When our eyes observe colors, there is a transmission of impressions to the brain, which in turn retransmits them to the external and internal senses, transforming them into feelings, sensations and emotions.
There are 3 aspects that we should comment on colors. One of them is the symbolism that each one of them has, and that as mental images have been shaped in the collective imagination, throughout the history of mankind, as a reaction that has generated the human being, to be excited in their external and internal senses. The other aspect is the effects that they produce in their feelings and emotions, during their physical and mental perception. And the third one, refers to the inclination or response -positive and negative- that he shows on the colors due to his character and personality. The 3 aspects are always intrinsically related, and sometimes they are confused. However, we will try to keep this differentiation in mind for the specific purposes of the WALK-RWD system.
In my book Tap Tap, Plastics and Poetry I explain briefly the qualities or properties that objects in general have and the effects that they cause on the human being, as well as the reactions of this one. I will try to make a quick synthesis.
The primary properties or qualities (PI) are those characteristics inseparable to all the existing things in nature, such as their figure, their contour, their size, their extension, their density, consistency, number, movement, immobility, specific weight. The most relevant of this category is its permanence, its almost total invariability and its biunivocity (between quality and object).
The secondary qualities (PII) are also called sensible qualities; they are the effects generated by the primary qualities (PI) upon contact or relation -of any kind- with the spectator. That is to say, they are the faculties that the bodies (things) have to provoke sensory impressions in the human being upon impacting the senses. For them their classification responds to the five senses: taste-flavors, smell- odors, sight-colors, hearing-sounds, touch-senses. Unlike the primary qualities (PI), these are highly variable, i.e., not very constant.
Tertiary qualities (PIII) are the reactions of human beings in their relation to the primary (PI) and secondary (PII) qualities of objects. They are the qualities that are mentally attributed -consciously or unconsciously- to objects. Perhaps they can be considered -in specific cases- as projections (reflections) of one’s own being before contact -of any kind- with the objects. For example: a situation Good or Bad, Just or Arbitrary, Strident or Harmonic, Legal or Illegal, Bright or Dark, Moral or Immoral, etc. As it is obvious to observe about this type of properties, each individual may have a different way and degree to react to the other qualities of the object under observation and appreciation.
When the secondary or sensitive manifestations are generated before our senses, perceptions are originated and we can appreciate that those sounds are sharp, loud, low, etc., or the movements are fast, slow, paused, spaced, etc., or beautiful or ugly, repugnant or attractive, pleasant or unbearable (insufferable) things; or in our specific case that we are analyzing: those colors are intense, strident, bright, opaque, dark, shining, etc. In general, all of them are states of conscious and unconscious reaction, in addition to what is captured and experienced by our physical senses.
When we talk about walking -in general-, we say that we value or give a value or a function to these qualities or reactions of the 3rd degree, and in the WALK-RWD system they allow us to identify the actions we have mentioned and we will explain below how they are identified and evaluated.
Each color represents for our physical-mental perception a different vibration for our senses, both external and internal (Future Post WALKING AND THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SENSES). Although there is a biunivocal relationship between colors and feelings (emotions, perceptions and impressions of the soul type), the effects that they generate – as already mentioned – may vary from one person to another. We could define this with the following statement: The hue of a color relates to a combination of feelings.
The external sense most directly impressed is that of sight (Future Post THE SIGHT SENSE AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM) and it can be said that through its capture, it transmits that perception to the other senses. That is to say, once our brain has been impacted by the ranges (spectra) of colors, it transmits its impressions to the whole organism and some other senses are also excited, such as the sense of balance (Future Post EXERCISES ON THE SENSE OF BALANCE, WHEN WALKING), the sense of orientation (Future Post WALKING EXERCISES ON THE SENSE OF ORIENTATION), the spatial sense (Future Post WALKING EXERCISES ON THE SENSE OF SPACE THROUGH WALKING) and others.
So, color is an element that has an influence on human behavior and on the postures of the body.
Although there is an accentuated inclination of a color towards a feeling, it is not exclusive; that is to say, the same feeling can be manifested – in another quality and intensity – by another color; in other words, other colors can have a certain level of representation towards that same feeling.
The only thing we can assure, in this context, is that any color always exerts some physical and mental impression on the human being, and for the same reason, it can be considered to have a symbology, which in fact it does.
The variation of its effect -of any color-, is a function of several parameters, which must be considered at the moment of the analysis and corresponding evaluation. On the one hand, each person responds according to his character and personality, to his emotional and sentimental state at that precise moment. The magnitude and intensity of the color is another factor to be taken into account: it can be the very large or very small surface where the color is perceived that impacts the observer’s sight. Another particularity is the object or the environmental context where the color is observed: it is not the same to see the same blue color in the sky, than painted on the wall of a room.
Two characteristics that must be taken into account is that -in general terms- 1) dark colors will reduce -in appearance- the space where we are; and light colors will increase it; 2) “cold” colors will balance our feelings and emotions, while “warm” colors will excite us. Typical “cold” colors are: blue, gray, indigo, purple; and “hot” colors are: yellow, brown, orange, red.
There is no doubt about these effects exerted by colors; however, they can vary, as we have already mentioned, depending on how they are presented in combination (one with the other), with the intensity of luminosity, the object or scenario, and the observer himself.
If you wish to revalidate what the different colors provoke in you, simply lock yourself in a room completely painted with the color you wish to corroborate its effect; but also choose another scenario at the same moment you perform the experiment, and only in this way you will be able to have a more acceptable and correct valuation.
Regarding symbolism, it is said that the representation of symbols in Humanity is always the same, because they are created by the same collective unconscious; therefore we consider that in the range of colors we can count on a more or less identical and unalterable relationship since time immemorial, in its symbolic representation.
Next, in a brief way, we point out the symbolic meanings of some colors:
Yellow: joy
Red: strength and impetus
Orange: love and companionship
Green: healthy and soothing
Blue: fun and haste
White: lightness
Violet: transformation and change
Brown: tension and resistance
Grey: sadness
Black: heaviness
These meanings are the effects that colors generate in the interiority of human being.
To complete the list of colors regarding their symbolism and effects they generate, we can resort to any manual for it. Perhaps it would be important to analyze more deeply this effect of colors on the whole human nature, on its physiological systems, its organs, its senses (pulse, heart rate, respiratory rate, palpitations, dilations, etc.), however we will leave it for a second part, if we consider to do it conveniently, here we will only use its known effects by experience, without reaching its analytical and perhaps chemical-physiological specificity.
Regarding the inclination -positive and negative- that we show when we have conscious or unconscious contact on colors, it is a fundamental tool for the knowledge of ourselves. That is, we can also use them to know some of our chromatic inclinations that undoubtedly represent typologies in terms of personality and mood, as well as symptomatologies, such as physical ailments, emotional alterations and neurotic symptoms. That is to say, each one of us has a preference or predilection (positive inclination) for some color, or several, and this shows us a certain affinity or disposition towards what the colors themselves represent. The same can be inferred about the repulsion or rejection to a color or some of them. Let us keep in mind that the manifestations of the unconscious and the essential desires repressed in the consciousness are, in part, defined by that range of colors (hidden or veiled) of their preference (or of their negation). The pictorial range of a painter’s plastic work is an evident sample of his character, personality and inclinations to which he was subject during his artistic creation. The work speaks for itself.
In short, we can assure that the 3 aspects (symbolism, effects, inclination) that we have pointed out, are interrelated when we focus on the analysis, evaluation and application of colors in any of the work that we develop, within the very broad human behavior; all human nature in front of the range of colors. In such a way is this amplitude, that its use has expanded to the branches of medicine, psychology and other disciplines of science and esotericism, which are related to health, healing of diseases, healing therapies, construction and modification of behaviors, when used as a mechanism of sublimation (public opinion), influence on the individual unconscious and the collective (masses of populations and human groups), etc. And not to be left out, they are also used in the analysis and treatment of the behavioral habits of some animals, as well as in their feeding and mating practices and regimes.
Specifically, we can incorporate this functional structure to our WALK-RWD system in order to improve it, seeking to potentiate its health benefits (healing and forecasting).
The practice of the WALK-RWD system, as we have been pointing out, produces diverse results – beneficial and positive – in our health, behavior, attitudes, habits, creativity, etc., which can be increased and improved – or diminished – depending on the colors we surround ourselves with. It is not the same walking in the city: which communicates us a plot of grayish colors, which transmit us a state of sadness and heaviness, than walking immersed, inside nature: through a “colored” and channeled path in a National Park, where we are surrounded by plants, bushes and trees, “painted” with green color. Here we will have calm and tranquility; we will feel relaxed and healthy.
In this way, depending on the emotion we wish to feel or fight, we will select the scenery where we will read, write or draw, while we walk.
For any of these activities -or combination of them- that we wish to do, we will have to be aware of the colors that will surround us. Likewise, for any state of mind that we have, we must previously analyze the colors that will favor or worsen that state.
On the other hand, it is very interesting to define what walking is, in terms of the colors that represent it. Walking is the natural activity of the human being that results from the combination of calm, physical imbalance and moving forward. A harmonic imbalance.
What is the range of colors that result with this symbolism of walking?
It results in a color that typifies it within the level of subordinates; it is composed of a basic or primary color, red, a secondary color, green, and a complementary color, violet.
Green represents nature, the normal, the natural.
Red represents fire, radiance.
Violet represents evolution, renewal.
Green has the symbolic meaning of healthy and soothing, transmitting rest and relaxation to those who observe it.
Red has the symbolic meaning of strength and impetus, transmitting to the observer a state of enthusiasm and passion, provocation and imbalance.
Violet has the symbolic meaning of transformation and change, transmitting to the observer a state of desire to move and advance in all senses.
Green is a secondary color and its origins coming from blue and yellow make it rebellious to the participation of other colors, being very sensitive to artificial light, because it changes very easily with the variations of it, different situation with natural light, because it remains quite firm (unalterable, invariable) to its changes (to its variation). Notwithstanding its relative inalterability, when combined with violet its symbolic meaning is transitional. In the same way, it is unbalancing when combined with red. In the aspect of physical body balance, when combined with both, violet and red, it is an unbalancing hue; however, in the mental field, within the environment of applied psychology, it is admitted with a balancing significance.
Its symbolic transmission on the temperature is of a balanced and pleasant level for the body.
The color red is movement, it is stabilized imbalance; green is tranquility, it is balance and security; violet is transition, it is progress.
Green as a composition is used to replace some elements of the environment that we have transformed, giving it the symbol of the healthy, the normal, the natural; that is why when confronted with violet is when it achieves its greatest presence.
In summary, walking is the activity of the human being that is performed contrasting the balance, transforming the environment for our own harmony, relaxation and contemplation; likewise, confirming the renewal and change with tranquility; and finally, printing the movement and moving forward with nature; which in sum is very healthy for the walker, in all physical and mental orders, and fundamentally with a supreme vitality.
Each one can look for his own inclination of character and personality, but always walking, that is to say, accompanying us of that range of colors that always brings dragging the walk. The conjunction of the three is walking.
Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Tap Tap, Plastic Arts and Poetry. Dancing with Poems and Colors, EMULISA, Mexico, 2017.
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