Color Therapy 101: Yellow

Imagine: this person is staring at you as you sit in a chair. You’re trying to remain neutral – after all, you asked for this – but you start to feel a little on edge and completely uncomfortable — you’ve given in to the feelings of discomfort. The person assessing your aura tells you how she is done looking at you, because all of a sudden you turned YELLOW.

According to David Hamilton in his new book, Why Woo-Woo Works, people who say they see auras have often said that the color is associated with how the subject feels at the time of assessment. (An aside: I’ve only just started to peruse his book, but he’s got real-science, real-studies behind all things ‘woo-woo’ and I recommend the book if your brain is hardwired the way mine is.)

So let’s think of things that we already know about the color yellow. When you refer to someone as being a yellow belly, you’re calling them a coward. This is the exact inverse of, say, ‘follow the yellow brick road’, which of course, the yellow bricks lead to Dorothy’s way out of Oz. She’s following her own power to find the way home.

So the standard goes, yellow is the color of the solar plexus chakra, which is the chakra that is associated with self-power.

During the yoga training I took, I taught a portion on color and light therapy to my fellow yogis. I asked them what their favorite colors were, and which ones they didn’t like (if any). The sunniest, brightest, most joyful of my classmates loved the color yellow. So it’s power, and joy.

If your solar plexus chakra is out of balance by being under-stimulated, surround yourself with pretty yellow flowers, or crystals like citrine. Infuse your water with the sun and lemon juice. (You could even go as far as using citrine essence — maybe we’ll do a little crystal essence experiment here in the near future. A quick google search is telling me that you can purchase already made essences, rather than make your own! There are many different sites hawking products like this one. Who knew?!)

Yellow light therapy that already exists, like with some other colors, is LED light therapy for facials. Various colors do different things — according to this site that offers the LED facials, yellow will remove inflammation. If you live in Illinois and have tried the service, let us know!

According to this site, yellow sunglasses will help alleviate anxiety. It makes sense, right; yellow being the color of the sun, of joy. This site lists a bunch of various colored glasses — even some for kids.

And oh, how much fun was it to discover that Hauswitch was offering color-specific items at their store. I wasn’t able to visit it last year when I was in Salem, but I would love to go inside the store itself one day. If you order these yellow pillows to bring some joy or manifestation into your room, please post pictures to share!

So are you a yellow person? Why, or why not?