Part 2 – The nanoVoice program depicts frequency bar graphs in one of four colors. Each color reflects our habitual method of responding to the world around us. Specifically:
- Red – A person with “red” personality traits engages in instinctual behavior, gut level reactions, rapid-fire thinking and actions. A person with red traits has a desire to act, before extensive planning and examination of his words and actions. People, who see most of their pitches graphed in red, will be practical, down-to-earth, realistic, sensible, pragmatic and dependable. These people like to be in relationships that they are in control of and know everything that is going on. They perceive their desire to control as their way of helping others. These people are physical and assertive. Their mental processing is sequential. People with red traits tend to think of what is wrong and not what is right. They are hard workers, detailed oriented and structured.[1] These people like to see and do things before the rest of the crowd. Sharry classifies the red personality as a fireman mentality.
- Green -People with green personality traits live in a world of hopes, dreams and emotions and believe that intangible things are vital in life. With rich imaginations, they are creative and their minds work quickly. People with these traits, see a “bird’s eye” view of situations. They primarily think with the right hemisphere of their brains. They also get caught up in their visions and intuition, and can distort their perceptions to fit their dreams. With their highly developed intuition they read between the lines of what others say. People with green traits carefully select and plan their words. These people are driven by a need to be liked, often attracting co-dependent or abusive relationships. They avoid conflict and use their intuition to steer clear of it. Green personality types are champions of the downtrodden, the environment and human rights. A green personality type needs to plan and accomplish things after careful thought. People with green traits have an intense desire to make their lives count. [2] Sharry summarizes these people as representing a Farmers mentality .
- Yellow – Yellow personalities are self-reliant, self-made, self-respected, self-motivated, self-starting, and self-fulfilled. Yellow personality types believe that they can do anything if they put their mind to it. They are challengers and natural leaders. They think “out of the box” and dare to do things differently. People with yellow traits use their intelligence and develop many competencies. They think, plan and organize their words and actions in a logical fashion. Their drive for perfection creates a critical and authoritarian streak, while they can be impractical, condescending and overly conceptual. They do not need critics, because they already judge themselves and seek improvements. People with yellow traits have sharp mental processing, an intellectual outlook and a logical and cautious approach to life. [3] Sharry feels that these people have a lawyer or planner mentality .
- Blue – These people are caretakers and put others’ needs before their own. These people are loving, sensitive and concerned about people’s needs. They do not have to be in charge. These people are traditional and cautious. When their emotions are not under control they can experience addictive disorders. They can be temperamental and fly off the handle at little things. They need to know they are appreciated. They manage resources well. They are skilled at communicating and have an overall love for humanity. They have an ability to put others first with a spiritual or emotional outlook (possibly a naive perspective). Sharry sums this category of people as spiritual leaders .
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[1] Ritberger, Carol, PHD. What Color is your Personality? Hay House: Carlesbad, CA, 2000. Pg. 71 – 85.
[2] Ritberger, Carol, PHD. What Color is your Personality? Hay House: Carlesbad, CA, 2000. Pg. 119 – 133.
[3] Ritberger, Carol, PHD. What Color is your Personality? Hay House: Carlesbad, CA, 2000. Pg. 103 – 117.
The Personality Colors
Our personality is like our automatic pilot, habitually processing information and making decisions in a consistent way. Our personality is made up of both traits and characteristics. Our traits are hard-wired, emotional responses. “Traits are genetic coding that determines the way our brain develops and functions around mental processes, which is how we gather and process information and make decisions”. [1] Traits drive the way we live, develop our strengths and weaknesses, dictate how we perceive things, predispose us to certain attitudes, values, beliefs and motivations. Traits also shape what irritate us, direct how stress affects us, influence our self-esteem, and shape our coping mechanisms. Characteristics, in contrast, are behaviors that we have learned from our life experiences.
Sharry Edwards grouped pitches of associated emotions according to personality traits. As we saw earlier, doubling a given frequency creates octaves. This “multiplying effect” can be repeated many times to form octaves of much higher frequencies.Frequency-Equivalents of emotions can be doubled by octaves until they are in the range of wavelengths of color. In this way Sharry correlated colors and emotions. The hues within a given color (for example, blue, blue-green and blue-yellow) represent a personality trait or type. Sharry reflected that our language verifies links between colors and emotions. For example, “he was green with envy”. “She was so angry she saw red”. “Her sadness made her blue”. Even the Internet’s Wikipedia reports that the color of money is equivalent to the pitch of an F or F#, which correlates to the color of green.
The classification of personality trait by color is a non-threatening, reflective means to analyze others and yourself. Each color relates to personality strengths and weaknesses. This process is a non-judgmental way of seeing differences in people and how those differences impact us.
“Effects of color are very real. Dr. Max Luscher[2] believed that colors have an emotional value and that a person’s reaction to color reveals his basic personality traits. His research provided conclusive evidence that colors create the same psychological, emotional and physiological reaction in each person”.[3]
Although we all experience the entire gamut of emotions, when we have feelings outside of our core personality for an extended time we feel stressed. These times force us to be flexible, which can improve our personality characteristics or cause emotional and psychological problems.
Notes
[1] Ritberger, Carol, PHD. What Color is your Personality? Hay House: Carlesbad, CA, 2000. Pg. 7.
[2] Dr. Max Lûscher developed a famous color test during the early 1900’s. He has devoted his life to the study of how color affects behavior. The test itself is based upon fundamentals in color psychology. With years of research by color psychologists the characteristics of certain colors has been identified to cause an emotional response in people. This was done by studying the response from hundreds of thousands of test subjects around the world in order to isolate how certain colors make us feel. By doing the reverse, using the colors people prefer to determine how people feel, we can get some interesting indicators about a person’s current emotional state.
[3] Ritberger, Carol, PHD. What Color is your Personality? Hay House: Carlesbad, CA, 2000. Pg 44.