Before I explain the significance of noticing the color red, I invite you to reflect back on the last four days and ask yourself:
- Did you take on the assignment to notice red?
- How frequently did you mindfully pay attention to your environment so that you could detect red in every object you encountered?
Did you perhaps get the assignment and although you intended to take it seriously, the task somehow was forgotten. Life got in the way. You never encountered anything red; or if you did, you didn’t notice.
Take notice now of the extent to which you undertook this assignment seriously.
- Did you count the number of times every day in your head that you encountered red?
- Did you reach the number 100 and quit or did you keep counting?
- On some days did you just not want to do it because it was too hard or too mentally challenging even though making a mental count creates new neural networks?
Reflect back on the past 4 days and just acknowledge your approach to the challenge to notice red.
Let me now explain the significance of this challenge. In one way it comes across as a childlike game, something like Waldo. Waldo is an entity that is found in children’s pictures. The child has to look all over the picture before they find Waldo. When they spot him they point and say, “Hooray!.” The parent of course also says “Yes!” But actually, the assignment to find red has far more serious and important implications than simply a child’s game – although we don’t want to underestimate the importance of that as well.
Colors are associated with frequencies. Frequencies are imbedded in our energy field. Individuals with Parkinson’s tend to have energy that surrounds the upper part of their body. This of course is not true for all persons with Parkinson’s but in general individuals who tend to encounter symptoms of Parkinson’s are go getters.
- They are focused.
- They are accomplished.
- They make things happen.
- They are the go-to people of the world.
If we didn’t have that kind of energy not much would be accomplished in any country or any culture. It is a wonderful, marvelous, delicious, delightful energy that makes things happen. This also has implications though for how an individual with the go-to energy runs the frequencies around their physical body.
We all have a human energy field – physics has determined this. There is significant body of work making photographs of the energy field around human bodies. This is not mysterious, strange stuff. The existence of the human energy field has been extensively documented by scientists.
The energy then for many persons with Parkinson’s tends to be the colors that you find over on the right-side of a rainbow, perhaps purple, gold or blue; but not the lower frequency colors. The lowest frequency in the human energy field is red. It is associated with the first chakra. That is the energy input to the human body that enters between our two legs. A chakra looks like a funnel of sorts, almost like a tornado. The tip of the cone is nested up against the coccyx or the bottom of the spine. We all have first chakras.
The more we are able to connect with the color red, the more we are able to strengthen, enlarge and broaden that particular chakra so that we are more solidly connected with mother earth. When are first chakras are open and vibrant we centered and balanced.
Connecting with the color red helps mobility problems because it addresses the center of balance. We are connected to the earth when we are solidly receiving and connected to the color red. The color red is not just a cool color that you find in a child’s box of crayons. Red is a very specific frequency. It is the frequency that is associated with allowing us to be physically present to ourselves and to others.
This notion is called “grounding,” for those of you who may have heard of that notion; it means that instead of feeling like we are unstable at the top of our bodies (and in our heads) as we have difficulty walking, we are solid. We are able to step from the right foot to the left foot with assurance and grace and poise. We anchor ourselves into the core of the earth. The is little chance of falling when our first chakras are open and balanced.
How do you then make sure that your first chakra is open, strong and vibrant? One easy way is to connect with the color red. This is not a mental issue however. You literally have to allow the color red to essentially soak into your body. You have to “feel” the color red. Once you do, the first chakra opens up magnificently. You do not have to force it open. It just happens effortlessly.
Continue throughout the rest of the week to notice the color red. Every time you spot red, allow yourself to resonate with that color. When you do, you literally are connecting with that frequency and nourishing your first chakra. The work you are doing this week is obtaining relief from symptoms using your own self administered color therapy treatments. No color therapist is needed this week!
This mindfulness challenge is particularly useful to anyone who might be having mobility challenges or balance challenges. No medications are needed here and this is something you can do for yourself throughout the day. Resonating with the frequency of red means that balance can no longer be a problem because you are anchored to mother earth. The mother will not allow you to fall or stumble or freeze.
Enjoy encountering the color red the rest of the week.
- Become red.
- Be red.
- Feel red.
- Resonate with red.
If you are fighting against doing this it probably means that it’s an exercise you need to take quite seriously. As you think back to the question I asked in the very beginning – to what extent did you engage this exercise seriously – if you did not, it may be that now is a good time to hunker down and to take it seriously; to reach that count of 100 and furthermore, each time you encounter anything, whether in nature, the sky, the earth, a person, an object, a food is red, stop and resonate with that color.
When you do encounter red it can have marvelous and magnificent healing consequences. And, by the way, it is a free healing each time. This doesn’t cost anything. You are helping your body to come back into full balance. Isn’t that cool?
Robert
© Parkinsons Recovery