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Colour, Healing and the Human Soul:: Understanding colours and using themfor health and therapy Industry In Why Childhood Illness MattersIn a delightful study originally comprising two separate booklets the accomplished artist and teacher Gladys Mayer explains that colour is nothing other than the very substance of the soul. Just as the body is made up of mineral, water, air and warmth, so the soul is made up of colour. This is revealed in the emotions of sadness and joy and the many shades in between, as expressed in human language for example: seeing red', rose coloured spectacles'