Waist beads are worn for many reasons.  To track weight loss, embrace femininity, as a fashion statement, spirituality, and simply to feel beyoutiful.

This strand of waist beads is purple with charoite stones.  The charoite is worn to signify transformation through cleansing the aura and chakra. This is done by changing negative energies into healing properties, opens the heart to unconditional love, reduces stress, and normalizes heart rate and blood pressure. The color purple also represents imagination, spirituality, compassion, sensitivity, mystery, helps encourage creativity, inspiration, wisdom, power, and intuition

Gemstones are carried or worn to restore energy, power, gain peace, protection, and for healing depending on which you carry and what you want to accomplish.

Below is a video on waist bead education

https://youtu.be/mcsmOfRpfq0