GREEN

‘Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave’. (James Beattie)

The colour green has always been associated with regeneration and calmness. It’s the colour of love, compassion, kindness and tolerance. With a good balance of green in our lives we’re more able to be friendly, in touch with our feelings and positive with other people. We feel loved and open to be loved, secure, contented and relaxed. We are able to trust and take risks.

An excess of green can make you demanding, oversensitive and vulnerable. Too little makes you indecisive, frightened of rejection, unforgiving and sorry for yourself. A dislike of green usually means you are lonely or have suffered rejection or an emotional trauma. Try to reintroduce it around you until you’ve learned to like it.

Bring green into your life by consciously looking at the trees and plants around you. Try walking in places where you’re surrounded by nature and absorb all the different hues of green in the scenery. You need a combination of light and dark greens to get the right balance. Too much dark green can create sadness and too much lime or light green can create emotions of resentment and possessiveness.

Green is the colour associated with our hearts and is central to our well-being. It’s therefore particularly important to make sure you have a good balance of green in your life.

COLOUR YOUR MOOD

Colour is so much a part of our lives that most of us take it for granted. Have you noticed how often colours are used in language? Examples: in the pink, feeling blue, blacken his name, a yellow streak, green with envy. Colour surrounds us and has an enormous subconscious impact on us. Some colours make us feel calm and relaxed, others make us happy or sad, or energised and stimulated.

Think back to some of your favourite colours. I expect you’ll find they were the ones you needed at that particular time of your life. Often the colours we choose to wear on certain days reflect our mood. By consciously surrounding yourself with the right colours you can add a sense of balance to your life. Why don’t you try an experiment? Try using the colours you need in your clothing, around your home and in the garden, or in a vase of flowers. Personally I have a collection of bright coloured glass which I move around my home, depending on my mood.

Every week I’m going to post a short piece on each colour and how it affects us. I hope you’ll enjoy experimenting on a day to day basis and find out what a mood enhancer it can be. Let me know any interesting findings!