Color therapy: Balancing the wheels of our life

Color therapy can be very well described as an alternative therapy that aims at balancing the chakras in our body. The evidences of this therapy can be traced thousands of years back to Middle East, China and India. The underlying idea is that every color has a specific wavelength and energy attached to it. The most prominent colors are that of a rainbow i.e. VIBGYOR( Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red). These seven colors belong to seven chakras or energy centers of our body

•     Violet  à Crown Chakra
•     Indigo à Brow Chakra
•     Blue    à Throat Chakra
•     Green  à Heart Chakra
•     Yellow  à Solar Plexus Chakra
•     Orange à Sacral Chakra
•      Red     à Base Chakra

Understand the chakras as the hands of a clock. For a clock to run properly, every hand needs to run smoothly and in coordination with the other hands. So if the chakras are performing well, then that ensures good health (mental as well as physical). Failing this, a person becomes prone to diseases. Color therapy ensures that all the chakras or the energy centers work properly by balancing or re-adjusting the energies. This is done by applying appropriate color to the body in order to stimulate the chakra.

Colors are absorbed by our eyes, skin, skull and the aura. The energy corresponding to a color affects on all the levels- physical, mental, spiritual and emotional. Every cell in our body requires light. So color therapy has a holistic effect on the body. Various ways can be used to employ the color therapy, for example, Hands on healing using color, Solarized Water, Light boxes/lamps with color filters, color silks. Color is around us everywhere. The nature boasts of colors, the red of the setting sun, the green of the trees, the brown of the soil and much more. But we tend to ignore the colors around us and devoid our life of various energies. Color therapy compensates for those missing energy patterns.