I wrote this article for a friend of mine, thought it would be great to post it here too!
An Ode
Eyes, Colors and Chemical Soup
Helo! This
Is Jin!
Here’s a
fun article about eyes and color! I will first break down how your eye
perceives color, and show how it affects the brain. My theory is that we need
to understand the mechanics of your eye, because it has much power over your
body, mind and spirit.
The Eye
Mumbo Jumbo
Your eye is
an ingenious mechanism. Whoever
who invented it is a genius or was inventing under influence.
It is so
amazing that it is a mini machine with many important functions that enable us
to see.
You see the
ability to see depends heavily on light.
When light
is reflected of something, the light comes into our eyes through the pupil and
is flipped upside down by a clear lens behind your iris.
The image
is then projected through the body of the eye, aka corpus viktrum onto the
retina, where color vision happens in a so many creative ways.
Your eye
has 2 types of vision cells called rods and cones.
Rods are
long, and cylindrical cells that give you night vision and the sight for
general shapes and forms.
The Cones
however are responsible for daytime vision, color vision and the finer details
that we see.
Cones are
turned on with a certain amount and spectrum of light.
Think about
this, without light, no color.
You have
more rods than cones, a funny design.
When images
enter our eyes in the form light, it projects onto the surface of the retina
and that creates a whole lot of chemical reaction.
The light
turns on your cones and rods.
The cones
can differentiate color by its unique frequency. If you didn’t know each color
has its own wavelength, kinda like color-codes in pantones.
Your cones
and rods send signals to you brain through the optic nerve, allowing your brain
to feel electric signals that becomes what we see.
Lord Help
Me See Happy
Seeing, an
important function of our 6 senses is key. Of course it is different when we
work with the blind. But those of you reading this, don’t you think what you
see can affect your brain and trigger emotions in your body?
Emotions
are so not in your head. They are literal chemical and hormonal changes. You
can read more about it with research by Candace Pert. In essence, you can load
your body up with happy hormones aka endorphins, or stress hormones such as
adrenaline and cortisol very, very quickly just by looking at things.
Think work
documents, A.I files, Photoshop Files, or a picture of your puppy eating poop.
The funny
thing about us is we are flooded by many things throughout the day. Happy
Movies, Sad Movies, Scary movies, Cooking Shows, YouTube, dare I say it Movies
That Should Not be Named.
We are
literally creating a soup of emotions, and seldom people stop to think “What am
emotional Soup I am cooking today in my body?”
The
Experiment:
Let’s test
this out, for 4 days feast your eyes on things that make you happy for at least
20minutes a day.
I don’t
care how stress you are or how busy, just do it. This is your Colorfool Coach
Mama Speaking! Increase your happy juice, or even better come and hang with us
to see how each color can shift your body chemistry that result into changes in
your body, mind and spirit really quickly.
Hugs,
Jin
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