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Select the Needed Color This can be done in a variety of ways. Use the color list on page 112, or find other research to guide your path. Follow your intuition, or that of the client's. Ask her, "If you could select a color that would reduce your pain, what might it be?" Also, ask your higher power to provide insight or to directly provide the colors needed. Deliver the Healing There are several methods for subtle color healing: • Through Your Hands. Most healers send energy through one hand, typically their dominant hand, and receive energy through the other hand. The challenge in using our body as a channel is that we are affected by the energy that runs through, or into, us. Because of this, I recommend that body therapists either flow the energy around, not through, their hands, or ask their higher power to deliver the correct colors and remove the unnecessary colors. Know that your hands do not need to be set directly on an injured area. You can hold them above a site, or if pain is systemic, above the heart—the most potent electromagnetic organ in the body. Bring the heart into balance and the rest of the body follows. • Visualization. Use your intuition to help you perceive the pain-causing colors and the hues that will restore balance. Picture your hands (or those of a spiritual helper) taking away the negative energy and inserting the positive. You can also engage your client and guide him to conduct this exercise. • Tools and Implements. Some clients are kinesthetic and respond best to physicality. Brainstorm ways they can integrate the beneficial color into their lives, perhaps employing clothing, flowers, jewelry, pillows, or stones. Even drinking water out of a colored bottle has been shown to affect health. In the end, remember that all of life is color—colors in which to dance, play, and sing. As John Ruskin, the Victorian artist, writer, and philanthropist, wrote: "The purest and most thoughtful of minds are those which love color the most." Notes 1. T. Samina, Y. Azeemi, and S. Mohsin Raza, "A Critical Analysis of Chromotherapy and Its Scientific Revolution," EvidenceBased Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2 (2005): accessed December 2013, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/ PMC1297510/; Spiritual.com, A. Fares, "Color Therapy Then & Now—Part 2," accessed December 2013, www.spiritual.com. au/2011/07/color-therapy-then-now-2/; Coalition for Health Environments Research, Ruth Brent Tofle, et al., "Color in Healthcare Environments, A Research Report," accessed December 2013, www.healthdesign.org/sites/default/files/color_in_hc_environ.pdf. 2. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals, "ABMP's National Consumer Survey," conducted by Harstad Strategic Research, January 2013. 3. The American Academy of Pain Medicine, "AAPM Facts and Figures on Pain," accessed December 2013, www.painmed.org/patientcenter/facts_on_pain.aspx. 4. Healthline, "Back Pain 101," accessed December 2013, www.healthline.com/health/back-pain. 5. Daniel E. Moerman, "The Meaning Response: Thinking About Placebos," Pain Practice 6, no. 4, accessed December 2013, www.academia.edu/4469272/EDITORIAL_The_ Meaning_Response_Thinking_about_Placebos. 6. S. F. McDonald, "Effect of Visible Light Waves on Arthritis Pain: A Controlled Study," International Journal of Biosocial Research 3, no. 2 (1982): 49–54; Rodrigo Noseda et al., "A Neural Mechanism for Exacerbation of Headaches by Light," Nature Neuroscience 13 (2010): accessed December 2013,  www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v13/n2/full/nn.2475.html. 7. Theo Gimbel, Healing Through Colour, (England: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1980): 93, 99; A. G. Schauss, "Tranquilizing Effect of Color Reduces Aggressive Behavior and Potential Violence," Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, 8, no. 4 (1979): 218–21.   Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, and intuitive consultant. Her books include the bestselling The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy (Sounds True, 2009), The Complete Book of Chakra Healing (Llewellyn Publications, 2009), and Advanced Chakra Healing (Crossing Press, 2005). To learn more about Dale and her products, services, and classes, please visit www.cyndidale.com.

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