Spiritual Meaning Of Colors: Yellow
Yellow: Yellow is the color of maximum brightness and luminosity, illuminating all that it touches. Yellow, the color of sunshine, produces a warming effect. The color yellow represents joy, energy, intellectual awareness, creativity, and a synthesis of new ideas and optimism. It alleviates some emotional problems, especially when the emotions become entangled around an obsessive thought. It helps to correct negative tendencies and habits in the thought processes, and brings harmony to obsessive thoughts. It is a good color to use when trying to work with and change negative parts of the personality, as yellow is optimistic, bringing more positive outlooks in the mental attitude.
Psychologist Max Luscher, in Color Test: The Remarkable Test That Reveals Your Personality Through Color (1969) believes bright yellow represents “Spontaneity” and is eccentric, active, projective, heteronomous, expansive, aspiring, and investigatory. Its affective aspects are variability, expectancy, originality, and exhilaration. “Yellow’s principal characteristics are its brightness, its reflectivity, its radiant quality and its non-substantial cheerfulness. Yellow expresses uninhibited expansiveness, a loosening or relaxation.” Hindus wear the color yellow to celebrate the festival of spring. Giving a yellow rose shows friendship, joy, and the promise of a new start. Yellow is the color of the air element.
It is also a banisher of fears and insecurities, chasing away self doubt and fear of change. It stimulates the mental faculties and logical thought processes, so anything that is illogical or unreasonable, as in unseen fears, is done away with. It is a wonderful color for manifestation in the physical world, giving illumination to the mysteries of the mind. Yellow also stimulates the absorption abilities of the mind, causing the mind to work like a sponge, absorbing information and input more easily.
In Egypt yellow is the color of mourning, while in Spain executioners, wore yellow in the past. In nature however, yellow can mean warning. According to Richard Cavendish, editor in chief of Man Myth And Magic, Vol 2 (1985), yellow represents intellect and trickery. This color can be used to evoke uplifting feelings and clear a foggy head but when overused yellow has a negative effect on emotions (www.globalpsychics.com).
In the aura, people who glow yellow are full of inner joy. Yellow is the color of the Solar Plexus Chakra. These people are not tied down to anything and tend to be very generous. A yellow aura or halo around the head is symbolic of a spiritual teacher (www.thiaoouba.com/see_aura_color.htm) It is not unusual to see pictures of Jesus and other “holy” people depicted with a yellow halo.
To holistic healers, yellow is the color of peace. (www.factmonster.com) Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states yellow “is stimulating to the mental faculties of the individual. It can be useful for depression. It helps re-awaken an enthusiasm for life. It can be used to awaken greater confidence and optimism. It can be used for digestion problems” including the stomach, intestines, bladder, and entire gastrointestinal tract. Yellow can assists in the healing of abdominal cramps, alcoholism, loss of appetite, burping, indigestion, kidneys, and liver. The gemstones that represent yellow are citrine, amber, and topaz. According to www.crystal-cure.com, “For healing, these stones are said to aid in the treatment of diabetes and constipation. They can also be used to neutralize a haggard or a fat condition.”
Sulfur: Sulfur represents pain and anger, or hardship.
Lemon: Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, “Lemon is vitalizing and stimulating to the brain. It contains a shade of green within its spectrum, and this works as a cleanser. Lemon assists in bringing toxins to the surface so they can be cleansed out,” and is good for tissues and bones. Lemon yellow assists in healing abdominal cramps, loss of appetite, bones, burping, eczema, indigestion, rashes, and other skin problems.
Yellow-Orange: Yellow-orange can assist in the healing of the bladder, bowels, and kidneys.