How to Have Colors Affect Your Everyday Life

Colors surround us every day. We're so used to seeing them that we forget they may have a subliminal effect on our bodies and minds. Color therapy (chromotherapy) is an alternative therapy that uses light and color to purportedly restore balance to the body's energy fields. Color choice may affect your mood, your appetite, your sex drive, your energy and so much more. Devotees use chromotherapy to treat mild depression and anxiety, suppress the appetite and even to relieve indigestion. Follow these steps to learn more.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer with Internet access
• Inexpensive color therapy tools, such as color cards, color healing charts, colored cloths or colored water bottles

1. Study the history of color therapy and learn how to incorporate its techniques into your everyday life by reading "Beginner's Guide to Color Therapy" or "Language of Color" (see Resources below).

2. Take a color test to see which colors you're attracted to and which colors you need more of in your life (see Resources below).

3. Bring everyday color therapy principles into your home using guidebooks like "Color Healing Home: Improve Your Well-Being and Your Home Using Color Therapy" and "Color Therapy at Home: Real-Life Solutions for Adding Color to Your Life" (see Resources below).

4. Think about what type of energy you need to get through the day, and select clothing that matches your vibrational impulses. Keep in mind, red clothing is great for times when you need quick energy bursts. Blue shades, in contrast, help to suppress the appetite and calm the nerves.

5. Nourish your body with foods that match your color needs. Pick yellow bananas to help you focus, red apples for energy and green vegetables for serenity.

6. Practice just a few minutes of color therapy relaxation techniques--like color breathing, visualization or color meditation--any time of the day.

7. Drink solarized water from colored drinking glasses once in the morning and once at night.

8. Make color affect your everyday life even more by choosing complementary therapies like sound therapy and aromatherapy.

9. Learn more color therapy techniques at the "Holistic online" Web site (see Resources below).

Tips & Warnings

• If you want to remember something, jot it down on a yellow piece of paper. Yellow stimulates the intellect and increases learning ability.
• If you have poor coordination, you may want to avoid wearing the color red.
• Color therapy is not a substitute for urgent medical care. If you have chronic pain, see a doctor immediately.
• Before you start any alternative medical technique, be aware that many have not been scientifically evaluated. Often, only limited information is available about their safety and effectiveness. Each state and each discipline has its own rules about how alternative medicine practitioners can be professionally licensed. If you decide to visit one, choose one licensed by a recognized national organization. Consult your primary health care provider about your decision first. Keep your doctor informed about the alternative medical technique you undertake.

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[yourbodycraves]

on 3/11/2009 interesting information.