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Color Treatment
Color therapy is the use of color in
a variety of ways to promote health and healing. The different
colors we see in the world around us are the result of the eye
perceiving light vibrating at different frequencies. Sunlight, or
full-spectrum light, holds all the wavelengths of color in the
visible spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet,
and magenta) as well as infrared and ultraviolet light, which cannot
be seen. Used to treat both physical and emotional problems, color
therapy may involve exposure to colored lights, massages using
color-saturated oils, contemplating and visualizing colors, even
wearing colored clothing and eating colored foods.
Colors affect moods and emotions.
Color therapy uses this sensitivity to color to identify and correct
any imbalances in the body's internal energy patterns that might
lead to emotional or physical ill health. Therapists believe that
each organ and body system has its own characteristic vibrational
energy, and disorders can be healed by applying color of the
corresponding vibrational energy, either to the whole body or to the
organ concerned.
For example, the red spectrum
affects our physical energies. It is stimulating and warming. Blues
are cooling and cleansing, affecting our spiritual energies. The
yellow shades serve to bridge them, affecting our mental energies.
The three colors together provide opportunities for healing our
body, mind, and spirit.
We recommend that you start your
investigation into color therapy by reading the review article
submitted by Dr. Greenfield and then read the chapters of interest.
You may also want to read light therapy that covers in depth the
white light therapy.
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