How to Use Chromotherapy to Calm Children

Chromotherapy is the use of colors and light to bring health and balance to your life. Chromotherapy can be used to cure many problems. You can use forms of chromotherapy to calm children down and help them sleep. Follow these steps to learn how color therapy can help your child calm down.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Prepare your child for bed by giving him a nice relaxing bath. Once you have laid him in bed light some candles. The candles should be blue or green. Blue has a calming effect and green promotes harmony.

2. Encourage your child to practice color breathing with you before bed. Have him picture a color in his mind and to focus on that color while breathing in through his nose and out through his mouth. Blue or green would be the best colors for him to visualize during color breathing. These colors will calm him so he can sleep better through the night.

3. Decorate his bedroom to help increase the calming effect of chromotherapy. Red would be a bad choice in a bedroom since it increases feelings of excitement. Blue or green will relax and calm him.

4. Use color breathing to help your child cope with a painful injury. Purple helps decrease sensitivity to pain and may reduce your child's reaction to a skinned knee.