All About the Color Yellow

Yellow shines with optimism, enlightenment, and happiness. Shades of golden yellow carry the promise of a positive future. Yellow will advance from surrounding colors and instill optimism and energy as well as spark creative thoughts.

Yellow is the color of the Solar Plexus chakra, also known as Manipura. This chakra is located in the stomach area and is linked to organs &muscular system in that area.

The Solar Plexus chakra is representative of vitality and will. When this chakra is open, it acts to empower a person and help them find their personal strength. It will help turn dreams and goals into reality.

Gemstones that will aid the Solar Plexus chakra include amber, topaz, citrine, yellow calcite, yellow jasper.

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In Chinese culture colors corresponded with the five primary elements, the directions and the four seasons. Yellow was associated with earth and the center (in relation to direction).

The Chinese have placed a predominance upon the color yellow not seen elsewhere in the world. In China it was the color of emperors during both the Ming dynasty and again during the Quing dynasty.

Huangdi, also known as the Yellow Emperor, is thought to be the founder of Chinese civilization due to the tremedous amount of inventions that took place during his reign.

In India yellow is the color of the Vaisya caste or farmers.

In the United States, taxi cabs and school buses are associated with the color yellow.

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In medical terms, a yellow flag means quarantine.

In order to stimulate and give some recognition of a certain achievement to the student, Dr. Jigoro Kano, founder of Judo, created such divisions and introduced Belt colors. The Yellow Belt symbolizes gold ore. Just as gold, which is a precious metal never subject to rusting, so is the knowledge of martial arts, the Tae-Kwon-Do, forever with the student. Like gold ore, which is buried deeply in the ground with all its impurities, so is the knowledge, which in order to be pure and fully worthy, must be laboriously dug out, patiently cleansed to produce the desired quality in a finished pure form.

Yellow Stones: Amber, Calcite, Cat's Eye, Citrine, Fluorite, Golden Beryl, Golden Yellow Topaz, Golden Tiger Eye, Iron Pyrite, Lemon Chrysoprase, Yellow Celestite, Yellow danburite, Yellow Garnet, Yellow Jade, Yellow Jasper, Yellow Kunzite, Yellow Muscovite, Yellow Rhodonite, Yellow Sapphire, Yellow Tourmaline

It is thought by archeaologists that native American Indians may have been growing sunflowers as far back as 3000B.C.

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"Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I am here." -- Lance Armstrong

"There are painters who transform the sun to a
yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transfer a yellow spot into the sun."--Pablo Picasso

"How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun." --Vincent Van Gogh

"What a horrible thing yellow is." --Edgar Degas

"A yellow circle will reveal a spreading movement outwards from the center which almost markedly approaches the spectator; a blue circle develops a concentric movement (like a snail hiding in its shell) and moves away from the spectator." --Wassily Kandinsky

"Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow." --Fran Drescher

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Yellowbellied: a cowardly manner.

Yellow fever: a disease involving high fever and jaundice that is common in the tropics.

Yellow jack: a flag flown on a vessel to show that it is under quarantine.

Yellowdog contract: a contract which denies a person the right to join a workers union.

Yellow journalism: newspaper articles thought to be sensationalized in order to sell more papers.

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Yellow is considered a warm color in landscape design. Its appearance in the garden has a stimulating effect.

Yellow flowers come forward in the landscape helping to make a large garden feel cozier.

Yellow's complimentary color in the garden is purple.

Yellow lillies make for a bright, long blooming addition to any garden--The Lily Garden.com has a selection of these showy bloom

photo by Bruce Fritz from Wikipedia

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Lemon was the original scent of the yellow colored Magic Scents Crayons from Binney & Smith Inc. introduced in 1994 with mostly food scents. There were numerous reports that children were eating the food-scented crayons, so the food scents were retired and replaced with non-food scents. The scent for the color yellow became "daffodil".

Lemon Peel: A very strong fresh Lemon scent. Great for summer, very refreshing. Aromatherapy benefits: Uplifting, refreshing, cheering, stimulating, rejuvenating.--Scent It.com

Fruit comes to mind first for yellow foods but there are also many yellow vegetables. A few of my favorites are listed below but to see more of the world's healthiest foods

Wonderfully sweet with firm and creamy flesh, bananas come prepackaged in their own yellow jackets.

The exceptional juiciness and vibrant tropical flavor of pineapple that balances the tastes of sweet and tart make them only second to bananas as America's favorite tropical fruit.

Juicy and sweet, with a soft, buttery yet somewhat grainy texture, the white to cream-colored flesh of pears was once referred to as the 'gift of the gods".

We are just beginning to discover the wealth of nourishment supplied by the mildly sweet flavored and finely textured winter squash that was once such an important part of the diet of the Native Americans that they buried it along with the dead to provide them nourishment on their final journey

The telephone directory was traditionally printed annually on yellow paper and thus became known as the "yellow pages".

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For more than seventy-five years, Yellow Freight Lines has had one of the simplest and most engaging color logos. Their trucks and logo are a yellow that tends toward orange, and their logo consists of only one word "Yellow."

Yellow Transportation website

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You are quite the powerful thinker. It's this talent that allows you to overcome a plethora of great obstacles. Luckily, this doesn't affect your ego and you give off a pretty easy-going appearance. You enjoy the finer things in life and also have an attraction to art. If you can help it, you try not to rock the boat. But you also can't stop yourself from searching for new ideas, methods or styles.

This is the result given based of my answers to the color quiz. Why not find out what color you are and if you like send me a trackback with the results.

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There is no question that the vehicle you drive is an extension of your personality --an unspoken, but clear message to the rest of the world.

The message you send by driving a vehicle that is Sunshine Yellow: Sunny disposition, joyful, and young-at-heart.

If however your vehicle is a Yellow Gold you give a different impression: Intelligent, warm, loves comfort and will pay for it.

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