color theory

here's a snipet from about.com about the psychology of colour. i've always been interested in this topic, and here i have a chance to collect information about it and share it with others (?) if indeed you are out there! as always, all input is not only welcome but encouraged!

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Color Psychology as Therapy

Several ancient cultures, including the Egyptians and Chinese, practiced chromotherapy, or using colors to heal. Chromotherapy is sometimes referred to as light therapy or colourology and is still used today as a holistic or alternative treatment.

In this treatment:

• Red was used to stimulate the body and mind and to increase circulation.


• Yellow was thought to stimulate the nerves and purify the body.


• Orange was used to heal the lungs and to increase energy levels.


• Blue was believed to soothe illnesses and treat pain.


• Indigo shades were thought to alleviate skin problems.

Most psychologists view color therapy with skepticism and point out that the supposed effects of color have been exaggerated. Colors also have have different meanings in different cultures. Research has demonstrated in many cases that the mood-altering effects of color may only be temporary. A blue room may initially cause feelings of calm, but the effect will be dissipate after a short period of time.

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Saturday September 9, 2006

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vade mecum \vay-dee-MEE-kuhm; vah-dee-MAY-\, noun:
1. A book for ready reference; a manual; a handbook.
2. A useful thing that one regularly carries about.

The reader who wants honestly to understand it, and not merely read into it his own ideas, needs some kind of vade mecum to provide the necessary background and explain unfamiliar words and allusions and strange turns of thought.
-- Robert C. Dentan, "Including Uz and Buz", New York Times, November 17, 1968

Roget's Thesaurus, which had come into being as a linguistic example of the Platonic ideal, became instead a vade mecum for the crossword cheat.
-- Simon Winchester, "Word Imperfect", The Atlantic, May 2001

Vade mecum is from Latin, literally meaning "go with me."

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for vade mecum

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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- ee cummings

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei

The one thing that matters is the effort.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery. French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944 "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." - Jules Renard