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
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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,"
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