Vedic Vibrations : The physics of colour healing; ancient to modern wisdom

The colours were considered to be the vital messengers of the sun.

Wellness centre or home, it has a profound role to play with healing energies.

They used it as a symbol of heaven and in the creation of sacred objects and clothing.

In most ancient cultures, physical healing and spiritual ritual were not separated, as they tend to be in our time. The Egyptian, Native Americans and Tibetans have all regarded turquoise as the most sacred of colours. They used it as a symbol of heaven and in the creation of sacred objects and clothing. Purple has been used to express the majesty violet has been associated with prophetic abilities while orange has denoted a visionary. Red has often been used in initiation and blue is regarded as the symbol of emotional maturity. Yellow and green have been the colours of fertility and harvest.

Red has often been used in initiation and blue is regarded as the symbol of emotional maturity.

Yellow with the Sun, Red with Mars, White with the Moon, Green with Mercury, Saturn was associated with Indigo

Early astrologers, who were also concerned with health and well-being, linked the planets inextricably with individual colours – yellow with the Sun, red with Mars, white with the moon, green with mercury, saturn was associated with indigo and so on.

Around the time of the first millennium, when the great cathedrals of Europe were being built recently evolved Gothic architecture; they used to incorporate great beautiful windows, were decorated with vibrant coloured glass. Not only to illuminate the minds and symbolise divine energies, but were used for physical healing as well. The ill and dying were carried into these great buildings and placed in the pools of light shining onto the floor. There they could absorb the healing effects of the colours and many stories of healing ‘miracles’ are on record.

Throughout the medieval era, the doctrine of humours dominated European thought on health and treatment. There were thought to be four elements or humours, and the state of equilibrium between them was considered crucial in consideration of well-being. An imbalance was signified by colour. Black bile was associated with the humour or emotion of melancholy. Too much red blood was thought to be evidence of a sanguine personality. Yellow bile or spleen produced choleric energy, while white represented a phlegmatic personality. This analysis was actually the starting point of the development of modern western diagnosis. The Hindus, Chinese, Greek and Romans had all followed the doctrine of Humours for centuries.

Those of us who live among particular colours and patterns of light can easily become insensitive to their engagement and magic. When we begin to awaken our senses to the beauty, mystery and profound qualities of colours, we become sensitive to its healing properties. In the Hindus and Chinese systems of five elements, which is still used today essentially unchanged, as it has been thousands of years. As any one is irritable is regarded as having excess of fire(wood) energy: this enement governs the liver, signifying the spring-like flow of life force that is present in the organ when it is healthy; it is associated with the colour green. When the liver is in this state, the influence of green surroundings is part of the classic recommended treatment. In modern colour healing, green light could equally well be used to give peace and to calm the nerves.

In the middle ages, too, Paracelsus formulated a methodology for using colours for healing. Unfortunately his work did not gain acceptance. He was attacked and scorned, and most of the manuscripts containing his discoveries were destroyed. Many great and influential figures in history have been bewitched by colours and it’s effects on our state of well-being.

The first person to make people understand how colour works in scientific terms was Sir Isaac Newton, in the 17th century.

He discovered the phenomenon of the visible spectrum, and drew diagrams to demonstrate how sunlight can be broken down into bands of different wavelengths. Each of which represents one of the seven major colours. The interesting thing is that healers from many of the ancient cultures such as the spiritual healers of India, Egypt and China, were all aware of the essentially seven folds nature of colours. So we can say that, in this and many other ways modern science is confirming that the sages of old knew very well indeed. Newton also discovered how it is that the lines along which light travels can be bent and refracted. Newton was in fact the founder of modern physics of colour and light.

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