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Color is so taken for granted that even though people revel in its beauty they tend to overlook it just as they do when hearing a bird singing outdoors. It is a wonderful part of life that people have come to expect should always remain.
Funeral dress is traditionally black. A chaste new bride wears white in her wedding. Some years ago, brides that were not quite as chaste wore beige. Newborn boys have blue as their color and girls are pretty in pink. A person who has a green thumb is generally envisioned as one who can grow anything.
Color influences our lives in many ways.
Sight, of course, is enhanced by color and would be much less enjoyable without it.
Some colors have been found to help in certain areas of physical life. For example, pink helps soothe anger. Some prisons use a pink room for calming down prisoners. After about 20 minutes in such a room, inmates who were angry are more docile.
Doctors' offices generally use mauve and aqua colors. (And since they always seem to be running late, they usually don't put a clock on the wall.)
In older hospitals, green was considered the color of healing and is still found in some hospitals today. When you think of green you think of trees or, in a broader sense, of nature. Nature is healing.
Color is alive and has spirit, just as everything in the universe does. As a tangible entity, it can be seen and felt. Each color has meaning attached to it and determined by the person observing the color.
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