Colour Therapy and sauna

Have you ever been in a sauna and been relaxing and enjoying the heat and the looked at the ceiling of the sauna and noticed that the lights are different colour's and changing at different times? What you have experienced in Colour Therapy in a sauna.

What is Colour Therapy

The idea behind colour therapy is that this is an alternative style therapy and it uses a combination and lights and rhythm to relax your nervous system. The concept has existed for hundreds of years and is now often used in steam saunas and other wellness places.

Studying and reading more about Colour Therapy

There are many excellent books on Colour Therapy and according to where you live you can try for example amazon.co.uk, com or de and a favourite of mine is "Colours of the Soul: Transform Your Life Through Colour Therapy" and it offers some very interesting and powerful ideas about colour and how you can use colour in your every day life in a very positive way. There are some other excellent books but Colour of the Soul is my favourite.

More about Colour Therapy

Colour or Color Therapy is not of course just in sauna and wellness but is a theory which can be used for every aspect of living including for example with the colour of your:

• Clothes and clothing.
• Home Interior.
• Garden.
• Art

Another word often used for Color Therapy is chromotherapy. Colours are something we experience from birth with many parents even choosing light shades of pink and blue for their child. Different colours are though to provoke different emotions and understanding how colours can affect and help us can be fascinating.

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