Drawn To Yellow To Recharge My Batteries

I was uploading some work today and noticed that I was irresistibly drawn to yellow images, not my usual preference.

Drawn To Yellow To Recharge My Batteries

The Meaning Of The Colour Yellow

Yellow is about optimism, freshness and sunshine, the promise of a bright future. Energetic and uplifting, yellow helps stimulate the left side of your brain. The left side of your brain is all about decision making and thinking.  The negative side of yellow is often expressed as cowardice (for example, someone is said to have a ‘yellow streak’).

So it is very interesting that I have been drawn to yellow today after a week where I really have had to let the left side of my brain take the lead. We tend to be drawn to the colours that we need to bring balance into our lives. So the yellow is significant for me. After a particularly heavy week, when I am a bit tired and jaded I clearly need the boost yellow can give me.

I have written before that colour influences our mood and emotions, one of the basic tenets of colour therapy. You can read more in depth about the colour yellow here.

Why I Need Yellow

Truth to be told I have had a bit of a week.

Building Work Finished This Week

This has been the final week for a long building project that seems to have gone on and on and on. The builders are lovely and I am really pleased with the work they have done. But after three months of disruption I am glad to see them gone.

Inevitably though, with the builders gone the clean up starts. While there is pleasure in that, getting the house back to how we want it, it is very tiring. My muscles have been complaining and I am physically tired.

Emmy Had Two Seizures Yesterday

I wrote in a previous blog about my cat Emmy’s epilepsy.

Well having endured all the building work stoically, without any problem, Emmy watched me say goodbye to them yesterday and then immediately had a seizure. Followed by another seizure four hours later.

Emmy was behind the sofa when she had the second one so we had to pull out all the furniture. That was it thank goodness, just two and then her energy changed and we knew she was going to be all right. No lasting neurological effects once she got over trying to climb up as high as she could on all the furniture! Scary stuff though.

Disturbed Nights

Tuesday night we had a visit from the wild dogs. While I would normally ignore them, particularly as I knew the cats were safe in the cat garden, something didn’t sound right. I got up to investigate at around 1.30am. One of the dogs was in the woodland at the edge of the house. I could hear it whimpering and crying, sobbing fact. It was a horrible sound and I wanted to help it but I couldn’t see it even with a torch and no-one in their right mind would go into the woods in the dark. (They always do that in films though don’t they? Anyway, I digress).

After the dog wandered off it took me ages to go to sleep!

My second disturbed night this week was literally last night. I was fast asleep at 12.45am when my mobile phone rang. It was a UK mobile phone calling me so half asleep I sat bolt upright thinking something was wrong with my parents. Having said hello several times the other person hung up. I have no idea who it was. But guess what, because I couldn’t phone anyone at that time of the morning to check they were okay I lay in bed worrying about that and whether Emmy was okay because I could hear the odd thump from upstairs (the cats wandering around).

A Tree Came Down

Just when you think you are on top of everything a little surprise on Wednesday this week. In the form of one of our trees that had come down in the wind and was blocking the road above our house on a blind bend. This was at 2.30pm and everyone I telephoned for help didn’t answer because it was lunch time! Remember this is Italy so lunch is an extended affair.

Barnet Boy and I cleared what we could of the tree and made the road passable again but the main part of the tree creaked every time the wind blew and came down another inch.

I eventually got hold of the police who told me to call out the fire brigade. A squad of four firemen arrived and made short work of the tree. Pieces of it are now all on the side of our land waiting to be cleared. But before it got cleared I stood at the side of the road for two and a half hours to stop traffic driving into the tree!

At least that is next year’s firewood sorted.

Lack Of Appetite

Perhaps it is not surprising that with all these events and lack of sleep I also have a lack of appetite. Obviously I am drawn to yellow to both wake me up (clear my fuzzy mind) and stimulate my appetite.

At least it is almost the weekend and we can now return to some semblance of normality – whatever that is for us! But I can carry into it my new energy, having recharged my batteries by immersing myself in the colour yellow in my images.

Before you go

My name is Dorothy Berry-Lound an artist and writer. You can find out more about my art and writing at https://dorothyberryloundart.com.

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