaknesses, pain, even injuries are caused first by disturbances in the energetic fabric. When you correct these disturbances, then health and harmony follows in the physical tissue.

To address the very roots of poor health in your energetic fabric, gemstone energy medicine also works at the emotional, karmic, and mental levels. Thus you can address the influences that cause energetic disharmony in the first place. Gemstone energy medicine is therefore ideal not only for treatment of manifested health issues, but also for preventive therapy. By using the gemstones or gemstone remedies that you are attracted to, disharmony at higher levels of your being will be corrected before it manifests physically.

Gemstone medicine practitioners respect the innate intelligence of the body, and recognize that this intelligence exists at various levels and body centers. Levels of intelligence include the molecular, cellular, organ, organ system, and whole body, as well as the emotional, karmic, mental, and spiritual. Intelligence centers in the body can be found in the heart, head, stomach, and more specifically, in each of the chakra centers.

Using gemstone therapy to clear and open these intelligence centers helps a person make better choices in all aspects of life, such as what foods to eat, what to do when challenged by relationship problems, how to succeed financially, what therapies will best treat a certain health condition, and even which gemstones to use for self-therapy.

Diagnosis of the energetic causes of health conditions is an advanced study. By applying therapeutic gemstones in the aura, a gemstone therapist can determine the types of energetic anomalies and imbalances that underlie a physical health condition.

A gemstone therapist can also study the gemstones that a patient's energy field is calling for and how strong this attraction is, as well as the purpose of these gemstones and their anatomical targets. Doing so paints a picture of the energetic nature of a disharmony and suggests how to neutralize it.

Because of its energetic focus, gemstone energy medicine is a complementary modality. You can use it in conjunction with herbs, allopathic drugs, flower essences, and other natural remedies. It can also give you fundamental energetic support to enhance the benefits you can get from massage, cranial-sacral therapy, psychotherapy, and other types of treatments.