How Color Affects Your Mood and Mental Health

It’s important to understand how color affects your mood if you’re going to create an environment of peacefulness and mental clarity.

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By Sean Clarke

In life, there are a ton of different factors that influence your mood and mental health. As we run in the pursuit for an ‘unshakable’ state of mind, bringing mindful awareness to color is important. It’s important to understand how color affects your mood if you’re going to create an environment of peacefulness and mental clarity. It’s not always the ‘big things’ that can influence your mood, like falling our with a friend or having an injury. Simply the colors we immerse ourselves in can have a subconscious effect on our mood and state of mind.

This post is all about how color affects your mood and mental health.

It’s obvious that designers and homeowners alike use different colors to give different moods in certain rooms. For example, you might paint a room white to give it a pure feeling or paint another room red to give it an energetic feel. Corporations also use colors in their logos to summon different emotions in consumers.

For example;

• Fanta uses orange to encourage a feeling of fun and confidence