Expansion Activity Six: Color Therapy: Red

RED is hot, initiating, pushes through, fire, igniting, stimulating, vitality, anger, life-force energy, revolution, change, ambition, grounding, Earth, Gaia, power, war, passion, alert, danger, pioneering, activity and force without consciousness, blood, positive, aggression, liberation, survival, material side of life, primal, awakening, emerging. In relation to the physical body, RED is good for circulation, chronic illness, non-infected wounds, scar tissue, strengthens kidneys, heart, muscles, blood, lungs, bones.

Red is one of the primary colors and, as such, contributes to the creation of other colors through blending with them. It is a stimulating color as it warms energizes, and activates while energizing the root chakra and awakening the physical life force. It strengthens the physical energy and stimulates the will to action. Can be used to energize blood, raise passions, and increase body temperature. Can imply or incite danger, warnings, anger, aggression, warrior energy, courage, protection. Valor and loyalty. It can be protective and isolating and grounding. Can stimulate someone who is already out of balance into chaos.

Gather a large cloth of red and have it available around the house to use when the desire or situation arises. Look at it. Breathe it in. Wrap yourself up in it. Get a red light bulb or get a stage light that will allow you to use a red gel. Bathe under that light. Use the box of red below to look at inviting the wisdom of the red to energize cell, body tissue, and energy bodies.