The Best Tips: Using Color for Happiness
Color can heal emotions, and quickly
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Q. Lewis, I am not a very happy person. My friend changed the colors in my home and my emotions changed with it. Wow! What can you tell me about color therapy?
A. Color is the characteristic of visual perception described through color categories, with names such as green, orange, red, etc, This recognition of color derives from the stimulation of photoreceptor cells in the human eyes. Color categories and physical specifications of color are associated with objects through the wavelengths of the light that is reflected from them and their intensities. This reflection is controlled by the object’s physical properties such as light absorption emission spectra, etc.
Many individuals who suffer from depression or from negative emotions have found that color therapy (Chromotherapy), can reduce their symptoms.
There are many theories and some research on why this happens. Some claim to be able to use light in the form of color to balance “Qi” that s out of balance or lacking from a person’s body, whether it be on physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental levels.
Color therapy can be applied in a variety of ways including; colored light, and color pigments ( such as paints or swatches.) The research was also done to test the effects of colored light on muscles. Color therapy can also be incorporated by using colored towels, choosing certain colors in your clothing, using blocks of color, crayons to draw with, colored light, color pigments such as paints, swatches of colored towels, colored blocks, and even with visual imagery.
Melatonin, (which the body converts from Serotonin) influences the functioning of every cell in the body. Research has shown that shifts in the timing, intensity, wavelength, intensity, and timing of light control the conversion of Serotonin to Melatonin in the Pineal gland. A deficiency of light can cause many problems including interfering with the induction of enzymes required for Melatonin production.
“Of all God’s gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.”
………………………….. — John Ruskin
According to information presented on the web by Nicole Pascal Motivational Designs ™
“The influence of colors on a person can be greatly enhanced if delivered by means of designs that combine colors with specific shapes.”
Various pastel colors have been used for years to paint walls in schools and prisons because they seem to control moods and behavior in a more positive direction than other colors. Stage lighting is used in the theater because it is common knowledge that different colors can influence the emotional and physical response of the audience.
One of the great pioneers in understanding the influence of color on humans was the New Jersey-based Medical Doctor-attorney Dinshah Jhahdiali who called his work in this area “Spectre-Chrome Therapy”. I had the opportunity to know his son Jay, himself a pioneer and writer on veganism/vegetarianism who told me of how his father had published extensively on the subject of color and healing and had been violently persecuted and prosecuted for his ideas. sadly the ignorance and resistance of some ordinary minds are not limited to nutrition and the persecution of holistic doctors but have extended to many other areas of healing as well.
It is essential that we understand that we are not only biochemical beings but are also spiritual, emotional, and structural. It is not just food that affects our biochemistry but also, water, air, sound, smell, touch, and light.
Back in the 1970s, during my own studies of color therapy, I became friends with J. Dinshah. In 1933, Dinshah’s father Indian-born American-citizen scientist Dinshah P. Ghadiali (1873–1966) published The Spectro Chromemetry Encyclopaedia, a work on color therapy. Ghadiali claimed to have discovered why and how the different colored rays have various therapeutic effects on organisms. He believed that colors represent chemical potencies in higher octaves of vibration, and for each organism and system of the body, there is a particular color that stimulates and another that inhibits the work of that organ or system.
Ghadiali also thought that, by knowing the action of the different colors upon the different organs and systems of the body, one can apply the correct color that will tend to balance the action of any organ or system that has become abnormal in its function or condition. Dinshah P. Ghadiali’s son, Darius Dinshah, continues to provide information about color therapy via his Dinshah Health Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing non-pharmaceutical home color therapy, and his book Let There Be Light.
Takeaway
Color is the energy of a light frequency, and it is also something we can imagine in our minds. Whether we are aware of it or not this frequency and visual imagery directly affect our minds and our Qi in many ways, some obvious and others more subtly. Common sense tells us that there is a biological interaction of humans with light and color and that color can influence attitude and behavior. If we want to heal from mental and emotional challenges color can be a powerful tool.
Author: Lewis Harrison is a serial entrepreneur, writer, teacher, public speaker, and seminar leader. He focuses on problem-solving, self-improvement, personal development, and sharing love with the world. He offers courses and private mentoring and coaching for those seeking a more meaningful life, motivated by self-improvement and personal development.
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What you said about painting walls in schools and prisons in pastel colors, is something I can easily relate to.... When I taught at a psychiatric hospital and other teachers and team leaders on the units would cover the walls with paintings and decorations and splotches of bright colors, I tried to explain to a couple about color theory. As time went on, the walls around my room were of soft, delicate hues, which contrasted with robust reds and bursting blues!