Colour Therapy for your Home: Use colour therapy for decorating to maximise health

Colour Therapy for your home is just as important as colour therapy in any other way. Our homes reflect our personalities. We surround ourselves with what is important to us in life - our interests and hobbies, things we have picked up from holidays abroad, pictures and photographs of special people, and of course colour that we use to decorate.

Colour Therapy for your home is extremely important, as each colour, as we already know, emits a certain vibration that is either in harmony or in conflict with who we are as a person, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Just the same way that we use Colour Therapy for the way we dress, we should therefore think the same way using Colour Therapy for your home!

Let's look at the way we can use Colour Therapy for your home to obtain huge health and emotional benefits:

RED: Well, red is actually quite a difficult colour to use in colour therapy for your home. It is a very 'demanding' colour, and could cause havoc with your energy levels if used excessively in your home! You might never sleep again! However, red can be used sparingly and to great effect. As it is a stimulant, you could use it for a dining room to stimulate conversation around the dinner table, ensure lively conviviality and add energy to the room. It is a warm (even hot!) colour, and so will pull the room closer in, giving the room a smaller feel. It can look striking, so maybe experiment and see what you think. It can be used with its complementary colour, blue, to add balance to the room. Also, a dramatic miror can add the sense of space and luxury to the room.

It is important to add a complementary colour to go with the main colour of the room so that balance is achieved. Otherwise, your energies are pulled one way without the balancing effect of the complementary colour.

ORANGE: I love this colour! When the right shade is picked, this colour can bring immense feelings of joy just by looking at it! Once again, orange is a stimulating colour, though it is not as hard to decorate with as red. It is probably best used in a dining room again, as it is too stimulating for the bedroom or study. As we know, orange is an appetite stimulant and so would be great for the dining room. It will definitely encourage lively conversation and your guests will feel happy and not know why! Orange looks fantastic when teamed with its complementary colour, indigo, which provides the perfect balance.

YELLOW: Once again, this is one of my favourite colours. It just reminds me of sunny days, playing outside in the sun as a child, being on holiday with my family! All these feelings and memories provoked by a colour - quite amazing!

Yellow is incredibly easy to decorate with. Of course the shades of yellow vary enormously, so there is lots of choice around and you should take your time to find the right one for you. Take into consideration the amount of light you get in your home as well. The sun shining through into a golden yellow room can be quite dramatic, whereas a paler shade of a subtle yellow tone can be very relaxing. This paler shade works well in bedrooms as it is not too distracting and can allow the mind to relax. The stronger yellows are best used (in my own opinion) in the areas of the house where you might study, as yellow stimulates the mental faculties. Yellow is a good colour to use in cooler climates as it is warming and reminds us of warmer, sunnier days! Very useful in the UK!

Remember, the complementary colour of violet, or lilac, mauve or purple depending on the shade of yellow used. This brings the sense of balance to the room!

Colour Therapy for your home can be an exciting project that you could start, and then spend a lot of time on! Once you get started and really feel the effects of the colours that you use, when you are aware of how they actually relate to you, you can spend years getting it just right! I know I have - I just enjoy the feelings that can be evoked by this therapy and hope you feel inspired to try for yourself.

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