Healing Power of Colour Therapy
taken from Sufi-Master Khwaja Shamsuddin
Azeemi
Every person is under the influence of one colour or another, and s/he sees life through the filter/glass of that colour. Yet, people don’t normally think about colours. We are inspired by viewing pictures and paintings but don’t give much attention toward the nature of colours.
If we become more aware of the reality that colours are actually important to our lives and our perspective on life, then gradually the deeper mysteries of our own selves will be revealed.
The colour we choose for our apparel and home are the result of our deep, natural interest in those colours. The colours we use for our apparel create an effect on our environment. We choose the colour of our clothes through inner inspiration, which tells us which colour will be good for us.
It is possible that a colour we do not like at this point in time may look good to us a year from now. This change indicates that the flow of colours/light in our inner core has changed.
If we pay close attention to which colours are present in our environment, what colour of clothes we normally wear, and the colour of our food, then we will realize that ”Our life is nothing but colours.”
The light, heat, and colour of vibrant rainbow waves create effective vibration on all living tissue. These frequencies create different effects on the tissues. Therefore, with the help of colours, every disease inherited since the beginning of mankind can be treated.
All colours discharge pulsing light waves, which create the feeling of either cold or heat after colliding with an object. The wave length of the colour red is the longest due to the slow wave frequency, and the wave length of the colour purple is the shortest, due to the fast frequency.
Red creates the feeling of heat, while a sky blue colour creates the effect of coldness. Green is the colour that creates balance. Blue creates the feeling of spaciousness in the environment, while the density of red limits its frequency and movement.
Different colours create different feelings and effects (e.g., burning and itching by red, warming effect from orange, light warming from yellow, green feels no warm no chill, and jujube affects cold with pinching feeling.) Colour creates feelings of byte, cut, hurt, crush or hit, or sting as well.
Through experience it has been seen that patients of stress and sleeplessness are fast cured with purple, blue & turquoise blue colours.
Red, orange and yellow colours are invigorating and help combat laziness and weakness. Colour Therapists beleive that putting patients in a pink colour environment subdues the emotions of violence and revenge.
Pink acts as a tranquilizer for veins and muscles. The effects of pink are now used to balance sex, family disputes, business matters, and jails. Through the pink colour, anger is lowered. Under pink, muscles don’t experience stress and tension. Even blind people feel relaxed in pink coloured rooms.
One day while doing pranayama and contemplating colours and their effect on the body, I received intuition that sunlight includes all colours, and these colours fulfill our nutritional requirements. If we store sunlight in our biological system, then it can fulfill our nutritional requirements.
Following this inspiration I began to sit facing towards East before sunrise and through breathing pointed my mind towards a specific aliment of my body and imaginatively directed sun rays into my stomach.
As a result there was no need for food except for water and neither did I feel any weakness. However while walking I felt much lighter and it was as if I was walking in space, and solid walls looked like as if they were made of paper.
Sunlight has minerals and gases included in it, both of which are an important component of human food. Food gives us energy and strength. If we use food and light (combination of colours) together it increases this energy two fold.
The best way to absorb colours is to use fruits and vegetables. The sunlight is directly absorbed into fruits and vegetables.
However, we have to ensure a colour balance in our diet by not over-cooking or deep frying our fruits and vegetables because nutrition value contained in the colours is lost during this process.
Colour Therapy: RED
Red Rays are found in Iron, Zinc, Copper, Potassium, Oxygen, Beet, Radish, Spinach, Red cherry & Red covered fruits.
In this colour the emotions of deep interest, will-power, and passion are involved. During life crises when relationships come to an end and expectations are broken and no opinion or plan works, the colour Red becomes predominant in the core-center of mind. When the mind is under the influence of Red, everything seems to be red.
The imbalance of Red in the red-colour center (the mind) is proof of abnormal emotional attachments or spoiled emotions.
People who posses the colour Red in balance help other people; these types of people worry about Humanity and their race. They utilize all their abilities in their favorite activities.
People under the influence of Red lead a good life. Since they cannot control themselves regarding eating, drinking, and other matters, they are often overweight.
We necessarily pass through an era of life when the colour Red is more predominant than all the other colours. It is usually during adolescence that the colour Red becomes very powerful. It is an interesting thing that in boxers oxidized red colour is dominant.
A person with prevailing Red colour takes special care of his/her health. Predominant Red colour people are also interested in bodybuilding.
This colour stimulates emotions, produces happiness, and is full of life. In today’s lifestyle people mostly spend their time sitting in cars, in-front of televisions, or in offices and don’t exercise.
The excess of Red causes a tendency towards a scattered-mind, anger, peevishness, displeasure, and tyranny towards people.
The nature or temper of Red is warm. This colour has a more constructive ability. This colour creates an impulse in blood: if red colour is displayed on the back bone in anemia patients then the number of R.B.C (Red Blood Cells) is increased.
If a part of the body is paralyzed, then emitting Red rays on that part increases the flow of blood, and the nervous system becomes normal. If the same rays are cast upon the navel and upper limb, then it creates stimulation in stiff veins.
Redness in the yellow epicenter increases stomach pain. The increase of red in the lower center of the throat is the cause of swelling tonsils and scratchiness in the throat.
Colour Therapy:GREEN
Green colour exists in Nickel, Chromium, Cobalt, Platinum, Aluminum, Chlorophyll, and several vegetables & green covered fruits.
Green is a Tranquilizing colour. Predominantly Green coloured people are full of love, and the rays of love spread from them, which makes the environment lighter. Other people are madly in love with Green coloured people. People with prevalent green colour are often farmers and gardeners.
Because the Green colour is created with the combination of Yellow & Sky-Blue colours, minds of people under the influence of Green colour remain very active.
They listen attentively to other people’s opinions. People come to them in large numbers to tell them their problems and ask for solutions. These Men/Women love kids and animals and they are happy in their company.
The teachers of nursery classes have this colour in them in good quantity. Due to the blending of Sky-Blue colour, these people have a special relationship with water, lakes, rivers, and oceans.
By temperament they are very balanced and don’t get angry very often, but due to being soft-hearted they are often shocked and hurt quickly. They tend to wear light-coloured clothes. Green coloured people are never satisfied with their work. They like to explore new grounds and they are very determined.
If the Green colour becomes excessive in the Yellow center of the Stomach, then not only these people not only become emotional but also become worried of other people’s conditions. Such people are easily affected by every feeling of life, and keep thinking about past experiences, which can lead to stress on the stomach.
Deficiency of Green-ness in the core-center of the mind becomes the cause of one-sided behaviors.
If Green becomes more deficient then normal in the throat, it creates harshness in conversation, and if it’s in excess of normal, the conversation becomes so soft that other people use Green-centered people for their own purposes.
The colour Green is highly-effective for helping with the nervous system and high blood pressure. This colour in itself contains the characteristics of an elixir for healing wounds. It is the panacea for patients of ulcers. Most of the Vegetables are Green coloured; if they are taken in any form, cooked or un-cooked, the effects of the Green colour are inhaled into the body.
A combination of Green and Blue colours creates Turquoise-Blue; this colour energizes skin tissues. This colour is the best cure for burnt skin from sunlight and itching. It creates a tightness in wrinkled skin which defies age and enhances the attractiveness.
Colour Therapy: YELLOW
According to chemical analysis, the colour Yellow is stored in Gold, Calcium, Nickel, Zinc, Copper, Platinum, Sodium, Phosphorus, Carrots, Golden Grains, Banana, Pineapple, Lemon, Grapefruit, & other Yellowish covered fruits.
Yellow is the colour of Research. Predominantly Yellow coloured people have a keen interest in learning. Such Men/Women spend their life full of studies. Scientists, politicians, and business people are mostly under the influence of this colour.
People whose core-center of mind has more density of Yellow colour then normal are materialistic and they prefer their own benefit over that of others.
Any Yellow coloured person is successful in worldly matters because he knows the art of making money and spending it in the right manner. Yellow is the sunlight colour, people with the colour Yellow are active and adopt a good lifestyle.
Yellow stimulates the mind. If you’re ever feeling anxiety, then the colour Yellow will help. In a room where there’s no sunlight, Yellow creates a pleasant effect on one’s mood.
In Colour Therapy,Yellow is used as an excellent cure for Stomach related diseases as well. It improves digestive strength by releasing gases from the stomach.
It is beneficial in diseases such as Hemorrhoids (bleeding), Diabetes and diseases of Liver. This colour removes blemishes from the body. Deficiency of Yellow becomes a cause of diseases and its excess is one of the reasons for fever.
Colour Therapy: PURPLE
Purple colour contains equal quantities of Red & Blue colours.
Predominantly Purple coloured people are sensitive and express this sensitivity in different ways. Purple is the colour of Artists and Painters. Until, and unless, we have some quantity of purple in our selves we cannot sense beauty.
If the ratio of Red colour is higher in the Purple colour, the expression of it will be seen as an inclination towards sex; however, if Blue colour’s ratio is more, then situation will be opposite. Sometimes these people are lost in themselves, which often happens with good artists.
There is more Spiritual potential in purple-coloured people. If their third eye is opened, then they can see the Hidden (Ghayb). In these people the passion of constructiveness is present at all times.
They think less for themselves and more for humanity and are always worried that somehow humanity should benefit from their presence. They don’t want to waste even five minutes of their lives.
Purple colour stimulates the spleen and improves repulsive strength of the body. The colour purple helps to maintain Potassium and Sodium balances. Purple colour controls unnecessary stimulation of all glands, including the Lymphatic glands.
This colour is also useful in losing weight by controlling appetite. It reduces extreme psychological stress. This colour is a great recipe for deep and relaxed sleep.
The colour purple is also useful in the treatment of sexual diseases, urinary infections, Gonorrhea, frequent urination, Diabetes, vaginal diseases, Leucorrhoea, swelling of kidneys, and stones in the bladder.
Colour Therapy: SKY-BLUE
Sky blue colour exists in Aluminum, Cobalt, Zinc, Lead, & all Sky-Blue coloured fruits & vegetables, like Grapes, Potato, Dried Plum, and Pear. It’s also found in fish & chicken.
Sky-Blue is the symbol of One-ness with God; it is a spiritual colour. The Sky-Blue colour in Aura indicates that this person is a master, that he or she governs a relaxed temperament and is versed with spiritual know-how.
The deepness of the colour is relative to the level of spirituality, honesty, insight, and sacredness.
Sky-Blue dominant people are God-fearing servants of humanity, thinkers of the signs of God, and lovers of Prophets and saints of God. The men/women of this colour believe in the thinking-approach of prophets. They preach equality, brotherhood, and keep away from dissension.
Sky Blue has more importance when compared to the other colours. The temper/effect of this colour is cold. This is the opposite of Red. This colour is very effective in treating Fever, reducing Psychological Stress, balancing a shooting pulse, and relaxing the mind.
Sky-Blue also helps to control high-blood pressure. Sky-Blue is helpful in making nerves relaxed and reducing psychological and physical tension.
In Colour Therapy Sky-Blue is used in treating diseases such as fever, Red Fever, Typhoid, Bubonic Plague, Small pox, Epilepsy, Hysteria, heart convulsion, high blood pressure, thrush, jaundice, Bile, eye diseases, poisonous sting, itch, stomach ulcer, dental diseases, & sleeplessness.
Colour Therapy: BLUE
If there is some redness in Sky-Blue colour then it becomes Blue colour.
Predominantly Blue coloured people have an interest in the treatment of living beings. Healers have often blue coloured auras.
They do not talk too much, but people in their company acquire self awareness, as if these people are like mirrors in which people see themselves. Such people are calm, silent, and soft humored. They posses a quality that encourages people to feel relaxed in their company.
In Colour Therapy Blue is used for the treatment of blood cleaning, swelling of eyes, a few ear's diseases (noise in ear, eruptions in ear), nerve soreness, breathing infections/diseases, soreness of lungs & nose, tonsils, & cough. Taken from: Healing Power of Colour Therapy taken from Sufi-Master Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi
How Colours Affect Us
Colour is one of the languages of the soul, just look at inspired or meditative paintings.
They influence our mood and emotions.
They have their impact on our sense of well-being or un-easiness.
Using and avoiding certain colours is a way of self-expression; it sheds light on our personality.
Colours affect our way of perception (light colours make a space look big, a high ceiling looks less high when painted in a dark colour, etc.)
Colours have a symbolic meaning which is immediately recognized by our subconsciousness. It must be said that not all colours mean the same to all persons and all cultures.
They influence the flow and amount of energy in our bodies.
Colours tell something about biological attraction and sexual interests.
Before examining colour and its healing implications, we must address a very important concept: that of cause and effect. True healing comes about when the cause of the condition or illness is addressed and transformed. If healing goes no further than a mere relief or masking of the symptoms, then, eventually, that which brought about the need for healing, in the first place, will resurface and manifest itself within the body in one form or another.
Body is an outward expression of that which is taking place within the mind, the soul (subconscious) , and the spirit (superconscious) of the individual. Thus, any healing technique which deals only with the physical body and the energy field of the individual tends to accomplish one thing: it jump starts the individual, so to speak, and gives him or her an added boost of energy. That energy boost then allows that person's own internal healing mechanism to become mobilized into greater activity.
Keeping this in mind, let us look at how colour can help jump-start the tired or diseased body. Colour healing, known as Chromotherapy, can be implemented in a number of ways. The ancients built great halls of colour healing, where individuals entered and were bathed in light that was filtered through various coloured glass panels or windows.
Energy (spiritual) healers often supplement their healing work with colour healing. As they lay their hands on the patient, they mentally direct specific colour rays into the patient's aura and body. Oftentimes, the colour used is inspired by the superconscious.
In healing colours act as balancers: we administer the colour(s) someone needs more of, or we give the opposite of the colour someone has too much of.
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preference for certain colours can point at two things:
Self-expression (you choose the colours which match your personality; for instance green for a lover of harmony and nature) completion (you choose the colours you need more of; for instance an active, passionate person chooses blue colours to cool down his nature). An aversion against certain colours gives information as well.
Self-expression (you choose the colours which match your personality; for instance green for a lover of harmony and nature) completion (you choose the colours you need more of; for instance an active, passionate person chooses blue colours to cool down his nature). An aversion against certain colours gives information as well.
Red
Red is stimulating and dominant. It can be extremely vitalizing and can assist in overcoming inertia, depression, fear and melancholy. It is a great aid to those who are afraid of life and feel like escaping. Red is power. It is the colour of adrenalin, fire, zest and drive. It is physical energy. It is passionate and exciting. Red supplies the energy and motivation necessary to reach goals. It is a 'doing' colour which can actually activate activity and physical strength.
Red reduces the size of rooms and increases the size of objects. It is useful as an accent colour. Red is not the best colour for a bedroom, you might find it difficult to rest in this stimulating colour. However, you might find that your desire for sensual excitement expands in a red bedroom. Red in a work room or exercise room, or even a living room stimulates movement and activity. It is not really suitable for dining rooms or children's bedrooms. If you are a procrastinator or in a sluggish time in your life, paint a wall red (use a crimson, scarlet or even a hot red or rust, rather than a dark maroon or muddy red) and get ready to take off!
Healing properties: Brings warmth, energy and stimulation, therefore good for energy, fatigue, colds, chilly and passive people. Red energizes heart and blood circulation, it builds up the blood and heightens a low blood pressure. Energizes all organs and the senses hearing, smell, taste, vision and touch. Increases sexual desire and activity. Stimulates ovulation and menstruation. Never treat cancer with red, because this colour will stimulate cell growth!
Red links with and stimulates the root energy center, at the base of the spine, causing the adrenal glands to release adrenalin. This results in greater strength. Red causes hemoglobin to multiply, thus increasing energy and raising body temperature. It is excellent for anemia and blood-related conditions. It loosens, opens up clogs, releases stiffness and constrictions. It is excellent for areas that have become stiffened or constricted.
Esoteric/magickal: Deities of love, passion, sexuality and war (to stimulate a healthy portion of assertiveness). Great energy, courage, will-power, determination, speed, assertiveness, aggression, masculinity, independence, physical strength, sports, competition, conflicts, health, sexual attraction and potency, love and passion, fertility.
Preference for red: Red is associated with passionate love, sex, great energy, impulse, action and stimulation, assertiveness and aggression, courage, strength and power, adventure, danger, warnings, revolt and revolution. Temperamental and ambitious people with a need for personal freedom.
Aversion to red: A person who has an aversion to red may be over-active, too impulsive, hot-tempered, aggressive and egocentric, or have difficulties with people with such characteristics. It can also symbolize deeply hidden fears and rejection of his own assertiveness.
Orange
Orange is a powerful and cheerful colour. It is a happy, social colour. It encourages communication and its positive qualities are happiness, concentration, confidence, optimism, self-motivation, change, striving, emotional balance and enthusiasm. Its negative is rebelliousness. Orange is good in any room where you will be having group gatherings or where people will gather to have fun and socialise. Introduce a warm pumpkin orange feature into a room where projects are being done. Use in living and dining rooms and hallways but not in small rooms or bedrooms.
Healing properties: Orange is warm, cheering, non-constricting. Orange has a freeing action upon the body and mind, relieving repressions. Orange shows new possibilities and other options in life. Stimulates creative thinking and enthusiasm, and helps assimilate new ideas.It is also helpful in dealing with excess sexual expression.
Orange stimulates the lungs, the respiration and the digestion. Increases the activity of the thyroid. Reliefs muscle cramps and spasms. Increases the amount of mother milk.
Esoteric/magickal: Deities of good luck and fortune. Attraction, charm, kindness, encouragement, stimulation, optimism, success, abundance, prosperity, feast and celebration, energy, achieving business-goals, investments, success in legal matters.
Preference for orange: Orange represents the warmth of the fire. It brings even more energy than yellow, celebration and great abundance, comfort, enjoyment of the senses. Warm, sociable, dynamic and independent people who dedicate themselves to whatever they do.
Aversion to orange: A person who has an aversion to orange may have suppressed sexual feelings or other difficulties with sensual enjoyment of life. The attitude can also be over-sensual, indulgent, or too materialistic.
Yellow
Yellow is associated with enlightenment and intellect, it stimulates the brain and aids digestion. It's positive qualities are optimism, reason, organization, academic achievement, decisiveness, praise, sincerity and harmony. Its negative are craftiness, exaggeration and rigidity. thus yellow gives heightened expression and freedom. It is good for concentration and clarity of thought. it is a colour that stimulates flexibility and adaptability. It is also associated with good luck!
Yellow is an excellent colour to use in a home office. It is good to use in any room where you want to feel mentally uplifted and wish to stimulate conversation. Yellow kitchens tend to be gathering places for family and friends. Yellow is also a good colour to use in a room where you do counselling in your home. It gets people talking and also generates a feeling of upliftment and optimism. Suitable for hallways and kitchens, but not for meditation rooms or bathrooms.
Healing properties: Yellow helps strengthen the nerves and the mind. It helps awaken mental inspiration and stimulates higher mentality. Thus, it is an excellent colour for nervous or nerve-related conditions or ailments. It also energizes the muscles. Dark yellow soothes pains in the nerves (shooting pains)
Yellow can be used for conditions of the stomach, liver, and intestines. Speeds up the digestion and assimilation, and the stool.
It helps the pores of the skin and aids scarred tissue in healing itself.
Yellow links with and stimulates the solar plexus, or psychic center. It can be used for psychic burnout or other psychic-related conditions or ailments. Activates and cheers up depressed and melancholic people. Gives lust for life.
Esoteric/magical: Elemental air. Deities for trade, travel, knowledge and magick. Life-force, vitality, change, progress, contact, communication, trade, commerce, to persuade with confidence, joy, cheerfulness, learning, knowledge, mental clarity, concentration, memorizing, tests, speaking and writing, traveling, affirmation, visualization.
Preference for yellow: The colour of the sun, life-force, vividity, vitality and energy. The colour of cheerfulness, curiosity, alternation, flexibility, progress, amusement, contact through traveling and communication, learning and practical knowledge. A feeling for writing and speaking.
Aversion to yellow: A person who has aversion to yellow may be emotionally disappointed and bitter.May have tendency to rationalize feelings, or to avoid the depth of life by often changing relationships, many superficial relationships and/or constant changing activities.
Green
Green symbolizes growth, fertility and harmony; it is restful and refreshing. Green stimulates feelings of balance, freedom, harmony, hope, growth and healing. It is found everywhere in nature, symbolizing the replenishing forces of the universe. Green reminds us that there will always be enough. Often in hospitals the medical professionals wear green. Its negatives are envy and deceit.
This is a good colour in any room. It is restful and energizing. I like to have some green in the bathroom - green towels or green plants, or even green trim or a wall. The bathroom is a room of symbolic purification and renewal so green is perfect for this room. To uplift a room introduce a bright spring green or a clear, clean leaf-green touch rather than a khaki or muddy green. Green is usually best in in therapy rooms, conservatories and bathrooms but not in family rooms, playrooms or studies.
Healing properties: Green is the colour of Nature and the earth. It is balance and harmony in essence and possesses a soothing influence upon both mind and body. It is neither relaxing nor astringent in its impact.Green can be used for just about any condition in need of healing.
Green rings psychological and emotional harmony and balance.
Green links with and stimulates the heart energy center. Green affects blood pressure and all conditions of the heart. It has both an energizing effect and a moderating or soothing effect.
It cures hormonal imbalances. Stimulates growth hormone and rejuvenation. Cleans and purifies from germs, bacteria and rotting material. Harmonizes the digestion, stomach, liver, gall. Has a healing effect on kidneys. Increases immunity. Builds up muscles, bones and tissues. Stimulates inner peace. Strengthens the nervous system.
Esoteric/magickal: Elemental earth (dark green) and elemental water (blue-green). Nature, fertility, growth, rejuvenation, recovering, healing, harvest and abundance, prosperity, harmony, balance, peace, hope, mother earth, home, herbal magick, plants and animals, counteract greed and jealousy.
Preference for green: Green brings peace, rest, hope, comfort and nurturing, calmness and harmony. Interest in nature, plants, fellowmen, children and animals, health and healing, natural and plain life. Longing for a safe home and family-life. A dislike of conflicts.
Aversion to green: A person who has an aversion to green may be more interested in independence and self-development than in a warm family-life. May prefer to keep a certain distance in (sexual) relationships.
Blue
Blue is peaceful and soothing and linked with spirituality, contemplation, mystery and patience. It stimulates you to seek inner truth. Blue helps you to attain inner peace and to live out your ideals. It allows for gentleness, contentment and composure. Its positive associations are trust, faithfulness and stability. Negatives are suspicion and melancholia. Blue has also been used for pain reduction.
A warm, light blue bedroom is good for relaxing a hyperactive child. Blue can be used in meditation rooms, bedrooms, therapy rooms and as a means of enlarging spaces. Not really suitable for family rooms, dining rooms and studies. If you suffer from a feeling of melancholy then maybe you have too much blue in your living space.
Healing properties: Blue is cooling, electric, astringent. Dr. Edwin Babbitt, in his classic, "The Principles of Light and Colour," states that "The Blue Ray is one of the greatest antiseptics in the world."
Cools down inflammations (don't forget rheumatic inflammations), fever, high blood pressure, stops bleedings, reliefs the bursting headaches, calms strong emotions like anger, aggression or hysteria. Brings tranquility. Anti-itching. Anti-irritation (for instance redness of the skin), anti-stress. Soothes suffering.
Blue can be used for any type of ailments associated with speech, communication, or the throat. Excellent forlaryngitis or inflammation of the larynx.
Blue links with and stimulates the throat energy center. The throat energy center is often referenced as the "power center" and "the greatest center in the body" because it is the primary center of expression and communication, through speech.
Esoteric/magickal: Elemental water and elemental air. Deities of the sea, truth and wisdom. Peace and tranquility, calmness, truth, wisdom, justice, counsel, guidance, understanding, patience, loyalty and honor, sincerity, devotion, healing, femininity, prophetic dreams, protection during sleep, astral projection.
Preference for blue: Cool and soothing, dreamy and magical. Peace and rest. For people who keep a certain distance, but give calm and practical help; they are faithful and loyal, have a sense for order, logic and rational thinking. Flying in day-dreaming, ideals or nostalgia when felt mis-understood. Dark blue is more severe and can be melancholic. Blue is also the colour of truth.
Aversion to blue: A person who has an aversion to blue, may be very disciplined, strong career worker, with an aversion of commentary or restriction. He may have charted out a clear direction for his life and wants to follow that lacelike .
Indigo
Red is stimulating and dominant. It can be extremely vitalizing and can assist in overcoming inertia, depression, fear and melancholy. It is a great aid to those who are afraid of life and feel like escaping. Red is power. It is the colour of adrenalin, fire, zest and drive. It is physical energy. It is passionate and exciting. Red supplies the energy and motivation necessary to reach goals. It is a 'doing' colour which can actually activate activity and physical strength.
Red reduces the size of rooms and increases the size of objects. It is useful as an accent colour. Red is not the best colour for a bedroom, you might find it difficult to rest in this stimulating colour. However, you might find that your desire for sensual excitement expands in a red bedroom. Red in a work room or exercise room, or even a living room stimulates movement and activity. It is not really suitable for dining rooms or children's bedrooms. If you are a procrastinator or in a sluggish time in your life, paint a wall red (use a crimson, scarlet or even a hot red or rust, rather than a dark maroon or muddy red) and get ready to take off!
Healing properties: Brings warmth, energy and stimulation, therefore good for energy, fatigue, colds, chilly and passive people. Red energizes heart and blood circulation, it builds up the blood and heightens a low blood pressure. Energizes all organs and the senses hearing, smell, taste, vision and touch. Increases sexual desire and activity. Stimulates ovulation and menstruation. Never treat cancer with red, because this colour will stimulate cell growth!
Red links with and stimulates the root energy center, at the base of the spine, causing the adrenal glands to release adrenalin. This results in greater strength. Red causes hemoglobin to multiply, thus increasing energy and raising body temperature. It is excellent for anemia and blood-related conditions. It loosens, opens up clogs, releases stiffness and constrictions. It is excellent for areas that have become stiffened or constricted.
Esoteric/magickal: Deities of love, passion, sexuality and war (to stimulate a healthy portion of assertiveness). Great energy, courage, will-power, determination, speed, assertiveness, aggression, masculinity, independence, physical strength, sports, competition, conflicts, health, sexual attraction and potency, love and passion, fertility.
Preference for red: Red is associated with passionate love, sex, great energy, impulse, action and stimulation, assertiveness and aggression, courage, strength and power, adventure, danger, warnings, revolt and revolution. Temperamental and ambitious people with a need for personal freedom.
Aversion to red: A person who has an aversion to red may be over-active, too impulsive, hot-tempered, aggressive and egocentric, or have difficulties with people with such characteristics. It can also symbolize deeply hidden fears and rejection of his own assertiveness.
Orange
Orange is a powerful and cheerful colour. It is a happy, social colour. It encourages communication and its positive qualities are happiness, concentration, confidence, optimism, self-motivation, change, striving, emotional balance and enthusiasm. Its negative is rebelliousness. Orange is good in any room where you will be having group gatherings or where people will gather to have fun and socialise. Introduce a warm pumpkin orange feature into a room where projects are being done. Use in living and dining rooms and hallways but not in small rooms or bedrooms.
Healing properties: Orange is warm, cheering, non-constricting. Orange has a freeing action upon the body and mind, relieving repressions. Orange shows new possibilities and other options in life. Stimulates creative thinking and enthusiasm, and helps assimilate new ideas.It is also helpful in dealing with excess sexual expression.
Orange stimulates the lungs, the respiration and the digestion. Increases the activity of the thyroid. Reliefs muscle cramps and spasms. Increases the amount of mother milk.
Esoteric/magickal: Deities of good luck and fortune. Attraction, charm, kindness, encouragement, stimulation, optimism, success, abundance, prosperity, feast and celebration, energy, achieving business-goals, investments, success in legal matters.
Preference for orange: Orange represents the warmth of the fire. It brings even more energy than yellow, celebration and great abundance, comfort, enjoyment of the senses. Warm, sociable, dynamic and independent people who dedicate themselves to whatever they do.
Aversion to orange: A person who has an aversion to orange may have suppressed sexual feelings or other difficulties with sensual enjoyment of life. The attitude can also be over-sensual, indulgent, or too materialistic.
Yellow
Yellow is associated with enlightenment and intellect, it stimulates the brain and aids digestion. It's positive qualities are optimism, reason, organization, academic achievement, decisiveness, praise, sincerity and harmony. Its negative are craftiness, exaggeration and rigidity. thus yellow gives heightened expression and freedom. It is good for concentration and clarity of thought. it is a colour that stimulates flexibility and adaptability. It is also associated with good luck!
Yellow is an excellent colour to use in a home office. It is good to use in any room where you want to feel mentally uplifted and wish to stimulate conversation. Yellow kitchens tend to be gathering places for family and friends. Yellow is also a good colour to use in a room where you do counselling in your home. It gets people talking and also generates a feeling of upliftment and optimism. Suitable for hallways and kitchens, but not for meditation rooms or bathrooms.
Healing properties: Yellow helps strengthen the nerves and the mind. It helps awaken mental inspiration and stimulates higher mentality. Thus, it is an excellent colour for nervous or nerve-related conditions or ailments. It also energizes the muscles. Dark yellow soothes pains in the nerves (shooting pains)
Yellow can be used for conditions of the stomach, liver, and intestines. Speeds up the digestion and assimilation, and the stool.
It helps the pores of the skin and aids scarred tissue in healing itself.
Yellow links with and stimulates the solar plexus, or psychic center. It can be used for psychic burnout or other psychic-related conditions or ailments. Activates and cheers up depressed and melancholic people. Gives lust for life.
Esoteric/magical: Elemental air. Deities for trade, travel, knowledge and magick. Life-force, vitality, change, progress, contact, communication, trade, commerce, to persuade with confidence, joy, cheerfulness, learning, knowledge, mental clarity, concentration, memorizing, tests, speaking and writing, traveling, affirmation, visualization.
Preference for yellow: The colour of the sun, life-force, vividity, vitality and energy. The colour of cheerfulness, curiosity, alternation, flexibility, progress, amusement, contact through traveling and communication, learning and practical knowledge. A feeling for writing and speaking.
Aversion to yellow: A person who has aversion to yellow may be emotionally disappointed and bitter.May have tendency to rationalize feelings, or to avoid the depth of life by often changing relationships, many superficial relationships and/or constant changing activities.
Green
Green symbolizes growth, fertility and harmony; it is restful and refreshing. Green stimulates feelings of balance, freedom, harmony, hope, growth and healing. It is found everywhere in nature, symbolizing the replenishing forces of the universe. Green reminds us that there will always be enough. Often in hospitals the medical professionals wear green. Its negatives are envy and deceit.
This is a good colour in any room. It is restful and energizing. I like to have some green in the bathroom - green towels or green plants, or even green trim or a wall. The bathroom is a room of symbolic purification and renewal so green is perfect for this room. To uplift a room introduce a bright spring green or a clear, clean leaf-green touch rather than a khaki or muddy green. Green is usually best in in therapy rooms, conservatories and bathrooms but not in family rooms, playrooms or studies.
Healing properties: Green is the colour of Nature and the earth. It is balance and harmony in essence and possesses a soothing influence upon both mind and body. It is neither relaxing nor astringent in its impact.Green can be used for just about any condition in need of healing.
Green rings psychological and emotional harmony and balance.
Green links with and stimulates the heart energy center. Green affects blood pressure and all conditions of the heart. It has both an energizing effect and a moderating or soothing effect.
It cures hormonal imbalances. Stimulates growth hormone and rejuvenation. Cleans and purifies from germs, bacteria and rotting material. Harmonizes the digestion, stomach, liver, gall. Has a healing effect on kidneys. Increases immunity. Builds up muscles, bones and tissues. Stimulates inner peace. Strengthens the nervous system.
Esoteric/magickal: Elemental earth (dark green) and elemental water (blue-green). Nature, fertility, growth, rejuvenation, recovering, healing, harvest and abundance, prosperity, harmony, balance, peace, hope, mother earth, home, herbal magick, plants and animals, counteract greed and jealousy.
Preference for green: Green brings peace, rest, hope, comfort and nurturing, calmness and harmony. Interest in nature, plants, fellowmen, children and animals, health and healing, natural and plain life. Longing for a safe home and family-life. A dislike of conflicts.
Aversion to green: A person who has an aversion to green may be more interested in independence and self-development than in a warm family-life. May prefer to keep a certain distance in (sexual) relationships.
Blue
Blue is peaceful and soothing and linked with spirituality, contemplation, mystery and patience. It stimulates you to seek inner truth. Blue helps you to attain inner peace and to live out your ideals. It allows for gentleness, contentment and composure. Its positive associations are trust, faithfulness and stability. Negatives are suspicion and melancholia. Blue has also been used for pain reduction.
A warm, light blue bedroom is good for relaxing a hyperactive child. Blue can be used in meditation rooms, bedrooms, therapy rooms and as a means of enlarging spaces. Not really suitable for family rooms, dining rooms and studies. If you suffer from a feeling of melancholy then maybe you have too much blue in your living space.
Healing properties: Blue is cooling, electric, astringent. Dr. Edwin Babbitt, in his classic, "The Principles of Light and Colour," states that "The Blue Ray is one of the greatest antiseptics in the world."
Cools down inflammations (don't forget rheumatic inflammations), fever, high blood pressure, stops bleedings, reliefs the bursting headaches, calms strong emotions like anger, aggression or hysteria. Brings tranquility. Anti-itching. Anti-irritation (for instance redness of the skin), anti-stress. Soothes suffering.
Blue can be used for any type of ailments associated with speech, communication, or the throat. Excellent forlaryngitis or inflammation of the larynx.
Blue links with and stimulates the throat energy center. The throat energy center is often referenced as the "power center" and "the greatest center in the body" because it is the primary center of expression and communication, through speech.
Esoteric/magickal: Elemental water and elemental air. Deities of the sea, truth and wisdom. Peace and tranquility, calmness, truth, wisdom, justice, counsel, guidance, understanding, patience, loyalty and honor, sincerity, devotion, healing, femininity, prophetic dreams, protection during sleep, astral projection.
Preference for blue: Cool and soothing, dreamy and magical. Peace and rest. For people who keep a certain distance, but give calm and practical help; they are faithful and loyal, have a sense for order, logic and rational thinking. Flying in day-dreaming, ideals or nostalgia when felt mis-understood. Dark blue is more severe and can be melancholic. Blue is also the colour of truth.
Aversion to blue: A person who has an aversion to blue, may be very disciplined, strong career worker, with an aversion of commentary or restriction. He may have charted out a clear direction for his life and wants to follow that lacelike .
Indigo
Healing properties: Indigo is a great purifier of the bloodstream and also benefits mental problems. It is a freeing and purifying agent.
Indigo combines the deep blue of devotion with a trace of stabilizing and objective red. Indigo is cool, electric, and astringent.
Indigo links with and stimulates the brow energy center (third eye) and controls the pineal gland. It governs both physical and spiritual perception.It can be of great assistance in dealing with ailments of the eyes and ears.
Violet / Purple
Purple encourages vitality and is impressive, dignified and spiritual. Positive associations are excitiement, passion and motivation. Negatives are mournfulness and force. When a person chooses purple as a favourite colour, they are usually abstract, inspired and able to tune into the inner world. Purple stimulates our spiritual perspective and intuition.
Purple is such a powerful colour that I suggest using it as an accent colour rather than in large amounts. It can be diluted with white to make a soft shade of lavender or lilac - this is excellent for a meditation room or a room where you want to feel healed, particularly spiritual healing. Splashes of gold or yellow is a good balance to purple. Suitable for bedrooms but not bathrooms or kitchens. Use in bedrooms and meditation rooms but not in bathrooms or kitchens.
Healing properties: These are colours of transformation.They heal melancholy, hysteria, delusions and alcohol addiction and bring spiritual insights and renewal. These colours slow down an over-active heart; stimulate the spleen and the white blood cells (immunity). Bring sleep. Soothe mental and emotional stress. Decrease sexual activity. Decrease sensitivity to pain. They help in detoxification.
Leonardo da Vinci proclaimed that you can increase the power of meditation ten-fold by meditating under the gentle rays of Violet, as found in Church windows.
Esoteric/magickal: Elemental spirit. Divination and prophecy. Angels. Psychic abilities, divination, counter-acting negativity/black magick, reversing curses, psychic healing, psychic power, inspiration, meditation, spirituality, spiritual power, astral projection, third eye, compassion, counter-acting depression.
Preference for violet/purple: Colours for meditation, contemplation, mysticism, spirituality and religion power. A longing to ascend and dissolve polarities (purple consists of the active red and passive blue), to improve the world. Reservation, mystery and dignity. Soft, sensitive people with often paranormal abilities.
Aversion to violet / purple:A person who has an aversion for violet / purple may have very serious attitude towards life; and may find it difficult to give dreams, fantasies, vague fears or memories a place in it. May have tendency to rejection everything he regards as unnatural or unrealistic.
White
White on the feng shui colour chart symbolizes new beginnings, purity and innocence. Its positive qualities are cleanliness and freshness, its negatives cold, lifelessness and starkness.
White can be used successfully in any room in the house. However, an all-white room might feel too sterile - it may not seem friendly and inviting. This can be a great healing colour for all rooms as its energy is transformation. You must decide what your needs are and honor those feelings when deciding what colours you want around you. Use for bathrooms and kitchens but not suitable for children's rooms and dining rooms.
Healing properties: White is the perfect colour; for it is all colours, in perfect balance and harmony. It is the colour of the awakened Spirit; the light of perfection; the light of the Cosmic Consciousness,the Divine Light.
Just about everyone has heard of surrounding people with the "White Light of Healing and Protection." White light raises the vibration of one's consciousness and the body, bringing harmony in all aspects of one's life. Directing white into to a part of the body that needs healing is one of the fastest ways to bring about healing.
Esoteric/magickal: Purification and cleaning on all levels, contact with higher self and spiritual helpers, (inner) peace, aura-healing, truth seeking, consecration, spiritual enlightenment, protection against negativity by raising your vibration, breaking curses, exorcism, meditation, divination, inspiration, clairvoyance, invoking spirits White can be a replacement for any other colour your magick requires.
Preference for white: White points at innocence, purity, virginity, cleanliness, freshness, simplicity, nothingness, oneness and completion, truth. In certain cultures white is the colour of death and mourning.
Aversion to white: A person who has an aversion to white colour isforemost or solely interested in 'realistic' and tangible things, not in illusions or things that are beyond seeing or understanding. Knows and accepts the own imperfection and does not wish to achieve perfection.
Magenta
Healing properties: Strengthens contact with your life purpose. Stimulates adrenalineand heart activity.
Esoteric/magickal: Scorpio-energy. Magnetism, to attract or speed up things, extra power, when immediate action and great spiritual power are needed, life purpose, life path.
Preference for magenta: Much energy and activity focused on achieving power and self-realization. Strong but controlled passions and emotions. Daring, ready to fight, willing to give everything for a goal. Can drive things too far and have fixed ideas.
Aversion to magenta:A person who has an aversion to magenta may feel overwhelmed by people with strong convictions or heavy emotions like jealousy; also may have difficulties with exposing deep emotions.
Pink
Pink
is linked with purity of thought and has the positive association of happiness
and romance with no negatives
Healing properties: Heals grief and sadness. Restores youthfulness. Brings you in contact with your feelings.
Esoteric/magickal: Softness and tenderness, romance, caring, nurturing, for children, youth, peace, friendship, femininity, emotional love, emotional healing.
Preference for pink: Regarded as a feminine colour. Pink symbolizes softness, sweetness, innocence, youthfulness and tenderness. Soft and kind people.
Aversion to pink: A person who has an aversion to pink may have a challenge with expressingsoft, tender, female side.
Turquoise
Healing properties: Increases intuition and sensitivity. Works disinfecting and antiseptic. Tones the general system. Builds the skin. Relaxes sensations of stress.
Esoteric/magickal: Alterations, intellectual and intuitive insights, technique, inventions, originality, renewal, brotherhood, humanism.
Preference for turquoise: Just like the wide turquoise sea you don't want to feel restricted and you don't immediately bring to the surface what goes on in you; emotions can remain hidden. A colour for non-triviality, renewal, innovation and inventions, progressive technics, alternative ways of living together, humanity.
Aversion to turquoise:A person who has an aversion to turquoise may be looking for solidity and security in society, especially in marriage. Also, may be reluctant to think originally or to walk new paths.
Brown
Brown suggests stability and weight. Its positives are safety and elegance, while its negatives are dinginess, depression and aging. Good for studies but not for bedrooms.
Esoteric/magickal: Elemental earth. The planet-spirit Saturn. Stability, grounding, conservation, protection of household, family and pets, healing animals, finding lost objects, material constructions (buildings etc.), material increase, to make relationships solid, to increase decisiveness and concentration, attracting help in financial crisis.
Preference for brown: An earthly colour for practical people with a preference for natural, tribal and primitive things, solidity and simplicity. Brown can be warm and cosy but also depressing. Family-life persons, stable people, loyal friends.
Aversion to brown: A person who has an aversion to brown may feel an aversion against normal, boring, trivial life; may not feel connected with his roots (home-land, family, etc); may experience instability in health and attitude.
Grey
Esoteric/magickal: Neutralizing negative influences, erasing or cancelling situations, causing stalemates
Preference for grey: Very neutral and indifferent, non-expressive. It can be deliberate, but also lifeless, fixed, depressed and apathic. Reserved, cool people; unwilling to expose themselves or to have obligations. Grey can be refined and tactful.
Aversion to grey:A personwho has an aversion to grey may prefers to be straight to the point, no time for political and tactical attitudes. Demands clarity, a knowing where one stands.
Black
Black
is mysterious and independent and is the colour of dreamtime. Black focuses
attention into the inner world, whether to pursue the spiritual realm or to
process feelings of grief. Its positive qualities are intrigue, strength and
allure, while its negatives are death, darkness and evil.
To use black as the predominant colour in a room can be overwhelming and even depressing. Black room accessories, however, can bring drama and power to a room. Remember, there are no bad colours on the feng shui colour chart. Each has its own special qualities and power. There may be times in your life when a mostly black room will offer you a place where you can go and incubate and be still. But generally black rooms can be difficult to live with. It is often used in teenagers rooms and in bedrooms but should not be used in young children's rooms, therapy rooms, studies or living rooms.
To use black as the predominant colour in a room can be overwhelming and even depressing. Black room accessories, however, can bring drama and power to a room. Remember, there are no bad colours on the feng shui colour chart. Each has its own special qualities and power. There may be times in your life when a mostly black room will offer you a place where you can go and incubate and be still. But generally black rooms can be difficult to live with. It is often used in teenagers rooms and in bedrooms but should not be used in young children's rooms, therapy rooms, studies or living rooms.
Esoteric/magickal: Elemental earth. Deities of the underworld. Repel/banish evil and negativity, protection, banishing, binding, breaking free from bad habits/addictions, deep meditation, opens up deep unconscious levels.
Preference for black: Symbolizes seriousness, darkness, depression, death, mourning, mystery, secrecy, occultism, a standing apart from or revolting against triviality, provocation, underground, underworld, things that have to remain hidden, nothingness as the great source of all creation, the need to keep your energy with you. Black is a colour for extremes, everything and nothing. People who foremost trust themselves.
Aversion to black: A person who has an aversion to black may have fear for the unknown, or fear for the abuse of power. Desires to become free from all kinds of dependency, blockages, hindrances; to throw off shackles.
Gold
Esoteric/magickal: Absolute authority, (self)confidence, creativity, perfection, solar energies, male energy, financial riches, investments, luxury, winning, worldly power, magickal power, overcoming bad habits/addictions.
Silver
Esoteric/magickal: Female energy, cycles, rebirth, reincarnation, healing of hormonal imbalances, emotional stability, remove or neutralize negativity, intuition, dreams, psychic abilities and psychic workings.
Copper/Bronze
Esoteric/magickal: Love and passion, for positive relationships in love, friendship and business, career promotions, negotiations.
The point to remember concerning colour therapy -is that complete healing generally comes about through some type of internal transformation. Heal the mind and the body will, surely, follow suit.
Giving Sadaqah will help with Duas being
answered, Sins be erased and sicknesses are sometimes due to sins; Showing gratitude is sunnah and Allah loves those slaves who shows gratitude; gratitude earns more (ziyada) favours from Allah, Allah promises increased favours for those who are grateful and (hates misers see hadith below) "And when your Lord proclaimed: "If you are thankful, I will give you
more"(14:7) and "We shall reward those who are thankful" (3:45) Allah
informs us that one of Satans primary objectives is to prevent humans
from being grateful. So show you support be Thankful for these Duas and
Khidma and take more rewards from Allah by Helping and Support “The
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Giving a small amount of sadaqah monthly is continuous giving which is most beloved deed before Allah. Everyday 70 problems come our way and Sadaqah is a shield to protect yourself and your family. The most beloved deed before Allah is that which is continuous, even if it is little. The constant giving of a little is said to please Allah more than the occasional gift of a lot. So if it’s in your means to donate a small amount of £2-£3 or more a month and Support “The Sufi Healing Project” through Uns Foundation.
The Shade of Sadaqah: “The believer’s
shade on the Day of Resurrection will be his Sadaqah.” (Tirmidhi) "The
generous man is near Allah, near paradise, near men and far from hell, but the
miserly man is far from Allah, far from paradise, far from men and near hell.
Indeed, an ignorant man who
is generous is dearer to Allah than a worshipper who is miserly."(Tirmidhi)
Giving a small amount of sadaqah monthly is continuous giving which is most beloved deed before Allah. Everyday 70 problems come our way and Sadaqah is a shield to protect yourself and your family. The most beloved deed before Allah is that which is continuous, even if it is little. The constant giving of a little is said to please Allah more than the occasional gift of a lot. So if it’s in your means to donate a small amount of £2-£3 or more a month and Support “The Sufi Healing Project” through Uns Foundation.
Know about
the shield of giving: "Give Sadaqah without delay, for it stands in the
way of problems/calamities."(Tirmidhi)
it says 70 problems that is one is shielded from 70 problems with just a small
amount of sadaqah.
Saqaqah
washes your sins away: "Sadaqah extinguishes sin as water extinguishes
fire." (Tirmidhi) "Sadaqah
appeases-(To satisfy or relieve) the Lord’s anger and averts an evil
death." (Tirmidhi)
references:
http://www.deeptrancenow.com/colortherapy.htm
http://www.sufiblog.com/#!color-therapy/c1p6n
http://www.diy-stress-relief.com/psychology-of-colour.html
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