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Bring out the crayons and re-colour your life. Colour therapist Meena Srivastav says it may just cure that niggling backache you’ve had for ages

COLOURS affect moods and emotions. Colour therapy uses this sensitivity to colour to identify and correct any imbalances in the body’s internal energy patterns that might lead to emotional or physical ill health. Therapists believe that each organ and body system has its own characteristic vibrational energy, and disorders can be healed by applying the colour of the corresponding vibrational energy, either to the whole body or to the organ concerned.

Blue Hot — Blue Cold
For example, the red spectrum affects our physical energies. It is stimulating and warming. Blues are cooling and cleansing, affecting our spiritual energies. The yellow shades serve to bridge them, affecting our mental energies. The three colours together provide opportunities for healing our body, mind and spirit.

Colour therapy can be traced to the ancient art of using colour and light to treat disease. Practitioners believe that by altering the colours that surround us, it is possible to enhance health and well-being.

The earliest forms of therapy included the use of coloured gems and sunlight. There is now a wide range of treatment options available and many practitioners combine the use of colour with other complementary therapies such as aromatherapy, massage, reflexology, crystals and yoga.

Spell VIBGYOR
What are the principles of colour therapy? The human body absorbs light that is made up of the entire spectrum of colours. Each colour in the spectrum has a frequency, wavelength and energy associated with it.

The colours we absorb can have an effect on the nervous system, the endocrine system and subsequently on the release of hormones and other organic substances within the human body. They can also have an effect on the more subtle energies of the ‘chakra’ system. This may affect our mental, emotional, psychological and physical states of health.

The symptoms of disease are a sign that there is a shortage of, or improper utilisation of colour and light in the cells and organs of the human body. This may be due to factors such as our lifestyle, environment, stress, or too much, or too little of a particular colour frequency in our energy system. This imbalance can be corrected by the selective use of colour frequencies. The forms by which the frequencies of colour can be transmitted to the body are numerous.