'How To Heal With Color' Art & Creativity
Active colours - How they impact emotions through art and creativity
Healing emotions through art and creativity is something that should be on the top of your daily list.
Many people know the impact colour has on our emotions, moods and can alter your feelings immediately.
What people don't realize is how colour has specific impact, and how certain colours can actually trigger stress in an atmosphere or situation. As human beings we have active times of the day (when you are awake) and times of the day where we need to start slowing down (before bed time and sleeping). Depending on the colour surrounding you, this can reverse the times and create reactions of unnecessary emotions.
How does this work?
If you have colours that trigger you to be awake when your body needs to be sleeping, you will eventually suffer from; irritability, mood swings, tiredness, sleep deprivation to not being alert when you need to be. This can be fatal to both your health and your emotions. It is very important to get the correct amount of undisturbed sleep every day so that your body can take the time to rejuvenate cells, process the day and let go of emotions through cell rejuvenation.
The same happens when you want to communicate with your child. You may feel frustrated because they are not listening to you, but have you thought of the colours surrounding you at the time when you are arguing?
Colours can alter any mood, emotion or irritability. If you are trying to have an end result and you are adding uncomfortable emotions to colours that trigger irritability, the chances of this not resulting in tears and shouting are slim.
Understanding colour meanings:
Active colours: What are active colours? Active colours bring out emotions of alert and staying awake.
Red - A colour that gets you to want to get up and go, take part, move - and definitely not sit still. If you are trying to get your child to sleep and they are sleeping in red clothes, have red in their room, they will have disrupted sleep. This colour is great if you want to get your child to release a bit of pent up frustration, running in the garden and doing activities to release stress. This is suggested to only wear in the day when you want them to do sports. This colour is great to get their cells charged, but make sure they are doing an activity to release (especially sports)
Orange - A colour to let go and receive nurturing. A very playful colour which brings out the fun, spontaneous and pleasure side of our emotions. This colour is great to have in your play and creative areas. If you are needing to speak about feelings, possibly arguments, sharing and listening to one another. This colour supports emotions of trust to open up and speak out. Be aware that its important to not interupt your child when they do open up - as they need to get things 'off their chest'. As this is a playful colour, having this in the bedroom will keep their minds active and playful not supporting relaxed sleeping patterns
Yellow - A colour of mental learning, growing and stimulation. This colour is great to have in any learning environment. It wakes up the brain to work with the senses, exploring and especially learning how to remember information. If your child is battling with school projects, tests, this is a great colour to have around helping them grow and develop mentally. As this is a playful colour, having this in the bedroom will keep their minds awake constantly thinking of new ideas, hence not supporting relaxed sleeping patterns.
How to introduce colour into your child's life:
Keeping the active colours out of the room will change your child's mood and sleep patterns. Pay attention to the type of clothing they are wearing at the time. Children's clothing is extremely bright - especially baby clothing. Parents can't always understand why their children are not experiencing full sleep. Although they may sleep, they are actively awake with their minds which can trigger emotions and irritability.
If your child has active toys in their room. Have a toy box that can hide the toys when they sleep. The idea is to have these colours surrounding them in the 'active parts of the day' to keep them active. Some parents even have a small tent or corner enclosed which their child can crawl into. There, they have orange cushions or pictures to support them when they need to speak openly about their feelings. Remember, it needs to be enclosed so that when they sleep it doesn't actively keep them awake
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