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I was wondering if anybody on here has had any success with color therapy?
I've read mixed reports about color therapy. Some say you are naturally attracted to the colors you need. Others say that the colors you are avoiding are the ones you actually need.
For example, during much of this disease, I found myself wearing a lot of green and orange, even silver greys.
Now, however, I find myself drawn to cranberries and royal blues - sometimes even a deep pink. Silver greys remain on the list, though I am very particular about the shade with this one.
I have always had an aversion to yellow. Interestingly though, I now have an aversion to black, and it used to be one of my favorite colors.
I've also developed a total aversion to synthetic fabrics such as polyester. Anybody else?
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Yellow has been always my favorite color. Green and orange my least favorites. Will have to dig some books out on color significance. Anyone can Help out on this?
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kam
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Patterns and colors have intensified since coming down with lyme.
Fabrics too.
I have always been a jean kind of gal. That remains the same.
But, I am in the process of trying to add color to my new apartment. It seems to be something that is more important to me now than ever before in my life.
I assume it is due to being at home so much and wanting my surroundings to be very enjoyable and peaceful.
Nature seems to be my color skeme (sp?) of choice.
Just haven't quite figured out how to do things yet.
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I read that you should avoid green if you have something like cancer - that grows. Red was the preferred color for something that extreme.
I think blues (including denim) are associated with the throat chakra, and thus, the thyroid.
I can't remember the others though right now without my book handy.
My luck though - my carpet throughout this place is green.
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I like chartreuse and heliotrope myself...
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You got me on that one. What the heck color is heliotrope??? lol
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it's sort of a day glo purply sort of thing...kind of tacky...
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Hmmm, cool!
I think I like the color 'earth', too.
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quote:Originally posted by charlie: I like chartreuse and heliotrope myself...
Together or individualy?
I'm partial to trueblues, hence the name, ultramarine or cobalt is perfect.
I'm also partial to periwinkle, violet and some bright pinky reds (raspberry for instance)
I might look nice in heliotrope though.
There's a particular shade of pale turquois that I have quite the adverse reaction to.
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trueblue - See, that aversion to a certain shade of turquoise means something. It's like me and most yellows - or black - I just can't tolerate those colors lately.
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but heliotrope the plant is so pretty pretty PRETTY!*)*!)!
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I need to get some of those for my yard. Hmmm? They are pretty.
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soft colors for me -- tans, peaches, but i like dark blue too. desert colors...and evening colors...
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For me:::: I only care for the color of money.
Enough to get me by,,,barely. And some extra to help my friends who have less!!sadly--just don--
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I love the color Yellow! and The Color Red!!!
LOVE those colors. Color is VERY important to me for some reason. I usually do not like anything that is blue or purple. Its to the point, I cant really stand to be in a blue or purple room.
I have always been really sensitive to color. Don't know why, but I really love color. It makes life lots of fun!
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tailz,
I haven't seen this topic before, but I'm really glad you brought it up and have been interested in everyone's responses and how different they are.
I had a lot of neuro symptoms, esp. in the first year of treatment. Couldn't eat fish bec of the smell or listen to loud music or be around anything too bright. And I absolutely couldn't tolerate wearing anything red. Not any shade of red.
Like you, Tailz, I was pretty partial to greens. In fact, when I was getting out summer clothes a few months ago, I was surprised to find a half dozen green shirts. Greens and neuturals in the beginning.
Then I started gravitating toward blues, esp very soft blues and light lavenders.
I used to wear black all the time but i find I only wear it periodically now.
And I'm still not wearing red...
Go figure
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as far as I know earth tones, especially greens are known as the healing colors. I have been drawn to green since getting sick as I find it sooths me (sage green to be exact). It is easy on the eyes, doesn't reflect light too much. Its just calming.
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I hate yellow... it has always represented illnes to me.
I really don't like white..... to me it is true and total death.
Orange and green are unpleasant colors to me.... but that might just be the fact that they are awesome colors tainted by yellow.
I love black... it is perfect - safe, whole, balanced ... and all life in all its sound AND silence
My name might have given it away but I have an affinity for blue... I am not sure how blue got all mixed up and assosiated with sadness...
for me blue is the furtherest thing from sadness. blue is happiness, creativity, breathing deep, and the pauses inbetween breaths just full of living, full of meaning, full of being.
Really true blues and blue violiets I prefer to the green blues (its probaly that darn yellow )
Particulary i like azure, cerrulan (sp?), ulteramarine, and if you think way back to the big box of crayola crayons remember sky blue.
I have always been attracted to red. pure red, razor sharp type red...
I hate pink.
I do like purple although less so than blue, red and black. My favorite stone is amyethyst.
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Andie - I was like you - everything in my closet was some shade of sage green.
It was weird, too, because people encouraged it - any time I wore green I'd get compliments on my eyes. I really looked good in green, because it magnified the already intense green in my eyes!
Now though? The opposite. I look pale when I wear green now, but since I've been chelating metals, I think my eyes are less of a POW green.
Reds seem to be one of the colors I NEED lately - deep wine reds though - nothing too bright or orangey. I've been reading that red is an EXECELLENT color for chronic illnesses - even cancer. It's associated with the first chakra - the root chakra.
Green is associated with the heart chakra - the 4th chakra. But I'm told you are to avoid greens if you are trying to get rid of things that are growing - such as cancer cells. I wonder if that is why I no longer love green like I once did? My germs are trying to 'grow' essentially?
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quote:Originally posted by AZURE WISH: My name might have given it away but I have an affinity for blue... I am not sure how blue got all mixed up and assosiated with sadness...
for me blue is the furtherest thing from sadness. blue is happiness, creativity, breathing deep, and the pauses inbetween breaths just full of living, full of meaning, full of being.
Really true blues and blue violiets I prefer to the green blues (its probaly that darn yellow )
*nods* That's it exactly!
Ha, glad my name didn't give me away. (but your name is so much cooler, wished I'd thought of it.)
I painted my bathroom a perfect shade of blue a few years ago. It still makes me happy every time I see it. Thinking of the color makes me smile. It gives me peace and I want to see it, feel it, taste it, be it...
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