Blog Post
Can colour help our mood and spirit?
Barbara Cosgrave
Colour healing is a pearl of ancient wisdom. It was taught and put into practice in the magnificent Temples of Greece and China, Tibet and India. North American Indians used it in their tribal lore, and it was part of the Mayan culture in Central America. Pythagoras and Plato understood colour healing, but it was all lost in time. It was not until the 19th century that interest was revived in the properties of light and colour by Newton, Goethe and others.
It is used beautifully in stained glass windows in the great churches of the world. It brings depth, richness, storytelling and peace. Natural healing with colour is practised in many therapies; you even do it yourself every day, subconsciously. How? The everyday use of colour in clothes, cosmetics and your homes. Light and the colours that are a component of light have a substantial effect on mind and body. At all levels, physical, mental and emotional, we respond to colour whether we realise it or not.
With me, you can learn not just what colour suits you and why but how colour affects your mood and spirit. Helping clients to understand the meaning of colours and how you can use them for the whole of you, body, mind and spirit, is what I love about informing my clients and this most fascinating of subjects. We are born into a world of colour. Colour dominates our senses and all through our lives; we use colour to interpret what we see. For example, traffic lights, red, amber and green, the ripeness or not of fruit, electrical wiring and maps.
At another level, we make statements about our mood, consciously or subconsciously, with the colours we wear and we read how our friends and colleagues feel through their own choices in the colours they wear. Colour is very strongly linked with emotions, yellow with cowardice, green with envy, seeing red! Often when I have been advising clients who travel the world to different cultures, I make sure they are aware of what colours are acceptable or not in those different countries.
Learn to understand how colour works for you and you have a great tool at your fingertips. My colour sessions with clients are not a pre-packaged standard format but treat each person and their requirements as unique and individual.
It is used beautifully in stained glass windows in the great churches of the world. It brings depth, richness, storytelling and peace. Natural healing with colour is practised in many therapies; you even do it yourself every day, subconsciously. How? The everyday use of colour in clothes, cosmetics and your homes. Light and the colours that are a component of light have a substantial effect on mind and body. At all levels, physical, mental and emotional, we respond to colour whether we realise it or not.
With me, you can learn not just what colour suits you and why but how colour affects your mood and spirit. Helping clients to understand the meaning of colours and how you can use them for the whole of you, body, mind and spirit, is what I love about informing my clients and this most fascinating of subjects. We are born into a world of colour. Colour dominates our senses and all through our lives; we use colour to interpret what we see. For example, traffic lights, red, amber and green, the ripeness or not of fruit, electrical wiring and maps.
At another level, we make statements about our mood, consciously or subconsciously, with the colours we wear and we read how our friends and colleagues feel through their own choices in the colours they wear. Colour is very strongly linked with emotions, yellow with cowardice, green with envy, seeing red! Often when I have been advising clients who travel the world to different cultures, I make sure they are aware of what colours are acceptable or not in those different countries.
Learn to understand how colour works for you and you have a great tool at your fingertips. My colour sessions with clients are not a pre-packaged standard format but treat each person and their requirements as unique and individual.
