How the colours help to heal?
Colours are the result of a concrete concentration of light frequency.
They have effects on our mind and physical body, and therefore it is good to know the way of action to be stimulated, relaxed, cured or relieved of sickness. It is necessary to get to the origin of things.
We can make two groups: one of them for warm colours, and another one for cool colours.
Warm colours are red, orange, yellow, and they have the power to stimulate the sympathetic nervous system. It means they are joined to the functions which require a lot of activity like; heart beats, bronchial dilatation, production of glucose, pupil opening but they inhibit digestive processes. They are related with acute illness of inflammatory character. They have acid effects on body PH.
Cool colours are turquoise, indigo and blue and they influence activating the parasympathetic nervous system; therefore they let us be calm, they decrease heart rate, contract pupils and bronchus and stimulate digestive functions. Also the have sedative effects and they are alkaline.
And we have mixed colours which combine and enhance characteristics, like violet, magenta, pink and green.
It is actually important that the colour we choose is the right one, because if you abuse of one that it is not the correct, it may be harmful. Although if you use them not above 20 minutes there is no problem, except red colour that the best option is no more than 10 minutes. Our instinct, usually, choose the right colour, but maybe it is wrong. Anyway, you can use the colours yellow or green all the time you want while you feel ok with them. Yellow is good for drivers, students and sport people.
The most important symptom to stop to use them is that you don´t feel comfortable wearing it. (A curious datum is that people from Madrid love green).
A way to recognize the right colour for us is making a Colour Test.
Necessary utensils:
You have to do six colours test with six white cardboards A4. Cut six squares of cardboards orange, yellow, red, blue, green and violet about 6x6 cm. Paste them on a white cardboard and you have the necessary equipment to make the test. Try to get brilliant colours.
Test:
You have just to put the cardboard 20 or 30cm in front of your eyes. Although everyone need their own distance, it must be near enough to fix your sight only on coloured square and that white colour is on the background. You have to look pieces for two or three minutes, with no stop, and close your eyes until your body get the answer. Its answer is very clear: a square appears behind your eyes with a determined colour; that´s the result of the test. It is normal it answers with the complementary one. If it doesn´t appears is because that´s the colour you need.
Complementary colours
These are complementary colours, it means that the opposite is the complementary. It also manifests itself in Goethe table.
Goethe table:
This graphic can be helpful from Oriental point of view:
And this table can also be a reference
Effects of colours in Chromotherapy.
Indications: they are useful in therapeutic practice, during free time and playing sports. If you use different colours, you´ll have new and unexpected possibilities to be stimulated. They harmonize and increase efficiency. It is only necessary to use glasses for 15 minutes and you´ll notice the desired stimulation.
Red: Power and strength. Red is used, mainly, when our vital power is weakened. Red colour stimulates physical reactions and influences the autonomic nervous system. It increases pulse rate and breathing. It conveys a sense of vital strength, encouragement and willingness to fight. Promotes efficiency and increases willpower. It helps you to assert yourself. Red colour increases sensuality, and gives you strong feelings. Because of the effects of this colour is recommended to use it only for 10 minutes.
Orange: Happiness and vitality. It is known the effect of orange to give strength after physical efforts and mental exhaustion. According to Peter Mandel, the orange is the colour of happiness. It makes to you sociable and improves mood. The orange colour relaxes and it is used when people are tired or unhappy continuously. It is used when we are especially sensitive to weather change, we feel melancholy we are depressive or pessimistic. The orange represents the goodness and compassion. This colour increases ambition, it awakes senses and it makes you feel receptive, open minded and accessible. It is used, too, when we have lack of appetite.
Yellow: Clearness and concentration. The yellow colour increases happiness and makes people more willing. This colour is very effective in cases of unexpected tiredness and lack of concentration. It improves intellectual receptivity and has positive effects on the intellect. The yellow increases the receptivity of senses. It doesn´t force the eyes too much and makes the work lighter. It is ideal to drive and working with computer. It is suitable for enhancing memory in children.
Green: Balance and harmony. The green is good for inner calm and serenity and promotes relaxation and rest. The green colour has good effects when there are nerve interferences, tension, psychic disturbances and stress. The green, Goethe says, is perceived as “real satisfaction” and it is considered that raises self-esteem, it improves memory and logical thinking, the persistence and tolerance. The green helps to invigorate and improves regeneration. Man is in perfect balance.
Blue: Relax and rest. The blue colour has calming and relaxing effects. The blue transmits calm, reduces stress and bustle. Breathing becomes slower and pains and contractions disappear. In the therapy of colours, the blue is used to treat migraine and headache. It is good for eyes, reduces stiffness, pain and cools. It helps to forget the stress of one day working and thanks to this colour the body is reinforced.
Indigo: Deep relax and quietness. The indigo reinforces the effects of blue colour. It neutralizes the medial area and intensifies meditative effects. Physically, the indigo, cools cells faster and neutralize them. It is used, mainly, in a state of unrest endocrine.
Turquoise: Neutralization and reanimation/cooling. The turquoise is composed of colour blue and soothing green. It is neutral, harmonizes, calms, and at the same time, cools producing a physical and intellectual awakening. Turquoise is considered the colour of self-presentation. It improves self-esteem, comprehension, spontaneity and inspires creativity. It has positive effects on metabolism, help to body to remove toxic elements and it may neutralize the electrical smog. It is used successfully in the treatment of allergies (hay fever).
Magenta: Spirituality and transformation. The high vibration, of thin tonalities, is a mixture of opposite poles; the cool blue and the hot red. On the one hand, the opposite energy causes tension, the other, is a union of two extremes and therefore a unifying function. The magenta weakens the cold and calms the fire. It represents the sublime, the power, the distance, the transformation and intellectual development. In front of the green, magenta can have strong effects on the heart meridian and coordinates physical rhythms. It develops harmony effects.
Pink: Intuition and happiness. Colour pink is like, “a soft red”. Eventual tension and low self-esteem are balanced. Pink produces hormones and happy feelings. People say: “See things in pink”. Pink dissolves physical and mental blockages and it avoids aggression. Thanks to pink the world appears happy and our intuition and compassion are increased. Our capacity of concentration is increased, too and jitters disappear.
Prices:
Unit: 30€.
Selection of 10 different colours: 200€.
