feng shui colors

One of the important considerations in the art of Feng Shui is the use of colors.

Yin colors
(colors with wavelengths from 575 to 380 nanometers) in Feng Shui are:

Blue, Black, Purple, White, Pink, and Green.

These colors are what bring about healing and relaxation, even day-dreaming and fantasizing.

Yang colors
(colors with wavelengths from 760 to 575 nanometers) are:

Yellow, Orange, Tan, Beige, Brown, Red, Mauve, Maroon, Gold, and Lavender.

These are the colors of kinetic energy, constant motion, ambition, drive, and enthusiasm.

If you don't pay attention to colors in Feng Shui you can use them in the wrong setting or put together ineffective combinations that "muddy the waters" of your Qi energy.

And if the colors are out of balance they will bring negative effects associated with their energy.

For instance, you would not want an overabundance of blue, purple or white in your office because you would find it more difficult to concentrate on your business, since your energies would gravitate toward fantasizing about far-flung places or future wishes.

Likewise, you don't want too much lavender or gold in a room where you go to massage sore muscles after a workout, because there you need to relax and feel soothed rather than prodded on to more intense activity.

And for instance, putting too much red in an area can cause anxiety instead of passion or stimulation, or red in a children's bedroom can cause children to become too emotional.

However, having said that, it's important to realize that each Feng Shui color scheme must be individualized and customized to each person. There is no magic Feng Shui color formula for every office, every bedroom, every children's room, every wall facing a certain direction, or anythng else like that.

So what is an overabundance of one color for one person is a perfect blend of it for another and not enough of it for a third.

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Feng Shui colors, therefore, have inspirational tendencies and general energetic properties but nothing absolute for every individual.

What follows are the general positive aspects of many Feng Shui colors. Keep in mind that when used wrong, all colors also have related negative aspects, and different shades of a color bring subtle alterations of the general aspects.

Red is the color of arousal.

Orange is the "social" color, inducing animated conversations and the feeling of "let's have a good time".

Purple is a very powerful color associated with the Crown Chakra and needs to be used in moderation at all times. It can induce celestial or divine visions or very deep pondering.

Pink is the color of soothing and can induce feelings of love.

Yellow is the color of warmth, constant motion, cheerfulness, and friendliness.

Gray is the color of centering and mental clarity.

White is the color of refreshment and of clear-cut beginnings and endings.

Blue is the color of mental calmness and can also induce artistic creativity as non-alcoholic intoxication.

Black is the color of being grounded; also of being protected and having quiet power.

Brown is the color of nourishment, aesthetic as well as physical. It can make you feel satiated in your appetites or inspire a ravenous hunger.

Green is the color of replenishment and a fresh start.

Different rooms and walls facing certain directions in the home require different color combinations to optimize Qi and manifest the most appropriate feelings for their functions or placement. Feng Shui master practitioners should be consulted to help you tweak the combinations in accordance with general color energies as well as your unique home and personality.