An excellent grounding and protective stone, Bloodstone reduces irritabilities, aggressiveness and impatience.  It helps to calm our mind, remove confusion and enhance our decision-making abilities by protecting us from undesirable influences and negative energy.   Ancient civilizations used Bloodstone for its detoxifying affects on the blood by grinding the stone to a fine powder.  They also entrusted Bloodstone to heal exhaustion caused by impurities in the mind, body, spirit connection leaving feeling revitalized with an enlivened spirit!