Color Magic for Beginners: Simple Tecniques to Brighten & Empower Your Life: Simple Techniques to Brighten & Empower Your Life (Llewellyn's for Beginners) - Softcover

Webster, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738708860 ISBN 13: 9780738708867

Verlag: LLEWELLYN PUB, 2006

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From our clothes to the color of our bedroom walls, we are surrounded by colors that influence our mood, energy level, creativity, and overall well being. Richard Webster offers an astonishing number of ways to use stimulating reds, soothing blues, and every other color of the rainbow to our advantage.

Webster begins with an overall picture of each color's major aspects—its psychological influence, healing qualities, emotional impact, and magical characteristics. From there, readers learn a multitude of color-based techniques involving astrology, the aura, candle magic, chakras, color rituals, crystals and gemstones, feng shui, flower magic, mandalas, meditation, numerology, and visualization. Webster demonstrates how color can be used to attract good luck, heal illness, reduce stress, create harmony in the home, overcome depression, solve problems, and magically enhance one's life in a variety of ways.

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Richard Webster (New Zealand) is the bestselling author of more than one hundred books. Richard has appeared on several radio and television programs in the US and abroad, including guest spots on WMAQ-TV (Chicago), KTLA-TV (Los Angeles), and KSTW-TV (Seattle). He travels regularly, lecturing and conducting workshops on a variety of metaphysical subjects. His bestselling titles include Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians and Creative Visualization for Beginners. Learn more at Psychic.co.nz.

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Every day you make color choices. You may decide to wear a particular outfit because you have an important meeting to go to. This choice may be made consciously or unconsciously. If you need confidence for any reason, you might deliberately choose red. However, if you knew you were going to be dealing with difficult people, you might unconsciously decide to wear blue. Instinctively, you would be making the right color choice.

You even make color choices with your food. You might choose a red apple in preference to a yellow banana. This may have nothing to do with taste, but be a subconscious decision based on the right color for you at that time. Incidentally, you should eat foods of many different colors to keep your body healthy.

After breakfast, you'll brush your teeth. What color is your toothbrush? What made you choose a toothbrush of that particular color?

You might drive to work in your own car. Why did you choose a car of that particular color? As you go to work you might see green grass and a blue sky. You'll certainly see many different colored vehicles on the road.

You may not have a great deal of choice in the color scheme at your place of work, but the chances are that you can add different colors by personalizing your workspace with potted plants, ornaments and photographs.

All day long you're being exposed to a variety of different colors. These colors affect every aspect of your being. The psychological effects that colors have on people have been studied for many years. The colors of fire, such as red, orange and yellow, make us feel warm. This is not just a psychological effect, as scientists have demonstrated that under a red light we secrete more adrenaline, our blood pressure and rate of breathing increase, and our temperature rises slightly. The opposite occurs under blue lighting. We consider blue and green to be cooling colors.

Even young children are aware of the psychological effect that different colors produce. They usually relate red to anger, aggression, and excitement, while green is related to peace and quietness. In 1978 a study was undertaken in which children were asked to color in a shape while looking at happy and sad pictures. They used orange, yellow, green, and blue while looking at the happy pictures, but chose brown, black, and red while looking at the sad ones.¹

People also have personal color preferences, and these vary as we go through life. All around the world young children like red best. Only after the age of eight do children express a preference for cool colors. Not surprisingly, extroverted adolescents like red, while their quieter, more reserved compatriots prefer blue. More than half of all adults in the Western world say that blue is their favorite color.² Only in Spain is red placed before blue and yellow as a favorite color. Elderly people prefer light colors, but find yellow the least appealing.

There may be a geographical basis on which colors people like best. In an experiment, Scandinavian people indicate a preference for blue and green, while people from Mediterranean countries preferred the warmer colors.³

Let's start by looking at the basic meanings of the colors you see most frequently.Red
As red is the color of blood, it is considered to be the color of life. It is stimulating, vital, enthusiastic, energetic and passionate. If you are "red-blooded," you possess these qualities. It is intense and has a strong desire to achieve. Shakespeare wrote: "My love is like a red, red rose," as it is also the color of love. This is why red flowers are so popular on Valentine's Day. Red is a powerful color that is related to conquest and success. This is why we "roll out the red carpet for important dignitaries. Important things happen on "red-letter days." If you won the lottery and bought yourself a sports car, you would probably request that it be red. This is because a red sports car symbolizes all the qualities we have mentioned.

When red is used positively it is fun loving, creative, ambitious, persistent, and motivated. It symbolizes strength, power, and self-confidence.

Interesting Facts About Red
The word red is derived from two words: the Sanskrit rudhira and the Anglo-Saxon read.

Red is associated with the planet Mars, which was named after the Roman god of war (who drove a red chariot). Red was also the color of the Russian Revolution, which is why the communists were called "Reds."

When red is used negatively it is destructive. An angry person "sees red." When someone is caught "red-handed," they are committing a crime. The very term "red-handed" conjures up an image of blood on the hands. In the seventh century, adulteresses in New England had to wear a scarlet letter A to compound their shame and disgrace. In the Bible we read: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isaiah 1:18) As red attracts immediate attention, it is used on stoplights and on signs indicating danger. At one time, red-haired and red-bearded people were viewed with suspicion. This is because Judas Iscariot was believed to have red hair.

Red is useful for people who want to lose weight, as it stimulates the pituitary gland and speeds up the assimilation of food.

Insurance company records show that red-colored cars are more likely to be involved in accidents than cars of other colors. However, there is also a tradition that says that a red ribbon should be tied inside all new cars to produce safe driving.

Cardinals wear red vestments to remind them of the blood spilled by the Christian martyrs. The ancient Greeks wore red robes when acting the Iliad to remind them of the blood spilled in battle.

The legendary philosopher's stone, which was sought after by medieval alchemists because they believed it cured disease and transformed base metals into gold, was thought to be red in color.

The Hebrew people consider red the color of sacrifice and sin. Red symbolizes the blood of Christ for Christians. Consequently, it was sometimes worn by martyrs.

Orange
Orange is exciting, assertive, joyful, and persistent. It balances the life-force color of red with the lightness and goal-setting qualities of yellow. This combines physical energy with the power of thought, providing the potential for wisdom as well as achievement. Orange encourages new ideas and new ways of looking at things. It is thoughtful and considerate, as well as energetic. Orange symbolizes warmth, expansion, prosperity, harvest, tolerance, and love for all life.

Orange is usually positive. However, when it is used negatively, it can be sensual, self-indulgent, lazy, and lacking in energy.

Orange is virile and is useful for people who need more force and drive.

Interesting Facts About Orange
Oranges were not imported into Europe until medieval times. Until the seventeenth century, the word orange was associated only with the fruit. Items that were orange in color were called red, yellow, or gold. At about the same time, orange gained an erotic connotation. This is because the people of the day believed that Nell Gwynne (c.1650-1687) seduced King Charles II (1630-1685) with the oranges she sold.

In ancient Rome, people used bleach and henna to create red and orange hair, which was considered highly fashionable.

Orange was the color of the early Christian church, as oranges symbolized the fruits of the earth.

In Northern Ireland, the Protestants who want to remain part of the United Kingdom are called the Orange after the orange-colored flowers they have worn in their parades since 1795.

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• Verlag: LLEWELLYN PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0738708860
• ISBN 13: 9780738708867
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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