The Power of Colors The Path to Self-Healing and Personal Transformation Through Native American Ancient Wisdom (Power of Alternative Medicine – Book 2) by Noah Goldhirsh

337 Pages
Publisher: BooksGoSocial
Release Date: August 3, 2020

Nonfiction, Health, Mind, Body, Spirit, Self-Help

The author has provided a complete reference book on colors. This is not just a book of colors. She does an amazing job explaining what colors are and how to use them in your daily life. There are many references to Native Americans and the Native American Wheel of Colors. She discusses different types of healing and diagnostic methods using colors. I love the idea of using color cards for divination. I was blown away by the information in this book. I have already told several people about this book. I know this review cannot do justice to the amount of information contained in the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in working with colors, healing, or Native American/First Nations traditions.

I love to read about colors and found The Power of Colors a fascinating read. Noah Gold has presented an individualized approach to consciously using the healing power of color in everyday life. I learned a lot about myself when making my color wheel.

I believe that so much of the world is still a mystery and it's worth giving every idea a chance, as long as it doesn't harm our well being or others as well. I am utterly intrigued by this book, most especially since this is the first time that I have ever heard of color therapy. I've always been enchanted by colors and the roles the play in various mediums in our lives.

First of all: Very interesting reading! I did the colour wheel on both me and my mom and we had so much fun with it. If anything, I wish there were fewer topics with more depth to each. The book tries to mention so much that at times it feel very surface level. There is also some repetitive language and topics, and I'm not sold by the use of customer experiences the author has had. If they weren't written after the exact same formula each time -- "a patient X had trouble with this, we did the wheel and saw he had Y in his 7th house and so i told him to, and after some time he felt much better" -- they would have had more impact and seemed more heartfelt or even authentic.

I chose this book imagining it to be a scientific work about colors. But it is totally different. It details perception and natural therapeutic and other effects of various colours. It gets to thick to navigate through after few chapters.
I can't correctly recommend it to readers. There might be readers in natural therapies and new fields.

this book was okay. I found the idea of creating our own color wheel to be a fun and creative way to learn more about ourselves. This book is basically about color therapy using a color wheel and your intuition as a guide.

I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy free of charge. This is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.

The subject of the book was interesting – the influence of colors on our life. While the premise is interesting, the matter tends to repeat, and the experiences cited are weak.

The underlying premise is based on American Native culture. The color wheel is a set of 13 colors (one being at the center) and can be individualized. The position of the color wheel for each of us in combination with the months influences the results. I found the initial chapters on the influence each color has broadly to be interesting reading, and also feels intuitively probable. The subsequent chapters, however, go into very long winding & repetitive elaboration of the impact of the color on each position of the wheel. Each chapter concept is accompanied by an experience (a good thing), but is described very simplistically as near miracles involving simple switches of colors.

Overall, an interesting concept to skim through for personal interest.

I wanted to read something that I've never read about before, and this book screamed my name. It was interesting to read about Native American wisdom about colours. And learning about the meaning of colour and their effect on our lives was highly fun. This book gave me a lot to talk about with family and friends, but I still need scientific data to believe it works. I'd recommend this to anyone interested in colours.

This book fascinated me. The way we are aware of how we think of and react to color and the great information and data surrounding it. If you're are in touch with your personal energy you'll love the information detailed in this book. If you're not, this book will explain do many things. There are certain colors that cause me anxiety and some than make my calm and happy. A great read on color therapy, theory and more.

Does have some good areas to think about if colour therapy is an interest. Personal experiences, painting the wheel, basic meanings, Native American wheel of colours, and more.

What would have been an otherwise poorly cited description of a spiritualist approach to color therapy became offensive & inaccurate effort at cultural appropriation of what the author describes as an apparent monolith of "Native American culture". Disappointing and frankly a little gross for a 2020 publication.

While at first glance this seemed like a fun (if ridiculous) book, I find the author's appropriation of Native American culture and spirituality pretty unforgivable. It's one thing to claim that you can tell everything about a person by having them randomly arrange 13 colors by numbers or that you can heal people from serious illness by putting a color on their body, but please don't pretend that it's secret Native American healing and religion and then make money off of it. Just no.

“First they came to take our land and water, then our fish and game. …Now they want our religions as well. All of a sudden, we have a lot of unscrupulous idiots running around saying they’re medicine people. And they’ll sell you a sweat lodge ceremony for fifty bucks. It’s not only wrong, its obscene. Indians don’t sell their spirituality to anybody, for any price. This is just another in a very long series of thefts from Indian people and, in some ways, this is the worst one yet.” -- Janet McCloud, Tulalip elder and activist

Once we get past the cultural appropriation, this is also just a silly book. Even if you want to believe what she's peddling, the delivery is no good. She tells you that you need to first find out your colors by number and the way you order them will tell everything about you. This can never be done again in your life -- the order you do it the first time is set in stone. So you give people a box of 24 oil pastels and have them number 1-13, and then you look to see what colors they put by what numbers. Already we have a problem, as her colors are red, black, green, orange, brown, gray, white, pink, rose, blue, yellow, purple and crystal. What if someone uses three shades of blue and no gray? And there is no "crystal" color in a box of oil pastels. Already, we've failed, and we can't ever redo it. Huh. There's just an endless stream of issues like this.

The book goes into great detail about what it means if you put this color by this number (each number has to do with some area of your life, even though you don't know the meanings before you randomly color the numbers) and then there are other exercises where you trace your two hands and then randomly color them and then analyze what you've drawn and what colors you used, and stuff like that. It's harmless fun, other than the fact that Goldhirsh keeps claiming this is Native American spirituality. How does anybody still not know how wrong this is in 2020?

Sorry, this isn't a book I can recommend.

I read a digital ARC of this book for review.

I wanted to read something different to what I normally do. I had a very basic understanding of 'colour theory' before reading the book so was interested to see what more I could learn. This book is very descriptive and informative and I really enjoyed it. It is well written and easy to understand. I found the book a fascinating read and would highly recommend to others.

I had done some research on colour therapy before but found it all so confusing. I thought this book would be interesting and maybe explain it a bit better. The first part of the book was good and I got a lot of info out of it but the second half of it I got completely confused on it all again and feel that this would be better understand on a one to one basis. Other than that it would be a good book for someone who could get their head around it

The book lives up to the author’s claim that readers will learn new things about themselves. I have gained a new appreciation for my choice of colors and how my choices affect me. The research and the author’s illustrations are convincing that everyone will become wiser and healthier by paying attention to the advantages of the right color for the right reason. I would like to have my own copy for reference.

The principles of color therapy inspired by Native American culture will undoubtedly make life easier and happier when implemented, but beginners may find that setting up the personal color wheel (a must for devoted practitioners) takes more than a little effort. Still, I will gladly recommend the book for anyone interested in color therapy as an alternative health process.

I really enjoyed the beginning of the book and learning about the wheel and how to construct it. However, I found the second part of the book rather confusing and would suggest the teaching is more suitable to an individual consultation rather than a reading book. But that’s just my opinion!

Thus book has everything you need to create and understand your own personal color wheel. I think that this would make a very special yoga retreat especially with the interconnectedness of your personal color wheel and the color of chakras and their healing.

This is actually an anthropological/sociological work based on the culture of Native Americans. This is an interesting subject in itself, and obviously the basis on which many people respond to the various treatments suggested.

Having a scientific background, and being a person who finds colours very therapeutic I was interested to see if there was any scientific basis for this. Examples of successful treatments are given; however I could not begin to see how they could achieve results from a scientific point of view. However, there are more things in Heaven and Earth as they say...and obviously some people benefit from the activities described.

Whether you are sceptical or not, this is an interesting read.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC. All opinions my own.

I enjoyed this book. I took Color Theory in college and it was primarily a study of the color wheel and the science of color. This book breaks down the psychology of color. The Author also discusses the history of color based on the wisdom derived from Native American ancient wisdom.
To me, the book read like the Astrology of color, colors were defined and their attributes labelled. The author encourages you to think of the healing properties of color and how to use it to improve your mental and physical well being.
The author does an excellent job providing practical advice and sharing personal stories.
Thank you Netgalley and Amazon for the opportunity to read and review this thought provoking book!

jtb
https://seniorbooklounge.blogspot.com/

An interesting mash-up of color theory and self-help. This book has lots of information and invites the reader to explore as deeply as they wish. I expect I will be revisiting this in the future and using this in conjunction with making mandalas.