Top 10 Ways to Colorize Your Life

Give up black and white thinking and put more color in your life!

Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. For between black and white lies a spectrum of colorful thought – offering us a rainbow of possibilities for a full and joyful life. When we were children the world was very much a black and white place. Mom is home, life is good. Mom is away, life is bad. I didn’t get that cookie, I am going to die! I get the doll or truck I want, I live!

As adults, we gradually learn that life is not black and white, good or bad. However, while we may intellectually know life is all about the gray in between, we hang on to the simplicity of our childhood thinking. And when good or bad things happen we may still react in black and white terms, as if things are all our fault or not our fault at all. But life is all the colors between black, white – and even, gray.

1. Be passionate. Be red!
   Express red with all it’s vibrancy and loudness. Feel the red of your anger then let it go… for red is also the color of passion – the flip side of anger. You can’t rule out red-anger with out ruling out red-passion.
2. Embrace the warmth of an orange hearth fire.
   This color is about approachability – be open to the warmth that comes your way even when the world feels cold and un-welcoming. There is always a bit of orange-warmth for comfort.
3. Color yourself yellow the color of optimisism.
   When you are stuck in that all or nothing kind of thinking find some yellow, some sunshine in your world. What’s good, bright, and possible? Yellow like the sun is an upbeat reminder that the climate of our lives changes every day.
4. Talk a walk in the green of the forest.
   Green suggests stability, restfulness, naturalness- a good place to drop into yourself and listen to the full range of your thoughts – not just the always and never ones that stay on the top of our minds. There’s a balanced life in the green.
5. Let the sky blue color of spirit be your refuge.
   When facing what feels like (but rarely is) a life or death decision – to change jobs, stay in a relationship, let go of an expectation – wrap yourself in the all-knowing blue-ness spirit. For spirit guides us through all the blues – the sad blues and the calm, peaceful blues of surrendering to our own divinity.
6. Use violet in all your fantasies!
   Violet, the beautiful lightness of being, of playing, of dreaming. The only way out of a black rock and a white-hard place is to imagine all the possibilities before you. Use the dreaminess of violet to play your way out of the box!
7. Trust indigo and your intuition.
   Midnight, moonlight and the depth of indigo. Through the confusion and even the depression, listen to your intuition. Listen to your heart. It knows.
8. Shock the world with pink.
   Live out loud. Be you and then some. No pale pink for you! Bold and bright moves you to the center of your life.
9. By all means wear black.
   And mourn your losses. Feel the hurt and disappointment. Then clear the way for abundance.
10. Celebrate the radiance of white.
    The presence of all colors. The fresh color of rebirth and joy. All these colors are present in you. Find them and revel in their gifts.