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Colour Therapy

Colour is one of those things that is so fundamental to alomost every facet of our lives that we take it completely for granted! Our moods, state of mind and physical health can be and are altered by colour to the extent that this has influenced our very language. We use phrases such as "feeling blue", "in the pink", "to see red" and countless others to describe our moods and state of health.

Graphic designers, interior decorators, marketing consultants, architects and other professionals have been using colours to influence the moods of people for many years. We know that the ancient Egyptians used colour as a therapeutic tool.

I use colour in both diagnostic and therapeutic contexts, by asking a client to choose sets of coloured cards, I can access a surprising amount of information about both their mental and physiological states.

Colour can be used therapeutically in many ways - simple concepts such as advice on wearing specific colours to influence mood, to audio-visual neural entrainment systems. I can also advise on practical methods of coping with and overcoming Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD.

I have been obtaining a lot of very positive results using the Colourpuncture system, which combines light and colour therapy with the Meridian sytem of Chinese tradional medicine - it can be thought of as "Acupuncture with light".

How does it work?

The psychological effects of colour have been very well documented over the years, to the extent that they have become a stndard part of design and marketing coursework in colleges.

What has not yet made it into the mainstream of general knowledge is the physiological relevance of light and colour.

The work of the German Nobel laureate, Fritz-Albert Popp has shown that living cells do emit a very faint, but measurable, amount of light. With the collaboration of physicist Bernhard Ruth, in 1976 Popp was able to measure the emission of photons of light from living cells, using a highly sensitive photomultiplier.

Popp postulated that cells actually communicate using light, in a similar way to methods being researched for the next generation of super fast, optical computer chips. If this is indeed the case, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the body is susceptible to light and colour at the cellular level.

This principle was adopted by the German Naturopath, Peter Mandel, who found that the acupuncture points of tradiptional Chinese Medicine were highly receptive to exposure to coloured light. He obtained the greatest success with the points on the hands and feet (Probably because these points are closer to the surface of the skin).

Over the course of many years of research, Mandel amassed a huge quantity of field data which has enabled him and other Colourpuncture practitioners to acheive a high degree of success using Colourpuncture as a therapeutic system.