The colours of the seasons, different energies
Well-being — di ilaria Scaglianti
The colours of the seasons exert different energetic intensities, especially on our everyday mood. Warm and cool colours compared.
The colours of the seasons, different energies
The colours of the seasons exert different energetic intensities, especially on our everyday mood. Warm and cool colours compared.
The changing colours of the seasons alter our mood, just as the landscape around us does. Each of us has been able, to a greater or lesser extent, to observe the different effects that the energy of colour exerts on our everyday mood; nature itself, over the course of the various seasons, can be read through the colours it expresses, bound to the presence of energy at its more or less profound levels.
What are the colours of the seasons and their effects on mood
Summer, characterised by an exuberance of warm, vivid colours, signals the rise of energy to the surface: it is the moment when the effect of the sun's rays induces melanin in the human body to come to the surface to protect the more delicate layers of the epidermis, and sweat, which appears on the skin as the pores dilate due to the heat, moisturises it and regulates body temperature, also channelling a good amount of toxins and uric acid. After a heavy sweat, one is often exhausted and tired, precisely because energy has moved "outward".
As the cold season approaches, the colours change and nature manifests the movement of energy in the phase of "withdrawal": the landscape takes on increasingly muted, subdued tones, gradually shifting towards non-colour, through to the grey and white of winter. Energy is no longer manifest at the surface but "concentrated" within.
These two great energetic "movements" also govern colours, as colours constitute one of the aspects of energy. The distinction between warm and cool colours is closely linked to the "energetic movement" they induce in every manifestation of living things; movements that have a precise influence not only physiologically on organisms but also socially and behaviourally:
- Warm colours (red, orange, yellow) stimulate physiological growth and sociality and represent movement "towards the world", as they induce a state of excitation in the organism (sympathicotonia);
- Cool colours (violet, blue, indigo), by contrast, slow growth and inhibit outward movement, favouring the induction of relaxation.
The colours of the seasons also produce effects on growth in the plant world
In the plant world, irradiating a crop with only blue light (thus depriving it of orange) yields a product that is energetically "introverted" — that is, charged with energy which, however, remains "held back" and does not express itself in the outside world. Conversely, seedlings irradiated with only orange light appear to naturally "move towards the world", releasing their energy into it.
The specimens irradiated with blue light therefore show a high energy content and appear fragile, colourless and shrivelled (one need only think of the colours of plants that grow in winter). By contrast, those irradiated with orange light show a low energy content (think of summer fruit) and present themselves as strong, robust and beautiful.