How Different Color Tints Affect Your Mood

Having a pair of sunglasses especially one of those stylish pairs from The Ever Collection can easily spruce up your look and personality. Aside from being a great fashion accessory, these sunglasses can help protect the eye from harmful UV radiation while increasing view and clarity under extreme weather conditions. Not yet done, the hues of your sunglasses may also help boost your mood and that’s according to chromotherapists who specialize in using colors and light to enhance wellbeing. In this post, we’ll be discussing the basis of how color affects the mood.

The intersection between color and the mood

Color has always been a powerful communication tool and has always been used to signal actions, influence the mood, and determine certain psychological reactions. It’s no denying that color has a powerful effect on our minds and bodies. Even though our perception and reaction to certain colors may be subjective, some colors, like the ones we see through our shades may have universal meanings and impacts on our emotional state.

According to the principles of chromotherapy, every one of the seven rainbow hues, ROYGBIV, has its own that relates to the body’s seven major chakras. In Ayurvedic practice, each of these colors carries different meanings and can represent different things from love to confidence. Thus they are believed to have emotional and spiritual influences that can impact an individual.

Colors and light are therefore the basis of chromotherapy, an Ayurvedic alternative medicine practice that aims to improve an individual’s happiness and overall health through specific hues. Interestingly, this practice has been around for millenniums and can be traced back to the ancient culture of Egypt, India, and China. Below are some instances relating to how color affects the mood.

How color affects the mood

Although there are not enough pieces of scientific evidence to back these claims, colored lenses of different kinds may have therapeutic effects on the mood and emotions of an individual. They are touted as being able to help reduce the intensity of sensory overload in autistic individuals and others who suffer certain brain disorders which have, visual impairment, perception challenges, and sensory overload as symptoms.

Those with ADHD, anxiety and depression, migraine, and sensory processing disorders may also benefit from colored lenses. All of these points back to the influence of color as our eyes and body absorbs these in the form of light. These then go on to affect the individual on all levels from physical to spiritual, and down to emotional levels.

 Lens colors, meanings, and influence

We’ve established how color affects the mood. But then, does it also carry that much influence when you’re looking through rose-colored glasses or any other color tint? Of course, it does and every color tint has its own unique meaning and influence.

• Red lenses are thought to have a connection of some sort to the body’s circulatory system. It can stimulate feelings of love, passion, sex, courage, hatred, and revenge, among others. It is also stimulating, activating, ad warm.
• Orange lenses have balancing and stability effects on the mind. They can enhance sociability and are somehow believed to be linked to our muscular system and emotional health.
• Yellow lenses are somehow stimulating and can have positive effects on the mood especially on rainy or cloudy days. Overall, yellow tints tend to boost mental clarity.
• Green lenses have this calming and balancing effect on our energies. It is also thought to boost an individual’s compassion and sensitivity.
• Blue lenses often have a calming, relaxing, and reassuring effect. It stimulates intuition and weakens loneliness. It will also do fine with red and yellow.
• Indigo lenses are believed to aid intuition, concentration, and insight.
• Violet lenses are thought to be strengthening and liberating to the mind.

While rose lenses are quite popular and symbolize love and balance and will help you continue living in a state of love and gratitude, magenta lenses, on the other hand, balance the physical and spiritual probably because they are a combination of red and violet.

Bottom Line

Chromotherapy wants us to believe that beyond the style, the UV protection, and everything else we already know and think about sunglasses, the colors and tints may even have positive mood-boosting effects on us. But then, even you’re not completely sold on the ‘looking through rose-colored glasses’ thing and how color affects the mood, there’s still something fun enough about donning on some new pairs of sunglasses.