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ENERGY WORK Color Effects Blue: Cooling, astringent, and calming. Safest color for any inflammatory condition. Green: Adds harmony, balance, and natural healing. It's a safe color for both physical and emotional pain relief. Orange: Energizes emotions and accesses creativity. Can be used to unblock repressed memories. Purple: Transformative. Aids with anxiety, melancholy, and addictions. Alleviates stress. Red: Stimulates and emboldens. Strengthens anger, movement, and warmth; don't use on inflammation or if someone is angry. White: Brings perfect balance. Can be used on most pain conditions, but you might need to dim for serious pain. Yellow: Strengthens nerves and mind. Can highlight the beliefs supporting painful conditions. Don't use if hostility is present. 112 massage & bodywork january/february 2014 overall consumption levels of medication. Blue light is effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and pain conditions of all sorts. It is also being used to heal injured tissue (including burns), prevent scar tissue, and ease lung conditions. Its opposite—red light—is used for constipation and certain types of wounds. Red also provides an immediate burst of energy, while pink light suppresses hostility, aggressiveness, and anxiety. Pink is often cancelled out by yellow, which is so stimulating that experts suggest a relationship between violent street crime and sodium yellow street lighting.7 Other healing colors include indigo to stabilize; turquoise to disinfect and relax; brown to ground and reconstruct; grey to neutralize; gold to empower; silver to deflect negativity; and black to absorb negativity or dark energies. (After using black to soak up toxicity, surround the resulting package in white light and send it to the heavens.) PUTTING COLOR INTO PRACTICE How do you use this color knowledge in subtle ways while performing body therapies? The core approach is to eliminate the negative colors and add enhancing colors. Know, however, that it's more important to add the correct energy than to find the aberrant energy. Good energy can push out bad energy. The following steps will help you accomplish your goals. Separate the Energy I believe that up to 80 percent of most conditions are not caused by the afflicted person's own energy. Sensitive people, in particular, absorb energy from other people, becoming toxic with others' physical ailments, emotions, beliefs, and even memories. With this in mind, you can use your intuitive faculties to sense if a client's pain is totally their own or not. If you sense that some of the pain is actually someone—or something—else's, send this energy away by simply asking your higher guidance to help you by removing it for you.