Colour is all around us and affects our everyday life in numberless ways. We make colour choices every time we choose what to wear, what to eat and how to decorate our homes.
I think that by increasing our consciousness of the power of colour and realize it, has on our mood, feelings and even our efficiency, we can learn to apply it to make positive changes in our lives.
Applying Colour for Health
There are many ways of harnessing the power of colour for health and wealth. Colour can be eaten, worn, absorbed through your skin or eyes, or visualised. Alternatively, the home and workplace can be decorated and lit specifically with colour healing in mind. A torch or flashlight can be applied to specific areas for stimulating energy. Colouring a jacuzzi bath with underwater or overhead lighting, is a wonderful and relaxing way of combining water with colour vibration. Coloured sacks of salt rubs have been successfully used to help invigorate paralysed limbs. A white linen bag is filled with salt and impregnated with colour from a spectrum spotlight. The bag can then be used to massage the affected area gently. Chromotherapy is colour projection which is uses directed light beams. The auric field which surrounds the body emanating from our being can be cleared easily by the use of colour, along with charka balancing, arising from seven coloured wheels of energy which run along the spine.
Colour breathing techniques, the use of different coloured crystals and meditating on the various colours are gently ways of restoring health and a sense of well being. These are only a few of the many ways in which colour can be of benefit.
Colour therapy & Feng Shui
Colour is a sensation. It enriches the world and our understanding or it. Colour and Feng Shui as individual therapies are, in their own ways, very powerful.
Combined, they work well together, particularly when the psychology of colour consciousness is brought into the home. You can use colour is these areas for therapeutic reasons as will as just for visual enjoyment. Blending colours successfully can help to alleviate depression, nervous breakdown and aggression.
Colour can be used for all ailments and conditions. Be aware that the colour flow will be disrupted if there is a window or or picture on the wall. Remember that red, orange and yellow are best kept downstairs where most activity takes place and the blues upstairs, where sleep occurs. Indigo is great for bedrooms to alleviate insomnia. It is also the best colour to help relieve pain. Blue would be better for children. The colours of your home should be well-balanced to suit your needs or purposes and to minimize stress.
Feng Shui provides a way of arranging your living space in order to bring about this balance. Also Feng Shui states the more vibrant and energetic the colours you choose in your home the more energy will flow.
Feng Shui is based on the notion that life is built on the following five elements
Each of these elements is associated with certain qualities of our existence and with certain colours; enhancing that colour nurtures that element and brings those qualities to your life.
Beyond Colour
Human beings are considered remarkable for their reasoning ability, yet humankind still hankers after methods which stimulate some mysterious faculty, enabling us to know things that are otherwise hidden.
The art of divination is the method of predicting or indicating past, present and future events by methods of seeing beyond the usual senses. When used in purity, it can only benefit the human race by bringing comfort to those in need and solace where there is unrest. It is all a matter of moving the self into a deeper consciousness of total awareness.
Colour is part of your divinatory make up as inherent as your sight or sense of smell. Steeped in the awareness of the environment, the psyche and the soul of the ancients we know that intuitive capacity is increased by the use of colour. Simply by harnessing its vibration, seeing it or thinking it can be used as a non invasive way of discovering you and your surroundings.
Get to know what colour can do for you. It can change your life!
