Color Psychology Series – Orange: A Story the Soul Learns to Feel
Color Psychology Series – Orange: A Story the Soul Learns to Feel
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After red taught the body how to survive, orange arrived to teach it how to feel.
It entered softly, just like the warmth of a rising sun after a long night. Not fiery like red, not still like earth tones. It’s a color that symbolizes fluidity, playfulness, and being alive. Orange is the color of ripening fruit, glowing embers, and sacred flames. It doesn’t ask, are you alive?
It asks, are you enjoying being alive? Yes, makes you taste the enjoyment in life.
While talking about the 7 Chakras, my mentor said, “When desire is suppressed, the water within dries up.” And orange lives in water, and it encourages flow, movement, and response. It governs the Svadhisthana Chakra (Sacral Chakra), the 2nd chakra of our body. It is located at the sacral center just below the navel. It represents emotions, creativity, pleasure, and relationships.
Those whose orange energy flows freely or who have an unblocked Sacral Chakra enjoy and laugh easily. They turn out to be good with creativity and create without fear. They connect without adhering. Their emotions are like flowing rivers. They are never stagnant, nor destructive. But when orange was blocked, life became heavy. Guilt replaced joy. Desire turned into shame. Creativity seems blocked, and relationships feel like effort rather than an exchange of emotions.
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The body shows the signal of blocked energy, as it always does. Lower back pain. In the last few months, my personal creative self took a back seat due to work pressure, and my back pain worsened like never before. I understood a blockage at the Sacral Chakra. I started the healing immediately, and it started showing the removal of the blockage at a steady pace. Reproductive imbalances, Hormonal fluctuations, and Digestive discomfort are some of the signs of the blockage in this chakra. Mood swings that arrive without warning are not a weakness but an emotion denied a voice.
Psychology remained an integral part of Color Therapy. It confirmed what mystics had already known. Orange stimulates optimism, social connection, enthusiasm, and emotional openness. Individuals drawn to the color orange are often expressive, imaginative, energetic, and adaptable. Those who reject it often carry unprocessed emotions or fear factors. Orange is a color that doesn’t like masks. It prefers the truth to prevail, even if it’s chaotic.
In homes, orange was used where life gathered. You can see its application in dining spaces, creative corners, and conversation rooms. It aroused the sense of appetite, both for food and for experience. Let me give a true-life experience of mine with the color Orange. My child was about 2 years old at that time. He almost stopped taking any food, not even vegetable or pulse juice made at home. Looking drained, low on energy, and not even smiling. I was too tense as no medicine was working on him. That time, I took advantage of the color orange to heal my child. My intention was to bring him back to an energetic and active mode. I made him wear an orange cloth and tied an orange band on his wrist, and by evening, he was back to positive mode. Had proper food and started playing and conversing with me as before. That’s the power of orange.
Too much orange could overwhelm, making one scattered or indulgent. Too little made life feel dull, mechanical, colorless. Keep this in mind before adding color orange to life.
As a Healer, I worked with color orange gently. Not to push energy upward, but to restore flow. Reiki Practitioners use orange Crystals, Carnelian, Orange Calcite, and Sunstone. They place it near the abdomen to reawaken creativity and emotional balance.
In spiritual and occult traditions, orange is the color for transformation and achieving desires. Saffron robes, sacred fires, and tantric practices honored orange as the bridge between raw survival and conscious power.
Orange rituals focused on joy without attachment, pleasure without guilt, and connection without loss of self. It taught that desire is not the enemy, but unawareness is.
And so orange continues its quiet work in modern lives. You can find its presence in art, relationships, sexuality, and self-expression. Whenever life feels dry, when creativity disappears, when joy feels undeserved, orange returns with a gentle reminder.
Do remember that you were not born only to endure. You were born to experience.
If red anchors us to life, orange teaches us how to taste it.
This blog post is part of ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’
hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla in collaboration with Cerebration – Think with body, mind & soul.
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