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Feng Shui Colors
By Christina | October 7, 2007
Feng Shui Color affect people emotionally, physically and psychologically. Feng Shui colors should be used to achieve balance not excess. The following are feng shui principles that apply to colors you can use in your home or office.
Blue - This color is calm and soothing. Blue creates a feeling of peace and trust. It is the color of the sea and sky, so it tends to represent adventure and exploration. It is also relaxing and calming. Navy blue is the Feng Shui color of intellect and wisdom.
Black - Symbolizes money and income, black is great for careers, especially when combined with metal. The Feng Shui color of emotional protection and power.
Purple - Like blue, is the spiritual end of the color spectrum. It boosts spiritual awareness and is excellent for physical and mental healing. The Feng Shui color of royalty.
White - Poised and confident, white works better when it is combined with gold or silver to generate an atmosphere of influence and control. The Feng Shui color of purity, goodness and trustworthiness.
Yellow - Yellow represents sunbeams, warmth and motion. This color can make you feel cheerful. However, according to a noted color consultant, prolonged exposure to large amounts of intense yellow can cause anxiety.Yellow is the Feng Shui color of communication and health, cheerfulness and friendliness.
Orange - Strengthening concentration, you might need this when your creative well runs dry. It gives you a sense of purpose. Orange is the Feng Shui color of organization.
Tan/Beige - The Feng Shui color of the earth, portrays neatness, helps conceal emotions
Brown - The Feng Shui color of Industry, being grounded and hard working.
Red - This is the color of good fortune as it attracts recognition and respect for the person who uses it, especially in the winter. A color of confidence, if you ever need one! The color of luck, money, joy, protection and physicalness.
Mauve - The color of world consciousness.
Green - Green is refreshing, nurturing, balancing and normalizing as in being surrounded by the lush green of nature. It is the color of harmony, balance, healing and health; physical, emotional and spiritual. The color is good for growth and expansion, and it is peaceful and calming.
Pink - The color of love.
Maroon - The color maroon is neither red nor blue it represents indecisiveness.
Lavender - Suggests an ability to be manipulated.
Interestingly, the feng shui representation of colors is matched closely to the meanings of colors in color therapy as used in the United States strengthening the meanings of colors across different cultures.
Topics: Feng Shui, Personal Organizing |