// Priestesses, Power & Politics//

There is so much to say about women’s spiritual leadership. In this time of fragmented and toxic culture, we don’t even have words adequate to describe the breadth of heritages and practices. Most people would define priestess as a woman who leads ritual. But there are a range of names and culturally-defined meanings, including shaman, medicine woman, diviner, spirit-medium, oracle, sibyl and wisewoman. Countless ethnic titles such as machi, sangoma, eem, babaylan and mae de santo provide even more textured glimpses of a vast global picture.

We can’t really draw sharp divisions between these categories. The shaman may be a ritual leader, but also a solitary practitioner. The visionary can act as healer, the medicine woman speak prophetically. The ceremonial role of the priestess does not preclude her from entering into trance or shamanic spiritual journeys; sometimes it actually requires her to achieve these altered states. Above all, the ritual specialist has skills, special ability, even powers, but every member of the spiritual community has power. In shamanic cultures, the group commonly participates in raising spirit through chant, music, dance, clapping and drumming.

It’s this question of accessing and exerting power that makes the spiritual political, and explains the importance of religion in instituting social controls. When power hierarchies of men over women, conquerors over aboriginal peoples and rich over poor are at stake, priestesshood has political ramifications. Priestesses often lead liberation movements. Veleda (“seeress”) of the Bructerii led a valiant tribal insurrection against the Roman empire in the lower Rhine valley. So did her British counterpart Boudicca of the Iceni, a Celtic tribe. This queen presided over divinations of battle outcomes and ceremonies appealing to the goddess Andraste for victory.In the 7th century, Dahia al-Kahina (“the priestess”) galvanized Tunisia to resist the Arab conquest of north Africa. And a little over a century ago, the diviner Nehanda Nyakasikana roused the Shona to fight back against the Rhodesian takeover of Zimbabwe.

When the colonial Spanish tore down the temple Maria Candelaria had founded, she organized the 1712 Maya rebellion of Chiapas. Some seventy years later, the young visionary Toypurina inspired her Indian people to rise up against the mission system in southern California. In 1801 a Chumash woman had a vision of Chupu, Mother Earth, telling the people to throw off baptism by bathing in the “tears of the sun.” The Santa Barbara Mission persecuted this spiritual movement, but the Chumash kept building shrines and holding ceremonies in preparation for the rebellion of 1824. [See Daniel Fogel, Junipero Serra, the Vatican and Enslavement Theology, San Francisco: Ism Press, 1988, pp. 138-9, 141, 152]

Many indigenous cultures uphold female spiritual leadership — the Mapuche of Chile, the Karok and Yurok of California, for example, as well as others in South Africa, Siberia, and Indonesia — while imperial and feudal societies generally suppress women’s open exercise of religious authority. So the temple women gradually disappear from west Asia, patrician Rome tries to stamp out the Women’s Mysteries, witches are burned in Europe, and mandarins persecute the Wu. Still, female resistance bubbles under the surface of “major” religions, in forms officially dismissed as “cults.” Sacramental dance, drumming, and other ways of entering altered states of consciousness often play an important role in these rites that bypass and subvert socially decreed hierarchies. So do animistic consciousness and nature sanctuaries.

Holy women are more visible historically, and more likely to be accorded honor and power in their own right than most women in patriarchal societies. Their authority tends to transcend division of society into religious and political spheres. We can observe this pattern over large ranges of time and place, and in very different kinds of societies, whether they are early Sumerian priestesses or female shamans acting as village chieftains in 19th century Siberia. A number of mikogami (female shamans) governed southwestern Japan in ancient times. Old histories report that the old shaman Himiko (or Pimiko) was chosen to rule the realm of Wa during a period of military anarchy, and succeeded in restoring the peace. Woman shamans were important spiritual and social forces in many east Asian cultures, including ancient China. In modern Korea, they still are.

Barring women from ritual leadership and religious authority has been a key focus in the drive to undermine female power. Scriptures of the”major” religions often ban priestesses and female religious authority, either explicitly or through stories demonizing their power. Over centuries, male authorities carefully selected and edited the religious canon so as to erase traditions of female leadership (such as the Gnostic scriptures naming Mary Magdalene as the foremost Christian disciple). They also expunged female images of the Divine. This happened with an early saying of Muhammad that embraced the three great goddesses of Arabia as “daughters of Allah.” The original version of this hadith was denounced as “the Satanic verses,” and was revised in the written Quran.

A male takeover of women’s rites and mysteries is described in oral histories from Australia, Melanesia, the Amazon basin, Tierra del Fuego, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and elsewhere. Encroachments on the sphere of priestesses are also attested in the pagan Mediterranean. The priests of Apollo took control of oracular shrines at Delphi and Didyma, interpreting the women’s ecstatic utterances and forbidding women the right to consult the Pythias. Male hierophants also gradually consolidated their control of the Mysteries at Eleusis, where legal records show the Melissa priestess contested masculine trespasses on her traditional rights in the 4th century. And although ancient oral history says that Amazon queens founded the great temple of Artemis at Ephesus, women were later forbidden entry to its holy of holies, according to the Roman-era writer Artemidorus.

Conversely, priestesses in patriarchal cultures often enjoyed rights and liberties denied to most women, such as their own property and income, freedom of movement and the prestige of public office. Some Greek priestesses received a share of the harvest and other wealth. The priestesses of Demeter were the only women allowed to attend the Olympic games, sitting on an ancient altar of the goddess. The Vestals of Rome enjoyed freedom from male oversight in managing their affairs.

While male-dominated cultures often required priestesses to be celibate, sometimes they escaped the sexual constraints on ordinary women. In India, the devadasi (temple dancers) were subject to no husband and their children were named and inherited matrilineally. The laws of Hammurabi heavily favored men over women, but priestesses could inherit and control property. Babylonian titles of priestesses include such names as: zer mashitum, “woman who forgets the sperm,” and zinishtum zikrum, “male woman,” both of whom had a degree of independence derived from paternal inheritance in their own right. Their self-determination threatened the doctrine of male supremacy. One Babylonian writer warned, “Do not marry a prostitute, whose husbands are legion, An ishtaritu woman who is dedicated to a god, a kulmashitu woman whose… is much. When you have trouble, she will not support you, When you have a dispute she will be a mocker. There is no reverence or submissiveness within her…” [See James Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, Princeton, 1969]

The history of priestesses is full of stories about women defying artificial limits and hierarchies. Again and again, they made a way across multiple obstacles, somehow, to lead, teach, counsel and inspire, often outside of official structures of authority, and usually in spite of them. In Europe, the Church prohibited women’s religious leadership, but it persisted for centuries in witchcraft and folk religion. It also bubbled up among the Beguines and Free Spirit heretics and the Spanish beatas and alumbradas (“blessed” and “illuminated” women).

Female seers led popular movements like the liberation of France in 1430. Perceptions of supernatural power followed Jeanne d’Arc from the very beginning of her charismatic leadership. Charges of witchcraft arose in her initial contact with the aristocracy, years before her Inquisitorial trial, and her stance of prophetic power and divine inspiration played a role in her execution. Into modern times, Europeans continued to seek out female healers, fairy doctors and seers, in the wake of endless campaigns by bishops and councils, destruction of animistic shrines, and witch persecutions by both church and state.

Very often priestesshood functions to carve out space for women in patriarchal societies. A strand of this feminist subversion runs through some of the European witch trials, with healer-diviners counseling deserted or battered women. It survives in living African lineages like the bori magadjiyar of the Hausa. Its devotees, richly adorned with cowrie-strand headdresses, dance to the ancient pre-Islamic deities (bori). Most of the magadjas are marginalized women (divorcees, single or barren women, perhaps lesbians, and others who don’t fit into the male-dominated social order). The zar religion is even more widespread, and cuts across both Muslim and Christian cultures of northern Africa. Here again we find mostly women dancing and singing in honor of spirits which the society does not formally recognize as deities, but nevertheless must acknowledge, and even pay tribute to, as women make demands in their name.

The female-empowerment aspect of priestesshood also shows up in the Pacific. A Marquesan legend tells about the priestess Vehine-atua (“woman-god”) at Hiva Oa. A chief asked her to help collect stones (a ritual act) for a marae shrine for his deceased father. She agreed on condition that she would travel back to Nukuhiva in his canoe, defying a tradition that prohibited women from riding in canoes. The chief agreed, but on the trip back he threw Vehine-atua and her husband into the ocean. She instructed her mate to break a gourd full of sandflies, causing a great storm to destroy the canoes. Her priestly staff took the couple safely to shore. [Nicole Thomas, “The Contradictions of Hierarchy: Myths, Women and Power in Eastern Polynesia,” in Deborah Gewertz, ed. Myths of Matriarchy, 1988]

Patriarchal colonizers stigmatized cultures that honored female spiritual leadership, calling them barbaric and inferior. A Han mandarin bragged that he had destroyed thousands of shrines of the wu (female shamans) in southern China. In the 16th century, Spanish colonizers were stunned to see that “old women” led most ceremonies in the Philippines. Missionary priests called these female shamans “diabolical witches,” and for centuries struggled to stamp them out. They did manage to catholicize the islands, but the babaylan are still around. [See Carolyn Brewer, Holy Confrontation: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in the Philippines, 1521-1685, Institute of Women’s Studies, Manila, 2001]

The same dynamic played itself out in the colonization of the Americas. The Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions persecuted priestesses and curanderas from Peru to Colombia to Brazil to Mexico, targeting Africans as well as First Nations peoples. In Venezuela, Mauricia la Bruja (“the witch”) faced inquistors for holding gatherings in a cave “to sing and shake the little rattle.” A voice from the darkness cried like a bird and told the people to keep the ways of the old ones, says her trial record. [Carlos Contramaestre, La Mudanza del Encanto, Academia Nacional de la Historia and Universidad de los Andes, Caracas, 1979, p. 28]

In the 1600s, the Peruvian Inquisition targeted Quechua and Aymara wisewomen, who kept Indian religion alive and often acted to empower their communities and to protect them from colonial masters and officials. One priest explained that “they encouraged the whole village to mutiny and riot through their reputation as witches” who challenged church and state authorities. Juana Icha was hauled before inquisitors for making offerings to the ancient deities and healing with their power. An informer told the monks that she “worships the earth and the stars and cries to the water.” [Irene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru, Princeton, 1987, pp. 184-90]

In 1591, the Brazilian Inquisition tried the Portuguese witch Maria Goncalves (also known as “Burn-tail”) for sexual witchcraft and making powders from forest herbs. She defied the bishop, saying that if he preached from the pulpit, she preached from the cadeira (priestess-chair) Afro-Brazilian priestesses came under heavy fire in the 1700s. Inquisitors tried Antonia Luzia for calling together “black and brown women to adore dances,” and seeking the ancestors’ help in “dominating the masters’ wills.” The calundureira Luzia Pinta presided over divinatory dances in Angolan garb and an Indian-style feathered headdress. Tall and heavy, middle-aged, with tribal marks on her cheeks, she danced until she entered trance, her body trembling with power. Then “the winds” entered her ears, she prophesied and answered questions, laid people on the ground and leaped over them to cure them, and prescribed forest leaves for healing while holding a dagger. [Laura de Mello e Souza, O Diablo e a Terra de Santa Cruz: Feiticaria e Religiosidade Popular no Brasil Colonial, Companhia das Letras, Sao Paolo, 1987]

In 19th century Iran, the poet Qurrat al-Ayn cut a daring figure in the Baha’i movement, astonishing, impressing and scaring the men around her, as she spoke prophetically for the cause of liberation. Later, an Afghani princess fled an arranged marriage in purdah to live under a tree in India as the mystic sage Hazrat Babajan. She initiated several Sufi masters including Meher Baba. Before her, India offered the precedent of a long line of yoginis and avadhutas, including Karaikkalamba, Mira Bai, and the Kashmiri mystic Lalla. Many of these women refused or broke out of marriages in order to freely pursue spiritual realization, dance and chant the divine names.

Female leadership and symbolism were never choked out of indigenous traditions, and persisted even as these cultures absorbed elements of colonial religions. For example, the Baluchis of Pakistan/Iran modified the Muslim creed to say, “There is no god but Allah and the mother of Muhammad is his prophet.” Mazatec curandera Mar’a Sabina subverted patriarchal theology by invoking the Female Divine in her entrancing chants. She revised the prescribed masculine identity of the Christian god as padre santisima — “most holy (feminine) father.” Such challenges have always been raised, even if they don’t make it into the historical record — or are omitted by scholarly gatekeepers who interpret the primary sources to everyone else.

All over the world women are mounting powerful challenges to masculine domination of religious institutions. Catholic and Hindu and Buddhist women are campaigning for full female ordination in their traditions. Muslim feminists are asserting their right to interpret the Quran and hadiths. The daughters of Sarah are demanding to be counted as Jews (literally) in the minyan and rabbinate, and for women’s right to lead services at the Western Wall of the ancient temple of Jerusalem. Loud voices are crying out against sexual abuse by clergy (and the institutional coverups that protect the rapists). The case for restoring female authority gathers strength by the breaking of these age-old silences.

The burgeoning pagan and feminist spirituality movements are laying new foundations of Goddess veneration and female spiritual leadership. American Indian women are reclaiming the right to sit at the powwow drum, and sistahs of the African diaspora have retaken the conga and djembe for their own. Lucumi priestesses are reinvigorating female power in the orisa traditions of west Africa, and breaking down gender barriers to initiation as prestigious diviners of Ifa: female iyanifa now stand beside the male babalawo.

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// Ancient Egyptian::Energy Healing Color Massage//

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
ENERGY HEALING COLOR MASSAGE

Ancient Egyptian healer Priests knew thousands of years ago that each color has its own transformational and healing characteristics. They used specially built solarium rooms with different colored glasses. They installed panes of colored glass in the ceilings to color the light that entered.
The sun would shine through the colored glass onto the patient to achieve specific therapeutic benefits.

They also used different colored silk clothes to filter varying shades of light onto their bodies, and colored waters and colored gels to achieve the same results. They had success in healing many illnesses including recovery of stroke victims, and in others who had chronic depression.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
ENERGY HEALING COLOR MASSAGE
was used as a complimentary system to other therapies and treatments.

The Earth, our continents, oceans, in fact every living thing depends on light to be able to exist. Ancient Egyptian healer Priests knew that light is in fact emitted by every cell in our bodies. We live in a sea of energy where color is working within us. It shines with in our divine self, and radiates upon us from the sun.

Ancient research and observation has shown that specific colors bring balance to our physical and emotional systems.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
ENERGY HEALING COLOR MASSAGE
can easily be used as an alternative to Chinese acupuncture, achieving the same results in unblocking meridians without the discomfort of needles used in acupuncture.

In
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
ENERGY HEALING COLOR MASSAGE
the Vibrational Healing Frequencies of Color and Light are used to target the underlying causes of any issue, illness or pain you are experiencing—the result is Life-Changing, Natural Healing. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ENERGY HEALING COLOR MASSAGE is the only healing therapy of it’s kind available today, and the only program anywhere to incorporate Ancient Egyptian healing massage and Ancient Egyptian Color Light Healing.

Following proven ancient Egyptian healing Priest practices,
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
ENERGY HEALING COLOR MASSAGE
is carefully formulated to target the underlying root causes of specific situations and ailments. Basic Colors relating to the four elements are used for each ailment, along with the optimum duration of exposure. In most cases, the sequences or sessions of
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
ENERGY HEALING COLOR MASSAGE
last for 20 minutes.

If your body, mind, or spirit is out of balance, exposure to specific colors and will help to restore balance, strengthen the immune system and allow natural healing to occur.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
ENERGY HEALING COLOR MASSAGE
is rooted In thousands of years of healing wisdom. The ancient Egyptians (and later, the Greeks, Indians and Chinese) discovered that certain colors affected the mind and body and organs, providing unique healing benefits. It’s a holistic healing science which aims at deeply treating not just the ailment, but the whole person as well—mind, body, and spirit. Treating the whole person is a core belief to any holistic healing approach.

Each
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
ENERGY HEALING COLOR MASSAGE
session consists of a specially formulated sequence of vivid colors, prepared according to ancient knowledge of color and light healing.
Every living being (humans, animals, and plants) responds to light and color. And people have well-documented mental and physical responses to light and color. Modern clinical studies have proven this, and the historical record shows that color has been used in healing for thousands of years. Sessions require only passive participation for full benefits to be received.

“The Mirror”

Painting by: Ka Kathryn June

THE HEALING COLORS

RED HEALING ENERGY
RED relates to the body energy point situated at the base of the spine
The organs to which this body energy point relates are the kidneys and bladder. (The kidneys are formed within the pelvis and here they link, although prior to birth they rise to the position higher in the body with which we are more familiar). The vertebral column, hips and legs are also areas related to this energy point. The endocrine gland to which this colour relates is the adrenal gland.

On the psycho-spiritual level, this body energy point relates to self awareness. That is to say our awareness of ourselves as human beings and our place on earth. It is the area of survival and relates to our basic human instincts of fight or flight. Red gives us courage and strength. The colour relates to stability and security.

ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS

Some problems associated with this body energy point are: constipation, diarrhea, piles, colitis, Crohn’s disease, cold fingers and toes, frequency of urination, hypertension (high blood pressure), kidney stones, impotence, problems with hips, legs, feet, tailbone, vagina, urinary organs, and adrenaline glands. Fatigue, fear, and anxiety are often caused by the missing contact with red energy.


Red is the lowest of the seven colours in the visible spectrum and is known as a “warm” colour. It is stimulating and energising therefore it is helpful for tiredness and lethargy, to stimulate low blood pressure, to boost sluggish circulation.

RED is used to energise and stimulate. It affects the heart by increasing pulse rate, and the muscles by increasing their tension. It influences vitality, and increases body temperature. It can be used to develop excitement and sensuality.

The color red was associated with lust, passion, love, and beauty as well. Psychological research has shown that men find women who are wearing red more attractive.

Red catches people’s attention, and is often used either in a negative way to indicate danger and emergency, or in a positive way in advertising to gain more viewers, or in nature, as a ripe fruit announces its readiness with its red color. Several studies have indicated that red carries the strongest reaction of all the colors

In the ancient Egypt RED was associated with sexuality in marriage relationships through its connection to heat and fertility. It was also the color of wealth and beauty. Red the color was a symbol of life and health, and sick people were painted with it.

The need for a particular color’s vibration seems to differ from day to day or even from hour to hour. When you absorb a color vibration it travels, via the nervous system, to the part of the body that needs it. Each body has its own optimum state of well-being and is constantly seeking ways to maintain or restore a balanced state. Utilizing color, is one way you can help yourself to harmony!

RED is a stimulating and energizing color. It stimulates arterial blood and brings warmth to cool extremities. Used as a general tonic, it is very valuable in the treatment of diseases like low blood pressure, rheumatism, paralysis, anemia and advanced cases of tuberculosis.


YELLOW HEALING ENERGY
YELLOW relates to the SOLAR PLEXUS body energy point,
situated below the ribs. The organs to which this energy point
relates are the liver, spleen, stomach and small intestine.
The endocrine gland is the pancreas.

On the psycho-spiritual level, YELLOW relates to self worth. How we feel about ourselves and how we feel others perceive us. This is the area of the personality, the ego and the intellect and of self confidence.

ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS

Some of the associated problems with this body energy point are: nervousness, sadness, pancreatitis, liver disease, peptic ulcer, Coeliac’s disease, gall stones, ulcers, catarrh of the large intestine, parasites, weight problems, poor digestion, and diabetes.

YELLOWis one of the colours in the lower half of the visible spectrum. It is known as a “warm” colour and has a stimulating effect. It is the colour of the intellect and can be very helpful with study and where concentration is required

YELLOW increases neuromuscular tone. Purifies blood, helps digestion, and has a cleansing effect. Strongly stimulates happiness, brings on a sense of security, as well as a strong feeling of well-being.

Yellow is the color of intellect and it is used for mental clarity. Linked to the sun and the lion, it is connected to source of creation was it’s frequency emerges into higher frequencies.

The need for a particular color’s vibration seems to differ from day to day or even from hour to hour. When you absorb a color vibration it travels, via the nervous system, to the part of the body that needs it.

Each body has its own optimum state of well-being and is constantly seeking ways to maintain or restore a balanced state. Utilizing color, is one way you can help yourself to harmony!

YELLOW energy gives power for digestion, constipation, flatulence in the intestine, liver problems, diabetes, and skin problems. Yellow energy may help cleanse the pores of the skin and is a great brain stimulant.

Associated with joy and happiness, yellow is laxative and diuretic. It is a stimulant to the brain, the liver and the spleen. It is also effective in the treatment of indigestion, kidney and liver disorders, constipation, eye and throat infections, syphillis and impotence.

YELLOW has a powerful effect on the nervous system and assists the left brain in operation. Yellow energy is good for children in that it enhances their ability to perceive and understand.

YELLOW corresponds to the biggest nerve plexus in the body, the solar plexus. Through the solar plexus, all the digestive organs such as the stomach, liver, spleen, gall bladder and pancreas are affected.

Yellow is used to find warmth and radiant energy. It helps with flexibility, self awareness, self control and keeping your personal power. Yellow gives logic, humor, efficiency and organization.


GREEN HEALING ENERGY

GREEN relates to the heart body energy point. Associated organs to this energy point are the heart and breasts. The gland is the thymus gland.

ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS

Some associated problems relating to this energy point are: heart diseases, diseases of the Immune system, for example, Aids and ME (myalgia encephalomyelitis, sometimes referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome or post viral syndrome); other problems related to the immune system and allergies, cancer of the breast. GREEN allows balance to the heart, lungs, bronchia, arms, hands, and secondary system, to soothe the nerves, help tension headaches, chronic problems, digestive problems,
and the need to calm down


GREEN is a balancing colour, in the middle of the visible spectrum. It regulates the pituitary gland, fights depression, bulimia, and other psychosomatic conditions affecting the gastric system. It is useful in calming the nervous system, fights irritability, insomnia and can be used to assist in recovery from nervous breakdowns.

GREEN is also associated with regeneration, fertility and rebirth for its connections to nature and it is sometimes associated with nausea and sickness. The color GREEN is also linked to healing and alchemy.

The need for a particular color’s vibration seems to differ from day to day or even from hour to hour. When you absorb a color vibration it travels, via the nervous system, to the part of the body that needs it. Each body has its own optimum state of well-being and is constantly seeking ways to maintain or restore a balanced state. Utilizing color, is one way you can help yourself to harmony!

Green is the harmonizing, balancing energy. It has strong influences on the heart and blood supply. Green has much to do with the way you feel about yourself. It is associated with abundance and giving. It’s strong tie to nature is very important in order to be balanced, peaceful, harmonious.

GREEN energy gives a feeling of renewal, new life, freshness, and clarity. The heart is the center of the soul and it is the heart that makes us one with our fellow human. Most importantly, it harbors love energy, the leading principle of life. Being with loved ones, family, and friends, strengthens the heart energy.

GREEN is regarded as a color of harmony. It is a mild sedative. It is useful in the treatment of nervous conditions, hay fever, ulcers, influenza, malaria , colds, sexual disorders and cancer. It preserves and strengthens eyesight. Being highly medicinal and depressive, it is of great help in the treatment of inflammatory conditions.

In using green — we must accept and allow love in our hearts and learn to give it without expecting anything in return. When our heart center is balanced, we are able to give positive feelings and happiness, unconditionally.

GREEN governs the circulatory system, which includes the heart and its flow through the arms hands, legs and feet. Green energy brings growth, compassion, unconditional love, openness, forgiveness, acceptance and contentment. Use green for nurturing, generosity, harmony, assertiveness and to help heal loss.


BLUE HEALING ENERGY

BLUE relates to the Throat body energy point. Associated organs to this energy point are the throat, lungs and the endocrine gland is the thyroid gland. The upper digestive tract can be affected by imbalance in this area.

ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS

Some associated problems relating to the throat energy point are: Thyroid problems - over active/ under-active; Anorexia nervosa, asthma; bronchitis; hearing problems; tinnitus, problems of the upper digestive tract; mouth ulcers, sore throats, tonsillitis. BLUE can calm your mind and nerves, help throat problems, sleep problems, menstrual problems, eye, ear, nose, throat problems, shock problems, and fevers.

BLUE is calming, relaxing and healing. It can be used in any rooms except those used for physical activity or play. It stimulates the parasympathetic system,
reduces blood pressure and calms both breathing and heart-rate.

It has anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxing effects.
Fights both physical and mental tension and is used to assist in relaxation.

Blue is the color of truth, serenity and harmony, by helping to soothe the mind. It is good for cooling, calming, reconstructing and protecting. good for fevers, calming the body and mind, raising frequency, etc. Blue is the color of electricity. Blue also connects with the body energy point located between and slightly above the eyebrows.

The need for a particular color’s vibration seems to differ from day to day or even from hour to hour. When you absorb a color vibration it travels, via the nervous system, to the part of the body that needs it. Each body has its own optimum state of well-being and is constantly seeking ways to maintain or restore a balanced state. Utilizing color, is one way you can help yourself to harmony!

Blue represents the spiritual aspects of our life. The sky and the ocean give us the feeling that life is an endless process. Blue is the greatest healing power in the world. Blue is the color of purity and those who enjoy it, carry with them a sense of calmness, peace, serenity, and beauty.

Relating to the throat energy point, we express ourselves, connecting with sound and voice, carrying power with our words. BLUE energy is peaceful and soothing. Calming tired nerves, alleviating agony and pain we suffer from physical stress.

It has a pacifying effect over our nervous system and brings us great relaxation. Cool, soothing and sedative, blue alleviates pain, reducing bleeding and heals burns. It is beneficial in the treatment of dysentery, colic, asthma, respiratory disorders, high blood pressure and skin aberrations.

In using blue — blue connects us to a spiritual and higher ground. The nature of blue energy is to connect our beings with the cosmic universe.

BLUE controls the throat, thyroid, parathyroid, lungs, mouth. BLUE allows for the freedom of expression, both verbally and artistically. It helps with the easy flow of communication either with other people or listening to your own thoughts and feelings.

BLUE offers reliability, gentleness, kindness, integrity, honesty, loyalty, endurance and commitment.