While we use green to describe someone who is inexperienced, jealous or sick (i.e. “You look a little green around the gills”) we also associate green with regeneration, fertility and rebirth. We also find in ancient Egypt green symbolizes immortality and we can find proof of this belief in their worship of Osiris, their god of the after-life. It was said that Osiris died and was resurrected and most typically depicted as having green skin which represented his regeneration. Green enables us to feel connected to nature by a means that no other color can. We feel relaxed mentally and physically. It soothes, warms and cools all at the same time. Gazing upon this hue that is formulated out of blue and yellow we can alleviate feelings of depression and anxiety with it’s calming effects. The positive effects as we mentally calculate how this hue will make us react perhaps can be attributed to the yellow and blue which have created it. Although our brain tells us green is the most natural color I find it somewhat comical that there is no natural source of green food colorings approved by the FDA. So, we find green in an unnatural state. On the positive side of it’s psychology this color symbolizes intelligence, fertility, youth, wealth, good luck and generosity. On the flip side, however, we associate this color with greed, envy, aggression and jealousy. Perhaps we should feel no need to decipher in our minds our feelings of being wealthy or greedy, lucky or envious, as these feelings are in fact influenced by the same emotions to a reaction to same color.

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