Entertain - Perceptible - Colors

Blue,
the color of the clear sky and crystal clear sea
Part 7- The Color of the Earth
and Serene and Peaceful Life

The
blue planet, the blue sky, the crystal blue seas... Briefly
describe what this color represents for life, be it alongside
the color green… Which is a mixture of yellow and blue…
The following increase in vibration on the “scale” of light frequency (450–500 nm), chakra positioning and color, spiritual “advance”.
From the point of view of psychological “concerns”, the main characteristics of the color blue are represented by:
Calm and Peace: Blue is a calm, relaxing, and soothing color that can induce a sense of peace and relaxation, which induces a reduction in stress and anxiety, being even a color used ‘therapeutically’ in this regard.
The following increase in vibration on the “scale” of light frequency (450–500 nm), chakra positioning and color, spiritual “advance”.
From the point of view of psychological “concerns”, the main characteristics of the color blue are represented by:
Calm and Peace: Blue is a calm, relaxing, and soothing color that can induce a sense of peace and relaxation, which induces a reduction in stress and anxiety, being even a color used ‘therapeutically’ in this regard.
Trust and Security: It is
a color associated with trust, loyalty, and faithfulness, being
a color associated with the safety and protection of clear days
and calm waters, being ‘used’ to promote trust and loyalty,
safety, and protection.
Intelligence and
spirituality: Can be associated with intellect, reason, and
mental clarity, often associated with spirituality and
transcendence.
Efficiency and stability:
It can facilitate concentration and efficiency in work, being a
color associated with stability and constancy, proving to be a
color that facilitates concentration and efficiency in work,
especially the intellectual one.

Main Qualities of Vishuddha Chakra:
Communication: Vishuddha, as the throat chakra (thyroid), is associated with effective communication, self-expression, and truth.
Creativity: Rules artistic
creativity and the free expression of ideas, especially through
its influence on the expression of spirituality.
Listening: Influences the
ability to listen and understand the perspective of others.
Will: Stimulates the will
to express our truth, against the background of a capacity for
discernment, which helps the ability to choose quite
spontaneously between truth and illusion.
When the Vishuddha chakra
is balanced:
- You feel able to express yourself clearly and honestly.
- You are creative and inspired.
- You are able to listen and understand the perspective of others.
- You are strong-willed and feel confident in expressing your truth.
- You are able to discern between truth and illusion.
When the Vishuddha chakra
is out of balance:
- You feel stuck and unable to express yourself.
- You feel insecure and lack self-confidence.
- You have difficulty listening and understanding the perspective of others.
- You are prone to gossip and criticism.
- You feel confused and disoriented.
Methods of Balancing the
Vishuddha Chakra:
Meditation: Focused on practicing communication and spiritual practices related to interacting with those in one’s life to practice connection with Vishuddha.
Meditation: Focused on practicing communication and spiritual practices related to interacting with those in one’s life to practice connection with Vishuddha.
Yoga: Practicing positions
that focus on the neck (thyroid) area to relieve tensions that
have arisen from communication or the lack of it.
Positive Affirmations:
Focused on developing the balance of manifestation in
communication and increasing spiritual stability, with
additional concerns in emotional stability.
Spending time in nature:
For Vishuddha, it is perhaps the most important balancing
concern for the stability of... The heart… The closest energy
center that will make the first effort to balance between the
“earthly” chakras (below the heart) and the spiritual ones
(higher at the top of the heart.) And, “hint”, breathing
exercises, singing, and, in fact, any artistic expression, help
more than you imagine.
Interpretation of the “preference” for the color blue
It is also associated with surprise, unhappiness, sadness, depression, and coldness (as it is a cold color and especially when its color tone darkens), even though people who prefer it cannot live in solitude despite careful consideration of the movement of each individual in their life.
In short, it is the color of those who live emotionally at high altitudes, even with the danger of reaching obsession, everything depending on the “offers” of the environment in which they live.
It is the representative color of calmness and loyalty. Therefore, the more pleasant this color means that we are dealing with sensitive and easily hurt people who never panic and who have maximum control over their own lives and the elements that interfere with it, regardless of the road chosen or the difficulties that encounter them (it can be said that there are people who are satisfied with what they live, who agree with what would be fate).
The basic intentions will be grouped around the desire to lead one’s own life without difficulties and denote a particularly great capacity for sacrifice, necessary to achieve the proposed objectives.
Such a person needs to establish relations with his peers without the possibility of a conflict arising or existing. Such people, as a side effect of contentment, have to take care of their weight (both concerning the physical and the manifestations towards those around them).
In "contradiction," the less pleasant the blue color is, the more it means that we are dealing with an unsatisfied individual who is more willing to do something to get out of the situation in which he finds himself, which creates restrictions regardless of the direction from which these come, family, friends, or jobs. In addition, it can be stated that this individual tends to suffer in silence and wishes to have time only for activity/action.

And all this because blue is considered to be the deepest color, the gaze penetrating it without encountering any obstacle, wandering in the boundless as if the color is always trying to escape.
Giving birth to this sensation, it was not difficult to arrive at the name “the most immaterial of colors," especially since nature does not present it to perception except as made up of transparency, of an accumulated vacuum of air, water, crystal, or diamond.
What is to be done when one realizes that this void is not delimited by “lack” but is a precise mechanism, with well-defined laws? Interpretations related to mechanism and precision are reached, with blue becoming the color of pure and cold precision.
Perhaps that is why it is considered to be the coldest of colors, becoming the undisputed symbol for "cold.”.
The apparent lack of consistency of this color means that, once it is applied to a surface, it gives rise to the feeling that there is no more surface, unburdening or simply evaporating the forms, opening them to an immaterial, boundless vision.
One can go as far as the perception that even the sounds disappear in the blue surface. Movements become the reason for the “initiation” of visions, of unleashing the imagination, losing their consistency under the embrace of the blue color and the sounds become our whispers.
The “cultural — historical” interpretation (the
starting point of considerations)
Perhaps, this is where
the interpretations related to the “blue bird of happiness”
start, the most accessible but also the most difficult to reach.
All
these perceptions will make the color blue a symbol of dreaming
and creativity, of curiosity and methodism, through the
“climate” of unreality or surreality that gives birth to it,
against the background of a state of intuitive, imperceptible
movement that pushes everything towards a solution in itself of
all the contradictions and alternations that rhythm human life
or the aspirations arising from it.
He comes to be perceived as unreal of the present in everything that can surround us, suggesting the idea of a quiet and dry eternity, easy to “send” into the superhuman.
Most of the time, blue “masks” the elements “placed” in its direction so well that it can be easily assimilated to human egocentric tendencies, to the desire to permanently overcome existing or future “milestones”, in a directed movement, which draws man towards the infinite and awakens in him the desire for purity and the thirst for the supernatural.
From a clinical point of view, one could not lose sight of the calming, soothing effect of the color blue, an effect that, unlike the color green, does not have toning but purely “calming” results, because it only allows escaping, unrelated to reality, a release that, with time, becomes depressing.
Green gives rise to the impression of earthly rest, of self-satisfaction, while blue, through its depth, gives birth to a solemn, unearthly gravity, which most often speculates on our needs to be led (that’s why it is not one of our favorite colors or preferable for aggressive, impulsive individuals).
The “gravity” of the color blue has been perceived since ancient times, with the Egyptians using it to remind us of death.
The blue color was used as a background for other suggestive elements, such as the drawings in reddish ocher specific to the representation of the judgment of souls.
This “use” of the blue color was also based on the belief that this color is the color of truth, it has a “heavenly”, sacred value, representing the threshold that separates people from those who govern them, from the fate of people as well as from the world beyond.
Moreover,
for many people, the association of the color blue with various
other colors has the role of preparing a presentation of the
battles, and rivalries between heaven and earth. In the endless
Asian steppe, where no vertical line “interrupts” the view,
heaven, and earth have always been face to face, their wedding
giving birth to all the heroes of the steppe.
One can remember here Genghis Khan, the founder of the great Mongolian dynasty, who was born from the blue wolf and the red deer. The blue wolf is also Er Toshtuk, a hero of the Kyrgyz gesture, who wears blue armor and weapons (remember that blue lions and tigers abound in Asian literature and legends).
Some analysts have gone so far as to associate the permanent “contact” between blue and red when it is intended to present the permanent confrontation between heaven and earth with the idea of political colors that have always faced each other for world dominance (on a larger or smaller scale).
Like the Egyptians, the ancient Europeans associated the color blue (azure) with the Champs-Élysées. Joining this color with the golden one gave birth to the matrix representing the will as well as the divine power.
Christian symbolism considers the blue color of the heavenly vault to be the mantle that covers and hides the divinity. Moreover, Zeus and Yahweh are enthroned with their feet placed on the azure color, that is, on the other side of the heavenly vault, which, in Mesopotamia, was said to be made of lapis lazuli.
The delimitation of deity, or “belonging to God,” also used other “alloys” of colors. Thus, the combination of blue and white was almost always used to represent the Holy Virgin.
White—blue now expresses the detachment from the values of the earthly world and the ascension of the soul freed from the flesh, towards God, that is, towards the gold that will meet the virginal white, during its ascent through the heavenly blue.
It goes as far as delimiting a valorization related to the “afterlife or reincarnation through belief in the world beyond due to the association of the divine blue with the white mortuary (or vice versa) or, simply, through the transition of the “imprisoned” to white through the blue mantle of the border between the earthly and the divine.
In a direct relationship with Virgo, one can “identify” the association of the color blue with its zodiac symbol. The “period” of the Virgin is identical to the peak of nature and the beginning of its autumnal involution (starting both from the elements of nature and agricultural customs and practices).
This makes the sign of the virgin a centripetal symbol, like the color blue, which will strip the earth of its green coat, which will strip it and dry it up. It is the time of the feast of the Assumption of the Mother of God, under a cloudless sky, in which the solar gold becomes relentless fire and devours the fruits of the earth.
A
direct association between the color blue and the sun is also
found among the ancient Aztecs. For them, the blue of the sky,
the blue of Perugia, is the color of the sun, which they call
the “Prince of Perugia” — Chalchiuitl. He heralds scorching,
drought, famine, and death.
Chalchiuitl is also the perusea stone (blue-green) that adorned the dress of the goddess of renewal. This is where the Aztec custom related to princes’ funerals of placing a peruse stone in place of the heart was born (a custom similar to that of the Egyptians, who, before mummification, placed an emerald scarab in place of the pharaoh’s heart).
We must not forget the custom of making sacrifices for their gods among the populations of the Latin American area, Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs, Toltecs, etc.! Those who were to be sacrificed for the propitiation of their various gods were marked by painting the body predominantly blue, thus symbolizing their status as messengers to the gods and not as victims, a status that would bring the reward of the sacrificial effort to an earthly, perceptible level.
Thus, at least for the mentioned populations, the blue color becomes a symbol of the direct connection with the sky, with the deities present there, becoming a kind of localization of intentions in the abyss and the power of the boundless, a kind of anchor in the realities and immediate needs, placed much higher than the value of human lives.
One of the most famous “uses” of the blue color is the coat of arms of the royal house of France, azure with three golden lily flowers, precisely in the idea of proclaiming the theogonic, extraterrestrial origin of the Pre-Christian Kings.
Also here, in France, the term “blue blood” was born, which was identified with the noble, chosen, divine origin... Although the “appearance” of the term “blue blood” is quite tendentious.
In the transitional period between the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages, the papacy forbade the use of God’s name in “blasphemy” and, for the uninitiated, the papacy was "strengthened,” especially in France and through the “Carolingians” and not at the Vatican or Rome.
So, the first ban was applied at the “level” of France, and the “use of God’s name” in "vain," in “speeches” like “In the name of God," “On the blood of God” (in French, “Au nom de Dieu “, “Sur le sang de Dieu"), and similar, were transformed by phonetic “substitution” (Dieu in Bleu) into “Au nom de Bleu”, “Sur le sang de Bleu”.
Thus, the "poor," hearing such “speeches” very often, ironically launched the idea that the nobles and their “proxies” are "blue-blooded."
Let’s
go back to the true blue color, the closest to absolute
nobility, and leave the confusion about upstarts to fate!
According to Hindu tradition, the sapphire face of Mount Meru — the southern one — reflects light and colors the atmosphere blue. One comes to identify the blue color with boundless, infinite power, “desiring” to be touched, at least by owning a sapphire stone (which becomes a royal precious stone that will symbolize full power).
The ancient Jews came to identify the blue color with infinite power which, for them, represents immortality — the place of immortality is also called the “Blue City”.
In Tibetan Buddhism, blue is the color of Valrocana, of transcendent wisdom, of potentiality, and, at the same time, of emptiness, whose possible image is that of the immensity of the blue sky.
The blue light of the Wisdom of Dharmadhatu (primordial law or consciousness) has a blinding power that opens the way to Liberation, the way to it being the way to and through heaven.
Blue is also the color of Yang and of the Dragon, of beneficent influences. The assimilation of the blue color with immortality can also be found in them, Huang (blue) being the color of the sky, the abode of immortality.
Celtic languages do not have a specific term for the color blue.
“Glas” in Breton, Welsh, and Irish means blue, green, and even grey, depending on the context, the exact delimitation being made only if it is indispensable.
Incidentally, “Glesum” is the Latinized Celtic name for grey amber. That’s why this color is assimilated in these populations with the third function, the productive and artisanal one, with functional values similar to the red and white colors, of social delimitation.
That is why Breton women appeared at religious ceremonies naked, with their bodies painted blue. It seems that these women were unmarried because, in some countries (currently only in Poland), houses with marriageable girls were painted blue to signify ritual availability.
The blue color also has a negative interpretation, especially at the level of the popular masses. There is a symbolism in the blue color related to the sublimation of desires, lack, ablation, and loss.
Uncontrollable
fear becomes a “blue fear”, and “I see blue” becomes the
description of the impossibility of visually locating something
against the background of fears, pain, etc., reaching the
description of the state of unconsciousness or prolonged
suffering that goes up to the description or identification with
the masochistic individual.
For these reasons, the color blue is often used to symbolize passivity and renunciation. For some, these manifestations are reduced to the supreme sacrifice of will, of necessity, for others, it reach the divine delimitation, of fate through the symbolic use of the blue color.
So, almost all shades of blue are good for our public display, those who wear clothes in this combination are people who can be trusted. It is the color of those who struggle to improve themselves, who want to change for the better, and who are eager to help or be helped.
They are introverted threads that are very well suited for research activities or social causes.
However, being too sincere, even if their nature is innocent, they will have many enemies/adversaries and are very prone to failures in friendships or love.
Moreover, the color blue is also the symbol of hidden love, being characterized by “intervention” in the depth of feelings and emotions.
From an “intimate” point of view, this color is declared to be the color of the intellect. From the “shade” peculiarities of this color, we can mention:
1. pure blue is characteristic of the beginning of spiritual contact,
2. light blue suggests the thirst for knowledge, but also the need for rest and relaxation,
3. electric blue is the color that a person declares satisfied with his existing level of knowledge or wants to refine and increase their applicability, considering himself to be a suitable color for the man available to participate in something, especially when needed (which is why it is considered to be a very good color for orators, attracting the audience);
4. pale blue is the color of dreamers, creative artists, who are rarely concerned with material things and states, and
5. dark blue delimits people dissatisfied with the actions of those around them and directs participants in their intentions or applications.

He comes to be perceived as unreal of the present in everything that can surround us, suggesting the idea of a quiet and dry eternity, easy to “send” into the superhuman.
Most of the time, blue “masks” the elements “placed” in its direction so well that it can be easily assimilated to human egocentric tendencies, to the desire to permanently overcome existing or future “milestones”, in a directed movement, which draws man towards the infinite and awakens in him the desire for purity and the thirst for the supernatural.
From a clinical point of view, one could not lose sight of the calming, soothing effect of the color blue, an effect that, unlike the color green, does not have toning but purely “calming” results, because it only allows escaping, unrelated to reality, a release that, with time, becomes depressing.
Green gives rise to the impression of earthly rest, of self-satisfaction, while blue, through its depth, gives birth to a solemn, unearthly gravity, which most often speculates on our needs to be led (that’s why it is not one of our favorite colors or preferable for aggressive, impulsive individuals).
The “gravity” of the color blue has been perceived since ancient times, with the Egyptians using it to remind us of death.
The blue color was used as a background for other suggestive elements, such as the drawings in reddish ocher specific to the representation of the judgment of souls.
This “use” of the blue color was also based on the belief that this color is the color of truth, it has a “heavenly”, sacred value, representing the threshold that separates people from those who govern them, from the fate of people as well as from the world beyond.

One can remember here Genghis Khan, the founder of the great Mongolian dynasty, who was born from the blue wolf and the red deer. The blue wolf is also Er Toshtuk, a hero of the Kyrgyz gesture, who wears blue armor and weapons (remember that blue lions and tigers abound in Asian literature and legends).
Some analysts have gone so far as to associate the permanent “contact” between blue and red when it is intended to present the permanent confrontation between heaven and earth with the idea of political colors that have always faced each other for world dominance (on a larger or smaller scale).
Like the Egyptians, the ancient Europeans associated the color blue (azure) with the Champs-Élysées. Joining this color with the golden one gave birth to the matrix representing the will as well as the divine power.
Christian symbolism considers the blue color of the heavenly vault to be the mantle that covers and hides the divinity. Moreover, Zeus and Yahweh are enthroned with their feet placed on the azure color, that is, on the other side of the heavenly vault, which, in Mesopotamia, was said to be made of lapis lazuli.
The delimitation of deity, or “belonging to God,” also used other “alloys” of colors. Thus, the combination of blue and white was almost always used to represent the Holy Virgin.
White—blue now expresses the detachment from the values of the earthly world and the ascension of the soul freed from the flesh, towards God, that is, towards the gold that will meet the virginal white, during its ascent through the heavenly blue.
It goes as far as delimiting a valorization related to the “afterlife or reincarnation through belief in the world beyond due to the association of the divine blue with the white mortuary (or vice versa) or, simply, through the transition of the “imprisoned” to white through the blue mantle of the border between the earthly and the divine.
In a direct relationship with Virgo, one can “identify” the association of the color blue with its zodiac symbol. The “period” of the Virgin is identical to the peak of nature and the beginning of its autumnal involution (starting both from the elements of nature and agricultural customs and practices).
This makes the sign of the virgin a centripetal symbol, like the color blue, which will strip the earth of its green coat, which will strip it and dry it up. It is the time of the feast of the Assumption of the Mother of God, under a cloudless sky, in which the solar gold becomes relentless fire and devours the fruits of the earth.

Chalchiuitl is also the perusea stone (blue-green) that adorned the dress of the goddess of renewal. This is where the Aztec custom related to princes’ funerals of placing a peruse stone in place of the heart was born (a custom similar to that of the Egyptians, who, before mummification, placed an emerald scarab in place of the pharaoh’s heart).
We must not forget the custom of making sacrifices for their gods among the populations of the Latin American area, Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs, Toltecs, etc.! Those who were to be sacrificed for the propitiation of their various gods were marked by painting the body predominantly blue, thus symbolizing their status as messengers to the gods and not as victims, a status that would bring the reward of the sacrificial effort to an earthly, perceptible level.
Thus, at least for the mentioned populations, the blue color becomes a symbol of the direct connection with the sky, with the deities present there, becoming a kind of localization of intentions in the abyss and the power of the boundless, a kind of anchor in the realities and immediate needs, placed much higher than the value of human lives.
One of the most famous “uses” of the blue color is the coat of arms of the royal house of France, azure with three golden lily flowers, precisely in the idea of proclaiming the theogonic, extraterrestrial origin of the Pre-Christian Kings.
Also here, in France, the term “blue blood” was born, which was identified with the noble, chosen, divine origin... Although the “appearance” of the term “blue blood” is quite tendentious.
In the transitional period between the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages, the papacy forbade the use of God’s name in “blasphemy” and, for the uninitiated, the papacy was "strengthened,” especially in France and through the “Carolingians” and not at the Vatican or Rome.
So, the first ban was applied at the “level” of France, and the “use of God’s name” in "vain," in “speeches” like “In the name of God," “On the blood of God” (in French, “Au nom de Dieu “, “Sur le sang de Dieu"), and similar, were transformed by phonetic “substitution” (Dieu in Bleu) into “Au nom de Bleu”, “Sur le sang de Bleu”.
Thus, the "poor," hearing such “speeches” very often, ironically launched the idea that the nobles and their “proxies” are "blue-blooded."

According to Hindu tradition, the sapphire face of Mount Meru — the southern one — reflects light and colors the atmosphere blue. One comes to identify the blue color with boundless, infinite power, “desiring” to be touched, at least by owning a sapphire stone (which becomes a royal precious stone that will symbolize full power).
The ancient Jews came to identify the blue color with infinite power which, for them, represents immortality — the place of immortality is also called the “Blue City”.
In Tibetan Buddhism, blue is the color of Valrocana, of transcendent wisdom, of potentiality, and, at the same time, of emptiness, whose possible image is that of the immensity of the blue sky.
The blue light of the Wisdom of Dharmadhatu (primordial law or consciousness) has a blinding power that opens the way to Liberation, the way to it being the way to and through heaven.
Blue is also the color of Yang and of the Dragon, of beneficent influences. The assimilation of the blue color with immortality can also be found in them, Huang (blue) being the color of the sky, the abode of immortality.
Celtic languages do not have a specific term for the color blue.
“Glas” in Breton, Welsh, and Irish means blue, green, and even grey, depending on the context, the exact delimitation being made only if it is indispensable.
Incidentally, “Glesum” is the Latinized Celtic name for grey amber. That’s why this color is assimilated in these populations with the third function, the productive and artisanal one, with functional values similar to the red and white colors, of social delimitation.
That is why Breton women appeared at religious ceremonies naked, with their bodies painted blue. It seems that these women were unmarried because, in some countries (currently only in Poland), houses with marriageable girls were painted blue to signify ritual availability.
The blue color also has a negative interpretation, especially at the level of the popular masses. There is a symbolism in the blue color related to the sublimation of desires, lack, ablation, and loss.

For these reasons, the color blue is often used to symbolize passivity and renunciation. For some, these manifestations are reduced to the supreme sacrifice of will, of necessity, for others, it reach the divine delimitation, of fate through the symbolic use of the blue color.
So, almost all shades of blue are good for our public display, those who wear clothes in this combination are people who can be trusted. It is the color of those who struggle to improve themselves, who want to change for the better, and who are eager to help or be helped.
They are introverted threads that are very well suited for research activities or social causes.
However, being too sincere, even if their nature is innocent, they will have many enemies/adversaries and are very prone to failures in friendships or love.
Moreover, the color blue is also the symbol of hidden love, being characterized by “intervention” in the depth of feelings and emotions.
From an “intimate” point of view, this color is declared to be the color of the intellect. From the “shade” peculiarities of this color, we can mention:
1. pure blue is characteristic of the beginning of spiritual contact,
2. light blue suggests the thirst for knowledge, but also the need for rest and relaxation,
3. electric blue is the color that a person declares satisfied with his existing level of knowledge or wants to refine and increase their applicability, considering himself to be a suitable color for the man available to participate in something, especially when needed (which is why it is considered to be a very good color for orators, attracting the audience);
4. pale blue is the color of dreamers, creative artists, who are rarely concerned with material things and states, and
5. dark blue delimits people dissatisfied with the actions of those around them and directs participants in their intentions or applications.
Practical
interpretation — neuromarketing
Trust: Evokes feelings of trust, security, and loyalty.
Peace: Symbolizes peace, tranquility, and serenity.
Stability: It is associated with stability, security, and control.
Intelligence: It is associated with intellect, wisdom, and knowledge.
Calm: Inspires a sense of calm and relaxation.
From a psychological, as well as a “marketing” point of view, the color blue can reduce stress and anxiety, create a sense of calm and relaxation, boost focus and productivity, improve mood and reduce fatigue, and inspire confidence and security.
Perhaps for these reasons, blue is a color frequently used in marketing to create an atmosphere of trust and safety, to promote products and services related to security, stability, and professionalism, to evoke feelings of calm and relaxation, and to attract attention and create a strong visual impact (especially more intense shades).
That’s why the logos of many financial companies, airlines, technology brands, and social networks use blue.
Blue is frequently used in marketing campaigns to evoke feelings of trust, safety, and calm.
And electronics and home appliance stores often use blue to create an atmosphere of professionalism and stability.
Another thing! Although blue has many positive connotations, it is important to use it sparingly, too much blue can be cold and impersonal.
Merticaru Dorin Nicolae
Note: Images are created
by me, Merticaru Dorin Nicolae, using Microsoft Bing Image
Creator.
Dorin, Merticaru
(02.03, 2002 - 2024)