Color Therapy as an Alternative Medical Treatment for Mental, Physical or Emotional Ailment
Color Therapy as an Alternative Medical Treatment for Mental, Physical or Emotional Ailment
Many aspects of our lives such as emotions, thoughts and energies are able to be influenced by color in different levels through color therapy (Wong, 2008). This is because we are surrounded by colors that we perceived in different ways. The effectiveness of these colors to influence us is through the right technique of using them.
Overview to colors and chakras
According to Abbott (1959), “the warm colors are generally stimulating or exciting and the cool colors are generally restful and quieting, but any or all of them may be pleasant or disagreeable”. Colors’ unique characteristics can be helpful or not, depending on how it is used. It can bring us relief and success, or bondage and failure. For this reason, it is beneficial for us to know how and when to use appropriate colors at the right situation needed. According to Wilson (1960), red, one that makes an eager spirit, combined with blue, a cooling and sobering color, makes magnificent violet- associated with kingship, while yellow creates a feeling of freshness and brightness. On the other hand, orange can encourage and shows clearness while green gives a peaceful and quite state. These six colors, indigo in addition, are paired to the seven major energy location in our body called “chakras”.
Every chakra is associated with each color where it can give aid to healing process (Wong, 2008). How this color is related to a chakra is based on the manifestation of emotion the color gives that contributes in aiding various illnesses.
According to Pond (1999), all have “chakras” that need to function well because it is the connector of the energy inside to the external life force. When “chakras” do not perform properly, there will be a dark side experience of life. One can determine that his feeling is at ease, discouraged and weak when energies are restricted to
Many aspects of our lives such as emotions, thoughts and energies are able to be influenced by color in different levels through color therapy (Wong, 2008). This is because we are surrounded by colors that we perceived in different ways. The effectiveness of these colors to influence us is through the right technique of using them.
Overview to colors and chakras
According to Abbott (1959), “the warm colors are generally stimulating or exciting and the cool colors are generally restful and quieting, but any or all of them may be pleasant or disagreeable”. Colors’ unique characteristics can be helpful or not, depending on how it is used. It can bring us relief and success, or bondage and failure. For this reason, it is beneficial for us to know how and when to use appropriate colors at the right situation needed. According to Wilson (1960), red, one that makes an eager spirit, combined with blue, a cooling and sobering color, makes magnificent violet- associated with kingship, while yellow creates a feeling of freshness and brightness. On the other hand, orange can encourage and shows clearness while green gives a peaceful and quite state. These six colors, indigo in addition, are paired to the seven major energy location in our body called “chakras”.
Every chakra is associated with each color where it can give aid to healing process (Wong, 2008). How this color is related to a chakra is based on the manifestation of emotion the color gives that contributes in aiding various illnesses.
According to Pond (1999), all have “chakras” that need to function well because it is the connector of the energy inside to the external life force. When “chakras” do not perform properly, there will be a dark side experience of life. One can determine that his feeling is at ease, discouraged and weak when energies are restricted to