How Colors Influence Our Psyche

Because we live in a chromatic universe, and color brings into our lives a variety of emotions and feelings - joy or sadness, warmth or cold, security or fear, agitation or peace - we must be very careful about what we choose for the spaces in which we also work for those in whom we want to relax.

Colors, warm or cold, directly influence our mood. If we know what effects each one has, we can take advantage of them to get more positive emotions, to reduce the feeling of fatigue, to increase or decrease our appetite, to increase concentration, or to relax.

We are born in white and green and grow up thinking purple and gold, resting our souls in pale yellow and pink and hiding from brown or gray accents. And we always love something, we love blue and green, cyclamen and fuchsia wanting to love in red, pure red.

And the cold is black and the picture darkens with a tone, and the fear is oil gray and then you want to erase everything and take it again from the green and white end. Sometimes life is painted on its own, and the painter is not always the most talented. We are the ones who have to learn to value it.

Experiments have shown that, indeed, colors exert an influence of varying intensities on the human psyche. Such accents that the external chromatic gives to our internal feelings are not generally valid aspects, but they largely depend on the personal history, on the history of the relationship with the colors that each person has. 

 The meaning of colors is not universally valid

There is a statistically proven code, symbolic of the psychological meanings of colors. Thus, green can be associated with mental balance, yellow with the idea of ​​peace, or red with the need for a passionate love of tenderness for what is close, including sex, for blue to come as a color of knowledge.

It can be said that these meanings acquire a certain universal value. But this universal validity loses its intensity or even changes its meaning depending on each person.

We translate by colors

In general, a state of anxiety, illness, and a state of mourning sadness creates the predisposition to choose clothing or living spaces, dark colors: navy blue, brown to black, and gray. Therefore, people's internal states are highlighted by the colors they choose, but not necessarily.

In particular, we can see that things can differ depending on the individual. On the other side of the color palette, we have pale, light colors: shades of purple, pink, lilac. These are generally associated with the state of harmonization and openness, the state of well-being. The strong, striking colors shout their eccentricity, the need for attention, the desire to be admired, not to go unnoticed by the one who chooses them from the many shades.

These are the directions of interpretation that can be considered to some extent generally valid. However, people's chromatic preferences may change over time depending on their inner evolution.

Colors within the limits of belonging to the culture

Colors are learned and can be universally valid, but they differ in particular from culture to culture, from society to society, and from individual to individual. There is a particularization on people and there is also a cultural particularization.

Because there is a personal history of each person, there is also a history of each society where cultural particularization enters. We can speak both of a cultural load, of a personal heritage that we take through our origins, of belonging to a family that transmits a series of values ​​to us, as well as of a collective patrimony.