Clear or Rainbow Polka Dots on Plaid

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Today's Word:  Color
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For years when anyone asked me what my favorite color was I would say, "Clear" or "Rainbow polka dots on plaid."  I honestly haven't, and don't, have a favorite color.  I can't commit to the simple task of choosing a color which I believe is the best of the best.  I worry that I will end up with a million things that are purple, that everyone will buy gifts for me that are blue, that I am neglecting orange and pink and red....  I'm so neurotic!
Although I don't have a favorite color, I do know and appreciate the benefits of how colors affect my mood and outlook on what's going on externally in my life.  I've surrounded myself with orange quite often as it brightens me up, makes me lift myself out of a slump, makes me happy.  I've noticed I will where blue, gray, or purple when I'm feeling down.  I where white when I'm wanting to look sleek, clean, elegant, and black when I want to look mysterious, sexy...and of course, thin.
Colors really do have an impact on mood.  In DBT therapy, we were talk many techniques using colors to regulate ourselves in intensely emotional times.  To feel calm, visualize breathing in blue, breathing out red.  To distract yourself to get out of emotional mind, choose one color and name as many objects as you can that are associated with that color (ie.green--grass, granny smith apples, frogs, leaves, etc).  Feeling angry?  Take a red crayon and color the hell out of a piece of paper in frantic scribbles.
Maybe that's why I can't pick a favorite color...I have bipolar disorder, my moods swing back and forth to high extremes.  If color reflects mood...and I am either clear or rainbow polka dots on plaid....
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