Colour Therapy Healing - how does it work? Colour therapy treatments explained

Colour therapy is non-invasive and is based upon using the healing energy contained within the visible colour spectrum. In ways similar to reflexology, and other complementary therapies, it seeks to achieve balance and harmony within the body.

There are examples of this therapy having succeeded where other methods of treatment have not.

For example, it has been used as a cure for leprosy using only diet and coloured bandages!Famously, Kylie Minogue is said to have started her recovery from breast cancer using the principles of colour therapy. She was seen to be wearing pink, and is said to have had her walls painted pink during her stay in hospital. Pink is the colour of love, and self-love and self-acceptance. It is a very good place from which to start any form of recovery. Through loving ourselves and accepting ourselves, warts and all, we can only then truly know real happiness and contentment.

How can this therapy work?

In the same way as we need a diet rich in all of the vitamins,minerals and nutrients that our bodies require, we also need the whole range of the colour spectrum to stay in best health. Colour vibrations have a direct effect on the cells and organs of our bodies, and also have a very strong and real impact on our mental and spiritual wellbeing.

Everyone agrees that colour really does affect our moods. For me, endless days of grey, cloudy weather makes me feel low, both physcially and mentally. However, other colours such as yellow, pink and red, can have an energising and rejuvenating effect on us.

So some colours are uplifting and others are depressing. Without even thinking too much about it, we find ourselves saying things like, 'feeling blue', to describe feeling unhappy, 'seeing red' to describe when we are feeling angry and 'green with envy'.

Our feelings are connected to whether there is a hormonal balance or imbalance in our bodies at any given time. The pituitary gland, which is the 'master' gland of the endocrine system (the endocrine system is the hormonal system) receives coloured light and this affects the production of hormones.

Coloured light can cause different physical reactions such as:

Red light can cause heat and can relieve congestion conditions

Blue light can cause the blood pressure to fall.

Of course, colour can affect the mental body as well; blue tending to calm and soothe our minds, whilst others, for example yellow, stimulates the mind and gets the mental faculties to work!

Colour is not only absorbed through the eyes, but also through the skin, and through a system of energy centres known as chakras, which are directly linked to our nervous system - See the seven chakras

Colour therapy is particularly useful as a preventative medicine. Whereas conventional medicine treats the 'symptoms' of a disease, colour therapists treat the whole person, that is the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional state. Often today, a symptom might be treated successfully with drugs and vanish, whilst the underlying cause of why the symptom arose in the first place, remains undiscovered and therefore untreated. If we could learn to listen to our bodies subtle messages, as and when symptoms arise, we could then pause and look at what is going on in our lives that might be causing this symptom, and deal then with the situation that might be triggering the symptom. Too often we hand our lives over to the hands of GPs, without first looking for ourselves to see what we can change in our lives to improve our health. For example, looking at our stress levels, diet, exercise, and all the usual things!

Illness is an imbalance of energy. Colour therapy works to move energy and unblock and rebalance energy imbalances. Sometimes, a person will be drawn to a particular colour, and this is an indication that this colour is needed in the surroundings, or diet to re-balance. Often a colour is rejected by us for no apparent reason. This needs to be addressed as well, as often it is a colour that is needed by the body. Again, it means looking at all areas of our lives to see where problems might lie. Illnesses develop in our emotional bodies long before they show up in our physical bodies. Sudden changes in likes or dislikes of a particular colour can be a pointer to where the trouble lies.

I have written an ebook on colour therapy which provides information and techniques for applying colour therapy to improve our health. It is a useful book to have to hand as it teaches about colour and the different vibrational effects of each colour and how it can be used in healing. To buy your own copy, please feel free to click on the picture below. It is very straightforward to do and I hope will be a useful addition to your first aid kit!