The Powerful Benefits Of Colour Therapy Healing. What is Colour Therapy and Colour Healing? How can you use colour healing therapy 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 colour effectively you need to look at colour in relation to physics, physiology, and psychology.
How The Eye And Brain Translate Colour
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? (Color Therapy)
Colour Therapy (chromotherapy) and Colour Healing use the different spectrums of light and colour for therapeutic use in supporting health and well-being.
The vibration and frequency of energy that is related to each of the seven spectrum colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
Which all have different influences on our mind, body and emotions. That is why colour therapy healing is becoming increasingly used in holistic medicine and modern medicine.
NOTE: It is important to note some of the invisible spectrum ranges used in science and medicine can be harmful. For example electromagnetic radiation with shorter wavelengths such as x-rays and gamma rays are most harmful as they can cause ionising radiation.
Psychological Impact Of Colour Therapy (Colour Therapy Healing)
Colour impacts us physiologically and psychologically. That is why colour is such a big part of our daily life and why colour healing therapy is becoming increasingly popular to improve our wellbeing.
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 and urges.
That is why most brands today use specific colours to increase sales. Colours are chosen to trigger certain impulses, feelings; increase and reinforce certain actions and certain habits and build trust.
Even the colours we choose to wear or choose to put in our home have an impact on our psychological, mental, and emotional wellbeing. And why colours should be chosen carefully to support the full family.
Physiological Influence Of Colour Therapy
Colour can influence us physiologically, colour 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.
The reality is colour therapy can be applied to our every area of our life.
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 Healing 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 then later colour analysis.
But we now see colour therapy healing being used in so many areas of health, wellbeing to treat so many health issues, injury, for rejuvenation such as seen in red light therapy.
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 👇🏼
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Odette Garvey – Calm In Mind
Eileen Burns is a Soul Empowerment Mentor, Healer, Therapist, and Spiritual Business Strategist who helps empaths, healers, and therapists step more into their soul purpose and soul mission. She began studying colour therapy and colour healing over 30 years ago.
She offers a wide range of training and courses, she is the owner of Empowered Empath, Stress Coach Training and Spiritual Marketing Club. LEARN MORE
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