Many studies have been done on the psychological impact that certain colors can have on the human mind, and these colors are commonly used in advertising and marketing on unaware buyers, persuading them to buy things that they don't really need.

The impact that colors have on our subconscious mind can be powerful, and can even affect our conscious choices in daily life. Colors are always plucking hidden strings in our mind and resonating into our lives, so a knowledge of how this works could be useful for us in the daily barrage of advertising and propaganda that we live under.

A Conspiracy of Psychology

When the psychology of color is used in advertising, it is called marketing, and an understanding of how the average human mind works could be considered a standard part of any effective modern marketing campaign. Interestingly, when that same psychology is used by churches, giant industries, and corrupted governments, it's called conspiracy theory first, or simply crazy talk.

The Hidden Psychology of Colors

Such a color conspiracy is not so crazy when we see that the menus at breakfast restaurants are usually framed and designed with red, orange and yellow, which are the colors that incite hunger in the mind. Likewise, when we see the blue background on practically every nightly news show, it's a familiar glow with which we are apparently supposed to more readily accept the information that is presented in that blue wash, and we may more easily submit to the data and believe what is being presented. Obviously none of these corporate entities will admit to using such tricks, and the psychology of color is thereby largely ignored in the public mind.

In this modern culture--a culture so obsessed with money-- it may be revealing and interesting to then look at the very color of that magical money: GREEN

Secrets of the Color Green

How does our subconscious mind interpret the color green in particular? One place to look for clues might be the color spectrum itself. The colors in a rainbow or a prism will fall in a certain order, RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET. (ROY G BIV)

This arrangement puts green in the center, or the middle of visible light, and that central location is naturally the very centerpiece of every beam of light.

The Middle

The importance of this middle location might be looked at as a hurricane; the 'eye' in the center, calmly observing the surrounding fury while also being protected by it.

Neither burned or frozen, green is seated between the fiery warm colors and the cool ones, on the median of everything.

Green is the symbol of life on Earth; growth and nourishment. Green equally incorporates both warm and cool colors, it is both, and neither.

A thing can have many sides, but only one center.

The importance of centering shows up in language as well as color:

• The word MEDicine suggests healing-- a return to the middle, the medium, to regain balance.
• The word MEDitation hints at a desire to seek spiritual knowledge from some middle region.

Money Tries to be God

With both spiritual and physical health being suggested by the color green, it's no wonder the US dollar is tinted with this part of the color spectrum. We are supposed to worship the stuff, and any little tricks that might strengthen our belief in it's power are the usual features of a magical talisman, words and symbols that are recognized by our subconscious mind once again, and we unknowingly fall under the spell.

Learning about the archetypal subconscious meanings of colors and symbols may be one way that we can begin to use these same colors and symbols for our own benefit. If little green pyramids, numbers and words can somehow hack our minds into prosperity, we might find ourselves more healthy, wealthy, and wise with such assistance from the subconscious part of our minds by learning the mind's powerful relationship with color.

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all pictures here are mine, 2017

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