What is Color Therapy?

Color therapy is based on the principle that certain colors create certain stimuli that affect our moods and physiological functions. So what is color therapy? Color therapy is a holistic practice using colors to strengthen and balance our moods, emotions and overall physical, mental and spiritual health.

Rainbow Color Therapy
Colors of the rainbow have been proven to have significant effects on our bodies, our mental state and our spiritual well-being. Rainbow color therapy uses the properties of each color, and its general association with the body and mind, to improve balance and health. The rainbow color associations are as follows:

• Red is associated with the base chakra. Red is stimulating and promotes strength, willpower and sexuality. Red stimulates the blood, nerves and muscular system. Color therapy with red can revitalize and energize the entire body. Red is a warming color that stimulates energy levels benefiting metabolism, liver health, the circulatory system and awakens our physical life force. Color therapy with the color red should be avoided by people who are easily excitable, hypertensive, emotionally disturbed, or have a fever or inflammatory conditions.

• Orange is associated with the spleen chakra. Orange is energetic and promotes optimism, happiness and joy. Orange stimulates the thyroid and respiratory system. Color therapy with orange can help to treat depression, asthma, muscle spasms and can increase emotional health. Orange is a warming color that represents prosperity and abundance, and can bring about increased ideas and mental concepts. Color therapy with the color orange should be avoided by people who get nervous easily and who have issues around sex.

• Yellow is associated with the solar plexus chakra. Yellow is awakening and promotes intellectual power and mental ability. Yellow stimulates the muscles and motor nerves. Color therapy with yellow can help to treat the digestive system and brain activity. Yellow can stimulate the skin and also purify the bloodstream. Learning disabilities, liver problems and paralysis can be stimulated using yellow. Color therapy with the color yellow should be avoided by people who suffer from anxiety, diarrhea or heart palpitations.

• Green is associated with the heart chakra. Green is the color of nature and can facilitate growth to our sensitivity, compassion and serenity. Green is a cooling color that soothes and relieves sleeplessness, exhaustion and irritability. Color therapy with the color green can help to awaken feelings of hope and peace, as well as bring about fertility, sexual stimulation, heart health and relieve headaches. Green is a harmonizing color which helps to bring balance to your body. Green helps things to grow, so color therapy with the color green should be avoided by people with cancer, tumors or anything malignant in nature.

• Blue is associated with the throat chakra. Blue is a cooling and calming color and promotes willpower and communication. It can be effectively used for creative expression, aspiration, peace, insomnia, and reducing nervousness. Color therapy with the color blue can help soothe inflammation, raise blood pressure, relax the mind and promote meditation and intuition. Blue is beneficial for all throat conditions and has an antiseptic effect. Color therapy with the color blue should be avoided by people with colds, hypertension, paralysis, or heart conditions.

• Indigo is associated with the brow chakra. Indigo is a dynamic color that is cooling, strengthening and purifying. It can be used effectively to purify the bloodstream, stop excessive bleeding, and can help with control of severe pain. Color therapy with the color indigo can strengthen the gland and immune system, as well as assisting with altered states of consciousness, raising vibrational energy, and can awaken intuition. Color therapy with the color indigo should be avoided by people who are easily depressed.

• Violet is associated with the crown chakra. Violet affects the entire skeletal and nervous systems. It is antiseptic and purifying on physical and spiritual levels. Color therapy with indigo can nourish and purify the blood, maintain potassium and sodium levels of the body, stimulate bone growth and provide balance to our physical and spiritual bodies. Violet can also stimulate dream activity, calm violent tendencies, control irritability, control hunger and heal. Color therapy with the color violet should be avoided by people who have problems with suppression of emotions such as anger.

Color Therapy Techniques
There are many ways to incorporate color therapy into your life. Begin by choosing colors that feel good to you, but be aware that often those colors we are attracted to signify areas within out body and mind that need balance. Adding certain colors of food to your diet is extremely beneficial. The 7-Day Color Diet: The New Way to Health & Beauty is a book that may benefit you in this area. Light therapy can be performed by color therapy practitioners, and color therapy bathtubs or bath products can induce a sense of well-being to the body and soul. Certain colors can be meditated upon to produce advantageous results, and color therapy is commonly used for chakra balancing.

Chakra Balancing Meditation

It is important to obtain chakra balancing by learning how to balance your chakras. There are many ways to accomplish chakra balancing. Some require professional energy workers, some require tools and aides, while other methods of chakra balancing can be accomplished simply by meditation or with the power of positive affirmations.

Determining the Necessity for Chakra Balancing
Chakras are constantly vibrating and rotating with the physical life energy that comes into our existence. When chakras are out of balance they become blocked, and the results manifest in our lives in a negative way. The imbalance of chakras can produce physical ailments, negative thoughts or behavior, weight gain and physical illness or disease. It is possible to check for imbalanced chakras using your hands or with the use of pendulum dowsing. If these methods produce no results, you should consult with a professional who can use one of these methods to intuit which of your chakras need balancing.

Healing the Chakras with Chakra Balancing Meditation
A chakra balancing meditation can be performed by anyone, at any time using simple, yet powerful affirmations. To accomplish this, it is necessary to be aware of each chakra and it’s purpose. Speak powerful healing affirmations while visualizing the associated chakra color, or holding the associated chakra gemstone.

A video on guided chakra balancing meditation can be seen here:

How To Balance Your Chakras With Aromatherapy
The use of aromatherapy can be very beneficial to chakra balancing. The use of certain essential oils corresponding with each of the chakras will enhance the health and vitality of your spiritual and physical body. Aromatherapy can be accomplished using diffusers, mists, therapeutic massage, baths, soaps, perfumes, or candles.

Chakra Balancing with Color Therapy
Each of our chakras has an associated color and color therapy can be a very beneficial way to use the colors of the rainbow to achieve chakra balancing. Use gemstones while performing chakra balancing meditation, visualizing corresponding colors, or even decorating rooms with certain color enhancements can bring about chakra balancing.

How To Balance Your Chakras With Reiki
A Reiki practitioner is trained to use ancient Reiki symbols and the Universal Life Force energy to channel healing energy to the areas of our bodies which need balancing. Reiki is an effective method for obtaining chakra balancing since it promotes the opening of all the energy channels to restore the condition of health and well-being. A Reiki practitioner may use other therapies including aromatherapy, crystals, meditation, or Bach Flower remedies to enhance the treatment. Self-Reiki can also be learned and performed effectively. Self-Healing with Reiki: How to Create Wholeness, Harmony & Balance for Body, Mind & Spirit is a book that may benefit you in this area.

Chakra Balancing with Visualizations
Once you are familiar with chakra placement, function and associated color, you can perform visualizations for chakra balancing. Begin with the first, or root chakra, and visualize an object of the associated color. If your chakra is wide open, it may need to be closed. Visualize a flower of the appropriate color slowing folding closed. The opposite would be necessary for a tightly closed chakra. Chakra balancing can also be obtained by visualizing the associated color spinning at the site of the chakra itself. Whatever method makes the most sense to you will be the most beneficial for chakra balancing.