The second image that I would like to focus on in this paper is the emerald green color that was emanating as light in my dream. The first, and most obvious association, is that green is simply my favorite color. It is one that I most often turn to when I am creating art, as well as the color of my bedroom walls.
Green is a color that I enjoy seeing. It reminds me of fresh new growth on plants. I associate green with the spring time, when everything in the forests are full of fresh life, and bursting with new potential. I believe that our eye is naturally attuned to see green, because it is the background color during most of our daily activities. Green is a color that is soothing and comforting. I think that the phrase, “Going Green,” is
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Last semester, I took a class, Humanistic, Transpersonal, and Existential Psychology, with Professor Sowerby, here at Sonoma State, and learned about the chakra system. Specifically, that the heart chakra is located near the heart, in the center of the chest, and is commonly associated with love and compassion. The heart chakra’s color is traditionally green. I believe that the heart is special, because it is the organ that circulates oxygenated blood from our lungs to the rest of our body, and I believe that it is one of the processes that help to bridge the gap between the physical world and spiritual world. I became interested in the chakra system, and its use as a holistic medicine. I try to incorporate it along with other Eastern medicine practices in my own life before I will try Western …show more content…
A significant memory that this brought up for me, was of when I was a small child, around three or four. My neighbor would throw his change under the big pine tree that was out in the front of our shared apartment complex. He once told me that it was a “special money tree,” and that if I would look carefully, there would be money on the ground that had fallen. Of course, when I searched under the tree, I found the change, which convinced me of the man’s story. From then on, until we moved from that apartment, anytime I would walk past the tree, I would search the ground looking for