Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Meaning of the Red Color in the life


Colors greatly affect the elements of a good life in action, mental attitude, a passion to confidence. Use of a specific color for the room, furniture, clothes and even food proved influential to humans. We could even assess an individual's personality through his preferred colors. Interesting right ? Now let's talk about color. This time we are talking about red. Red is the color of the energizing, symbolizes the spirit and action. Due to generate energy, the red will increase the emotion and motivate us to take action. The color red is a warm color and positive if it relates to the basic physical needs and spirit to survive. Although often considered a woman of color, red is actually a strong masculine energy and dominant. Red signifies the pioneering spirit and leadership qualities, show ambition and determination. In our national flag, red a symbol of the courage of the nation to gain independence. GP F1 racing costume and also dominated the red.

A Glimpse of the Red Color in Eastern Cultures

In Eastern cultures like China, red is the color of luck and joy. Although it is now beginning to change, in which many Chinese brides wear white costumes, still, red is the traditional color for weddings. Lunar welcomes all knickknacks ranging from lanterns, lion dance until angpao red envelopes. Even back before the Chinese New Year, many Chinese people paint the door red. On the contrary, forbidden to the color red as opposed to an element funeral grief. Not only China, in Indian culture, red symbolizes purity and is often used in their wedding gowns. As for Indonesia's multi-ethnic, red, black and white almost always be the main color of culture. Toraja wearing the red color in the painting along the wall of the house. Makasarese have traditional dress ladies' clothes Bodo "dominant red. Dayak tribe wear red as one of the elements of color beads. Not counting the Java, Bali, Palembang, etc. Red is predominant.

Positive Nature Red

Red has the positive properties: action, energy and speed, attract attention, assertive and confident, energetic, stimulating, exciting, powerful, vibrant, stimulating and driven, brave and strong, spontaneous and decisive. 
Red is also having a negative nature namely: aggressive and domineering, over-bearing, exhausting, short-tempered, cruel, fear and intolerance, rebellious and stubborn, angry, violent and brutal.

Things That Are at Present in the Red

1. Energy: red increase our physical energy levels, increase heart rate and blood pressure and make the release of adrenaline.
2. Action: red makes us move quickly and pushed to act and move.
3. Lust relates to physical desires - sexual appetite, cravings.
4. Passion: Red excite both positive as well as negative love like hatred.

Effects of Red to Everyday Life

1. Stimulate

Red stimulates sexual desire and other basic physical lust. Therefore, if you have a flagging sex life and want more vibrancy, use red elements to the bedroom (interior space, furniture, bed clothes), but not too much because it will be the opposite effect. Although red is often used to express love, such as Valentine's Day, but actually more precise red symbolizes sexuality and lust, not love. Because color to express love is pink. The red color also can whet your appetite, often used in restaurant or food dish.


Eample : 

• Logos home eating a lot of wear red. 
• a bowl of strawberry ice cream with chunks of red-eye will be more tempting than ice    cream sprinkled with nuts. 
• Balado Shrimp fried chilli red or red color looked very tempting than pale.

2. Attract and Motivate

Red excites our emotions and inspire us to take action. Being the color of physical movement, the red color of awakening of our physical life. Red can give confidence to those who are shy or lacking willpower. Shy children will be more enthusiastic if often wear red color element. Soccer team uniforms are also many wear red elements, as is believed to promote the spirit of play. Ambulance many wore red. Because speed is urgent and requires action.
Police patrol car also started many wearing red. But if in Indonesia seems not ngefek hehehe

3. Draw Attention

The color red has always attracted the limelight. So if you want to disguise, invisible, so avoid red hehehe. Conversely if you want easy to find, use red color. So that from a distance people already see its existence. For example, paint the gas station, terminal, etc. often use red color for the exterior. Red is also the color of universal danger. This is why the traffic light is red as a stop sign. Funnily enough, because the red danger signal to the brain, then the driver tends to spur faster when closer to red, so many red lights interloper. Meanwhile, when green, the driver tends to be more relaxed and slow moving, because green is calming.

4. Assertive and Agresif

A small survey once showed that the driver of the red car, including women, felt so aggressive behind the wheel of their red cars. Although this survey is still a lot of pros and cons for another survey pointed to a blue car was actually trigger aggressiveness. Be careful, too much red also trigger negative expressions of anger and aggression that may even trigger a destructive action. Surrounded by too much red can cause us to be upset, anxious, and finally angry. Mass seas wearing red color much more easily persuaded to act destructively because of increased aggressiveness. Well, be careful of the coordinators demo, if you want the action went peacefully, avoid costumes predominantly red. But for soldiers ready for combat, the use of red elements it is necessary to supplement the courage and aggressiveness. As the elite Kopassus, red beret troops, for example. Flag or red banners in the procession of soldiers. Too few red makes us be careful, manipulative and cowardly.