Enhance Your Meditation With Color Therapy

Did you know that color therapy can balance and enhance your life emotionally, physically and spiritually? True – it can! The reason for this is because individual colors have their unique energetic attributes, which we can benefit from if used in the correct way.

Meditation is but one highly effective way we can reap the benefits of color in our lives. For example, by focusing on a particular color when meditating, it can aid in keeping your mind still as you continue to focus on it. Furthermore, meditation itself will assist you to pull the vibrations and energies of whatever color you are meditating upon into both your physical body and the aura itself.

Music and Color both have the ability to make profound changes in body chemistry.  The brain responds to each and in turn affects hormone levels, and even the strength if the immune system ~ Lillian Verner-Bonds

In simple terms, when working with color, it all depends on what you wish to achieve. Say, for example, you want to adopt a more optimistic perspective on life, then you would need to focus on a beautiful yellow shade, while meditating on a lovely green hue is recommended if you feel the need for harmony and peace.

Should you wish to bring color into your meditation practice, it is important to note that darker colors tend to have a stronger impact, whereas lighter colors produce a more subtle effect.

Want to stimulate your chakras? As you may well be aware, the chakras, or energy centers, are stimulated by different colors.  Should you wish to achieve balance, therefore, color meditation is an excellent way of doing so! If you want to boost a particular chakra, then all you need to do is visualize its corresponding color while meditating, to activate its beneficial properties. The chart below should help you to do just that.

Chakra Colors

The Base Chakra corresponding color is red, which brings about vitality and strength.

The Sacral Chakra corresponding color is orange, which is associated with both spontaneity and creativity.

The Solar Plexus Chakra corresponding color is yellow, which assists with the development of self-worth.

The Heart Chakra corresponding color is green, which is associated with peace, love and compassion.

The Throat Chakra corresponding color is blue, which assists with communication and self-expression.

The Third Eye Chakra corresponding color is purple and helps promote inner wisdom and self-knowledge.

The Crown Chakra corresponding color is violet, which you would meditate upon should you be seeking peace or to develop compassion and selflessness.

Color and life are inseparable.  From the moment that we are born and even before, color becomes part of the very substance of our lives.  Color influences everything we eat, drink, touch, and are surrounded by, and colors our personalities ~  Lillian Verner-Bonds

Easy Color Meditation

Prepare the space

Decide which color you want to work with and having done so, settle yourself down in your favorite chair for 20 minutes to half an hour. Make sure you will not be interrupted, so switch the phone off, put away any surrounding clutter, light a colored candle corresponding with the color you are working with and make sure there is soothing music in the background.

Relax your body

Kick off those shoes, relax into your chair and have a good stretch, while taking a lovely deep breath, all of which should help you to relax.

Focus on your breath

This is a great way of helping to keep your mind focused. Count to ten as you breathe out, and again to ten as you breathe in, while keeping your breathing cycle natural and comfortable.

Concentrate on the candle

While rhythmically breathing, turn your attention to the candle and inhale its color into the Heart Chakra.

Concentrate on the color

Sense the color you are working with permeating your whole being, including your aura, while maintaining a regular pattern of breathing.

Seal the Color

Finally, you need to seal in the color with the aid of a ball of light circulating your body. Visualize this strongly, in your mind’s eye to achieve the most powerful effect.

Call upon your Higher Self

At the end of your visualization, request your Higher Self for protection as you gently exit your state of meditation.

This exercise helps to introduce you gently into the exciting realm of color meditation. Basically, the candle you use during the exercise simply focuses your mind on the relevant color.  However, you can always change the color in accordance with your needs. With time and practice, you should come to be able to focus, quite naturally, on any color without the need for having a candle present.

To benefit fully from whatever color you are working with, it is important to imagine it swirling throughout your body, while easing any tension and cleansing those Chakras as it goes.

On a final note, do try to enjoy this process and remember that each and every time you practice, the more cumulative benefits you should reap.