Amazing Colour
Roma Clark
Working as a colour therapist and colour profiler I always find it so interesting learning about colour choices; how they affect our moods and reflect the people we are. Have you ever chosen your clothes the night before and got up in the morning and decided they just aren’t right? We would say, try and choose your clothes on the day in order to feel the right colour. Have you decided to decorate a room in a certain colour and then completely changed your mind when you get to the paint shop? It happens!
We all love colour, whatever shade or tint, whether you are drawn to the colours of nature or bright colours, light pastel colours, some love the blacks, greys and muted tones. Whatever your choices, these are the colours that make us happy in the moment we look at them and, in that happiness, we begin to feel the natural healing power of colour.
But first I’ll explain a little bit more about colour therapy, which is working with the visible rays of colour and the healing energy contained within each one. It’s all about achieving balance between the mind, body and spirit in order to promote harmony between each one. Once this balance happens, we can work towards a state of good health, but you don’t have to be ill to feel the benefit of colour therapy. We are always striving towards a feeling of wholeness and good health; colour therapy encourages us to look at our innate natural healing process.
We take in light through our eyes and skin, also drawing in light energy through our chakras (a system of body energy centres, vortexes of energy if you like). Certain colours, like blue, can calm the mind, while yellow can stimulate mental activity. As we need a balanced diet for optimum health so we need a balance of energy from the spectrum colours.
Colour vibrations have a strong influence on our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. They affect our moods; some colours are uplifting and inspiring while others we might find a little bit depressing or sad. How many times do we hear the expressions, ‘I saw red’, ‘green with envy’, ‘feeling blue’; maybe you’re ‘singing the blues’? Colour speak is incorporated into our day-to-day speech without us even thinking about it.
We can use colour to aid creativity and learning, balance energy and release blocks, as well as to help alleviate emotional and physical conditions. We can also think about why we need certain colours in our lives, why we’re drawn to them and why this need changes at times. A colour therapist can show us how we can use these colours for healing, health, inspiration, relaxation and protection.
We have been healing with colour from the earliest of days. Some ancient cultures knew how certain colours affected them; they spent almost all of their time within nature, absorbing living colours. The ancient Egyptians built healing halls of colour in many of their temples. If someone needed healing, they would be sent to the temple by a physician to stand in a colour healing room. The sunlight which entered the room would be refracted into a spectrum of colours and each room became a certain colour frequency. First Nation tribes of America, Buddhists, ancient Greeks, Indians, and the Chinese all believed in the healing power of colour.
Life Path Colours: A big part of my work with colour and the workshops I run are on life path colours. We all have one from the spectrum, and colour profilers work with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, rose and gold. Whichever colour you are is the colour that will stay with you all your life. Mine is violet which I have learned to embrace, choosing my favourite shade and treating it like a good friend. You don’t have to wear your life path colour if you don’t want to, just embrace it. For instance, if you’re red, you may be the person who says ‘let’s do this’ when others say ‘I don’t think we should’, a blue person may be able to tell a story that will fascinate and entrance people, while orange is often the life and soul of the party.
Learning who we are helps us realise why we do things a certain way, often differently from others, and brings with it an understanding of not only ourselves but other people in our lives. There are, of course, different aspects to each colour which will be experienced from time to time but with this comes a balance of energy. The life path colour is just the tip of the colour mountain, which is fascinating. There is so much more out there! For example, in all of the colour work I do I incorporate crystals. Each colour has its own set of stones as well as music, fragrance, flowers and solarised water.
For information on workshops message me via Instagram.
or through my website. Roma Clark, Registered Colour Therapist, Colour Profiler, Crystal Healer, Member of the Association of Holistic and Complementary Therapists
Colourcrystal.co.uk
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