We Live In An Ocean Of Energy

Colours and their meanings

This ones on colour with the first being a scientific look followed by a metaphysical perspective.

We live in an ocean of energy. A sea of oscillations and interactions. Light and colour are vibrations in this eternal play of energy. As with religions today, the ancients saw colour as an important part of ceremony and ritual. To understand colour it helps to have an understanding of light and energy. There are many forms of energy in the universe. One form, electromagnetic energy or radiation includes light and is known as the electromagnetic spectrum.

The spectrum is made up of many energy bands, which are measured as waves, or frequencies of cycles per second using the unit of hertz. Each form of energy vibrates or oscillates at different rates allowing us to measure and distinguish between them. A wave of high frequency has a short wavelength, while a wave of low frequency has a long wavelength.

The electromagnetic spectrum includes light, infrared as heat, radio waves and x-rays all oscillating at different frequencies. All of nature actually exists as a vast oscillatory spectrum, of which we are the observers and participants. For the most part light is the only energy form visible to the human eye. Sir Isaac Newton in the 17th century was the first person to prove experimentally that sunlight or white light was in fact made up the band of colours, which we know as the rainbow spectrum. The spectrum contains the 7 colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

These colours are perceived differently because they are travelling or vibrating at different frequencies. The warmer colours of red orange and yellow have a much shorter wavelength or higher frequency. While the cooler colours of blue indigo and violet have a much longer wavelength or lower frequency.

Colour shapes the form of everything we see. In fact Einstein said that all forms of matter are light waves are energy in motion. The body’s energy fields are changing due to the influence of the energy around us. Our thoughts and feelings can change our own energy field. Biofeedback research has shown that thoughts can change heart rate, the ability of the body to perceive pain and a host of other body/mind functions.

There are many phenomena yet to be explained by science concerning the movement of energy in a person’s body. All life is made in an aura or some energy field. People see such energy fields around the body which is in a constant state of flux changing in accord with ones emotions and feelings.

Studies from around the world show that specific colours affect the same stimuli and behavioural patterns in many of us. Orange and red have a stimulating effect, increasing blood pressure, pulse rate and perspiration, while blue is relaxing. Many colours such as pink have a quietening effect when viewed. Somehow the colours rays are directly affecting us. Even time seems to move faster in a blue or green room than a red or orange room.

Just as music inspires moods feelings and emotions, so do colours. From this we can conclude that the colours that we see, the colours we wear and the colours that surround us, influence our thoughts, our emotions and well-being. We can therefore use colour to balance the physical and spiritual aspects of our lives.

Music and colour have have long been associated. They are both simply the oscillation of energy. Interestingly light requires no physical medium to be transmitted whereas sound requires the oscillation of particles in space to move. So could sound and light be the same energy but transmitted differently or even just perceived differently by the human senses.

Pythagoras may have thought just this. His theory on colour and harmonic scale is fascinating. Pythagoras found that music has a mathematical foundation, developing the diatonic scale on which much of the world’s music is based. According to Pythagoras each artist composes around a particular dominant colour. He developed the idea of the music of the spheres where the whole cosmos became a dance of colour and music. The colour music correspondence is also used by Indians yogis in kundalini yoga.

We can now marry knowledge from western science and eastern science philosophy to create a fascinating insight into our bodies and relate this to colour. According to the eastern view, the seven energy centres in the body called chakras have their own vibration and associated colour. We can relate each of these chakras to an endocrine gland, or organ of the human body and a note of music.

RED — the first or root chakra; relating to physical drive, heat, stability and grounding and note C.
ORANGE — the second, the Sacral Chakra, relating to warmth, sexuality and pleasure, the lower abdominal area and note D.
YELLOW — the third, the Solar Plexus chakra relating to the stomach area, solar plexus and pancreas and note E.
GREEN — the fourth, the Heart Chakra relating to the heart and thymus gland and note F.
BLUE — the fifth, the Throat Chakra relating to the throat and thyroid gland and note E.
INDIGO — the sixth, the Third Eye Chakra relating to the pituitary and thalamus glands the third eye and note A.
VIOLET — the seventh, the Crown Chakra relating to the pineal gland and note B.

Just to elaborate a little on the endocrine glands — they are ductless glands, which secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream. They play a vital role in regulating growth, development and the function of certain tissues coordinating many of the metabolic processes within our bodies. There is still much scientific speculation as to some of the functions of the thalamus, pineal and pituitary glands. The pineal, often called the master gland, has been demonstrated to be sensitive to light, and therefore colour and many argue that the others are as well. 

Again looking at the eastern view, the first 3 chakras are the Yang chakras relating to the masculine energy. The top three are the Yin chakras related to the feminine energy and the fourth or heart chakra is the bridge between this duality.

We can use colours for our own wellbeing just like many ancient civilisations. Visualising rays of colour will have physical and psychological results. For example if you are experiencing tiredness or lethargy, stop and calm yourself, take some slow deep breaths and visualise the colour red. Immerse yourself in deep red and breathe in this active colour. See the colour radiating from the base of your spine. Using such simple techniques one can alter behaviour, heal ones body and change thoughts.

Meditating on colour is an effective way to gain inner peace and spirituality. Colour meditation is a very powerful healer, energiser and balancer. The guided meditation on track 1 takes you through each colour related chakra and organ. Following is a brief explanation of colour and their properties. 

RED is the sun the first of the three primary colours. Through red the human spirit finds activity released through the physical. Associated with the first chakra, red relates to our drive of the self through survival. It is the strength in doing. It has more association more symbolism than any other colour. Red the symbol of blood is action and is seldom ignored. Red excites and angers. It is our willpower. Our perception of time stabilises when bathed in red. Red helps overcome escapism-bringing people to earth, to the present. Love and hate virtue and evil are all are all aspects of the duality that red brings to our lives. Need regenerating, bathe yourself in the exciting colour of red.  

ORANGE is emotion. It is warmth and stimulation lacking the passion of red. It is the social nature colour. Orange between red and yellow is release from the physical and conflict with the mental. Orange is the least liked because it is the colour people become not the colour people gather around them. It stimulates optimism expansiveness and ambition. Orange is a restless and busy colour of energetic social contact, suspicion and mistrust. The drive of orange is for the group the lover of people. Orange is release from emotion. So when overburdened with fear, anger frustration or judgement surround yourself with emotion and relapse the orange within you.

YELLOW is the ray of the sun. The second of the primary colours yellow tells of imagination novelty nervous drive. Intellectuals and idealists are attracted by yellow stimulating linear and left-brain activity. Yellow is attention to detail administration discipline evaluation active intelligence sincerity and a search for self fulfilment. It implies great depth of introspection and contemplation. It is physical freedom but mental imprisonment. Spiritually it is the physical healer – the warming rays of the sun. yellow releases energy form the solar plexus, releasing fear from the mind. Those who are high minded, subscribe to cults and pantheistic phiosophies and high spirituality are attracted to yellow. If  you need physical release and mindful strength relax and surround yourself with the healing rays of yellow

GREEN. Cool fresh and comforting in its beauty green is growth; abundance in nature, in life. Green, the heart chakra, is benevolence, the balance between warm colours below and the cool colours above. It is the bridge, the stepping stone, from the physical emotional and mental to the spiritual. Love of self, balance, harmony growth and healing, green is the protector, the immunity. Self assertive persuasive individuals are attracted to green. It is the force of humanity, the respecter of rights, of home builder, of the parent. Green is the good citizen, the outdoors. Metaphysically green is the philosopher having gone beyond the subconscious and moving to spirit. For growth and healing surround yourself with the cool livingness of green. 

BLUE is the sky through which the red sun and its yellow rays must pass. The third of the primary colours, blue is the favourite of all colours. Blue relates to the throat, the thyroid gland and therefore regulation. It relays the need for inner peace and truth. A spiritual security. It is universal. Blue designates refinement and is sensitive to others and to self. Having a secure rule over physical passions and mentality, blue knows of love spiritually and expresses it in all ways. Blue is the colour of commitment, of devotion, of loyalty. Blue stimulates inspiration, feeling and creativity and patience. Blue is the bypass to the subconscious. From blue one flows to their higher self. Relax on your way to your higher self surrounded by blue

INDIGO is the cool breeze within colour, relating to the brow chakra, the pituitary and thalamus. Blue is the bypass to the subconscious but indigo is the path beyond. It calms and soothes in the spiritual confusion. Consoling to troubled hearts. Indigo is red a little green and a little blue and has their strengths. It is the release from the physical, from the emotion and philosopher spiritualist, for it is the connection with the god force within. Indigo is clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience, awakening other dimensions of reality. It is the etheric web connection from the heart to the centre eye and crown. For heightened perception relax to the cool breeze of indigo. 

VIOLET is the higher self. Within violet one can move within what you have been and what you are. It sees beyond the day acknowledging the sacred. It represents humility, the edge between order and chaos. Being at one with the universe in wonder bliss and self-surrender. Violet is where we understand the love of the god force, the new light of peace within. Violet merges easily to black with intense activity. The evolution from this life to the next. From one grwoth pattern to another. The background of the cosmos. Violet to black is the building of a new day. The discovery of the higher self, and then evolution. If you need a welcome change in your life, relax as violet merges into black.

WHITE is the highest colour. It transcends the physical. True white is the base of all colours. It is the reflector, the protector. White is true visibility where all can be seen. It is the realisation of the god force, the positive force shield, transcendence.

Thanks to Marshall Lever for some of this info.
Best to you
CJ Wild

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