The colours of thinking
Reddish colours together with green lead to good quality objectivity
Blue has been the traditional colour of thiking, so people turn to the atmosphere of blue when they seek to increase their ability to objectivity. But that is all wrong: the blue colour is cold and distances the person from the level of actual percetions. Blue is the rest colour of an emotional thinker, that is why it is commonly connected with objectivity, I guess. In any case, thinking consists of perceptions of what the world is like. So the base of thinking is in correct observations made by the senses, that is the ground and the building material of all our thinking. From those perceptions we know what the world is like, and we can unifie them to a picture of the whole world by our ability to observe – based on our experience of life – what are the common features that stay unchanged from situation to situation. For example all people need food and they guide their actions with the help of their own understanding, even though often social and emotional things matter a lot.
So what is the colour of accurate sure perceptions about the world? For a holistic view of the world which you need to form in your mind (here live I, there is the street, there the food shop that I visit daily, there the river and the houses where my friends live with huge trees growing in the garden,… A picture of the whole world in this way, of all that you know: placing things to a map of the world, where you can zoom in and out, you get easily and naturally the best possible holistic view of the world!), the colour of observing that holistic view in your mind is the colour for observing a landscape with lively eyes: GREEN!
For making accurate observations in your daily life in order to add them to your picture of the world, to understand those sides of life better, you need vivid eyes, alive in the middle of the action. That is the colour of energetic movement with all the senses open to receive life: ORANGE. This must be one of the major aims of the ancient Buddhist in choosing the orange colour to symbolise Buddhism: if you keep your eyes open, you will learn at least something about the things that you meet in your life. And so you will be able to guide your life better: to live a happier life!
For understanding what the things in your life mean to life, to your own life and to others as well as to the world at large: how they affect your living environment which determines your chances in life, you need feelings: feelings about your own life, compassion toward others and feelings about the living environment and the ways of living (= feelings about the nature, moral and ideals at least). Feelings reflect the importance of things to life. This is easy to understand with extremes, like if someone dies, that leaves a dark atmosphere, and if a new baby is born, that brings a very positive reddish atmosphere. Similarly with other things in life feelings indicate whether something is positive or negative. In this one needs to be analytical: there are several sides to each thing, both positive and negative, so we typically feel in many different ways about each thing in life. The goal in observing feelings is to follow the positive feelings and to get rid of the causes of negative feelings: rid of needless destruction at the same time as cultivating healthy happy natural and moral (moral means health of the society and that is good for yourself because health is the strongest and happiest option) way s of living. So the goal is to aim at the reddish direction. By loving the RED colour in its unsymbolical form we give room to feelings. That helps us to safeguard the health of ourselves, of our social relationships (helathy = most beneficial, says the theory about evolution's competition) and of our living environment. Noticing feelings when thinking makes us observe the signifigance of things to life. That is why the red colour makes you strong.
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