THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MALA BEADS MEANING BY COLOR

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Wondering about the Mala Beads Meaning by Color? A great way to harness the power of the colors is to wear a mala in a color that aligns with your desires. Each color has its own meaning and the minerals that feature each color often have similar properties and benefits. Understanding the energetic qualities of the different gemstones, seeds, crystals, and wood that are used to create the beads will make your experience more personalized.

Mala Beads Color Meaning

When choosing your meditation mala, take into account the properties and colors that would benefit you the most. After reading this article you will have a better idea of what color and material you would want to choose for your own mala.

1. Black Mala Beads Color Meaning

The black beaded necklace meaning is associated with protection, success, and power.

• Black Onyx Mala: Transforms negative energy, attracts good fortune, promotes good health.
• Black Tourmaline Mala: Considered one of the most powerful stones for protection. It has a strong purifying effect. It inspires self-confidence and a sense of personal power.
• Lava Rock Mala: The earthy qualities of lava rock make it a stone of grounding, focus, balance, and fertility.

2. Red Mala Beads Color Meaning

Represents courage, power, and productivity.

• Red Jasper Mala: Improves grounding, increases courage and self-esteem.
• Carnelian Mala: Inspires love and devotion, balances the sex drive. – Cleansing and energizing. Inspires love and devotion, balances the sex drive. Removes inhibitions and taboos.

3. Blue Mala Beads Color Meaning

The blue beads in a mala are ssociated with peace, calm, and relaxation.

• Amazonite Mala: Works with the throat and heart chakra to keep a balance between what you feel and what you say. It soothes and calms the mind, inviting confidence and balance
• Lapis Lazuli Mala: Associated with strength and courage, royalty and wisdom, intellect and truth.
• Turquoise mala beads meaning: Turquoise mala beads are often associated with healing, protection, wisdom, tranquility, and improved communication, serving as a spiritual tool in meditation and prayer.

4. White Mala Beads Color Meaning

Signifies purity and peace. Associated with connection to the spiritual world and angels.

• Howlite Stone Mala: Associated with calm, awareness, focus, and emotional expression.
• Clear Quartz: Encourages positivism, enhances self-awareness, improves energy.

5. Pink Mala Beads Color Meaning

Represents love, compassion, and connection.

• Rose Quartz Mala: Assists those who are searching for resonance with the frequency of pure love and compassion. Helps release emotional patterns that hold one back.
• Rhodonite Mala: Associated with unconditional love, healing, calm, hidden talents, and compassion.

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6. Green Mala Beads Color Meaning

Represents personal growth, opportunity, and prosperity. it’s connected to the heart chakra.

• Jade Mala: has a long history as a protective talisman, Jade has forever been worn and celebrated as being a stone that brings good luck and prosperity.
• Agate Mala: Attracts abundance and increases self-esteem.
• Aventurine Mala has amazing healing properties: But foe all is a stone for financial success and luck of all kinds. Encourages compassionate behavior, stimulates willpower and confidence, Balances the mind, body, and spirit, enhances creativity in artistic endeavors, encourages spiritual growth, enhances inner strength. For more about this stone check this article
• Malachite: Promotes confidence, emotional balance, encourages emotional balance, and healing of the heart. It helps release negativity and overcome bad habits and behaviors.

7. Orange Mala Beads Color Meaning

Represents vitality, ambition, creativity, and fun. This color has connections to your inner child and the playfulness of life. Wearing orange beads can help you to increase feelings of happiness and joy.

• Amber Mala: Promotes vitality, stress relief, emotional healing. Attracts love, pleasure, and happiness. Good for people dealing with feelings of loneliness.

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8. Purple Mala Beads Color Meaning

Considered a spiritual color. Purple is linked to the third eye chakra and can enhance your intuition during meditations.

• Amethyst Mala: Balance high energy, eliminate chaos, and support wisdom. Amethyst is often used during meditation to provide a sense of spiritual balance, healing, and enlightenment.

9. Brown Mala Beads Color Meaning

Stands for stability, reliability, warmth, grounding.

• Tiger Eye Mala: Protects and grounds. Increases confidence. Inspires to accomplish goals. Tiger's eye stone has been associated with the power to focus the mind promoting mental clarity, assisting to resolve problems objectively. Tiger's eye represents willpower, courage, and self-confidence. Connected to both the root and the sacral chakra.
• Wooden Mala: Provides stability and grounds mentally, physically, and spiritually.
• Rudaskra Mala: Shields against negative energies, cleanses the aura, and brings Happiness, and prosperity to the wearer.
• Jasper Mala: Jasper carries a strong connection to the earth, it is deeply in tune with the energy of the universe and is generally associated with grounding, calming, strength, and stability supports during periods of stress and burnout.

10. Yellow Mala Beads Color Meaning

Yellow beads meaning  is typically associated with the following:

Solar Energy and Vitality: Yellow is often associated with the sun, energy, and dynamism. It can be used to stimulate mental clarity and intellect.

Yellow is also seen as the color of personal power, courage, and confidence. It can help to boost self-esteem and encourage optimism. In some traditions, yellow is linked with  wisdom, and knowledge. It can be used to stimulate new ideas and enhance learning.

In the chakra system, yellow is associated with the Manipura or Solar Plexus chakra, which is the center of personal power, ambition, and self-worth.

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How to use Mala Beads?

There is no right or wrong way to use your mala. An authentic mala bead necklace consists of 108 beads. They can also be strung as a half necklace containing 54 beads, or as a bracelet with 27 counting beads. The guru bead is often larger than the other ones and provides a starting and ending point for counting the repetitions of the mantras or affirmations. A tassel is connected to the end of the guru bead to complete the mala with a final knot.

You can wear it as a necklace or wrap it around your wrist several times. Many people also wear it under their clothes, on their skin, and close to their hearts.

You can wear it all day long. Yet, you should take it off for washing or showering. This is because the thread becomes less durable when wet, and soap/perfume will make the beads brittle over time.

And of course, you can take your mala with you to your yoga practice, to focus and to charge it with your necklace and with your positive energy. To do this, place the necklace on the floor next to the head of your mat. That way you always have it in sight and it doesn't interfere with your posture.

If you wish to learn more, please read our complete Mala beads Guide in this our Mala Beads Meaning - 2023 Guide blog article.

Final Thoughts

Mala beads are not only beautiful necklaces, but they are also a very fine tool to tap into the spiritual and healing energies associated with each color and gemstone. Each color carries its own significance and properties, from protection and courage to love and intuition.

Knowing about the meanings behind each color and material can help you can choose a mala that aligns and resonates with your intentions.

We have for you a short video with a special meditation and 108 affirmations.

Disclaimer. Please remember that this is not a substitute for medical advice and those who are struggling with insomnia, anxiety, and other sleep-related issues should seek help from their health professional.

Namaste,

Ella

Additional Resources:

Mala Beads Meaning - 2024 Guide

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