Chromotherapy and Its Scientific Evolution

Chromotherapy, sometimes called color therapy, colorology or cromatherapy, is an alternative medicine method. It is claimed that a therapist trained in chromotherapy can use color and light to balance "energy" wherever a person's body be lacking, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental. The practice has been labelled pseudoscientific by its critics.

Color therapy is unrelated to light therapy, a valid and proven form of medical treatment for seasonal affective disorder and a small number of other conditions.

You must have often noticed the following lines being uttered whenever we experience various mood swings; ‘I’m having the blues’ or ‘I am seeing red right now’! More often, many people may not realize how we attach importance to colors unknowingly and express out feelings through colors! Colors have certain energy in them, these have a kind of control over the way we feel or we may even use certain colors to express ourselves unknowingly. Color therapy has been prevalent in the society since ancient days and different colors are associated with different meanings. What we wear or the colors of our walls have a lot to say about our personality! So have you often wondered what color therapy is all about? Here, we shall take a look at the finer nuances associated with color therapy and whether it really does signify different energy fields in our lives.

• Orange color is a combination of red and yellow. Its effects are more durable than those of the red color. This color offers positive effects like increase in body resistance against infections. It is more prominently used in healing of stiffness and spasm. It also plays supportive role in augmenting the metabolism rate and strengthening the lungs, spleen and pancreas.

• Blue color increases metabolic reaction rates and is often used in wound healing. This color offers soothing effects on the mind and supports awakening of the subtle intellect when used during meditation practices.

• Violet color can be used in maintaining potassium concentration gradients in the body. Specific high frequency radiations of this color inhibit tumor group. Uncontrolled appetite is controlled by this color.

According to many accounts, color therapy has been around for several centuries. It is believed by some scholars that color therapy originates from Ayurveda which is the long held and revered natural healing system from India.