Colour Therapy Meditation

Color therapy meditation is something you can practice yourself in quiet moments of deliberation for personal healing, shifting your mood or re-energizing.
Some schools of thought believe that different colors have an effect on the way you feel, think and heal yourself.  Color therapy meditation is used to heighten your susceptibility to the effects of the colors.

Color therapy meditation encompasses a number of different techniques for your consideration.  One technique involves sitting in quiet contemplation while focusing on a single color, whether on a small card, paint on a wall or an item you see.  Alternatively, you can use your imagination while in a state of deep rumination, picturing the color you choose enveloping and filling your whole body.  As each level of the seven chakras in the aura has a different color, some people like to use color therapy meditation techniques that include them all.

One color therapy meditation practitioner runs workshops on the subject, and has some interesting techniques for working with colors.  She will often have the group dye a cotton gown a color they choose and wear it for the entire weekend workshop, firmly believing that the most effective healing comes from the color you are most drawn to at the time.  There are also color therapy meditation cards that are used to assist therapists in their analysis of which remedy will work for each individual.  The use of colored lights is also very common to assist in healing through color therapy, and is believed to be effective on the mental, emotional and spiritual body simultaneously.

Color therapy meditation is not necessarily something that is achieved through deliberation meditation practices.  Schools have started to use particular colors in their décor, choosing a shade that relates to learning easily, memory and mental stimulation.  Rehabilitation centers, birthing suites, retreats, spas and fitness centers are all starting to choose the colors they use in relation to color therapy meditation information.

If you are in search of a cure for a particular ailment or issue, perhaps you should spend time sitting in reflection on the color that most attracts you right now.  Alternatively, you could look into the cure that would be used in color therapy meditation practices.  A few examples for consideration include those of violet, indigo, blue and green.  Violet is connected with self knowledge, spiritual awareness and the crown chakra, where as indigo is related to the third eye, self responsibility and intuition.  The color of the throat chakra is blue, so this color is used for matters relating to speech and communication.  Green is for the heart chakra, and will heal and enhance love for others, love for yourself and giving and receiving.

Yellow is used in color therapy meditation for matters relating to the solar plexus.  This includes self worth, personality and ego, and will encourage you to follow your path in life with confidence.  The sacral chakra, otherwise known as the lower abdomen, is orange, and represents respect, boundaries and creativity.  For matters relating to self awareness, survival and fear, the color red of the base chakra is commonly used.  Color therapy meditation is much more detailed and in depth in its analysis, so the above information can be used as a simple, basic guide.  Although each shade of color may vary, the basis for color therapy lies in the seven chakra colors being used for healing. 

Color therapy meditation also involves a type of subconscious art, where you paint whilst in a meditative state.  The idea is that when your conscious mind steps aside and you are in deep relaxation, your subconscious, creative side can dominate, bringing forth new depths of creativity.  In this process it would be seen by a color therapist who would recognize that meditation has brought out colors that you would otherwise not have chosen, giving them a deeper insight into your current issues.  Color therapy meditation is an excellent tool for any artist who is experiencing a block in their natural creative flow.

Using color in your daily meditation practices can certainly help you achieve deeper relaxation and healing.  Color therapy meditation works because each color has its own individual vibration that impacts your brain in different ways.  Studies are being conducted nowadays to further understand how color therapy works, but you only have to pay attention to your surroundings to realize for yourself the definite impact they have.

By Jack McCoy