White

I know I have been away, I have been busy doing nothing. You may find this unbelievable, but I myself am a person that struggles not to be doing something. I took 2 weeks off of work, had a staycation and yet I was not super active on the blog. 

The reason for this is because I wanted to disconnect. Ever since I started having smartphones and laptops, I always felt the need to disconnect for a while. I would usually would do this when I was on holidays and going to the beach for 2 weeks, where I spend my days reading. 

Recently I have finished a 6 week reiki running session. If you have never done reiki it is an alternative therapy that helps you balance your internal chakras (points of energy), where a therapist using their hands (but not touching you) will check in on these points and will try to to help you balance your energy centers. 

I tried to do reiki more frequently in the past, but I guess that real life rat race makes us forget the things that are beneficial for us and only when we feel not so great, we realise we need  help.

For me a good way of analysing how each session goes is to express the colours I see in my mind’s eye. I also find that when I am doing reiki I have this need to use bright and light colours.

The first time I was introduced to reiki, I was going through a very shitty period of my life and I remember the therapist asking for certain occasions to wear white clothes. I remember telling her I didn’t have white in my wardrobe, to which she replied to wear light colours, pastel tones instead as much as I could. 

With time I have come to change my perspective of the world, I have learned about the stimuli that I react to. The more I know myself, the more comfortable I feel about myself, the more colour I have embraced in my life and now I can say I have very few pieces that are black or dark in my wardrobe. I still love black, I think I look great in black, yet because I feel certain colours hold different energies I only use it on very specific occasions. 

With all the above said, during my staycation I went to Oxford and I’ve visited the Oxford Botanic Garden https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/visit-garden  which is such a lovely place to visit, plus it is the oldest botanic garden in the UK. It was originally created to study plants and botanicals. 

I observed so many plants and flowers, I was amazed by Mother Nature’s beauty, the colours, forms, patterns, in all the plants and flowers.

I decided to expand a bit on the meaning of colours on this blog and at the same time share with you some of the flowers I photographed in the Oxford Botanic Garden.

I am starting with white. White is a very powerful colour I find it is used very smartly by people and brands. I like white a lot, yet I don’t have a lot of white big pieces of clothing. I love a white shirt, there is a small sense of perfection right there on your chest. I also find that a white shirt/top in the work environment, others will react to you in a more open and friendly way. 

Here are some of the meanings and feelings the colour white that transmit:

• White represents purity or innocence. 
• Designers often use the color white to make rooms seem larger and more spacious.
• White can convey simplicity. 
• White often seems like a blank slate, symbolizing a new beginning or a fresh start.
• In marketing and branding, white is used to convey a feeling of safety, purity, freshness, and cleanliness.

I’ll leave you with some of the plants/flowers I observe on the Oxford Botanic Garden.

My name is Franca and this is personal!