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Colour Your Day

Written by Linda James.

Explore the full palette of colour to energise your day, says energy healer Linda James 

 

Colour has a significant effect on us physically, emotionally and mentally. We are affected by colour on a daily basis, whether it’s in our home, at work or in the environment around us. Colours are created by different wavelengths of light, with each colour having its own wave energy or vibration. 

 

Colour as a source of energy 

Awareness of the effect of colour on us is not a ‘new age’ approach; in fact, we can relate colour therapy back to ancient times with the Romans, Egyptians and Greeks recorded as using colour as a healing modality. It is believed the ancient Egyptians also used gems and crystals in specifically built temples, often building a variety of rooms, each with its own colour. The sun shining through the crystals and colour refracted onto the sitting person, who received healing from both the colour and the crystals. 

 

The beautiful stained glass windows in the great cathedrals of Europe, built around the 12th and 13th centuries, not only told stories in the form of images, but the refracted colour from the windows were also used for healing. Again, in some cathedrals, there were small rooms of a particular colour for the parishioners to “bathe” in that colour. The parishioner chose the colour they felt they needed or was prescribed for them by the healers or doctors of the day. It was believed that those who sat and prayed in the light of those rooms healed more quickly than those who didn’t. The light and colours from the stained glass windows were also used to create an environment suitable for meditation and prayer.

 

If you have the opportunity to sit in the refracted light of a stained glass window, it would be an energising, as well as a beautiful experience, particularly if you are visiting some of the great cathedrals of Britain and Europe. Check the best time of the day to capture the sun shining through the window and refracting the light. 

 

It was Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) who showed us that when light is refracted through a prism, it resolves into its six component colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. These are the colours of the rainbow and of the individual chakras (plus indigo, which is acknowledged as the primary colour for the third eye or brow chakra).

 

The mood of colour

Colour has a noticeable effect on our mood. Retail outlets, supermarkets and fast-food chains want to make as much money as possible, and they know they can increase customer participation with a careful choice of colours to entice people to buy their products. On the other hand, a relaxing atmosphere is frequently created in hospital waiting rooms with the use of soft green or blue shades.

 

Colour my day 

One of the things I’ve noticed about the cubicles in workplaces is they tend to be in neutral colours, such as beige or grey - in other words, lacking in colour. Lack of energy from colour is one of the contributors to feeling low on energy or feeling tired by the end of the day.  On the other hand excessive use of one bold colour, even though it may be a chakra colour, can be overwhelming and have a negative impact.

 

Take into consideration any strong colours already around you, such as from the walls and fabrics, because you will be receiving the benefit of that colour vibration. However, it is only useful if the colours are clean, crisp and not overwhelming. Muddy or murky colours are not beneficial. If you are surrounded by a very brightly or boldly coloured cubicle (or walls) and feel it is overwhelming, you can tone down the strong vibrational energy. Add some of the more calming and soft colours, such as turquoise, which is a gentle, peaceful colour, or green, which is everywhere in nature and restful on the eyes. A soft blue is calm and relaxing. 

 

How do the colours in your workplace make you feel? Notice the colours on the walls, the colours of any work cubicles and carpets. Are the colours adding energy or are they depleting energy?

 

Energising vibration of food colours 

According to Theo Gimbel, “Colour not only fills our outside world; it penetrates deep into our bodies. Its continual influence means that the effects of light on the body are second only to the effects of food.” 

 

Dieticians tell us to put a variety of coloured foods on our plates for a balanced diet and wellbeing. An easy way to get the energy you need is by eating the colour vibration found naturally in some of your favourite foods. There’s an old saying, “A little bit of what you fancy does you good.’ The body is aware of what it needs and knows what colour is necessary to heal or to energise. The surface colour of the food relates to the energy and the colour of the individual chakra. 

 

The corporate uniform

Add the ‘corporate uniform’ to a lack of colour around you and you are a candidate for energy depletion. What’s the corporate uniform? It tends toward the dark colours, usually black, that are commonly worn in the workplace. I’m not against wearing the colour black; it goes so well with many other colours. However, as far as energy is concerned, black is a ‘non’ colour. Light is absorbed by black, but nothing is reflected back; the colour black doesn’t allow the energising vibrations of colour through to the body. 

 

It is interesting to look at some of the reasons, consciously or subconsciously, that we choose to wear black in the corporate environment. Because black does not give out a vibration, it is considered the colour of mystery; we do not necessarily know who the real person is behind the corporate black. In the workplace, by wearing black, you can hide who you are: it’s a form of protection. 

 

It is also a colour that is often chosen to hide the figure because it is thought to have a slimming effect. The colour black can also be overpowering and give the wearer the appearance of being aloof. Black is the colour of authority and power, but it also implies submission. Nuns and priests wear black to signify their submission to God.

 

Wearing black is not exclusive to the business environment. Black, as a favourite colour for formal wear, allows the wearer that sphere of social mystery. Black is considered the colour of sophistication, but it is worth remembering that one of the original meanings of the word sophistication is “pretentiously and superficially wise”. 

 

When you wear a colour, you are expressing a part of yourself through your choice of colour. But to wear black is to not express yourself. 

 

It is recommended that if you wear the ‘corporate uniform’, include some colour. I have found that by having blouses or scarves in each of the seven chakra colours, I could add the colour that I needed each day. Your body knows what it needs. It knows the colour vibration that will strengthen your chakras and the colour or colours that will provide you with the most energy. Go with your felt sense, your intuition, that gut feeling! 

 

Men can add colour through ties, jumpers, shirts or coloured underwear. Your colour choice doesn’t necessarily have to be on show to the outer world.

 

The colour white is the opposite of black and reflects colour, as demonstrated by Isaac Newton. Dressing in white clothing is a requirement, for example, when attending healing sessions with many healers.  The white clothing allows healing energy greater access to the body. 

 

Colour therapists or practitioners use a variety of techniques that have been tried and tested over many years. The kinds of colour techniques you can use yourself, to increase energy, and are easy to obtain or implement, are coloured crystals, coloured materials or silks and shapes, coloured clothes, solarised water, colourful foods, colour visualisation, colour breathing and flowers.

 

Extract from Seachange @ Work: Discover what a difference an energised day makes! by Linda James. Published in Nova Magazine January 2015

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The Reality of your Day

Written by Linda James.

There’s a perception that the boss or the company creates the working day, and there’s little we can do about it.

Many people I meet have an appreciation of a concept that we create our own reality, but do not apply it to their working day. The way you view the world creates your reality, and within that reality, you are who you choose to be and decide what to include in your day. Your reality is only true at this moment, and it is liberating and exciting to realise that tomorrow has not yet been created and is still open to unlimited possibilities. You start every day with a clean palette and paints to create your own picture — this is the reality of knowing you have ownership of your day.

Much of our physical condition may appear to be fixed or permanent, but it isn’t. Situations and our environment can and do change in an instant; some changes are welcomed, such as an unexpected promotion or a pay rise, resulting in more money and greater opportunities, but other changes, such as natural disasters that wipe out the town in moments, are not. The Law of Attraction

Our working day is a constant stream of energy ebbing and flowing all around us and within us. Energy has a magnetic pull. Our thoughts are energy pulling what we think about towards us. Thoughts manifest into reality; thoughts become material. It’s known as the Universal Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction does not differentiate between what is good and wise for you or what is not so good; it brings you what you focus on. If you are focusing on wanting a particular thing or on not wanting it, the emphasis is on what you are spending your time thinking about, so that’s what you are attracting into your day and your life. Unfortunately, many people think about what they don’t want, and as the Law of Attraction brings what we focus on, we are liable to get a fair share of those things we don’t want if we are not careful. As the Law of Attraction is always working, this includes what we think about and focus on in our working day. It’s by taking responsibility for your 1440 minutes each day that you become empowered and energised. Knowing how you would like your day to be is the way to get the best value out of it.

The importance of clear intention

What you think and intend is creating a forceful effect in the universal energy field. Intention is far more powerful than wishful thinking.

Setting your intention on a particular idea or aspect brings focus to it, and with it, a determination to achieve the desired result. Once you have clarity of direction and your desired outcome, and set your intention, half the work is already finished. Your intention is now starting to focus on your ideal working day.

In the course of the day, your brain will receive possibly millions of impressions. If you were consciously aware of all these impressions, you would be on information overload. Fortunately, your brain filters out the impression or information that is not considered to be important to you at the time. However, when you change your focus, your brain’s ‘filtering system’ changes. What you are now focusing on, which is a part of your intention, starts to appear in your life. You can then start taking advantage of opportunities that may already be there.

Have you ever ‘discovered’ something you thought was ‘new’ and just what you wanted at the time, and then found that it’s been around for years? Why hadn’t you noticed it previously? It’s because it was not a priority; it was not important to you then, so your brain had filtered out the information. It was only when the item became important or valuable to you that you became consciously aware of it.

Action puts into motion the energy behind the intention. When action aligns with your intention, the energy around you changes and brings you all kinds of people and events to support you.

 Focus on creating your own reality and your ideal working day.
    •    Be clear about your intention.
    •    Be consistent with your intention.
    •    Write your intention down.
    •    Show your commitment to your intention.
    •    Believe that you are creating your intention.
 
Take action — take the next step.

Extract from: New release book Seachange @ Work: Discover what a difference an energised day makes! by author Linda James.

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Getting Started

Written by Linda James.

workplace paper and pen for listingToday, people want results quickly.

 

Fortunately, positive changes can happen in a few minutes. Don’t wait for the perfect time or try to create the perfect move — you are not playing a game of chess, you are playing the game of life. Just start! The less resistance, the less waiting for the right moment, the easier it will be to find a solution or an alternative that works. I’m sure we have all said, ‘it’s just not a good time at the moment’. Well, what’s the definition of a good time or the right moment? There will always be challenges and opportunities that affect us individually and collectively. Regardless of what else is happening around you, you can engage your mind to accept the challenges and recognise the opportunities. You may only be looking at small enhancements or changes, but they make a significant difference to the energy level in your day.

 

However, simply recognising an opportunity is not enough — it is also about taking action and grounding the opportunity into the here and now.

 

Extract from Seachange @ Work: Discover what a difference an energised day makes!

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Refresh with room sprays containing flower essences

Written by Linda James.

Refresh with room sprays containing flower essences

 

Room sprays freshen up the workplace, leaving a clean and energised feeling. There is a variety of sprays available, or you can make your own with flower essences, as well as essential oils. You can choose one or a variety of the flower essences; add 2–3 drops of the essence to a spray bottle of spring or filtered water to make a refreshing spray. Flower essences are made from the blossoms, sun-infused in a bowl of spring water, capturing the energy of the plant. This becomes the mother tincture (or concentrate), which can then be diluted and preserved with brandy in a small bottle. Only 2–3 drops of the diluted essence may be required. Use your intuition for the exact number of drops needed for your particular requirements. Flower essences are used for healing our physical and subtle energy bodies, so include them when using the spray. Some of the well-known flower essences are Bach Flowers, Australian Bush Flowers and Pure Therapies Vibrational Remedies.

 

An alternative to a flower essences or essential oil room spray is the gem essences. Again, use a fine mist spray bottle containing spring or filtered water; this time adding one or more gems to the water whose essence and energy you desire. Leave the gems in the water until the bottle is empty. Powerful gems (stones) for cleansing heavy negative energy are black obsidian, black tourmaline and pyrite. Make a spray with the individual stones or, for a more powerful cleanse, use all three. This spray will work in the same manner as smudging.

Copyright Seachange @ Work: Discover what a difference an energised day makes! by author Linda James

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New release book Seachange @ Work

Written by Linda James.

seachange at work book cover

 

Seachange @ Work brings ancient wisdom and energy techniques into the modern workplace to reshape your work habits, rejuvenate the work environment and create more personal energy. Learn how to track and manage your energy levels, be your true self at work, have energised working relationships and a supportive environment and more.  Just small adjustments bring authentic, positive change and increased energy to your working day and beyond.

  • Enhance the positive energy in your workplace and reduce any negative energy.

  • Discover what drains and what increases your energy level.

  • Understanding how your subtle energy system (chakras, auric field) is impacted each working day.

  • Learn how to reduce stress of peak hour travel.

  • Gain fresh insight into ‘The Energy of the Business’

  • Understand challenging work colleagues, and why you feel great around some people and energy drained around others.

  • Discover the positive effects of colour in your day and why you shouldn’t wear a black outfit every day.

  • Learn what essential oils, room sprays and gemstones/crystals are most effective in the workplace.

  • Appreciate the importance of being your authentic self at work and play.

  • Create your ideal working day by understanding the power of intention, the law of attraction.

Linda James draws on more than 30 years’ corporate management experience in England, Canada and Australia. She is a Certified Energy Healer, Holistic Counsellor and Transformational Life Coach, writer and teacher of inspirational courses.

Seachange @ Work is available through Our Shop on this website, Co-op Booksellers, The Awareness Institute in Crows Nest, Book Haven, Stocklands, Baulkham Hills, Aquarius Rising, Parramatta, New Moon, Castle Hill, Gnostic Forest, Woy Woy, and through Amazon, Book Depository, Bookworld, Booktopia, Collins Booksellers, Kinakunya, Holistic Pages, Angus and Robertson, Barnes and Noble and major online booksellers internationally, or as an ebook on Kindle or most ebook readers such as nook, kobi etc.  Can be ordered through most of your local booksellers.

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Book Reviews

5 stars

Brave

 

By susan dalby on December 22, 2014 Format: Kindle Edition

This is a fantastic book that introduces the idea of balancing energy in the workplace by facing the dynamics of a group situation. For me the "unsaids" and the energy or atmosphere that is a result of bystander apathy (another word for denial) in the workplace has always been the elephant in the room. No different to the family group only more complex.
In organizational coaching most approaches are cognitively based and poorly confront the larger part of the iceberg floating below the conscious mind of the group namely how our attitudes and moods impact upon the environment.. Linda takes us to places that need to be explored for business to grow and to create harmonious and interactive workplaces that bravely address evolving differences carried in the void. I am using this book in my workplace and the reflective approach in collaboration with introducing awareness of the body is very fruitful. The staff are having to confront aspects of themselves in a more honest and collaborative way. Since starting to use this book the level of positivity in the workplace which is incidentally a Dental Surgery has changed so much that patients are being affected by the new feel of the place. Wonderful book for those brave enough to embrace change and see it as it evolves which it does very rapidly.

 

 

5 stars

 

Highly recommend!,

 

By Lifelong Reader Jody Haywood, November 26, 2014

 

What I loved most about this book is how practical it is. So many books have interesting philosophies and ideas but they don't easily translate into practical exercises you apply immediately to your life. Highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in improving the quality of their work day experience.

 5 stars

Bring unconditional love into the mainstream

 

By Julia Adams True Nature Traditional Hawaiian Lomi Lomi and Wellness Therapies 5 October 2014

A powerful and helpful read. I've worked alongside Linda as a teacher at the Awareness Institute, seen her in action as a facilitator and had profound healings from her to support my inner work and life quest. Support those working to bring unconditional love into the mainstream world in unconventional and unconditional ways - her book is also on Amazon. Many of you will understand how important it is to reshape our workplaces for the 21st century. x

 

 

5 stars

I loved it!

By Anne Freccero, Novelist, 15 September 2014.

Just finished to read your book Linda. I loved it! I was captivated in reading the chapters... to knowledge how much I and my surrounding friends and family build stress in the work place and life. And what to do to change this habit. I loved particularly chapter 2. I found easy to understand through the tables and drawings the functions of the chakras... I found very interesting the little window in the table where you mention for each chakra... 'You lose energy when you...' ... After reading it, I could apply it to few moments in my life where I lost control of my energy in some situations... and now understand in which chakra the energy was blocked. Colours of the Day, The Energy of Passion and Purpose, were very helpful to put in order the purposes muddled up in my head. In 3 words again. I love your book !... Now, I wait with anticipation for the next one...  I have few friends having a lot of stress at work at the moment and I think your book is the perfect Christmas gift.

 

 

Five stars

 

Congratulations Linda on an absolutely fantastic book!

 

By Karin Lonnon, 15 September 2014

Not only does it help us in our everyday life but especially for all us workers, who so often get overwhelmed with our daily, busy work life that there is no time to check in with our own health & well being.  You give us wonderful short exercises to pick ourselves up as well as great tips on how to make our lives smoother and more pleasant.

I can recommend it to all my friends. Keep it coming!

 

 

5    5 Stars

5

A great read for those who are looking for more energy in their day.

 

Reviewed by Samson September 2014

Format Paperback

 A great read for those who are looking for more energy in their business and in their working day. What I really like about this book is that it shows us that we can ‘see change at work’.
Chapter 3 ‘The Energy of the Business’ gave me new ways of looking at my business by connecting it to the chakra system. A refreshing and interesting concept.

 

5 stars

 

 There's something for everyone in this book

 

 By Ann E. Moore on September 16, 2014 Format: Paperback

 

 No longer part of the corporate world and wish this book had been available many years ago! Am now a mature age undergraduate student and Linda's techniques to help deal with the various daily stresses of the working environment translate perfectly into my new life at university with its own stresses of assignment deadlines, constant intellectual challenges, a considerable generation gap and a long commute. There is something for everyone in this book which is easy to read, understand ... and then implement the changes!

 

5 stars

  

 

 

Easy to read and interesting ideas and concepts

 

 

By Stevebbb on September 24, 2014  Format: Kindle Edition

 

 This book gives the reader the ‘how’ as well as the ‘what’. Easy to read and interesting ideas and concepts. Written for the working day, however this book is also valuable for increasing energy in all areas of our lives. After reading the book I am much more conscious of my working environment and workplace relationships and how I can make simple changes or adjustments that really make a difference to the energy in my day.

 

 5 Stars

A Gem of a Book

By Anne Brand September 29, 2014

A gem of a book that is jam-packed with specific, practical, easy to follow tools and exercises from start to finish! Your working life will never be the same again if you follow the advice in this book. It touches all your senses with the use of oils, essences, colour, crystals, and sound – a veritable mini energy course for everyday life. The complexity of energy systems is simply and clearly explained; so that you understand why, what and how you come to feel drained and lacking in energy at work. This provides you with the incentive to apply the tools provided to make you feel energised and ready to take on any new challenges in the workplace.

Some great insights on how your perceptions of people impact your energy levels. I especially loved the useful information on how to clear the negative energy that builds up in your surroundings and how to protect yourself from the energy vampires you find in every workplace – something that can be used outside of the workplace as well. It is obviously written by someone who has experienced first hand those same issues in the workplace.

A definite gift for friends and family that are stuck in soul destroying, energy sapping jobs. It is clear, simple, and one hundred percent practical. Do yourself a favour and read it!

 

 

 

 

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