Thursday, May 21, 2009

Colour's magic decoded


Colours play a huge role in our daily lives. Not only do they can help us recover from diseases or psychological disorders, but they can also enhance our personality and even bring back lost long luck. So, if you also are looking out for a magic wand to mend your life, think the colour-way for a solution!

Here’s a lowdown on a few colours and their effect on your professional and personal life.


White
White is considered as the colour of peace. So painting your room in white always makes the occupant feel light and peaceful. Dr. Surjmal Shastri, Vastu expert saqys, “White is a healing colour with purifying vibrations and can be used to clear blocked energies”.
Colour Coded : Brides wear white as it symbolises innocence and purity. Wearing white clothing, decorating your home in white or just enjoying this colour in nature will help you find truth and honesty. Wearing white, when wanting to make a fresh start and embrace newness will help. If you are craving for a settled life and are on the hunt out for a simpler, less stressful phase of life include more of white into your life. White colour is not just associated with truth, but it also helps you to find the truth in people and situations.


Blue
The colour of the sky and the ocean, blue is one of the most popular colours. Considered to be very spiritual, blue colour contains clarity, cleansing, healing and protective qualities. It is a known fact that people are more productive inhabiting blue rooms, so painting your office cabin blue will help. Using this colour, whether wearing it, lighting candles of this colour or decorating an entire room with it draws wisdom, harmony and peace.
Colour Coded : Choosing blue in your wardrobe, decorating your home in this colour, or enjoying it in nature, will help feel calm and relieve stress in life. If you need to communicate all your thoughts, feelings and ideas with others then this colour will be helpful. It is perfect to wear something in this colour for job interviews.

Purple
Purple has always been associated with mysticism and magic. Purple has a strong energy that can open up the subconscious, allowing deep knowledge and psychic abilities to get enhanced. It is ideal for meditation as it allows focus without distraction. Being the innermost colour of the spectrum of light, it helps in balancing the mind and transforms obsessions and fears. It brings peace to an over active mind, acting like a sedative. It is a very powerful, psychic colour and stimulates intuition and imagination.
Colour Coded : To help you attune to your own psychic powers and psychic development, wear more of this colour. Wearing clothes in purple help make communication easier, apart from helping you meditate and enhance your intuition. If you have worries and doubts particularly in relation to your own psychic connections, then this colour can really help you.

Pink
For centuries pink has been the colour of universal love as it generates a feeling of gentle warmth and nurturing. Pink colour lessens feelings of anger and irritability with a sense of love and protection. Pink also helps you do away with the feelings of loneliness, unhappiness and vulnerability.
Colour Coded : Using pink for clothing and decorating your home will help you attract more love into your life. So wear something in pink if you want to attract a potential love partner. Or just wear it when you are in need of de-stressing and are seeking peace of mind. Using pink gemstones promotes love, self-worth, order and protection from violence or aggression.

Yellow
Yellow is associated with the expression of thoughts and the intellect. It can therefore aid the powers of memory, clear thinking and facilitates decision-making and good judgement. While it is considered an optimistic colour, people lose their temper more often in yellow rooms, and babies tend to cry more in yellow surroundings. It is the most difficult colour for the eye to take in, so it can be overpowering if overused.
Colour Coded : Wearing yellow, decorating your home in this colour, or just enjoying this colour within nature will help you adopt a cheery, uplifting and positive personality. For people who are feeling down or are undertaking a study of some kind, wearing this colour does wonders. Using it as an accent colour in an office or study helps sharpen your mind, improve memory and clear decision making. This colour is perfect for undertaking new areas of study and at the same time it also enhances inspirational and creative ideas.

Green
Currently the most popular decorating colour, green symbolises nature. It is the easiest colour on the eye and can improve vision. Green has a strong association with nature, fertility and life. You instinctively seek it out when under stress or experiencing emotional difficulties. Feelings of comfort, relaxation, calmness, and space are the traits of this colour.
Colour Coded : You should wear green and decorate your home in this colour to help bring balance back into your life. Also, it is easy to enjoy this colour in nature - it is all around you! This colour is thought to be incredibly lucky and you should wear this this colour when choosing lottery numbers etc. If you are looking for a job change, prospects of growth or freedom to pursue new ideas then include more of green into your life. Green is also considered to be colour of healthy relationships.

Orange
Orange is an excellent colour for creativity and is known as a ‘sociable’ colour. It stimulates the mind, renews interest in life, creativity and makes you grow fonder of socialising. The colour is a great motivator and allows you to accept and be open to exciting change.
Colour Coded : Using orange for clothing, decorating your home or just enjoying this colour within nature will help you bring excitement of newer things to your life. Because of its sociabile association, you should wear something in this colour when wanting to meet new people or wanting freedom to pursue new ideas.

Red
We always associate red with love. The most emotionally intense colour, red stimulates a faster heartbeat and breathing. Red is a very strong motivational and energetic colour. It adds vibrant energy to the root chakra to strengthen the body and promotes will power and courage.
Colour Coded : Wear red to help motivate and energise you. Using red to decorate your home or wearing red clothing will bring passion and excitement in your life. If you are craving adventure and new exciting experiences then include more of the colour red into your life.

Brown
A solid and reliable hue, brown is the colour of earth and is both nurturing and comforting. It gives a sense of security and connectivity to nature and to animals. The colour brown is very healing and protective and can help balance the emotions.
Colour Coded : Wear this colour, decorate your home or just enjoy it within nature to help you become stable. It helps you keeps your feet on the ground and gives you strength and determination to get any job done. If you are craving security, dependability and reliability then include more of the colour in your life.

Black
Black is the colour of authority and power. It is popular in fashion because it makes people appear thinner. Black is not strictly a colour as it is the absence of all colour. It absorbs all aspects of light. Although this colour has some negative association it does in fact enhance any positive elements given by other colours.
Colour Coded : Using black for clothing or for an accent colour for home décor can convey an air of mystery, sophistication and elegance. If you are craving a need for change and transformation and for getting rid of the old and embracing the ne,w then use this colour. But this colour can have a negative impact on your relationship so don’t overdue its use.


Courtesy: Vaibhav Choudhary

www.timesofindia.com

No comments: