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Not a new thing, color therapy has treated the diagnosis of illness for many centuries. Over the years, color frequencies have become transmitted and absorbed through many colored venues—gemstones, clothing, water, light, icons, art, decoration, salves and ointments. Because of this, the developing fields of aromatherapy, color therapy, gemstone placement, solarized water, light therapy, yoga, reflexology, and many other complementary practices have attracted mankind in their healing modalities.

With the increasing acceptance of metaphysical fields in Western society, color therapy is coming to the forefront rather rapidly as society moves further away from traditional medicine. Color is one of the simplest of ways, affecting the human body through the most powerful of methods on all mental, physical and emotional levels. Gentle things, like a beautiful sunset or the blue of an ocean can put a depressed soul to peace more than bottle after bottle of drugs, having the most profound of effects on seeking individuals.

The spectrum of colors offers individual frequencies or wavelengths within each specific color. When a person becomes ill, this illness is typically caused by a lack of color. The cells within the body's organs are not receiving the necessary colors they need. By renewing them with the lacking color through one of the color modalities, energy can be replenished within the "sick cells". Ancient practitioners have always believed that by changing colors around their patients through sunlight and colored gems, their health could be enhanced.

Because of an improper application or usage of color or light within the human body, symptoms of disease will appear that can affect a person's lifestyle, stress levels, or the surrounding environment. A color therapist needs to assess what color frequencies are lacking in the ill individual, in order to correct the color imbalance.  Typically, this assessment can take as long as two hours, where the patient's state and current health issues are discussed.

A good color therapist will use kinesiology to test the patient's muscle strength in relation to color, along with diagnostic charts and data already present from other color therapists and healers.  Kinesiology is the study of how muscles act and coordinate within the body, becoming monitors of stress and imbalance within the natural health field. When the field of kinesiology is used in conjunction with color therapy, it is based on the fact that physiologic functions respond to specific colors. 

How this works is through the pineal gland in the brand, which is in full control of the daily rhythms of life. As color or colored light travels into the eye or skin, it eventually will reach the gland through the neurological pathways of the body. With different colors giving off different wavelength frequencies, each one will give off a unique effect on both physical and psychological functions.