For years I avoided the colour blue. If I was shopping and came across some clothing that was blue, I quickly passed it by. If a room was painted blue, it actually bothered me. I didn’t think much of it at the time. I just chalked it up to personal taste.
Looking back, during the same period I was also dealing with a low or sluggish thyroid condition. I never once thought about putting the two things together at the time.
Most of the guidance I was receiving about my thyroid back then followed the standard protocol and advice: check your levels, take medication, consider thyroid supporting supplements. No one ever asked me what colours I was drawn to or was repulsed by. Why would they? That’s not exactly part of a lab panel.
But then things began to change. As I worked to bring my autoimmune thyroid condition into remission (which I’ve kept in remission for 7 years now), I noticed I didn’t mind the colour blue so much anymore. It was a change that seemed to happen rather quickly actually. I found myself buying blue things and wanting more blue in my space. And my family noticed the change. They were shocked – ‘you actually like this? But it’s BLUE!?’
I’m not the first person to notice a connection between energy centres in the body and their relationship to certain colours. Knowledge on the body’s energy centres/chakras has been shared for centuries. Caroline Myss (well-known medical intuitive and author of several books on chakras and the mind, body, spirit connection) also goes into detail about this; the connection between the thyroid and the throat chakra, the colour blue, personal expression, setting boundaries, etc.
I’m not saying that disliking blue means your thyroid is struggling, or that liking it again means you’re in the clear. That’s not how this works.
For me, the part caught my attention was that my thyroid issues happened during a time in my life when I spent a lot of years staying quiet, swallowing things I may have wanted to say out loud and putting other people’s needs ahead of my own. I don’t think that proves there was a connection between the two, but I find it interesting.
There are small signals we get all the time that we can either notice or write off because we don’t know what to do with them. As a result of the journey I’ve travelled with my own health and watching and helping others, I feel strongly that the body communicates in ways that don’t always show up on a lab report. It has made me start paying attention to signals I previously wouldn’t have noticed.
I’ve talked to enough women dealing with their own issues now to know I’m not the only one who has wondered about these kinds of connections. Obviously correlation isn’t proof of anything, and I don’t mean to say that it is.
What I do think is worth doing is paying attention to the subtle things a little more closely. Not analyzing, definitely not diagnosing yourself based on a colour preference, just noticing. Could there be colours you are avoiding right now? What colours do you gravitate towards without thinking about it? Are there other little things your body seems to be telling you that you’ve been dismissing because they don’t seem important or make any sense?
It might mean nothing. Or it just might be worth sitting with for a few minutes.
Talk soon,
Debbie
I write from my own experience, research, and years of paying attention to the connection between nutrition, lifestyle, and how we feel. My hope is that it helps you ask better questions, think more critically about the information you’re given, and find an approach that makes sense for you.
This is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose or medically manage any health condition. Bring what resonates into conversations with a healthcare professional or practitioner you trust, and make decisions that make sense for you based on your own circumstances.