Could COLOUR be the cure?

Do you often have more confidence when wearing a certain shade, or feel more positive after walking in green spaces? It could be that colour is having a much bigger effect on your wellbeing then you realise.

“Colour is a quintessential part of life,” says colour specialist Mark Wentworth (colourforlife.com). “Each colour creates a different physical and emotional response and, as we have evolved as a species, so has our understanding of the depths and intricacies of human emotion and behaviour.”

But how we respond to the effects of certain hues, whether positively or negatively, can be very personal – there isn’t a one-colour-fits-all when it comes to colour therapy. “On one level, colour is instinctual, and on another it connects us to our own personal memories and experiences,” explains Wentworth. “Most people love something, such