Colours and Their Meanings for Everyday LIfe!
Colours are in everything we see and do. They are mood enhancing ...and
we mostly don’t even notice them!
Colour therapy, also known as chromotherapy, has roots that can be traced back to ancient cultures. The use of colour in healing practices has been documented in various civilisations:
The Egyptians used colour to treat ailments as early as 2500 BC. They would often use coloured gels and filters over light sources and incorporate colours into their temple structures for healing purposes. Blue was most important to them, it was associated with associated with the Nile, the sky, or the home of the gods, and used in depictions of heaven and water. They would use for fertility, life, birth, and rebirth. They generally used blue dye as a pigment in paintings. It was also applied in the tomb's decoration, mummies' coffins, and ceramic painting.
Traditional Chinese medicine, which dates back thousands of years, also includes the use of colour in treatments, as the Chinese associate colours with specific organs and emotions. Black is extremely important to them, symbolising water, authority, knowledge and power. They also believe red is the luckiest colour as it’s a symbol of joy, celebration, vitality success and good fortune.
In Ayurvedic medicine, colours are linked with the chakras and are believed to influence physical and emotional health…each chakra has it’s own colours and are the colours of the rainbow (did I mention how much I love rainbows!) Red is for the root chakra, orange the sacral chakra, yellow, solar plexus charka, green your heart chakra, blue your throat charka, indigo is your third eye charka and violet is your crown chakra.
However, in the Roman times, purple was banned for all except the Roman Empire as the colour was difficult to make and it was expensive. Punishment for wearing purple could include loss of property, title or death.
The purple colour was produced from an extremely expensive dye called Tyrian purple which originated in Tyre in Lebanon. The Phoenicians owned the monopoly on this purple dye which was made by crushing thousands of sea shells - Mediterranean Murex. It took 10,000 Murex mollusks to make dye just one toga! This purple dye was worth more than its weight in gold and came to symbolise both the wealth and the power of the Roman Emperors.
The modern concept of colour therapy gained traction in the 19th century when practitioners began to study the effects of different colours on mood and health. Notably, Dr. Edwin Babbitt published "Principles of Light and Colour" in 1878, which laid the groundwork for contemporary chromotherapy.
These days, colour therapy continues to develop gaining popularity in alternative medicine and wellness practices.
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