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Article: Color therapy: an ancient and new healing technique.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Letter
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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One of the newest forms of therapy that's going mainstream is one of the most ancient -- using colors to heal. In fact, we see signs of it in Egyptian temples where rooms were built in a way that broke the sun's rays into each of the seven colors in the spectrum. Each room was filled with a single color, and these rooms were used to help heal the body and mind.
Color therapy isn't new to me, either I began studying color more than 30 years ago and integrated it into a massage business I had in the mid-1970s called Environmental Massage. I would drive to my clients' homes and set up an elaborate environment with various colored sheets, matching lights bathing them ...