So what is "healing with color" and how does it work?
There are many ways to use color to help balance the body ( mind/emotions/soul) out.
All colors operate on their own wavelength and everyone reacts to these in their own way. It has been shown that color does affect not just the senses but the body itself.
Healing with color takes on a few different forms.
There is healing with colored light ( subjecting yourself for periods of time under certain hues).
Healing with color based meditations ( focusing on a color in your minds eye). Healing with colored breath ( another type of meditation where you focus on a color as you breathe in and out......."breathe in the good -pink, breathe out the bad - olive green " <---as an example).
Just surrounding yourself in a color ( outfit, material, room of said color) or focusing on a gemstone (candle/other object) to balance yourself out can be considered using color to help heal.
If you work with chakras at all ( the bodies energy centers......more on that in Energy Board) then you know a little about working with colors ( on an energy level) already ( as each chakra is associated with a particular color).
We are visual creatures by nature and colors make a huuuuge impact.
Think for a moment what is the color of fear to you?
What is the color of happiness?
What does brown bring to mind?
How do you feel about red?
Does blue do anything for you?
Other cultures have been using color therapy in its various forms for many years. In Chinese medicine there are five colors that are considered healing colors and each relate to a body organ. More on that in another post though.
So now you have an idea of what it is. So how do you use it?
Are you feeling low on energy? Choosing the right color(s) can help give you that boost.
Are you feeling keyed up and unable to focus? Again color therapy may be able to help calm you down so you can center and focus.
Those are only a couple of examples though.
This board will provide information as well as explore the realm of colors and what they can do for you.
I hope you enjoy.
C.S.