VIOLET colour
Violet is the colour of imagination and spirituality. It stimulates the imagination and inspires high ideals. It is introspective colour, which allows us to get in touch with our deeper thoughts.
It contains the energy and strength of red color and spirituality and integrity of blue. It combines body and mind and creates a balance between our physical and mental energy. It helps people who are looking for the meaning of life and spiritual fulfillment.
In terms of colour, violet represents the future, imagination, dreams. Spiritually soothes the emotions, increases our psychic ability, spiritual enlightenment, but nevertheless holds firmly to the ground. It promotes harmony of emotions that contribute to mental equilibrium and stability and harmony of the mind, a connection between the spiritual and the physical world, between thinking and action.
Violet colour promotes sensitivity and compassion. It is sensitive to all the different forms of pollution: noise pollution, visual pollution. This sensitivity allows the susceptibility to diseases and allergies. It can stimulate and worsen depression.
It encourages creative engagement and inspiration and originality through it´s creative endeavors. It is unique, individual and independent. It combines the wisdom and power with the sensitivity and humility. It is ambitious and self-confident. The violet colour is particularly associated with the nobility, creating an impression of luxury, wealth and extravagance.
Positive features of violet are: oddities, creativity, resourcefulness, selflessness, mystery, fantasy, future.
Negative characteristics of violet are: immaturity, impracticability, cinism, indifference, arrogance.
PHYSIOLOGICAL MEANING OF COLOURS
It soothes, relieves heat rash, burns, balances digestion, affects the brain and nervous system.
It increases organic resistance.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANING OF COLOURS
This colour is a mixture of red and blue, so it relates to performance shine and dignity, but has calming influence.
The psychological effects of violet: creativity, thinking, artistic inspiration, intuitiveness, protectionism. mystery, spirituality.
COLOUR OF SOUL
If you like to dress in violet you are sensitive and full of compassion. Self-confidence can be increased with a hint of red color (eg. lilac, cyclamen color).
If you do not like violet, fault can be found in creative brake or in problems with authority.
COLOUR MEANING IN ROOM
The violet colour is suitable for bedrooms, bathrooms and spaces where people relax, meditate. If applied on smaller areas, it brings calm and mental balance.
COLOUR MEANING IN AURA
The violet colour of aura is genuine, original and magical. People with unusual charisma and charm, often with mental abilities have it. They are tolerant for differences, not condemn, and are sensitive and compassionate. Many people with a violet aura are entertainers, movie stars, revolutionaries, visionaries, free thinkers.
COLOUR MEANING IN FENG SHUI
Violet color is synonymous for high nobility, power, wealth and happyness. It is equally or even more favorable than red.
COLOUR MEANING IN DREAMS
Violet in dreams mean spiritual leader and teacher. Nobility, power, strenght in spiritual matters and things.
COLOUR MEANING IN CLOTHING
It represents luxury, wealth and sophistication. It is a colour of royalty.
Violet should be worn by people who want peace, pure love and those who meditate and pray, because it brings peace and tranquility.
People who do not like silence, are too sensitive or just want to be accepted by society, should avoid wearing violet.
COLOUR MEANING AT WORK
Violet colour, as a trademark for uniforms and as a symbol of loyalty to the company, is synonymous with creativity, strength, inspiration, specialty, spirituality, luxury.
COLOUR SYMBOLISM
It symbolizes nobility, spirituality, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, enlightenment, arrogance, mourning.
CHROMOTHERAPY
It relaxes muscles and soothes nervous system. It has a beneficial effect on all endocrine glands and on mental and nervous problem. It stimulates functioning of a spleen, facilitates functioning of lymphatic, cardiac and vascular system. It can be used in treatment of mental illness, skin disease, meningitis, sciatica, tumors, rheumatism, bladder.
Under the influence violet-light radiation neuralgia can be treated.
This colour has beneficial effect in increasing sexual activity with women.
COLOUR MEANING IN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS
It is very popular with less cultural people who are not under the influence of more cultural civilization. In civilized and sophisticated cultures it is not that much popular.
With Buddhists, in addition to yellow and orange, it is also popular for clothing.
Purple is the colour of Hinduism and feminism (symbolizing the right of women to power and equality with men).
Purple symbolizes bishops situation.
It is the colour of penitence and fasting before Easter and Christmas.
Violet connects the physical world (red) with the spiritual world, the sky (blue) in the magical world of mystery (purple), where completely different rules apply.
Usually kings, rulers and priests were dressed in scarlet-violet. This expensive dye could only be afforded by wealthy, due to it was produced in very small amounts out of sea-snails (Murex), so purple (scarlet) have always been associated with nobility and spiritual power.
Small children were often wrapped in violet textille, since this would bring prosperity and success to a child.
In Brazil, it is the colour of mourning.
COLOUR SHADES
Shades of violet: lilac (patience, suffering), purple (the color of kings, pride and ceremoniality), blackberry, iris, mallow, forest lavender, lilac, cyclades, plum, black currant, eggplant, scarlett...
INTERESTING COLOUR FACTS
Purple is the colour of mourning in Thailand.
Violet heart is a reward for the injured and dead soldiers.
Purple gowns represent authority and high positions.
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