"Da Happy Tree" Hawaiian oil painting fantasies by Sidney Filson--as a healing tool.
"Da Happy Tree" was originally created to bring joy through color and whimsy and share the spirit of aloha by a flower and animal-loving artist who also practices "laying on of hands" and is involved with holistic lifestyling. So, it was really not a surprise "Da Happy Tree" an everchanging tapestry of interaction between birds and flowers, got the reputation of having healing properties.
Inspired by the endless flower variations and colors of Hawaii, Filson says "I wanted to make a beautiful place where there are no major troubles (gossip of course is allowed) and I could place the incredible surprises that are birds (all the birds I paint are real species) in trees worthy of them. I wanted the warmth of the smiles from friendly folk in Hawaii (the aloha spirit) to be there, so I gave the series a pidgin title 'Da Happy Tree'.
"I put my "chi" that I use for healing into the paintings, and. when one of my paintings gives me a 'certain feeling' I know its done and ready to bring a smile to someone's face.
"One woman who owns one and finds her depression lightened by it, was particularly noticing of its effects when she no longer had the painting as it was left at a framers for awhile. 'The whole house seemed to lose life without it,' she told me."
Color healing is a potent art, nowadays taken to deep levels of body piercing with color lasers.
To purchase "Da Happy Tree " as an oil painting visit Da Happy Tree or if you are interested in buying a print contact sidneyfilson@yahoo.com or visit Hawaiian Art Prints.
I am including recent research abstracts for color healing and color influence. Obviously children's hospitals are ahead of the research with their bright and happy colors and pictures:
Effect of colour on physical strength and mood in children.
Hamid PN, Newport AG.
Psychology Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
The physical strength and mood of creative production were measured for six preschool children under six coloured room conditions in an ABACAB design. Physical strength and high positive mood were demonstrated in a pink-coloured room while the reverse was found in a blue-coloured room. The results were interpreted as supporting the differential arousal function of colours
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2003 Mar;44(3):445-55. :
Children's colour choices for completing drawings of affectively characterised topics.
Burkitt E, Barrett M, Davis A.
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
estherb@cogs.susx.ac.uk
BACKGROUND: This study was designed to explore whether or not children systematically use particular colours when completing drawings of affectively characterised topics. METHOD: Three hundred and thirty 4-11-year-old children were subdivided into three conditions, colouring in a drawing of a man, a dog, or a tree, respectively. The children completed two test sessions in counterbalanced order. In one session, children rated and ranked ten colours in order of preference. In the other session, children completed three colouring tasks in which they had to colour in three identical figures but which had been given different affective characterisations: a neutrally characterised figure, a figure characterised as nasty, and a figure characterised as nice. RESULTS: It was found that, in all age groups and for all topics, the children used their more preferred colours for the nice figures, their least preferred colours for the nasty figures, and colours rated intermediately for the neutral figures. It was also found that, in all age groups and for all topics, black tended to be the most frequently chosen colour for colouring in the drawings of the negatively characterised figures. By contrast, primary colours were predominantly selected for the neutral figure, while a wide range of mainly primary and secondary colours were chosen for colouring in the nice figure. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that children are able to alter systematically their use of colour during picture completion tasks in response to differential affective topic characterisations, and that even very young children are able to use colours symbolically.
1: Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2003 Sep;88(5):F430-1. :
Phototherapy with turquoise versus blue light.
Ebbesen F, Agati G, Pratesi R.
Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Aalborg, Denmark. Institute of Applied Physics-CNR, Sezione INFM di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
u19091@aas.nja.dk
Preterm jaundiced infants were treated by phototherapy with a new turquoise fluorescent lamp. This was more effective in reducing plasma total bilirubin in relation to light irradiance than the ubiquitously used blue fluorescent lamp
Vopr Kurortol Fizioter Lech Fiz Kult. 2003 May-Jun;(3):39-41. :
[Photochromotherapy of experimental compression-ischemic neuropathy]
[Article in Russian]
Guzalov PI, Kir'ianova VV, Zhulev NM, Veselovskii AB, Vlasov TD, Zhulev SN, Ziganshina DP, Korniushin OV.
Effects of monochrome light of the green and red spectra (mean wave length 540 and 670 nm, respectively) were studied on experimental rat model of compression-ischemic neuropathy (40 animals). The nerve under compression was exposed to green and red light using light-diode physiotherapeutic unit "Spectr-LC" with different intensity. Electromyographic parameters of the compressed nerve improved significantly after exposure to monochrome green light with intensity 500 mJ/cm2. The effect was dose dependent. Green light produced better effect
Magnes Res. 2003 Mar;16(1):29-34. :
Comparison of a short irradiation (50 sec) by different wavelengths on audiogenic seizures in magnesium-deficient mice: evidence for a preventive neuroprotective effect of yellow.
Pages N, Bac P, Maurois P, Durlach J, Agrapart C.
Laboratoire de Toxicologie, Faculte de Pharmacie, Strasbourg, 67400 Illkirch Graffenstaden, France.
nicole.pages4@wanadoo.fr
Audiogenic seizures triggered by an acoustic stimulus of determined frequency and amplitude have been described in many laboratory animals in many circumstances including magnesium deficiency. This model, recently validated, was used, in DBA/2 mice, to study the preventive neuroprotective effect of 6 wavelengths of the visible spectrum used in Chromatotherapia* (lambda(max) 440, 484, 528, 572, 616 and 660 nm) at low irradiance. Each short illumination lasted 50 seconds and was followed by 20 minutes of darkness. It appeared that yellow fully protected 16 out of 17 mice from seizure occurrence. Green allowed the survival of 69% of mice but did not protect them from seizure occurrence. On the contrary, the other four colors (orange, red, purple and blue) failed to protect the mice and showed a tendency to accelerate their death. White color was not protective but allowed the difficult survival of 30% of mice. Darkness had no protective effect. These results even though surprising open a great field of investigation.
Int J Mol Med. 2002 Dec;10(6):701-5. :
Inhibition of lung metastasis of B16 melanoma cells exposed to blue light in mice.
Ohara M, Kawashima Y, Kitajima S, Mitsuoka C, Watanabe H.
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc., Muya-cho, Naruto, Tokushima 772-8601, Japan.
oharams@otsukakj.co.jp
The effects of blue light on B16 melanoma cells and on the metastasis of these cells to the lungs were investigated in mice. The exposure of B16 melanoma cells to blue light in two 20-min sessions resulted in marked suppression of cell growth measured at 7 days after exposure. When these cells were harvested, re-inoculated into medium and incubated for a further 7 days, their growth activity returned to almost the same level as that of cultured cells from the non-exposure control group. The melanoma cells harvested after 7 days of incubation were injected intravenously into mice. In the non-exposure group, black nodules developed on the lung surface and the nodules increased in size over time. In the blue-light-exposure group, the development of such black nodules on the lung surface was delayed, and the nodules were smaller. Histopathological examination revealed that blue light suppressed the growth of metastatic tumor cells, and no increase in the number of melanin-containing cells or atypical cells was induced in the metastatic lesions. These results suggest that blue light suppresses the metastasis of B16 melanoma cells.
Lik Sprava. 2001 May-Jun;(3):51-4. :
[Changes in the bulbar microcirculation under lateral light-color therapy in patients with glomerular nephritis]
[Article in Ukrainian]
Paliienko IA.
Brain lateral light-colour stimulation-induced changes in bulbar microcirculation were studied in 47 patients (29 male and 18 female subjects) with chronic glomerulonephritis. After stimulation, a drop in arterial pressure was noted together with a decrease in red cell aggregation, dilation of arteries, increase in the number of functioning capillaries and in the velocity of microcirculation. A conclusion has been reached that the above stimulations can be an effective method for improvement of microcirculation in patients with chronic glomerulonephritis.
Aust J Holist Nurs. 1999 Oct;6(2):42-4. :
Light relief: the case for ocular light therapy.
Deppe A.
Ocular Light Therapy is emerging as a significant form of therapy, particularly in psychological and psychosomatic disorders. OLT involves the projection of light through colour filters to the eyes of the client, with consequent photocurrent stimulation of cortical and hypothalamic systems.
Br J Nurs. 1999 Apr 8-21;8(7):443-8. :
The use of music and colour theory as a behaviour modifier.
Barber CF.
North Birmingham Community NHS Trust, Aston.
For many centuries various aspects of healing have been linked to the use of the arts, in particular music and colour because of their innate ability to bring about a mental, emotional and physical calmness. Although much has been written on the use of colour and music as relaxants specifically within a nursing/medical context, there appears to be little information available as to why music and colour have this calming effect. This article examines music and colour as relaxants by briefly describing the neurological and physical mechanisms that bring about the effect of relaxation. This brief exploration is placed within the context of learning disability care. The aim is to provide ideas for a more peaceful and relaxing environment for an adult with learning disabilities who also has autism and exhibits severe challenging behaviour. The results of a small case study and implications for other areas of nursing are discussed.
Am J Acupunct. 1999;27(1-2):85-94. :
A review of recent research studies on the efficacy of Esogetic Colorpuncture Therapy--A wholistic acu-light system.
Croke M, Bourne RD.
Institute for Esogetic Colorpuncture and Energy Emission Analysis (IECEEA), Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA.
This article reviews recent studies conducted in Europe which sought to evaluate the effectiveness of Peter Mandel's Esogetic Colorpuncture Therapy (ECT). These investigations addressed the use of specific ECT therapies for treating a variety of difficult health problems: migraines, childhood insomnia, bronchitis, ADD or learning disorders, and uterine fibroids. Limitations in research design and sample size necessitate that these studies be viewed as pilot or preliminary research. However, in all the studies, the findings showed dramatic improvement of symptoms after ECT treatments. This suggests that ECT may offer fast, economical, non-invasive and non-toxic methods for treating the selected health problems and that ECT continues to show promise as a powerful new method of wholistic healing.
Am J Acupunct. 1999;27(1-2):71-83. :
Colored light therapy: overview of its history, theory, recent developments and clinical applications combined with acupuncture.
Cocilovo A.
Acupuncture Clinic of Prescott, AZ 86305, USA.
cocilovo@futureone.com
Light therapy has a long history, dating from ancient Egypt to the contemporary treatment of seasonal affective disorder. In the early half of this century, Dinshah Ghadiali, MD PhD, refined a sophisticated system of color therapy. Influenced by a strong background in mathematics and physics, he determined specific "attributes" of the colors of the spectrum, i.e., their specific effects on human physiology. Later research has confirmed many of his concepts and spawned evolution of new systems for application of light therapy including irradiation of acupuncture points. According to the author, his system dovetails nicely with traditional Oriental medicine theory, relating colors to the internal organs and meridian system. Of particular note is recent Russian research which has shown that light is conducted within the body along the acupuncture meridians leading the authors to ponder: Do acupuncture meridians function as a light (photon) transferal system within the body, not unlike optical fiber? Case studies provide support for the clinical benefits of light therapy. The emerging contemporary color therapy systems of Mandel (Colorpuncture) and McWilliams (Chromo-pressure) are discussed, and a newly patented device is introduced.
what is Esogetic Colorpuncture=tm
color therapy and colorpuncture