Colours
We are surrounded by colours every day of our lives, but how often do we use them to improve our health, alter our emotional state or boost our morale? Colour is pure energy, each colour with its own energy vibration, life-enhancing quality and healing action.  To be healthy, a person needs the energy from all colours in the spectrum.

Colours can heal and comfort, soothe and energise, unlock our creativity, change our mood, release energy blockages and alleviate physical, mental and emotional conditions.  They could help us to change our attitude which can be holding us back in our life.  It is easy to learn how to bring healing and energising colour into our food, drink, clothes and decor, how to visualise colour, meditate with it, use coloured crystals and bring balance back to our body and mind with simple healing methods. In all these ways, we could benefit from their energetic vibrations and healing properties. 

These days, many of us find that a good standard of health and well-being is becoming more and more difficult to achieve.  We all take more medicines than ever before and many of us need outside help to give ourselves energy, calm us down, help us to sleep and help us to cope.  But we can often do this by ourselves and for ourselves.  By being aware of colour, getting to know what it can do for us, and using it skilfully, we can bring our energy back into balance and improve our health and well-being.

Although considered to be a complementary therapy, colour healing is being used routinely within modern medical care.  Chromotherapy, which was developed in the 1920s, may regularly be used in hospitals to treat ailments with coloured light.

Blue light is used to soothe inflammation and the pain of arthritis and to reduce high blood pressure.  It is administered to premature babies to prevent brain damage or death through an underdeveloped liver, and to treat jaundice in newborn babies.  Red light is used to treat poor circulation, stiff joints and migraine.

Each colour has its own vibration.  These vibrations and the energy that they transmit can have powerful effects on the different energy vibrations in a human being and can therefore be used for balancing, harmonising and attuning body, mind and spirit.  Through this balancing and attuning, they help us to heal ourselves.

Understanding Colours
Each colour in the spectrum vibrates at its own rate, and these vibrations correspond to our body's inner vibrations.  Each part of our body resonates to different colours.  When we feel physically ill or mentally and emotionally disturbed, we can use the appropriate colour to restore balance to the troubled area.  The harmonisation of the vibrations of our body and the vibrations of the colour will bring this about.

Healing Colours
Generally reds, oranges and yellows are warm and expansive and will energise us and make us feel happy.  Blues, indigos and purples are soothing, calming and cooling, and will calm us down and help us to relax.

Change Colour and Change Mood
Colours can influence a change of mood and attitude.  If you lack certain qualities or need to temper others, use colours.  Use more orange for creativity and assertiveness.  Use turquoise if you tend to drive yourself too hard.  To calm your anger, use blue.

Coloured Light
Using coloured lights is one of the most uncomplicated, powerful and effective ways of correcting imbalances in the human system.  It is easy to focus the colour on the exact problem area, or bathe the whole body in colour for overall toning and maintenance of health and wellbeing.  It is particularly good for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).  Equipment can be purchased, such as colour lamps, filters, torches, light boxes etc.  Alternatively you can easily make your own colour healing equipment more cheaply. 

Coloured Food
We all know that we should eat our greens.  We should also eat yellow, red and a good mixture of all other colours.  Purple and Indigo food helps calm, relaxation (grapes, blueberries, aubergine, beetroot) and with weight gain.  White foods cleanse and purify (cauliflower, onion, mushrooms).

Coloured Drink
How about making chakra cocktails?  With a juicer and a book on making juices and 'smoothies' you will have plenty of ideas.  For each chakra, you can make a vegetable or fruit cocktail with the colour of the chakra, mixed with milk, soya milk, rice milk, coconut milk or yoghurt for the benefit of all colours of the spectrum which are contained in white.

Dress for Health
The colours we wear contribute to our healing or to a change of mood.  Choose your clothes to:

• Balance your chakras and their related area of the body or mind
• Treat a particular ailment
• Boost your energy and vitality
• Enhance your mood
• Change your mood
• Alleviate an emotional or psychological state

Colour your Home
Colour your home, not only for visual pleasure but also for therapeutic reasons.   Clever colour combining creates a balanced and harmonious living environment.  Colour touches can successfully help tense emotions, depression, energy and motivation.