Color
Healing, Light Therapy and Chromotherapy are all terms
used interchangeably with Color Therapy, which is a
set of principles used to create harmonious color and
color combinations for healing. This form of energy
medicine is based on the belief that the human body
is composed of energy fields. When the energy is properly
distributed and circulating freely, the body is healthy.
Imbalances or abnormal amounts of energy are believed
to indicate an excess or deficency. Color is energy.
The energy vibration of that color is what you need,
in the moment, in order to improve and balance your
physical and emotional state.
Using the seven colours of the spectrum, Colour Therapy
aims to balance and enhance our body's energy centres
/ Chakras and also to help stimulate our body's own
healing process. Colour Therapy uses colour to re-balance
the Chakras (our energy centres) that have become depleted
of energy.
Colors affect moods and emotions. Color therapy uses
this sensitivity to color 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 color of the corresponding vibrational
energy, either to the whole body or to the organ concerned.
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 colors together provide opportunities for
healing our body, mind, and spirit.
In 1942, the Russian scientists have demonstrated that
red light stimulates the sympathetic nervous system,
while white and blue light stimulate the parasympathetic
nervous system. Other experiments revealed that certain
colors stimulate hormone production, while other colors
inhibit it. Specific colors can also have an effect
on specific diseases. Symptoms of acute eruptive diseases
such as smallpox and measles were relieved when patients
were put in a room with red windows. Melancholiacs also
recovered after a few hours in such rooms. Pain and
depression was found to respond well to therapy using
flashing bright lights and colored lights. These treatments
have been shown to alter neurochemical production in
the brain and this may account for their positive effects.
Scientists now believe that the brain has specific responses
to different frequencies of flashing light and the different
frequencies of various colors. They point out that sleep
problems can often be cured in one day by this method.
Mood alteration takes a little longer - about one to
two weeks of treatments.
