Color Therapy

Color Therapy

Open Ended

What's your favorite color?

Open Ended

Why is that color your favorite color?

Poll

What is your claim about color therapy?

• Color therapy IS a valuable way to help our bodies function better.

• Color therapy IS NOT a valuable way to help our bodies function better.

Color therapy is a spa treatment on the market.

• Even though it's trendy now, color therapy dates back to ancient Egypt and China.

Multiple Select

When did color therapy start? Select TWO that apply?

• Ancient Egypt

• Ancient Rome

• Ancient China

• Ancient Greece

Color therapy is a treatment said by specialists to bring health and balance to your body and mind.

• The vibrations of colors in color therapy sessions enhance your mood and improve your overall health.

Multiple Choice

Color therapy enhances our mood.

• True

• False

Color therapists consider the way that we experience light and color when making treatment plans.

• Colors are made up of reflected lights that hit our eyes as wavelengths vibrate.

• Our brain then makes sense of these.

• So, color is something that we can both see and feel.

Multiple Choice

When light hits our eyes, our brain interprets the color in two different ways.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Colors are made up of _________ lights that hit our eyes as wavelengths vibrate.

• Reflected

• Refracted

Color therapy is based on the idea that colors create electrical impulses in our brains that make everything in our body work. 

• This can stimulate or calm us.

Multiple Choice

Color therapy can calm or stimulate us.

• True

• False

There are many types of color therapy sessions today.

• As you begin your session, your color therapist will explain the effects of the colors and ask you about the areas of your life that you want to improve.

• Some salons will shine colored lights on certain areas that will promote healing and health, or they might place different colored silks on certain areas to control your moods and emotional well-being.

Your color therapy session and the shades of colors used also will change depending on what you are trying to improve.

• For example, blue and purple lights can be calming.

• Green helps to purify and cleanse. Red light might cause anger if you are already tense.

  
  

Multiple Select

What colors can calm you?

• Blue

• Purple

• Green

• Red

Multiple Choice

If you are very angry, red is a color that you should avoid.

• True

• False

Even though many believe in color therapy, the science behind the treatment isn't proven yet.

• However, some people respond well to the treatment.

• Cornell Medical Center has studied the effects of using color therapy to treat lung cancer.

• Researchers examined the lungs of patients, and their findings revealed that different colored light filters affected the cells in various ways.

• However, this research is still in the experimental phase.

  
  

Multiple Choice

Even though many believe in color therapy, the science behind the treatment isn't proven yet.

• True

• False

Poll

Color therapy is a valuable way to help our bodies feel and function better.

• Super Agree

• Agree

• Disagree

• Super Disagree

Poll

What is your claim about color therapy?

• Color therapy IS a valuable way to help our bodies function better.

• Color therapy IS NOT a valuable way to help our bodies function better.

Poll

What paragraph gives evidence from the text (slides) supports your claim?

• Paragraph 1 or 2

• Paragraph 3

• Paragraph 4

• Paragraph 5

• Paragraph 6

Open Ended

What evidence from the text (slides) supports your claim?

Copy at least ONE sentence from the passage as evidence.