Does Colour Affect Your Health?

Colour can be associated with everything. Passion, hatred, calmness, energy, fatigue, death, life, fund-raising, awareness- the list goes on and on. We choose certain colours to paint the walls of our homes because they tend to trigger certain responses.

I don’t usually put a lot of thought into colour. For me, its more of an automatic response. I just gravitate to whatever is needed in the moment. For example, I have this really bright pink sweater (the colour of my sidebar on this blog), and I wear it, when I need a little extra help getting pumped up. In other words, the pink makes me look a little healthier – and so I tend to feel better, when I wear it.

But for the everyday, the colour that I see the most is green. However, I rarely wear the colour.

The handbag that I carry during the summer months is green, and so is the laptop bag that I just bought. The accessories in my apartment tend to be on the green side. In fact, looking around my apartment, I am surprised to see so much green everywhere. Green couch, green area rug, green pillows, green lucky bamboo (in a yellowish-green vase), green lap blanket, an entire bookshelf of green books. I like to drink out of green coffee cups.

I wanted to know why green is so overwhelmingly popular in my house. I have never really acknowledged it as the colour that I like the best – so I wonder why I surround myself with it.

Perhaps its because green is known as a balancing colour. A colour found directly in the middle of the colour spectrum. Maybe this means that I need centering- and colour is a way to help me achieve it. It is most certainly true, that I am most comfortable (and least anxious) when I am home.

I am not going to question it though. If green makes me feel good – I will embrace it.

What does colour do for you? Do you tend to gravitate to a certain colour- and why do you think that is? Please leave a comment and let me know.

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