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Monday, November 28, 2011

The Metaphysics of Color


As promised, this week’s post will feature my personal list of color symbologies. At PRASM, color is our primary focus because we know that color has the power to transform moods, energies and simply make us feel good all around! I hope you all find this list inspirational! Listed below are colors and their meanings.


Ø  Red
o   Enhances human metabolism
o   Promotes respect, recognition and strength
o   Draws attention
o   Boosts mental and physical energy
o   Promotes honesty, aggression and a strong will
o   Promotes assertiveness
o   Enhances passionate love, sex, great energy and confidence
o   Brings passion and strength to relationships

Ø  Blue
o   Enhances good communication, peace, hope and aspiration
o   Promotes sincerity, devotion and patience
o   Symbolizes creativity, productiveness, honor and loyalty
o   Dark blue is the color of prestige, authority and power figures
o   Blue is beneficial for the mind and body as it slows human metabolism and produces a calming effect
o   Stimulates appreciation of music and arts
o   Opens the mind to realities beyond the physical senses

Ø  Green
o   Green soothes and relaxes
o   Promotes abundance, prosperity and hope
o   Promotes stability, calmness and expansion
o   This is a color of balance
o   Promotes forgiveness and compassion
o   Enhances growth, new life and nature
o   Green is refreshing
o   Promotes love, beauty and inner peace

Ø  Yellow
o   Yellow illuminates and clears the mind of the shadow of uncertainty
o   Promotes the warm promise of new beginnings and hope
o   Helps overcome obstacles
o   Gathers self-confidence
o   Stimulates the mind
o   Influences success, progress, change and business communication
o   Connects us to our mental self
o   Promotes personal power, strength and a sense of self
o   Promotes enthusiasm and joy

Ø  Orange
o   Promotes enthusiasm, fascination, happiness and creativity
o   For full bodied power
o   Great for emotional energy and determination
o   Invigorates
o   Entices sensual pleasure
o   Promotes laughter, good things in life and increased interest
o   Connects us to our senses
o   Emotional balancing

Ø  Purple
o   Purple is for power, nobility, luxury and ambition
o   For creativity
o   This is the color of mystery
o   Promotes spirituality
o   Urges us to find our power within
o   Enhances wisdom, dignity and independence
o   For the adventurous heart
o   Creative and strong mental
o   Promotes liveliness and tranquility

Ø  White
o   White is for purity, truth and innocence
o   For simplicity
o   Promotes safety, purity and cleanliness
o   For new beginnings, simplicity, peace and protection
o   Enhances inspiration
o   Opens one up
o   For balance and harmony
o   Connects us to our higher self

Ø  Black
o   For power, elegance and formality
o   Grounds and protects
o   To become cloaked in mystery, where black
o   Promotes potential and possibility
o   Enhances perspective and depth
o   Enhances confidence
o   For secrecy
o   For survival and self-control

Ø  Brown
o   Brown is for order, convention and stability
o   Promotes naturalness
o   Helps one to stay in the background and go unnoticed
o   Puts us in tune with nature
o   For simplicity and solidity
o   Promotes healing
o   Enhances sophistication and elegance
o   Promotes reliability

Ø  Gray
o   Gray is for neutrality and self-control
o   Enhances peace
o   For sophistication
o   Promotes friendship and quiet strength
o   Influences innocence
o   Enhances intelligence, modesty and dignity
o   For balance and self-reliance

Ø  Beige
o   For neutrality
o   It calms, nurtures and promotes gentleness
o   This is also a color of elegance
o   For love and romance
o   Enhances fluid emotion

Ø  Pink
o   For emotional love of self and others
o   Puts you in contact with your feelings of caring, tenderness, self-worth and love
o   Influences acceptance
o   Enhances or draws in friendships
o   For romantic and charming passion
o   Connects us with the heart to enhance giving and receiving
o   For youthfulness, enthusiasm and gentle energy
o   Relieves tension


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