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COLOUR YOUR LIFE

Mara was having trouble sleeping in her new flat. She had tried everything hot milk, pills, relaxation

tapes but nothing seemed to work. A friend took a look at Maras bedroom and said, no wonder its the!olour of your walls" #he walls were painted a deep purple and yellow. #aking her friends advi!e, Mara had

her room repainted a !alming sky blue and started visualising the same !olour as she lay down to sleep at

night. $t worked Maras insomnia was !ured"

%sing !olour to improve health is probably one of the oldest forms of medi!ine. $n an!ient &gypt, !ertain

!olours were worn to relieve spe!ifi! physi!al !onditions, while in early $ndian !ivilisations, !olour was used to

transform mood. 'or example, people might be sent into the forest surrounded by green to !alm their

nerves.

#oday, as then, !olour therapy is still being used to treat a variety of illnesses. (e!ently, however, its

popularity has grown as more and more people turn away from !onventional medi!ine in favour of alternativemethods of healing. )ne form of !olour therapy is !olour*pun!ture. #his is similar to a!upun!ture, ex!ept

that beam of !oloured light is used instead of a needle. +olour !an also be used to improve mood. At one

ondon hospital, - people who were suffering from depression got treated with a spe!ial light mask that had

tiny red lights inside. #welve of the patients were !ured.

/ow does !olour therapy work0 Although there are various kinds of treatment, they are all based on the

same prin!iple1 2ifferent !olours produ!e different energies be!ause !olours are formed by fre3uen!ies of

light, and ea!h one !auses the air to vibrate at a different speed. (ed, for example, is the fastest, so it is

asso!iated with energy. 4lue has a lower fre3uen!y and therefore is thought to be more soothing. +olour

therapists use !olour to !reate the perfe!t balan!e of energy within the mind and body. #his might bea!hieved by wearing white, thinking pink or drinking orange. #he possibilities are apparently endless.

A. Answer the following 3uestions using your own words.

-. /ow was !olour used in the past0 5ame two ways.

6. /ow is !olour therapy being used today0 7ive two examples.

8. /ow are the !olours similar to ea!h other0 /ow are they different0

4. 'ind words in the text that mean1

-. inability to sleep

6. !hange

8. treating disease

9. !alming


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PRICE !ILLI"#

:rin!e ;illiam, the son of :rin!e +harles and the late :rin!ess 2iana, tries to live an ordinary life. /ealways tells people to !all him ;illiam. ;hile he was growing up, he hated papara


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#E#ORIES

ondon, April -B9 ... 7rey, !loudy. $t had been a long winter. Small, pale, a sixteen*year*old s!hoolboy whohad never travelled alone, never been abroad, $ boarded an airplane C

And half a morning later $ walked down the steps of the plane into the bright, white light of Spain C of

Andalusia C Seville" A warm wind blowing on my fa!e through the palm trees. :alms" And C orange trees"

#he streets of Seville lined, lined with orange trees" $ bent down, pi!ked an orange from the pavement,

remembered the marmalade $d had for breakfast C breakfast a thousand miles away.

April in Seville" ;arm and free1 as if summer had begun. 7uadal3uivir, a 7iralda, voluptuous gardens,

:ar3ue de Mara uisa, fiesta and feria, my first kiss ... $d never drunk wine before ... never seen a !ar =ump

the lights, weave around people on a


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