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COLOR HEALING
Color is a part of our life... and our language. People are said to be 'green with envy', 'see red' when they're angry or are 'in the red' if in debt, and 'in the black' when they're not. And some of our all time favorite musicians 'sing the blues'.
Colors are not only a part of our language, they can also create very real physical reactions. Red has been known to raise blood pressure whereas blue has been know to calm. This is why color healing is effective. Colors can bring balance to your physical and emotional bodies. What colors do you predominately wear? Which ones do you avoid? What colors are predominant in your home?
In order to work with colors, the first thing you would need to do is determine what the different colors mean to you.
- Go through a list of colors in your mind and ask yourself what you think of them and how they make you feel? Sometimes we like a primary color but don't always care for the various hues. We may like bright colors but not pastels.
- Choose a color to experiment with. For example, if you've been feeling stressed, try blue. If you've been tired or bored, try orange. If you're in the process of studying for an exam, try yellow, and so on.
Here are a couple simple experiments.
- Dress is a particular color for the day.
- Hang a painting or poster on the wall in front of your bed with the predominant color you want to experiment with so it's the first thing you see when you wake up and the last thing you see as you're falling asleep. You can even use a sheet of colored poster board.
- See our 'Chakra' page for more ideas on how you can experiment with color healing.
Keep a journal of what color you experiment with and the results. Besides paying attention to how you feel, watch for any changes in your behavior. Notice if you have more or less patience. Have you been more argumentative, or have you been calm and free of stress? Do you have more energy? Once you know the effect various colors have on you, you can make choices in life accordingly. Choices like what color to paint your home or office, what colors to wear on any given day, etc.
The colors red, green and blue are considered the three primary colors. Combinations of these three colors produce all the other colors. White is actually a combination of all the colors. There are variations to these standards. If you have a strong interest in color healing, you may want to research this subject even further. When light (energy) hits an object, the object (anything in our world such as trees, flowers, and so on) absorbs the colors. Any color that is not absorbed is reflected back and that is the color the object appears as. This accounts for the many different colors in nature and throughout our world. The color we see an object as is not only based on the color it hasn't absorbed, but the angle at which we see it. And to get into even more detail, some objects actually also emit color (light) themselves. The color perceived would be a combination of all of the above. This is fascinating stuff, but having a somewhat basic scientific understanding of it all still doesn't leave me any less in awe of the beautiful colors of our world!
Energy Healing
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