Do colors affect your mood, your desires and your daily life? The answer is yes for some and no for others. Some people think that certain colors can trigger a desire or emotion. For example, seeing the color purple can make you more romantic. The color green can relax you or help you decompress. Some studies suggest that painting certain rooms, certain colors, can make your social and family life easier and less stressful. Studies also show that if classrooms are colorful, it could benefit children, whether in terms of learning skills, visual thinking, problem solving and creativity. Scientists also believe that seeing a certain color, like red for example, will make you want a certain kind of food, especially a red food like an apple, licorice, or cherry. Color psychology from infoplease.com says that colors can affect your mood. For example, black gives you a feeling of being yourself, of power and authority. In fact, the priest started wearing black to show his submission to God. Black also symbolizes death and loss. Yellow is now a more cheerful color. Yellow makes you giddy and happy. Yellow attracts attention because of its brightness. Yellow is actually one of the hardest colors for our eyes to perceive. However, purple is the color that makes you feel royal, luxurious or romantic. This is only because purple symbolizes wealth and sophistication. Certain colors can stimulate the appetite. Some information I found came from education.com. Psychologists suggest that certain colors can make your appetite skyrocket. Well, those colors are red and yellow. Red influences you, it attracts you, excites you and also increases your heart rate. Yellow does the same, plus a little more. Yellow also increases each child's IQ by up to 12 points by drawing their attention to details. The international ranking of color preferences is blue, followed by red, green, purple, orange and yellow. Small children naturally prefer bright colors like red, orange, yellow and pink. Reading comprehension increased by 80% in children with dyslexia when they used a blue or gray overlay on the page. In addition to having the right color in your child's learning environment. In short, if you want your child to learn better, think about the power of color. Since 80% of the brain receives information visually, be sure to incorporate the element of color when homeschooling and paint the perfect picture of your child's educational future. Well, I hope this article entertained you and made sense. I find this subject very interesting. Who knows what other colors may affect. I guess we'll find out in due time.