The Colour Yellow
The colour yellow is the colour of the sun, warmth, optimism and energy. Yellow is the colour of intellect, containing within itself the power of transformation. It is like a path from the unconscious to the conscious.
The symbolic significance of the colour, its psychological effect on people.
The colour yellow is the colour of the sun, warmth, optimism and energy. Yellow is the colour of intellect, containing within itself the power of transformation. It is like a path from the unconscious to the conscious. This colour helps a person to understand and to attain both spiritual and material values. It is a very active and creative colour that helps to concentrate strength and attention in the desired direction, so that a goal can be reached.
In colour psychology the colour yellow indicates a striving for independence and an expansion of the perceptual horizon. This colour attests to a person's desire to find the meaning of life and to expand the sphere of communication. This colour is particularly recommended for people who find it difficult to start a conversation, to express themselves and to make contacts. It develops sociability.
Eižens Laube has asserted that the colour yellow expresses great joy, vitality and sunshine, but a murky yellow mythologically signifies jealousy, envy, infidelity and strife. Therefore, when speaking of colours, one must always take into account whether we are speaking of a light, pure spectral tone or a mixed and murky one. According to Edwin Babbitt's theory of colour and light, pure yellow is beneficial and healing. It activates the nervous system and brain activity. The colour yellow is also called the colour of intellect, as it promotes intellectual development.
Babbitt considers that the colour yellow is the brightest in the spectrum and contains dynamism within itself. It is like a key colour for our nervous system, as it activates it. This colour stimulates the lymphatic, circulatory and digestive systems. It particularly stimulates the functioning of the pancreas and intestines.
The positive manifestations of the colour yellow are agility, quick-wittedness and joy, originality, enterprise, honesty and self-confidence. The colour yellow has many different nuances and shades, but its maximally positive manifestation is only in pure yellow (spectral). As soon as the colour yellow is mixed with brownish-grey, greenish-grey or black, yellow becomes murky and acquires a negative tinge. Such tones are associated with lamentation, complaints, dissatisfaction and infidelity. People under the influence of such tones feel unloved and unhappy. Such colour nuances are associated with digestive disorders and problems in personal life.
It cleanses and renews the vital forces of the organism, helps well in the treatment of depression, and also restores belief in one's own strengths. A dull, murky yellow contains very many negative aspects - for example, it inclines toward sarcasm, infidelity, condemnation and betrayal. In the Middle Ages murky yellow was like a stamp, and clothing of this colour was made to be worn by traitors and prostitutes. In its negative aspect the colour yellow is like a fanatic, convinced of their mission and the establishment of order.
Yellow is the first colour distinguished by newborns. Bright yellow lemon-colour is the most dazzling of all colours and the most tiring if looked at for a longer time. The colour yellow is the most cheering when viewed with a glance. It has been established that couples argue most frequently and children cry most often in lemon-yellow rooms.
Pure yellow symbolises the mind, wisdom and the ability to resolve problems. It activates positive thinking and intuition. A person can gain the positive influence of the colour yellow through yellow light, by being in a yellow interior, wearing bright yellow clothing, or observing yellow flowers.
Statistics show that collisions with yellow cars occur less frequently. Yellow is a joyful, cheerful and uplifting colour. It is associated with the intellectual side of the mind, expression of thoughts - it increases quick-wittedness, the ability to distinguish mental objects, improves memory and the ability to think clearly. The presence of this colour strengthens the ability to make decisions and draw correct conclusions, as well as to assimilate new ideas and evaluate various viewpoints. It increases confidence in one's own abilities and optimism. A toxic yellow, in turn, tends to denote fear.
The colour yellow is bright, lively and energetic. It refreshes spaces and stimulates toward happiness and creative work, making it suited not only to the living room but also to the kitchen and dining room. Cream yellow enlivens the bedroom and study without creating an overcrowded effect.
According to the views of American psychotherapist M. Erickson, colour visualisation is of particular importance. If a person imagines colour backgrounds, forms and objects, various images in their imagination, these imaginative stimuli operate far more powerfully than real ones.
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