Blue in Healing

Next to the balancing power of green, blue is the most healing color on the planet.  It is our emotional connection, which helps us on levels of understanding, creativity, empathy, appreciation and acceptance. Blue also is associated with a cool, cleansed, relaxed, calm, hopeful, protected, reassuring, trusting and accepting feeling. It inspires mental control, clarity and creativity. Blue has a direct effect on the autonomic nervous system.

Sea and Sky

Blue water is our association with stable, soothing emotions. It is the flow of communication, the color that calms the nervous system and the relaxing sense of peace that we experience when enveloped by blue.  The sky and the ocean give us the feeling that life is an endless process.   Our blue sky is unique to our world and has an affinity to our spiritual soul.  Looking off into a blue sky or floating in a blue ocean, gives us the feeling that our possibilities can be boundless, free-wheeling and open!

The Tao of Blue

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of placement to enhance the flow of “vital life energy” or Qi. Practitioners believe that environments can be arranged and decorated in a way that maximizes the flow of Qi, resulting in improvements to health and happiness of those who live in that environment.  Blue is cool, calming and a healing color and popular when a relaxing environment is desired. Blue’s positive associations are trust, faithfulness and stability. Blue is peaceful and soothing and is linked with spirituality, contemplation, mystery and patience.

The Taste of Blue

Food is an important and nourishing way to introduce color in our healing process. Our bodies benefit from the blue food group.  The pigments found in blue and purple foods are high in anti-cancer properties. These foods will also coordinate to energy centers within us. Blues foods tend to be helpful for the voice, organs and glands of the neck. Blue is also an appetite suppressant. This is believed to be that due to the fact that nature does not create a blue food other than blueberries, therefore we do not have an automatic appetite response to blue.

Power Over Us?

“Once in a blue moon”  is a common way of saying not very often. Saying the moon was blue was equivalent to saying the moon was made of cheese; it indicated an obvious absurdity. In the 19th century, the phrase meant “never.”  But what exactly is a Blue Moon?   It is the second Full Moon to occur in a single calendar month. Since this does not happen at any regularity, this is where the phrase came from.

Are You Blue?

The “blues” are a feeling of depression or sadness.  This is sometimes associated with the “winter blues” or SAD (seasonal affective disorder), starting in the Fall and continue into the winter months, sapping our energy and making us feel moody. When there is an excess of blue energy, emotional detachment, cold emotions or aloofness can occur. Blue is not recommended if there is already depression, a lack of communication or feeling blocked.

Turquoise

Turquoise is the name of the middle light spectrum between blue and green based on the gem of the same name. The word turquoise comes from the French for Turkish, as the gem was originally imported from Turkey. The first recorded use of turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573. It is generally thought to consist of 70% blue and 30% green.

This color is best used to increase intuition and sensitivity. It Works to relax sensations of stress. This soothing color captures the turquoise color of the Caribbean water and the eternal sky that meets it.

Just like the sea, turquoise opens you upward and outward with boundless, endless and border-less skies.

The Throat Chakra

The Throat Chakra represents the eloquence of expression. The Throat Chakra rules the faculty of speech, being midway between the heart and the tongue.  There is also a listening component to this Chakra. It is associated with clairaudience and with hearing sounds, words, and music. Another function associated with this Chakra is taking in and assimilating of physical and emotional nourishment by experiencing taste and smell including the sensuous desire and enjoyment for food.

Blue Lace Agate

This soothing blue stone, a member of the agate family, has a very spiritual energy. The white lines or veins of this stone represent the veil of the Goddess/Virgin as does the blue representing her girdle. It helps to focus on the inner source of love within you that transforms and heals all wounds. Contains the qualities of flight, air, movement, and grace.

Angelite

This stone is excellent at balancing, polarizing and aligning the physical body with the Aura or ethereal network. It is very calming and its shade of blue refreshes the eyes and spirit. This crystal helps us to be in touch with angels and animal guides, as well as assisting in distant communication with other humans. It is most associated with the Angelic Realm.

Apatite

This a great stone for encouraging inspiration. It is the stone used for humanitarian efforts and attitudes. It gives us insight into our own humility, our appreciation and desire toward service for mankind as well as, helps us to access information. Apatite allows us to connect between past and future, the conscious and unconscious and the psychic and intuitive centers.

Aquamarine

This stone has the calming, soothing energy of the sea. This is the stone of courage, tranquility, innocence, lightheartedness, creativity, communication, self-awareness, confidence and purpose. Used for protection on journeys, especially those who travel on water. Attunes to the Throat and Heart Chakra, affecting the etheric and mental levels.

Blue Quartz

This stone helps you discover or increase your understanding of your spiritual nature. Has a calming effect upon the mind and stimulates hope. A good healing stone for linking heart with Throat and Brow Chakra to expand self expression and creativity, plus refining communication skill to new levels.

Celestite

This stone allows us to find serenity, harmony and easiness. It creates stillness for receiving, therefore allowing us connection to spirit, life overview and creativity. Celestite increases self-expression, artistic creativity and healing. This stone helps the Throat Chakra by allowing for honesty, openness and listening.

Chrysocolla

This gentle, soothing, friendly stone is an excellent crystal for the Heart Chakra. It is said to heal emotional heart blocks (loss, hurt, guilt, fear…) and is used for allowing, flexibility, self-forgiveness, peace of heart, and patience. Keeps one in light, love, and healing daily. Used at the Throat Chakra, it helps us to express our feelings, verbally and artistically,

Kyanite

Kyanite is considered the “Earth Stone” due to its soothing earth tone colors, as well as its grounding and tranquil nature. The healing benefits depend on the color it comes in. Blue Kyanite is most effective when placed on the Throat Chakra in order to open the throat for communication and self expression.

Larimar

A gentle, soft, sky-blue Caribbean healer. Larimar brings tranquility of sea and air to heart and mind. Soothes and uplifts hurt, fear, depression, pain of life and changes with love. Beneficial for self-expression, patience, acceptance, simplicity, creativity and artwork. Especially helps with creativity