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ANCIENT HISTORY OF COLOUR THERAPY

The use of colour for healing has been practiced throughout the ages. Many ancient cultures from the Mayans to the Native Americans knew how the different colours in nature affected them and used colours to bring balance and harmony in all areas of their lives. Light and colour connected them to nature and to the rhythms of the universe.

When people moved away from nature and began living indoors and away from natural daylight, they found that they started becoming ill. People then began to realise that the colours of the food they ate affected their well-being and that colours could also be used for protection and to encourage good fortune.

Ancient Cultures

The Atlanteans are believed to have developed an advanced system of using colour and crystals and, according to legend, built circular temples with individual healing rooms. The ceilings of their temples would have been domed and made of crystals that transformed the light shining through into patterns of colour and vibrations. When entering an individual room, a crystal door would close and the room would then be energised to the frequency of colour required to heal the specific illness

or imbalance of the person being treated,

Archaeologists discovered that the ancient Egyptians used their temples in a similar way, with certain rooms constructed in such a manner as to allow the rays of the sun shining through scatter into the colours of the spectrum. Like the Atlanteans, it is believed that the sick were diagnosed and put into one of the rooms that radiated the prescribed colour for treatment.

Just as the Atlanteans were believed to have done, the ancient Egyptians

also used gems in colour treatment. They maintained that as gems are pure and contain concentrated colour, gems would have the greatest effect on the body. They would grind the gemstones into fine powder to administer to each patient. This is the same principle as used in Ayurvedic medicine, a 5000 year old healing science originating from India and the oldest medical system practiced in Hindu, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist countries throughout the world.

In Egyptian mythology, blue, yellow and red were attributed to their gods: blue to Thoth who was worshipped as the god of wisdom, time, writing and the moon; yellow to Isis, the queen of the goddesses and wife of Osiris, a great healer and magician and who taught women how to grind corn, spin flax, weave cloth and also taught men the art of curing disease; red to Osiris, god of the sun, and first worshipped as a nature god embodying the spirit of vegetation that dies with the harvest to be reborn again in spring. He was later worshipped as a god of the dead.

The Egyptians believed that blue rays were at their most powerful in the morning and in the spring, yellow rays at noon and in the summer and red rays in the afternoon and in autumn. (New Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology, 1959) Ayurveda is an ancient form of medicine practiced in India for thousands of years, the philosophy being to treat the whole being – the body, mind and spirit – not just the physical symptoms. Practitioners of Auyervedic medicine believe that all beings wear a coat of many colours, which continually change according to a person’s mental, emotional and

physical well-being. This coat consists of seven bodies, which interpenetrate each other and make up the aura or electromagnetic field. Contained within these bodies are the seven chakras or energy centres which are likened to a whirling mass of energy. Each of these radiate the colours of the spectrum, each colour being associated with one of the endocrine glands in the physical body. We will discuss these layers and the aura later in this course.

The father of modern Western medicine, Hippocrates, knew the importance

of balance between the body, mind and spirit and used colour as an intrinsic

part of the healing process. His followers, however, opted to concentrate on

the physical aspects of healing, using a more scientific approach and eschewing the more subtle forms of medicine. Western medicine has since developed this scientific approach, preferring to focus on healing the physical body rather than the balancing of the whole.

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Marti Oliphant

Learning and Development Director for Therapy Angel Luna Online Home Studies