Color Therapy in Mental Health and Well Being

Color Therapy in Mental Health and Well Being

Author Name : Dr. Rakesh Gupta

ABSTRACT

Color therapy is a method of treatment that uses the visible spectrum (colors) of electromagnetic radiation to cure diseases. It is a centuries-old concept used successfully over the years to cure various diseases ¹. Today in the age of globalization alternative medicines are widely used to solve numerous health and mind related problems. Color Therapy is one of the most popular alternative medicines used to influence the behavior and brain of people. It has been immense used in Egypt, India and China for centuries. The benefits of color therapy are undeniable ². Color Therapists or Chromo therapists claim to be able to use different lights or rays in the form of color to maintain a balance or energy lacking in a person’s body. The lacking can be of emotional, mental, spiritual and/or physical. The different colors we see in the world around us are the result of the eye perceiving light vibrating at different frequencies. Sunlight, or full-spectrum light, holds all the wavelengths of color in the visible spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, and magenta) as well as infrared and ultraviolet light, which cannot be seen. To treat both physical and emotional problems, color therapy may involve exposure to colored lights, massages using color-saturated oils, contemplating and visualizing colors, even wearing colored clothing and eating colored foods ³. Color is an important component of our built environment and without its presence; our environment would be dull and depressing. It plays a vital role in our built environment, especially in relation to the partially blind, infants, hospital patients and people who are for some reason or the other feel trapped and unhappy with their way of life. The aim of this article is to review the role of different colors and its properties to maintain the mental health and wellbeing ⁴.

Key words: color therapy, mental health, color properties, color psychology, numerology etc.