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The color of life

Our capacity to see the world around us and perceive the nuances of color depends on light. The color of any object varies with the amount of light that our eyes receive, for as you know colors look darker under dim light and brighter under sunlight. In other words, color exists only in relation to light and as an expression of light.

Our planet receives energy from the sun’s electromagnetic waves which includes infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. The fraction of these rays which our eyes can see is called the visible spectrum, made up of what we may call the rainbow colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Each of these seven colors is a wave of light of a different length, and each is a unique form of energy.

The millions of other colors which we are capable of perceiving are byproducts derived from the visible spectrum, different combinations of many rays of light that reflect or refract differently off different surfaces.
White light contains all the colors of the visible spectrum. To test this, shine three lights colored red, green and blue one over the other, you will find that when they are superimposed, the light looks white. While white encompasses in itself all colors, black is the total absence of color, a non color.

The rays of light are made up of waves and particles in continuous motion. These radiant undulating beams travel at amazing speed and are surrounded by a cloud of glittering multicolored dust called photons, tiny specs of light that spin and pulsate endlessly around the wave of light.

So we can say that light is an energy that is whole and fragmented at the same time, and the same is true for color. No color is solid. Every color contains a variety of waves and particles of light. Tiny specs of other colors are present in any predominant hue, minute vibrating particles whose color at times may be analogous but not necessarily so.

No color is solid, all colors are made up of multicolored light particles.

Color is not static, because it is pure energy in constant movement, its very essence is vibration and this vibratory movement radiates its energy. In natural light colors are vital and alive, morphing endlessly in a multi-layered, unending movement. If we practiced long enough we could actually hear color, for it is a vibratory frequency, and each hue has its equivalent musical note. In nature, all color sings!

Color, like music, is vibrational energy and in this lies its power as an visual-emotional language. It not only resonates with the energy around us but also within us, stimulating in us both conscious and subconscious emotional responses. This is so because our emotions are also forms of energy. When color resonates with our inner frequency, with our most heart-felt and sincere emotions, its strength, intensity and capacity to impact our physical and emotional being are amplified.

This quality of color turns it into a dynamic visual language that can communicate just as efficiently as the spoken word and also into a powerful tool capable of healing and balancing our body, mind and spirit.

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