Thoughts of Encouragement are always helpful. I would like to tell you a story of hope. It’s really a simple story. It was a dark day in my life when my mother died and our father left us. I was four and my world had just shifted into what felt like a deep, dark pit. I would wake up shaking, wondering what horrible thing was going to happen next. Every day brought additional pain and sorrow. I went from a happy-go-lucky child to feeling like I was a freak. Isolation, embarrassment, and the painful sense of loss all seemed to consume me. My siblings and I were told no one wanted the three of us.

Soon after our father left, my siblings were taken away, causing me to mourn for my sister and brother. All I wanted was to feel safe, loved, and wanted. Those I lived with always introduced me as the child with no parents. Their introduction always made me fell like I wasn’t a part of their family, just someone staying for a short period of time. It hurt deeply to see th looks in people’s faces. It was always mixed with sorrow and pity. I had a label over my head that often made me feel like an outcast.

I went into a deep spiritual depression at five and never came out of it until I was well into adulthood. It was a miracle that I found my way out. When It happened, I felt like it was an answer to my prayers. At the moment of realization, I received a vision that showed how deep the layers of scars were and how starved my spirit was for love. After this experience, I decided to find a way to permanently remove the layers of pain and sorrow. It became an obsession and for the first time in my life, I had a dream.

At the time of this vision, my circumstances were wonderful. I was in a healthy warm, loving environment. Yet, I couldn’t shake the depression and completely feel the love that was around me. My past refused to allow me to feel it. Not knowing where to start, I prayed and was guided first to books. I went in every direction that might teach me how to be free from my invisible prison that life had placed me in.

Today, I’m out of this prison and I’m free to be me. I wrote a book about my story so others would know it was possible to remove emotional scars and live a healthy, happy life. One of the books is called, “HOW TO REBUILD SHATTERED DREAMS.” At request, I started this blog to give out additional information. It took me some work to free myself and it took a combination of many laws and principles to do it.

I went from darkness into light. Without the vision to compare my life to, I would not have realized how dark my life was and how it stopped me from enjoying simple moments. To learn how to cut the chain, it made the experience very valuable to me. I deeply love and appreciate my struggles and tumbling into darkness. The rebuilding process is what has given me the greatest joy. Now, I know anything can happen in my life and I will be okay. I understand the tools and laws it takes to rebuild it any way I want.

My heart goes out to the youth of our world. Since my depression started when I was five, I also wrote a book for them. I took everything I learned about rebuilding your life and put it in a fictional fun story. My greatest desire was to reach out to them. I wanted them to know that they will be okay. My story to them is the “STONES’ QUEST” series.

To give you a synopsis of what I have learned, I will list it below:

• How to get affirmations to work perfectly for you.
• How to erase negative thoughts and replace them with what you want to have happen in your life.
• How to replace trauma emotionally or physically with peace, only taking the lessons you learned with you into the future.
• Learn the value of who you are and the feeling of success every day of your life.
• Learn how to bring what you truly want into your life and not what life has programmed you to expect.

I can go on, but I’ll stop here. The point is people have asked me to teach the principles so you can learn how to do this for yourself. So I’m working on the seminars that I will be holding on the Internet. I have a nine-page single spaced outline of information.

I hope to have the seminar ready to start by the middle of the summer. In the meantime, you can learn what the seminar will be like by reading my books. “HOW TO REBUILD SHATTERED DREAMS” is for the adults and the “STONES’ QUEST” series is for the ages ten to seventeen.

You can go here to learn more about the seminars and books. Click here!

I hope you find these Thoughts of Encouragement helpful.

How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams! It isn’t a secret story anymore. The book you see called How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams is what started this site. Along with the seminars and articles, you can read from here.

A truly heartfelt and enduring read!

How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams is a thoughtful, inspiring guide on how to succeed in life and heal deep, emotional scars from the past.

Author LaRene Ellis (Stones’ Quest series) details how she healed from own troubled past and lives her dreams to the fullest. Abandoned as a young child, LaRene was tossed from one relative to the next, enduring abuse along the way. She not only survived, but is now thriving and sharing her story to help others.

In this book, LaRene explains how she recovered from the emotional and physical problems she suffered in her childhood through basic, yet very effective laws. She offers invaluable information on how to heal from emotional or physical abuse, how to program the mind to be successful, how to change old thought patterns and behaviors to live a healthy, vigorous life, and much more!

LaRene Ellis proves it’s never too late to realize your dreams. This is truly a must-have for anyone seeking spiritual and emotional solace in life.

Her readers have requested seminars locally. They were so popular that she has moved them to the Internet. The seminar will probably be a once-in-a-lifetime event! The people signing up will receive a copy of the seminar and be able to ask questions. Everyone isn’t going to be able to attend each and every class, so they will receive a copy of each class they missed at the end of the twenty-eight weeks.
Sign up for updates now so you can be informed of when this event will happen! In the meantime, you can read her articles or order a copy of the book for yourself or friends. Click here to order.

It seems like you want more so I’m going to keep going. So I’ll add a few more paragraphs from my favorite article on the subject of color. The article was out of a magaize Called Heath – July 1982 by Leslie Kane.

In any given society, particular colors affect almost everyone in the same way. “Colors have a uniform effect within a Western European tradition, which includes Japan,” says Margaret Walch, director of the Color Association of the United States, which standardizes the 192 colors in current use by industry and government.

In general, dark colors strike us as evil and foreboding, while light colors seem not only cheerful but physically light as well. Bonnie Bender, color marketing manager at Pittsburgh Paints and an authority on color and psychology, reports that in an experiment testing the psychological effects of paint on worker productivity, researchers painted heavy boxes white and light boxes black. Workmen had considerable more trouble lifting the light black boxes than the heavy white ones.

Marcella Graham, a medical technologist, color consultant and interior designer, described an equally dramatic example of the use of color to lift depression and stimulate activity. Called in for a consultation on staff and patient apathy in a hospital, she found the whole place painted light and medium chocolate brown and two shades of grey green. Graham advised painting the hospital floor by floor, using pumpkin orange, strawberry pink, emerald green and lavender. (Simply putting in pink curtains or orange bedspreads produced its effect.) Patient response to the brilliant colors was immediate and positive. Elderly men shaved and dressed to get out of bed each day. Female patients began circulating and visiting in the halls and requested powder, combs, lipstick and stockings. Even staff morale picked up.

If colors exert such a powerful force on mental and physical health, it behooves us to know more about them.”

Next time, we will break down each color. I’ll start with this article and add research from other sources.

We continue with the article. Before I move on with it, I want to talk with you about color. The next part of the article we’ll be talking about different colors. I want to give you some detailed information regarding color that you might know about.

You know that each color has different colors within it to create the color. There are three colors that you can always count on being there. They are blue, pink, or gold and you call them undertones. One of the three colors will always be a part of the mix of colors to recreate what you are looking at. If you do not see it quickly, it’s okay. You have to be trained to see it and I’ll show you how in a few minutes.

Since we are going to be talking about red, I want to tell the difference between reds. A tomato red has gold in it. It does not go with the other reds. A tomato red needs to stand on it’s own. If you aren’t sure that you have a tomato red. Take the different colors out in the sun and if you find your eyes jumping between tomato red and a burgundy or a lemon yellow. You will see it yourself.

A lemon or a banana is a good measuring stick to use in finding out if you can gold in a color. The fruits will let you know immediately if you should put the colors together. After a few minutes, do you find yourself wanting to look away? Or does the tomato just stand out? How would you feel if the tomato was larger or matched the size of pink?

This is what happens when you put colors together with the wrong undertones. You can use blue and pink with gold. They are colors that stand alone. We know them as Periwinkle blue and peach. Remember this as we talk about colors.

Before I leave, let me tell you the secret on how to tell if a color has the undertone of gold or blue and pink. I like to wear a silver or white gold ring and a yellow gold ring on my hands. I try to do this in sunlight. If you place the two rings on a color and you find the yellow gold ring stands out, then you know it has blue and pink undertones in it. If the silver jumps out, then it mean you have gold undertones in the color.

If you find your eye jumping between the two colors, then you know that the two colors have both gold, blue, or pink as part of the mix. I hope this helps you.

Now, let’s go back to the article.
“If colors exert such a powerful force on mental and physical health, it behooves us to know more about them. Here is a spectrum of colorful facts.
RED – THE EXCITER
The red family includes everything from maroon to crimson to pink (although pink-red mixed with white seems to have properties all its own). Several years ago, Robert Gerard, then a doctor candidate at the University of California, Los Angles (UCLA), studied the physiological reactions of people in a colored room, measuring blood pressure, respiration rate, heartbeat, muscle activity, eye blinks, and brain waves. The rate of activity in all these indicators went up in a red room. Brain-wave activity, which showed an immediate response, stayed high for more than 10 minutes. People who were already anxious found red even more disturbing than those who were previously calm. When the same people went into a blue room, all the physical indicators went down.”

If you are using red in your room, it works well in a room that is normally cooler than the rest of the house. As you can see above, people will feel warmer in a room that is normally colder than the rest of the house.

My daughter has a room in her home where it always stays colder than than the rest of the house. The room has a lot of floor to ceiling windows and it gets very little direct sunlight. The walls are a dark blood red, which means it has a blue undertone to it. The floors are wood and it works great in this room.

Once a group of our friends stayed in condos at a resort. One of the condos had red walls, red carpet, and drapes. Everyone staying in that condo kept coming over to ours, complaining that they wanted to choke everyone in the condo. They would come to ours to calm down and eventually return after a couple of hours angry and frustrated. It didn’t make sense to them. After I learned this, it made a lot of sense to me.

Here is a little more information that I found in other books regarding red:

“The lens of the eye has to adjust to focus the red light wavelengths; their natural focal point lies behind the retina. Thus, red is literally a come-hither color. It advances, making red objects seem nearer than they really are. A bossy color, it grabs the attention and overrules all surrounding colors. The way it says, ‘Here I am!’ makes it stand out in a crowd—whether as a party dress, an official’s red cap, or a package on a supermarket shelf. Its consciousness and power to command makes it the obvious safety color you’ll find in stop signs and traffic lights.
The attributes of red are almost all superlatives. Red has the longest wavelength and lowest energy of all the visible lights. It is thought to be the first color perceived by babies or by any person long exposed to light, the first hue to re-intrude on awakening sense. This physical phenomenon is reflected in language where it is among the oldest color names, the first to appear after distinctions between light and dark. Of the warm colors, it is the hottest and nearest in wavelength to infrared, which actually produces the sensation of heat. It is the fastest-moving color in terms of catching the eye, and has the greatest emotional impact. Red sits at the top of the rainbow.
Red shift refers to the change in the frequency of waves of sound or light, which occurs when the source and receiver are in motion relative to one another. It is most often experienced in the sound of passing sirens. When the source and the receiver are approaching each other, just as sound becomes higher pitched, light becomes bluer. It becomes redder when source and observer are moving apart.”

Next time, we will talk about pink. It’s a big color.

A couple of days ago, I was talking with a group of people. When we got on the subject of color, everyone seemed very interested in my knowledge of it and how it affects us.

I explained that I had found this research by going to the library in the early 1980s. I haven’t done a lot of research since then. If I knew where I could get more, I would love to read it.

Someone requested I put my findings on my blog. So I went through my papers and found the information that I dug out of the library. My information all comes from print books and magazines. If there’s someone out there who can add to it, please do by leaving a comment at the end. I want research and not something from a book that isn’t backed up by research that you can go read yourself.

Looking over my papers, I still like this article, The Power of Color. I found some of the sources on my own and I found the information to be accurate. Today, I found myself enjoying the article as much as I did in 1980. It was written by Leslie Kane in July 1982 for a magazine called Health. In my research, I found a book I think was well written. It was printed by Architecture Digest in the early 1980s. I only have pages copied out of it because it was a limited edition, so please let me know what you want. I’ll start with the article. Here are the first three paragraphs of The Power of Color – and you can decide for yourself.

“Why should hanging pretty red wallpaper in your bedroom inspire you and your spouse to make war and not love? Why does a teacher who holds sway in a yellow-and-brown classroom complain that your child’s fidgety and inattentive while a teacher who instructs in a blue room calls him a model student? And why should your job suddenly become more depressing instead of less when the boss finally shells out for a paint job and your dirty white walls get a coat of nice fresh green?
It’s a matter of science—the science of experiencing color.”

This next part I found to be true in a couple of other books that are out of print.

“Colors are electromagnetic wavebands of energy,” says Alexander Schauss, director of the American Institute of Biosocial Research in Tacoma, Washington. “Each color has its own wavelength. The wavebands stimulate chemicals in your eye, sending impulses or messages to the pituitary and pineal glands near the brain. These are master endocrine glands that regulate hormones and other physiological systems in the body.” Stimulated by response to colors, glandular activities can alter moods, speed up heart rates and increase brain activity.”

If you find this information interesting, I will continue entering Leslie’s article and other information from books that are out of print. Please let me know how you feel about this by leaving a comment below. The picture above is one of my favorite pictures from the Hubble telescope. The color is beaufitul and this is a part of our universe. Color is important to your well-being.