Colour Healing

The Aura

The colours of the Aura mean different things, depending on the area of the body

It is believed that imbalances in this 'energy fields' could be the result of Physical, Emotional or Spiritual problems

Suppressed feelings, can get trapped as negative energy in our body cells and cause blockages - that can lead to physical or mental illnesses

Colour Healing

For centuries people have used colour and light to help them recover from illness

These days colours are used a great deal in healing

Colours are actually vibrating energies, each at is own frequency

Many believe that colour therapy has helped, cured a lot of conditions from learning difficulties to carcinoma (cancer)

Colours affect us in invisible, but dramatic ways

It is so powerful, it can even influence our breating rhythms

You need a balance of colours to make you healthy in body, mind and spirit

Colour Therapists help by finding any areas that are out of balance and treat it accordingly, to restore our well-being

Today there are many techniques of colour healing practised in the West

Colour Therapies

Also known as 'Photobiotics' are alternative healing treatments that use the Frequencies of Colour and light to balance and harmonize the body's organs individually and the person as a whole e.g. a blue light can be used to help lower high blood pressure

The use of complementary (opposites or secondary) pairs of colours are an essential aspect of colour therapy

The complementary pairs used in colour therapy are red & cyan, orange & blue, yellow & violet, green & magenta

Most colour therapies are designed to balance both your physical and emotional states and may involve a diagnosis of your **Aura** and Chakras

Your Aura is the rainbow of colours that surrounds you and reveals, to those who can see it, underactive or overactive emotional and physical condition

The 7 main energy centres of our bodies - the **Chakras**, radiate certain colours and each colour reveals strengths and weaknesses in that area of your life

Because every person has a different set of vibratiions, everyone will respond to a greater of lesser degree to the various healing associated with the Tree of Life from the Jewish mystical tradition of the Kabbala

Others use the **Mandala**, the ancient Buddhist design of the circle enclosing a square, symbolizing the universe, which is used to focus the mind in meditation.The patterns, shapes, symbols and colours of each Mandala used will elicit particular responses, so it can be a potent tool in colour healing

Different Colour Healing Techniques

Many techniques involve the traditional colours associated with the Zodiac Colour therapists may use

Breathing, Meditation, Visualisation, coloured lights, candles, paints, crystals, coloured fabrics, solarised water, diet of correct 'colour' foods, essential oils and coloured oils made from herbs, flowers and exposure to sunlight.Beaming coloured lights through filters onto specific parts of the body is one of the most effective of these techniques. The filters are red, orange, yellow, lemon, green, cyan (greenish blue), blue, indigo (dark blue) violet, purple and magenta

Techniques of colour therapy used by psychotherapists who specialise in creative therapies - do not employ the same principles as those used by colour therapists in the area of health and well-being.Though a talented psychotherapist can occasionally effect some remarkable physical healing in the process

Colour Therapists are concerned with their clients' own colour associations emanating from their unconscious minds, thus providing the basis of a successful emotional healing

Colour Index

Each colour has a negative or positive quality

Each colour has a specific healing property, because they vibrate at different frequency

Red

Strenght / Stimulate Energy / Joyful / Lifts Your Spirit / Action / Fierce Protectiveness / Passion / Boost Blood Circulation / Aggression to sudden Violence

Green

Powerful Restorive Energy / Soothing / Tranquility / Harmony / Find Peace in Yourself / Healing / Balance / Life Giving / Wonder / Regulates Heart & Blood pressure/ Heals Lung & Chest / Removes Toxins /Assists the Circulatory System / Aids Balance & Harmony / Soothes Frazzled Nervous / Imbalance such as Selfishness / Stagnate & Decay / Leading to Festering Emotions like Jealousey & Resentment

Clear Bright Green - Wholesome / Fine Judgement / Adaptability / Balance

Very Light Green - Spirituality / Ability to Heal / Intensely Sympathetic nature

Dark Olive Green - Cunning / Deceit / Emotional Deprivation / Secretiveness

Yellow Green - Possessiveness

Gray Green - Depression

Green - (pure fresh green) - Detoxify your System

Orange

Creativity / Stimulating / Vibrancy / Warmth / Independance / Happiness /Optimism

Light Orange with yellow tint - Highly Creative Mental Activity

Reddish Orange - Reflects Confusion/ Ambivalence / Cunning / Repressed Emotions

Yellow

Mental Activity / Intelligence / Stimulating / Energizing / Radiant / Achievement / Self Worth / Radiance Openess / Clarity / Warmth / Gives Confidence / Improve Digestion / Eliminates toxins form liver & gall bladder / Gently stimulates & calm an exhausted nervous system / restores self esteem & pleasure in life

Light vibrant Yellow - Reflects the sunny side of your personality

Very Light Yellow - Areas of Mystical Thought

Dull Yellow- Confused / Secretiveness / Dishonest / Unimaginative / Ideas

Blue

Peace / Sleep / Positive / Understanding / Expansive / Cool / Calm / Evoke Spirituality, Devotion & sense of Sacred / An Immensive Far Reaching Force expressed through an Independent Personality & Aloof Idealist / Deeply Emotional-sometimes overwhelmed by powerful feelings / An Excellent Pain-Reliever / Can trigger the body's Healing Resources / Cooling Properties for treatment of Thyroid, mouth & throat problems & fever / can also heal spiritual & emotional trauma, restoring a sense of peace & calm

Clear sky Blue- Self Confidence / Mental Clarity

Turquoise Blue - Tranquil attitude / Refresh / Restfull

Soft Light Blue - Devotion to an Ideal

Very Pale Blue - Superficial Thoughts

Deeper Shades of Blue - May be feeling blue due to Sadness / Long Term Serious Depression

Dark Blue - Very Positive

Midnight Blue - Sign of Enhanced Intuition

Navy Blue - Reflects a Protective Energy

Violet

The colour of Kings / Worn by Royalty, Bishops & Popes / Indicate power beyond the temporary / Mysticism / A Transcendent level of consciousness , a desire to know the Eternal Truth / Signifies Enlightened thought and profound & Connects with the Spiritual World / Hope / Sensitivity / Protection / Prayer / Meditation / Calms the brain & nervous system / Treats shock & Trauma & Emotional Distrubances / Cooling effect on rashes & sunburn / balances your metabolism / provide effective psychic protection

Bold & Bright Violet - No negative aspects

Dark Violet - Near Perfect connection with the Divine / You may feel magnetically attracted to violet / Strong psychic influence / don't use it to fuel fantasy of yourself as a superior spirit

Indigo

Sign of the True Mystic - people with mystical qualities are often misundersood and this may result in exclusion & loneliness / Hypnotic / Enhances Clairvoyance / Protection / Focus / Stimulates right side of brain / Triggers creative imagination / deepens your Intuition / Gives you a serene inner confidence that you know the Truth / powerful Sedative action, act as a light anesthetic / use in treatment of mental disturbance / helps clear the head / helps with frayed nervous at breakpoint / restore inner balance

Indigo - (shades into purple & violet tones ) - Connects you with Higher levels of Consciousness, promoting a wonderful sense of peace and spiritual harmony

Pronounced Level of Indigo - People with mystical qualities are often misunderstood and this may result in exclusion & loneliness

White

Represents the fully awakaned spirit / Connects you to the Highest levels of Consciousness through Crown Chakra / Brings profound spiritual relief & release / Purity / Spiritual / An immensely Peaceful sense of distande from all emotional confusion and mental clutter

Shades of White - Powerful Healing Force / Purifies Thoughts / Promotes calm / Resore / Faith / Rarely seen in Aura. Signifies a fully Enlightened being. If white is present in Aura - emanate from Crown to Head - a sign that person is receiving inspiration from a Higher Spirtual Source. When this happens, pure whihte light is drawn in the from the Cosms & filters throughout the Aura enhancing its radiance

Magenta

Helps us to let go and move with the flow

Grey

Undecided / Anticipatory / Waiting

Black

Silence / Death / Enveloping / Mourning / Darkness / Ancient Egyptians connected black with transformation, resurrection and rebirth

Brown

Heavy / Solid / Down to Earth

Peach

Transformation / Harmony / Tranquality

Gold

Usually represents the Sunlight and Truth in many cultures

Silver

Is linked with the Moon and the deeper side of life

Colour Healing - Methods

To keep yourself in peak physical, emotional & spiritual balance - breathe colour or channel coloured light into your body, through the chakaras and maintain a healthy aura. Each colour vibrates at its own frequency and have specific healing properties. Take guideline time into consideration - * Don't Exceed recommended times *

Red - 7 min * caution: do not use if you are suffering from Hypertension *

Orange - 10 min

Yellow - 12 min

Green - 15 min

Turquoise - 15 min

Blue - 15 min

Violet - 15 min

Method 1

1.Surround yourself with therapeutic colour to relieve a health problem

2. Choose your colour e.g. stress - green

3. Lie down comfortably, arms at sides

4. Use breathing excersises

5. Relax completely

6. Visualize yourself, enclosed in a glowing circle of the 'chosen colour'. Visualize it circulating throughout your Aura for a few minutes.

7. If you find it gives relieve, increase the time spend circulating 'your specific needed colour' - 10 -20 min should be enough

Method B

1. Use coloured light to beam healing energy into your body

2. Choose colour needed e.g digestive problem - orange

3. Fix coloured light bulb into desk lamp or coloured paper at bottom of normal shade of lamp causion: take care - fire hazard

4. Take off socks and shoes.

5. Sit on floor, legs straight. Feet 18 inches away from lamp.

6 Direct light beam to centre of sole of the feet - this is the natural route for colour energy to flow into your body. For balanced healing - treat both feet

Seasonally Affected Disorder Syndrome (SADS)

This disorder is caused by a lack of natural light. Some need sunlight more than others. When days are short and nights long, these people can suffer from depression and lack of energy and motivation. It may be a symptom caused by our unnatural modern lives. More research needs to be done on which part of light it is that people need, but treatment with artificial light that contains all colours of the spectrum, seems to be of help to these people

info source: extracts The power of Colour-Cynthia Blanche