Color | Benefits |
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Green |
Green is the color of Nature and the Earth. Balanced and harmonious in essence, it possesses a soothing influence upon both mind and body; it is neither relaxing nor astringent in its impact. Thus, green can be used for just about any condition in need of healing. Green brings psychological and emotional harmony and balance. It links with and stimulates the heart chakra and affects blood pressure and all heart conditions. It has both an energizing and a moderating or soothing effect. Green also helps restore hormonal imbalances, stimulates growth hormones and rejuvenation, cleans and purifies from germs, bacteria, and rotting material, harmonizes the digestion, stomach, liver, and gall bladder, has a healing effect on the kidneys, increases immunity, builds up muscles, bones, and tissues, stimulates inner peace, and strengthens the nervous system. Green brings peace, rest, hope, comfort, nurturing, calmness, and harmony. It also symbolizes interest in nature, plants, fellowmen, children and animals, health and healing, and natural and plain life. |
Blue |
Blue symbolizes cooling and electricity. An astringent color, blue cools down inflammation, fever, and high blood pressure, stops bleeding, relieves headaches, and calms strong emotions like anger, aggression, or hysteria. Blue brings tranquility and helps reverse irritation. Blue can be used for any ailments associated with speech, communication, or the throat. Blue links with and stimulates the throat chakra. Thus, it is excellent for laryngitis or inflammation of the larynx. The throat chakra is often referenced as the “power center” and “the greatest center in the body” because it is the primary center of expression and communication through speech. Cool and soothing, dreamy and magical, blue represents peace and rest. It is for people who keep a certain distance but give calm and practical help. They are faithful and loyal and have a sense of order, logic, and rational thinking. Dark blue is more severe and can be melancholic. Blue is also the color of truth. |
Indigo |
Indigo is a great bloodstream purifier and also helps with mental problems. It is a freeing and purifying agent and can be of great assistance in dealing with ailments of the eyes and ears. Indigo combines the deep blue of devotion with a trace of stabilizing and objective red. Indigo is cool, electric, and astringent, like blue. Indigo links with and stimulates the brow chakra (third eye) and controls the pineal gland. It also governs both physical and spiritual perception. |
Purple/Violet |
Purple is the color of transformation. Purple helps to heal melancholy, hysteria, delusions, and alcohol addiction and brings spiritual insights and renewal. Purple-hued colors slow down an over-active heart and stimulate the spleen and the white blood cells. Purple also aids in sleep and soothes mental and emotional stress. Leonardo da Vinci proclaimed that you can increase the power of meditation tenfold by meditating under gentle rays of violet, such as those found in Church windows. As such, purple is also the color for meditation, contemplation, mysticism, spirituality, and religious power. |
Red |
Red brings warmth, energy, and stimulation. Red is a good remedy for energy, fatigue, colds, chilly, and passive people. Red energizes heart and blood circulation, builds up the blood, and heightens a low blood pressure. Red links with and stimulates the root chakra at the base of the spine, causing the adrenal glands to release adrenaline, which results in greater strength. Red causes hemoglobin to multiply, thus increasing energy and raising body temperature. It is excellent for anemia and blood-related conditions. It also releases muscle stiffness and constrictions. Red is associated with passionate love, sex, great energy, impulse, action, stimulation, assertiveness and aggression, courage, strength and power, adventure, danger, warnings, revolt, and revolution. Thus, it suits temperamental and ambitious people with a need for personal freedom. |
Orange |
Orange is warm, cheering, and non-constricting. It has a freeing action upon the body and mind, relieving repressions. Orange shows new possibilities and other options in life. It stimulates creative thinking and enthusiasm and helps assimilate new ideas. It is also helpful in dealing with excess sexual expression. Orange links profoundly with the sacral chakra, stimulating the lungs, respiration, and digestion. Orange represents the warmth of the fire. It brings even more energy than yellow, celebration and great abundance, comfort, enjoyment of the senses. |
Yellow |
Yellow helps strengthen the nerves and the mind. It helps awaken mental inspiration and stimulates a higher mentality. Thus, it is an excellent color for nervous or nerve-related conditions or ailments. It also energizes the muscles. Yellow can be used for conditions of the stomach, liver, and intestines. It speeds up digestion and assimilation. It helps the pores of the skin and aids scarred tissue in healing itself. Yellow also represents cheerfulness, curiosity, alternation, flexibility, progress, amusement, contact through traveling and communication, learning, and practical knowledge. |