COLOUR THERAPY: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT

You can see colours everywhere, in your home, garden, neighbourhood and city.  Colour therapy is a holistic healing modality that utilises energies within the living organisms, plants, crystals, gemstones, water, sound and sunlight to enhance your health, fight diseases as well as restore balance within your body.

What is Colour Therapy? 

Colour therapy, also known as chroma therapy uses the visible spectrum of both light and colour that affects physical and mental health. Every colour falls into some specific frequency and vibration. This contributes to various properties that could be used to affect energy and frequencies in your body. Colour therapy is used in combination with other alternative and natural therapies like reflexology, aromatherapy and yoga.

How does it work? 

The colours of rainbow are associated with energy centers or seven chakras of your body. Each energy center governs a specific organ and body processes as well as vibrates to a specific color. The root center (muldhara chakra) is related to red color, and cross-center (swadisthana chakra) to orange. The naval center ( manipura), heart center ( Anahata), throat center ( vishuddhi), third eye center (agya) and crown center ( sahasrara), are associated with yellow, green, indigo as well as violet respectively.

Each center is related to a particular gland. A proper use of colours helps in healing various ailments concerned. Any disturbance in these elements leads to an imbalance in the physical, mental and spiritual body that can be corrected by boosting the colour concerned.

How can Colour Therapy help?

All colours have a specific frequency, energy and wavelength. Chroma therapy provides you an opportunity to acknowledge colours that you interact with every day and use their properties that correspond to cells as well as organs in your body to improve health.

Disease means that your mind, body and spirit are deficient in some colours. Your lifestyle and stress can lead to shortage or improper use of colours in addition to your environment.

Meaning of colours 

• Yellow is associated with increased awareness, mental ability and wisdom. It is very effective to relieve headaches and depression.
• Red is related to vitality, power, energy, sexuality and heals blood diseases, depression, increases blood pressure, confidence and willpower.
• Orange is associated with independence, optimism and happiness. Orange regulates metabolism, circulation, helps defeat kidney and chest diseases.
• Green is associated with healing, growth and calming. It is the overall colour of healing. It helps calm nerves, relaxes you mentally and promotes self-control.
• Blue is associated with knowledge, peace, health and faith. It lowers blood pressure, helps induce sleep and decreases respiration.
• Indigo is related to intuition, understanding, imagination and purification. It improves creativity and helps you connect to your inner self.    

What to expect during Colour Therapy consultation 

The session usually lasts for 1-2 hours. The therapist trained in this therapy applies various tools for balancing the energy in your body that lack vibrancy. He gathers information about your medical history, lifestyle, and environment and life choices. You will be asked various questions to determine what wavelengths and frequencies your body requires to replenish the balance.

Trying colour therapy at home 

• Select the colour according to your problem mentioned above.
• Take a glass bottle as per your healing colour or wrap coloured cellophane of transparent bottle.
• Fill three quarters of bottle with water.
• Keep the glass bottle in sunlight and cover it.
• Water takes around 6 hours to get charged.
• Store the water and drink that water in sips the whole day instead of normal water.
• Colour charged water can be stored for 24 hours and can be refrigerated as well.
• In case of emergency, you can colour charge water by keeping the glass bottle under the morning sun for about 2 hours.