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Colour magic and healing has a long history. The Babylonians called the healing power of light the medicine of the gods. Healing colours, especialy those manifested in crystals, were used in Ancient Egypt and have been used for thousands of years in China and in the ayurvedic medicine of India.

White light contains all the colours of the rainbow. This was proved by Sir Isaac Newton in 1665 when he beamed sunlight through a prism and saw that it split into seven colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Each beam of coloured light has its own wavelength and is absorbed by the body through the skin and the optic nerves. This triggers complex biochemical changes.

People who spend prolonged periods in darkness suffer from vitamin deficiencies, hormonal disorders and disturbance of the normal body cycles such as irregular sleep patterns, metabolic imbalances and depression. Seasonal affective disorder, (SAD), is caused by a lack of sunlight, and can trigger depression and lethargy during long, grey winter months.

Each of the seven primary wavelengths or vibrations of light visible to the human eye focuses on different parts of the body, evoking in them both a physiological and a psychological response.

Red has the longest wavelength of visible colour and violet the shortest.The colours that we can see make up only a very small segment of the electromagnetic spectrum and lie between the infrared and ultravoilet rays. Black, the absence of colour, is associated with negativity, white, the combination of all seven colours, was first associated with the godhead and purity by the Pythagoreans. The Physical body is usually associated with red, the mind with yellow and the spirit with blue.

There is a theory that colour healing originated in Atlantis, and was taken from there to Egypt where it was developed to a high degree. The Egyptions had healing centres throughout the land, in the form of specially constructed temples that channeld sunlight into controlled beams. The name of their most holy city, Heliopolis means city of the sun.

For more details about each colour, see using colour on the main page.