Healing with Color
Colors Have Unique Frequencies and Properties in Energy Work
Color is a form of energy that can be directed during healing work, meditation, guided visualization, and in protecting the aura or energy field.
Color is defined by light frequencies: the wave frequency at which light reflects off of an object tells us its shape and hue. Since light is energy, these same frequencies can be used in energy healing. In visualization and energy work, each color possesses unique properties that can be used to ease pain, relieve stress, and even affect disease.
Color and Visualization
Color can be used in several ways in energy work, but all involve visualization.
By visualizing an image or a state of health as we want the body to be, we draw one step nearer to achieving it – and we can train the body to accept that image as a program for how it naturally "wants" to be. Visualizing or imagining is part of many energy work and meditation techniques.
Colors are commonly used in meditation and healing work to:
- enhance the energy of the chakras
- send particular energy frequencies to certain organs or parts of the body
- cool or warm parts of the body (e.g. to relieve aches and pain, cramps)
- connect the body with emotions or spiritual energies represented by particular colors
Using Color in Meditation
In meditation, color is often used to strengthen the chakras or draw on certain emotional or psychological properties.
- Red may be used to represent anger or passion
- Blue is calm, peaceful, or sad
- Yellow is cheerful, clever and exuberant
- Green represents growth
- Orange is brash, outgoing and sexual
- Violet is spiritual or serene
These colors are typically visualized as a luminescense or light:
- In or around the chakras,
- As a halo, aura or protective shield around the body, or
- In the air in front of you, to be breathed into the body
How to Use Color in Healing Work
The most obvious use of color healing is in sending the energy or image of colors into the chakras. Each of the major chakras traditionally corresponds to one color.
The colors can also be directed at:
- joints
- broken bones or sprains
- organs such as the brain, liver, pancreas, kidneys, or colon
- cancer
- the eyes or the optic nerve
- heart and circulatory system
- or wherever energy is being sent
Most energy work is done with "white light" – energy containing the frequency of every color in the spectrum. When other colors are used in energy work, it is still a good idea to begin and end with white light, to balance and amplify the session.
In directing specific frequencies at an organ or injury, be careful in your choice of color – certain colors can (according to some) have undesirable side effects:
- Green is often avoided around cancer, since it encourages growth, though others say that green kills cancer cells (which have an aberrant kind of growth).
- Indigo should not be used in excess or it may cause depression. It should also be avoided in working on people who are sad or emotionally vulnerable.
Properties of the Colors in Energy Work
- The Red spectrum is physical, warming and stimulating;
- Blue spectrum colors are spiritual, cooling and purifying; and
- The Yellow spectrum is balancing to the mind and bridges the spiritual and physical.
For details on how to use specific colors in healing, see Colors in Energy Work.
Reference: Andrews, Ted, How to Heal with Color, Llewellyn Publications, USA, 2001.
