What is colour therapy?
Colour is Amazing – you unconsciously and consciously use it everyday – on you, around you and in you….exciting hey 🙂
We all have emotional and physical responses to different colours. Whether we are wearing them, looking at them, surrounded by them or eating them.
Colour has the power to agitate, calm, comfort, relax or invigorate us. Even the power to make us screw up our faces or smile.
For example some days you may feel the need to wear red, other days it’s green or blue, etc. When this happens it is your inner knowing that is guiding you to choose the perfect colour for you; you may not know why but you’re absolutely sure which colour is perfect for you right now.
Think about the feelings different colours evoke in you …
Sitting in a lush green garden
Diving into a sea of Blue
Walking into a pink room
Deciding to eat a calf poo coloured meal
Here is a general guide to the emotional responses to different colours and what conditions colours can assist.
Gold
vitality, inspiration, highest spiritual development, self-worth, meditation, fear, self-confidence, sense of worth, power, abundance, revitalise, energise
aids: complete body healing, memory, connection to light and higher spirit, protects and charges energy fields, growths and tumours, heart conditions, fear, depression
Maroon
gentle, strong, ambitious, controlled and thoughtful action, intense passion, confidence, creative thoughts, excitement, power, risk, passion, love, ambition, courage, strength, force, warmth, beauty
aids: appetite, boost adrenaline, raises blood pressure and heart rate, promote intimacy, intensify love, sensuality, spirituality and wisdom, reinvigorates, mood shifts
Grey
good taste, harmony, calm, solid, dependable, conservative, practical, sophistication, classic, timeless, conservative, success
aids: grounding, alleviates tension and anxiety, intellect, compromise, decisions, inspires creativity
Purple
healing, heightens your senses, brings hope & success, mind, body & spirit connection, leadership
aids: vision, hearing, smell, releasing negativity, high blood pressure, heart palpitations, concussion, rheumatism, nervous tension, kidneys, stomach, lungs, skin, bones, immune system
Green
decision making, release & dissolve negativity & aggression, increase self esteem, fear, calms body, release frustration & anger, choices, harmony
aids: blood, nervous system, heary, thymus, lungs, liver, fertility, innocence, healing, tissue repair, muscles, bones, agoraphobia, headaches, broken heart, meditation, high blood pressure
Yellow
joyfulness, mental clarity, clear thoughts, illumination, mental stimulation, memory, abundance, refreshing, focus,decision making, laughter, happiness, intellect
aids: stress, cell repair, nerves, self esteem, self renewal, diabetes, anorexia, eczema indigestion, constipation, cellulite, blood, lymphatic system, weight loss
White
light & purification, clears, protects, clarity, understanding, integrity, light, holiness, surender, teeth, cooling, choice, honesty, courage, protection, reflection
aids: skin, clearing toxicity, healing any part of the body which is experiencing stress
Red
enthusiasm for life, energy & vitality, courage, passion, money, prosperity, sensuality, optimism, motivation, achievement, creativity, goals, power
aids: blood disorders, weight loss, sexuality, physical vitality, adrenals, depression, shyness, confidence, circulation, warmth, healing
Blue
peaceful communication, calming, faith, tranquility, patience, forgiveness, independence, cooling, protecting,
aids: memory, wisdom, confidence, itching, epilepsy, hysteria, irritable bowel, infections, nerves, shock, sunstroke, emotional pain, headaches, burns, bleeding, fevers
Orange
awakens creative energy, optimism, connects to wisdom & intuition, relationship bonding, clearing, warmth, prosperity, loss, grief, shyness, fear, loneliness, depression
aids: shock, trauma, spleen, asthma, pancreas, bronchitis, colds, mental exhaustion, hormone balance
How it works:
Colour stimulates reactions in us, some positive, some negative, some neutral. Colour can help us to release or embrace our emotional responses to different situations eg Job interview and knowing that you must wear lets say Blue because the thing you need to bring into your interview is calm communication.
The colour you choose helps you embrace the emotional response you may need for a given situation or just how you are feeling on any given day.
Colour can also help you to release a negative emotional response. Let’s use Blue again and go back to that job interview. Nervousness can be calmed with blue.
So wearing Blue to a job interview if you are feeling nervous and worried about making sense would be perfect for you in this situation.
Our Fire trucks are red for a reason 🙂
Colour Therapy works because colour creates a response from us.
