Color Therapy

Hypothalamus in the human body controls the pituitary gland and as the former is influenced by light. Hypothalamus acts on the pituitary gland which in turn controls all the other glands like pineal gland, thyroid gland, thymus, adrenalin, pancreas and ovaries.

The pineal gland is of particular importance because it responds to light and produces melatonin which is involved in maintaining the metabolic rhythm. Mystics also believe that the pineal gland I directly in connection with the Sahasrara chakra which is the top most chakra in the body.

Taking hold of the importance played by light in the functioning of bodily activities, color therapy makes use of the sensitiveness of people to different colors in treating various conditions. According to color therapists, every organ has its own vibration energy and diseases occur when these energies run short. By applying a color which has the same vibration energy to it, the disease can then be overcome. In this process of overcoming diseases, yellow, blue and red are identified as the most effective colors.

Furthermore, the latter notion is supported by modern physics which states that every color has a certain frequency wavelength and energy associated with it. Thereby, whatever color we absorb in the body would then affect our body which in turn would have impacts on the nervous system as well as the endocrine system. This so called ‘affect’ will then act upon release of hormones and other organic substances within the body. So when one falls sick, theirs is a substantial amount of healing energy that can be derived from color therapy, if applied in the right frequency and color.

Interestingly enough, therapy can be administered in various ways;

In ancient times, gems were used as the most popular means of color therapy.

However, at present breathing exercises conducted when the eyes are focused on a specific color are believed to help the body absorb specific color vibrations.

Another form of therapy associates itself with the use of crystals of various colors which gives off a specific color when sunlight passes through them.

Even color garments are known to be an effective way of administering therapy while, ‘solarised water’ also known as color water, which is kept under the sunlight for a while is known to bring about the same healing effects.

The most recent method of color therapy is to expose a patient in to an area with specific colored lighting. For e.g. allowing exposure to red light for cancer patients.