"The Emotional Spectrum: Green & Red"
“How You Can Show The Inside World Using Your Colours”
Colours are an important mean of expressing the myriad emotions that traverse through our human spectrum. The hues (i.e., the lush greens of nature, and a passionate red for life's intensity) that many flock to in order to seek solace or joy can subsequently become powerful assets when we use them as tools for emotional expression and self-comprehension.
Green: The Colour of Fertility and Balance
The colour of growing leaves and rolling hills, green is linked with rebirth, renewal and balance. There is a reason why so many people have turned to it for its calm colors. If you like green, it means you treasure peace, harmony and personal growth.
To express emotions, dark grey may be used To include green as a means of expressing emotion
1. Create a peaceful home: Paint one wall green or buy some greens to place in your living room This will then be a visible reminder to breathe and find balance before reacting when feelings start getting the best of us.
2. Spending time in nature (earth) specifically can help you to ground and reflect on your feelings when emotions are complex. The green, natural environment can help declutter your mind and put things in perspective.
3. I love fall so much, green is pretty much always appropriate. Wear some green: If you need a morale boost of growth energy wear some type of accessory that’s bright green on days where you have any at all say about what colours are in your wardrobe. It can be a reminder to yourself, an affirmation that you are emotionally expandable
Red--The colour of passion and vibrancy
Red, a colour known for hearts that beat and sunsets that burn bright with the passion, the fire, behind what they precede. If you have an affinity for red, then you are probably a person who wants to live and feel deeply.
If you want to draw on the emotional attraction of red…
1. Get inspired with red: Add anything of the colour red in your office or in any exercise zones. Red is powerful and can help you to overcome obstacles and stay motivated.
2. Feelings of strength: Something we can assume as true that if someone were feeling empowered or needed to be confident red is a good colour to give off your strong feelings.
3. Make with red: Incorporate red into your work art — so long as that is painting, crafting or digital design — in order to funnel emotions through creativity.
Balancing Green and Red : Life
In particular, the green and red combination. These colours that are complementary represent balance between growth and passion, balancing calming nature with fiery intensity. This means that you are attracted to light pink and hot pink which indicates a deep, well balanced emotional life that knows when to turn it down or up.
HOW TO INTENGRATE WITH YOUR EMOTIONAL EXPRESION THESE COLORS
1. Design a symbol: Using green and red, create a simple symbol or image. Consider this a personal totem, as a reminder of your totality of emotions.
2. Awareness: Red Yellow or Green! Where on the continuum from grounding green to passionate red is your energy today? If you can grasp this concept, it will assist you nicely in dealing with your emotions.
3. Seasonal example: Play up the classic green-and-red pairing of festive holiday time. This is the time for you to take a look back at all about what you have grown(green) and paved(red) throughout the year.
But, at the end of day, colours are completely subjective. How you connect to green and red is singular, as it should be — formed by what has happened to you,, your musculature of experience, by who and where you are in the chakra sphere. Accept these colours as an outlet to express yourself and process your emotions. Feel the function of calming greens in stressful periods but ignite your fire with energetic reds to give you motivation.
These visual communications can be used to better understand your feelings, and express them in a way that is rich with emotion and self-revelation. So, by all means, splash the greens and reds of your world onto its palette — you will be amazed to see how alive you are when standing within such a lush holographic landscape.
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