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COLOR: The Unspoken Language
Understanding………YELLOW
By Sheri Miller AIFD, sheri@espritdefleur.com
If your favorite color is yellow, you may be a person who likes being a leader or in a position of control. Yellow is a primary color associated with the mind. It is “sunny” and the lightest of the warm spectrum colors. It brings hope and reassures us everything will be fine. It promotes joy: think of a sunny Sunflower. Yellow is about newness, radiance, cheerfulness, gaiety, and brightness. This color is open-minded and inspiring. It glows and illuminates while representing knowledge and wisdom. Yellow stimulates the intellect and curiosity, while reason and logic flow through it. Yellow is the color of the scientist, researcher or anyone who needs to concentrate. Intellectual discrimination, decisiveness and discernment emanate from yellow. It is associated with the speed of thought and fast
decision making. My office is sunflower yellow! This warm, healing color evokes confidence and trust. It is an alert color. It is swift, focused, honest adaptable and witty. Yellow helps to accurately assess the realities in one’s life.
If you are unsure of your next action, wear or surround yourself with yellow to help focus. A lack of communication may be addressed with yellow. You could wear yellow while speaking to a group where communication is important. Surrounding oneself with yellow can cheer up a person and dissipate feelings of loneliness. People with SAD, Season Affective Disorder, may benefit from more yellow in their lives. The physical effects of yellow strengthen the nervous systems and muscles (including the heart) creating better circulation. Yellow stimulates the liver, spleen, and pancreas/stomach.
If you feel you need yellow, what about eating yellow foods? Choose foods you are not allergic or sensitive to. Yellow foods can be cleansing and can detoxify the body – especially the liver, gall bladder, pancreas and spleen. Yellow foods can boost the nervous system and stimulate the brain, A few yellow foods are lemons, grapefruit, bananas, pineapples, corn, yellow lentils, and yellow bell peppers. It is believed eating yellow foods releases inner tensions and releases despondency.
In Feng Shui, yellow relates to the earth and holds the central point. It promotes health, wellness and order. A yellow rug or feature at the center of your home will promote wellbeing while helping to restore order to your life.
In Color Therapy, yellow is used to remove toxins and stimulate the flow of gastric juices. Hormonal problems can be eased with yellow light, yellow clothing, or surrounding oneself with yellow color. Many color therapists use yellow to treat diabetes, rheumatism, and eating disorders.
As a florist, yellow flowers are appropriate for many floral needs ranging from a beautiful, outdoor summer wedding to helping a depressed person feel happier and more hopeful. Sending Monochromatic (one color) yellow floral designs can be appropriate for hospital or single deliveries, cheer-up a friend or relative, home dinner party centerpieces or event luncheons/dinners, corporate functions (depending on the company and industry), weddings, birthday parties and on and on. Think of how beautiful fresh yellow flowers would be on soft creamy golden linens. A few yellow flowers are: sunflowers, yellow roses, tulips, salidago, carnations, mums, calla lilies, stock, snapdragons, ranuculus, orchids. Lilies, gerberas, freesia, eremerus, dahlia, and daffodil.
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