Can you imagine a world without colours? How dull would life be? Yet there’s more to colour than just making the world a little prettier; it has a profound impact on you at all levels of your wellbeing. Colour impacts your physical health, mental health, emotional wellness and spiritual wellness – but how?
In your body, there are seven energy centres. These are like the spirals of energy related to each other, with each one having a specific colour. However, when your energy centres become blocked or depleted, your body cannot function properly and this, in turn, can lead to a variety of problems on any level. The seven colours of the spectrum work in the same order as you would find in a rainbow; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Alternative therapists use crystals, stones, water, clothes and more to connect to the healing power of colour, but this therapy can be utilised simply using the colours of nature.
Red – Gaze at the rising sun for ten minutes. This will help to enhance your self-confidence, courage and vitality.
Orange – Watch the setting sun till the point it is last visible. This will help if you are sad, feeling helpless or have low self-esteem.
Yellow – Take a walk in a park filled with yellow flowers, have yellow flowers in your home or wear them as a garland around your neck. This will give you clarity, optimism, pragmatism, and intellectual awakening when you are planning and starting any important work.
Green – On a daily basis, spend at least an hour in a park with lots of greenery or relax surrounded by potted green plants. This will help to instil you with compassion, love, emotional balance and self control.
Blue – Go for a swim or be in the open where you can connect to water and sky. This will help if you feel confused over a decision you have to make, feel agitated about failing to deal with something, or lack faith.
Indigo – Connect to the sky immediately after the sunset for thirty minutes. This will help you to build intuition, mysticism, understanding, truth and integrity.
Violet – Gaze at the sky facing east before the sunrise. This will help to inculcate creativity, reverence to yourself and others, appreciation of beauty, leadership qualities and a capacity to sacrifice.