Preksha Dhyana Perception of Psychic Colours

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Colour and Psychology
Scientists also believe that our entire life is profoundly influenced by colours. Today psychologists and scientists have discovered that colour is the most important of the environmental factors which affect the conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds of a person. Colour profoundly affects our entire personality.
Light and colour profoundly affect the health and behaviour of living beings. Importance of sunlight to the vegetable kingdom is universally accepted. Ancient as well as modern science have been keenly interested in the studies of the effect of different colours on the physical, mental and emotional states and behavioural patterns of human beings as well as other animals. Colour-healers of 19th century claimed to cure everything from constipation to meningitis with coloured glass filters. Inevitably it was discredited. However it has been rejuvinated under the new names of photobiology and colour-therapy. Richard J. Wurtman, nutritionist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says, "It seems clear that light is the most important environmental input, after food, in controlling bodily functions."
Several experiments have shown that different colours affect blood-pressure, pulse and respiration-rate as well as brain-activity and bio-rhythms. As a result, colours are now used in the treatment of a variety of diseases.
Blue & Ultraviolet
Baths of blue light have replaced blood-transfusions as the standard treatment for thousands of babies born prematurely each year with potentially fatal jaundice. In Russia, pioneer in photobiology, scientists believe that black lung disease in coal miners can be prevented by showering them with ultraviolet (radiations).
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