Color Therapy Healing – Colors that will Heal Your Body & Mind

Color Therapy is an alternative therapy of healing through the sense of sight. Color therapy balances the doshas (mentally or psychically) through the sense of sight. Colors are absorbed primarily through the eyes and secondarily through the skin. It is a vital part of subtle mental and life-force nutrition as it energizes the nerves (which stimulate the mind). Besides absorbing colors, the mind and body produce them as well, adding the powers of digestion.

Tejas: Tejas means mental fire, a psychological energy of mind that, is the major domain that color therapy affects most. Bright colors increase Tejas, and dark colors reduce it. However, if colors are too bright, Tejas becomes burnt out, and disharmonious or clashing colors derange Tejas. So tejas can be balanced by the right use of colors. To increase Tejas, one meditates on a ghee flame or golden light. White or deep blue color reduces excess Tejas, and green balances it.

Just as the choice of foods either balances or deranges the body’s health, one’s choice of colors acts similarly. Colors provide emotional strength and creativity. If misused, colors can cause a disturbance or depression (i.e., bright colors stimulate emotions and energy, dark colors suppress emotions and reduce energy—although they can also calm certain individuals).

Healing psychological diseases is greatly assisted through color therapy. Physically, color stimulates digestion, circulation, improves vitality, increases overall physical activity and most of all, energizes blood (which is also known as Ranjak Pitta in Ayurveda). However, if colors inappropriate for the constitution are used, they impair the circulation, dull the appetite, enhance toxins in the blood, or cause mental hyperactivity. Colors act like gems; they strengthen the aura and astral body. This is the realm of pure color and is suitable for subtle or spiritual healing.

Applied Color Therapy

The use of colors in one’s daily life adds subconscious balance and peace of mind. Below are various methods of how color therapy is used.

• Use colored lamps, either by placing the colored glass over light bulbs or by buying colored bulbs.
• Use soft lights instead of fluorescent or neon.
• Use full-spectrum lights in the winter (when there is less sunlight) to alleviate depression.
• Use mild and harmonious shades.
• Bathe the whole body or specific parts with various colored lights. For example, use dark blue light for inflammation, infection, or rheumatoid arthritis on the hands (use smaller bulbs for application on specific sites).
• Choose the colors of your surroundings— clothes, home furnishings, car, office, bedroom—with care.
• Note exposure to colors in nature: sky blue, ocean blue/green/ turquoise, white snow or moonlight, plush green trees, shrubs, and grass; colorful flowers; meditate on colorful flowers such as a white lily, red rose or hibiscus, yellow chrysanthemum, or sunflower, blue iris.
• Meditate on stained glass, art, mandalas.
• Visualize colors in your mind

                                                         Ayurveda Balance By Color Therapy