Counselling with Colour Therapy
by We are unconsciously attracted and repelled by different colours depending on our emotional and mental needs and the different stages of life. When we are attracted to a new colour it usually means that we are going through a change in our life.
COUNSELLING AND ART THERAPY
Art therapy has been found to be a very useful tool and is often used in conjunction with psychological tests. Using colour spontaneously and expressively links in to our sub-conscious mind, bypassing the censoring of our conscious mind. Our conscious mind is continually making excuses why we shouldn’t be doing things we intuitively know are right for us – the conscious mind effectively blocks intuitive knowledge coming from our higher self.
Psychologist Carl Jung believed in the symbolic power of colour and encouraged his patients to use colour in a spontaneous way while they were painting to help express their subconscious and assimilate it with the conscious in order to achieve wholeness. The colours used by individuals in art therapy reveals aspects of their inner self and it is by understanding these that one can learn and grow.
We are unconsciously attracted and repelled by different colours depending on our emotional and mental needs and the different stages of life. When we are attracted to a new colour it usually means that we are going through a change in our life. This may be a physical change, like changing our vocation, or it may be an emotional or mental change of attitude. The particular colour we have become attracted to will give some indication as to what area in our life we are confronting at that time.
We usually gravitate to groups of colours and probably have one or two favourites which remain with us through life. This long-term attraction to certain colours can tell us a great deal about ourselves. Generally, those people who like warm colours are extrovert, while those who prefer cool colours have a more introverted personality. The colour we are most attracted to is our identity colour which is in harmony with our inner colours. To find out what your colour identity is, ask yourself:
• If I was a colour what colour would I be?
or
• What is my favourite colour?
If you choose a shade or a tint of a colour, read the true colour from which this colour is derived, e.g. pink being a tint of red, sky blue a tint of blue, while burgundy is a shade of red. If you choose a tint then the characteristics will be gentler and not so pronounced. If you choose a deep colour, the characteristics will be stronger.
Other colours may be a mixture between two true colours. Turquoise, for instance, is a mixture of blue and green. You may, therefore, have some characteristics of blue and some of green.
We have not included black, white, grey or brown – if one of these is your first choice, choose another colour. These colours will be dealt with in the next lesson.
Your favourite or identity colour reflects your personality traits and self-image. Each colour has its positive side as well as negative. You need to look at both the good and the negative traits to find which traits are relevant to you at this time. This is a good starting point to analyse any problems you may have and the possible colour treatment.
in further lessons we shall look at the characteristics of each colour.
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