Color Therapy

 Dr. Richard Frankel was said to believe that "stress is encoded in the mind as color."  (Light Medicine of the Future by Jacob Liberman pg. 132).

When I was in 8th grade my English teacher talked about how red was her favorite color and I remember thinking, how could that be anyone's favorite color?  It is the color of blood.  I had spent many hours in various hospitals with medical personnel doing bleeding time tests on me.  This consisted of being cut with razor blades while they watched me bleed.  They always told me it wouldn't hurt and wouldn't scar - both of which proved untrue.  I detested the sight of blood.  In addition, I was struggling with heavy menstruation, feeling very unsupported in the changes my body was undergoing, which only added to the trauma associated with that color. 

After working through some of this trauma, I now love the color red.  Likewise I had similar issues with the color yellow in association with self-loathing and a closed solar plexus chakra.

"Frenkel's technique goes something like this:  while patients focus on their images in a mirror surrounded by different colored bulbs, they are asked to describe any feelings or memories that come into their awareness.  Frankel reports that old, painful memories literally 'gush out' of they patients' minds during this process, frequently accompanied by the bodily symptoms associated with the original experiences.  As a physician, he believes that removing stress from the mind not only reduces human disease but also unleashes human creativity.  Dr. Frenkel has achieved a high degree of success in controlling anxiety, depression, phobias, migraines, suicide, computer fatigue, obesity, and drug and alcohol abuse."

There are many different color therapy tools available.  It is hard to weed through the details to know which ones are high quality and which ones are just high price tags, but not necessarily great therapy.