Your Life's Palette - Color

When we enter a room or see an object for the first time, our minds register its color before any other detail. The colors our eyes can perceive are like words that form a subtle language of mood, energy, and insight. Color can exert a gentle effect on the mind and the body, influencing our dispositions and our physical health. Color has the ability to trigger our emotions, affect the way we think and act, and influence our attitudes. You unconsciously respond to the color of the walls in your home, your car, your clothing, and the food you eat based on your body's natural reactions to certain colors and the psychological associations you have formed around them. The consequences of the decision to paint a room or wear a specific article of clothing therefore goes beyond aesthetics.

The colors you encounter throughout your day can make you feel happy or sad, invigorate you or drain your vitality, and even affect your work habits. Throughout history, cultures spread over many different parts of the globe have attributed varying meanings to different colors. In China, blue is associated with immortality, while people in the Middle East view blue as a color of protection. There is also evidence that human beings respond to color in a very visceral way. Red excites us and inflames our passions. Too much red, however, can make us feel overstimulated and irritated. Pink tends to make people feel loved and protected but also can cause feelings of lethargy. Yellow represents joy or optimism and can energize you and help you think more clearly. Bright orange reduces depression and sadness. Blue and green are known to inspire peaceful feelings, and people are often able to concentrate better and work in rooms painted in soft blues and greens. The darker tones of! both colors can make you feel serious and introspective.

There are ways to integrate color into your life that go beyond picking the hues of your décor and your wardrobe. You can meditate with color by concentrating on the colors that make you feel peaceful or using a progression of colors to symbolize a descent into a relaxed state. Color breathing involves visualizing certain colors as you in inhale and exhale. Choose to surround yourself with the colors that you are attracted to and make you feel good, and you can create an environment that makes you feel nurtured, peaceful, and uplifted.

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You Are The Key

You could feel a keen sense of vulnerability today and want to feel that you belong to someone or something. This might cause you to feel more needy or dependent on those around you. If you take time to work on strengthening the connection with your inner self today, you will feel your insecurities vanish. One good way to do this is to call up a mental image of yourself as strong, powerful, confident, and self-contained. See yourself interacting with others in an empowered way and not being dependent on needing to receive or hear any particular actions or words from them. Affirm that you are whole and complete, and you won’t need to others to validate your worth.

Developing an inner vision of ourselves as whole and complete can help us to interact with others in healthier ways. We often feel the need to cling to others in an effort to be validated or accepted. If we can instead learn to validate ourselves and practice self-acceptance, we begin to discover that we don’t need anything outside of ourselves to feel complete. We realize that we hold the key to feeling good about ourselves, regardless of what others may say or do. We can then focus on developing our relationships, rather than feeling vulnerable and needy in our interactions. Embracing your inner sense of self-worth today could help you feel stronger and more empowered in your interactions with others.

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