Color Energy Explained Part 1 - a forgotten gift of nature

People have always been fascinated by nature's color diversity. Since ever, we feel comfortable with certain colors, while others can evoke experiences like a feeling of anxiety.

Absorbing of color energy optically:

Through our physical body with the eye, which only recognizes three different colors: red, green and blue. Our brain mixes these into a gigantic palette of colors, returns the recognized values to the eye and lets us perceive blue not only as blue but as color in all its shades.

Within the limbic system, color impressions are recorded and transformed into a wide variety of emotions.

While European conventional medicine is still relatively skeptical if not even hostile towards color therapy, conventional medicine in the USA is open-minded and has already achieved considerable treatment success.

Absorbing color energy in plants
through the skin and the digestive system:

Yes, this is an important aspect of our daily use of color energy! Colors in plants have a huge impact not only on our physical body. A lot of people are not aware, that pure plant color in food, cosmetic products or even perfumes influences mood, feelings in general or even our health condition.

The discovery of colors - the history of color therapy. Very early civilizations knew sunlight as the only remedy and put their sick in the sun. Aztecs, Mayans, the ancient Chinese and Egyptians practized sun cults for a reason. Something divine was ascribed to the sun.

Later, colors were assigned to the different gods because it was recognized that colors also had specific effects. In ancient Greece, for example, green stood for Aphrodite, yellow for Apollo, and blue for Zeus. At that time priests were also healers, which is why they used colors painted directly to the skin for therapy.

In Egypt, sophisticated color temples were built in which each of the seven rooms was painted in a different color.
Depending on the nature of the symptoms, patients could now be brought to the various rooms to take a color bath.

The ancient Chinese painted the skin of intestinal patients with yellow and put them in a yellow room. Epileptics were placed on violet painted floors in violet rooms. Scarlet patients were wrapped completely in red cloths.

The Chinese also assigned the colors to different emotional impressions. Red was the color of joy, white the color of sorrow and black the color of fear.

In the Post-Christian Period, color therapy in Europe was almost completely forgotten. Only so-called "folk medicine" adhered to the old traditions of our ancestors.

In 1666 the mathematician and physicist Isaak Newton discovered the spectral colors and established the emission theory of light. He directed sunrays through a small opening into a darkened room. He now placed a prism of glass in the beam of rays and the sunbeam was deflected. The sunbeam now appeared as an elongated band that is red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue and purple.

Von Goethe was the first in European culture to study colors and their effect on the human psyche. He was very sceptical about Newton's findings and teachings. In 1810 he published his book on the theory of colors. He created his color circle. This color circle consists of the three primary colors blue, red and yellow as well as their associated mixed colors violet, orange and green.

If we assign these colors to the eastern symbolism, the bright, warm and active colors orange and yellow correspond to the yang, the plus side, the dark, cool and passive colors violet and blue to the yin area, the minus side.

Von Goethe called the colors on the plus side lively, active and ambitious. The colors on the negative side, on the other hand, arouse a calm, soft, yearning sensation; they thus appear more introverted. Red stands in between and can, depending on the intensity of coloring, belong to both areas. Green is a neutral color, which is to be regarded as a balancing, calm center of all colors. Goethe assigned different states of excitement to the two color groups; for example, he called violet the color of creative restlessness.

For him (and me), colors are very real energies.

Edwin D. Babbit is considered the founder of modern color therapy. In 1878 he wrote a work on "The Principles of Light and Color", in which he describes how and where colors can be used as therapeutic options. His method has been astonishingly successful, which is why the topic has gained popularity.

The broad interest in color therapy today is mainly due to the German alternative practitioner Heinz Schiegl, who published a book entitled "Color Therapy" in 1979. Schiegl not only described indications for self-treatment but also included color filters in his book, which can be attached to any desk or bedside lamp with little effort.

Peter Mandel, the founder of medical Kirlian photography, was also important for color therapy. He was inspired from Goethe's color circle and assigned three complementary color pairs to the three oscillation patterns of Kirlian.

This is the first part of a planned series on color energy explaining psychological as well as important energetic effects on us. I plan also to explain how we can use color energy derived from plants for changing our mood or support health in a very natural way.

Please give me feedback, if my research and studies on color energy is something you are interested in.

Thank you very much for reading!

To be continued in part 2 ...

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