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Healing Color Combinations by Ayurvedic Type
By Melissa Breyer
Does the color of some rooms make you squeamish? Itchy? Antsy? Does the color of other rooms make you soft? Calm? Wonderfully weak in the knees? It is no secret that we all respond to color, and each of us responds differently to different colors. Color has an amazing effect on us, and can influence our moods and energy with the simple flick of a hue.
Last year we wrote about Healing Paint Colors for Your Ayurveda Type, a super cool color system by AFM Safecoat paints that shows you how to find emotional balance through the use of color. We like AFM because they do business on a “health first premise”–their Safecoat paints meet the highest standards of environmental responsibility, and also contain no toxic ingredients such as solvents, heavy metals, chemical residuals, formaldehyde and other harmful preservatives.
Their Ayurveda Essence color system takes the health premise a step further by offering interactive tools to help you manipulate subtle aspects of your environment to promote optimum wellness. Yay! There are 108 colors in three groups of 36. (I like how the number 108 surfaces frequently in sacred numerology.) To keep it simple, they created three micro palettes that correspond to the three major constitutional types of East Indian medicine: vata, pitta, and kapha. Once you know which type you are (see next page), you can select colors accordingly: whether the colors are hot or cold, warm or cool, calming or stimulating, uplifting or grounding, moist or dry, etc.� Eastern healing has generated many practices that promote harmony, they help to relieve stress by helping us understand how to create balance in the day-to-day.
Next: The Ayruvedic types
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add your comment »I think Im an ectomorph wanna-be, but I look best in bright clear primary colors. But my main house room is vibrant earth tones, muted gold, reddish stained wood, pine greens, and a sky blue vaulted ceiling with cloud paintings on it. Also much plant life thru out, south faceing windows.Bedroom more muted and cool colors, no drapes, filled with moonlight...I call this my 'inside-outside house. It is my favorite place to be and I also work from my home.
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Very interesting! Though it is funny that I am strongly a Vata type (hardly scored any points in other types) but I feel a need for bright, stimulating colors around me. I hate a thought about having mainly muted, earthy tones in my house... Broken, weak colors make me uneasy. At the moment my walls are plain white, which is boring, but I can't help it as my landlord wouldn't be so happy to see me have painted the walls pink or green or whatever... So I try to make the best with using a lot of strong colored fabrics, items etc. And I feel great - despite the ayurvedics!
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This was such an interesting article and it does explain a lot as to why I chose the different colors that I do, when painting my room.
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I live in an open floor plan rancher in Az., and recently re-painted the interior. The main/repeating color throughout is a pale rose quartz shade on ceiling and walls. Accent walls are --- Livingroom & Dining Room - Garnet, Family room & kitchen - blue green Jade, Master Bedroom/Bath & Guest Bedroom -- Aventurine, Guest Bath - Rose Quartz. All the trim work and doors are White.
The entire atmosphere of the house is gentle, calming and comforting.
Color is indeed a very influential force in ones living space.
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What happens if I score 12 on each of the three types?
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