The Power of Color
by Frances Oman, MA

Color and light have been used for healing since the beginning of recorded time. Ancient Egyptians built solarium-type rooms with colored panes of glass. The sun would shine through the glass and flood the patient with color. Some people use colored silk cloths which are placed on the body and then flooded with sunlight. Early color and light healers in the modern world used colored gels and sheets of glass to apply light to the body. Others used color infused water and color meditations to send healing rays to the person. These are all still used.

How can colored light possibly cause a physiologic effect inside a human (or animal) body? Each individual cell in a living organism has a specific function to perform. In so doing, it generates and radiates a specific energy; the cellular energy totality is often termed the "aura". The liver radiates the equivalent harmonic frequency of red light, the pituitary green, the spleen violet, circulatory system is magenta, the lymphatic system is yellow, and so on. The logic behind color therapy is this: when a particular organ or system is underactive, its auric energy decreases so the appropriate activating color is projected on the affected area (sometimes the entire body). If overactivity is present, such as in excessive fever, the obvious remedy is an opposite, depressant color. Further, by energizing the natural reparative powers present within us, we need not rely on drugs so that we avoid their attendant and often-dangerous side effects.

This Therapy Blend

Frances blends two kinds of color therapy. Spectro-Chrome therapy is colored light projected on specific areas of the body, bringing the emotional and physical into balance. Intuitive Auric Color Imaging is an interactive meditation-like process of ‘painting with colored light' inside the aura of the patient. After a session, a ‘prescription' of such an imaging is given to the patient, empowering them in self-healing.