The Amazing Healing Properties Of Color Therapy

The skin feels color. Yes you read that right, the skin can learn to tell the difference between colors. Kurt Goldstein, in his 1930s book The Organism, concluded that various colors affect the skin differently. Through his research he showed that blind people can learn to differentiate color by the way the hue makes the skin feel.

It is not known why this happens, but then it is also not known why 1 in a 1000 people can hear colors or see music. And yet it is a common phenomena called synaesthesia.

History of Color Therapy

Color therapy has been around for at least four thousand years. Several ancient societies, like the Chinese, Indian and Egyptian, used colors for healing. The Egyptians even built sacred buildings where they practiced the art of color therapy. Written case studies and cures have been found in both the Chinese and Egyptian cultures.

Methods for Decreasing Physical Pain

Pain is the necessary evil the body perpetuates against itself, not to torture it, but to warn the brain an injury has occurred. And, it’s a darn good warning signal too. Who’s going to walk on a broken leg, or allow an open wound to bleed and bleed? Without pain many people would do just that. Pain protects the body from further damage. But, the problem with pain is it is perpetual. There is no turn off switch once the signal has been received. Hence, the demand for pain relief is something 1 out of 5 adult Americans need on a daily basis.