At this point, no doubt you’ve pressed the “night shift” mode on your phone to help dim the effects of a bright phone when it’s nighttime. It’s an orange-y color, right? And I’m sure you know that orange is better than blue light, because the regular blue light disrupts melatonin production and we certainly need that produced by our bodies so we can sleep better at night.
So, aha! Orange light therapy is already a part of your every day life!
Alas, that doesn’t really explain any aversions or attractions to orange, especially in lieu of the chakra system. (Personal anecdote: the child was looking at the endocrine system in a book, and I told him the glands correlate with an energy system he already knows a lot about — and he figured it out — chakras!)
Orange is another stimulating color on the visible spectrum — but perhaps not as stimulating as red. It vibrates at a faster frequency than its predecessor, and generally elicits feelings of happiness and joy.
Let’s dig little deeper.
I personally could not STAND orange until my early to mid 30s. Around the time I was spending a lot of time holding my abdomen (and my child was swirling around in my aura, but that’s another story) — around the chakra area that is orange, the sacral area — it was by no mistake.
While the root chakra represents stability and security, the sacral chakra represents creation, emotions, this flowing essence of such. It’s where empathy is created, where ideas bloom, where everything — included sexuality, and therefore babies! — are created.
The combination of the two chakras fully working together creates freedom in the essence of stability. Who doesn’t strive for that, right?
However, if you are like me when I was younger and orange was a huge deterrent, there’s probably some sort of esoteric reason why. If your sacral chakra is out of balance by being too stimulated, you may find that you are overly sensual and sexual, to the point of dysfunction in your life because of it.
If your sacral chakra is under-stimulated, you may have relationship issues, or the fear of realizing your full potential (blocked creativity) in any form of your life.
So what can you do if you want to stimulate your aversion to orange?
If you want to un or de-stimulate your love of orange because you find that you are engaging in those overstimulated behaviors, you can try to mellow your attraction by engaging with the other colors, specifically the ones you may find aversion towards, or rather, more whites (purity) or upper spectrum colors. Greens would be good to focus on, to try and bridge yourself toward the upper colors as well.
This goes towards any color on the spectrum — you could also seek energy therapy to help balance the chakras — not just physical color therapy, but emotional, mental, spiritual. (Think: in-person or remote reiki, or chakra balancing yoga, or pendulum work.)
If you are understimulated, feel free to surround yourself with orange stones like carnelian or coral — you can wear one as a choker at your throat; listen to music that makes you feel sexy; grab a lovely, sensual orange and silk scarf to wear out on the town, or simply run it through your fingers, awakening the senses.
Lie on the floor and do a reclined-goddess pose; do pelvic rocks while in bridge, or scissors kicks (abdominal strengthening, too, woohoo!).
Even Philips has something to say about orange light therapy itself — it apparently revitalizes skin.
Remember — these color therapy/chakra posts are just the beginning.
Some of the information above is from the sources below:
Charles Klotsche – Color Medicine: The Secrets of Color Vibrational Healing; Anodea Judith – Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System; and also my Reiki I and Reiki II compilations of sources.
“We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two because two is one and one. we forget that we still have to make a study of “and”.” -A. Eddington
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