Colour is so deeply imbedded in our psyche that it's like the air that we breath… we don't notice the power, until it is gone. Can you imagine seeing the world in monochrome? Do you feel a sudden unmistakable sinking feeling at the thought of no colour in your life?

The intimate relationship we have with colour is so intrinsic that initially people usually dismiss the idea that our responses to given colours reveal our emotional and spiritual states.

We live with all the colours around us at all times. Light itself, as many know, is all colours. When we look in wonder at a Rainbow, we are witnessing the breaking down of pure light and revealing itself across the visible light spectrum.

Every living thing on the planet is not just affected by light, but is dependant on it.

We need sunlight for the pineal gland to function properly. Its job of regulating hormones is crucial to our wellbeing.

The effect of exposure to pure red light is stimulating. There is an increase in heart rate, respiration and blood pressure. Red light has an exciting effect on the nervous system. Exposure to pure blue light has the opposite effect: lowering of the heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure.

Blind people can sense colour through touch because each colour has a separate vibrational level.

Each colour on the complete visible light spectrum from infra red through to ultra violet transmits on a separate frequency and our bodies can feel these subtle energies.

Blind people can sense colour through touch because each colour has a separate vibrational level. Musicians, notably, Jimi Hendrix, heard music in colour.

Holistic and Energy therapists work with these energies all the time as part of their treatments. The whole essence of holistics and energy treatments is to create balance and harmony in the body which will then free the body to heal itself.

Chakras

These energies are felt throughout the body but the main meridian line runs through the centre of the body from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.

These Chakras (energy points) break the full light spectrum into separate colours as follows: Red, at the base (survival); orange, at the sacrum (creativity); yellow, at the solar plexus (joy); green, at the heart (harmony); blue, at the throat (communication); indigo, at the forehead (intuition) and violet, at the crown (enlightenment). Such insight has been worked with in the East for hundreds of years.

During the first half of the 20th century Dr. Max Lüscher, a Swiss scientist, realised how deep and subtle our relationship with colour is. He researched colours and their effects on the human
mind and emotions and created the Lüscher-Colour-Diagnostic test in 1947.