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WHITE colour

White is the colour of perfection. The colour of clarity and is a mixture of all three natural colours´s lenght-waves in sunlight: red, blue and green.

 

It´s meaning is purity, innocence, fullness and completion.

 

It does not encourage emotions, but opens up new paths. It is the colour of new beginnings. It awakens openness, growth and creativity, and embodies purity.

 

It is the colour of protection and incentive offers a sense of peace and tranquility, comfort and hope. It creates a sense of order and efficiency.

 

White contains balance of all colours of the spectrum, in order to represent both positive and negative characteristics of all colours.

 

It´s basic characteristic is equality, which means fairness, neutrality and independence. White offers interior cleaning, cleaning of our thoughts and emotions. It refreshes and strengthens the entire energy system.

 

Especially in Eastern cultures, white color is traditionally associated with death and mourning. In these cultures, death means the end of one and the beginning of another life.

 

Many people use white as a reminder of youth and innocence, to the times when life was easier and less complicated. It is widely used in medicine, because it is a sign of the purity and efficiency, but it can also make sense of sterility and nonemotionality.

 

Too much white is cold, isolated and empty, makes feeling of detachment and disinterest. It is clean and immaculate.

 

Positive features of white colour are: innocence, purity, equality, completeness, wholeness, simplicity, perfection, chastity.

 

Negative features of white colour include sterility, isolation, caution, criticism, boredom, emptiness.

 

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF WHITE COLOUR

White does not have much influence on us.

 

 

PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF WHITE COLOUR 

The psychological effects of white: calming, isolation, purification, cold.

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COLOUR OF SOUL

If you like to dress in white, it means that you are an individualist and a loner, preffering simple life. White reflects some energizing, balanced and optimistic character.

If you do not like white colour, it may be due to the need for making some important decision and a consequence of sharp break with the past.

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WHITE COLOUR MEANING IN ROOM/SPACE

In most cases white is the most appropriate and also most commonly used for background. It creates coolness and space. It is suitable for all areas, but it is advised to liven up white walls with paintings and plants, as too much white creates sterile, hospital-like feeling.

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WHITE COLOUR MEANING IN AURA

The man with white aura is spiritually motivated, open and receptive to God, unloaded and unworried with worldly matters. White energy indicates cosmic wisdom.

Most children have it, just like physical workers and people who meditate intensely. It rarely occurs with adults.



 

COLOUR MEANING IN FENG SHUI

White colour in Feng Shui has no specific meaning.

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COLOUR MEANING IN DREAMS

When dreaming someting white it represents purity, perfection, hope, faith, enlightenment. Coloured pearl white, can indicate the gift of prophecy.



 

COLOUR MEANING CLOTHES

Brides are wearing white to symbolize innocence and purity. Since white reflects sunlight it is suitable for summer color. In fashion it is popular because it is light and neutral. Doctors and nurses wear white to emphasize cleanliness.

 

White should be worn by people who would like to be honest, clear and receptive to new ideas. People, who would wanted to be more aware of own life and understand it better.

 

White should be avoided if it is necessary to take part in something important, or when deciding and acting fast.

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COLOUR SYMBOLISM

White symbolizes worship, purity, birth, simplicity, calmness, humility, precision, innocence, youth, winter, snow, good, sterility, coldness, hospitals.



 

COLOUR MEANING IN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS

In western cultures brides are commonly dressed in white which is derived from ancient Greece, where the temple, dedicated to the goddess Athena, was built of white marble and so it became the colour of virginity.

China, India and Korea are using white as a colour of mourning and death (as the symbol of infinity). In the western world, it was also a colour for mourning until the 16th century.

The Catholic church it symbolises light at Lord and Mary's feasts. In Evangelical church it symbolises Jesus Christ.

White got it´s name from the wheat (in english, white means white, wheat  is sort of grain, Swedish "vit" and "vete"). In other languages white is associated with gloss of light: Italian - bianco, blanc in French, Greek - leukos.

White animals are regarded as being close to God: the Holy Spirit appeared as a white dove, Christ as a white lamb. Zeus revealed himself to Europe as a white bull, white cows in India are the embodiment of light. Heron and ibis are birds of immortality in China).



 

WHITE AS SECURITY COLOUR

White is symbol for cleanliness and order. White rings in the waste baskets (trash baskets) are encouraging people to put trash into baskets. White floor and white door surface have similar influence. White lines indicate several areas for different purposes (one-way traffic, moving aruon inside working space...).

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INTERESTING COLOUR FACTS

The white flag is a symbol of peace.

Pharaohs of Egypt wore white crown.

Wedding in white dress is believed to bring luck. Therefore, it is the traditional color of wedding dresses in the Western world and Japan.

The knight in shining white armor is believed to be savior.

Old Persians believed that all gods wore white clothes.

Angels are mostly dressed in white.

White is the colour of mourning in China and in some parts of Africa. By the 16th century it was also the colour of mourning in Europe.

Whitelist (opposite to black list) contains popular things.

The ancient Greeks were dressed in white while sleeping due to dream more pleasant dreams.

White Room is usually a clean room, dust-free, temperature-controlled, meant for inhalt precise instruments.

The white feather is a symbol of coward.


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