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Colour Your Diet
Author: Andrea Putting
Purple grapes, blueberries, kiwi fruit, bananas, peaches and strawberries
make an appetising fruit salad. A fruit salad is much more appealing with a full
colour variation, than if it only has one or two colours. How important is it to
have colourful meals? Is it just because it looks more interesting and pretty?
Or is there a purpose to it?
In traditional medicine, the doctrine of signatures is followed. This means that
different herbs and foods are classified for their healing properties according
to their colour and shape. For example, yellow plants, such as dandelion, are
known for their liver healing properties. This principle can also be used in our
daily diet. I learnt from my mother, as a child, that a meal should always
contain a variety of colour; this is a part of a balance diet. If we eat a diet
which is lacking in some colour, such as green vegetables, then our diet will be
out of balance and health problems relating to that colour will occur.
It is well known that different colours have different effects on us. Red and
yellow are warming and stimulating. Turquoise, blue and violet are cooling and
sedating. Green maintains balance and harmony. Our food can have a similar
effect.
Each colour has its own energy vibration and will vibrate with different parts
of the body. The colours represented by the chakras also represent the part of
the body most affected by that particular colour. So each organ has its own
colour that it relates to. When the colour is provided through the diet, it will
energize the corresponding chakra, or energy centre, and provide positive
vibration through the body's organs and glands in that area.
A rainbow diet will provide you with all the nutrients and vitamins you require.
The nutrients provided in a food will relate to the requirements of the chakra
the colour corresponds to. Each food will energize, cleanse and heal its
corresponding chakra. The outer cover of the food usually represents the colour
vibration it radiates to and the action it will have on us. Some foods have more
than one colour vibration, for example a pink grapefruit radiates to both yellow
energy from the skin and pink from the flesh. A Haas avocado radiates to both
indigo and green.
It is best to include foods of all colours in our diet, but when our system is
out of balance, we can concentrate more on certain colour foods. This will help
to harmonize the body and bring it back to equilibrium.
Red foods help us to have plenty of energy and meet life's challenges. The
assimilation of food and removal of toxins is enhanced. Red helps us to get in
touch with our basic life-force energy and keeps us motivate and able to achieve
our life's goals. It gives us courage, strength and a feeling of confidence.
Depression can be lessened with extra red plant foods. As red is our base, it
can help us to be more grounded. Red stimulates the adrenal glands giving us the
ability to survive. Red is excellent for those suffering from anaemia, blood
disorders or who are always cold. If you are run-down or extremely tired, re
foods can be stimulating and energizing. Red fruits and vegetables can
regenerate depleted energy, build up the immune system and help to clean out the
retained toxins and bad vibrations.
Orange supplies us with plenty of energy and an alert mind. It enhances our
immune system, also improving blood circulation and digestion. Orange is a
warming colour and radiates joy. It helps to remove blocked emotions and enables
us to express ourselves more, allowing us to enjoy stronger relationships. It is
also linked to our sexuality and our sex organs. Oranges encourages us to be
more sociable, outgoing, and optimistic. It is a creative colour as it opens up
our minds to new things. Orange is a great tonic for both the physical and
mental aspects of our lives, giving boosts to spleen and digestive and sexual
organs. Anti-oxidants are high in orange foods; these help in destroying toxic
cells and in the repair of some cellular damage.
Yellow is a happy colour; it surrounds us with warmth, laughter and joy. It
brings to us a more positive outlook on life. Knowledge and wisdom come with
gold and yellow, helping us to broaden our horizons. Yellow is related to the
solar plexus, so it is important for the support of the nervous system. It is
directly involved with our digestive process, especially the liver and
intestines. It helps to promote the elimination of toxins and purifying the
body. It is also important in the endocrine system. Yellow is supportive of the
brain function as well, stimulating the mind, so it is important to include this
colour while studying. This colour can help alleviate skin conditions,
especially through its liver support and purifying ability. It can be helpful
when dealing with conditions of the nervous system, nervous exhaustion,
constipation, indigestion, liver problems and diabetes.
Green brings peace, balance and harmony to our systems. It has a strong
influence on the heart and blood pressure and helps to sooth nerves. The lungs
are strengthened as green is the colour of breathing as represented by nature.
Green brings us a feeling of newness and freedom of the soul and helps relieves
stress and emotional problems. It helps reduce problems associated with tension
such as headaches. As green relates to the heart, it is also beneficial for
those with high blood pressure and as a prevention of heart disease. The
digestive system can be calmed by the inclusion of green. Chlorophyll, which is
at high levels in green leafy vegetables, is revitalizing and refreshing. It has
a soothing and healing effect and helps to detoxify and cleanse our system. Some
green vegetables (cruciferous in particular) are considered to decrease the risk
of breast, stomach and colon cancers.
Blue is a peaceful colour. It is relaxing and calming, on all levels. Blue is
particularly important at night-time, relaxing our mind and body in readiness
for sleep. It is an important colour for insomniacs to focus on at bedtime. We
can connect more with our intuition. Blue has an important link with the
respiratory system, encouraging the uptake of oxygen, so it this colour is
lacking, we may feel constantly fatigued. Throat problems can be alleviated with
blue, as well as fevers, inflammations, spasms, stings, itchiness and headaches.
Too much blue can be depressing, so it needs to be balanced with orange, its
complimenting colour.
Indigo is related to the third eye, so it brings focus to our lives and allows
us to see things more clearly. It helps bring about the human qualities of
compassion, discretion and integrity. It is also calming and soothing. Indigo
controls the pineal gland. The nervous, mental and psychic potential are
affected. The sight and hearing are influenced by indigo. Indigo food can be
used where there are disease of the eyes, ears and nose as well as the skin and
lungs. Indigo has a lot of blue energy. Eating blue and violet foods will also
increase indigo energy.
Violet has a significant relationship with our intuition and spirituality.
Meditation and spiritual life can be enhanced with violet foods. It strengthens
and supports the central nervous system and the brain. It is important for our
mental health. Violet has an effect on the process controlling the pituitary and
hypothalamus. Using violet will calm those suffering from high anxiety; it is
soothing and relaxing. It is the most healing colour, particularly in relation
to nervous and mental disorders and disease of the scalp.
Each colour has a complementary colour. When an emphasis needs to be place on a
particular colour in your diet, it is recommended that you balance this with the
complementary colour. Red is complementary to green. Blue is complementary to
orange and violet is complementary to yellow.
As different colours have different effects on us, it can be seen that it be
best to concentrate on certain colours at certain times. For example, at
nighttime, blue with its relaxing, calming effects would e more beneficial than
red with its stimulating and uplifting effects. The energizing and refreshing
effects of greens and yellow are ideal for morning. Gold, orange and red will
provide us with energy required for the afternoon. Violet, indigo and blue
should be the emphasis for the evening, with their calming and relaxing
influences.
Giving thought to the colour of our foods can be a fun and interesting way to
stay healthy. Food will be more appealing to children and will contain all the
essential nutrients that they (and you) need. Bringing balance back to your life
is easier when you can base your food selection on certain colours until you
feel "right". Surrounding ourselves with colours can be a healing experience, in
whatever form we take it.
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