RED: Inspires strength, confidence, courage, willpower, assertiveness. Invokes alertness, initiative, determination, motivation. Suggests honor, integrity, independence, authority, leadership.

Enhances one’s ability to cope with life and meet challenges with optimism, hope and cheerfulness. Encourages action and self-confidence to overcome lethargy, inertia, depression; helps one conquer the sense of limitation. Arouses feelings of love, sexuality, passion. Energizes and vitalizes entire body/ mind system. Helps relieve dormant, sluggish, congested conditions in body, emotions, mind. Beneficial for nervous system, blood circulation, liver, colon, genitals, legs, entire physical body in general. Can represent: Sexual overindulgence, overbearing assertiveness, aggression, impulsiveness, impatience, selfishness.

ORANGE: Opens one to new ideas and perspectives. Suggests freedom in body, emotions and mind. Assists one in releasing repressed emotions, inhibitions and fears. Gives extra power to cope with life. Warming, comforting, joyous and cheerful. Tolerance, pleasure, sociability. Supports one in working creatively and harmoniously with others. Enhances one’s self-esteem, courage and assertiveness. Helps one channel excess sexual energy into outlets of creativity and accomplishment. Assists digestive, assimilative and circulatory processes, and calcium metabolism. Beneficial for lungs, colon, ovaries, spleen, pancreas, womb, kidneys, bladder, gallbladder. Can represent: intolerance, overindulgence, lust, possessiveness, confusion, lack of purpose.

YELLOW: Like sunlight, the animating color of Life. Awakening, transforming, radiant, expressive. Brings joy, enthusiasm, optimism, humor and laughter; beneficial for despondent/ melancholy conditions. Representative of knowledge, intellect, wisdom, brilliance and illumination; stimulates the higher reasoning faculties of the mind. Self-esteem, self- control, mastery of desire. Instinctual awareness (gut feeling).Attention to details, organization, discipline. Exerts a stimulating, cleansing, eliminative action on the body and mind. Beneficial for digestion, lymphatic system, blood, nerves, brain, skin, stomach, intestines, muscles, pancreas, liver, gallbladder. Can represent: criticism, overindulgence, laziness, stubbornness, selfishness, cynicism, bitterness.

GREEN: Nature’s color; promotes growth, renewal and healing in body, emotions and mind. The color of health, youth and fertility. Communicates peace, harmony, tranquility, balance. Opens the heart to love, understanding, nurturing, compassion, generosity. Calms, soothes and stabilizes the nervous system and emotions. Excellent for exhaustion and stress. Promotes enthusiasm, hope, acceptance, contentment, emotional stability, wellbeing. Helps ease fear associated with emotional involvement/ intimacy. Abundance, prosperity, wealth. Balances body/ mind system, regenerates cells, builds muscle tissue, oxygenate body, a sexual tonic. Beneficial for blood vessels, pituitary gland, heart, reproductive system, thymus gland, bones, lungs. Can represent: jealousy, greed, pessimism, rigidity, emotional repression, vindictiveness.

BLUE: Represents the highest ideals of truth (true blue), trust and devotion. Conveys wisdom, serenity, peace, patience, gentleness, honesty, sincerity, reliability. Creative self- expression and communication; helpful for an introverted personality. Cool and calm. Soothes the mind and emotions; excellent in times of stress, anxiety, fear, panic. Encourages poise, inner power, contemplation, meditation, attunement with Spirit. Strengthens metabolism, increases vitality, promotes growth. Beneficial for thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, throat, nervous system. Can represent: fear, worry, depression, apathy, coldness, lack of communication, selfish ambition, knowledge used unwisely.

INDIGO: Inspires the higher aspirations of the soul. Expands and enhances one’s perception of reality. Helps free and uplift the mind from the mundane to the spiritual, from duality into unity. Assists one in releasing fears, frustrations, inhibitions. Facilitates development of inner wisdom, stillness, mediation, contemplation. Invokes the awakening of one’s inner vision, intuition and clairvoyance. Imagination, inspiration, creativity, transformation. Conveys unity, synthesis, world service, devotion, humanitarianism. Beneficial for pineal/pituitary glands, muscles, lungs, blood, sense of vision, hearing, and smell. Can represent: pride, conceit, rigidity in outlook, separateness, deceit, irritability.

VIOLET: Vibrational messenger of our transcendental/ divine nature and highest spiritual aspirations. Uplifting and inspirational. Violet’s potent vibrations urge transformation, change and purification on all levels of being. Facilitates spiritual growth by accelerating the release and positive transformation of old mental/emotional patterns. Promotes forgiveness, devotion, service, loyalty, grace, tenderness. Enhances meditation, relaxation, contemplation, insight, intuition. Symbol of royalty, majesty, power. Helps dissolve negativity. Exerts a powerful healing influence. Beneficial for all forms of neurosis. Soothing and tranquilizing for the nerves. Calms violence and irritability. Beneficial for blood (purification), bone growth, excess hunger, brain, pineal and pituitary glands, spleen, kidneys, bladder, entire system in general. Can represent: intolerance, anger, injustice, restriction, arrogance, martyrdom, fanaticism.

BLACK: a powerful and often misunderstood color. Black represents the dark and comforting womb of the Mother, deep silence, the void. The dark and fertile soil which supports our gestation/ learning processes until, like the sprouting seed, we emerge into the light of our inner wisdom, personal power and self- mastery. Symbol of “the dark side” of human nature; all that is unknown, mysterious and hidden from the conscious mind. Historically, black has been associated with menace, evil and negativity. Black is none of these; it has simply become an external projection, a ”scapegoat” for our fear of our own “dark side”, our fear of the unknown. Represents the introspective personal journey into the depths of being; it is not a journey to fear. Black is considered formal, an image of dignity and power. Stabilizing and grounding. Offers a sense of security and self-containment. Restricts and confines one’s emotions assisting introspection, contemplation and inner stillness. Signifies secrecy, sorrow, mourning, loss, death. Can represent : rage, fear, doubt, denial, superstition, misunderstanding, grief, guilt, lack.

WHITE: The blending and fusion of all seven rainbow colors; also containing the totality of their qualities. All colors come from, and are vibratory differentiations of pure white light. White light from the sun contains the energies of all elements necessary to sustain life. Represents supreme power, perfection, unity, spiritual healing. Historically associated with purity, chastity, holiness, the all-embracing radiance of God, the Logos, Source of all life. (White is not more “holy” or “God-like” than black. Black and white are equal and complementary polarities creating the unity and wholeness existing within us all; exemplified through female/ male, yin/yang, night/ day, Goddess/God). White helps dissolve limitations and barriers, initiating new heights of awareness. Conveys the message of acceleration, expansion and transformation of consciousness. Can represent: being overly optimistic or idealistic, denial of one’s dark side, lack of balance and stability.