Guide To Colour Therapy

What Is Colour Therapy?

People are affected physically and psychologicaly by exposure to different colours. For example, Blue is a calming colour, but Red is stimulating, speeding up the circulation and raising blood pressure. The effect is the same even if the recipient cannot see. Colour is able to effect peoples mood, temperature perception and sense of time. It can be used to affect responses eg. in hospital recovery rooms, prisons and in the workplace. This is how colour therapists work.

Who Can Colour Therapy Help?

Colour therapists will treat any disorder, be it physical or emotional. The treatment is always offered as a compliment to conventional medicine, not as an alternative to it. It is offered as an additional means of well being and sufferers of conditions such as Migrane, Eczema, Insomnia, Stress, High blood pressure and Arthritis, to name just a few, are said to benefit.

What Does Colour Therapy Involve?

On the first consultation, the practitioner will take a detailed history of your medical history, lifestyle, diet, colour preferences and so on. As an aid to deciding on a treatment, he/she may dowse with a pendulum along the length of the spine. Each vertebrae is said to relate to an organ or part of the body, and to one of the 8 colours of the spectrum. They will then compile a detailed chart and use it to decide on what colours they will use for the treatment. A instrument will be used that beams coloured light onto the patient through different shapes. The light may be directed at the whole body or just at specific areas, depending on the treatment decided upon. The therapist will explain to the patient, the importance of the different colours that are used in the treatments.