Hi Everyone,
What does your favourite colour say about you?
What colours do you normally gravitate to?
Did you know that your answers can tell you a lot about how you are feeling and what you need in your life?
Would you like to know what the emotional meaning is behind each colour of the rainbow, and even more colours beyond the rainbow?
Colours are all around you.
They’re in the natural world, in the home you live in, your car, the clothes you wear, and the shows you watch.
Colours aren’t just meaningless parts of your environment, either.
They can change the way you feel and react to different situations. Advertisers have been using colours for years to manipulate us to buy from them. Colours are visual clues to our thoughts, emotions and personality.
A colours ability to affect our body, mind and spirit, gives it the power to calm, excite, inspire, balance, bring harmony to our life and heal.
This is Colour Therapy.
Did you know, that all colours have negative and positive emotional meanings?
For example, Red can symbolize Love, but can also be used to show Anger.
What comes up for you when you think of the colour Red?
Did you know, that if you change the shade of a colour, it changes the feelings associated with it? For example, a deep dark red can show passion, and a light red can show an innocent puppy love.
Did you know colours can open a window to our subconscious? Well now you do know, would you like to learn some more?
Colour therapy has been around since at least the time of Ancient Egypt.
Egyptians believed in the power of light and used different colours of light to promote healing. Colour therapy has continued to be important in a lot of cultures.
Even in Western societies that tend to prefer modern, institutionalized medicine, natural healers have continued to use colours to help people improve their physical and emotional health.
Colours affect our mental processes and can change our mood. Each colour has a different effect, so different colours are used for different mental conditions and mood problems.
Therefore Colour therapy is individualized.
What works to help you, might make someone else feel worse.
For example, if you have a lot of anxiety and need to calm down, blue might be a good colour to use.
If someone else were depressed, though, blue wouldn’t be a colour they would use in colour therapy.
It is important to consider the negative as well as the positive for each colour
So who am I? I’m Danielle Chapman.
Before social isolation, I was providing one on one Counselling sessions which I am continuing to do with Zoom, however, my passion was and is running group colour therapy and art therapy workshops that I designed myself.
Since it was recommended to stop these groups, I’ve been working on a way to bring these teachings online, deciding, to start with, a breakdown of my intro to colour therapy workshop into a series of Live videos.
They will teach the emotional qualities of colours and how they can subconsciously make you feel.
These Live videos will teach you to identify your emotions from your subconscious mind and help you to work through them.
Once we can identify feelings we have suppressed, we can acknowledge them and work on being happier.
We could talk about light vibrations, frequencies, auras and chakras, but let’s just talk about the emotional side of colours here, hey?
For example, have you been wearing a lot of black lately?
If so, has your mood been down and bleak?
During these live videos, you will learn how to add a colour to your life for the emotion you would rather be feeling after acknowledging the negative.
The secret is, that to start feeling better and whole, you need to recognize and own how you are feeling, know a strategy to change it, and then use this strategy to feel better.
As an Art Therapist, Colour is always a major consideration.
In a private session I may instruct you to paint with a certain colour that will bring out an issue to help you deal with it.
Or, I may leave the colour to you and simply notice what colours you choose and how you combine the colour with lines.
It can give important insights.
These insights can now be taught to you.
Would you like to learn the emotions behind each colour?
Know what colours you use to achieve your goals?
So, here’s what I will do.
Each day for the next 9 days I will give in depth information for one colour each day.
I will start tomorrow at 1:30pm for the colour ……………. Red.
We will cover Primary colours—Red, Yellow and Blue.
Secondary colours—Purple, Green, Orange.
Also, Pink, Silver and Gold.
It will be a live facebook video and it will be recorded so you can always watch it later if you miss it live.
Once we have completed every colour, you will have the skills to use the principles of colour therapy every day by playing with colour in your surroundings.
If you have problems with feeling tired, or not having enough energy for doing what you love, decorating with the warm, lively colours of red, orange, and yellow can give you a boost.
If you need to feel calmer, cooler colours like Blue’s and Greens will help.
The possibilities are endless once you know how to apply colour therapy.
You will be able to experiment with different colours and light levels to make an environment that’s customized for you.
After we have finished these Lives for each colour I will be complimenting it by offering group zoom Art Therapy classes to teach you how to recognize even deeper emotions you may not know you are feeling.
I will teach you through different exercises how to analyse your art yourself.
You will be one step ahead after watching the colour therapy lives, as you will already be able to see what the colours you have used mean.
Keep in mind, this is Art Therapy in the Zoom groups, not an Art lesson, I will not be teaching you the technical side of how to draw, I will be helping you see the meaning within your drawing.
I will, at a later date be doing Art lessons as well, but for now we will stick to the therapy side through this social isolation time.
Please use the comment section to ask any questions and I will reply after the live.
Don’t forget that you can always re-watch the video to remember details about the colours.