I use colour therapy in conjunction with other areas of my therapies:

• In healing and strengthening, in Reiki, visualisation, and meditation
• Advising on the colour of clothing for going into different situations
• Wearing and surrounding yourself with different colours to improve how you feel
• How the energies of different room colours impact those in that space
• The impact on those working or living in different environments
• Using the colour of food and drink to help strengthen emotional and physically weak areas

History of colour therapy

Colour therapy has a long history. The ancient Egyptians used colour for healing diseases by putting patients in a room with coloured windows and allowing the sun to shine through coloured gems in the hue required for the specific healing. In India and China colour therapy was part of general medicine. The Chinese diagnosed illness by reading the colours of people’s pulse, complexion, body tissue, and organs.

In recent times we have recognised the importance of colour in the environment. I have advised on the colour choices for offices and hotels and am aware, when entering a room, if the energy is suitable for that environment.

The use of colour also helps with weak and vulnerable areas of your body. I use kinesiology to discover which chakra is in need of help then, by using the coloured energy required, we can balance that area. I have used this method with disparate groups of people from Nuclear engineers to accountants – rather cynical groups - and they are always amazed at the reaction and change of feeling after the exercise.

When we have discovered areas in need of help, we can also work on what foods would help your situation and what colour of clothing and colours in your environment would help you. Unconsciously we often know what colour we need.

I was running a course with hotel general managers and going through this exercise. One delegate showed up as very vulnerable in the heart area. He was wearing a green tie and kept hunting through the jelly babies for the green ones. I asked him why and he didn’t know. However, when we talked about why his heart area appeared in need of strengthening he explained to the group that his baby son was in hospital waiting for an operation for heart surgery. This had obviously had a great impact on his emotions, focusing on his heart. Subconsciously he had focused on one of the colours which is linked with the heart and was helping his own healing.

When you want to make a positive impression, using different colours in clothing can change the impact you make. This is not the same as looking at the colours which suit your skin tone, more a subtle but effective way of getting the reaction from others that you want.

One client's review:

‘I was very cynical about colour therapy when you suggested it might help my feelings about being insecure and worried about the future. However when we had done the exercise, the visualisation, and the breathing, I felt so much better. The surprise is that, as you suggested, I should continue with the imagery and colour breathing whenever I felt that feeling washing over me again – and it has worked. Strangely, now that I know that I have a means of controlling things I don’t feel the panic anymore because I know that I am in control. Thank you so much.’ Peter K.