Tourmalated Quartz - works with the energy connections that link the chakras to their light sources; clears congestion in these pathways to facilitate a balanced flow of energy and information to, from, and between the chakras; draws off excesses of energy from all chakras and subtle bodies and the physical body; balances the base chakra in its relationship to the higher chakras; helps with the initial breaking up or shattering of a stuck pattern and can be used at the end of a healing process to carry off any remaining energetic debris.