Cheryl Colpman

Colour Healing

How may colour heal?

Colour, like all things, has a vibration or energy. Every cell in the body emits light energy. The skin can absorb light and colour and the body responds to this vibration or energy.

About Colour

We are all influenced by colour on a daily basis. We may have preferred colours or some we dislike or even hate. These can be conscious or sub-conscious choices from influencing what we wear to what brands we buy and how we feel. Some responses to colour are learned within society while other responses are autonomic, which is a response that has totally by-passed both our personal and society's preferences.

How we respond to Colour

When we see colour, impulses travel down the optic nerve and is processed in the brain where we recognise colour, shape and objects and form a response to them.

However, this is not the only way we respond to colour. Those who are colour-blind or have no sight at all still have a response to colour.

Colour, like all things, has a vibration or energy. Every cell in the body emits light energy. The skin can absorb light and colour and the body responds to this vibration or energy.

Our energy centres and systems, such as the chakras (pronounced sha-kra) and meridians respond to outside energy and thus with correct assessment colour can be used as a healing tool.

It's thought that all illness starts with vibrational changes within our energies and so by working directly with our energy through colour we may become healthier and have increased well-being.

Basic colour representation of the Chakras

Crown - Violet - spiritual
Brow - Indigo - thought
Throat - Blue - Communication
Heart - Green - 'Community'
Solar Plexus - Yellow - Instinct
Sacral - Orange - Family
Base - Red - Survival

The energy of a colour relates to where its position is in the electromagnetic spectrum. Colours are waves of visible energy; those with a lower frequency and long wave-length are warming while colours with a higher frequency and shorter wave length are cooling.

Using the energy of colour, physiological, emotional, mental and energetic changes can be brought about with the intention of healing the individual on all these levels.

Warm colours tend to be stimulating

While cool colours are more sedating

Colour is absorbed through the skin as well as through the eyes so particular parts of the body can be treated as well as working with chakras (energy centres) and the meridian system (as in Acupuncture).

The Tools of Colour Healing

Colour can be used for healing in a number of ways including;

Looking at colour
Drinking water which has been exposed to certain frequencies of light
Eating certain colour foods - such as red tomatoes, green peppers, yellow bananas, blue-berries, oranges, purple grapes ...
Using a colour 'puncture' tool
Meditating on a colour
Wearing colours
Using full-spectrum light with colour filters ...

Colour is 'prescribed' by a professional colour healer in a number of ways to ensure full safety. Colours may be used from a certain palette ...;

Colour Assessment and Diagnosis

An energy diagnosis is done by using dowsing or kinesiology muscle testing, experience and intuition. A colour analysis or reading may also be done, your colour choices help us understand and give insight into what may be a cause of current difficulties. This is because it can by-pass 'thinking' - which can get in the way (!) and give a more direct subconscious answer.

... or complementary or harmonising colours may be used;