What is Colour Therapy?

Colour Therapy is a natural therapy that is based on healing power of wavelengths produced by colours. Each colour is simply light of specific wavelengths, thus each colour has its own particular wavelength and energy. Colour Therapy is very ancient healing technique, that has been used thousands of years ago by the ancient cultures of Egypt, India and China.

The energy relating to each of the seven spectrum colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, resonates with the energy of each of the seven main chakras/energy centres of the body. If you can imagine the chakras as a set of cogs/wheels, they are rather like the workings of a clock or an engine; each cog/wheel needs to move smoothly for the clock/engine to work properly. Thus good health and wellbeing is achieved by a balance of all these energies. Balance of the energy in each of the body’s chakras is very important for health and wellbeing. Colour therapy can help to re-balance and/or stimulate these energies by applying the appropriate colour to the body and therefore re-balance our chakras.

Red relates to the base chakra, orange the sacral chakra, yellow the solar plexus chakra, green the heart chakra, blue the throat chakra, indigo the brow chakra (sometimes referred to as the third eye) and violet relates to the crown chakra.

Colour is absorbed by the eyes, skin, skull our ‘magnetic energy field’ or aura and the energy of colour affects us on all levels, that is to say, physical, spiritual and emotional. Every cell in the body needs light energy – thus colour energy has widespread effects on the whole body. There are many different ways of giving colour, including; Solarized Water, Light boxes/lamps with colour filters, colour silks and hands on healing using colour.

Colour therapy can be perceived as healing on a physical level, however there are deeper issues around the colours on the psychological and spiritual levels. As you might already know, our wellbeing is not purely a physical issue. We are body, mind and spirit and none of these areas function entirely alone; each has an effect upon the other. Fortunately, more and more health practitioners (both orthodox and natural therapists) are now treating patients in an holistic approach.

This is why Colour Therapy can be very helpful since colour addresses all levels of our being. Colour therapy is safe to use alone or alongside any other therapy whether orthodox medicine or another complementary therapy and is safe and helpful for adults, children and animals too.