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.
