The Healing Power of Color: Using Color to Improve Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Well-Being

by Betty Wood

A look at the hidden role color plays in every aspect of our lives.

• Explores the use of color in ancient civilizations and its recent applications in modern medicine and psychology.

• Shows how color can be used to improve work, increase plant growth, and enhance personal magnetism.

• Explains how to interpret color in dreams.

Why are we drawn to certain colors and repelled by others? What do our color preferences say about our personalities? How does color affect our emotions? The Healing Power of Color answers these questions and many more as it explores the use of color in ancient civilizations, its basis in the healing traditions of various cultures, and its recent applications in modern medicine and psychology. Betty Wood, an accomplished color healer, explains how to interpret color in dreams and provides guided color meditation exercises designed to heal, relax, and renew the spirit. She discusses the importance of color in nature, in our home and work environments, and in our personal energy fields. She also shows how color can be used to improve work, increase plant growth, and enhance personal magnetism.

Genres: Nonfiction

120 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1985

About the author

A specialist in slavery and gender in the early Atlantic world, Betty Wood earned a BA in geography at Keele University in 1967, an MA in social and economic history at the University of London in 1968, and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. Wood taught at Girton College, Cambridge from 1971 until her retirement in 2013, where she served as Director of Studies in History from 1974 until 1984.

Reviews

[Ben Cooley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Was not what I expected...started out interesting with some of the history behind color use in ancient civilizations. Then it got into the real point of the book, which is chakric color healing...guess I should have read the title literally instead of figuratively.

[April · Rating 1 out of 5]

This reads like a high school book report. She doesnt mention auras until pg 74 of 109 so interested parties should probably start there. The last 10 pgs literally constitute the entire process of using color, which I believe and am interested in, to heal.

[Amber Rose · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn’t like the way the book was written was very repetitive and not organized at all . Had good ideas and has potential to be good

[D.l. · Rating 1 out of 5]

pity I can't give this a lower rating. It reads like a term paper and has far more information about what colors you are drawn to, not about actual healing.