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What is Colour Therapy?
Colour Therapy is the art of using colour and light to treat illness. The earliest forms of Colour Therapy included the use of coloured gemstones and sunlight. In modern times, there is a wide range of treatment options available, and many practitioners tend to combine the use of colour with other therapies.
What principles lie behind Colour Therapy?
The human body absorbs light in a range of colours from the colour spectrum. Each colour in the spectrum has a frequency, wavelength and energy associated with it. The colours we absorb can have an effect on the nervous system, the endocrine system and subsequently on the release of hormones and other organic substances within the human body. The various colours can also have an effect on the subtle energies of the chakra system, which may affect our mental, emotional and physical states of health. Practitioners of Colour Therapy believe that by changing the colours around us, it is possible to improve our health and well-being.
Symptoms of illness are often a sign that there is a shortage, or improper utilization, of colour and light in the cells and organs of the body. This may be due to environmental factors, stress or just too much or too little of a particular coloured light entering our energy system. By selectively transmitting different colours to the body, we can generally correct the problem and restore balance.
What happens during treatment?
The practitioner will begin by identifying the particular colour energies that appear to be lacking from the client’s system. There are various ways of carrying out this process. For example, the practitioner may obtain a set of results using a technique known as Kinesiology – a way of testing muscle-strength in relation to colour – and then analyse these results, possibly by using diagnostic charts in addition to his or her own experience.
A typical treatment might include breathing exercises along with the use of crystals, light and coloured (solarised) water as a means of applying colour to different parts of the body. It is customary for the practitioner to apply main and complementary colours at the same time.
What will Colour Therapy treat?
Orthodox medicine sometimes uses colour for the treatment of specific medical conditions: the treatment of neonatal jaundice, for example. Complementary therapies often use colour to boost the immune system in order to promote healing from within. Colour Therapy can provide benefit for a wide range of problems including insomnia, anxiety and asthma. It often gives good results with behavioural disorders and depression, and can help to restore health after surgery or illness. Colour Therapy can also aid creativity and learning.
“Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and
unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different
ways.” –