Is Your Tan Sofa an Energy Vampire? Fight Back with Purple Garlic!

Add more energy into your home and life by adding color! Article explains color energies and gives tips on adding color to your environment.
Fight Back with Purple Garlic, Yellow Crucifixes, and Green Stakes!

Did you know light is the only energy source that we can see? And we see light as COLOR. Color is light and light is energy. It only makes sense then, that your body absorbs color just as it does light.

So if your blase boudoir is sucking you dry, you need to re-vamp!

There are seven basic colors that we absorb (and every other color in between is a hue or tint of these seven.) They are the colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.

Red tones perk up your energy. Purple makes you more creative. Indigo helps you remember your dreams. Green connects you to the Earth. Orange makes you happy. Yellow gives you a jolt of friendly positive energy.

How can you add more color and energy into your life?

1. Get plants! Plants are green. Plants give off oxygen. They WILL energize. Be careful of plants that are poisonous to children and pets, such as Dieffenbachia.

2. Paint your walls your favorite color, as long as your favorite color is not tan. Don't be afraid to experiment! If you aren't sure you'll like it, pick one wall in your room (maybe a back room that no one goes to) and try it there. You'll get bolder and pretty soon your home can look like a crayon box.

3. Re-do your old furniture! Don't buy new, just get BLUE. Paint is inexpensive. And it's easy to brighten your environment with a slap of paint. Sand your furniture surfaces, paint on primer. Paint it with a bright acrylic indoor paint. Add decorative designs. (Try squiggles and dots, or stamps and stencils. Better yet, let your kids make stamp designs on potatoes! Remember that from grade school?) Then cover your work with a Polyacrylic varnish. Polyacrylic will not yellow white. Polyurethane is okay on non-white canvases!

4. Get inexpensive plastic plates from your local discount center. They come in lots of shades and bright colors. And they're very inexpensive.

5. Find bright material you like and make new curtains if you're handy with a sewing machine.

6. Collect items in your favorite color to display as a group. Yard sales and flea markets are great for collectors.

7. If you aren't sure what colors go well together, get yourself a cheap color wheel in the art department of your local discount center. It's easy to read and it teaches all about Analogous, Complimentary, Primary, and Tertiary color schemes. You'll be a color whiz in no time!

Remember, it is important to live with color as color affects your emotions and energies. If you have lots of brown or tan furniture and walls, it's as if your body was kept from the sunshine. You are literally starving yourself of an energy source!

About the Author

Mitone Bennett designs websites and graphics, writes promotional materials, and creates many other advertising tools for small business owners. She has a BA in English from Radford University. She and partner, Chris Ervin, own a funky furniture and commercial art shop in Galax, VA, www.funkyfranks.com. Her specialty site www.drbusinesscards.com offers full color business cards for $69.

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