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Colour Therapy & the Pink Study
Colour Therapy & the Pink Study
Have you noticed some days when you go to the wardrobe you choose one item of clothing in preference to another? Often it is because you are drawn to a colour and intuitively choose the colour you need to balance your energy for the day because colours can affect moods, emotions and our physiological processes.
Colour therapy is healing with colour and used to stimulate our body’s own healing process creating a balance in our body’s energy centres, known as Chakras. There are seven primary colours and each corresponds with the seven energy centres in our body.
There are variations of the primary colours that have therapeutic effects and a study on the colour pink by Alexander G. Schauss has shown to reduce aggressive behaviour.
The Pink Study
In 1979, Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D, experimented with the use of a particular shade of pink and its affect on mood and behavior. He called the color Baker-Miller Pink. It was found that this pink color was associated with a short-term decrease in aggression. Subsequent experiments also found that this shade of pink could also act as a natural appetite suppressant.
In 1979, Commander Miller and Warden Gene Baker at the U.S. Naval Correctional Center in Seattle painted the walls and ceiling of one admissions cells the color pink that Dr. Schauss would later name after them. After 156 days, they reported to the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Naval Personnel, Law Enforcement and Corrections Division, Washington, D.C. that “Since initiation of this procedure on March 1, 1979, there have been no incidents of erratic or hostile behavior during the initial phase of confinement.” 1.
Apart from your clothing there are many different way in which you can use colour to balance your energy system and here are a few that you can try.
Colour Lamps
- Lamps are a way of bring colour into you environment without having to redecorate or repaint your home
- A coloured lamp allows you to control coloured light and to also bring coloured light on to your body
Coloured Filters (Lighting Gels)
- More precision is gained with coloured gels that are used for stage lighting especially in theatre and music and they are cheaper to buy and easier to use than coloured glass or coloured lenses. Filters create colour by subtracting certain wavelengths of colour. Thus, a red filter absorbs blue and green, allowing only the red wavelength to pass. The process is subtractive, not additive, so the light source must emit a full spectrum. For more information on filters go to: http://www.rosco.com/us/filters/roscolux.asp
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Light Irradiation
- Coloured light can be used to flood the whole aura. This type of overall light therapy is known as light irradiation. By combining coloured light with the burning of essential oils, the energy in the room becomes more persuasive. A simple way to do this is to use an aromatherapy light bulb ring and a coloured light bulb.
Colour Compresses
- A selection of coloured flannels Warm colours for poultices or boils and cool colours for inflammation, headaches and swellings.
- Fill a basin with hot water and saturate the coloured flannel in the water leaving it there and adding a few drops of essential oil making sure it is well dispersed. Take the flannel from the bowl and squeeze out the excess water and place over the area to be treated. Repeat process
Irradiated Water
- To irradiate water, fill a jar or bottle with water. You can use coloured glass or simply wrap the it in a coloured cloth
- Set the jar in the morning sun. The sun activates the colour and transmits its vibrations into the water.
- Even a coloured stone or crystal can be used to energize the water.
- Energizing time is 1-3 hours in the morning sun. You can charge several bottles and store them for a few days.
Coloured Glasses (Spectacles)
- Coloured therapy glasses are a convenient way to incorporate therapy into your life. Simply out on a pair of these glasses and voila instant colour therapy.
- Red: Strength, pioneering spirit, courage, alertness, sense of power, vitality, overcoming negative thoughts
- Orange: Social confidence, cheerfulness, resourcefulness, enjoyable relationships
- Yellow: Concentration, mental clarity, optimism
- Green: Balance, peace, stress reduction, calmness, self control, hope
- Aqua (turquoise): Openness, confidence, relaxation, soothing feeling, sensitivity
- Blue: Mental relaxation, peace, calmness, vitality, creativity, clear communication
- Indigo: Serenity, imagination, accurate perception, understanding, strong deep sleep
- Violet: Inspiration, calm nerves, reduced irritation, creativity, beauty
- Magenta (Rose): Relaxing, soothing, gentle, balance of emotions (both over and under emotional)
- Baker –Miller Pink: Calming aggression, relaxation, stress release, appetite suppressant. http://www.colorglasses.com
NB: Do not wear while driving because they may change the colour perception of traffic lights etc.
Coloured Meditation Session
- Colour can be used to focus and still the mind for meditation
- Crystal can be used for mediation and placing a clear quartz over a filter on a light box produces a beautiful relaxing light
Morning Meditation
- Work with visualization in colour when you wish to relax
- Visualize a peaceful scene – woods and stream or beach using as much colour as possible
- Visualize sunrises and sunset for practicing visualizing colour
- Inhale each colour in turn
- Breath in filling your diaphragm while focusing on a colour
- Slowly exhale sending the colour throughout your body.
- Breathe in each colour three or four times taking note of how the colours affect you
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1. Reference
TherapyColor.com. Baker Miller Pink. The Pink Study. Accessed online 21st May, 2011.http://www.therapycolor.com/BakerMillerPink/
