Every person has a favorite color, each shade corresponds to a certain character. In a science like psychology, each of them has its own characteristics.
Any color has character. People feel its power on an intuitive level, so they strive to surround themselves with comfortable colors with which they associate themselves or with which they would like to compare themselves.
Now let's take a closer look at the color green. It is obtained by mixing two other colors, it looks something like this: blue + yellow = green. The psychology of color is also twofold. On the one hand, this is a huge amount of energy, on the other - absolute calm. However, much depends on the proportions in which yellow and blue are mixed and which of them predominates.
But how can such opposites be combined and not cause harm to their owner? There is an explanation for this phenomenon in psychology: blue, as creating an anti-action to yellow, gradually slows it down, over time the two colors neutralize each other’s actions, and absolute calm arises, the symbol of which is green.
If you imagine this shade, then first of all trees, grass, and bushes will appear in front of you. So everyone subconsciously associates green with growth, development, nature and harmony. For example, bright green grass pleases the eye because it appears as a life force, something that exudes energy.
Harmony, calm, balance, life and development are all generally accepted characteristics of this shade. In addition, green color in psychology means safety. Remember, it is he who at the traffic light allows you to start moving.
If your favorite color is green, psychology attributes to such a person kindness, openness, and readiness to help. People who have this shade as a favorite are usually reliable friends, responsible workers and simply generous people.
The interpretation of color to some extent also depends on its shade. Dark green color in psychology means a person’s desire for stability, reliability and confidence in everything that surrounds him. He himself tries to live up to his own standards.
On the contrary, pale green color will be characterized as peace and tranquility. It is believed that this particular shade helps improve vision.
Blue-green, or turquoise, is the coolest of the green shades. Therefore, it is advisable to use it in rooms where it is necessary to create a cool atmosphere. For example, in hot countries or in production, in hot shops.
It also has a refreshing effect. This is used by manufacturers of toothpastes, chewing gums, and refreshing candies. Some people prefer clothes of a turquoise hue, thereby emphasizing their coldness and sublimity above worldly passions.
Yellow-green, or light green, color means overcoming all obstacles and liberation from the captivity of conservatism. He is a symbol of a breath of fresh air, freedom and the destruction of boundaries. Thanks to the excess of yellow, the color is energetic and dynamic.
Symbolically, it can be represented as buds opening on trees that have finally come to life and “hatched,” revealing themselves to the outside world.
Brown-green, or olive, color means pleasure of the senses. In this case, it is not yellow and blue that are mixed, but yellow and black. Black gives the color a certain passivity and inertia. This shade shows a connection with your own body and sensuality. People who prefer brown-green color want to spend the maximum amount of time in a state that has a positive effect on the senses and promotes relaxation.
The first sprouts of wheat are recognized as the symbol of this color. Generally speaking, the color green is a symbol of softness, pliability, and sometimes hypochondria. The psychology of color has also revealed a positive effect on overexcited people. It has a calming effect and helps build trusting relationships.
In practice, psychologists recommend painting green the walls of rooms where a person prone to neuroses and frequent anxiety spends most of his time. This is a fairly common technique, as green calms a person’s mind, and as a result, their well-being improves.
Psychology endows such people who love green with the following character qualities:
People who prefer green to other colors are distinguished by special prudence, common sense and objectivity. They calculate steps ahead, soberly assessing their capabilities in achieving their goals. Such an approach always benefits them, and they not only achieve their goals, but also gain the authority of others.
These people act honestly and openly, which is why they enjoy the respect of others. And their willingness to help provides them with the necessary support in the future. These are common traits of those who like the color green.
Color psychology means growth, so such people strive for constant development. And this applies not only to career growth, but also to personal development. Connoisseurs of green are mostly decent and sympathetic people. They can often be found in charitable and public organizations; they make understanding bosses and caring parents.
Like everything in this world, the color green not only has positive characteristics, but also has negative properties. What is this negative impact that the color green can have?
The psychology of color notes that sometimes its calming effect becomes excessive. And a person who is in his “green world” becomes very withdrawn, which does not benefit him at all.
Due to this effect, green color is used in the treatment of people suffering from claustrophobia. They are placed in a closed room, the walls of which are painted in this shade. Patients' internal panic disappears and they calm down under the beneficial effects of pale green color.
However, one must be extremely careful when using this color to people suffering from depression or nervous exhaustion. In such cases, green can lead to complete loss of strength.
The effect of green on people depends on whether blue predominates in it, or whether there is more yellow in percentage terms. In the case where there is more blue color, the shade becomes colder, which means it strains the eyes more and causes general tension and wariness in a person.
At the same time, yellow gives a light atmosphere of ease.
Preference in choice occurs on an intuitive level. When the task is to impress someone, we also subconsciously choose the most suitable shade, as it seems to us, for this.
Psychology interprets the green color in clothing as an indicator of firmness, rigidity, certainty and constancy. It increases self-esteem and confidence in yourself and your abilities. Those people who prefer green clothes want to be liked, they strive for public recognition, they need attention. Such people do not like competition and are afraid of being influenced by a stronger personality. They are constantly looking for ways to assert themselves.
Sages in the East were of the opinion that the green color corresponds to higher vibrations, and therefore has a beneficial effect on a person’s mental health.
The color green in a woman’s psychology means that she is afraid to solve everyday problems alone, without feeling the strength and confidence to do it. At the same time, she doesn’t want to fall under someone else’s influence and lose her own will.
She seeks protection from someone who could solve her problems. In a positive sense, he will be a balanced, calm person, with ambitions and open to people. In a negative way, a woman will become very withdrawn, focused solely on herself and her needs, and to some extent melancholic.
If a woman prefers to wear green outfits, she seeks to attract attention to herself and establish a trusting relationship; most likely, she has long thought through the scenario of her actions.
Most people perceive women in green as calm and passive individuals.
The color of everything that surrounds us greatly influences our psychological state; sometimes it is difficult to notice a pattern, but it is present.
Marketers use this to increase the attractiveness of the product in the eyes of men and women.
A number of studies have been conducted that have shown that green is one of the three most attractive colors for women, along with blue and purple. But brown, gray and orange were considered unattractive by a quarter of the fair sex surveyed.
Therefore, these color compositions are mainly used on women's sites.
Interestingly, green is among the top three among men. In addition to it, the stronger sex is partial to blue and black. But purple, orange and brown are not pleasant for them.
Green color is great for creating backgrounds (in magazines, websites, posters). This is especially true when the idea of nature and naturalness is promoted. Green is often used on posters dedicated to construction or some environmental activity. Thanks to it, a person has a feeling of lightness and purity.
And the color green subconsciously evokes a craving for action. You can often notice that the words “checkout”, “order”, “pay” are often highlighted in bright green.
In conclusion, we can say that the green color, the meaning of which in psychology is calm, acts in some cases of mental disorders as an antidepressant. It is preferred by calm people who are not alien to decency and nobility. They exude confidence and are respected by others.
On the other hand, such individuals can become very secretive and withdrawn, selfish and apathetic.
Green is well suited for decorating bedrooms, as the color has a calming effect on the nervous system. Classic greenery - when blue and yellow are mixed equally - is the standard; it is believed that when a person peers into it, the mind and body rest, complete peace comes. This color is used in meditation rooms or those where spiritual practices are practiced.
Symbolizes spirituality, its personification, the color of Anahata's heart chakra is green. Associated with youth, with life's possibilities, with birth and hope.
Symbolism of green color
Green is the color of grass and leaves. For many peoples, it symbolized youth, hope and fun, although sometimes immaturity and lack of perfection. Green color is extremely material and has a calming effect, but it can also produce a depressing impression. It is probably no coincidence that melancholy is called “green”, and the person himself “turns green” from anger. Iranians associate the color green both with rapid growth and freshness, and with misfortune, sadness, grief, which is why they say “green leg” about an ill-fated person, and “green house” about a cemetery. In Germany, in the past, cards were used for fortune telling, each suit of which had its own color and corresponding symbolic meaning, with the green suit meaning sadness, grief, annoyance, red - love, betrothal, wedding, etc.
In the green energy center, tantric teaching finds, first of all, gaining power over one’s “I”, a feeling of inner strength and control over speech and feelings. Bringing balance between male and female energy. Overcoming obstacles and difficulties.
This is especially emphasized by Islam, where green is the holy color of the banner of Mohammed. And in Kabbalah, green represents victory.
Impact of green color on humans
It has a calming effect on the midbrain, which controls and coordinates various motor functions of the body. Since the midbrain is connected with Anahata and Vishuddha, the green color calms both of these organs of the energy body at the same time, creating the prerequisites for the uniform and consistent reception of cosmic energy with the inhaled air.
Green color indicates a state of health and “elastic tension”. Psychologically, this is expressed in active will, perseverance and constancy. A person who chooses green wants his own views and beliefs to prevail in everything, wants to feel that all his behavior is justified by the fact that he is the bearer of basic and immutable principles. As a result, such a person puts himself on a pedestal and begins to moralize and lecture others. He needs to be recognized, and the positions he takes remain unshakable, despite the resistance and opposition of others.
When exposed to the human nervous system, it exhibits intermediate properties between warm and cold colors. Normalizes blood and intraocular pressure. Increases visual acuity. Narrows the size of the retinal blind spot.
Leads to normalization of breathing and pulse, increases the duration of exhalation (compared to warm colors).
Green color is used to treat certain mental disorders, hysteria, and nervous fatigue. It is not without reason that tables for card games or for playing billiards and table tennis in most cases are green.
Green color controls character, emotions, feelings. It greatly affects the heart and blood pressure. Brings a feeling of renewal, freshness, purpose. It can be used in the treatment of ulcers, headaches, colds, and to neutralize malignant cells. Calms and restores the nervous system. Jesus Christ worked with this color.
When choosing the interiors of the rooms in your apartment, it is better to focus on those colors that are in harmony with the biological needs of a person. This primarily applies to wallpaper and curtains. For that room or corner of the room where one of the family members has to work often and for a long time - writing, reading, counting, mentally concentrating - it is best to focus on green tones, avoiding blue and cyan. Otherwise, the one who works at the desk will constantly feel sleepy.
Creates a slight but lasting increase in mental performance. Favors concentration. After getting used to green, the number of correctly solved problems increases by 10% while the number of errors decreases by 20%. There is a slight slowdown in the “counting numbers” reaction, since a certain underestimation of time occurs.
Green is most indicated for people who periodically suffer from neuralgia and migraines caused by high blood pressure. Because, like no other, green promotes the normal filling of blood vessels.
Raises vitality and creates a real feeling of relaxation during nervous irritability, hysteria or insomnia. Reduces the effects of motion sickness, alleviates motion sickness and prevents vomiting. Has a weak hypnotizing and analgesic effect.
This is a color that you can’t look at for a long time - it causes boredom, as it gives nothing.
Treatment - has a beneficial effect on people suffering from claustrophobia.
Green neutralizes the effect of other colors; helps dispel negative emotions. Brings calm and tranquility, helps to concentrate and make decisions, helps with shock and has a hypnotic effect.
Shades
Shades - the more blue, the stronger, colder and more intense the effect of color. The more yellow, the lighter and more harmonious the color is.
Blue-green (turquoise) is the coldest of all shades, used to create a refreshing coolness, the color of sterility.
Dark blue-green - rejected during nervous exhaustion; personifies cruelty and heaviness, creates a feeling of isolation. It is preferred by people who place too strict demands on themselves, elevate their views to a principle and achieve its observance with irreconcilable consistency.
Yellow-green - the hidden energy that was in green is released. People who prefer this color strive to establish as many contacts as possible, constantly want to meet other people and learn new things. Next to white, this shade gives the impression of being strict and businesslike; as a rule, they try to dilute it with gray - to remove the intrusiveness.
Brown-green (green + black + yellow + red) - expresses sensual passivity. Such people would like to enjoy a state that has a beneficial effect on the senses and promotes relaxation; seek excitement through pleasure.
The darker the green, the more withdrawn the person. Green color is preferred by those people who strive, thanks to firmness and stability, to acquire a manner of confidently holding themselves. They strive for confidence. Green is rejected during physiological exhaustion.
Green color- one of the three primary colors, green is considered to be a range of colors in the spectrum with a wavelength of approximately 500-565 nanometers.
Widely distributed in wildlife. Most plants are green because they contain the photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll (chlorophyll absorbs a large proportion of red rays from the solar spectrum, leaving a reflected and filtered green color for perception).
Minerals that have a green color are relatively rare. Most often, their color is associated with impurities of chromophoric elements: chromium (III), iron (II), nickel (II), copper (II) and some others.
Among the green minerals one can note emerald - a chromium-colored variety of beryl, olive-green peridot - jewelry olivine, malachite, chrome diopside, green garnet uvarovite, also called demantoid (diamond-like) for the beautiful play of color in the cut stone, dioptase. Blue-green potassium feldspar is called amazonite.
Green as a signal color is a sign of safety, permission for action, movement (traffic light, etc.).
In Russian, to denote colors that have a green tint to varying degrees, compound words with the first component are used green-:223, green-. For example, green-blue, green-gray:130.
The human eye is most sensitive in the red-yellow part of the spectrum, green color (the color of grass, plants) calms the nervous system. Our eyes rest when perceiving shades of green, so the walls of public institutions are often painted in shades of green (schools, hospitals, etc.). This is why tables with green cloth (material with diffuse reflection) are traditionally common (library tables, billiards, card tables).