COURSE 6C
THE LIVING RAINBOW

Colour is one of life's natural phenomenon. Its power and effect is at best taken for granted - at its worst it is ignored altogether by society. Yet colour is a part of everything we do and all that we are. To learn the language of colour is to understand the power and the message of light.

Though we choose to have colour around us for beauty, or to wear a particular colour because it is in fashion, we could expand the positive and beneficial effects colour brings by learning how colour affects us as individuals. We are vibratory beings so the influence of colour vibration can and does have a profound impact on our health, our emotional and mental well-being, not forgetting our spiritual expansion.

Colour sends a message each time we are in contact with it; that message can change our mood, affect our thinking process, stimulate our physical reactions, evoke memories and place us into a calm spiritual mode. Many of us associate certain colours with healing or peaceful meditation; others connect with passion or stimulation; but it goes so much deeper than this. Every time we breathe we take in colour. Everything we eat is colour and we know that the aura is a cascading, ever-changing display of colour that tells the sensitive so much about us.

Colour association with our Body-Mind-Spirit is nothing new. Thousands of years ago the ancient Egyptians were using the power of colour to heal and many tribal cultures from around the world have spiritual associations with the rainbow - for example the Navajo say that gods travel the rainbow, which is a rapidly moving road. The Sioux say that the rainbow is where all the bright flowers stay before and after their brief blooming period on the earth.

A rainbow is also seen as 'The serpent that quenches its thirst in the sea' and in Africa it is a guardian of treasure. In China it is a sky dragon, uniting heaven and earth - the union of Yin and Yang. In Australia it is the mother-source of all creation. In many cultures the rainbow is a distinct deity. To the ancient Greeks she was Iris, the brightly gowned, winged daughter of Thaumas, god of wonder. In Thai (Buddhist) mythology, the rainbow is a staircase linking the earth to the heavens, down which the nagas can descend.

In the power of the rainbow, has lived on throughout so many ancient traditions and beliefs, then maybe it holds a spiritual message for us, too. Why not come along and discover your rainbow and how colour can work for you?