Color Therapy for your Winter Health
Winter Months can make you S.A.D. ! Color Therapy can Help!
Shorter days and cloudy cause many people including women over 45, experience depressive moods. A wonderful natural method to counteract seasonal depression is by utilizing color therapy. Color can help us get through the winter months as it is a proven powerful mood changing tool. Whether we are discussing people with S.A.D (Seasonal Affective Disorder or helping babies heal their jaundice, color provides the body with tools to balance and heal, with a large body of research to back up this claim.
Tips for Using Color Therapy to improve your Outlook:
ChicagoHealers.com Practitioner Karen Erickson, Certified Color Therapist, offers the following tips for color therapy to battle the winter blues:
- COLORS FROM NATURE: Discover colors right from Mother Nature, which she produces in the fall to address health issues. Think of combining vibrant shades of red, green, yellow and orange to chase away your winter blues!
- BRIGHTS: Bright colors and tones can pick you up and lend you increased energy and passion, while dull and darker color and tones can lead to depression. Pastel colors often have a calming effect.
- Yellow is especially good for the winter time of year as a color for therapy–think sunflower yellow! A sunflower yellow is cheery, happy-go-lucky, up, improves self-worth, and provides clear thinking. Yellow can cheer you immediately!
- Green, as a color, assist in feelings of peace and stress reduction. Leaving you in harmony and experiencing renewal.
- Orange colors will make you feel joyful and playful. Surrounding yourself with orange will keep you creative and energetic.
- It’s no surprise that you will experience vigor, assertiveness, and vitality when you have Red in your day. But you can also experience strength and passion from the color Red.
- So how can you get some color into your life?
- Wear bright clothes and lingerie
- Splashes of Paint in your home or at office
- Accent with color through pillows, artwork, tribal rugs, various window treatments
- Work som full spectrum lighting into your room, these bulbs emit all the colors of the sun (See related blog on an alarm clock that provides full spectrum lighting–Click Here).
- Make sure your foods focus on the bright colors too–lots of reds, yellows, oranges and greens
- Meditate and visualize in bright colors every day
- You can even go high tech and wear color therapy glasses, or go low tech and just stare swatches of single colored paper or swatches of fabric to take in the color
- A color therapist can help you determine your best colors, as well as provide color therapy treatments with special colored lights.
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Wow I didn’t know about this. Very useful information. I think now I need to study color therapy. Thanks for sharing with us.
Anything to help get past S.A.D
Great advice!
Thanks, I really need to study the colors as I am trying to figure out what colors to use in my bedroom & kitchen, here you’ve given me some ideas on not just the look of a color, but the feelings & emotions they can invoke. Thanks, very interesting.
Thank you for this interesting post and good ideas.
Color therapy sounds great. Perfect way to battle winter blues.
Given the extra gloominess this year, this sounds like something I’ll be incorporating into my self care. Extra tomato sauce on my carrot spirals today… red and orange!
This is interesting. My son has a light hanging on his wall and he can change it to basically any color he wants. He always leaves it on blue & i wondered if it was because its a calming color for him…
Never heard of such color therapy but it looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the info sounds good