The Beauty of Life crystal skull sculpture is carved from a quality white jade specimen from Xinjiang, China. A superbly detailed, shapely lady contemplates a porcelain-like crystal skull while wearing only a fashionable hat as her long hair flows down her exposed back. This exquisite sculpture reminds one of the magnificent marble sculptures one expects to find in a museum. The Beauty of Life is another stunning work of fine art from master Skullis designer and artist Steven Z., and bears his signature on the bottom of the piece. The Beauty of Life measures 2.4 x 4.1 x 6.7 inches (61x104x170 mm) and is displayed on a custom made polished black obsidian stand which measures 3.0 x 4.5 x 1.6 inches (77x115x40 mm). The total weight of this lovely masterpiece is 5.81 lb (2636 g).

Jade promotes courage, mercy, justice, and humility. It also inspires peace, harmony, devotion and faithfulness, love, and generosity. Jade helps one to actualize one's inner potential and to commit to achieving one's ambitions and purpose.

Jade is a stone that increases wisdom and intellectual thinking. It brings balance to the emotions and peace and calm to the mind, expelling negative thoughts and energies. Jade teaches one to be humble and respectful of all people and things, including oneself. Jade assists one in understanding others and their needs. It helps one to find wisdom when considering challenges and problems, and to prioritize and incorporate one's desires with one's requirements in accordance to what is most relevant to one's well being. Jade promotes one's confidence in oneself, encouraging independence through self reliance and self sufficiency.

Jade helps to teach one to appreciate one's ideals and to bring one's dreams, visions, and aspirations into reality. It helps one to understand that there are no limits and therefore all things are possible, and inspires the ambition to achieve one's objectives.

Jade is a stone of dreams, assisting with recall and interpretation when using dreams to determine resolutions to problems and challenges. Placing a piece of jade under a pillow before sleeping encourages the freeing of hidden and repressed emotions through dreaming.

Jade provides protection, keeping one out of harm's way. It grounds and strengthens one's connection to the Earth and the physical body.

Jade is a stone of health, longevity, prosperity, and vitalizing energy, lending stamina and endurance to the body. Jade promotes a healthy heart, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Jade has a gentle and steady healing energy, bringing healing, and treating issues of, the lungs, heart, thymus, spleen, immune system, and nervous system. It gives energy toward the proper function of the body's various filtering systems and helps to remove toxins from the blood and kidneys. As an elixir jade is used to relieve irritation from the skin and bring a smooth and healthy appearance to the skin and hair.

Jade is used to connect with the spiritual realities, and is considered to bring a long and rewarding life and provide a serene transition from the physical existence back to the spiritual existence at the time of physical death.

Jade has been considered sacred and has been revered by many cultures for centuries, including the ancient Chinese and Mayan cultures. Jade facilitates the connection with, and understanding of, the dreamtime of the ancient Mayans, and enhances the reception of information needed to perform the ceremonies related to this subject.

Mayan beliefs hold that jade brings harmony and peace not only to the physical world, but also to the physical, emotional, and mental aspects of a person. Jade is also considered to facilitate a mutual understanding with the environment, to alter negative energy to productive positivity, and to inspire ingenuity.

In Feng Shui jade is used to encourage prosperity, happiness, and a long healthy life. It is placed in the Center area for balance and harmony, in the Northeast for wisdom, and in the Southwest two stones are used for partnership and love.

White jade helps to disregard distractions and maintain one’s focus, and is used to treat issues related to vision and the eyes.

Black obsidian has been used for scrying and facilitating intuition for thousands of years. It is an excellent stone to assist in seeing past illusion to discern truth, and to understand universal and spiritual laws, and oneself. Obsidian is considered an extremely effective stone of protection, and a very powerful energy mover, as well as an excellent filter for absorbing negativity from its surroundings. Obsidian can be programmed to transmute this negativity to a different expression of energy, or can be cleansed regularly by smudging with smoke, washing with running water, associating it with other crystals, and more methods.

Obsidian is effective for removal of blockages and bringing courage to face and overcome fears. Black obsidian is commonly considered to be quite powerful and caution is recommended when using it. It is wise to be prepared for the speed of the transfer of energy and information. Conscious programming prior to use is one way to address this quality of black obsidian. One explanation for the excessive power of obsidian could be the elemental forces at work during its formation. Volcanic lava, Earth and Fire, join with Water to cool the material so quickly there is no time for crystallization.

Black obsidian possesses an excellent grounding energy, and assists one to find and maintain a clear and focused mental acuity. It can help to temper emotional reactions and bring balance and consideration to one’s life and mental processes. It protects against negativity and assists one to release disharmony, resentment of self and others, and anger and fear caused by one’s reactions to the situations and challenges one faces as a part of life.

Physically black obsidian is used for pain relief and detoxifying the body. It speeds healing of wounds, improves circulation and brings warmth to the extremities, assists in the digestion processes, helps reduce cravings for foods, and can be helpful for reducing an enlarged prostate.

NOTE: Skullis does not prescribe treatment for medical issues. Skullis offers information for reference to assist with the selection and understanding of crystal skulls, including this white jade crystal skull sculpture with black obsidian stand.