chromotherapy
- noun
- /ˌkroʊməˈθɛrəpi/
- In chromotherapy, colors are used to improve mood and enhance general well-being.
Examples
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Many people believe that chromotherapy can aid in healing by influencing emotions through specific colors.
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There is, however, another branch of Eastern healing arts called Chromotherapy.
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And to begin with, as he later commented, chemotherapy was chromotherapy.
Academic text (2010) -
In chromotherapy, you use chi energy through devices; it uses lights from a lamp. Sounds simple, but you would be surprised at how much power there really is in a single ray of light.
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Either way, though, if you compare Chi Gong with Chromotherapy, it's like comparing a band-aid with a needle and a string; it can never be as effective as Chi Gong.
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The study of the effects of colors on physiological functions, a branch of research that was especially active in Europe in the late nineteenth century, and, in the form of chromotherapy, especially interesting to Kandinsky, has also proved surprisingly inconclusive, although this therapy is a form of alternative medicine still practiced in several countries.
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The spa offers a treatment that uses chromotherapy to promote relaxation and reduce stress.
Synonyms
The use of light to treat some skin problems and yellow skin in newborn babies
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chromotherapy comes from the Greek parts chroma meaning 'color' and therapy meaning 'healing', so it literally means 'color healing'. That's why chromotherapy is a treatment that uses colors to influence mood and health.