bathing in colour - day 19

Mere colour can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
-Oscar Wilde


​Many years ago I enjoyed reading the books of healer and psychic medium Betty Shine.   One day I read an exercise she recommended in order to balance the energy level of the entire body and to assist in healing inflammation especially.  She called this a Colour Bath and it came to be my deeply relaxing, go-to practice to wind down, sleep, let go and let God when times called for it especially during the menopause. 

The colour bath is an exercise which uses the seven major chakras, the spinning vortices of energy which run in a direct line from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.  These chakras spin at different frequencies and are precise monitors of our physical and mental wellbeing.  When they are spinning at their perfect frequency we feel emotionally balanced, a deep sense of wellbeing and optimum physical health.

Each chakra relates to a colour which affects aspects of our being - mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and energetically and a colour bath is intended to inhale fresh vibrant energy by means of imagining breathing the corresponding colour of each chakra and exhaling or releasing the old, tired energy.

Chakras and colours:

1. Root Chakra - base of spine - security and survival - colour Red
2. Sacral Chakra - below navel - creativity and sexuality - colour Orange
3. Solar Plexus Chakra - upper abdomen - wisdom and power - colour Yellow
4. Heart Chakra - near heart centre - love, trust, healing - colour Green
5. Throat Chakra - throat area - communication and expression - colour Blue
6. Third Eye Chakra - forehead - intuition, wisdom, inspiration - colour Indigo
7. Crown Chakra - just above the head - spirituality - colour White

Colour Bath exercise.

• Make yourself comfortable (this is ideal if you are about to fall asleep or if you want to take ten minutes rest).
• Close your eyes and breathe in and out comfortably two or three times.
• Now imagine a vibrant red tomato or apple and as you breathe in, draw that colour like a vibrant red ribbon down through your body and into your root chakra.
• Hold comfortably and as you breathe out, imagine exhaling the old dull red taking with it all the sickness, toxins and symptoms of stress or illness.  This dull red leaves our body and vaporises harmlessly.
• Do this a couple of times until you are satisfied that you’re feeling a refreshed and balanced energy in this chakra centre.
• Now move on up through each chakra imagining a vibrant fruit or fabric relating to the colour you wish to inhale to help you hold the colour as you breathe it in.
• When you have completed the seven chakra cleansing colour bath, inhale once again and this time as you breathe out, imagine your breath is now the vibrant colours of the rainbow and allowing this rainbow to swirl around your entire body enclosing you in a colourful bubble.
• Now breathe normally allowing the colours to wash over you as though immersed in a rainbow colour bath.  

And relax………..falling asleep in this bath can do you no harm at all!

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