Bye-Bye Ama: Ridding the Body of Toxins
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Color Your World: How Colors Heal
Close your eyes. There are three rooms to choose from – blue, green, red. Which are you drawn to? Which do you turn away from?
In your mind, open the door and walk in and out of each space. How do you feel in a bright blue room? Blood red? Pea-green? Peaceful? Focused? Energized? Colors are more than paint swatches or a box of crayons. We live in a technicolor world, from our homes to our cars, to our wardrobe, to the natural spaces we inhabit.
Blue is not only blue, but it is also cerulean, turquoise, robin’s egg. It’s no coincidence that crime scenes are marked with yellow tape, or that traffic signs are yellow, green, and red. These are colors that we associate with certain responses — STOP! PAY ATTENTION! GO! But more than color’s ability to provide beauty, or inform us, “color is fundamental to our experience of the world around us,” and more importantly, color is integral to our power to heal.
Primary Colors and the Power to Heal
A brief look at the primary colors and their emotional and psychological effects can provide a solid ground to learning how to bring color therapy into your own life:
- Red: Energetic, passionate, sexual appetite and general vitality
- Yellow: Joy, non-attachment, free-spiritedness, generosity
- Blue: balance, strong survival instincts, clarity, calm nervous system
- White: Clarity, space, purity, spaciousness
- Black: Strength, power, autonomy, intelligence
