If the sequence looks familiar, it’s because it’s ROYGBIV - the colors of the rainbow.Ĭhakra colors and the rainbow demonstrate the entire visible color spectrum. The seven chakra colors follow a specific pattern: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. When you apply this to chakras and colors, each of the seven energy centers vibrates at a certain frequency, producing a certain color and ultimately affecting your mind, body, and spirit in one way or another.
Simply put, when you focus on a specific color, or it’s overwhelmingly in your field of vision, it affects your brain and in turn, can influence your energy vibrations. Instead, it’s really all about your focus.Ī 2013 review paper looking at the influence of color on memory performance points out that “ the role played by color in enhancing our attention level is indisputable.” It adds that when we put more attention on certain stimuli (in this case, color), the stimuli will transfer to more permanent memory storage. Of course, we see lots of colors all the time, so color psychology doesn’t mean that every color we see will affect us. Higher vibration hues, however, seem to have a contrasting effect - lowering the heart rate and promoting calmness. Lower vibration hues, like red, seem to raise heart rate and instill excitement. Research has shown these different vibrations are known to affect our physiology, such as mood, heart rate, and alertness, to name a few. At the highest vibration, the two ends of the color spectrum meet together and produce violet. Lower vibrations produce warmer colors like reds and oranges, while higher vibrations produce cooler colors like blues and indigo. And to really comprehend the chakra colors and their meaning, it helps to understand color in general.Ĭolor, in a nutshell, is energy vibrating at certain speeds. Moreover, each chakra greatly affects the mind, body, and spirit in its own unique way, just as colors do.
Anodea Judith, trainer of Mindvalley’s Chakra Healing Quest The color assigned to every chakra is specifically chosen to match the vibration of that particular energy center.Įach of these in the temple of the body is designed to handle a particular kind of energy. Why Do Chakras Have Colors?Ĭhakras are associated with energy, so each one carries a unique frequency and wavelength. “ So it’s the map to the architecture of your soul.”Īnd when it comes to the seven chakras, they work together to create life force energy, which, when balanced, can be beneficial for the mind, body, and spirit. “ The chakra system is a profound philosophical system that represents the levels of consciousness,” explains Anodea Judith, chakra expert and trainer of Mindvalley’s Chakra Healing Quest. And that energy is ancestrally known as ‘prana.’ Meaning ‘wheel’ in Sanskrit, the term ‘chakra’ refers to the circular, spinning (like a wheel) energy center. There are seven chakras in the human body, which are situated along the spine from the base of it to the crown of the head.
CHAKRA COLORS HOW TO
There’s physiology, psychology, and spirituality behind the chakra colors, and when you understand how to use them, you can enrich your life in ways you may have never considered. To get a better appreciation for the world of chakras, here are a few things to get familiar with: However, before you start assigning ROYGBIV in ascending order of the seven energy points, it’s important to understand that the chakra colors are unique to each with different meanings and influences on your well-being. Chakras are, in a way, like Skittles-they embody the colors of the rainbow.
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