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Complementary Medicine / Colour Therapy & Science
« on: 20/08/2007 19:27:34 »
Colour Therapy has been used by many ancient cultures including the Native American Indians, Aztecs, Egyptians, and Greeks and was also believed to have been used during pre-Atlantean times. Early civilizations used colour for ceremony, healing, religious purposes and rites of passage. The Ancient Egyptians and Greeks were known to have used temples filled with light and colour for healing purposes.
Colour therapy works on the principle that we all are in need of light and colour to keep well balanced and in good health. Natural daylight contains all the colours of the spectrum that our energy centres need in order to stay well physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. It is essential that we spend a minimum of half an hour a day in natural daylight whatever the weather, as we absorb light and the coloured rays through our eyes and skin.
Sir Isaac Newton scientifically verified the existence of colour within natural daylight in the 1670's. He passed light through a prism which split the natural white ray of light into seven colours: red,orange,yellow,green,sky blue, indigo, and violet. This can be seen naturally in a rainbow where droplets of water act like a prism by splitting the white ray into the seven coloured rays of the spectrum.
Newton's studies were purely scientific his work on colour moved the focus away from the esoteric aspects that had previously been explored, researched and documented for many thousands of years by the ancient mystery schools in Greece and Egypt. However science is essential in helping us to understand and evidence the theory behind Colour Therapy.
Colour is easily accessible by us all, it is a vibrational energy that need not be seen to be felt. Blind children have been documented as being able to feel the difference between warm and cool colours by touch alone. When applied with healing in mind, colour can transform, transcend barriers and bring us back to a state of emotional harmony and inner peace.
Colour therapy works on the principle that we all are in need of light and colour to keep well balanced and in good health. Natural daylight contains all the colours of the spectrum that our energy centres need in order to stay well physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. It is essential that we spend a minimum of half an hour a day in natural daylight whatever the weather, as we absorb light and the coloured rays through our eyes and skin.
Sir Isaac Newton scientifically verified the existence of colour within natural daylight in the 1670's. He passed light through a prism which split the natural white ray of light into seven colours: red,orange,yellow,green,sky blue, indigo, and violet. This can be seen naturally in a rainbow where droplets of water act like a prism by splitting the white ray into the seven coloured rays of the spectrum.
Newton's studies were purely scientific his work on colour moved the focus away from the esoteric aspects that had previously been explored, researched and documented for many thousands of years by the ancient mystery schools in Greece and Egypt. However science is essential in helping us to understand and evidence the theory behind Colour Therapy.
Colour is easily accessible by us all, it is a vibrational energy that need not be seen to be felt. Blind children have been documented as being able to feel the difference between warm and cool colours by touch alone. When applied with healing in mind, colour can transform, transcend barriers and bring us back to a state of emotional harmony and inner peace.