Being a Purple Dot in a Grey Dot World

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Being a Purple Dot in a Grey Dot World

Being uniquely different comes with its own set of challenges. “Purple dot” may be a metaphor, but it captures something real: the experience of having an energy that refuses to fit convention. Purple dots are the ones who stand out without trying. As children, they were teased, labeled weird, or pushed to the margins. As adults, they were shamed, questioned, or asked — directly or indirectly — “What’s wrong with you? Why are you like this?”

The truth is simple: nothing is wrong. Purple is simply visible.

Yet many of us learned to hide it. We tried to blend into the grey, to soften our edges, to shrink our spirits. But trying to be grey doesn’t just dim our energy — it dismisses something essential in us.

When a purple soul tries to squeeze itself into a grey shape, the cost shows up everywhere:

1.            Physical strain — the body bearing the weight of a spirit forced to live small.

2.            Emotional pain — sadness, insecurity, self-belittlement, and the constant effort to hide the truest parts of ourselves.

3.            Spiritual disconnection — feeling cut off from the very energy that sustains and animates us.

4.          People-pleasing patterns — becoming nourishment for every psychic vampire who senses our light but not our boundaries.

For me, Reiki became the turning point. It affirmed the beauty of being purple. It taught me to stop apologizing for my intensity and instead refine it — to let the fire of my being merge with compassion, softness, peace, and renewal. That alchemy is what drives me to create Sanctuary Reiki, a place where all may come and drink from the purple waters without judgment.

To understand this more deeply, imagine the human body. We would never ask a leg to function as an eye, nor a nose to behave like a foot. Picture a foot complaining, “I’m always stepping on things. I’m trapped in a shoe prison, and I carry the weight of the entire body. Why can’t I be a head?” And imagine the head replying, “I’m above you. I’m better.” Really? How far would a head get without a foot to carry it?

Absurd, yes — but only because the truth is so obvious. Every part has its purpose. Every part belongs.

Human beings are no different. No matter the color of our energy, each of us has a place in the world exactly as Spirit intended. Our diversity is not a flaw in the design — it is the design. When we encounter someone whose energy is vivid, out loud, or unapologetically alive, that is not a reason to invalidate them. It is an invitation to expand our understanding of what it means to be human.

We are all part of a grander scheme. Celebrate the differences. Honor the colors. And recognize the unique perspective each soul brings to the tapestry.

The world needs its purple dots — not hidden, not diluted, but shining in their full spectrum.