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Mr. Faber Birren, a colour consultant, who has published hundreds of articles and books on colour and widely considered the most authoritative source on the subject, says that if school rooms are supplemented with ultraviolet lamps, children grow faster, workability and grades are improved and catarrhal infections are fewer.
Passive Pinks
"When, at San Bernardino, County Probation Department in California violent children were put in a small cell painted with a distinctive shade of pink colour, they stopped yelling, relaxed and often fell asleep within 10 minutes", said Paul E. Boccunini, a clinical psychologist and Director of Clinical Services for the Department. More than 1500 hospitals and correctional institutions across the U.S.A. have at least one room painted with pink colour. Passive pink, as it is sometimes called, is perhaps a dramatic example of the effect of colour on emotion.
Psychic or somatic ?
Colour therapists themselves disagree about why and how colour acts as they believe it does. Some believe that action of colour is not directly physiological but psychological. Colour sets the moods and this in turn affects physical health. However, it must be remembered that more than half of modern diseases may be psychosomatic.
Doctors and researchers agree that some portions of the electromagnetic spectrum such as X-rays, microwaves and ultraviolet rays have significant effect on health, but the effect of visible light is not accepted by all. However, several experiments have provided clear evidence that light does affect the endocrine as well as the nervous system.
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