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Colour therapy is an ancient complementary therapy that uses the energies of different colours. Each colour corresponds to an energy centre in the body. Red relates to the base chakra, orange the sacral chakra, and so on. Colours affect us physically, spiritually and emotionally by being absorbed through our eyes, skin and aura. Colour therapy can help balance these energies and improve wellbeing on multiple levels, though psychological and spiritual impacts are harder to quantify. It should be incorporated more in everyday life rather than just during therapy sessions, as colour is present everywhere in nature for good reason.

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Homework 29th April

Colour therapy is an ancient complementary therapy that uses the energies of different colours. Each colour corresponds to an energy centre in the body. Red relates to the base chakra, orange the sacral chakra, and so on. Colours affect us physically, spiritually and emotionally by being absorbed through our eyes, skin and aura. Colour therapy can help balance these energies and improve wellbeing on multiple levels, though psychological and spiritual impacts are harder to quantify. It should be incorporated more in everyday life rather than just during therapy sessions, as colour is present everywhere in nature for good reason.

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Qus 1.

Read the passage given below:


1. Colour Therapy is a complementary therapy for which there is evidence dating back
thousands of years to the ancient cultures of Egypt, China and India. If we define it in simple terms,
Colour is a light of varying wavelengths, thus each colour has its own particular wavelength and
energy.
2. Colours contribute energy. This energy may be motivational and encouraging. Each of the seven
colours of the spectrum are associated with energy.The energy relating to each of the seven
spectrum colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, resonates with the energy of
each of the seven main chakras/energy centres of the body. Colour therapy can help to re-balance
and/or stimulate these energies by applying the appropriate colour to the body .
3. Red relates to the base chakra, orange the sacral chakra, yellow the solar plexus chakra, green the
heart chakra, blue the throat chakra, indigo the brow chakra (sometimes referred to as the third eye)
and violet relates to the crown chakra.
4. Colour is absorbed by the eyes, skin, skull our ‘magnetic energy field’ or aura and the energy of
colour affects us on all levels, that is to say, physical, spiritual and emotional. Every cell in the body
needs light energy - thus colour energy has widespread effects on the whole body. There are many
different ways of giving colour, including; Solarised Water, Light boxes/lamps with colour filters,
colour silks and hands on healing using colour.
5. Colour therapy can be shown to help on a physical level, which is perhaps easier to quantify,
however there are deeper issues around the colours on the psychological and spiritual levels. Our
wellbeing is not, of course, purely a physical issue. Fortunately, many more practitioners, both
orthodox and complementary are now treating patients in an holistic manner.
6. Colour Therapy is a totally holistic and non-invasive therapy and, really, colour should be a part
of our everyday life, not just something we experience for an hour or two with a therapist. Colour is
all around us everywhere. This wonderful planet does not contain all the beautiful colours of the
rainbow for no reason. Nothing on this earth is here just by chance; everything in nature is here for
a purpose. Colour is no exception. All we need to do is to heighten our awareness of the energy of
colour, absorb it and see how it can transform our lives.

(a) On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, make notes on it using headings and
sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations (wherever necessary-minimum four) and a format
you consider suitable. Also supply an appropriate title to it.
(b) Write a summary of the passage in about 80 words.

Qus 2. Read the passage given below:


This isn't a mountain region of mere subjective beauty. Nor one, which claims its greatness, based
on just an overwhelming opinion of a large majority. For Sikkim is a treasure that few know about.
However, the facts of its remarkable geography bear enough testimony to pitch Sikkim in a slot that
no other mountain region, anywhere in the world, could duplicate or rival. What Everest is to peaks,
Sikkim is to the mountains. Tragically, a region so wild and exotic and with such geographic and
climatic extremes, that its amazing wilds and not its unremarkable hill stations, ensure its
accessibility to the adventurous only.
Just delve on these facts a bit. From the plains, in a mere 80 kms as the crow flies, the altitude
reaches 28,168 feet at the very top of Kangchenjunga, the third highest peak in the world. Such a
sharp elevation is unrivalled anywhere else and is the first geographical claim of Sikkim.
The second is an offshoot of the first. Nowhere else do so many 7,000 metre plus peaks crowd up
such a confined space. And the third is really a consequence of the first and the second with the
sharp gradation creating the most variegated flora and fauna possible anywhere in the mountains.
The fourth uniqueness is also a consequence of the first and the second and lies in the extremes of
the climate which ranges from the tropical to the typical arctic type. And the fifth claim is its thin
permanent population and relatively fewer travellers by virtue of its remote far-eastern Himalayan
location.
The startling facts about Sikkim never seem to end. For starters, all of Sikkim lies in a mere 110
kms by 65 kms of mountains, peaks, glaciers, rivers and forests. A little dot on the map at a latitude
27 degrees North and longitude 88 degrees East. Its 7,000-sq kms make it about as large as the
National Capital Region of India! To the North and extending to the East of Sikkim, is Tibet /
China and to the West is Nepal. To the South are the Himalayan and sub Himalayan regions of
West Bengal.
It is, in fact these geographical extremes and the resulting ambience, that makes mountaineers trek
here, when they are not climbing, besides fuelling mountaineering dreams in the minds of trekkers,
what with the closest possible proximity to magnificent peaks while trekking.
On the subject of trekking here, it is strange but true that acclimatisation is much tougher in Sikkim
than elsewhere. It may have something to do with being closer in latitude to the Tropic of Cancer,
besides the rather sharp stages involved in each day of trekking. The closeness to the Tropic of
Cancer has meant that the snowline will always be much higher and therefore human settlements
are seen even at altitudes of 16,000 feet! (473 words)

Adapted from a travelogue by Ashish Kaul, Travel Writer

(a) On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, make notes on it using headings and
sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations (wherever necessary-minimum four) and a format
you consider suitable. Also supply an appropriate title to it.
(b) Write a summary of the passage in about 80 words.

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