Color Healing in the Florida Caribbean
Color. We delight in a rainbow, sigh at a sunset, lavish in the magic of neon reefs undersea. The Florida Keys are saturated by color year-round. The reason for the famous (or infamous) laid-back Keys mood? More than likely. Seeing, wearing or being exposed to color - whether in the form of light, pigment, or cloth - can affect us at levels we are only just beginning to understand.
(PRWEB) May 24, 2005
Color. We delight in a rainbow, sigh at a sunset, lavish in the magic of neon reefs undersea. The Florida Keys are saturated by color year-round. The reason for the famous (or infamous) laid-back Keys mood? More than likely. Seeing, wearing or being exposed to color - whether in the form of light, pigment, or cloth - can affect us at levels we are only just beginning to understand.
This is no new news. Egyptians built healing temples of light four thousand years ago, bathing patients in specific colors of light to produce different effects. Now, before you begin to pooh-pooh the pyramids as philosophy bent towards new-ageism, consider these factual goodies. Research shows that a blindfolded person will experience physiological reactions under different colored rays. In other words, the skin sees in Technicolor. Noted neuropsychologist Kurt Goldstein confirmed this information in his modern classic The Organism, where he notes that stimulation of the skin by different colors creates different effects.
As research reveals, color goes beyond psychological affects. The last decade has proven that lack of color, or more specifically, light, causes millions to suffer each winter from a mild depression known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). The suggested treatment is to purchase an ultraviolet sun lamp system and sit in front of it several times a day (or change locales to somewhere more tropical). Because of the complex way in which exposure to various colors acts via the brain upon the autonomic nervous system, exposure to a specific color can even alter physiological measurements such as blood pressure, electrical skin resistance and glandular functions in your body. And they most certainly can affect how you feel on a day-to-day basis. Learning about colorÂ’s qualities and putting it to use can enhance your spirit, improve your health, and quite ultimately, expand your consciousness.
Color Healing in the Keys
Color therapy, also known as chromo therapy, is used by alternative health practitioners who use color to balance energy wherever our bodies are lacking, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental. Angie Arkin, Intuitive Healer in Key West (www. beyourownhealer. com) , uses color during her sessions with clients, and often works with color during her own personal meditations.
“I would say that I don’t know of any bad colors,” she says. “But there are different colors that enhance my moods. Since I’m familiar with colors and energy, I know how to use them as a tool to affect my life in a way that helps me manifest the things I’m trying to manifest.”
“Your aura is just an energy field that surrounds you,” continued Arkin. “In your aura, there are different layers, and in each layer, there are different colors that may be used for clearing and rebalancing your energy field. An aura reading is looking at the colors found in your aura. Knowing what colors are in your aura brings you closer to your spirit. If you can consciously bring that out, you have more advantage in clearing and healing your life. It’s really just another layer of knowing.”
Color Healing in your Clothing
Jasmine Sky, a clothing designer, consciously brings color healing to her clothing. Sky, proprietor of The Dreaming Goddess Boutique (www. thedreaminggoddess. com) has lived and worked in Big Pine Key creating her hand-painted silk sarongs and resort wear for the last 3 1/2 years. Sky consults with clients on the mood-enhancing value of color.
Red for example promotes feeling energized and safe in the world. No wonder restaurants favor this color for creating an “appetite for life.” Yellow is a centering and assimilating color, green AND pink promote being emotionally open and optimistic; no surprise they are the colors associated with love (both of yourself and others.)
“Painting color therapy into silk clothing seemed to marry all parts of me - the part of me that was a healer, the part of me that was an artist, my love of fabrics and many years of sewing, my love of tropical islands with their vivid colors” she says. “And, last but not least, my love for clothing that is simultaneously beautiful, sensuous, practical and comfortable.”
Sky is branching out to healing home décor. She recently received a commission for a color therapy wall hanging for the lobby of the Lower Keys Medical Hospital.
You can find more information on Angie Arkin online at www. beyourownhealer. com and The Dreaming Goddess boutique at www. thedreaminggoddess. com
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