Color and Coloring Therapy: Light Therapy:

Remember that colors associated with spiritual energies have a crystalline quality and are largely an interpretation. The color which we preceive with our physical sight is not at all the same texture, feel, or tone as the color which can be perceived clairvoyantly. Color in general is an illusion based on our physical sensory perception. Clairvoyantly percieved color is no less an interpretation. An interesting side note to this is that color is also a psysical manifestation and also does not exist removed from the physical plane. Color, in the psychic context, is also an interpretation of energies into a fimiliar referential context.

* Color /col·or/ (kulŽer): A property of a surface or substance due to absorption of certain light rays and reflection of others within the range of wavelengths (roughly 370 760 m”) adequate to excite the retinal receptors. Radiant energy within the range of adequate chromatic stimuli of the retina, i.e., between the infrared and ultraviolet. A sensory impression of one of the rainbow hues.

* Complementary Colors: A pair of colors the sensory mechanisms for which are so linked that when they are mixed on the color wheel they cancel each other out, leaving neutral gray.

* Confusion Colors: Different colors liable to be mistakenly matched by persons with defective color vision, and hence used for detecting different types of color vision defects.

* Primary Colors: A small number of fundamental colors; in visual science, red, green, and blue, the colors specifically picked up by the retinal cones; in painting and printing, blue, yellow, and red. Pure Color one whose stimulus consists of homogeneous wavelengths, with little or no admixture of wavelengths of other hues. Color the quality of things as they appear in the light. Color, Colorful: having strong or attractive colors. Lively or interesting. Coloring apperance in regard to color.

* For example: In the visual system, sensory cells called rod and cone cells in the retina convert the physical energy of light signals into electrical impulses that travel to the brain. The light causes a conformational change in a protein called rhodopsin. This conformational change sets in motion a series of molecular events that result in a reduction of the electrochemical gradient of the photoreceptor. The decrease in the electrochemical gradient causes a reduction in the electrical signals going to the brain. Thus, in this example, more light hitting the photoreceptor results in the transduction of a signal into fewer electrical impulses.

* Opticks: Is a book written by English physicist Isaac Newton that was released to the public in 1704. It is about optics and the refraction of light, and is considered one of the great works of science in history. Opticks was Newton's second major book on physical science. Even if he had not made his better-known discoveries concerning gravity and the invention of the calculus, Opticks would have given him the reputation as one of the greatest scientists of his time.

* In the arts of: painting, graphic design, and photography, color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impact of specific color combinations. Although color theory principles first appear in the writings of Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490), a tradition of "colory theory" begins in the 18th century, initially within a partisan controversy around Isaac Newton's theory of color (Opticks, 1704) and the nature of so-called primary colors. From there it developed as an independent artistic tradition with only sporadic or superficial reference to colorimetry and vision science.

* Color or colour: Is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue, black, etc. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. Typically, only features of the composition of light that are detectable by humans (wavelength spectrum from 400 nm to 700 nm, roughly) are included, thereby objectively relating the psychological phenomenon of color to its physical specification.

* Because perception of: Color stems from the varying sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells. These physical or physiological quantifications of color, however, do not fully explain the psychophysical perception of color appearance. The science of color is sometimes called chromatics. It includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain, the origin of color in materials, color theory in art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (that is, what we commonly refer to simply as Light).

* Remember that colors associated with: spiritual energies have a crystalline quality and are largely an interpretation. The color which we preceive with our physical sight is not at all the same texture, feel, or tone as the color which can be perceived clairvoyantly. Color in general is an illusion based on our physical sensory perception. Clairvoyantly percieved color is no less an interpretation. An interesting side note to this is that color is also a psysical manifestation and also does not exist removed from the physical plane. Color, in the psychic context, is also an interpretation of energies into a fimiliar referential context. SEE (Aura & Charka Healing)(Spritual Spheres, Spriitual Flames, Spiritual Rays, Spiritual Planets)

* Chromotherapy, sometimes called color therapy or colorology: Is an alternative medicine method. It is claimed that a therapist trained in chromotherapy can use color and light to balance energy wherever a person's body be lacking, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental. Chromotherapists claim a scientific basis for their practice, proposing that colors bring about emotional reactions in people, but is labelled pseudoscience by its critics. A standard method of diagnosis is the use of "Luscher’s color test", developed by Max Luscher (*1923) in the early 1900s. When performing chromotherapy, color and light is applied to specific areas and acupoints on the body. Because colors get associated with both positive and negative effects in color therapy, specific colors and accurate amounts of color are deemed to be critical in healing. Some of the tools used for applying colors are gemstones, candles, wands, prisms, colored fabrics, bath treatments, and colored glasses or lenses. Therapeutic color can be administered in a number of ways, but is often combined with hydrotherapy and aromatherapy in an attempt to heighten the therapeutic effect.

* Light Therapy or Phototherapy: Consists of exposure to daylight or to specific wavelengths of light using lasers, LEDs, fluorescent lamps, dichroic lamps or very bright, full-spectrum light, for a prescribed amount of time and, in some cases, at a specific time of day. It has proven effective in treating Acne vulgaris, seasonal affective disorder, and is part of the standard treatment regimen for delayed sleep phase syndrome. It has recently been shown effective in non-seasonal depression. Proponents claim demonstrable benefits for skin conditions such as psoriasis.

* Individuals with Seasonal Affective Disorder (seasonal depression, seasonal bipolar): Are often helped with light therapy. A special lamp or a set of lamps is used, which does not emit ultraviolet light, so as not to damage the eyes. The treatment is usually done between the hours of 6-8 a.m. for at least an hour. Some psychiatrists prescribe "light boxes" for treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Full-spectrum light is traditionally used, however more recently blue light technology has been introduced.

* Vision Science: Is the science dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of visual perception and the visual system. Vision scientists study various aspects of vision from the perspectives of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, psychophysics, and ophtholmology.

* Rainbow Essences & Roy G. Biv: Is a traditional mnemonic for the sequence of hues in the visible spectrum, in simple rainbows, and in order from longest to shortest wavelength:

* Red * Orange * Yellow * Green * Blue * Indigo * Violet. See (Spiritual Rays) and (Flames)(Auras)(Charka):

* The Colors: Are arranged in the order of decreasing wavelengths, with red being 650 nm and violet being about 400 nm. Because the spectrum is a continuum, the selecting or omitting of individual colors in a list of representative colors is arbitrary. The traditional inclusion of the color indigo is attributed to Isaac Newton, who wanted the number of colors in his spectrum to come out to seven to match the number of days in the week, the number of notes in the major scale, and the number of known planets. He originally (1672) named only five primary colors: red, yellow, green, blue and violet; only later did he introduce orange and indigo. The Munsell color system, the first formal color notation system (1905), names only five "principal hues": red, yellow, green, blue and purple (though note that Munsell's purple is not a spectral hue).

* What is a rainbow? Rainbows: Are optical and meteorological phenomena that cause a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch. More rarely, a secondary rainbow is seen, which is a second, fainter arc, outside the primary arc, with colours in the opposite order, that is, with violet on the outside and red on the inside. A rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours. Traditionally, however, the sequence of colours is quantised. The most commonly cited and remembered sequence, in English, is Newton's sevenfold red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. "Roy G. Biv" and "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" are popular mnemonics. Though rainbows are bow-shaped in most cases, there are also phenomena of rainbow-coloured strips in the sky: in the shape of stripes, circles or even flames. (See circumhorizontal arc.)

* Observationally: the rainbow is a circular arc of several colors seen in rain or spray opposite the sun and centered around the shadow of your head. The rainbow's colors are in concentric bands, and while they vary slightly from one bow to the next, the colors are always arranged in spectral order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. While you are unlikely to see all of these colors in a given rainbow, their order does not change. For the inner (or primary) rainbow, red is on the outside; for the outer (or secondary) rainbow, red is on the inside.

* Optically: The rainbow is just a distorted image of the sun. Raindrops perform this rearranging of sunlight via reflection and refraction. Think of the drops as imperfect one-way mirrors: most light passes through them, but the light forming the rainbow is reflected from their rear surfaces. In addition, as sunlight passes from air to water (or vice versa) it is deviated from its original path, with blue light being deviated more than red indicates, this combination of refraction and reflection occurs at each air-water boundary. However, the light forming the primary rainbow is that refracted on entering the drop, reflected at its rear, and refracted a second time on exiting. broken color in decribing coat color, a solid color broken up by another color, usually white. coat color see coat color. color dilution reduction of the concentration of the color pigment in tissue; most important in hair and other fiber coats, in the skin and in the ocular iris. color dilution alopecia see color mutant alopecia. color flow Doppler see doppler ultrasound. color pigments the pigments influencing skin color are melanin, melanoid, oxygenated hemoglobin, reduced hemoglobin, carotene. color radical see chromophore. color vision the domestic animal species have limited color vision, the best perception being in bright light. Birds probably have the best, cattle and sheep the least, if any.

* Sphere: Is a symmetrical geometrical object. In non-mathematical usage, the term is used to refer either to a round ball or to its two-dimensional surface. In mathematics, a sphere is the set of all points in three-dimensional space (R3) which are at distance r from a fixed point of that space, where r is a positive real number called the radius of the sphere. Thus, in three dimensions, a mathematical sphere is considered to be a two-dimensional spherical surface embedded in three-dimensional space, rather than the volume contained within it (which mathematicians would instead describe as a ball). The fixed point is called the center or centre, and is not part of the sphere itself. The special case of r = 1 is called a unit sphere.

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