Tibetan Tiger Eye Mala 108 Beads for Meditation GMS-64 This listing is for a tiger eye mala 108 beads for meditation. There are 108 tiger eye beads on the string and each bead measures 8mm and can be wrapped around your wrist around four times. This mala is strung by one of my long time friend in Nepal. His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama wears one like this. "The Tiger Eye is seen as a stone of protection that provides mental stabilisation to an individual. It also improves and augments honesty, determination, expediency and responsibility of the individual. It is a stone that enhances good luck, and brings prosperity, often in the form of financial improvements. Due to its protective powers, it is believed to provide safety to the occupant of the stone during voyages. Tiger`s eye is also supposed to augment the Solar Plexus Chakra and vigour and vitality in a person. It is also proves very effective to people suffering from speech impediments due to lack of confidence or people who are affected by sleeplessness due to recurring nightmares. The tiger eye is also supposed to relieve an individual from various stomach ailments, from stress and tensions, and endows the occupant of the stone with adequate initiative and drive, to propel him to progress in life. The tiger eye gemstone is believed to be helpful in case to following diseases like rheumatic heart disease, psoriasis, otitis, bronchial asthma kidney, and also relieves high blood pressure."