How often have you used your sense of color to navigate through your day, and not been conscious
of your actions?
This post presents ideas about color characteristics and how
being color savvy as you age, can improve the quality of daily living.
Learn
how your color choices help you stay out of danger, create a mood, safeguard
health, and encourage you to get back on track.
1.
Red is an energetic
color, one that attracts attention.
Research indicates
that red is a color that’s most easily seen by everyone, even from a long
distance away. Stop signs, curb edges, and red clothes are just three of the ways red can attract attention.
Play it safe. Keep
a red night light on in a darkened room, including the hallway and bathroom. Red
light is easier to see, than white light.
When you
look at red, it speeds up reactions, and stimulates
the appetite. Fast food restaurants choose it for their logos and feature it in
their décor.
If you need to put on a few extra pounds, decorate with red accent
colors in your kitchen or dining room, because it increases your desire to eat more
food.
2.
Yellow is a happy, easy
to see color.
Yellow is the color of essential road signs, like a no passing zone
or a warning sign that signals an obstacle or curve in the road.
Yellow is a lively color, but when
you focus on this color too long, it can cause
eye strain. This happens because light is reflected by bright colors, resulting
in excessive stimulation and irritation of the eyes.
Lighter shades of
yellow create a sense of cheerfulness and ease, and creamy yellow painted walls
create a restful atmosphere. Soft yellow paint applied to walls in a small room
makes that room appear larger.
Yellow is the color most often associated with the solar plexus chakra. Learning how to use
its color energy can empower you.
3.
Color is an important clue to consider for food freshness and safety.
When you prepare, serve, and eat a food product, notice its color.
Fresh produce is vibrantly colored, so shop for or grow fruits and vegetables in an array of colors including
red, dark green, yellow, orange, and purple.
Set the intention to let the food you eat provide essential nutrients,
vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber, rather than try to get nourishment from supplements.
Eat at least 5-7
servings of a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables a day, as it’s money in
the bank for disease prevention, maintaining strong teeth and bones, and providing energy to
work and play.
If you’re ill or out of commission from a fall or other injury,
remember it’s especially important to eat the rainbow to heal.
4. Certain colors
warn of danger.
Molds are
microscopic fungi that live in plant or animal matter. Unless you know for sure
that a mold on food is intentionally grown, like those on blue-veined cheese
such as Roquefort or Gorgonzola or the white mold on Camembert cheese, don’t
eat it.
When you suspect a food is spoiled, return it to the store for a refund
or discard it. That old adage ─
it’s better to be safe than sorry applies here.
5.
Contrast helps colors stand
out from their background.
As you age, the ability to recognize the differences in color shades may
diminish slightly. Compensate for this by remembering not to put yellow, blue,
and green in close proximity. These colors may become increasingly
difficult to tell apart.
If you arrange clothes in your closet or
dresser by color, put contrasting colors next to each other.
MedlinePlus at the NIH advises seniors. “As you age, it gets harder to tell apart blues and
greens than it is to see the difference between red and yellow."
Read details at MedlinePlus to discover possible ways vision can be affected as you age.
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Notice
how often your color choices support, protect, relax, delight, or excite you. Take advantage of each color’s unique
characteristics to help you lead a more colorful, satisfying life!
***This post is offered for entertainment and information purposes only, and is not intended as health or safety advice.***
Please comment in the comment section below.
What is your favorite color? When you see it, how does it make you feel?
Are you mindful about the way colors affect your sense of enjoyment?
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