In researching, I have found that color can stimulate or inhibit certain behaviors. Advertising executives,Psychologists, and even the fitness industry has known this all along....
Research shows that exercise is best performed in an environment of warm colors, such as reds and oranges, and then blues and greens are good for mental concentration.
Even in Literature.......poets and authors tap into a deeper interpretation of the colors. Red with rage, green with jealousy, purple passion, feeling blue, he is yellow, are common.
I read about a Swiss psychiatrist named Carl Jung who encouraged his patients to use color in their paintings to express the deepest unconscious part of their psyches. I know I have gone through favorite color phases.....In my single years, into even about 5 years ago...I LOVED red!!!! Then, I went through a phase of green a few years back. In the last year I found that I LOVE yellow! Yellow purses, yellow dresses (I wore to a convention last summer)...I almost bought a yellow car back in September. My sweet daughter now every time she sees something yellow, says, "Mom, look, a yellow ________!"
I am also very in tune with pink right now. Don't know why, but lately everything I buy, whether a journal, day planner, scarf, or shirt....has been pink. So if I tie that into my personality, what would that Swiss psychiatrist say about me?????
He said, Extroverts favor red (yah!), introverts prefer blue (never liked blue), yellow is the choice of intellectuals (REALLY?????), and well-balanced individuals tend to go for green (hmmmm!) Pink is a color for new beginnings. Gray and Black, they typically signify wanting to blend in, not stand out. Not sure about that as I know some people who love to wear those colors.
So, what are you wearing today? Are you being influenced by your mood and choosing your clothes accordingly today? Or, is your clothing today influencing you?
Today, I choose to be pink..... and possibly, a smidgen of green.....
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