Harnessing Opal's Energies: A Path to Emotional Balance Its calming energies can stabilize our turbulent emotions, quiet chaotic feelings of anger, jealousy, and arrogance, and bring joy. You may not know but Opal is a “Stone of hope and inspiration” due to its display of an array of colors that help us express our bottled-up feelings, and deal with emotional wounds and painful past memories. Beholders start looking at things positively and thoroughly.