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Peace Symbol - Colour
By peace | May 5, 2006
In Itself Colour can have a profound effect on us on all levels, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
We are in a world where colour dominates our lives, from reading signs on the road to seeing if fruit is ripe to eat. It affects our moods - blue is calming - red can make us tense. We use and experience colour everyday in our lives without even appreciating it.
Colour is simply light of different wavelengths. We are surrounded by electromagnetic waves of energy of which colour is a small part. All the electromagnetic rays are invisible to the human eye from the top of the spectrum - cosmic rays - to the bottom - radio waves - with the exception of the middle of the spectrum.
The secondary colours (violet orange and green) are produced when two subtractive primary colours are mixed.
Visible light falls in the middle of the colour spectrum. In physics, the visible spectrum has three primary colours - Red, Green and Blue; chemically, colour is derived from pigments and compounds and the three primary colours here are Red, Yellow and Blue.
The secondary colours (magenta cyan and yellow) are produced when two additive primary colours are mixed.
Any two of these will give a third colour - a secondary colour. The sensory aspect of colour is visual and deals with the physiology and psychology. So here we see the two above systems in the perception of sight and there are then two combinations of three primaries, i.e. Red, Yellow and Blue and Red, Blue and Green. All other colours are derived from these.
Tertiary colours are a combination of primary and secondary colours. They are produced when mixing a primary and secondary colour.
It is not only the plants and trees and their flowers and fruits which give us colour, but also the many wonderful creatures who share this planet with us who contribute to the amazing colour palette, and the planet herself. What more dramatic colours could you ask for than the variations of the blues of the sky, the blue/greens of the oceans, and the reds and oranges of sunsets - to name but a few.
The subject of Nature is enormous and it would be almost impossible to include every aspect of nature and healing.
Importance of Colours
Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite.
When used in the right ways, color can save on energy consumption. When used in the wrong ways, color can contribute to global pollution.
As a powerful form of communication, color is irreplaceable. Red means “stop” and green means “go.” Traffic lights send this universal message. Likewise, the colors used for a product, web site, business card, or logo cause powerful reactions.
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