Colour Walking Meditation

I spent much of last weekend painting at a Steiner colour workshop, which was a wonderful experience and has made me think quite a lot more about the influence that colour has on our lives, and how we can go about interacting and engaging with it in a way that really opens up our emotional,spiritual and energetic being. So, below is one meditation that I invented and have been using over the last couple of days to consolidate the practise of working with colour. It is a walking form, you can read more about basic aspects of walking meditation from a previous article which you can find here.
Anyway, here's the meditation:

As you are walking along in an outdoor environment, be aware of the principle colours of your environment. Generally the main colours will be the green of the trees and other flora and fauna, the blue of the sky (various shades depending on the time of day), yellow golds from the sun, silver from the moon and white from starlight and clouds. If you are near water, then there are options there as well.
Select the colour from your surroundings that you intuitively feel is the one that you are most going to benefit from at that particular time (for example today I mainly worked with the yellow gold of the sunlight). As you are walking along, simply imagine yourself surrounded by that colour and its vibration. Feel its beneficial effects in your energy field and within the cellular structure of your body. Feel its effect upon your emotions and sense of well being. Breathe it in and out of your body with each inhalation and exhalation.

If you have the time, you can pause at places where there are other colours, such as in front of violet or red coloured flowers, and feel the effect of surrounding yourself in the tones of these colours.

This meditation form is very simple (a lot of the best ones are) and can really help us to open up to an appreciation of just how effective working with colour can be in terms of your own sense of emotional well being. You will find quite quickly which colours you feel best surrounded by, and be able to use them effectively with just a little practice. Partaking of colour is such a fundamental part of accessing the joy of being alive, but for many of us it has been intellectualized out to the point that we can no longer really 'feel' it and respond to it from the depths of our being. We may have lost it, but we can find it again too!