Black Obsidian is a specimen made from volcanic glass. Obsidian is ideal for psychic protection, grounding, doing shadow work, and developing your intuition. Due to the nature of this specimen, it's an ideal specimen that will bring forward emotional wounding that needs to be healed. It is a great stone for healing your inner emotional trauma. Many believe that raw stones have more pure energy of the crystal, since they have been untouched and unchanged!