Do you like green? Do you think green? Is green your favorite color? In this article, we reveal the meanings of the color green, a color that can greatly influence your life, helping you feel better about yourself, recover your hopes, and find inner calm. Or maybe you have to get green with envy when you see how more and more people are using color psychology to improve their personal development and their lives in general. Good luck and welcome to the discovery of the color green.
The symbolism of the color green
- Refreshing and, at the same time, relaxing. Stimulating and, at the same time, calming. Such is the versatility of nature’s color. The color green is a color with exciting symbolism, from the superstition of good luck to the representation of envy. And what about hope, which we would not know how to place in the balance in the positive or negative place? Dual, versatile, contradictory but, above all, curative.
- It must be remembered that green is not a primary color, but a mixture of blue and yellow, so it recovers the symbolism of both colors to which it adds its own. However, the fact that it is not primary does not prevent it from being the most natural color. The green nature, the grass, the forests, the plants and even the sea, which in some areas is naturally and truly green.
Positive meanings of the color green
- Among the most positive meanings of the color green, its relationship with health stands out. It is the color of healing par excellence, although careful, because you must never lose sight of the duality of green that often leads to contradictory meanings.
- Health is best understood by the very power of nature. The healing properties of plants or that revitalizing walk among the trees. In addition to health, energy, vitality and, especially, growth. Do you see how plants grow by increasing their green leaves? Growth is a green process.
- We also find in the green color aspects such as rebirth, new opportunities, youth, freshness. Are you an authentic person? Surely you feel identified with green for that naturalness and spontaneity. We are especially left with the meaning of green regeneration because, who has not ever needed to recover and start over?
- Harmony, inner calm and emotional balance are also associated with this color. A green that is not strident or soft, that is in the middle of intensity and that is ideal to get to know ourselves much better, to rediscover our most natural part.
- Something that we love about the color green (we will not deny it) is its most materialistic part. As we say, green is contradictory like life itself. And if on the one hand it symbolizes the natural, on the other hand it reflects the most material: money. Economic success is green and the most optimistic as well as superstitious use green to get extra money. We don’t lose anything by trying, right?
Negative meanings of the color green
- It is one thing for green to have healing powers and another for it not to share a negative meaning on the subject of health. Because some toxins are green, right? Some poisons or even some healing plants that in the wrong dose can have the opposite effect.
- Green is also envy. That envy that your neighbor arouses in you, known or not, and that doesn’t let you see yourself as you really are. And you forget your dreams and your desires to start chasing those of that other person you envy. Did you know that jealousy is also green?
- What do you prefer, a ripe fruit or a green one? Sometimes this color is associated with a lack of maturity or inexperience, something that in the workplace is considered negative and can harm you. Green is also associated with a critical, cautious or overly passive attitude, which again can have a special impact on your work life.
- And of course, green is the color of hope, which can sometimes help you and other times tear you apart.
Green in other cultures and curiosities about this color
- In most surveys, green comes out as the second favorite color and has more than a hundred different shades. It does not take more than a walk in the park to see the amount of green that can fill you with energy.
- Green is the color of peace in that classic olive branch. And green is the laurel with which the victors make crowns to celebrate their triumph. Do you need a little push to launch yourself to achieve your goals? Bet on green.
- Green also has its mystery, since alchemists use it in their mixtures. And they say that the philosopher’s stone is green. Why are Martians green? We do not know that, but we do know that what is allowed is also green, at least that is the case at traffic lights.
- The associations of green in other cultures are exciting. This is the case of Japan, in which green represents eternal life, perhaps because of its close relationship with nature and its cycles. For its part, in Hinduism it is the color of the heart and, therefore, of love, understanding and compassion.
- It is also a sacred color in Islam and in some cases represents Paradise. For the Aztecs, green was the color of royalty, just as it is in Scotland. And what about Ireland’s relationship with this color? St. Patrick’s Day is green, as green as lucky four-leaf clovers or even the local leprechauns, which are also green.
How can the color green help you in your life?
- With all its contradictions but also with all its power, the color green can help you feel better. According to Feng Shu, this color is reserved for relaxation spaces, so it can be very useful if you have been suffering from stress lately.
- Emotional balance is found through the color green, partly because it is the easiest color to visualize and relaxes the sense of sight. Although here also has a lot to do with that power of nature that leads you to meet your original essence.
- Some green sheets will help you sleep like when you were young and wake up with all the vitality that a restful sleep gives you. Let us not forget, are you thinking of starting a family? Because green is also the color of fertility, so try to have it close by in your private corner with your partner.
- In many cases it is recommended to hug a tree to connect with your most natural side. And while you’re at it, go beyond the trunk and see how its green leaves can help you reduce anxiety. The more natural green is also indicated in cases of depression.
- Do you want to feel free, renewed and with more enthusiasm? Then think of green, because it is also the color of freedom and it can help you make decisions with less doubt and less insecurity. And putting a painting with a natural landscape in green tones in the living room can be an inspiration to stimulate your creativity.
- It is not necessary to insist on the benefits of having plants at home, right? You may not have a terrace, but indoor plants are also green throughout the year and in spring they can fill your house with many colors. Because this accompanied color does not lose any of its properties, but enhances them.
- Put your touch of green in your life and in your home and soon you will be able to feel all the benefits of nature, both inside and outside.
- And you? Do you like the color green and its exciting meanings? What is your favorite color?