The impact of color streams is necessary for the normal existence of a person. Each color, each shade is valuable in its own way, although it is capable of not only a positive, but also a negative impact. But among the many shades there is one that in itself is associated with health and life. It is light green.
Green color and physiological processes
Green is called neutral. With a wavelength of 500 to 560 nm, this color does not cause excitement, like red, but also does not have an inhibitory effect on physiological and mental processes, like blue or blue.
It would seem that green should not affect the state of our body at all. However, we exist among a variety of numerous shades, and the effect of green is perceived in contrast:
- it calms the psyche tired of red and orange energy;
- invigorates after cold blue and blue.
Studies by physiologists and psychologists have shown that green is good for an overexcited body:
- calms the nervous system;
- normalizes blood pressure, pulse and respiration;
- has a beneficial effect on blood vessels, relieving their spasm.
In psychotherapy and psychiatry, green is used not only to calm the nervous system, but also to treat claustrophobia. This color surprisingly removes the negative manifestations of the disease if the walls of an enclosed space are painted with it.
- I. Goethe in his work “The Teaching of Color” spoke of green with tenderness, saying that it brings satisfaction and rest to the soul.
- But the artist V. Kandinsky, who also paid a lot of attention to the study of color, noted passivity and lack of movement in green. Kandinsky lived and worked in the “red” society of post-revolutionary Russia and the color green seemed boring to him.
Green and emotion
The influence of green on the human psyche can be described in two words: calms and tones. It is this slightly controversial effect that makes green the optimal performance stimulant. It sets a person up not for an explosive, powerful, but short-term effort, like red, but for long, calm and even monotonous activities.
- Low energy levels make green not only soothing but boring as well. And the more cold (blue-blue) shades the green color that surrounds us has absorbed, the more boredom and less joy it has. No wonder there is such an expression: “green melancholy.” V. Kandinsky, for example, compared green with a bourgeois swamp, considering it a symbol of a self-satisfied passive nature.
- But green with a shade of yellow is the color of young spring grass, indeed, positive, invigorating and refreshing. Designers often choose this color for interior decoration of work premises, but as soon as they “miss” a little with a touch, instead of a positive business spirit, the color of the surrounding space begins to cause boredom and melancholy.
Even if a person is not in love with green, he rarely has really negative feelings for him. But this still happens. This color is rejected by people who feel the pressure of society and seek to get rid of it. For those who want solitude in passive doing nothing, green is also annoying, and overly active and aggressive people treat it with contempt.
Green symbols of modernity
Like most other shades, the symbolism of green in the modern world is diverse and contradictory. The thing is that the ancient, primordial symbols born in myths in the minds of society calmly coexist with religious traditions and modern symbolic meanings.
- The most common meaning of green is ancient symbols of youth and the rebirth of life. They are typical for almost all cultures of the West and East.
- This color is a symbol not only of youth, but also of inexperience. (“Still green!”) But he is also a symbol of growth, including career growth.
- This color is a symbol of nature in all its manifestations, it is not for nothing that the defenders of our natural habitat are called “green”.
- Green is considered a symbol of good luck and material well-being, possibly associated with paper dollar bills.
- In Islam, green is the sacred color of the banner of Islam.
- In medieval Europe, negative symbolism of this color was formed. It was considered a symbol of deceit, temptation, “devilish” color. Perhaps this is due to his veneration in pagan cults. And until now, green is often associated with evil spirits: green devils, green eyes of true witches, elves like to dress in green outfits, etc.
- And at the same time, green is considered the color of wisdom and comprehension of the mysteries of the Universe.
Despite the contradictory symbolism of this color, green is readily used in interior design and website design, because it creates a favorable atmosphere for fruitful pursuits and creativity.
