Color Therapy?!


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Color Therapy?

How does color heal?

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Chromotherapy, sometimes called color therapy or colorology, is an alternative medicine method that uses colors and light to balance energy and bring about emotional reactions in people.

A standard method of diagnosis is the use of "Luscher’s color test", developed by Max Luscher (*1923) in the early 1900s. When performing chromotherapy, color and light is applied to specific areas and acupoints on the body. Because colors get associated with both positive and negative effects in color therapy, specific colors and accurate amounts of color are deemed to be critical in healing. Some of the tools used for applying colors are gemstones, candles, wands, prisms, colored fabrics, bath treatments, and colored glasses or lenses. Therapeutic color can be administered in a number of ways, but is often combined with hydrotherapy and aromatherapy in an attempt to heighten the therapeutic effect.

Color therapy is possibly rooted in Ayurveda, an ancient form of medicine practiced in India for thousands of years. Other historic roots are attributed to Chinese and ancient Egyptian culture. In traditional Chinese medicine, each organ is associated with a color. Ancient Egyptians built solarium-type rooms, which could be fitted with colored panes of glass. The sun would shine through the glass and flood the patient with color.

Today, some therapists have a box with a mechanism that flickers light into the eyes. They report success in speeding the recovery of stroke victims and those persons who experience chronic depression. Some therapists recommend the wearing of eyeglasses with colored lenses. Specialized shops also sell baths equipped with lamps that emit the wanted color to induce the desired effect.

Chromotherapy is not bound to medicine: practitioners of Feng Shui bring specific colors into our homes and workplaces, trying to achieve optimum balance of energy.

In the United States, color and light therapy is beginning to be recognized as a complementary system to other treatments. In Europe, Dr. Peter Mandel, a German acupuncturist, developed a system to apply color and light to acupuncture points on the body. This so called colorpuncture is now being taught in many countries.

Health is contingent upon balancing not only our physical needs, but our emotional, mental, and spiritual needs as well. In India, a group of healers known as Ayurvedic healers associate colors with the seven main chakras associated with a particular organ or system in th body.

Each chakra has a dominant color, but these colors may become imbalanced. If this happens it can cause disease and other physical ramifications. (Parker, 2001) By introducing the appropriate color, these maladies can be fixed. Each chakra is also associated with one of the four primary elements: earth, air, fire, water.(Simpson, 2002)

The following websites provide a brief description of each chakra, its corresponding color, location, and physical/emotional association.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chromothera...
http://www.biopulse.org/color.html...

Chromotherapy has been highly controversial, due to the fact that it does not follow the scientific method and can be categorized as a pseudo-science. At best the idea that chromotherapy works could be described by the scientific community as a hypothesis, but it has not been tested or proven that introducing colors is actually healing these people.




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