Everywhere you look there is color. Color touches our lives everyday in so many ways: the colors we choose for our clothing; colors in a room; the color of the foods we consume; colors used in advertising, etc.
Color have an influence on our emotions, our actions, our health and how we respond to people, things and ideas. The effects of color on our moods, health, and way of thinking have been studied by scientists for years. Your preference for one color over another is related to the way that color makes you feel. Specific colors can also have an effect on specific diseases.
How is it that color has such an effect on us? Each color has a certain energy (or vibration or frequency). When the energy of a color enters our bodies, it stimulates the pituitary and pineal glands in the brain. This creates the production of certain hormones, which in turn affect a variety of physiological processes. This explains why color has been found to have such a direct influence on our thoughts, moods, and behavior. Color even has an effect on blind people, because color is sensed as energy vibrations created within the body.
The vibration of each color also affects our subtle energy systems---the aura and the charkas (energy centers of the body).
Too much red: Anger, agitation, overbearing, demanding, unnerved, even violent.
Too little red: Lazy, tired, cautious, whiny and manipulative.
How does color effect us?
Why do you feel comfortable and relaxed in one room, but hyper and anxious in another? Why do you choose to wear certain clothing depending on how you feel on a particular day? Why are you attracted to certain advertisements and not to others? Why do you feel attracted to certain colors and not to others? The answers to all of these questions pertain to the colors involved and how these colors affect us on a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level.
How Can We Use Color in our Lives?
There are many ways that you can use the effects of color to benefit you in your daily life. Here are just a few examples:
Basic Colors and Their Properties:
Red: Physical energy, passion, desire, action, confidence, courage, warming, stability, security.
Too much orange: Self-centered, disregarding the needs of others, too much pride, and arrogance.
Too little orange: Lack of motivation, lack of self esteem, isolation, rebelliousness.
Orange: Joy, happiness, courageous, successful, outgoing, cheerful, enthusiastic, creative.
Too much yellow: Unable to focus, unable to complete one task at a time, becoming critical and/or demanding.
Too little yellow: Feelings of isolation, low self esteem, lack courage to try new things, insecurity, depression, rigidity in thinking, lack of creativity.
Yellow: Wisdom, intellect, clear thinking, creative energy, happiness, optimism, expression, friendly.
Too much green: Lethargy, laziness, slowness, lack of growth, eventually leads to becoming moody and depressed.
Too little green: Apathy, fear rejection, deceit, envious.
Green: Growth, renewal, peace and harmony, healing, hope, optimism, freedom, balance, prosperity and abundance.
Too much blue: Melancholy, negative, arrogant, self-righteous, and self-centered.
Too little blue: Depressed, timid, manipulative, unreliable, stubborn, suspicious and resistant to change.
Blue: Intuition, inspiration, sincerity, peace, joy, patience, tranquility, faith in oneself and trust in others.
Too much violet: Irritability, impatience, and arrogance.
Too little violet: Feeling powerless, negative and apathetic, inability to change.
Violet: Spirituality, spiritual connection and fulfillment, transformation, meditation, power, success.
Too much white: Drained, lifeless.
Too little white: Susceptible to outside influences, fear, being stuck.
White: Purity, innocence, truth, new beginnings, protection.
Too much gold: Self-centered, seeking personal power.
Too little gold: Selfish, demanding, mean-spirited.
Gold: Illumination, understanding, compassion, self-esteem, courage, passion, wisdom, prosperity, abundance.