Give 2013 a Colour!

Hey beautiful.

This video is LONG overdue. I’ve been meaning to blog about colour therapy for well over six months (not even kidding!), but as is often the case, the muse arrived at a pretty glorious, relevant time, and what better time to discuss the magic of colour and it’s healing properties than right now.

Watch this short video below, I’m sure you’ll love it. I can’t wait to hear your reactions when you realise what colours you’ve been drawn to, or what colours seem to be pushing their way into your life.

As promised, here’s some colour info to help you translate colour language.

Before I dive into the list, I just want to say this: I’m a huge fan of feeling the way something makes you feel. Those words I rattled off in the video about the colour orange, they’re not text book orange words; it’s how my body feels when I’m around orange. What’s beautiful is, often, whatever feeling a colour stirs up within us, ends up being the text book vocabulary anyway (yay for intuition!). What you’ll probably find, is once you’ve created the awareness around the predominant colours in your life at this moment (they’ll change, just as you do), and notice the way they make you feel, and after you dive in a little deeper, you’ll have many an a-ha when you recognise WHY it’s showing up.

For example. There’s shit loads of baby blue in your wardrobe. How did that happen?! Well, baby blue makes me feel calm and serene. Then you dive a little deeper, read a little literature, and you discover that by having blue in your life, you are more readily able to detach from stressful situations, see information more clearly, and express yourself more authentically (blue is the colour of the throat chakra).

What I love about colour therapy, is that with just a little knowledge about it (it doesn’t take much at all. In fact, when I say knowledge, I mean intuition) you’re able to prescribe yourself colours to make you feel better. It’s not rocket science. Plus, paracetamol or purple? I know which I’d prefer!

Feeling ‘blue’? Wear red lipstick. Bam!

Here we go.

RED. Wear red when you’re lacking enthusiasm and interest. When you feel fatigued. When you start to lose faith in the dream. When you feel insecure or anxious, or experiencing unwarranted fear. If you want to appear dynamic and bold, like I said above, wear red lippy, or a scarf. Accessorise, darling!

ORANGE. Wear orange if you feel unbalanced, or have just come out of a period of stress. When you feel bored, or feel as though time is dragging, or if you’re starting to resent change in familiar routines. Orange is great if you’re taking yourself a little too serious, or you’ve got limiting beliefs about your capacity to experience pleasure. It helps risolve blocked experiences, such as a lack in creativity.

YELLOW. Get amongst yellow when you’re confused, fearful, anxious, experiencing nervous and digestive disorders, have a weak and confused immune system, feeling burnt out and noticing that your memory is becoming poor. Yellow is also epic at uplifting lethargy and depression in a dull winter, and SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder).

GREEN. Green is helpful when you feel restricted or confined, when you need to let change happen (stop manipulating, girlfriend!) a need for new ideas and a new state of balance and when there’s a problem with personal relationships (over-dominance or subservience). Be careful though- negative can also brings on feelings of envy, jealousy and greed. Bottom line: feeling trapped? Go outside. Huzzah!

BLUE. Blue will help ease the flow of communication (write your speech notes on blue paper!). Jump on the blue train when you need to calm agitation or chaotic stress, and ease back into peace.

PURPLE (VIOLET). Put violet in your life when there is a need to rebalance life, a need to heal the body naturally, to use imagination in practical ways (again, hello intuition!), integrate new skills into your life, remove obstacles and calm hypersensitivity or energise lethargy.

Cool bananas! Well, I hope you found that useful. Share with me below your colour revelations, and don’t forget to share this with your buddies! Give 2013 a colour!

Catch you back here for one more cheeky post before the years out. Have a ripper day!

+++ I consulted the book: Crystal, Colour and Chakra Healing, by Sue + Simon Kelly for this blog post.

PS. COMING SOON…