Have you ever stopped to wonder why fire engines and stop lights are coloured red? Perhaps you’ve noticed that certain colours just lift your spirits and put you in a great mood while they may do the exact opposite for your spouse or friend. There’s good reason for this. Scientific data confirms that each colour found in the visible light spectrum has it’s own measurable wavelength and vibrational frequency. This means that the colour blue is vibrating at a different frequency, or energy level, than the colour red. Individuals, as well as our animal companions, will have varying reactions to each specific frequency. It is these particular vibrations of colour that treat various conditions by promoting healing and balance in whatever areas that our bodies (or those of our animal companions) are lacking. Issues on physical, emotional, mental or spiritual levels may be treated.
Colour therapy (also known as chromatherapy) is an ancient form of healing which has it’s roots in India (Ayurvedic Medicine), Egypt, and China. To fully understand how colour therapy works and the level that it works on, it’s important to have a general understanding of the human/ animal energy field. In addition to our visible physical bodies, we are each made up of energetic bodies, including the aura or subtle bodies, chakras, and meridians. Universal life force energy enters our field through the subtle bodies and works it’s way through them to the chakras. From there it travels along the meridians and makes it’s way into the nervous, endocrine and circulatory systems and then on to the cells, tissues and organs of the body. When our energy fields are clear of blockages, imbalances and negative influences this process runs smoothly and good health is maintained, however issues, even those that are emotional in nature can interfere with this flow. It is through vibrational therapies such as colour that we can help to restore the balance in this system.
Administering colour to animals can be done in various ways including using coloured fabrics for bedding and blankets, selecting specific colours for halters and collars, bathing them in lights from a colour-filtered light source or solarizing their drinking water. To use colour via light, simply place a coloured light (or regular light with a theatrical colour gel or transparency over it) in an area of the house or stall with a comfy place for them to rest and allow the animal to gravitate to the area on their own. Their instincts will naturally guide them towards what their bodies need. It is very important to make sure they are not subjected to this in a crate, cage or small stall where they are not able to get away from it when they wish to. They will intuitively know if and when they’ve had enough. To solarize drinking water, simply surround a glass container of water with an appropriately coloured theatrical gel and leave it in the sunlight for a number of hours. Then serve this water to your animal companion in their dish or water bucket.
The following is a partial list of colours that can be used and their healing properties on psychological levels
Red - Vitality, Courage, Self Confidence Use for a timid animal or when your companion animal is facing a particularly demanding day and needs extra energy
Orange - Happiness, Confidence. Enthusiasm Use to bring joy to your animal companion, and to help them to be more independent, self assured and social
Yellow - Mental Ability, Versatility, Playfulness Use when concentration is needed or to promote playfulness and flexibility in rigid animals
Green - Balance, Love, Calmness Use to help relax your animal companion and bring about a feeling of peace, harmony and unconditional love
Blue - Health, Knowledge, Relaxation Use to help pacify nervous and hyperactive animal companions, especially those who fret or appear to ruminate
Indigo Sedative, Calming, Intuition Use to enhance telepathic communication with your animal companion, also to calm and sedate them and clear away anger
Violet - Soothing, Inspiration, Creativity Use to give inspiration to an animal during training or difficult tasks,to promote soothing and calming, and to dispel depression
In my healing practice, I have successfully used the colour blue on an elderly dog with bad hips and arthritis to help ease his pain during his final days. I have also recommended using the colours red and orange for a client with a top performing show dog who was required to compete during a false pregnancy while feeling very lethargic and definitely not interested in putting her best foot forward. Another frequently used and favourite of mine is the colour violet to help lift depression. This is a condition that due to many factors is more prevalent than we often realize.
You may be one of the many people who is wondering if animals can see colour. There has been a long standing belief that they can’t. As an Animal Communicator and Healer, animals have shown me time and time again that they can, via the images and impressions that they send me, but to double check this fact, I called a Holistic Veterinarian who confirmed for me that she also believes that they do see colour. What’s interesting to note here is that even if they don’t, it’s the vibrational frequency of the colour not the visual impact that will work on their energy bodies to do the required healing.
While most of what we’ve talked about so far relates to the healing of emotional and behavioural issues, colour therapists routinely work with coloured light sources on physiological issues with great success. To give you a general understanding of how this works, cool coloured lights such as blue, green and violet are used to treat heated conditions such as inflammation or ulcers, whereas cool conditions such as poor circulation respond best to warm coloured lights like red, orange and yellow. To gain a further understanding I highly recommend referring to the book Let There be Light by Darius Dinshah or taking a class with The Colour Institute.
By being conscious of what colours we are placing in our animal companion’s surroundings, we can definitely influence their energy fields in a positive way, and hopefully, avoid any undesired effects. For those of you with an energetic puppy or kitten, perhaps you might want to think twice before redecorating your dining room in red…….green anyone?
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