What is Color Therapy and how does it work? Can it really make you feel different, feel better? Welcome to the science bit, which might just change your life.
Color Therapy is a method of treatment that uses the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation (light and color) to cure diseases and impact the nervous and hormonal system through the eyes and their direct connections to the brain.
Light and color is information that is transmitted through the eyes and the visual and non-visual pathways to the hypothalamus, the ‘brain in the brain’. This master gland controls the pineal, pituitary and adrenal glands. In turn these help to control the nervous system, our emotional responses, circadian rhythm and the release of hormones throughout our body.
80% of all information reaching the brain comes through the eyes. The retina has receptors called rods and cones that translate light waves (colors) into electrical signals that then travel at high speed to the brain (2bn per second).
Each color represents a different intensity, or frequency, of energy wave that has a different impact on the state of being of the recipient. The healing properties of each color’s vibrational frequency is studied in the science of ‘chromotherapy’ or Color Therapy which is an exciting new frontier in personal wellness and alternative healing therapy.
Benefits of Color Therapy
Different colors have differing effects on the body. See below customer reported effects and scientifically proven facts (*):
Orange
- Beautify every visual experience
- Relax the mind
- Combat unpleasant lighting
- Reduce visual fatigue and eye strain
- Protect fully from UVA and UVB rays
- Fun to wear
- Filters blue light* and helps to manage circadian rhythms / regulate sleeping patterns *
- Enhances focus & concentration
- Improves blurred & double vision, helps with Irlen syndrome*
- Makes rainy days happy days
- Can be effective for anxiety and mild depression*
- Reduces feelings of stress
- Helps protect the eyes from premature macular degeneration*
Pink
- Beautify every visual experience
- Relax the mind
- Combat unpleasant lighting
- Reduce visual fatigue and eye strain
- Protect fully from UVA and UVB rays
- Fun to wear
- Increases feeling of wellbeing and happiness
- Calming, reduces feelings of stress*
- Proven to reduce tension and aggression*
- Increases visual definition*
- Enhances awareness
- Induces a feeling of relaxed alertness
If you want to learn more...
Here are some useful links to some of the contemporary scientific research and studies into the effect of Color Therapy on wellbeing and to treat conditions.
A Critical Analysis of Chromotherapy and Its Scientific Evolution
The National Center for Biotechnology Information
Colored light therapy: History, theory, recent developments and clinical applications combined with acupuncture.
The National Library of Medicine
Chromotherapy in the regulation of neurohormonal balance in human brain-complementary application in modern psychiatric treatment.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information
Effects of blue light on the circadian system and eye physiology
The National Library of Medicine
Evening use of eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
