Color Therapy

Color Therapy is a totally holistic and non-invasive therapy and, really, colour should be a part of our everyday life, not just something we experience for an hour or two with a therapist. Colour is all around us everywhere. This wonderful planet does not contain all the beautiful colours of the rainbow for no reason. Nothing on this earth is here just by chance, everything in nature is here for a purpose. Colour is no exception. All we need to do is to heighten our awareness of the energy of colour and how it can transform our lives.

The capacity for health and well being is within us all.

Color treatments can be applied to the body in a number of different ways and, as with any therapy, each therapist may have his or her own 'style'.

Some examples of the various methods used are meditation with colour, solarized water, colour breathing, placing of colour silks and directing of coloured light on to the body. A light box is the most common form of directing colour to the body using coloured filters.

At the Paul Goldin Clinic in Dublin, Ireland colored LED lights which cover all color frequencies, are used with great success. This activates the immune system so that the patient can use their inherent healing intellegence to resolve their particular problem.

Try Meditation...

There are many ways of meditating and meditation means different things to different people. Indeed, meditation is part of normal daily practice for a great number of people within some religions.

Whatever the word 'meditation' means to you - 'exercising the mind in contemplation' perhaps - the practice can be enormously helpful as a way of calming the mind and finding your own inner peace. This place of inner peace is where we can open up to our higher self - without the 'interference' of the ego or intellect. Where we can find our higher intelligence and knowing.

Meditation can be achieved by focusing the mind on a particular object, for example a flower, or on a simple shape, on a sound, on an image, or by focusing on the breathing.

Meditating while focusing on specific colors in the mind can have a positive, healing effect.

Try Color Breathing at home...

Stand with feet slightly apart and arms by your side, relaxed with palms turned to the front. Relax the shoulders, and concentrate on your breathing, consciously relaxing all of your body from the top of your head to the tips of your toes.

Breathing deeply in through the nose, holding for a few moments and then breathing out through the mouth. As you breath out, imagine expelling all the stress, negativity and toxins from your body. If you can do this exercise outside all the better, and, weather permitting, stand on grass with bare feet.

Affirmations, either spoken out loud or as a concentrated thought, can be helpful too to help us focus and avoid our minds from wandering.

For example, red is the colour of courage and strength - we could say to ourselves - the energy of red fills my body and I have the strength and courage to move forward along my life's path. It doesn't matter how we word our affirmations - they will be unique to each individual - but remember the positive aspects of the colors and make sure your statements are positive.

Firstly breath in red from the earth, imagine it rising up through your whole body giving you strength and courage. Make an affirmation to suit your situation, as you breath in and experience the colour filling your body. Allow the colour to travel up through the body and out of the top of the head and then back down again to the earth. Repeat with orange and an appropriate affirmation, then yellow. These first three colours are absorbed from the earth.

Then green. This colour is absorbed horizontally through the solar plexus, let it fill your body, thinking or speaking your affirmation, and let it leave through the back.

Then blue which is absorbed from the sky, through the top of the head and out again going back up to the sky, similarly with the indigo and violet.

Finish off the exercise by envisaging yourself being surrounded by pure white light. This gives us protection.

If this exercise is done daily, you will really notice how your colour awareness develops and you will be able to visualize the colors much more strongly as you do this exercise regularly, balancing and enhancing your body's energies.