Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good week so far! Today I'm going to introduce you to Chromotherapy a.k.a. Color Therapy.  Chromotherapy uses light and color to bring balance to the body by focusing the light and colors either directly on specific areas and accupoints in the body or by prescribing color in some form to treat a problem associated with a particular ailment or problem.  There are seven main colors in the spectrum (think Rainbow colors) and each color corresponds with a specific chakra center in the body (for more information on the colors and how they correspond with the chakras, go here and scroll about half way down the page).  Each chakra or energy center corresponds with certain areas of the body and certain aspects of our health.  Therefore, focusing the right color on the right areas restores balance in the body and helps the body to heal (or to simply stay healthy).  Color Therapy goes back over thousands of years and was actually practiced by the ancient Egyptians.  Today, Color Therapists use a number of different techniques ranging from directly focusing lamps with colored bulbs (or film over the lens) on the body to prescribing the use of certain colored candles, bath products or even sun glasses with colored lenses.

The following video is a good introduction to color therapy (especially how each color effects our mood).  Tomorrow I'll cover another topic in therapy, until then, enjoy the video!