What is Colour Therapy and Colour Healing?

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 Meditation, Guided Visualisation

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

Healing The Inner Child Wound

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Why healing the inner child wounds can empower us and transform us.

Healing the inner child can be a very powerful way to address all sorts of forms of dis-ease, unhealthy beliefs, and conditioning that keeps us small, keeps us in sabotaging life patterns. How we experience and see the world as a child often shapes how we show up as an adult. And this is no different for the highly empathic or sensitive child who can find the modern world a harsh place. Empaths and HSP’s struggle to thrive in life because they have struggled to find healthy ways to survive and create healthy boundaries in their childhood.

No matter how healthy or unhealthy or childhood was we all can benefit from healing the inner child wounds that show up in our adult life. That form of archetypal and personality traits, that specifically keep us stick in the survival archetypal traits.

Healing The Inner Child If Your An Empath Or Highly Sensitive Person

So many HSP’s and empaths struggle because of their level of sensitivity and heightened awareness.

Highly sensitive people are generally more sensitive to their own wounding and surroundings. The highly sensitive empath takes that a bit further and they will sense the energy and emotional pain of others and in places . Some of us also take on the energetic imprints or physical pain of others, when we haven’t learned healthy boundaries and how to harness our spiritual and sensitive gifts.

Many sensitives and empaths are the Spiritual Seers, the Spiritual Forecasters, Psychic, Mediums, Starseeds, Earthseeds and Wayshowers. Which comes with it’s own difficulties and challenges.

Every HSP and Empath is unique but like everyone in life, they will also have their own unique gifts, own unique personal challenges and trauma healing the inner child can help us tap into those spiritual gifts we have shut down, learn how to harness or sensitive gifts in a powerful way.

Inner Child Healing – The Highly Sensitive Child

The highly sensitive child/person has such heightened awareness than those around them that they can see, hear, feel, and interpret things to a greater degree than most people couldn’t imagine. The HSP child will often be viewed as too sensitive, too weak, too childlike, irrational, naive …

These natural gifts and traits often trigger fear and misunderstanding in the parents, siblings, and caregivers around them which is projected onto the child. They are often taught that who they are at a core level is flawed, bad, wrong, not enough. Told to toughen up, be brave, be bold, shut down their emotions, act differently; basically not be their sacred self.

Many highly sensitive children are highly empathic, intuitive and even psychic. This again can trigger tremendous fear in those around them which the child senses. So much so the child will shut down their natural traits, their natural state of being. That is why inner child work is highly recommended for empaths and the highly sensitive person.

Soul Empowerment From Healing The Inner Child

So many highly sensitive people including highly sensitive children often don’t know where they fit in. This can create a great degree of inner conflict especially when we are living in a very noisy, materialistic society. A culture that is often embedded with self-preservation and self-success than any on compassion and deep humanity for others around us.

Inner Child work can be extremely healing for the HSP who struggles to honour themself and their sensitivity. It is spiritually empowering for the empath or HSP who can’t say no and struggles with boundaries. For those who too easily take on other people’s drama or pain.

In my one to one sessions and inner child programs for sensitives and empaths. I address different aspects of the inner child. Working on the wounded child, abandoned child, the eternal child and the more positive aspects of the inner child. It is extremely healing and empowering to address underlying triggers where you felt traumatised, abandoned or disempowered. Those experiences where we have shut down mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually.

Unlock Your Gifts From Healing The Inner Child

Clients and therapists experience many benefits and insights from inner child work. Even simply listening to inner child healing guided meditations that have been created by someone qualified to do. Because so many HSP’s haven’t learned to own and harness their sensitive gifts in a positive way. You may not recognise that some of your physical symptoms are just signs your gifts are trying to show up. Or maybe you need to start owning your power, your sovereignty.

Maybe you need to say NO? Stop allowing others to take advantage, control, or impose their beliefs or wants onto you. Maybe you need to put yourself first? So many Empaths and HSP’s are over givers, the wounded healer, victim, martyr, or rescuer.

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