What is your favorite colour? Everyone gets asked that question. I use to reply, "black" they would laugh and say, that is not a color, no, I would say...but if you mix it with others, you get a colour, so I like to be the base that grounds a colour...little did I know what wearing so much black was doing to me and my outlook on life.
It dawned on me, when I realized that I wore black from head to toe, socks, shoes, bra, underpants you name it...even my eyeshadow was the darkest shade of grey I could find,until a dear friend of mine, asked me to try to wear more colour. I can't tell you what a struggle that was the next morning! I did own color, I would buy things and wear them once and not wear them again, I think I could supply clothes for a small town with everything I own. She told me that wearing colour would lift my spirits, make me smile and make others notice me in a good way, not as the dark cloud or grieving person I became known as. So, with that, I started on my colour journey, even as I sit here, I am wearing colour, not for fashion, but for my soul and spirit. Wearing colour has given me light, self-esteem, confidence, and happiness above all. So, since I have found a healing quality to colour, below are some color meanings:
Violet: calming for the body and mind
Indigo: Dreams, helps to open our intuition
Blue: calming. relaxing
Green: Balancing, unconditional love ( bet you didn't know that green, not red is the colour of love)
Yellow: stimulates mental activity, feeling of confidence
Orange: warming and energizing
Red: Energizing, stimulates appetite, grounding
Magenta: Playful, balancing spirit and matter
Turquoise: cool & calming, good for artists
Pink: soothes and nurtures, helps dissolve anger
White: giving protection, divine connection to the body
Black: absorbs, letting all energies come in
All the black I use to wear was absorbing all the negative energies, emotions and problems of others, but most importantly, keep mine stuck when my soul and body were shaking for release, the release of sadness, so I could become happy. I have learned that colour, can change your life, I use to say I hated blue ( blue jeans fine, but any other blue..didn't like it) now it is the colour I love most - because for me, blue is healing, blue is protection, blue is the colour of the sky for me even when it is cloudy, because colour made me find my creative side again, I buried that girl so long ago, but she tapped me on the shoulder a couple of weeks after I swore off black...I could sense and hear her say ..."it is beautiful on this side of the rainbow isn't it?? Welcome back my love."
God didn't make our world dark, there is colour in everything he created, even ourselves, he is just waiting for us to find the one that makes us shine. He didn't want us to be swallowed by darkness, so why would we chose to at our own will. What colour are you?
xoxo
BT&HB
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