The Self-Help Guru
Tony Wrighton, Top Self-Development Coach

“Linking thoughts and emotions to colours is something I’ve been using for years — and I have found it hugely effective. It works by making use of the amazing way the brain links a visual stimulus to a thought. You must follow the specific instructions below though, or it doesn’t work.

"First, pick the colour you’d like to use. Your options are blue (the colour of the ocean and the sky, generally associated with calm and peacefulness) or green (the colour of nature, and calming and easy on the eye; hospitals often paint walls light green because it relaxes patients).

"These coloured spots become even more powerful when used alongside sophisticated memory association techniques to help you feel calm. Here is what you need to do: 1) Get some coloured spot stickers in your chosen colour. 2) Stick one somewhere you’ll see it often, but not constantly. 3) Once you’ve placed your coloured spot sticker, think of a specific time when you felt deeply relaxed. It might be lying by the pool on holiday, slouching in a comfy chair watching TV — any time when you felt relaxed. Think of that time now as you look at the spot. Associate as closely as you can with the memory, hearing what you heard at the time and making the sounds clear and crisp, seeing exactly what you saw and making the colours vivid as you continue to look at your spot for a full minute, remembering how relaxed you felt. Now, notice how you feel more relaxed whenever you happen to look at the spot.”