Your Mood and Color
Do the colors around you have an affect on your mood?
There are countless stories on the internet about how colors can affect our moods. Is it the colors themselves, or some deep-seeded memory of those colors that evokes certain emotions? What colors affect our feelings and why?
Going mental has listed 10 different colors with descriptions as to how they supposedly affect a person's temperament. There's even one color that can have a positive or negative affect, depending upon the length of time a person is exposed to it. What colors are you often exposed to and do you believe they are affecting you the way they're described here?
Fox News Magazine paints a more elaborate picture of how color can excite, calm, or bring about feelings of happiness in a person. Imagine being able to get a more peaceful, relaxing feeling in your own home by simply changing the colors of the walls.
For those of us who are skeptical about the subject, The New York Times published an article, back in 1982, that describes color and light changes that have had positive results on the human psyche. For instance, the calming change in the behavior of troublesome youths by simply corralling them into a room that was painted a certain color. Studies on how color affects the mind started earlier than a lot of us have imagined.
There's really only one way to find out if color can affect your mood – experiment with it. Keep a journal of how you feel when exposed to a certain color. It would be an interesting study, if nothing else.
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