Red in Healing

Red is the great stimulator. Red invigorates blood and raises blood pressure (if that’s what you need). It invigorates and excites. Use red as a sensory stimulant, creating instinctual behavior, getting in touch with primal instincts. In nature, the red color of blood comes from hemoglobin, the iron-containing protein found in the red blood cells of all vertebrates. Red is associated with dominance and directly correlated with levels of testosterone.

Fire and Sky

The red sky at sunset and sunrise is caused by an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering, which, when the sun is low or below the horizon, increases the red-wavelength light that reaches the eye and hence the passion. Another reason why couples love a good sunset!  The color of autumn leaves is caused by pigments called anthocyanins, which are produced towards the end of summer, when the green chlorophyll is no longer produced. Red is the color most associated with fire and heat!

The Tao of Red

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.  Red is a fiery, hot and passionate color and popular in the living room, and dining room, as it invigorates conversation, debate and joy. .The Red Room in the White House has served as a parlor, small dining room and music room, in order to ignite the energy gathered there.

The Taste of Red

Food is an important and nourishing way to introduce color in our healing process. Our bodies benefit from the red food group. Red foods are great sources of protein, vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin C, beta-carotene and lycopene, which increase our vitality. Iron is vital to the body’s formation of red blood cells, which help carry and store oxygen throughout the body. Red foods are especially important to men’s health, as they have been linked to reductions in the risk of prostate cancer. Include red and black foods into your diet.

Power Over Us?

A Full Moon in June is considered the Strawberry Moon. This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe. they called it the Rose Moon. The relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June. A blood moon is a full moon which appears coppery red during a total lunar eclipse. That is because the dispersed light from the Earth’s sunrises and sunsets falls on the face of the moon at mid-eclipse. This is also the month of the Hunter Moon.

Are You Red with Anger?

This expression is considered a feeling of great annoyance or antagonism as the result of some real or supposed grievance.  Rage, wrath and  anger are all associated with the color red.  Seeing red, is not just an expression for angry people, but also a scientific fact. Scientists say that the connection may be linked to our evolution from ancestral hunter-gatherer times to link the color with danger and threats. Red is not recommended if there is already anger or upset, frustration or high blood pressure.

Vermilion

Vermilion (sometimes spelled vermillion) is a brilliant red or scarlet pigment originally made from the powdered mineral cinnabar, and is also the name of the resulting color. It was widely used in the art and decoration of Ancient Rome, in the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, in the paintings of the Renaissance and as sindoor in India. In China, the color vermilion was also playing an important role in the national culture. The color was most used in creating Chinese lacquerware, which was exported around the world, giving rise to the term “Chinese red.”

Hindu women use vermilion along the hair parting line known as Sindoor, to signify that they are married. Hindu men often wear vermilion on their forehead during religious ceremonies and festivals.

The Shaolin temple, where the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma is reputed to have established the new sect of Chan Buddhism (Zen Buddhism), is colored a bright tone of vermilion.

In the Bible vermilion is listed as a pigment that was in use for painting buildings during the reign of Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah and is named in the book of the prophet Ezekiel as a pigment used in art that portrayed Chaldean men. (Jeremiah 22:11–14, Ezekiel 23:14-17)

The Root Chakra

The Root Chakra gives us the motivation and action needed to make real our empowerment. Without this region being balanced and stable, energies of self empowerment can not be made to manifest without root. This region of energy maintains our physical identity, oriented to self-preservation. Ideally this chakra brings us protections, safety, health, prosperity, security, and dynamic presence. When this center is balanced, it grounds our ego into reality keeping us focused on the task and allowing the bodies’ energy to rise up through the other centers in order to become an innovative power source

 

 

Fire Agate

This stone has a strong connection to the energies of the earth. Excellent stone to use before meditating as it stimulates the Kundalini fire energy within the Root Chakra. Induces a feeling of relaxation. Helps alleviate problems relating to the stomach and endocrine system. Helps you examine and deal with problems in a calm and safe manner. Helps take the edge off difficult experiences.

Red Banded Agate

This is a stone used for grounding and centering the energies of the Root Chakra. The color for the Root Chakra is red or black and this stone allows for both grounding and power. USe red banded agate to reinforce you with courage. Its bands of microscopic quartz gives it distinct bands of protection and connect us with our physical body. It is used to ground your essence into your physical body.

Red Aventurine

Aventurine is known as aventurescence. The color of the aventurescence depends on the mineral included in the stone. Goethite inclusions give the stone a reddish glitter or sheen. Red aventurine has the distinction from other aventurine to enhance the Root Chakra energies, therefore, assisting in “rooting us to the earth” and enhancing both our creative spark and the ability to see possibilities before us.

Red Coral

Coral is not a crystal but has been used for centuries for its healing properties like shells, pearls and resins. Coral is a blend of calcium and calcite. Coral brings diplomacy and concurrence, quiets emotions, brings peace to inner-self. Facilitates intuition, imagination, visualization, expedite, accelerate the transfer of knowledge. Red coral stimulates the Root Chakra for energy, warmth and fertility.

Garnet

This stone symbolizes faith, love, devotion and trust. Garnet is most famous for balancing our emotional states. Therefore, garnet is one of the best stones for soothing emotional stress and balancing out anger that is held in and not expressed. Garnet is a stone of passion and commitment. It is given as a gift of love’s attraction, a gift of estranged love or a gift of quick return.

Red Jasper

This stone is a methodical and meticulous worker of practical, down to earth solutions, promoting organizational abilities and courage to assertively tackle a variety of problems. Used for protection, courage, and energy. Red Jasper can be used at the Root Chakra and represents our physical identity and orientation to self. It represents the element earth, and is therefore related to our survival instincts.

Red Sapphire

Sapphires are known as stone of prophetic wisdom. They have a long standing use in history. It is a stone of strength and gives great will power. Lessens tension and aligns the mental, physical, and spiritual planes. Can be an important stone for people with spiritual confusion or depression, those involved in situations out of their control, and anyone with concentration problems.

Sedona Stone

Famous for its energy centers or vortex, Sedona has become a magnet for those seeking powerful enlightenment and a spiritual presence. These amazing stones pulse with energy! These “mama rocks”, from the Cathedral Rock Vortex, have a compassionate, nurturing, feminine energy that engulfs you when you work with these stones.

Strawberry Quartz

Strawberry Quartz stimulates the Heart Chakra energy, filling ones total being with the feeling of love and with the euphoria of the true loving environment. It stimulates astral body and the psychic system intrinsic in all. It provides a pathway to the source of knowledge which can provide the relevant data concerning the actual reasons one has chosen it.