Associate words with the color green and you’ll likely think nature, growth, regeneration, renewal, youth, life, vegetation. Green is the soothing energies of Mother Earth.
Green is associated with the heart chakra, which, Julie Soskin, in How Psychic Are You? 76 Techniques to Boost Your Innate Power (Penguin Books, 2002) says, “brings you into a relaxed, healing contact with the world around you; but, as in nature, it can also stagnate and decay, leading to festering emotions such as jealousy and resentment.”
Colors such as blue, which can bring healing, and white, which encourages peacefulness, complement the energy of the color green.
Meditating in Nature and with Houseplants
Go for a walk in a forest, visit a garden or greenhouse. If you can find a spot to sit quietly, do so and focus on the bright shades of green around you. Imagine that you are breathing this color into your heart. Feel your body coming into balance. The heart chakra is in the center of the body, a point providing balance for the rest of your physical self.
If you do not have houseplants in your home, acquire a few. If you are afraid of killing them, ask a friend or florist for advice on easy to care for plants.
An Exercise in Empathy
When friends or family members come to you in pain, you may be compelled to alleviate their discomfort by offering suggestions. However, what may happen is that the person feels that their concerns are unheard. Allow the person to open their heart to you, by opening your own.
Listen to what the person has to say. Respond with “It’s/It can be (feeling) when (situation).” Although you haven’t helped the person as you may have in the past, your empathetic response may be perceived as more openhearted.
Write a Therapeutic Poem Focusing on Equilibrium
Bring about mental and physical equilibrium by writing this poem with a green pen on green paper.
You will begin every odd line of your poem with, “I used to” and every even line with the words, “But now.” You may focus entirely on events or emotions that you experienced or you may add in lines of a more imaginative or exaggerated vein.
One example of this poem is:
"I used to do everything my mother told me to do
"But now I can only watch her lips move.
"I used to be a dust bunny hiding beneath the couch
"But now I am a real rabbit living within the rhododendron"
Continue you poem for ten or more couplets of "I Used to/But Now."
Notice the balance and growth within the two lines. Read your poem upon waking and before going to bed over the next few days to welcome equilibrium into your waking and sleeping life.
Focusing on the color green is about bringing new energy into your life. Clear out the emotions that are stagnating. Reconnect with the people who are an important part of your life and your growth.
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