I love the color green! Doctrine of signatures and color therapy!

Has anyone ever heard of the doctrine of signatures? Yea me either. Let me tell you how fascinating this is and mostly it just makes sense. Plus major bonus on why the Skinny Green Cleanse is such healthy nutrient dense way to cleanse! Yay whoooo so exciting. Ok so the Doctrine of Signatures is a philosophy that appears in almost every world culture. Basically it’s the concept that EVERY LIVING THING IS MARKED WITH A “SIGNATURE" that tells its use, function, or role in this world. It may be very subtle but every living thing signature is a function of the organisms feature and environment. If you look at a plant really closely and notice the color of its flowers, the shape of its leaf, and how and where it grows, you then can figure out its place in the universal plan and how it may help heal your body.


For example look at the kidney bean, shaped like a human kidney is really good for the kidneys. Celery is shaped like bones and filled with phosphorus which we need for strong bones. Yep! Mother nature is smart! Walnuts are shaped like a brain and good for brain function. Beets with their blood red color are a blood builder. There are so many more foods that their signature tells exactly the role it can play in our health. It's so fun to discover the connection between the plant and effect!!

Ok, something really frightening?!?! I do believe in the doctrine of signatures so now think about the terminology used with cooking food....fried, charred, crispy, baked, burned, scrambled, roasted, smoked, blackened, seared, scorched, grilled, toasted ahhhhhhh I could go on but I won't. These are all terms associated with pain, loss, dried up things, fire, and destruction. I don’t know about you but I don’t want to be dried up and disgusting!
Now think about the words associated with the LIFE GIVING RAW foods.... Alive, fresh, juicy, sweet, natural, whole, crisp, vital, active, organic, beautiful color!!! Oh my gosh I want to eat life giving foods right now. Think about sinking your teeth into a juicy white nectarine Ahhhh goodness those are the best! Have you had one? Try one in season fresh at the farmers market and you may just do a little dance!

COLOR THERAPY
Ok moving along onto why the color GREEN has a radiant reflection of luminous energy and its effect on the body and soul. This pertains more to color therapy of food. Do you know what color therapy is? Color therapy has a conscious impact on our well being and healing. Color is a radiant reflection of all different kinds of moods and feelings in various wavelengths. Color really does have a powerful impact on both body and soul!

Science has shown that blood pressure, pulse, and respiratory rate decline when exposed to cool colors such as blue, green and black but increased by warm colors such as red, orange, and yellow. Color therapy has been used for years to encourage well being in schools, hospitals, homes, and work places. COLORS in PLANT FOODS let us know certain nutritional value and when eaten give a vibrational energy that can nourish you physically and emotionally.

Let's eat a wide variety of red, blue, yellow, orange, and GREEN foods. Try to avoid plain, dull, whites and beiges since they probably don’t have much nutritional value. Variety of raw colorful foods = optimal health
Simple science if you ask me. This is all common sense.

Finally I couldn't wait to get to this part to tell you about the color therapy affects Greens have!!!
Green is made by combing yellow (wisdom) and blue (spirituality). Green is in the middle of the color spectrum so neither hot or cold. Green is the color of heart center, healing, balance, compassion, love, transformation, growth, generosity, and peace. Wow, pretty amazing wouldn't ya say.

Green is rejuvenating and an anti-inflammatory. Green can help calm anger and improve memory, paranoia and nervous exhaustion. It has an effect on the lungs, heart, thymus gland, and immune system. Use green for backaches, heart trouble, immune disorders, lupus, allergies, head colds, shock, and trauma and to lower blood pressure. Green color in plants means chlorophyll is present. Chlorophyll is life giving! We see green as clean, crisp, healing, life giving and refreshing! Think green, eat green, live green, love green with me!
Have a green day!

Melissa