Beginners Uplifting Color Therapy For Self Empowerment

Use color to impact your mood and influence others. 

This lecture comes from Kristen's larger, in-depth course Life Hack With Color Psychology: Increase Your Influence. Start with learning how color can dramatically influence yourself and those around you, specifically with choosing colors to wear. 

Those practicing color therapy and color healing also choose specific colors to wear to help bring more balance to their spiritual life, feel more energized or at peace, and to help heal and protect against illness.

We all need to become aware and discover our own language when it comes to color. Dare to try something new and go out with it on and see how it feels. Too often we get stuck in a rut, we develop "a look" and that is that. Expand and create a new positive image with the passion and wonder of color.

We believe you should leave no stone unturned. That means, take care of your BODY by giving it healthy food, rest/sleep, water, and exercise. Obviously you should take the advice of your doctor for specific medical problems and perhaps also couple those treatments with alternative therapies (vitamins, supplements, acupuncture, massage/Reiki, etc.)

Take care of your MIND. Meditate and ensure you are not burning out or causing health problems with panic or worry.  Use the power of your conscious and sub conscious mind to clear negative beliefs and habits and to activate your mind's ability to influence the body in positive ways. You might try also combining color therapy with free guided healing meditations, hypnotherapy, or binaural beats (music set to specific healing frequencies). Many free resources like these are available online via YouTube.

Take care of your SPIRIT. Pray or meditate or take a walk in nature (or visualize a healing walk in nature) to connect with the larger world and universe.

Leave no stone unturned, and you should start feeling better very soon.

Color therapy  and healing has been used for thousands of years across many cultures and is widely practiced today. This lesson is a very brief introduction to the world of color and its applications and uses around the world throughout history. 

Whether you are most interested in the scientifically proven effects of color on human physiology and psychology or the more spiritual and religious application of color, start here. Please also have a look at all the additional resources and links throughout the course for further study.

Seven chakras, seven colours, seven rays of wisdom,... In order to manifest everything that you desire, you must learn how to live in harmony with the bigger picture and find your own place as a member of the human family, there are no shortcuts. That is why skipping straight to abundance as many have done will leave you wanting and wondering where it all went awry. We have as a matter of course to chart as a steppingstone, in this course we are using colour as a descriptor to apply to the chakra system we commonly find. Please note there are many more chakras than this. Be open to discovering more than you came for.

Faith, base, muladhara, red. Understand that you are part of a greater plan in this matrix of your time on our Earth mother

Surrender, sacral, svadistana, orange. Find the ultimate liberation and peace through the joy of surrender.

Service, solar plexus, manipuri, yellow. Create heaven on earth through your own good works.

Abundance, heart, anahata. green. Attract joy and fulfillment through gratitude

Forgiveness, throat, visshudda, blue. Release anger and resentment

Overcome obstacles, third eye, ajni, indigo. Know that you can master temptation

Love, crown, sahasraha, violet. Tap into the greatest power of all

Color therapy comes in many forms . . .

• Colored light
• Color acupuncture
• Breathing color
• Creating art
• Visualizing colors
• Drinking water energized by certain colors
• Wearing colors
• Creating an environment with certain colors
• Eating foods of different colors

Each form can affect you and may be used in combination with other forms.  We live in a time and age where we are fortunate to have both the wonders of modern medical science as well as alternative medicine and ancient healing wisdom used for for thousands of years by our ancestors.

This lesson will talk about what the main seven colors of the rainbow bring to the table in terms of healing potential.

Obviously we do not recommend color therapy as the ONLY treatment for healing ailments, especially serious or life-threatening ones. However our goal is to give you these powerful color tools that you can use in creating a happier and healthier mind, body, and spirit in combination with traditional and alternative medicine and practices.

Please see the additional resources and links for more information.

Join me in this meditation that comes from my yoga practice. We breathe into and heal the many aspects of our heart. Drawing in the gentle colour green as we let go and fill ourselves with the light of the universe. Color heals!

More Ways to Use Colors For Healing and Therapy Cheat Sheet

Here are a few more key points to remember about particular colors and how you can use color visualizations to bring each color’s power into your own life.

For more in-depth explanations and meditation/visualization exercises have a look at the excellent book, Your Life in Color by the amazing psychic and color intuitive Dougall Fraser. 

This is a bare bones mini cheat sheet based on Mr. Fraser’s own color therapy and intuitive work with thousands of clients around the world. (*He is the first to admit that you may notice that his interpretations of specific colors differ slightly with the usual meanings attributed to the chakra colors, etc.) 

For best results, read his book for yourself and use his color interpretations together with the other color information and interpretations from researchers, historians, and mystics detailed throughout this course.

Together during this section we will explore food and the rainbow of colorful food that resonate with our chakras. 

The best way I can describe how the color feeds and feels is to offer you this Yukti number 25 (yoga meditation practice) from the ancient Vijnana Bhairava Tantra body of work as translated by Lorin Roche. This oft translated 5000 year old ancient Indian text on meditation is considered by many as the last word on meditation. They leave me spellbound.If you find yourself captivated them Amazon have the book in Kindle and paperback. It is called "The Radiant Sutra: 112 Gateways To The Yoga of Wonder and Delight" by Lorin Roche.

Radiant One,

The essence of life carries on its play

Through pulsing rhythm

Of outward and inward movement.

This is the ceaseless throb, the rhythm of life

Terrifying in its eternity, exquisite in its constancy.

The inhalation, the return movement of breath,

Sustains life.

The outgoing breath

Purifies life.

These are the two poles

Between which respiration goes on unceasingly.

Between them is every delight you could desire.

Even when the senses are turned outward,

Your attention on the external world.

Attend also to the inner throb,

The pulsing of the creative impulse within you.

(a yukti from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra)

This is a mini case study to help you take what you are learning and put it to practical use. Begin using the power of color together with the medicinal benefits of food to help ward off and fight the common cold.

We can all see auras to some degree. There is no mystery for those with eyes to see. We can all acquire this skill with a little patience and curiosity. It is not accident nor miracle that nearly everyone (including children) sees a similar thing - it is simply an integral part of the vibration of nature. 

Everything in the Universe has a vibration. Every atom, every cell vibrates with consciousness, even our thoughts are just vibrations.

This lecture gives you an easy entry into your birth-rite - your ability to see, to see for the first time in many a long year gone. Dare to see, for in seeing, far more will be revealed.

"I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to comprehend words of wounding without these words becoming the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of the stars" Terry Tempest Williams.

So after we have practiced looking at auras and are able to first see the energy field surrounding all living things, the next step is starting to see the colors embedded in them. 

In this lesson I'll explain the general meaning of each major color and what they mean when seen in a human aura. Please note that there are many variations on tone and intensity of colors and that most auras contain a combination of colors. 

See the extra resources to learn more about this fascinating subject.

We are multi faceted beings of light. 

Did you know that each level of the aura has its own seven chakras? These are nested within the other auric chakras. As each layer extends outwards, the chakras vibrate at higher rates. Thus the chakras within your etheric body will be vibrating at a much lower frequency then the chakras within the causal body. Thus your base chakra will have seven major chakras, all vibrating at different frequencies. 

It is in this way, energy can be transmuted between all bodies to all chakras. 

NB: There are many chakras, for this course however we will only focus on the seven that run up and down the central channel "Sushuma". If you are interested in chakras take a peek at my other courses! 

Welcome, do you have a lazy dream that has been hanging around you. That one that nags you every now and again? Well it is time to act on it!. 

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know" Pema Chodron

“To see things in the seed, that is genius.” Lao Tsu. When you dare to follow your hearts desire you will be able to unleash your creative capacity for living an authentic intuitive life. 

Join me as we use the visualisation of a seed growing into full bloom, use it to bring your lazy dreams into a conscious reality. 

Everything that is the reality of the flower is contained in the seed. All that you are is contained in that spark inside you, a feeling that arises from your core. Find the seed. Feed the dream. Work the thoughts into a reality. It is the heart. It is you.

You are the sky, everything else is just weather.

"Drop your maps and listen to your lostness like a sacred calling into Presence, here where the old ways are crumbling and you might be tempted to burn down your whole house. Ask instead for an introduction to that which endures.This place without a foothold is the province of grace. It is the questing field, most responsive to magic and fluent in myth. Here, where there is nothing left to lose, sing out of necessity that your ragged heart be heard. Send out your holy signal and listen for the echo back" Toko-Pa

Chakras are our life force or vital energy. Some call them “the spinning wheels of light" located all over your body. Although we have thousands of them, but there are seven major chakras located along our spine from the base to just above our head that we need to focus on. The role of the chakra system is to be able to regulate the flow of our energy force or what we commonly known as aura. Once our energy force is blocked due to the many challenges and emotional roller coaster we find ourselves in, it is not surprising that we get sick – not only physically, mentally, but also emotionally.

The chakras are wheel-like vortices of energy which connect the physical body to its subtle energetic counterparts. In this article we'll take a look at the seven main chakras, which play a key role in energy reception and transmutation. 

The chakra system has been extensively studied and described in Eastern systems of philosophy and medicine, although Western science remains skeptical their very existence. Nonetheless, awareness of the body as an energy system is increasing among forward-thinking scientists, and the chakras along with meditation continue to play an important role in a variety of holistic healing disciplines.

Together during this section we will explore the colours that resonate with our chakras and how to do a mini chakra cleanse by visualising the colours spinning in unison with our chakras, the colour starts as a light hue and becomes it pure colour as the residues and heavy energies are released from the chakra. We will do the for the main seven chakras that run up and downs the central channel sushuma. 

The best way I can describe how the color of life dreams and feels is to offer you this Yukti number 25 (yoga meditation practice) from the ancient Vijnana Bhairava Tantra body of work as translated by Lorin Roche. This oft translated 5000 year old ancient Indian text on meditation is considered by many as the last word on meditation. They leave me spellbound.If you find yourself captivated them Amazon have the book in Kindle and paperback. It is called "The Radiant Sutra: 112 Gateways To The Yoga of Wonder and Delight" by Lorin Roche.

Radiant One,

The essence of life carries on its play

Through pulsing rhythm

Of outward and inward movement.

This is the ceaseless throb, the rhythm of life

Terrifying in its eternity, exquisite in its constancy.

The inhalation, the return movement of breath,

Sustains life.

The outgoing breath

Purifies life.

These are the two poles

Between which respiration goes on unceasingly.

Between them is every delight you could desire.

Even when the senses are turned outward,

Your attention on the external world.

Attend also to the inner throb,

The pulsing of the creative impulse within you.

(a yukti from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra)

This list will be added to as time goes by so please check back.

"At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation" Michael Meade.

Why not continue exploring color by making something new today? Here are some of Kristen's top free tools you can use to help you get started  making professional-looking graphics, illustrations, animations, and  more. It's easier than you think. Be up and  running in under 10 minutes. [This lecture comes from Kristen's full course,  Skyrocket Your Creativity: 7 Easy Ways.]

It has been our honour to take you through our course offering. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions as we genuinely love to hear from you. An honest course review from you would be a great gift to us. Plus do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to see any additions or improvements to our color offering.

In love and light

Sharon & Kristen

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