Ebrace Colour
A on-line series that offers a practical look at the nature of colour and how we can apply back into our lives, bringing about a sense of inner being and balance. "Embrace Colour" is present by Gayle Friedman from the Sunshine Colour Academy - Cape Town South Africa. Gayle can be contacted on +27 (0) 829584801 / Or visit her website for more info: www.sunshinecolouracademy.com
COLOUR - BLUE
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take deep breaths in and out, and relax. Imagine yourself sitting on a cool blue lace agate stone under a waterfall of cleansing blue light from the sky purifying your brain allow the blue to flow into your throat opening to clear expression, than your neck across your shoulders down your arms and then flush through your whole body via the spinal chord cleansing, cooling, renewing cells and out through feet into the earth…….
Complimentary colour: Red
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Virgo & Mercury
- Chakra & Gland: Throat & Thyroid, parathyroid
- Body parts: neck, shoulders, mouth, respiration, thoracic 1 and cervical 7
- Energy body: Etheric Template Physical Higher aspect
- Meridians: Bladder (yang), Kidney (yin)
- Key Words : Loyal, honesty, cooling, calming, communication, peace, pain relief, direct, clarity, healing, antiseptic, anti-bacterial, creative expression
- Use for Healing: acute pain, fevers, burns, sunstroke, inflammations, grief
- Contraindications: colds, muscle contraction, paralysis, poor circulation, depression.
- Food: kelp, blueberries, fish, food growing on trees,
- Aromatherapy Oils: chamomile, marjoram, tea tree, thyme, cypress, lavender
- Crystals: blue lace agate, aquamarine, fluorite, tanzanite
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COLOUR - INDIGO
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take deep breaths in and out, and relax…
Imagine yourself sitting on a cool lapis lazuli indigo rock in the middle of the deep blue ocean the sea flowing gently around you absorb the indigo into your brain through the brow, skull bones, the matter, into the neurons ..sense a peacefulness, a silence within, nothingness filling your head eyes, nose, ears allow brain, nerves to rest it is safe…….
Complimentary colour: Orange
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Libra & Venus
- Chakra & Gland: Brow & Pituitary
- Body parts: Brain, eyes, nose, ears, forehead, skull
- Energy body: Celestial Emotional Higher aspect
- Key Words: Peace, balance, meditation, wisdom, calming, scientific data, astringent, depressant(to much), no material attachments, liberation, master of self, proud, mental manipulation, authoritarian, objectivity, reverence, neutrality, loneliness, right/left brain balance
- Use for Healing: Pain, diarrhoea, psychic exhaustion/cleansing, sedative, sinus, migrane, insomnia, deafness, stops nose bleed, kills bacteria/parasites,
- Contraindications: Schizophrenia
- Food: black beans, wild mushrooms, soya sauce, black beans
- Aromatherapy Oils: bay, cinnamon, clove, frankincense, grapefruit, jasmine, neroli, nutmeg, ylang ylang,
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COLOUR - VIOLET
Sit comfortably , close your eyes, take deep breathes in and out, and relax…
Imagine yourself sitting on a big amethyst crystal.
Connect to a point on the crown of your head imagine a violet flower opening …energized by the violet sky of an evening sunset allow the violet to purify your brain, down your spine, into the nerves, the organs, the tissues, the cells, cleansing, purifying your whole mind heart body…. in the moment you are one with Spirit….embrace……
Complimentary colour: Yellow
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Scorpio & Pluto
- Chakra & Gland: Crown & Pineal
- Body parts: Head, hair, CNS
- Energy body: Ketheric Mental Higher aspect
- Key Words: Relaxing, hyponotic, narcotic, spirituality, service, healing, seeker of truth, contemplation, one with creator, understanding, miracle worker, access to unconscious/subconscious , healing, closure, inner calm,
- Use for Healing: Depression, migrane, baldness, parasites, anxiety, spiritual fear ( negative entities), evoke angelic realm protection
- Food: eggplant, purple onion, purple grapes
- Aromatherapy Oils: frankincense, lavender, sage, sandalwood
- Crystals: Amethyst, sugilite, diamond
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COLOUR - ORANGE
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, and take a deep breath in and out. Imagine yourself sitting in a cave, deep in the centre of the earth- warm sunlight shining in from above, warm orange water seeping up from the earth, a fire in the centre of your cave and glowing orange crystals all around. Absorb the orange through your feet into your navel area, warming your reproductive organs until you feel inner warmth glowing , vitalizing your emotional body healing , nourish inner child male and female within…
Complimentary colour: Indigo
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Taurus & Venus
- Chakra & Gland: Sacral & Female - Ovaries Uterus, Male – Testes Prostate
- Body parts: colon, mammary glands, lymph, digestion, lumbar spine
- Energy body: Emotional lower aspect
- Meridians: triple burner (yang) & pericardium (yin)
- Key Words: tonic, creativity, pregnancy, trauma, sympathetic, understanding deep insight, antidepressant, social, passion, ecstasy, dependency co – dependency independence, practical, joy, sexual expression, freeing action, repression, manipulation, clairsentient - become one with others and psyche them out to help.
- Contraindications: excessive physical sexual energy
- Food: carbohydrates, oranges, mandarin, carrots, butternut, fish, food growing just above ground, leafy greens.
- Aromatherapy Oils: citrus oils, carrot, clary sage, jasmine, geranium, rose, rosewood, palmarosa, marigold, ylang ylang, patchouli, Crystals: Tigers eye, carnelian, calcite
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COLOUR - RED
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take deep breaths in and out, and relax. Imagine yourself sitting on a big red jasper crystal. Your feet rooting deep down into the centre of mother earth - red volcanic lava, rising up through the roots into your body - warm red energising your blood, bones, muscles, organs, cells and settling in your pelvic bones. Take as much as you need to feel safe in your legs and feet supported by earth.
Complimentary colour: Blue
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Aries & Mars
- Chakra & Gland: Base & Adrenals
- Body parts: blood, muscles, bones, coccyx, lower limbs, kidneys, bladder, bowels, genitals .
- Energy body: etheric lower aspect
- Meridians: small intestine (yang), heart (yin) & triple burner (yang), pericardium (yin)
- Key Words: grounding, safe, strengthening, birth, stimulating, stability, courage, action, warming , outgoing, violence, fear, anger, irritability, impatience, inactive, aggression , greed
- Contraindications: fever, inflammations, ulcers, swelling & hyperactive.
- Food: protein, root veggies, beetroot, tomatoes & red apples
- Aromatherapy Oils: benzoin, ginger, pine, sage, ruby grapefruit, sandalwood, rosewood, marjoram, vetivert, petitgrain, myrrh, rosemary, bergamot, juniper, camphor
- Crystals: jasper, garnet & obsidian
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COLOUR - YELLOW
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take deep breaths in and out and relax. Imagine yourself sitting on a warm yellow citrine crystal. Warm father sun shining down on your body entering at your solar plexus centre under your ribs…bringing an inner glowing light into your digestive organs shining up and down your spine nourishing your whole nervous system absorb as much as you need…
Complimentary colour: Violet
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Gemini & Mercury
- Chakra & Gland: Solar Plexus & Pancreas Spleen
- Body parts: diaphragm, stomach, liver, gallbladder, adrenals, small intestines, autonomic nervous system, thoracic 12 & lumbar 1 spine
- Energy body: Mental lower aspect
- Meridians: stomach (yang), spleen (yin)
- Key Words: bright, warmth, happy, communication, self-confidence, concentration, uplifting, sunny, acquired knowledge, quick, critical, anxious, egocentric, perfectionist, workaholic, anger
- Contraindications: nervous conditions, inflammation
- Food: bananas, pineapples, mielies, cheese, food growing between the ground and the trees-grains, lemon, spices
- Aromatherapy Oils: basil, cardamom, camomile, cinnamon, citronella, clove, coriander, fennel, ginger, nutmeg, peppermint
- Crystals: citrine, tiger’s eye, yellow agate
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COLOUR - GREEN
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take deep breaths in and out, and relax. Imagine yourself sitting on a big green aventurine stone. Fresh green grass all around you, green rising up through your feet, into your body. Green trees above, breathe the green into your lungs then via the heart into the bloodstream…. green balancing and healing cells… oxygen flowing wherever it’s needed…
Complimentary colour: Pink
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Cancer & Moon
- Chakra & Gland: Heart & Thymus
- Body parts: heart, lungs, arms, hands, circulatory, respiration, lymph, thoracic 4 & 5 spine
- Meridians: Gallbladder (yang), liver (yin)
- Key Words : love, balance, harmony, abundance, relaxing, new beginnings, empathy, humanitarian, friendly, nature, growth, fertility, healing, generous, desireless- desire, jealousy, envy, feeling trapped, moody
- Contraindications: cancer use soft green
- Food: green leafy vegetables, lettuce, cabbage spinach, sprouts, wheat grass, foods growing on trees-fruits nuts
- Aromatherapy Oils: lemon, lemongrass, pine, cypress, juniper, eucalyptus, peppermint, lime, tea tree, benzoin, niaouli, thyme, cajaput,
- Crystals: adventurine, amazonite, jade, malachite, tourmaline
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COLOUR - PINK
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take deep breaths in and out, and relax….
Imagine yourself sitting on a gentle rose quartz in a beautiful garden surrounded by bushes of pink roses take the aroma into your heart which is filled with warm red blood, call in white light from Spirit to the Heart and as it blends with red of the Blood, beautiful soft pink flows to the whole body taking a feeling of unconditional love to all the cells, soak it in as Spirit unifies with Soul enhancing Body…..
Complimentary colour: Green
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Leo & Sun
- Body parts: Heart, whole body
- Key Words: Unconditional love, harmony, ecstacy, female, mother love, safe
- Use for Healing: all areas of physical , emotional, mental, spiritual pain or illness in body
- Food: watermelon, strawberries, rose water
- Aromatherapy Oils: rose, rosewood, palmarosa, geranium, clary sage, yarrow
- Crystals: rose quartz, rhodocrosite, watermelon tourmaline, rhodonite,
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COLOUR - SILVER
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take deep breaths in and out, and relax…
Imagine you are sitting on the great mother earth, a silver haematite cooling your life force. Allow the energy to flow up the spine into left body ….gaze up to a great big full moon, a glowing silver ball of light radiating down from the top of your head energizing your right brain, down your spine, shining into the left side of your body, connecting you to the female intuitive, nurturer within……
Complimentary colour: GOLD
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Sagittarius & Jupiter
- Body parts: Right brain left side body
- Energy body: Female self, little girl, mother principle, wise women
- Meridians: Conception Vessel (yin)
- Key Words: Moon, Earth, female, intuition, creativity, protection, purity, lightness of being, nurturing, womb
- Use for Healing: Hot inflamed physical/mental conditions, mirror away negative energy, germicidal, antibiotic conditions, fevers
- Aromatherapy Oils: Sage, juniper, cypress, eucalyptus, tea tree
- Crystals: Haematite, galena
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COLOUR - GOLD
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take deep breathes in and out, and relax…
Imagine you are sitting on a great big gold pyrite rock warmed by the sun draw the golden light up your body through your spine into the right side of your body and up into your left brain where it connects to golden light glowing down from the great father sun …draw the power, strength and protection into you body enriching your inner male ….
Complimentary colour: SILVER
- Astrology Sign & Planet: Capricorn & Saturn
- Body parts: Left brain, right side body
- Energy body: Male self, little boy, father principle, wise man
- Meridians: Governing Vessel (yang)
- Key Words : Sun, male, active, intellect, protector, wealth, wisdom, holiness, status, splendour, enlightenment, strength
- Use for Healing : Immunity, Nerve weakness, addictions, disgust, general debility
- Contraindications : Hot conditions
- Aromatherapy Oils: Calendula, carrot, lemongrass, vetivert , bergamot
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About the Author
Gayle Friedman PMIAC + Allied Health Professions Council of SA, has been in the Health Care Field for 20yrs and is a qualified Aromatherapist, Colour Therapist, Reflexologist, Pregnancy Therapist, and Yoga Teacher for pregnant-women and children. She incorporates breath-work, colour energy balancing, visualisation and meditation in all her modalities. Gayle founded The Sunshine Health Academy Cape Town in 1984.
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