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Jan 31 2008

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Personal Colour Assessment

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Discover Yourself with Colours

What motivates you? What’s your favorite colour? Believe it or not, these two questions are inherently linked. And using the groundbreaking, fun, and remarkably accurate colour assessment, you’ll learn to fine-tune your career goals, improve your communication skills, and deepen your relationships—all based on your colour choices.

This colour assessment extensively use colour preference to bypass language. Instead of relying on lengthy, imprecise questionnaires, this colour assessment uses a simple, highly accurate system based on your colour preferences to reveal who you are, not who you believe yourself to be. We recognise the connection between personality and the four distinct colour categories: Primary Colours, Secondary Colours, Achromatic Colours, and Intermediate Colours.

Why Colours?

Since the beginning of civilization, we human beings have labored to discover the hidden motivations behind our actions. This effort has led to an abundance of systems that hold one thing in common: the endeavor to categorize and uncover our real selves.

Early attempts to create a system of self-discovery led the curious to focus on external influences such as the stars, fate, or the elements. This gave rise to numerous systems that are still popular today.

Modern times, however, found investigators looking at the individual and free will. Gradually, empirical observation replaced even the most detailed systems of folklore and witchcraft, and in turn paved the way for psychology and the analysis of human behavior.

However, one thing has stymied all of these systems and those who administer them—the imprecision of language. Why? Simple. What happens, for example, if questions aren’t asked properly? What if the people being questioned interpret them differently? What role does stress, fatigue, environment, prejudice, bias, and education play in the skewing of test results? Also, people frequently deceive themselves and fail to answer questions with complete honesty. For all these reasons, experts have longed to create a language-free system to tell us about individual identity

Colours & Relationships

Do your relationships MIX, MATCH, or CLASH?

If your boss’s favorite colour is red, will you get along with her? If your date prefers the colour green, will you two connect?

Discover the secrets of successfully communicating with your romantic partner, friends, family and even your coworkers and boss.

Just choose your colours and have the other person do the same. Then compare personalised profiles to gain insight into why you interact the way you do.

Contact karenkow@livingcoloursmy.com for your very own personalised colour assessment.

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Jan 17 2008

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Why the skin sees in technicolour

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Electromagnetic Colour

Four thousand years ago, the Egyptians built healing temples of light. Bathing a patient in specific colours of light produced different effects. Today we know that a blindfolded person will experience physiological reactions under different coloured rays. In other words, the skin sees in technicolour.

This fact was confirmed by the noted neuropsychologist, Kurt Goldstein. In his modern classic, The Organism, he notes that stimulation of the skin by different colours leads to different effects. He states, “it is probably not a false statement to say that a specific colour stimulation is accompanied by a specific response pattern of the entire organism.”

In order to understand this, we must begin with the fact that colour is a form of visible light. It is electromagnetic energy. The graph below shows where color is positioned in the range of radiant energy.

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Wavelength in meters Name Uses
10-15
(size of a nucleus)
10-11
Gamma Rays Cancer Treatment
10-10
(size of an atom)
X-Rays Materials testing
Medical x-rays
10-8 Ultraviolet Germicidal, “black light”, suntan
10-6
(diameter of a bacteria)
Visible Colour
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Optics
10-5 - 10-3 Infrared Human body radiation
10-2
(size of a mouse)
Microwave Microwave ovens, atomic clocks
10 0
(one meter, the size of a man)
. Radar, Television, F.M. Radio, International Short-wave
10 3
(size of a village)
Radio frequency (RF) A.M. Radio
10 6
(distance from Washington D.C. to Chicago)
Audio frequency Long-wave broadcast
10 8
(distance to the moon)
. Brain waves

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