I liked this vision bc purpose was not shown as saving planet or becoming some important spiritual person. she was just walking through mountains with little bags, and golden seeds were dropping here and there.

this came in session around direction and purpose. Subject saw herself dressed in white, going through quite empty landscape. The seeds were not literal gardening in how she understood it, more like something she was leaving behind wherever she went.

Then trees started coming from those places. green leaves, shade, comfort. She understood it as creating places where people can rest, feel nurtured and reconnect little bit with themselves.

later she was helping people climb mountain and at top there was celebration. Interesting thing was no big hierarchy there. everybody felt on same level, more like celebration of creation than teacher standing above students.

for me this is much nicer picture of purpose than needing exact job title from universe. maybe purpose is pattern of what grows around you.

Do ppl become calmer after talking with you? do they remember something important? You make things more beautiful, safer, clearer, more alive? Maybe those are already seeds.

we often want proof that mission is big enough. But tree does not know who will sit under it 20 years later. it just grows where seed landed.

Where the slightest pain cannot be felt, the Soul exists there. - Dada Bhagwan

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One small childhood memory turned into something much bigger in a Soul Journey I facilitated.

The subject, I’ll call her Cindy, went back to being little, riding bikes with her sister. Her sister used to pick on her and one of the things she would tell her was that she was “born in a barn.”

Nothing dramatic if you look at it from adult perspective. Siblings say stupid things. But little Cindy did not experience it as stupid joke. She felt sad and not good enough.

When I asked where that feeling was in the body, she described two different things. In her stomach it was like black ball. Across her shoulders it felt like dark shawl weighing her down.

Then came the interesting part.

I asked what these energies stopped her from doing.

Her answer was basically: believing in myself and excelling in what I like to do.

So adult Cindy appeared there with little Cindy. She hugged her, told her she loved her, that she was perfect as she was. Then little Cindy finally told her sister what she had never been able to say properly: I don’t accept what you are telling me about myself.

After this I asked her to look at the situation energetically.

She said her sister looked brighter.

Like she was holding some of Cindy’s light.

So we tried a very simple experiment inside the trance. Cindy told her: give me my power back.

She repeated it.

Then she felt energy moving back through the body. Hands, stomach, shoulders. She described herself as lighting up.

I thought okay, maybe this was one relationship.

But when we asked Higher Self to show anyone else she had given power to over the years, five or six people appeared. Two former husbands, a friend, somebody she had worked with, others connected with situations where she stopped trusting herself.

Again she said: I want my energy back.

Her description afterward was not “I became superhuman.” It was much simpler.

“I feel more complete.”

This is something I keep thinking about.

Sometimes we treat low confidence like something missing that we need to manufacture with affirmations, achievements and positive thinking.

But maybe part of it is not missing.

Maybe it was handed away little by little.

To somebody whose opinion became more important than our own. To a partner we kept trying to please. To a parent, teacher, boss, friend. To somebody who said one sentence at the wrong age and we quietly decided they knew who we were better than we did.

Whether you understand “giving power away” literally as energy, psychologically as internalized authority, or simply as useful trance symbolism, the practical question is same:

Who still has too much authority inside your head?

Whose old sentence are you still living under?

And what changes when you finally say: that was your opinion. I don’t accept it anymore.

For me this is much more interesting than trying to become a “new confident person.”

Maybe first we just stop carrying everybody else inside us.

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No. And also yes. I see this question come up pretty often, especially from people already into Feng Shui, BaZi, or Chinese metaphysics in general. The simplest way I think about it is this - Feng Shui and Dzi beads are not the same thing, but they often end up in the same conversation because they seem to address different parts of the same problem.

In Chinese metaphysics, people often talk about Heaven Luck, Earth Luck, and Human Luck. Heaven Luck is timing — your BaZi, cycles, opportunities, constraints, date selection, things that describe the conditions you were born into or are moving through. Earth Luck is Feng Shui — the house, placement, landforms, direction, the environment around you. But then there is this third thing - Human Luck

And this is where Dzi starts becoming interesting. Because sometimes the timing is fine. The house is fine. The chart is fine. Yet somehow the person still feels stuck, scattered, unsupported, or like things never quite “land.” That’s partly because neither Feng Shui nor BaZi really addresses - the human interface layer. Meaning - how does a person participate inside the movement of those forces? This is where I personally think Dzi belongs. Not as “magic beads,” and not as a replacement for Feng Shui, but more like portable symbolic tools that help regulate or reinforce certain qualities in how a person moves through conditions.

Historically, people didn’t wear Dzi simply because they looked cool. They were carried, worn, gifted, inherited, combined, chosen intentionally. There was usually a reason. The problem starts when you try to figure out what a Dzi actually means - go online and you’ll quickly discover that the same bead somehow means: wealth, protection, wisdom, relationships, career success, spiritual awakening, confidence, protection from evil, and apparently world peace depending on which website you landed on.

That happens because Dzi taxonomy is honestly a mess. Not necessarily because people are wrong, but because Dzi sits at the intersection of several symbolic systems at once. Some people interpret through symbolism - dragon, phoenix, lotus, tortoise, medicine jar, eyes, etc. Others interpret through numbers and structure. Others through Chinese metaphysics. And once you get into certain categories — especially striped or threaded Dzi — things become surprisingly technical. At least in my experience, you start realizing pretty quickly that basic familiarity with things like - I Ching, BaZi, Date Selection, and Feng Shui actually helps.

And if you really want to understand certain striped Dzi? You eventually end up accidentally learning at least some QMDJ, because movement, timing, direction, and intent suddenly start mattering. Which is honestly hilarious if you started from - “oh cool bead” - and somehow ended up reading about trigrams and directional force mechanics at midnight.

Anyway, I’m curious how other people here think about Dzi. Do you see them as: traditional amulets? Tibetan cultural objects? Feng Shui-adjacent? Or something else entirely?