Waistbead Meanings
Traditional African waist beads consists of small glass beads on a string or wire worn around the waist or hips. Presented to young women and girls by their mothers, grandmothers, and aunties, as a symbol of coming of age and other major life events. Modern day uses for waist beads in America are commonly aesthetic, weight loss/gain, waist training, and spiritual well-being. There are no body restrictions to wearing waist beads they are for every single body out there!
For spiritual waist bead wearers, the colors of the waist beads also hold different meanings and they associate with one of the seven chakra points.
Red: Ignites courage, passion, and brings strength to your relationships, your life and your work, and increases your metabolism and respiratory rate. Connected to the root chakra.
Pink: Nurtures romance, admiration, femininity, compassion, and joy. It counters anxiety and self-hatred, and neutralizes disorder. Connected to the heart chakra.
Orange: Increases energy, vitality, and creativity, renews youthfulness, brings hope, and increases oxygen supply to your brain. Connected to the sacral chakra.
Yellow: Births joy, optimism, and fertility into your life, stimulates the nervous system, activates memory, and is anti-depressant. Connected to the solar plexus chakra.
Green: Embraces change, improves adaptability, fruitfulness, and harmony; Brings prosperity, and stimulates healing resulting in greater self-love. Connected to the heart chakra.
Turquoise: Promotes love, healing, intuition, clarity, and tranquility; Encourages communication and self-expression of one's deepest truths. Connected to the root chakra.
Blue: Brings forth peace, order, and harmony to your circle, slows the heart rate producing a calming effect, offering renewal, self-control, and enabling one to speak their truth. Connected to the throat chakra.
Indigo: Elevates power of the mind, inner vision, and divine perception. Stimulates right brain and creative activity and encourages trust in your intuition. Connected to the third eye chakra.
Purple: Brings awareness of oneself and the world, the universe, and oneness with higher powers. It aligns with nobleness, wisdom, and transformation. Connected to the crown chakra.
Brown: Stimulates grounding, comfort, endurance, and organic harmony, encourages balance, improves relaxation of your body, mind, and spirit. Connected to the root chakra.
Black: Honors your attributes and values your presence; Invigorates one's power, sexuality, assertiveness, and spiritual maturity; Acts as a shield, protects you from outside malicious energies. Connected to the root chakra.
Gray: Encourages time for reflection, rest, retreat, and redirection, and cleanses your mind to improve emotional balance. Connected to the ethereal chakra.
Silver: Promotes dignity, stability, serenity and purity; Supports mental, emotional, and physical releasing and cleansing. Connected to the ethereal chakra.
White: Promotes peace, humility, youthfulness, innocence, and truth. Brings purity, simplicity, healing, and good luck to your world. Connected to the root chakra.
Gold: Aligned with wisdom, knowledge, wealth, courage, vitality, and wellness; Strengthens the ability to manifest your goals, and conquer challenges with finesse. Connected to the ethereal chakra.