Colors are one of the most exciting experiences in life. I love them and resonate with them just as I do the emotions. Is it any wonder that the two are so intimate? Color directly affects the emotions. Color both reflects the current state of your emotions, as well as being something that you can use to improve or change your emotions. The color that you choose to wear either reflects your current state of being or it reflects the color that you need.
People who wear black frequently are reflecting the somber feeling of no color. No color, no emotions. Imagine dramatically feeling the effect of the countryside full of women dressed in black as I did recently in Greece. Heavy... This is depression, not real sadness. See my answer on depression for more information about the difference. Colors have certain wavelengths, which can be felt and experienced. They effect you even if you don't know it!
The colors that you wear affect you much more than they affect the people around you. Of course they also affect anyone who comes in contact with you, but you are the one saturated with the color all day! I pick and refuse items from my environment totally based on its color. I sometimes chose the clothes I wear based on the color I need for the day. So you can consciously use color to give yourself a certain vibration, which will help you feel better.
Color, sound and emotions are all vibrations. Emotions are literally energy in motion, which means that they are meant to move and flow. This is the reason feeling your real feelings is the fastest way to get your energy in motion. And as most of you know, flowing energy is exactly what creates health in the cells of your body. So the fastest way to create good health is to feel your real feelings. The fastest way to create disease is to inhibit your emotions.
If you could see your emotions, you would see colors. Your emotions are what give color to your life. You need all the colors to be healthy and balanced. Any colors that are missing reflect a problem in your system. Any color that you reject indicates emotions that you are rejecting. The emotions that you are rejecting indicate the parts of yourself that you cannot accept and love. Listen to my tape, Feelings. the challenge of our species, for concrete help getting into your real feelings. It will also help you know the difference between "defensive feelings," (obsessive thoughts) vs. real feelings, which are energy in motion.
Notice the colors that you do not like and you will be aware of the emotions that you are avoiding. For example, if red makes you uncomfortable or if you don't like it, you are avoiding the emotions that red elicits. Red is the color of action. It is an" I am" feeling. " I exist, I am present, I am physical, I am strong." It is no accident that red is used in the military and in the "Red Light" district in town! Red stirs us. People are quite judgmental about red because it scares them. "People who wear red just want to be noticed" is a judgment I frequently hear. Red is a strong vibration, which takes self-confidence to hold in your cells. Red is extremely important for good physical health. We all need a healthy dose of red to be vibrant. Please know that it is not wrong if you do not like a certain color, it simply provides information for you to explore.
Neither is there any color that is bad nor good. Each of us needs different colors at different times to balance ourselves. Each day and each moment is a different color. This is the reason it is so important to flow. There IS NO ONE ANSWER. Each moment is a different reality and if we want to be healthy and happy, we must learn to flow with each moment anew!
Feeling your real feelings is also the fastest way to open yourself up to a transcendental state. I prefer to think of it as the natural, free-flowing state. In this state colors are always brighter and clearer than in a mundane, emotional-less state.
Color is everywhere. It is in your skin around you and in all sound. Scriabin, a wonderful Russian composer, saw the color that is in sound. I first heard of this phenomenon in a Graduate Psychology class taught by a musician. If you let yourself feel the sound, you will begin to feel the colors that are in each and every sound. This is the reason Isadora Duncan, Mother of Modern Dance, could dance the music exactly the way the composer felt it when he wrote it. She felt the emotions in the colors in the music through her solar plexus and let her body freely express what she experienced. Awesome. These kinds of experiences are what you have to look forward to as you increase your feeling states.
There are different systems of colors, just as there are different systems of practically everything else. I know three different systems and there are others. I suggest you see which person or system attracts you. You can study with someone who uses color or read about different systems. I use sound and color in my personal and professional work. I will be doing a week long Professional Training in Colorado at Glenwood Springs in February 1999. But the most important thing is developing your own sensitivity to color. Your experience of color is what is important not someone else's.
My most recent color trip was at the Philadelphia Flower Show courtesy of the white tulips from Holland. I had always known white had all of the colors in it, but I had never seen or felt them. White was white. When I turned and saw a field of beautiful, white tulips standing up straight against bright green grass, I suddenly experienced brilliant colors radiating off the perfectly pristine white tulips. Awesome. Now I experience the colors in white.
Let yourself sense color more and notice how it affects you. Use your intuition to experiment with different colors with different people on different days--notice how you feel. Notice how others react to you. Notice when you feel equal and close to others. The more consciously you tune in to color, the more your awareness will expand. Join a Sound and Color Group. Enjoy... and I welcome feedback. In rose-peach tones, aloha.
My children's book COLOR ME LOVE associates color with sound with a body movement. It is actively looking for a publisher!
