So this is one of the most interesting things that I’ve come across while reading about yoga and healing.
We see colors every day, everywhere! We all have our favorite colors which for some reason we favor over others. Have you ever wondered what that says about us or what that color’s hidden meaning and purpose are?
That is what this article is going to tell you. How you can use colors to heal and what your favorite color says about you.
Firstly, What is chromotherapy?
It has been known for eons of time that color plays an important role in setting up a particular mood or state of mind.
Color affects our feelings, moods, and emotions.
Colors are certain wavelengths of electro-magnetic energy seen through our eyes. The color we see is the part of the visible spectrum that is reflected back by a certain object.
We know that when all colors join, it results in the formation of white light. So working with white light brings about the completeness, oneness, union of all complementary parts.
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Colors affect us in different ways
— Color is one of the languages of the soul, Some expressive paintings connect with us on a spiritual level
— Colors influence our mood and emotions.
— Sometimes They make us happy, sometimes they make us sad.
— Using and avoiding certain colors is a way of self-expression; it sheds light on our personality. Colors can tell us a lot about ourselves
— Colors affect our way of perception (light colors make a space look big, a high ceiling looks less high when painted a dark color.
— Colors have a symbolic meaning which is immediately recognized by our subconsciousness. but not all colors mean the same thing for people of different cultures.
— They influence the flow and amount of energy in our bodies.
Before examining color and its healing implication, we must know a very important concept: that of cause and effect.
True healing comes about when the cause of the condition or illness is addressed and transformed.
If healing goes is a mere relief or masking of the symptoms, then, eventually, that which brought about the need for healing in the first place, will resurface and manifest itself within the body in one form or another. That means that the illness will not truly have gone away.
The body is an outward expression of that which is taking place within the mind, the soul (subconscious), and the spirit (super-conscious) of the individual.
Thus any healing technique which deals only with the physical body and the energy field of the individual tends to accomplish one thing; it jump-starts the individual, so to speak, and gives him or her an added boost of energy. That energy boost then allows that person’s own internal healing mechanism to become mobilized into greater activity.
Keeping this in the mind, let us look how color can help jump-start the tired or diseased body.
Color healing, also known as Chromotherapy, can be implemented in a number of ways.
The ancients built great halls of color healing, where individuals entered and were bathed in light that was filtered through various colored glass panels or windows.
Energy (spiritual) healers often supplement their healing work with color healing. As they lay their hands on the patient, they mentally direct specific color rays into the patients aura body. Often, the color used is inspired by the super conscious.
In healing, colors act as balancers: we administer the color(s) someone needs more of, or we give the opposite of the color someone has too much of.
A preference of colors can point out two things:
— Self-expression (you chose the colors which match your personality; for instance green for a lover of harmony and nature).
— Completion (you chose the color you need more of; an active, passionate person chooses blue colors to cool down his nature).
The colors you don’t like can also say a tin about you and your personality
So let’s get to what you really want to hear!
Colors and their healing properties
Red
Healing properties: Red Brings warmth. It symbolizes energy. It should be shown to people with fatigue, colds, chilly and passive people.
Red energizes heart and blood circulation, it builds up the blood and heightens low blood pressure. Energizes all organs and the senses (hearing, smell, taste, vision, and touch).
Increases sexual desire and activity. Stimulates ovulation and menstruation.
It is said Never to treat cancer with red because this color stimulates cell growth.
Red links with and stimulates the root chakra, at the base of the spine, causing the adrenal glands to release adrenaline. This results in greater strength. Red causes hemoglobin to multiply, thus increasing energy and raising body temperature.
It is excellent for anemia and blood-related conditions. It loosens, opens up clogs, releases stiffness and constrictions. It is excellent for areas that have become stiffened or constricted.
Esoteric: Deities of love, passion, sexuality and war (to stimulate a healthy portion of assertiveness). Great energy, courage, will-power, determination, speed, assertiveness, aggression masculinity, independence, physical strength, sports, competition, conflicts, health, sexual attraction and potency, love and passion, fertility.
Preference for red: Red is associated with passionate love, sex, great energy, impulse, action and stimulation, assertiveness and aggression, courage, strength and power, adventure, danger, warnings, revolt and revolution. Temperamental and ambitious people with a need for personal freedom.
People who don’t like red: A person who has an aversion to red may be over-active, too impulsive, hot-tempered aggressive and egocentric, or have difficulties with people such characteristics. It can also symbolize deeply hidden fears and rejection of his/her own assertiveness.
Orange
Healing properties: Orange is warm, cheering, non-constricting. Orange has a freeing effect upon the body and mind, relieving repressions. Orange shows new possibilities and other options in life. Stimulates creative thinking and enthusiasm, and helps assimilate new ideas. It is also helpful in dealing with excess sexual expression.
Orange stimulates the lungs, respiration, and digestion. Increases the activity of the thyroid. Relieves muscle cramps and spasms. Increases the amount of mother milk.
Finally, orange links very strongly with the sacral chakra.
Esoteric: Deities of good luck and fortune. Attraction, charm, kindness, encouragement, stimulation, optimism, success, abundance, prosperity, feast and celebration, energy, achieving business goals, investments, success in legal matters.
Preference for orange: Orange represents the warmth of the fire. It brings even more energy than yellow, celebration, and great abundance, comfort, enjoyment of the senses. Warm sociable, dynamic, and independent people who dedicate themselves to whatever they do.
People who don’t like orange: A person who has an aversion to orange may have suppressed sexual feelings or other difficulties with sensual enjoyment of life. The attitude can also be over-sensual, indulgent, or too materialistic.
Yellow
Healing properties: Yellow helps strengthens the nerves and the mind. It helps awaken mental inspiration and stimulates a higher mentality.
Thus, it is an excellent color for nervous or nerve-related conditions or ailments. It also energizes the muscles. Dark yellow soothes pain in the nerves (shooting pain).
Yellow can be used for conditions of the stomach, liver, and intestines. Speeds up digestion, assimilation, and the stool.
It helps the pores of the skin and aids scarred tissues in healing itself.
Yellow links with and stimulates the solar plexus or psychic center. It can be used for psychic burnout or other psychic-related conditions or ailments. Activates and cheers up depressed and melancholic people. Gives lust for life.
Esoteric: Elemental air. Deities for trade, travel, knowledge, and magic. Life-force, vitality, change, progress, contact, communication, trade, commerce, to persuade with confidence, joy, cheerfulness, learning, knowledge, mental clarity, concentration, memorizing, tests, speaking and writing, traveling, affirmation, visualization.
Preference for yellow: The color of the sun, life-force, vividity, vitality, and energy. The color of happiness, curiosity, alternation, flexibility, progress, amusement, contact through traveling and communication, learning, and practical knowledge. A feeling for writing and speaking.
People who don’t like yellow: A person who has an aversion (dislike) to yellow may be emotionally disappointed and bitter. May have a tendency to rationalize feelings or to avoid the depths of life by often changing relationships, many superficial relationships, and/or constantly changing activities.
Green
Healing properties: Green is the color of nature and the Earth. It is balance and harmonious in essence and possesses a soothing influence upon both the mind and the body.
It is neither relaxing nor astringent in its impact. Green can be used for just about any condition in need of healing.
Green rings psychological and emotional harmony and balance.
Green links with and stimulates the heart chakra. Green affects blood pressure and all conditions of the heart. It has both an energizing effect and a moderating and soothing effect.
It cures hormonal imbalances. Stimulates growth hormone and rejuvenation. Cleans and purifies from germs, bacteria, and rotting material. Harmonizes the digestion, stomach, liver, gall. It has a healing effect on kidneys. Increases immunity, builds up muscles, bones, and tissues. Stimulates inner peace, and strengthens the nervous system.
Esoteric: Elemental earth (dark green) and elemental water (blue-green). Nature, fertility, growth, rejuvenation, recovering, healing, harvest and abundance, prosperity, harmony, balance, peace, hope, mother earth, home, herbal magic, plants, and animals, counteract greed and jealousy.
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Preference for green: Green brings peace, hope, rest, comfort and nurturing, calmness, and harmony. Interest in nature, plants, fellowmen, children, and animals, health and healing, natural and plain life. Longing for a safe home and family life. A dislike of conflicts.
People who don’t like green: A person who has an aversion (dislike) to green may be more interested in independence and self-development than in warm family life. May prefer to keep a distance in (sexual) relationships.
Blue
Healing properties: Blue is healing, electric, astringent. Dr. Edwin Babbitt, in his classic, “The Principles of Light and Color”, states that “The Blue Ray is one of the greatest antiseptics in the world.”.
Cools down inflammations (don’t forget rheumatic inflammations), fever, high blood pressure, stops bleedings, relieves bursting headaches, calms strong emotions, like anger, aggression or hysteria.
Brings tranquility. Anti-itching, anti-irritation (for instance, redness of the skin), anti-stress. Soothes suffering.
Blue can be used for any type of ailments associated with speech, communication, or the throat. Excellent for laryngitis or inflammation of the larynx.
Blue links with and stimulates the throat chakra. The throat chakra is often referenced as the “power center” and “the greatest center in the body”, because it is the primary center of expression and communication, through speech.
Esoteric: Elemental water and elemental air. Deities of the sea, truth and wisdom. Peace and tranquility, calmness, truth, wisdom, justice, counsel, guidance, understanding, patience, loyalty and honor, sincerity, devotion, healing, femininity, prophetic dreams, protection during sleep, astral projection.
Preference for blue: Cool and soothing, dreamy and magical. Peace and rest. For people who keep a certain distance, but give calm and practical help; they are faithful and loyal, have a sense of order, logic and rational thinking. Flying in day-dreaming, ideals or nostalgia when felt misunderstood. Dark blue is more severe and can be melancholic. Blue is also the color of truth.
People who don’t like blue: A person who has an aversion (dislike) to blue, maybe a very disciplined, strong career worker, with an aversion of commentary or restriction. He/She may have charted out a clear direction for his/her life and wants to follow that lace-like.
Indigo
Healing properties: Indigo is a great purifier of the bloodstream and also benefits mental problems. It is a purifying and freeing agent.
Indigo combines the deep blue of devotion with a trace of stabilizing and objective red. Indigo is cool, electric, and astringent.
Indigo links with and stimulates the brow chakra (third eye) and controls the pineal gland.It takes care of both the physical and spiritual perception. It can be of great use when dealing with a minor illness of the eyes or ears.
Violet/Purple
Healing properties:These are colors of transformation. They heal the feeling of sadness, hysteria, delusions, and alcoholic addiction and bring spirituality and renewal.
These colors calm do the heart when over-exited; stimulates the white blood cells (which brings immunity). It brings sleep, and soothes the mental and emotional stress.
Leonardo Da Vinci said that you can increase the power of meditation by 10%, by meditating under the gentle rays of violet, like those found on church windows.
Esoteric: It gives rise to elemental spirit, divination and prophecy, and angels.
Psychic abilities, divination, black magic, reversing curses, psychic healing and power, inspiration, meditation, spirituality and spiritual power, astral projection, the third eye, compassion and counter-acting depression also come under violet and purple.
Preference for violet and purple:These colors are good for meditation, contemplation, mysticism, spirituality, and religion power.
A longing to ascend and dissolve polarities (purple consists of an active red and a passive blue), to improve the world. Mystery and dignity come under purple/violet.
People who like or are attracted to the colors purple and violet are usually soft, sensitive people with paranormal abilities.
People who don’t like purple/violet: A person who does not like either purple or violet, may have a very serious attitude towards life, and may find it difficult to place dreams, fantasies, vague fears or memories in it.
They may have a tendency to rejection (they might reject everything that they regard as unnatural or unrealistic).
White
Healing properties: White is the perfect color, as it adds the perfect amount of balance and harmony. It is the color of the awakened spirit, it is the color of light, the light of Cosmic Consciousness – the Divine light.
Just about everyone has heard about surrounding people with the “White light of healing and protection”.White light raises the vibration of one’s consciousness and the body, bringing harmony in all aspects of one’s life.
Directing white light into the part of the body that needs healing is one of the fastest ways to bring about healing.
Esoteric: White indicates purification and cleaning on all levels, contact with higher and spiritual helpers, (inner) peace, aura-healing, truth seeking, consecration, spiritual enlightenment, protection against negativity, breaking curses, exorcism, meditation, divination, inspiration, clairvoyance, and invoking spirits.
White can be a replacement for any other color that your magic requires.
Preference for white: People who like the color white are usually innocent, and have purity, virginity, cleanliness, freshness, simplicity, nothingness, oneness, completion and truth.
In certain cultures, white is the color of death and mourning.
People who dislike white: A person who dislikes the color white is foremost or solely interested in ‘realistic’ or tangible things, and not in illusions or things that are beyond seeing or understanding.
They know and accept their own imperfections and do not wish to achieve perfection.
Magenta
Healing properties: Magenta strengthens the contact with your life purpose, and stimulates the adrenaline and heart activity.
Esoteric: Magenta gives out Scorpio energy, magnetism to attract/speed up things, extra power when immediate action and great spiritual power are needed, life purposes and paths.
Preference for magenta: Much energy and activity focused on achieving power and self-realization. Has strong but controlled passions and emotions.
These people are daring, ready to fight, and ready to give up anything and everything to achieve their goal. They can drive things too far and have fixed ideas.
People who dislike magenta: A person who dislikes magenta may feel overwhelmed by people with strong convictions or heavy emotions like jealousy; they also may have difficulties with expressing deep emotions.
Pink
Healing properties: Pink is used for healing grief and sadness. It also restores youthfulness, and brings you in contact with your feelings.
Esoteric: softness, tenderness, romance caring, nurturing for children, youth, peace, friendship, femininity, emotional love and emotional healing, all come under the color pink.
Preference for pink: Pink is regarded as a feminine color, as most ladies/girls like pink. Pink symbolizes softness, sweetness, innocence, youthfulness and tenderness. Most people who like the color pink are usually soft and kind.
People who dislike pink: A person who does not like the color pink might have a problem with expressing their soft, tender, feminine side.
Turquoise
Healing properties: Turquoise increases sensitivity and intuition. It works well as a disinfectant, and an antiseptic. It keeps the skin in good condition and relaxes the sensation of stress.
Esoteric: Alterations, intellectual and intuitive insights, technique, inventions, originality, renewal, brotherhood, and humanism.
Preference for turquoise: Just like the wide turquoise sea, these people do not want to feel restricted, and they don’t immediately say the things that go on in their mind (their emotions remain hidden).
This is a color of non-triviality, renewal, innovation and inventions, progressive Technics, alternative ways of living together, and humanity.
People who dislike turquoise: A person who does not like turquoise may be looking for solidity and security in society, especially marriage. They may also be reluctant, to thinking originally or to walk new paths.
Brown
Esoteric: Elemental earth. The planet-spirit Saturn. It helps in: stability, grounding, conservation, protection of household family and pets, healing animals, finding lost objects, material constructions (buildings, towers, etc.), material increase, to make relationships solid, to increase decisiveness and concentration, and attracting help in a financial crisis.
Preference for brown: It is an earthly color for practical people with a preference for natural, tribal and primitive things, solidity, and simplicity.
Brown is a color for warmness and coziness, but also depression. These people are stable and loyal friends.
People who don’t like brown: A person who does not like the color brown may also feel a dislike of being normal, boring, and also having a normal life. They also may not feel connected to their roots (their home-land or family), they may also experience instability in health and attitude.
I could go on and on about different other colours, but this article has already been long enough…..
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