Healing properties of colors
- Donna Eden & David Feinstein, Ph.D.
- Mar 15, 2017
- 3 min read

Note: Color gels and a flash light are an easy way of directing color into a chakra or an acupressure point or tracing a color over a meridian. Also see "Balancing the Meridians Using Color Gels" (laminated color chart available from www.innersource.net)
A FEW GENERALIZATIONS: Red, pinks, oranges, browns and yellows are warm colors.
They activate. They build energy and fight depression.
They speed up circulation.
Blues, greens, turquoise, and violets are cool colors.
They soothe and tranquilize.
They may be used where there is fever, infection, or bleeding.
They can calm the heart.
Diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat often respond to these colors.
COLORS TYPICALLY APPLIED TO SPECIFIC SYMPTOMS:
There are also generalizations - NEVER forget this
The Life Color always tempers generalizations like these
Energy test to confirm
Blue:
High blood pressure, agitation.
Soothes burns and cuts.
Helps with fevers, hoarseness, jaundice, rheumatism and sore throats.
Reduces infection.
Blue light has replaced blood transfusions for about 30,000 babies a year in the US (but the blue began to irritate the nurses, so many hospitals added gold lamps to soothe the staff & restore their nerves.)
Green:
Blood pressure
Burns
Heart problems
Open sores
General balance
Indigo:
Cataracts
Eyes & ears
Hemorrhages
Swelling
Relieves over-sensitivity
Orange:
Symptoms: Asthma, bronchitis, diabetes, menstrual cramps.
Organs and body areas: pancreas, solar pluxus, and spleen
Can bring joy
Red:
Symptoms: colds, measles, small pox
Builds energy
Stimulates organ function and fights depression.
Can help the mammary glands to secrete more milk
Yellow:
Symptoms: Intestinal parasites, swelling.
Can depress spleen (careful)
Stimulates liver and gallbladder
Increases mental acuity
Violet:
Maintains potassium in the body (treat drinking water with violet light)
Brings inspiration
Copper:
Symptoms: bone and joint problems
Drench your bones & joints in copper while visualizing your bones absorbing nutrients and healing
A powerful, strengthening frequency
Silver:
Sciatica
A cooling influence on inflammations of the nervous system and the electrical circuitry
A feminine frequency
Gold: Restores the nerves
Black:
Protective
Draws vibrations toward itself
Transforms chaos into order
Sucks energy to itself
It brings me (Donna) back to me
Pearlescent Black & obsidian black: Accesses mystical realms
Gray: A rich gray can stabilize and empower
Scarlet:
Restores energetically
If I (Donna) am close to being sick, I automatically put on red
Hacienda (wine) Red:
Recharges the kidneys and moves blockages on the spine and throat
Restores me (Donna). Red wine too...
Lemon Green (applied to the solar plexus and navel):
reduces mental confusion
balances central and governing meridians
Brown:
a color of integration
Grounds me (Donna) like the earth
Caramel:
A deeper frequency than gold, with earth tones
Extremely good for fear
Terracotta: Somber. Grounds me as the earth does.
Crystal: Ampilfies energy
Magneta: Can induce a feeling of completeness.
Being "in the pink" signifies rosy good health
Brings openness and love
Refines the electric system
Often works when no other color will
Apply pink to the spleen, to the heart center, the lymphatic system, and all upward-flowing (yin) meridians
Drink in theirs ray for depression
Plumps up the skin
Helps with asthma
Lavender: Radiate the crown chakra and heart with lavender.
Remember to Energy Test before applying these colors!
Colors that heal and balance the chakras (bathe in light or use sumptuous material such as velvet, silks, or rich cottons):
Blue:
2nd or 3rd chakra for abdominal pain
2nd chakra for bladder problems
1st chakra for bone problems
6th & 7th cakra for headaces
1st & 4th chakras for high blood pressure
Green: 5th chakra for sore throat
Red:
1st & 7th chakra for angina and arteriosclerosis
7th chakra for mental confusion
Orange:
2nd chakra for colitis
5th chakra for bronchitis or reproductive system disorders
Magneta: 2nd & 7th chakras to raise the vibration Rose & magneta: 4th chakra for heart and lungs
Rose & magneta: 7th chakra & across the triple axis for menopause or PMS
Terracotta/brown: 3rd chakra, for menopause
Purple: 1st & 3rd chakra for kidneys
Fuchsia: 2nd & 5th chakras for arthitis
Peach: 1st, 2nd & 7th chakras for menopause
Lemon or Soft Green: 3rd chakra for liver Amber:
3rd chakra for stomach
6th chakra for clearing the mind
Indigo/Orange: 5th chakra for thyroid
Pink: Strengthens and balances the 3rd & 4th chakras
Complete a session by tracing the 5 pointed star over each chakra. use your fingers or hands or flashlight or pink or any color you choose or test.
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