The Color Green - Tranquility and Harmony

Originally published by Randy on BoomersKnowHow.com

Choose the Mood—Selecting Colors for Your Home and Office

Colors cause an emotional response, impact mood, and even have healing powers.

Carefully choosing paint, wall hangings, and accessories based on color characteristics will help you create exactly the mood you desire for any room in your home or office.

In this series, Boomers Know How will look at what colors mean, and how various colors influence our lives.

Part Four: The Color Green – Tranquility, Harmony

The color green brings a sense of tranquility and peace, balance and harmony. We see green spaces as sanctuaries of wellbeing.

Green in our environment has the power to relax us both mentally and physically by calming our emotions.

Green is the color of healing; green surroundings help alleviate depression, nervousness, and anxiety.

Green is the most prominent color in nature thus symbolizing renewal, spring and growth.

Green is believed to be the most restful color for the human eye.

Green is also the color of prosperity and abundance. Green implies stability and endurance.

Introduce the color green into your home where you want:

- To create a tranquil, peaceful environment
- To promote calmness and emotional balance
- To build a feeling of renewal and anticipation
- To surround yourself with a sense of wellbeing

In work environments green:

- Can imply prosperity and success
- Creates a sense of stability and trustworthiness
- Promotes decision making through calm, clear thinking
- Conveys compassion
- Is a nurturing color for growing relationships

Take a moment to look at the green in the image used to illustrate this article. How does it make you feel? Use you reactions and feelings as a guideline to where and when you use the color green.

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