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    The power of COLOUR

    Mar 15, 2022 5 minutes
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    If you’ve ever felt uplifted by the sight of a daffodil, been stopped in your tracks by some street art, or energised by a slick of lipstick, then you’ve experienced the impact colour can have on your emotions. With the ability to stir up feelings from joy and hope to calm and nostalgia, colour is a powerful energy source that’s all around us. And increasing our awareness of how different hues affect us can help influence our decisions and how we choose to use colour in everyday life.

    Colour therapy expert Momtaz Begum-Hossain is passionate about the power of colour and the way it affects our feelings, mood and actions. ‘Colour is light, and light is energy, which speaks to us in vibrations,’ says Begum-Hossain, referring to how we see colour as a reflection of light

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