It’s been some years since American households began daring to use the color red on walls and furnishings. The house with red in it increases ‘life force’ and benefits many times over.
During the Christmas holidays, red is in abundance, and the cheer brought into the surroundings in everyday occurrence is unmistakeable. Smiles are more evident, exchanged between strangers and friends alike. Good wishes are voiced among those who normally would not bother.
Is it just that people feel a little more festive because they know it’s the holidays? Could it be the use of the color red?
As the holidays come to a close, notice the subtle shift ensuing when the decorations get put away and the surroundings return to their carefully tasteful and (usually) bland appointments. Notice that behaviors revert to the colorless --and notably beige-- pre-holiday attitudes.
Red Holds Energy
The color red has characteristics affecting energy dynamics in most beneficial and invisible ways. Red holds energy. The center of the back wall --whether of a room or of a building-- is the area for FAME/REPUTATION/REGARD. The color it manifests is red, and affects that which animates and enlivens, or Life Force. Used at an entry way incorrectly it will inhibit and stop and repel energy. Used correctly, it will invite. An outside entry door painted red will attract. An interior door painted red will repel.
A ceiling painted red will cause feelings of oppression, heaviness and anger. A floor painted red will hold beneficial energy that might otherwise leak out of windows. Red is used to energize any area that is ‘wan’ or not thriving just as a person suffering from anemia benefits from consuming red meat.
Here is a simple little example of a cure with red that was put into place in a most unusual circumstance, a trade show. Now, a ‘booth’ at one of these things is merely some pipe and drape defining a 10’x10’ space with a long table.
I happened to be showing in a booth, and next to me was a gal whose highly intuitive skills as an animal healer were not attracting any attention whatsoever. I was impressed with her work, and the book she had authored was definitely worth attention.
I simply cannot help myself in these situations, and I asked her if I could work some simple magic in rearranging things for her. I asked her helping friend to run out to a local party store and pick up a red table cloth and some napkins, and several small cartons. When she returned I spread the red cloth at the center of the table top, upon which I placed her marketing materials and brochures.
I then stacked the cartons to the right end of the table, creating small display towers, draped the red napkins and place her books on top, stacked and standing up so the covers were in an obvious repeated design. I also had her create a simple handwritten registration form to capture names and email info from visitors so she could followup with them. This hastily-created 'form' was placed on the table's left.
Within literally minutes, people began stopping by and asking her about their sick animals, and she was off and running. At one point, I looked over and there was a crowd of people listening to her lecture. The lectures scheduled for earlier in the day had no audience whatsoever.
I followed two rules: 1) use of red to pull in and hold energy; 2) harmonious inviting arrangements in the form of what is called ‘sleeping dragon’: low on the left, high on the right.
Consider how the use of red might just prolong the feelings of good will that are prevalent during the Christmas season, and also how that same use might energize and spark the flame in an otherwise ‘wan’ or stagnant area.
