Color therapy:

• the use of color transmitted through the spectrum of light, to help aid patients suffering from emotional, psychological, and physical ailments.

• often non-invasive and have been proven to assist with enhancing mood and energy.

• Successful applications include SAD treatment, collagen regeneration, and mood enhancement.

history:

• Color therapy is traced as far back to ancient cultures in Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia, with applications varying from creams to clothing to colored rooms to light immersion and more.

• Aristotle's color theory thought of all color existing between the spectrum of black to white, or from shade to light.

• Avicenna in The Canon of Medicine (1025) made the correlation between using the red to induce blood flow, blue for cooling and relaxing effects, and yellow for pain reduction. Nearly 1000 years later, this would be proven by psychologists Gerard and Hessay. Avicenna used color to assist beside diagnosis.

• Isaac Newton's color theory remains in use today and comes from his experiment refracted light through a prism which then resulted in the visible spectrum of color. Newton identified 5 colors in the visible light spectrum by refracting light through a prism, eventually concluding there were 7 colors.

• Goethe rejected Newton's idea, expanded upon Aristotle's ideas and believed color sprung from the spectrum of light and shadow, with blue and yellow being the center of the spectrum.

• Edwin Babbitt’s The Principles of Light and Color (1878), discussed healing physical and psychic problems using color found through harmonics, mathematics, and esoteric connections.

Color acts as a conceptual bridge in Spectrasomatics;

It connects therapeutic combinations with the chakras.

color therapy