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GREEN colour

Green is the colour of balance and harmony. It is the colour of growth, spring, renewal and rebirth. It renews and restores energy. It works as a shelter from daily pressures of modern life and it returnins our sense of well being. Emotionally green is positive color, which gives us the ability to love and nurture ourselves and others unconditionally.

 

As a combination of yellow and blue, green becomes mental clarity and optimism from yellow and emotional peace from blue. So, the green is a colour of good judgment, has a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong. It sees both sides of the equation, weighs those both sides and makes correct decision from moral point of view.

 

Green promotes love for nature, family, friends, pets, home. It is the color stability and durability.

 

Positive properties of green are: the growth, vitality, independence, reliability, security, calmness, sensitivity, practicality, compassion, loyalty, flexibility, kindness.

 

Negative characteristics of green are: possessiveness, materialism, indifference, jealousy, selfishness, greed, recklessness, 

 

 

 

PHYSIOLOGICAL MEANING OF COLOURS

Green colour expands capillaries and regulates blood circulation, reduces pressure, calms the nervous system, relaxes muscles, establishes personal balance.

Green is the colour of relaxation, balance and harmony with nature. Within us, it works pleasant and calming, refreshes and heals. It can be used as sedative and hypnotic agent.



 

PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANING OF COLOURS

As a mixture of blue and yellow, green in the colour of nature; so it means happyness and peace, it is also symbol of hope.

The psychological effects of green: calm, straight, balance, harmony, tranquility, freedom, pleasure

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SOUL COLOURS

If you like to dress in green, you like to have quiet life. You are friendly, you love people and are willing to help, but you are careful and do not trust easily.

If you like to dress in blue and green, you tend to shake off the tension and avoid conflict and misunderstanding. You are very subtle.

If you refuse to dress in green, you migt be lonely and desperate. You might have survived serious rejection or severe trauma.



 

COLOUR MEANING IN ROOM

Green colour is best suited for living rooms and bedrooms. It is also suitable for working rooms in which stress is present, because it calms. Not suitable in gyms and cold places.

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COLOUR MEANING IN AURA

Green aura means strength, patience, determination, dedication, perseverance. The person is confident, has a sense of responsibility, high ideals, work and career values high. Green in aura means person is very focused and flexible, ambitious, with desire for prestige and personal qualifications. Green aura surrouns a lot of dedicated parents, social workers, psychologists and counselors.



 

COLOUR MEANING IN FENG SHUI

The green colour in Feng Shui represents tranquility, hope, and life. It is present everywhere around us, it represents mother nature. Stimulates creativity, promotes growth, regeneration and soothing. Green means good, healthy earth Chi.



 

COLOUR MEANING IN DREAMS

In a dream, green means flexibility, balance, reconciliation, harmony, the desire for health-treatment.

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COLOUR MEANING CLOTHES

Green symbolizes nature. It is soothing and refreshing. Brides in the Middle Ages wore green because it symbolized fertility.

Green should be worn by hyperactive people and those who have a reduced ability of sober thinking and judging.

It should be avoided by people who should act actively and lively in everyday life, because it choaks movement and encourages idleness and boredom.



 

COLOUR MEANING AT WORK

Green, as colour is a hallmark of uniforms as a symbol of loyalty to the company, is synonymous with freshness, purity, tranquility, relaxation.



 

COLOUR SYMBOLISM

It symbolizes nature, environment, health, good luck, renewal, youth, spring, generosity, fertility. But also jealousy, vitality, envy, inexperience.



 

CHROMOTHERAPY

The green colour calms us down (bringing us peace and balance), reduces tension in the body, relieves headaches, soothes the heart, controls blood pressure, has a beneficial effect on the heart and digestion. It is used for the treatment of inflammation, swelling, infection, for treatment of pertussis, detoxifications and with the hormonal balance. It is also used in the treatment of mental diseases, nervous fatigue, hysterical tendencies, insomnia.

Green is favorable for neurosis, agoraphobia and bronchial asthma.

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COLOUR MEANING IN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS

In Ireland, it represents Catholicism.

The green colour is a symbol of hope and survival.

The European and Chinese tradition both associate green with spring and new growth.

For ancient Romans it was the color of Venus, the goddess of love.

In Islam, green colour is sacred, because Allah is present in nature (Alah is never drawn or represented in any form).

In ancient Palestine, brides wore green wedding dresses, meaning happy life and fertility.

In China, it is associated with infidelity in US with money in North Africa with corruption, in Indonesia is forbidden color, and in Malaysia with danger.



 

SAFETY COLOURS

Green is the signal for safety and should be the colour for symols, associated with security (rather than red in terms of the Red Cross, first aid in hospitals). As opposed to red is also a sign to move on (red is a sign for Stop).

 

 

COLOUR SHADES

Shades of green:  May-green or fresh greenish (honesty, prudence, spirituality), emerald green (power, wealth, energetic, emotion), olive green (weakness, turbidity, dodging), apple green (easiness, excessive emotionality), pastel green (sophistication, unnoticeableness), sea green (envy, cunning), blue pastel green (alertness, attention, perseverance, resistance), Forest, peas, avocado, lime, gooseberry, pistachio, sage, ...

 

 

INTERESTING COLOUR FACTS

In the ancient Egyptians,  the floor of the temple were painted green.

In ancient Greece, green symbolized victory.

Green with envy means that jealous and envious.

Greenhorn means a new man, a newcomer, someone fresh without experiences.

Green Room is special room in concerts and theaters, where performers rest and relax before the performing.

Green means go.

In Scotland´s Highlands, the green is worn as a sign of pride.

Green is the national colour of the Irish people.

If anyone gets the green light means that person can start with a task or project.

If you're green, it means that you got sick.

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