When you start to use colour consciously as a tool in your life, you find that it can help you with:

    * your relationships
    * your work and career
    * your health
    * your finances
    * your spirituality

Every area of your life, in fact! A nd the deeper your understanding, the more it can help.

Colour and the Body

Let’s look at the physical for a moment.  Science shows us that when you are in red surroundings – a red room, wearing red clothes etc – you will literally heat up; your body temperature rises. In a blue room, you cool down.

It’s a physiological response.  So even if your conscious mind doesn't always recognise colour and its properties, your body does.

What happens when you go out in nature and are surrounded by green?  You literally breathe more deeply.  You feel better.  You open your lungs.

Next time you reach for your clothes in the morning, notice what guides your choice.  Weather and occasion will of course dictate to some extent, but those things notwithstanding, what do you want to carry on your body today?  Which colours speak to you and make you feel good?  Start to notice how your moods and energy play a part in your colour choices.  Why is it that one day you reach for a soft pink jumper and on the next you want to wear a dark blue jacket?

Notice how you feel when you wear different colours.  Experiment with accessories such as scarves and notice how they make you feel.  You may begin to look at yourself and your colour choices more closely, and as you do, you are tapping into the basic psychology of colour and learning more about yourself and the world in the process.

Relationships and Emotions

What happens when you start to tune in to your emotions and let them guide you to the colours you need at any given moment?  You begin to learn about yourself and the thoughts, emotions and feelings that drive you.  And as you identify your feelings and allow yourself  to experience them, you start to notice that you don’t have to get so stuck in them or let them rule your life.

Turquoise is typically the colour of the emotions – and paradoxically it can also be the colour of choice when you are avoiding feeling your emotions!  Turquoise can be a great protector in times of troubled emotions because it enables you to hide your feelings.  Now, as you probably know, if you want to grow and heal, you need to start feeling your feelings not hiding them!  So if you notice you’re obsessing over turquoise, wearing it all the time and having it around you, take stock of where you are and notice if there is something you are not allowing to be expressed.  Likewise, if you know you are blocking or suppressing your emotions, turquoise may be the key to help you unlock them.

Blue and turquoise are the colours of trust and faith. So in relationships these colours can help us feel safe and able to trust.

For many the greatest challenge is to truly honour and love yourself.  Here, pink and coral can guide you to a place of self-love and worthiness.  Notice when you are feeling unloved and unworthy how pink can soothe and make you feel nurtured.  A spritz of the Colour Mirrors essence Pink Angel does wonders for a sad and weary soul.  And bathing in a pink coloured oil can be a truly nurturing, deeply loving experience.

Colour and the Mind

Colour affects you on a mental level as well.

Let’s take yellow for an example.  In colour therapy you learn that yellow is the colour of the intellect, the mind, your capacity to think.  It also links to the emotions of fear and confusion.  And what do over-thinkers tend to have in common?  They tend to think so much in order to avoid facing their fears!  And all that thinking generally leads to confusion (you’ve probably heard the saying ‘analysis leads to paralysis’…).

On the other side of the coin, yellow is also the colour of joy and sunshine.  Of child-like fun and laughter.  So here’s the clue:  if you can get ‘out of your head’, halt the incessant thinking process, and turn it around 180 degrees, you start having fun, lightening up, and the answers you were so busy trying to force your mind to come up with arrive, easily and naturally.

Now often, however, this is easier said than done.  And this is where colour therapy comes in.  With tools such as the Colour Mirrors system of coloured oils and essences, you can spritz, spray, rub into your skin, meditate, and even bath in the colours.  And then your body and your heart get the message – and a shift can take place.

Work and Career

What happens when you’re struggling or frustrated in your work?  You know you’re not where you’re meant to be and it becomes more and more painful the more you struggle to keep going.  Yet fears and worries arise – how will you pay the mortgage?  What else can you do?  You’ve no qualifications or training for anything else.

Each and every time you feel disquiet, discomfort and despair in your life and work, it’s a sign and a signal from your higher self.  Something isn’t adding up here. It’s time to make a change.  Of course fears and doubts arise.  Yet if you continue doing what you’ve always done, you’re going to keep getting the same results.  And if you don’t like the results, you’re going to have to change something.

Now change is one of the greatest challenges we can face, and so many people avoid it like the plague.  Yet change is often a great catalyst for growth and healing.  And by saying yes to change, you can begin to put your life back on track and head for where you want to be instead of staying stuck.

So how does colour help with change?  And how can it help you in our work and career?

The colour choices you make, for example in a Colour Mirrors reading where you are asked to choose coloured bottles of oils, will provide strong clues as to where your heart really lies and what you really want to be doing. If you're working as an accountant and your heart yearns to be an artist, the palette of colours you choose is going to tell you your truth.  It will be plain to see, even if you have suppressed your desire to break out and be more creative – the colours will tell the story!  What you then do with this information is, of course, entirely up to you.  But once you’ve seen something graphically and in colour it somehow takes on a reality and it becomes hard to pretend any more. The artist will out!

And then you can begin the process of working through your fears (yellow); listening to your heart (green or pink); following your inner guidance (lilac); reclaiming your power (gold); and making a decision (clear or silver).

Colour for Finances

Abundance and manifestation are two concepts we’re hearing a lot about at the present time. The Law of Attraction states that what you focus on expands and that your thoughts create your reality. This puts you firmly in the driving seat of your life. Once you take these concepts on board you can no longer be a victim, no longer blame or judge.

Yet so many people carry baggage about wealth, money, abundance.   There may be hidden feelings of unworthiness.  Or you may believe it is not possible to be spiritual and yet have financial wealth.  Almost everyone has limiting beliefs around money and wealth.  Colour once again helps by rooting out the hidden beliefs that are preventing you from stepping into the wealth and abundance that is all around you.  The universe is fundamentally and utterly abundant.  It is only your ability to receive – or your lack of such an ability – that prevents you from being fully and wholly abundant in every area of your life.

An acute dislike of pink or an over-abundance of pink in your colour choices can be an indication of money issues and an inability to receive.  Pink and red are the colours we most relate to finance – red being all the material, physical aspects of life and our need for survival; and pink being literally red with a light shone through it – which then shows up as intensified red issues….

In the Colour Mirrors system there are several bottles that will help with these issues.  The base chakra bottle (C1) has had a quite miraculous effect for many people, clearing old ingrained fear-based money ‘stuff’ out of bodies and allowing the prosperity in.  The Red Angel essence is called the Angel of Miracles and Prosperity and helps you get grounded and connected to the earth so that you might manifest from a place of stability and connection rather than fear.

Blue and turquoise bottles help you to have faith that everything is unfolding as it should, and as you begin to trust the universe more, then you open to more of what you want and desire and allow it to show up in your life.

Pink, as mentioned above, will help you grow in self-love and self-esteem so that you no longer have worthiness issues and can open to receive.

And yellow and gold can help you banish your fears and feel at one with yourself and your life so that you can live from a place of genuine power and strength, and let the riches of the universe flow to you.

Green enables you to open to the abundance of the universe and to feel grateful for what you already have. And gratitude is the fastest key to attracting what you want!

Gateway to Spirit

As you move into a deeper connection with yourself and the universe you find that colour points the way to your highest self, the Self that can love unconditionally, speak its truth and be authentically who it is.

Magenta is the colour of the divine - in any language!  And it is a gateway to experiencing what is beyond our physical body, beyond your feelings, emotions and thoughts.

Magenta takes you into a place of deep powerful acceptance and grace where you no longer struggle or resist but allow and flow.  As you do this you step into a place where you begin to know yourself as divine, where you begin to see the God in yourself and in all.  And when you do that there is no place left for grudges, blame, resentment and judgement.  You begin to see the oneness that is inherent in this universe and to feel it in your being.

What you find when we step out on a journey with colour is that you learn to transcend your little egoic and fragmented selves, and become instead your joyful, magnificent whole self and your life becomes so much more colourful as a result.


© Korani 2007

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