Black, whilst being seen as a sophisticated and classy colour, also communicates a message of ‘do not come too close, just let me do my own thing’. Black is a great colour to wear when you just want to ‘hide away’, or are feeling vulnerable and do not want to be noticed. The properties found in black effectively create a ‘barrier’ between you and anyone else. When wearing black you are very difficult to ‘read’ the barrier created reveals nothing about your emotions or personality, creating a certain amount of mystery about you.

Traditionally teenagers go through a black faze. They do not want any interference in their lives from parents or teachers. When taken to the extreme teenagers will become ‘Goths’, wearing clothes and accessories and makeup all in black. The message in both instances is ‘just let me be’ ‘do not disturb’.

Black is a strong and classy colour. Women will wear the ‘lbd’ (little black dress) to create this very persona. In marketing black is used to promote masculine products again creating a strong and classy image. Executives and presidents will be driven in black cars representing style, class and power.

Whilst black is a great colour to use, excessive use will affect your emotions and can sometimes cause depression and a feeling of ‘emotional invisibility’. Black can also hinder your true potential within all aspects of your life and wearing it to often may seem to hold you back.

So, the message is, wear black when you want to feel classy, create mystery or just ‘blend into the background’! Just be careful not to wear it too often or too much; nobody likes to be invisible for too long!

Have an undisturbed week,
Thelma van der Werff, Colour Comfort
www.colourcomfort.com

Sometimes we feel lack luster in our approach to every day dilemmas and need encouragement to carry out even the smallest tasks. Encouragement and support helps us to move on after disappointment or to renew our enthusiasm for something after we have felt discouraged or frightened.

Nature gives us encouragement every morning when the sun comes up. The bright orange glow of a new day is telling the entire world, here are new opportunities and challenges, have the courage to face each and every one of them and enjoy each moment!
It does not matter how your yesterday was, the orange colour is giving you the (en)courage(ment) to start the day with renewed enthusiasm and energy.
Whenever you feel disappointed, fearful or just tired, try integrating the colour orange into your life. You can wear an orange top, blouse, shirt, tie or necklace. You can eat orange fruit and vegetables to boost your energy levels and positively influence your thinking.

Do you get tired eyes from working on your computer for hours? Especially TFT flatscreens radiate mercury frequencies containing a high proportion of blue light. The increased proportion of blue light not only makes vision more difficult but also shows a damaging effect on metabolic processes in cell experiments. The orange coloured computer spectacle can protect your eyes from irreversible damage. For more information visit my website www.colourcomfort.com

Bring back vitality, energy and joy with by sitting with an orange colour therapy spectacle for only 20 min. a day. This colour can strengthen your immune system and digestion..

Use an orange Aura-Soma® air conditioner and spray this in your home or office to restore you to a state of calm and concentration when unforeseen circumstances throw you off balance. You can also use this spray as a gentle pick-me-up that can leave you feeling refreshed and ready to face your next challenge.

Be encouraged,

Thelma

Each day brings depressing news of a global recession, housing market crash and the decline of numerous companies under pressure. Is this affecting you and your quality of life; are you worried about your job or your business?  Are you fearful for the future and feel frustrated that you cannot find a solution to improve your life?

Whilst the doom and gloom permeates around us, there are many businesses that are blooming and prospering. Against all the odds they are standing head and shoulders above all the others.  What makes these businesses unique and what is their secret? They have created an opportunity to rise from mediocrity to excellence by focussing on the positives, changing systems and processes and creating expansion with new ideas.  This basic concept can work for you too.  Using the powerful tool of colour will allow you to expand, gain confidence and change old belief patterns and systems in your life that may not be working for you, especially in this difficult time.

This month I want to offer you a colour that can support you to be more ‘creative’ in any area of your life.  By finding new ways of doing things differently, creating new methods or systems  you too can rise above the doom and gloom and create your own excellence. New times need new measures, methods and paradigms.

Start introducing the colour turquoise into your life. You can wear this colour or have objects of this colour in your work or home environment. Turquoise is a combination of green and blue, in definition; encouraging you to follow your own intuition and communicating your ideas. Turquoise gives you the confidence to ‘create’, helping with fresh ideas, expansion of thought and ultimately taking away the fear of change.

In colour therapy this colour is related to a new era, fresh ideas, mass communications (computer / internet) and creativity.

These times are forcing us to be original, inventive, unique and optimistic. All characteristics of the colour turquoise.

Wishing you optimism and creativity,

Thelma

I have watched the inauguration of President Obama and was thrilled to see the colours ‘the First Lady’ was wearing.

Michelle Obama was wearing a yellow dress, yellow coat, lime green gloves and green shoes.

The yellow dress signifies that she is focussed and confident, not only in her emotions but also in her thoughts. She approaches life with trust, joy and flexibility. She is capable of making quick decisions and has good communication skills. Her attitude is positive and optimistic. The yellow coat is telling us that she wants to present all these qualities to the world.

Her lime green gloves reveals that she wants to expand her work in a compassionate and creative way. In her work she is guided by her inner truth and intuition which enables her to follow her individual direction. She is a loyal and consistent worker, not afraid to try new directions, provided they do not go against her principles.

Her green shoes are telling us that she want to move forward in life in a sincere, generous and trustworthy manner, following her heart. She wants to be of service to others and is not afraid of making decisions, improvements or changes.

Behind every succesful man stands a ‘colourful’ woman!

Thelma

I have watched the inauguration of President Obama and was thrilled to see the colours ‘the First Lady’ was wearing.

Michelle Obama was wearing a yellow dress, yellow coat, lime green gloves and green shoes.

The yellow dress signifies that she is focussed and confident, not only in her emotions but also in her thoughts. She approaches life with trust, joy and flexibility. She is capable of making quick decisions and has good communication skills. Her attitude is positive and optimistic. The yellow coat is telling us that she wants to present all these qualities to the world.

Her lime green gloves reveals that she wants to expand her work in a compassionate and creative way. In her work she is guided by her inner truth and intuition which enables her to follow her individual direction. She is a loyal and consistent worker, not afraid to try new directions, provided they do not go against her principles.

Her green shoes are telling us that she want to move forward in life in a sincere, generous and trustworthy manner, following her heart. She wants to be of service to others and is not afraid of making decisions, improvements or changes.

Behind every succesful man stands a ‘colourful’ woman!

Thelma

A colour for a sense of direction

Do you know where you want to go in life, which direction you want to take? In my work as a colour coach I come across many clients who find it difficult to actually live according to their heart’s desires. Often they will not give themselves the ‘green light’ to go forward. The colour for knowing and following your heart’s desires is the colour green.

The colour green can be a great support whenever you need to make decisions, especially in matters close to your heart like relationships, family and work. Which direction should I go? Questions we sometimes ask ourselves and is not always easy for everyone to answer. When you struggle with making decisions or finding your personal sense of direction, go out in nature and let yourself be surrounded by the colour green. Let nature’s colour of green help you to make decisions and choices, following your own emotions rather than the opinions of others. The frequence of our heart corresponds with the frequency of the colour green and therefore this colour encourages you to follow your heart’s feelings. ‘Eat your greens’ has been sound advice for generations. Green vegetables are rich in antioxidants and contain important phytochemicals as Vitamin C, flavonoids and carotenoids.
Green vegetables are especially good for heart conditions and lungs.

The colour green is in the middle of the colour spectrum (rainbow) and has a balancing, healing and calming effect on people. This is one of the reasons that operating staff in hospitals often wear green uniforms. Green is also the complementary colour of red and in order to balance the eyes of the operating staff after seeing all that blood (red) the use of green uniforms and / or walls are used in operating rooms.

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Birds are also influenced by colour and the colour green is helping them to find their ‘migrating sense of direction’.  Give yourself the ‘green light’ to go forward in the direction you choose. Whenever you see the traffic light turn green, just think a moment if you are following your heart’s desires! Get out into nature and start wearing a green shirt, top or blouse just to remind you to listen to your own heart and go into the direction of your choice.

Have you ever been to a city you have never visited before? A city where you do not know the streets or anyone there? No street map, no travel plan, no guide?

Most people would feel uncomfortable and insecure when they find themselves in such a situation. However, if you have a street map you can at least identify where you are, where you want to go, which attractions you want to see, and which areas, shops or buildings.

Our life, without a focus or clarity of direction, (street map) can make us feeling uncomfortable and insecure. It is similar to walking or driving in an unfamiliar city without street map or directions.

If you have a focus or clarity of direction in your life you have one of the main ingredients for confidence. To know where you are at the moment, what your talents and strengths are and where you want to go in life, your goals and what you want to achieve will result in focus, purpose and clarity of direction. Have you noticed that those with a clear focus and purpose are confident and determined to achieve their goal? They do not always know how they will reach their goal, but they are focussed and have a clarity of direction, and this makes them confident.

How can you become more confident in different areas of your life? Confidence is the result of clarity of mind, focus, and direction; of concentration, keenness, unwavering attention and single-mindedness. If you can support these emotions your confidence will grow.

There is a colour that specifically increases clarity of mind, focus, concentration and attention. How? Light enters our eyes and goes to the centre of our brain, to the hypothalamus. This small organ is the so-called CEO of the brain and every colour or frequency of light gives the hypothalamus a different signal, which in turn passes the message to other parts of the body.

Every colour has different properties and stimulates different emotions. To achieve the emotions mentioned above can use the colour yellow! Yellow is a colour that demands attention, alertness and concentration or focus. Why do you think that traffic signs, sticky notes, highlighters or school buses are often yellow? The colour is shouting: ‘Pay attention! Be alert!’

Start integrating yellow into your life. Not only eating yellow fruit and vegetables or painting your walls yellow but also wearing this colour. Are you thinking: “Oh no, I can wear all colours but not yellow! It does not look well with my skin tone”? As with all colours, find the right hue or tone of the colour and you will be fine. Yellow is one of the least worn colours but is one that is needed so much!

It is the colour of joy, happiness, fun, optimism, enthusiasm and confidence. It is the colour of the sun, our source of life, energy and light. You can gradually start your journey with yellow by walking outdoors, enjoying the sun and yellow flowers. When you have found the right hue, start wearing this colour as a blouse, t-shirt, top or shirt. To wear a colour on the top half of your body, closest to the skin will influence your own emotions and also the message you are giving to others around you. This colour will support you in being more focussed, clear minded, concentrated and clear of mind. Remember, the colour yellow demands attention! It takes confidence to wear this colour because you will be noticed!