Jill Mattson on Vibrational Color Healing

Oct 31, 2011 by HHNSTAFF

By:  Jill Mattson

Energies affect us on all levels, such as: our genetics, the people we interact with, the people we pass on the street, the energy of nature, the storm or sunny day, the food we ate and the energies coming in from the heavens in the form of low level electromagnetic energy …. What do all these things have in common? If you put them on a scale, measuring their vibrations in terms of slow speed per cycle to fast speed per cycle, all will have sympathetic resonance with the octaves of colors.

This revelation is appealing in that colors should influence them. Many may say this is silly, but can colors affect our health?  In antiquity, healers used materials to filter sunlight to create the effect of colored lights. Colored lights were then used to treat people. Historical records state that people used healing colored lights in Heliopolos, Egypt, as well as in early Greece, China and India. Today, there are still healing modalities using colored lights. Two modern pioneers were Edwin Babbitt and Dinshah Ghadiale. The Dinshah Health Society offers a color-spectrum-based health system. This system has been in use since 1920, and was used in a major medical center in Philadelphia for many years. This system utilizes simple, low-powered lamps and color filters to counter particular physical problems.

Many people have difficulty imagining that a colored light causes a physiologic effect inside the human body. Traditional medical research has observed effects of light within the body. Blue-light therapy is used for some types of neonatal jaundice. Blue light is applied to the skin to cause a chemical reaction in the blood circulating under the surface of the skin, effectively lessening bilirubin levels. In another case, an ultraviolet light generates the production of vitamin D. The human body produces vitamin D when exposed to sunlight. Finally, full spectrum light exposure helps those with seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a condition believed to be caused by insufficient light exposure through the eyes to the hypothalamus, thence onto the pituitary gland, which controls the endocrine system. If you had a nasty sunburn, wouldn’t it be more soothing to be with in icy blue lighting that red hot lights?

Color healing is predicated on the belief that the chemical elements radiate a frequency equivalent within the color spectrum. For example, the prevailing corresponding color wave of hydrogen is red, and that of oxygen is blue. Each organ has sympathetic resonance with a color wavelength. The liver is believed to radiate energy that is an octave below red, the pituitary green, the spleen violet, the circulatory system magenta and lymphatic system yellow.

When a particular organ or body system is underactive, its energy has decreased, so an energizing color is projected on the skin near the organ (sometimes the entire body). If a system is overactive (for example fever), the remedy is the opposite, and a depressing color is used. Everything on the red side of the spectrum is more or less stimulating, while the blue portion is sedating.

When a particular organ or body system is underactive, its energy has decreased, so an energizing color is projected on the skin near the organ (sometimes the entire body). If a system is overactive (for example fever), the remedy is the opposite, and a depressing color is used. Everything on the red side of the spectrum is more or less stimulating, while the blue portion is sedating.

People process color differently depending on eye color, geographic location, atmospheric conditions, time of day and altitude.

The Purkinje Shift is the name of the phenomenon describing the human eye’s ability to perceive color according to the amount of light that hits it. Dimmer light fires or triggers more of the eye’s blue wave length, which means that blues will seem more vivid, while more intense light will cause the eye to fire more of the red wave lengths, which makes red appear more vivid. This is why mountains in the distance appear “blueish” and red flowers are most vivid when we are close to them.

Yet, another factor in seeing coloration is atmospheric condition. Hot, high, dry and sunny locations (such as Jaipur, India) show intense coloration. Cool, low, humid and cloudy locations (such as the coast of Thailand) show coloration that is darker and drabber.

Color is in the eye of the beholder. Another factor that affects how we see color is our eye coloration (blue, brown, hazel). Think of the color of our eyes as colored of sunglasses that light passes through before we see. Blue eyes can differentiate up to 30% more color shades than dark colored eyes, because they are a lighter color.

Colors and sound can impact us in many ways and on numerous levels. Imagine a huge pool into which someone drops a dozen pebbles. Each pebble creates rings of waves, which interact with other waves. Waves bounce off the sides of the pool. Reflected waves angle back, further changing each other. The science of these intricate interactions is complex.