How to Use Color Therapy in Our Everyday Life

When we were kids, our favorite way to break the ice was to ask someone “what’s your favorite color?” It was simple, yet so telling. From a young age, we all understood that different colors affected people in different ways. 

Studies and holistic health practices have supported the idea that color can positively shape our habits, thinking, and emotions. The more we learn about color and how it influences us, the more we can use it to improve our lives.

What is Color Therapy?

Color therapy uses color to help treat mental and physical health conditions. Everyone has their own subconscious response to different colors - evoking therapeutic, energizing, or stimulating qualities that can positively impact our lives in a variety of ways. 

Studies have suggested that it can help with stress, depression, high blood pressure, sleep disorders, anxiety, and more. Experts who back this theory believe that understanding the effects color has on our mental wellbeing can better help us navigate the ups and downs of everyday life.

The Subconscious Meaning of Every Color

Green:

Relaxes and eases stress.

Supports balance, harmony, love, socialness, nature, and acceptance.

Blue:

Treats depression, pain, and can be helpful for those with sleeping disorders.

Increases calmness, communication, honesty, self-expression, and appreciation.

Yellow:

Enhances mood, and can help make you feel happier. Increases fun, sense of humor, lightness, personal power, intellect, logic, and creativity.

Orange:

Helps with happiness, mental activity, and appetite. Stimulates productivity, pleasure, optimism, enthusiasm, and emotional expression.

Red:

Energizes your body, and invigorates someone who might be feeling tired or down. Increases physical activity, stamina, grounding, spontaneity, stability, and passion.

How It Can Help You

From picking out an outfit to deciding on wall paint, we all make different color choices to impact the way we feel. The positive effects of color therapy can be felt from something as simple as what you choose to paint in our BrushCapades class. 

If color has the power to influence our moods and perspectives, it does the same through art. Let’s put our knowledge into action and paint something meaningful in a virtual class with BrushCapades! Browse our gallery and choose a painting that’s perfect for you.