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
Why Every HSP Highly Sensitive Person Should Learn How To Meditate Daily.
Why meditation helps the HSP. Why daily meditation can help the Highly Sensitive Person or even Empath become more mentally and emotionally resilient in their life and business.
Daily Challenges Of The HSP Highly Sensitive Person
I believe everyone should learn how to meditate but if you are an empath or HSP I believe meditation is a must. Why? Because if you are an HSP you are more sensitive to the energy and stress of modern-day living.
The HSP has a highly sensitive sensory system, basically a more finely tuned nervous system than most people. This gives the HSP a lot more awareness and receptivity to the world around them. But this also makes HSP’s less resilient in some ways more easily overstimulated.
Reasons Why The HSP Highly Sensitive People Should Meditate
The highly sensitive person is often more easily wounded. The HSP Empath is often more scattered in their energy. In many ways, they are often not fully in their energetic body. That is why many highly sensitive empaths are often ungrounded and uncentred.
Why so many highly sensitive’s and empaths struggle mentally, physically, and or emotionally in their day-to-day life.
Highly Sensitive Empaths are like energy sponges. So they need to need to learn how to become more centered, grounded, and energetically aware. Meditation naturally helps increase awareness and presence. The right meditation techniques can also help us become more grounded and centered.
Why Every HSP Should Meditate Daily
Daily Meditation is so good for your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing
Regular meditative practice is known to lower anxiety and stress levels.
It helps you access a deep space of stillness and peace, so meditation often increases clarity and confidence
Meditation allows you to heal mentally, physically, and emotionally.
My Own Meditation Journey As A HSP And Empath
I began meditating over 30 years ago, I tried, tested, and studied various styles and teachings of meditation. As someone with very rare medical challenges that mainstream medicine couldn’t treat, I had to find skills that would make me more physically, mentally, and emotionally resilient.
Oh, how I thank god that I found meditation. This was a skill that helped me become so mentally resilient. Meditation helped me deal with so many tremendous and long-term challenges with strength and peace.
Teaching Meditation
One of my earliest teachings of meditation was to a class of rather troublesome young men. I knew teaching most traditional meditation techniques would be challenging. So I went searching for a style of meditation that might accommodate their particular needs.
I found a Qi Gong technique that I adapted in which became My 5 Minute Meditation. This became the most popular meditation tool I ever taught. Loved by not just teenagers, but stressed-out executives, carers, healers, highly sensitive people, and empaths.
Finding The Right Type Of Meditation To Start With
When you find the right type of meditation tool for you, you will build your meditation practice up much stronger.
If you have a very busy, demanding lifestyle my 5 Minute Meditation is a great starter tool. But I would still encourage you to practice a more traditional style of meditation into your routine. This will help you transcend into living more of your life from a place of meditation.
The problem today is there is a lot of myths and misunderstanding around meditation. Many people give up too quickly on their meditation practice because of a misunderstanding of what meditating actually is.
Beginners Meditation Technique For The Anxious HSP
If you are an HSP who struggles with chronic anxiety and stress I would encourage you to try out a very short style of meditation like my less than 5 Minute Meditation which is great for beginners. This particular technique is really useful for chronic anxiety and even trauma sufferers, so it’s much more gentle than other forms of meditation.
The Right Type Of Meditation Teacher If You Are Highly Sensitive
My advice would be to choose a meditation teacher wisely, find out more about them, years of experience, training, and styles of meditation they teach. If you’re an Empath or HSP you may want to book a one-to-one session with a meditation teacher before attending a class or start with some simple meditation at home.
Also, check-in that the meditation teacher actually teaches you how to meditate they are not just practicing or guiding you through guided meditations more like guided visualisations, this is often something very different.
Anxiety can be a huge problem for HSP’S. Meditation can help us detach from negative thoughts, ruminating and our wounding.When we meditate we connect with the self, an aspect of us that never changes. This helps nurture a healthy anchor, a stronger connection with where magic and stillness transcends everything else.
Can Increase Self-Awareness
Good self-awareness is so important for HSP’s. Highly sensitive people can get so easily overwhelmed by the world and people around them, they can struggle with relationships because of their own shadow traits and inner child wounding. Meditation when applied correctly, can help improve our self-awareness, develop our spiritual maturity and spiritual growth.
8 Ways How To Reduce Teenage Exam Stress And Anxiety
Top tips on helping reduce student and teenage study and exam stress, hep your teen feel more calm, confident and relaxed when exam time and study time comes around.
Exam Stress And Anxiety From Exam Performance
Sadly Exam Stress And Anxiety Is A Big Problem For Many Students And Teenagers. Especially with such increase in mental health challenges in young people, especially chronic anxiety and depression.
Exam stress for many is actually stress anxiety, for some it is more anxiety performance. Most students and teenagers are suffering from both exam stress and exam anxiety, so it is important to approach both.Most of us when we hear the word exam get a feeling of panic.
But there is so many simple things your young adult or teenager can do to reduce exam stress and anxiety. With the right approach and the right tools you can help increase calm and confidence.
Top Tips To Reduce Teenage Exam Stress And Anxiety
Create A Suitable Study Space:
Make sure your child or teenager has a suitable comfortable space to study where they wont be disturbed or distracted. A space
that is ideal to encourage more calm and focus. For teenagers who lack focus or suffer from ADHD, the NYR Study Remedies roller ball is ideal to fit in a pocket, purse, or bag. Lemon essential oil improves focus and concentration.
Encourage A Balanced Study Routine:
Help or encourage your teenager to create a healthy and balanced study timetable. It is so important your teenagers prioritise their time effectively.
It can be so easy for them to want to avoid subjects they struggle with or are concerned over.
Reduce External Stressors:
Help take the pressure off your teenager by reducing external stressors as much as you can. If your child normally has a lot of household chores, a job, try reducing the level of those chores temporarily during study and exam time. So they are not overwhelmed, overstressed and over exhausted.
Boost Your Teens Confidence And Self-Worth:
Support your teenage by boosting their confidence, self-worth and self-esteem. Focus on their strengths, praise them, be kind to them reduce criticism and help them understand that their worth does not equate to their exam results.
Teenagers today are put under extreme pressure from all angles, especially peer and educational pressure. It is important to do what you can to encourage a healthier mindset, increased confidence, self-worth and self-esteem.
Encourage Time Out:
Make sure your teenager takes plenty of breaks between study time and exams. It is important they take time to switch off and have fun.
Reduce Technology Overload:
We use technology for so much in our lives that we forget how over-stimulating and energy-depleting it can be. Also, most computers and mobile devices such as iPads emit blu ray technology which can play havoc with our nervous system and sleep patterns. So ensure they spend time off computers, phones, facebook…
Teach Them How To Meditate And Relax:
Meditation and relaxation techniques can be really helpful at helping anxious teenagers switch off. Teenagers love my less than 5 Minute Meditation (included in the Exam Stress Kit) is the most popular tool I have taught for 20 years. Muscle relaxations are great at reducing anxiety, muscle tension and sleep challenges, all in my Exam Stress Toolkit For Teens And Students.
Encourage Deep Quality Sleep:
Good quality sleep can make a huge difference to our concentration, focus, and memory recall. Guided meditations designed to support sleep can be really helpful so can muscle relaxation techniques. Lavender oil is a great essential oil that can encourage a deep restful sleep. One product many clients and friends love is the NYR Organics Night Time aroma ball.
Want to support your child or teenager the right way?
My Exam Stress Toolkit is ideal for young adults, teenagers, student,s and parents who want to learn how to manage exam stress in a more natural and holistic way
Top tips how to calm down an overstimulated hyperactive child or child with ADHD. Understanding hyperactivity and children and how to deal with in the most calm and effective way.
What is Hyperactivity?
Hyperactivity is a state of mental, emotional and physical over-activity. Kids with Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder can be in a perpetual state of stress due to their hyper-sensitivity. A hyperactive child is more easily triggered by internal and external anxiety and stressors.”While hyperactivity is most commonly associated with ADHD, individuals might also have difficulty with a brain or nervous system disorder, emotional disorder, or hyperthyroidism.” SpecialNeeds.com
Symptoms Of A Hyperactive Child
Behaviours and symptoms of a hyperactive child can be extremely varied. But common symptoms of hyperactivity include fidgeting, poor focus and concentration. As well as impulsiveness, irritability and aggressiveness, emotional outbursts and overwhelm. A hyperactive child maybe something you have to deal with more than just, daily or weekly. Especially with so much technology and information overload, so many kids parties and event.This can be stressful and exhaustion for you the parent, caregiver or educator. So it is important to manage or reduce the risks of hyperactivity and overstimulation as much as possible.
Here is 7 Tips To Calm Down A Hyperactive Child
Be Calm, Firm But Caring
A hyperactive child is a child in a highly over stimulated, emotional or stressed state. So it is important to approach the situation in a calm confident yet firm and caring way.The last thing you want is your anxiety, stress or emotional frustration fuelling the situation.
Most parents and caregivers have anxiety and stress so it is important to mange your own anxiety,stress and triggers in a healthy way.The more relaxed and calm you are, the easier it is set clear caring boundaries with your child. For toddlers a firm and strong stop hand signal can give a clear message.
Especially done at eye to eye level, not hovering down or pointing a finger. Which can trigger more fear or emotional frustration.
Remove Your Hyperactive Child From Their Stressors
Removing your hyperactive child to a more calming environment or activity with is more grounding like a walk in the nature can be extremely helpful.
Or simply removing or distracting them from any sort of stimulant internally or externally will help encourage your child’s mind, body and emotions off the stress response and back into a calm and balanced state.
We are all more easily stressed by noises, lights, smells, other people’s energy and emotions when we are hyper-alert.
Redirect Your Hyperactive Child To Release Excessive Energy
Encouraging a hyperactive child to use their bursts of energy in a far more focused and healthy way can help. That is why short bursts of directed exercise like doing a short sprint can be helpful. Young children can learn to shake their body like a deer does, after it freezes during a stressful event.
Any activity with a certain amount of heavy lifting can also be helpful as it requires a certain amount of focus.
Although because hyperactivity is usually triggered by sensory, stimulus or information overload followed by emotional melt downs and exhaustion. It is important not to push a hyperactive child into too much physical activity that is going to burn them out. The main reason no 4 and 7 are so important.
When a child can manage their own emotions and stress they feel more calm, confident and in control. They are less frustrated and overwhelmed. Children can learn how to relax properly with breathing or relaxation techniques. Many younger kids find blowing bubbles deeply calming. A child’s ability to switch off and relax is vital to get deep restful sleep.
Teach a child the right type of meditation skill and you give them a friend for life. Meditation gives your child an empowering self-help tool for life. My meditation and mindfulness program for kids teaches both parent and child how to meditate in a fun and practical manner for the whole family.
Lavender essential oil is a really safe and effective oil for most ages of children when used the right way. Making up a lavender aroma ball like these by NYR Remedies To Roll can be deeply calming, soothing and relaxing.
Lavender bath salts or Pure Lavender oil can be added to the bath to be used as a sleep aid especially when deep quality sleep is so important for the hyperactive or ADDHD child. Make sure you don’t use products with synthetic fragrances or perfumes, pure essentials especially organic essential oils are natural and toxin free.
Eliminate Stimulants i.e. sugar, artificial sweeteners, colourings especially energy drinks seriously over-stimulate the mind, body and emotions. Even foods your child is slightly intolerant to, can be too stimulating.
The reality is most foods in our supermarkets are full of refined sugars or man made ingredients, pesticides or preservatives which play havoc with our body our sugar levels and nervous system. When possible a fresh raw organic diet as much as possible can help nurture your child’s mind, body and emotions.
How To Create A Calm Bedtime Routine For Your Child.
Simple ways to create a happy healthy and calm bedtime routine for your kids and teenagers. For so many parents a calm bedtime routine seems impossible. So many families are so stressed out and exhausted that bedtime can feel like a nightmare or the last straw. But the reality is children’s bedtime don’t have to be as stressful as you think. Some simple changes can make a huge difference to a family’s bedtime routine.
The Benefits Of A Calm Bedtime Routine
As a stress therapist for over 20 years, I know how effective a healthy calm bedtime routine can reduce family stress.
A calm bedtime routine is important not just for the kids but the whole family. Believe me a calm bedtime routine into your evening routine. Can make every family member feels far more happier, healthier and stress resilient to all sorts of stressful life challenges.
5 Ways to Create A Calm Bedtime Routine For Children And Teenagers
Create A Healthy Bedtime Routine
It is important to have set times when your kids must be in bed, must have the lights out. Even times when kids should stop eating, drinking and watching tv. So set specific times when they have to switch off their phone.5
or seriously reduced from early afternoon as stimulants stay in the body for many hours. For example let your child have their favourite treat or sweet early in the day. Encourage teenagers to stay away from caffeine stimulants. As sadly energy drinks are highly addictive and bad for your child’s health. In-fact the withdrawal and side effects can be quite serious.
Encourage relaxing hobbies
like drawing, painting, colouring in, listening to relaxing music. As most children and teenagers today struggle to switch off, relax and fall off to sleep. Kids are so mentally busy and overwhelmed. They have forgotten how to really relax. If you look at most new born babies they naturally know how to just be, how to switch off, be calm and content.
Switch off and unplug.
It is important children and teenagers have rest and quality sleep away from electric devices and technology. Because the electro magnetic frequencies and blu ray from ipads, iphones can play havoc with your child’s nervous system. Examples of healthier night time activities are a relaxing bath, a foot massage or baby massage for toddler or hobbies as mentioned above.
meditation helps your child feel more relaxed, more calm. Guided meditations which are actually guided relaxations can help your child drift off into a deep sleep. So they can be particularly useful for sensory challenged children, more easily stimulated. Your Guardian Angel mp3 is one of my oldest and most popular relaxation tracks for children it is aimed at about 3- 8 years old. but even a little older children have enjoyed it.
Teach Your Child How To Relax
if they suffer from chronic anxiety, chronic overstimulation or stress. Relaxation Techniques can be very helpful for all ages, especially children and teens 5 years up. Learn More
children are so over stimulated today, so ungrounded and disconnected from what is truly natural. It is so important to help support them to feel more grounded, make sure they get out to play in nature daily. Take them out for walks to the park, countryside, encourage them to be bare feet on the ground, the sand, the sea when they can.
Soothing Essential Oils.
There are a variety of soothing essential oils that can be helpful for children and teens, that can help them relax, feel more grounded, safe and secure. Chamomile and Mandarin can be extremely soothing for children, lavender is suitable for children over 2 years of age.
Encourage A Calm Bedtime Routine today
If your child likes learning and reading I have published the Bedtime Tips With Astral- cartoon video into a little cartoon e-book. So it will encourage your child to get off to bed when they are supposed to. And will remind them how important it is to get a good healthy sleep.
5 Ways To Empower Your Child With Life Long Skills
How to empower your child in the most healthy way, how to give them powerful life skills that will support your child for life?
How To Empower Your Child To Be The Best Version Of Themself
We all know how much a lack of self-esteem and self-confidence can seriously impact the way we approach and live our life.
So how do we help our child who may be sensitive, sensory challenged, shy, struggling, ill or disabled step into their power? Here is a five simple but powerful ways you can begin to empower your child today!
5 Simple, Powerful Ways That Can Empower Your Child For Life
They Are Enough:We live in a society and culture that in many ways has everyone believing they are lacking, they need to have or be more to be loved, accepted, valued, respected, successful. When this is so not true.
This is such a huge distortion. We can help a child open up and live their greatest potential. But helping them recognise they are enough right now, at this moment is the most powerful thing you can do to increase their confidence, raise their vibration.
Celebrate Your Child’s Uniqueness:Helping your child celebrate those quirky, unique and challenging traits they may have is about helping them recognise they are so much more than enough. And that they are here with their own unique traits, for a particular purpose.
There are somethings a child grows out of but it is so important to love and accept them just as they unique special being they are.
Open Up Your Child’s Potential:Help your child see out of the box, look past limitations even your own. Open them up to the rich tapestry of life, other ideas, other skills, let them try things. Often parents who are unaware, but well meaningly can limit their child’s dreams, they can squash down their ” Joie de vivre” Joy of Living. Or they do the opposite and fill in all sorts of activities into their child’s schedule without enough downtime.
Sadly over 20 years as a Stress Therapist I have saw too many children with depression and anxiety. And some children who developed suicidal tendencies exacerbated by this sort of pressure from parents.
Empower Yourself:When you empower yourself, you empower your child, children are energetic sponges, so they can easily take on other’s anxiety, stress and depression. Especially children who are extremely sensitive who find it difficult to identify what is their energy and emotions and others.
Teach Your Child How To Meditate: When you teach your child the right type of meditation, your child can access calm and peace whenever they want. Now I am not talking about guided meditations, they can help your child to relax and help build self-worth, confidence …
I am talking about meditation skills that with daily practise will eventually let them access instant stillness. So whatever life challenges or stress come along, your child will have the tools to deal with them more effectively. The right meditation and mindful skills can also help your child become more accepting, compassionate about themself and those around them. Their less likley to have chronic anxiety, depression or chronic stress because they are not as lost in negative thinking.
Switch off and unplug.
