How Does Color Work In Healing?

The way color energy works in healing can be likened to taking vitamins.

Color is like vitamins, if you had a vitamin E deficiency for instance, you would increase your intake of vitamin E. On the other hand if you had an excess of vitamin E then you would decrease your intake of vitamin E.

You would do the same with color energy.

For example, if you need to lose weight, you need more blue energy, increase the blue in your life or do you suffer migraine headaches? Not enough red or indigo energy, increase the red or indigo in your life.

This can be very successfully done by visualization and meditation with color.

To further understand how healing with color works, is that the eyes convert light into energy, which travels through our nervous system, and affects all bodily functions.

The Color in Your Eyes

When light strikes the human eye, the wavelengths do so in different ways, influencing our perceptions.

In the retina, the wavelengths or colors are converted into electrical impulses which are directed to the hypothalamus gland (link between the nervous system and the endocrine system). It then goes to the pineal gland, which directs it to the pituitary gland.

The pituitary governs and regulates hormone production. The brain processes this information, which causes the cellular and hormonal changes to occur.

Scientifically Proven

Studies have shown that when color is introduced to the human system it causes cellular and hormonal changes. This can bring the cells into synchronization or balance.

Color is energy and the fact that it has a physical effect on us has been proved many times in experiments.

One of these experiments is done with blind people and when they were asked to identify colours with their fingertips they were all able to do so easily due to the stronger underlying physical effect of the shorter wavelengths.

You can positively affect many areas of your life and health, through color therapy.

The chart below is based on the findings of colour researchers such as Theo Gimbel, Dr. Morton Walker, Dr. Max Luscher and Dr. Howard Sun. They found that consistent exposure to a color (in clothing, decor, etc.) can be very helpful emotionally and psychologically.

Color Chart - Emotional and Psychological Effects