Find your calming color.
Wouldn’t it be neat if we all had the money and resources to surround ourselves with a colored environment that meets our sensory and energy needs? We could have one room for relaxing, one for working out, one for exercising the brain, one for sleeping, and on and on and on. If I had my druthers, I’d have a majority of blue rooms, one soft celadon green room and one industrial style black and white room. Those three palettes would get me through the moods of my day and the needs of my mind. I’m kind of simple girl when it comes to color, though I admit I do like looking at a myriad of colors (think 1960’s Peter Max posters), but I can’t live within them if I expect to do much more than play in my imagination and feel my pulse rise.
Finding the colors that help you find your best place for doing whatever it is you need or want to do, isn’t so much a science as it is an art. Tons of resources are available online to help you find your color code, but beware, many resources are not very flexible in their suggestions. To some, color is not flexible reality individuals can play with, but rather something certain thanks to empirical research based on opinion polls and some decent comparison studies. For example, there is research that concludes if a woman is wearing the color black, she is presenting a submissive position to men. That’s rather funny to me, as I wear black to look thinner not to help men feel superior.
So… as you explore your color world don’t take it too seriously. Look in your closet and see what kinds of colors you turn to for your day-to-day wear. Are they bright, dull, mostly one color, or all kinds of colors? Pick up some color swatches at a home improvement store and look at them one at a time until you’ve had enough time to find the color(s) that seem to create the effect you’re after (calm, stimulated, energized, etc.) And when you think you’ve found the colors you are happiest with, begin to surround yourself with those colors. You don’t have to paint a whole room or buy a new wardrobe. You can carry a small piece of cloth to pull out of your wallet or pocket when you need a color to zone in on. You can get a few pillows, or paint a rock to sit on your desk, or make a big collage of your color from the color swatches; in other words, you can keep and display tiny bits of your color choice nearby for a quick color fix.
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Finding the colors that help you find your best place for doing whatever it is you need or want to do, isn’t so much a science as it is an art. Tons of resources are available online to help you find your color code, but beware, many resources are not very flexible in their suggestions. To some, color is not flexible reality individuals can play with, but rather something certain thanks to empirical research based on opinion polls and some decent comparison studies. For example, there is research that concludes if a woman is wearing the color black, she is presenting a submissive position to men. That’s rather funny to me, as I wear black to look thinner not to help men feel superior.
So… as you explore your color world don’t take it too seriously. Look in your closet and see what kinds of colors you turn to for your day-to-day wear. Are they bright, dull, mostly one color, or all kinds of colors? Pick up some color swatches at a home improvement store and look at them one at a time until you’ve had enough time to find the color(s) that seem to create the effect you’re after (calm, stimulated, energized, etc.) And when you think you’ve found the colors you are happiest with, begin to surround yourself with those colors. You don’t have to paint a whole room or buy a new wardrobe. You can carry a small piece of cloth to pull out of your wallet or pocket when you need a color to zone in on. You can get a few pillows, or paint a rock to sit on your desk, or make a big collage of your color from the color swatches; in other words, you can keep and display tiny bits of your color choice nearby for a quick color fix.
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