What is Colour Therapy and Colour Healing? How can you use colour therapy and colour healing in your own life, in your healing or coaching practice?
Understanding Colour
In the 1660s Issac Newton “demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors”. Colour is different waves or frequencies of electromagnetic radiation visible to the human eye.
The colour of any object is defined and or described by its hue, lightness, and saturation. Colours require light to be visible to the naked eye. To understand color effectively you need to look at colour in relation to physics, physiology, and psychology.
The eye and brain together translate light into colour. Rods and Cones within the retina transmit different impulses and intensities which are transmitted into colour and sharpness. The colour processing centre in the human brain is believed to be in the ventral occipital lobe as part of the visual system. But different studies especially those using monkeys have demonstrated that colours activate different areas in the brain e.g. fusiform gyrus, and lingual gyrus. Areas involved in colour vision processing are together labeled visual area 4 (V4 ).
What Is Colour Therapy?
Colour Therapy (chromotherapy) and Colour Healing use the different spectrums of light and color for therapeutic use in supporting health and well-being.
The vibration and frequency of energy that related to each of the seven spectrum colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
NOTE: Some of the invisible spectrum ranges used in science and medicine can be harmful.
Psychological Impact Of Colour Therapy
Colour impacts us physiologically and psychologically.
Colour psychology is widely used in branding, marketing, media, and psychological treatments. As colour is one of the most powerful ways to trigger certain emotional, mental and physical reactions. That is why certain foods and brands use certain types of colours to increase sales. Certain colours are used to build trust, and to increase and reinforce certain actions and certain habits.
Even the colours we wear or choose in our home have an impact on our psychological, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Physiological Influence Of Colour Therapy
Colour can influence us physiologically, color can change our aura, our organs, and our chakras. Colour triggers certain responses through the way it stimulates the retina and brain.
Colour memories trigger certain emotional and physical responses. That is why colour can increase hunger, rage, and sex drive, help you feel more calm, and relaxed, boost your mood, and lower your mood.
In my early twenties, a friend of mine painted her very first home all in green. I mean we’re talking about green everywhere I told her at the time that maybe should compliment it with another more warming colour.
She had moved out of a very stressful environment and then found herself within weeks feeling very depressed and couldn’t understand why.
After a few suggestions that maybe the problem was the amount of green and tones of green in her home that may be contributing to her low mood. She decided to introduce some soft and warmer colours like pink, she started to feel so much more brighter and positive.
Colour Therapy In Guided Imagery and Guided Meditation
Colour therapy is widely used in guided meditation and creative imagery to invoke certain memories and emotions. That is why it is used in psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, healing, and in sports performance.
The key is choosing the right colour frequency for the specific challenge. Colour can be deeply healing, and extremely therapeutic it can also be harmful in the wrong hands.
The wrong colours can stimulate the wrong emotional or physical reaction. Like everything colour can not just be used to heal the wrong colours can harm, and increase all sorts of emotional, mental, and physiological changes to the body.
I have witnessed and been the victim of therapists and healers who don’t know how to use colour most effectively. One teacher told a group of us how she focused on just using red in a guided meditation on a child who was very highly sensitive and already extremely overstimulated.
Because she said she wanted to support his root chakra. It simply made the child even more overwhelmed and stimulated. .
The colour Red for many people who are already overstimulated, over stressed can be very traumatising. On someone with high blood pressure, this good be quite dangerous.
Colour Therapy In Art Therapy
The very act of putting colour into some sort of piece of art or self-expression is in itself very therapeutic and healing. Art therapy is widely used to encourage self-expression, empowerment, creativity, mindfulness, and relaxation. Colour is an innate aspect of art therapy that can help the individual express and heal emotions, release old trauma, and become more calm, relaxed, and free.
Colour Therapy Using Colour Light Lamps
I took a year’s course in colour healing using coloured light lamps in my twenties. It was such an interesting course around colour healing and colour therapy. And was one of the colour therapy courses that ignited my interest for color therapy, color healing color psychology, and later colour analysis.
Would you love to learn more about color therapy and color healing? If so check out my Colour Therapy In Guided Visualisation Course For Therapists, Healers, and Coaches below
Eileen Burns is a Soul Empowerment Mentor, Healer, Therapist, and Spiritual Business Strategist who helps lightworkers, healers, and therapists step more into their soul purpose and soul mission. She offers a wide range of training and courses, she is the owner of Stress Coach Training and Spiritual Marketing Club. LEARN MORE
Self expression is the action of sharing one’s thoughts, feelings or ideas, through action, voice, the creative arts such as art, dance, music even innovation.
Problems With Authenticity And Self Expression
The problem today with authenticity and self expression. Is that many people today gets confused by narcistic attention seeking behaviour and authentic self expression.
Where the world is expected to bow down to other people’s narcissistic demands, gaslighting or ideology in away that threatens someone’s else’s authentic values and opinions.
When in reality true authentic self expression, comes from the confidence of truly understanding and expressing ourself in a deep and objective way without the need or expectation for other people’s approval or recognition.
Another personality trait that can seriously get in the way of being truly authentic in your life and business is neuroticism. Healers, therapists and coaches who procrastinate a lot in their business and who suffer for imposter syndrome can suffer from have a high level of neuroticism.
At their core they often don’t really know, love or trust themself. Suffer from deep rooted fear and wounding.
What Is Narcissism?
Narcissism is a self–centered personality trait where they tend to be obsessive around one’s self at the expense of other people.
Lack Empathy
Lack Introspection
Blame Others For Their Mistakes or Misfortune
Constantly Gaslight their victims
Deny Errors and Mistakes
Highly Impulsive
Anger Easily and Hold Grudges
Enjoy Revelling In Other People’s Pain
What is Neuroticism?
Neuroticism is regarded as a core personality trait that relates to someone’s mental and emotional stability and inability to self-regulate, it is associated with dissatisfaction and distress.
Find It Difficult To Make And Sustain Relationships
In reality those who are neurotic struggle to be truly authentic due to fear what others may think.
Recent Studies Around Authenticity
There is a variety of types of research in relation to authenticity.
According to SPANE assessment, people who are more authentic are far happier and healthier.
” Realness is a core feature of Authenticity” Scienedirect.com demonstrates “realness as the relatively stable tendency to act on the outside the way one feels on the inside, without regard for proximal personal or social consequences.”
So even though we know being authentic is part of integrity in many areas of our life and business, In some causes authenticity can be simply just self serving especially when we do no take into account the consequences of what we share. Though one study suggests people who tend to be more authentic tend to get less angry in situations that are unfair.
Top Tips How To Be More Authentic
Know You Are Enough
The more you know and feel you are enough, the more you understand how important it is to be yourself, the easier it is to be truly you.
Know Yourself Deeply Enough To
Know yourself deeply enough that you can be authentic, being authentic is banned about today by many who don’t know themself at all. Truly being authentic is about letting go of who we think we need, should or have been conditioned to be. And learn to unlock more of who we truly are.
Live Your Life By Your Core Values
The more you know yourself the easier it is to to know and live by your values. In a spiritual business your core values are often your biggest soul client attractor.
Identify Your Shadows And Masks
The digger you deep into truly getting to know yourself, observe yourself the easier it is to see the shadows and the masks we hide behind and get entangled in. Archetype work is a powerful way to identify your most dominant shadow traits and masks.
Learn To Communicate As Honesty As You Can
Honest sincere communication from the heart, is one of the most powerful ways to be authentic in your day to day life.
Get More Creative, Find Different Ways To Express Yourself
Creativity is a healthy way to express yourself, your joy, pain and emotions in a healthy way for all concerned. The Creative arts such as creative writing or creative play, can be a powerful form of self-healing for releasing trauma, healing the inner child and identity issues holding you back from being truly authentic.
Archetypal and Inner Child Work
Archetypal and inner child work hand and hand is a powerful way to help one move into alignment with your true essence. Heal the deepest shadows and masks that are keeping you small, stuck or lost in someone else’s identity or beliefs.
Why Sandalwood Oil is grounding and calming for the nervous system. Used widely for its therapeutic properties in ancient and traditional medicine such as ayurveda and Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Why sandalwood is mentioned in ancient scriptures for its spiritual uses and has a high vibrational frequency.
Learn some of the various ways you can use sandalwood essential oil at home for you and your family, your meditation practice, in your business, clinic or spa.
What is Sandalwood Oil?
Sandalwood oil has a woody and grounding scent and is extracted from the heartwood of the Sandalwood Tree. Also known as Genus Santalum which used to grow in southern India, the forests of Karnataka.
“Santalum genus belongs to the family of Santalaceae, widespread in India, Australia, Hawaii, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia, and valued as traditional medicine, rituals and modern bioactivities.” Santalum Genus: phytochemical constituents, biological activities and health promoting-effects From the journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
Commercially extracted Indian sandalwood oil can only be extracted when the tree is at least 15 years old though the highest grades are grown up to 80 years before extraction.
History Of Sandalwood Essential Oil
Sandalwood was traded as a rich commodity in the Indian sub continent by 700 BC. From early on it was widely used in Hindu Rituals, weddings and births valued for it’s meditative and grounding fragrance and as an insect repellent. The highest grade of sandalwood oil is Santalum album.
The sandalwood in herbal form has been used for centuries to improve qi in the Lung, Spleen and Stomach. It is regarded as having yang properties.
Sandalwood In Traditional Medicine
Sandalwood In TCM ( Traditional Chinese Medicine)- Sandalwood as a herb has been used for centuries to improve qi in the Heart, Stomach, Spleen and Lung. It is regarded as having yang warming properties aid to support those with too much cold in their system.
In Ayurvedic Medicinal system, Sandalwood is regarded as a very sacred herb and oil, which has many uses. Used to help treat Vatta and Pitta constitution imbalances. Sandalwood oil is widely used as as a diuretic, as an aid to treat coughs, cold, skin inflammation, fever remedy and so much more.
Medical and Therapeutic Properties Of Sandalwood Oil
Sandalwood Essential Oil is said to have a frequency of 98 mhz and has shown to have two main molecular components, known as alpha- and beta-santalol. Sandalwood Oil is one of the essential oils in research shown to demonstrate ” Inhibition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by essential oils”. Sandalwood oil is widely used to treat urinary infections. In various clinical research and studies it has demonstrated or suggested to be
Anti-aging
Anti-bacterial
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-microbial
Anti-oxidant
Anti-proliferative
Anti-Viral
Skincare Properties Of Sandalwood Oil
Sandalwood essential oil is widely used in the perfumery and skincare industry, sandalwood is widely used not just as an essential oil but also as a balm and incense. Sandalwood oil is widely used to help heal variety of skin conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis, one of the reasons sandalwood soap has been commercially so popular for over 100 years. Sandalwood was widely used in ancient traditions for embalming alongside frankincense and myrrh.
Sandalwood To Soothe The Nervous System
Sandalwood is widely used by aromatherapists and therapists to help calm and soothe nervous system. It can act as a sedative, a relaxant, to help with grounding or to support a trance or meditative state. One of the most effective ways to use sandalwood to calm the nervous system is by adding pure sandalwood essential oil to the bath or by blending a few drops to a massage carrier oil to apply to the body and face.
