Red is associated with the root chakra in the sacral region. It promotes vitality, strength, sexuality, willpower, and alertness. Red is used to counteract anemia, lack of energy, impotence, and low blood pressure. Its complement is turquoise. 

Red can be used for colds, poor circulation, anemia, and mucus ailments. Red strengthens the physical energy and the will of the individual. It can stimulate deeper passions, whether they be of sex and love, courage, hatred or even revenge.

Excessive use of red will produce fever and exhaustion. It promotes hostility, anger, violence. Too much red can over-stimulate and aggravate certain conditions. High blood pressure is an indication of too much red energy within the system. It is recommended that red be used in conjunction with blue rays. Red is balanced by the color green.

ORANGE

Orange is associated with the sacral plexus chakra, which regulates circulation and metabolism. Orange stimulates the thyroid gland, is a respiratory stimulant, but a depressant of parathyroid action. The orange vibration expands the lungs. Orange promotes happiness and joyousness. Orange is used to treat depression, hypothyroidism and kidney and lung problems, such as asthma and bronchitis. Its complement is blue.

Orange can assist us in healing conditions of the spleen, pancreas, stomach, intestines, adrenals, food assimilation, and depression. 

Individuals experiencing emotional paralysis can be helped with this color, especially the peach shades. Peach is a color that strengthens the aura and gives it a little extra cushioning in recovery processes. It and most shades of orange can be used to revitalize the physical body. It makes a good tonic after a bout of illness, for it is strengthening to the eliminative system of the body.

YELLOW

Yellow is associated with the solar plexus chakra, which is concerned with intellect and judgment. Yellow stimulates mental ability and concentration, and aids detachment. It can be used to treat rheumatism and arthritis, as well as straw related illnesses. Its complement is violet. 

 Yellow is a mixture of red and green rays. It has half the stimulating potency of red and half the reparative potency of the green. Hence, it tends both to stimulate function and to repair damaged cells. Yellow light directed at the intestinal tract for short periods is a digestant. For longer periods, it acts both as catharsis and as a cathartic. It also stimulates the flow of bile and has an anthelmintic action (antagonistic to parasites and worms).

Yellow predominantly affects the solar plexus chakra, and it is stimulating to the mental faculties of the individual. It can be used for depression. It helps awaken an enthusiasm for life. It awakens greater confidence and optimism. It is also effective in the treatment of digestive problems. It is beneficial to the stomach, the intestines, the bladder, and the entire eliminative system as well. It is very effective in the treatment of most headaches. It helps to balance the gastrointestinal tract. 

Excessive amounts or exposures to yellow may make one superficial or hyperactive. It should be balanced with colors from the blue spectrum. 

GREEN

Green is the color of the heart chakra. Green is the color of nature. Green is the most predominant color on the planet. It balances our energies, and it can be used to increase our sensitivity and compassion. It represents purity and harmony. It has a calming effect, especially in inflamed conditions of the body. It is soothing to the nervous system. It is a great healer. It builds muscles, bones and other tissue cells. Its complement is magenta. 

Green strongly affects the heart chakra, and it is balancing to the autonomic nervous system. It can be applied beneficially in cardiac conditions, high blood pressure, ulcers, exhaustion, and headaches.

Green harmonizes, life-giving, calms the mind, nerves, fever, and acidity; balances the metabolism, stabilizes the weight, tones liver and spleen; and benefits the pituitary gland.

Green should never be used to help heal tumorous or cancerous conditions or with anything of a malignant nature as green helps things grow.

BLUE

Blue is associated with the throat chakra, which deals with willpower and communication. Blue is a calming color, good for curing insomnia. It can be used for throat problems, asthma, stress, and migraine, and it is good for improving verbal skills. Its complement is orange. 

Blue is cooling to the body's system. It is relaxing. It is quieting to our energies, and it has an antiseptic effect. It strengthens and balances the respiratory system. It is also excellent for high blood pressure and all conditions of the throat. It is beneficial to venous conditions of the body. Blue is very effective in easing all childhood diseases, along with asthma, chicken pox, jaundice, and rheumatism. It is one of the most universally heating colors for children. It can also be used to awaken intuition and to ease loneliness. It awakens artistic expression and inspiration. 

Blue helps reduce tumors, congestion, fevers, and infections; neutralizes anger and hatred; cools the mind and eyes, eyes and the pineal gland.

Excess blue can make one overly cold-natured.

INDIGO

Indigo and the deeper shades of blue are dynamic healing colors on both spiritual and physical levels. Indigo is balancing to all conditions associated with it. It strengthens the lymph system, the glands, and the immune system of the body. It is an excellent blood purifier, and can be used to assist in detoxifying the body. 

Indigo can be used effectively to treat all conditions of the face (including the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and sinuses).  It can be used for problems in the lungs and for removing obsessions. 

Too much indigo can cause depression and a sense of separateness from others. It can be balanced effectively with soft orange shades. 

VIOLET

Violet is the color of the crown chakra, which is concerned with the energy of the higher mind. It also affects the entire skeletal and nervous systems of the body. It is very antiseptic, purifying on both physical and spiritual levels. It helps balance the physical and the spiritual energies. Violet is effective in cancerous conditions of the body. Arthritis can be eased by a violet light that leans more toward the blue shades. Violet also helps the body assimilate nutrients and minerals.  It is the color of dignity, honor, self-respect, and hope. It is used to bolster self-esteem and counter feelings of hopelessness, as well as in the treatment of mental and nervous disorders. Its complement is yellow. 

LEMON

The color lemon is obtained by combining green and yellow. So, it has properties of both. It has important effects on the digestive system and the left hemisphere brain activity. The key application of the color lemon in color therapy is in mental stimulation.

Lemon is vitalizing and stimulating to the brain. Thus, it is effective in treating and alleviating conditions associated with it, such as Alzheimer's, senility, etc. It can be used to help stimulate the brain's natural abilities. It always has a shade of green within the spectrum, and in lemon, the green works as a cleanser. Lemons assists us in bringing toxins to the surface so they can be cleaned out. The toxins can be physical toxins as well as emotional toxins. Lemon is also effective in treating digestive problems and appendicitis. It facilitates the natural digestive process, helping the body assimilate nutrients more effectively. Lemon is good for tissues and bones.

TURQUOISE (Aqua)

No chakra is associated with turquoise. Turquoise combines the cleansing action of green and the soothing action of blue. It is soothing, purifying, and calming. Turquoise is used to combat inflammatory diseases and to boost the immune system. Its complement is red.  Turquoise is important for respiratory system and in strengthening the metabolism. Aqua is cooling to the system. It can be beneficial in easing all feverish conditions and for balancing all systems of the body. It can also be used to cool and ease any inflammation. It combines both the beneficial effects of blue and green.

Aqua is useful in treating skin conditions, throat problems, and it is very effective for acute pain and earaches. It eases respiration problems. It is effective in treatment of asthma and bronchitis, especially with children. Regular color breathing with aqua can prevent intense attacks of asthmatic conditions. 

PURPLE

Purple is considered by many to be a high vibrational color. It is this high vibration which gives it its ability for purification. It is effective to use when strong detoxifying of the body is needed, as in the case of cancerous or pre-cancerous conditions. Purple is purifying to the body. It can be used to stimulate venous activity in the body. It can also be used for headaches.  

MAGENTA

Magenta is the color of the highest order, connected with spirituality, meditation, and letting go. It is an agent for change, for the clearing out of old attitudes and obsessions, and for making a break with the post. Its complement is green. 

WHITE

White (full color spectrum white color) contains the entire light spectrum. Thus it influences all systems of the body.

White is strengthening. It is cleansing and purifying to the entire energy system. It promotes purity, virtue and spirituality.

White is nurturing; heals fevers, infections and pain; calms the heart, mind, nerves and emotions; and promotes vitality and supportive feelings.

White can awaken greater creativity. When in doubt as to what color to use, you can seldom go wrong with white. 

It is beneficial to begin and end a color therapy session with white to stabilize the energy system of the individual and to give it an overall boost. It amplifies the effects of any other color used with it in a healing session. 

BLACK

Black is a protective color. It is grounding and calming, especially to extremely sensitive individuals. It activates the magnetic or feminine energies of the body, strengthening them.  Black is most effective when used in conjunction with white, balancing the polarities of the individual, especially in cases where the individual seems to be losing control. It can activate the subconscious mind which can put life and all of its craziness into proper perspective. It should rarely be used by itself, but always in combination with another color. 

BROWN

Brown is an earthy color. It grounds, stabilizes and neutralizes. It is an effective color in healing. 

Brown is especially effective in stabilizing overexcited states. It calms and grounds emotions and extreme mental conditions. Brown can help awaken common sense and discrimination. It brings us back down to earth. 

Brown is effective for any kind of spaciness. When it shows up in the human aura, brown may indicate a need for grounding. When the aura takes the shade of brown, it will often reflect infection in the body or that area of the body in which it overlays in the aura.

GOLD

Gold is an important color in oriental healing. Its principal property is in strengthening and amplifying. Gold is very useful in increasing the self-consciousness. It has beneficial effect on the immune system and on the cardiac conditions.  It is very strengthening to the heart. It is effective to use in regard to all cardiac problems, especially as a powerful tonic after heart surgery. Gold is a powerful stimulant to the immune system of the body.

PINK

Pink is soothing. It can be used for treating skin conditions and inflammations and the immune system. 

Pink is a soothing color on all levels, physical mental and emotional levels. It can be used to soothe conditions of anger and feelings of neglect. Pink can be used to awaken compassion, love, and purity. It can be used in meditation to discern greater truths. It is comforting to the emotional energies of the individual.

Physically, pink is most effective in the treatment of skin problems and conditions, especially when combined with aqua. It also stimulates the thymus gland and ease stresses upon the immune system of the body.

You can do simple technique to derive the benefits of color for your mind, body and spirit. Here are few suggestions:

• Use colored lamps. Place colored glass over light bulbs or by buy colored bulbs. 

• Use soft lights instead of fluorescent or neon.

• Use full-spectrum lights in the winter (when there is less sunlight) to alleviate seasonal affective disorder.

• Use mild and harmonious shades. 

• Paint with colors

• Choose the colors of your surroundings- clothes, home furnishings, car, office, bedroom-with care. 

• Take advantage of natural colors. Nature's own colors are the most beneficial, nourishing and strengthening. Colors that appear naturally are: sky blue, ocean blue/ green/ turquoise, white snow or moonlight, plush green trees, shrubs and grass; colorful flowers. 

• Meditate on colorful flowers such as a white lily, red rose or hibiscus, yellow chrysanthemum, or sunflower, blue iris. 

• Meditate on stained glass, art, mandalas. 

• Visualize colors in your mind. 

An advanced technique is to derive the benefit of color therapy without having the color physically. Instead, the person meditates and visualizes the color. Then it can be directed to self for healing or to transferred to another person to heal that person.

There seems to be an electrical circuit from the healer to the patient, and a similar color vibration is set up in the patient, a vibration that affects his mental body. At the same time, the color vibrations in the healer's aura set up a similar vibration in the patient's aura and this changes the vibrations from abnormal to normal. This reaction from mind to aura and from aura to mind has powerful healing properties if done correctly. In some cases, cures have been instantaneous.

1. First, determine the color necessary for healing your condition. Now do the following. 

2. Relax and center yourself. 

3. Begin rhythmic breathing. As you do, visualize energy filling your body and gathering at your hands. Visualize this initially as a pure, crystalline white energy. 

4. Project this energy throughout the individual's or your body, to strengthen all systems. 

5. Now pause briefly and shift your concentration to that of the healing color needed specifically for the individual's or your condition. As you continue your breathing, see and feel yourself filling with this energy. 

6. As you inhale, draw this energy into you, and as you exhale visualize this energy streaming forth in the color you are focusing on. Remember that all energy follows thought. When we focus upon a specific color, the energy we project takes on the frequency of that color. 

7. Continue this etheric touch till you feel this problem is being balanced and healed. 

8. Pause and project through your hands that same pure crystalline white energy you used in the beginning. This will further strengthen the healing color you projected and further stabilize the body's health.