'How To Heal with Color' Passive colours in art and creativity

Passive colours in Art and creativity

In our last post we covered how active colours have an impact on your emotions. In this post we will be looking at the impact passive colours have and how they alter your emotions

As we now realize how colour has specific impact, and how certain colours can actually trigger stress in an atmosphere or situation. The times of the day which is known as 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).

We now know:

That active colours (red, orange and yellow) support the brain to be active in learning, expressing emotions, releasing frustration and the importance of where the colour is at the time of learning.

It is very easy to assume that the passive colours would calm a child down. This is not always the case as they can actually trigger more irritability and mood swings. Lets look at the colours below:

Passive colours:

Green - I would say that this colour is the safest colour if you are trying to get any child to calm down, relax, sleep, breathe and release frustration. This colour can be both in a bedroom and in your active rooms. Think of nature. You are bringing the outdoors into your home. Green helps to detach, disconnect and release. This colour is great if you want your child to calm down quickly. You can combine this colour with any of the active or passive colours. If you are wanting your child to openly speak about their emotions with orange colour - introducing green will support the detaching from and disconnecting hurt feelings.

Blue/indigo - This colour is a bit of a tricky one. If you or your child are down or moody, blue can actually enhance this emotion. I don't recommend blue in the room either because if your room is your safe place, you want to feel safe and release pain or hurt, not be taken deeper into the emotion. Blue is great to have around when you want your child to slowly learn how to put their words together. It is a great colour to support learning of symbols, words, messages, reading. The only recommendation is to ensure that this colour is around when your child is in a peaceful state.

Purple - This colour is also a safe colour in your childs room. If you are going to have this colour in your room, you need to make sure it is in a place where you child can safely feel vulnerable. Purple brings out all sensitivity to the surface. If words are taken the wrong way to arguments going wrong. This colour is great to 'speak with calmly and heal the argument'. It promotes allowing to feel vulnerable and have the right to openly express feelings.

How to introduce colours:

Your children can wear these colours or they can be in your surroundings from bedspreads, ornaments, plants to curtains. When you are aware of the impact you can change it. Pay attention to the brightness of the colours. You can have red in 'wood' as an example. Its about exploring and looking at introducing different dull and bright colours to balance your emotions

What about colours like:

Pink?

White?

Black?

Cream?

Pink is red mixed with white.

White is about the opening up, cleansing and clear

Black is about wanting to be away from the world, finding your innerself

Cream, depending on the type can be mixtures of dull yellows mixed with white.

Our next post will be about painting with colour