Exploring Colour Therapy

“Experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

It’s undeniable that of all the colours in the spectrum, yellow is the most optimistic and is relentlessly cheery! Yellow is the colour of sunlight. Without this source of light, life on this planet would not exist. Yellow is the source of happiness and laughter within ourselves, the joy of life itself.

For most cultures, the sun is linked to yellow, which evokes its brilliance and its warmth. The colour yellow denotes abundance. Its luminosity suggests the colour of flowers reborn in spring, the colour of harvest, and the colour of gold. Its sense of profusion is expressed even in the wide variety of substances that can create colour; the earth provides numerous yellow pigments, and the plant world teems with them.

Yellow Dyes

Most plants contain pigments that dye things yellow. You could almost say that fabric boiled with several fistfuls of any leaves, barks, grass and flowers will turn out “yellow.”The Aztecs used dahlia and in western Africa, they still use kola nuts and certain types of wild mushrooms. In Turkey they used chamomile.

The Happy Yellow of India

In India, the colour yellow is connected to marriage, [ as indicated by the expression “to yellow the hands”] and the pigment extracted from turmeric plays an essential role in this context. Before the wedding ceremony, it is smeared on the couple’s skin to bring them health, wealth, and many children. The positive values attached to the colour yellow are so profoundly inscribed in the Indian civilization that every sensible person always carries a little yellow talisman, even if it is simply a little strip or corner of turmeric-dyed fabric.

The Yellow of Buddhism

In the East, yellow also represents the colour of Buddhism.The Buddha had clearly defined what garments monks could wear and banned certain colours most noticeably indigo. Buddhist dignitaries had to dress in fabrics dyed with saffron, which had a different connotation from that of turmeric. For the Buddhist monks, yellow ochre symbolizes the renouncement of the world.

The Solar Plexus

Yellow is the energy associated with the Solar Plexus Chakra; the third chakra of our energy body, the colour of self-assertion, empowerment and the realization of the ego. Yellow can give us confidence and so lessen feelings of inadequacy. Therefore it can be useful for treating depression. It can also be beneficial treatment for digestion problems. It helps balance the entire gastrointestinal tract, including the stomach, intestines, and bladder plus the entire eliminative system of the body. Yellow stimulates us to regenerate our mental capacity and our ability to learn. A wonderful colour to paint a room where people are studying.

Yellow also has to do with nervous fears sometimes causing us to experience a knot of contraction created by self-consciousness. As we let go and feel more at ease there is more self awareness, an awareness of the sun within ourselves. Too much yellow may create nervousness and excessive thinking.

The Aura-Soma Sunlight Bottle

“Knowledge; that which can be acquired, and wisdom: that which we already have”

Colour Therapy Through Touch

Where we put our thoughts is where our energy goes. For example if we focus on the colour yellow, the energy emanations from the body begin to change to a frequency that resonates with yellow. Energy emanates more strongly from the hands than from other parts of the body and so therefore hands can be used to sense and project subtle energy. It is this projection of healing energy that is often known as laying on of hands, therapeutic touch or etheric healing. By rubbing the palms of your hands together for about thirty seconds will activate the chakras in the palms and increases their sensitivity. Extend your hands in front of you, holding them about a foot apart. Slowly bring the palms towards each other. Bring them as close to each other as you can without touching them. Then, slowly draw them apart, to about six inches. Repeat this in out movement slowly and steadily. This exercise helps to confirm that our energy field does not stop at skin level. It also helps to define your own energy radiations. With practice we can control the intensity and flow of this energy through our hands by focusing the mind on a specific colour.