So what’s in a color?

And here’s why:

Green is a combination of the colors yellow and blue, each of which brings its own unique energy to the overall feeling of the color green.

Blue exudes calm and peace.

Yellow radiates liveliness and high levels of energy.

As a marriage between these two very different colors, green is a unifier of opposites, offering both the excitement of yellow and the tranquility of blue. It energizes blue’s passivity and soothes yellow’s intensity, inspiring us to be both active and peaceful at the same time.

It is a mainstay of the seasons of spring and summer, thus symbolizing birth and growth, both of nature and of ourselves.

As a visual indicator of the end of winter, green stems and leaves shot up and out from the dark branches of trees and the muddy ground, and let us know that it was safe for us to come out, too.

In this way, green invites us to shed our layers and open ourselves to the outside world, not in a frantic way but with an easygoing excitement that draws us outside just to sniff the spring air.

Green balances our energy so that in looking at it we feel confident that growth is inevitable. It also gives us the energy to contribute to the process of growth, to nurture ourselves.

And green reminds us to let go and let nature do her work, while at the same time giving us the energy to do our own.

So…green is my favorite color of the moment!

What is YOURS? Are you younger than you thought? Care to share?