Color therapy (also known as chromotherapy) is based on the fact that physiologic functions to specific colors. Attached to the brain are pineal glands, which control the daily rhythms of life. When light enters through the eyes (or the skin) it travels neurological pathways to these pineal glands. Different colors give off different wavelength frequencies and these different frequencies have different effect on physical and psychological functions.

Color Therapy utilizes colored light(s) and liquids to help treat a variety of emotional, mental, physical and/or spiritual conditions. Color Therapy is also used to treat pain and depression. Syntonic Optometry (colored light therapy) has shown favorable results in altering neurochemical production in the brain.

Involves projecting a color on the body or a part of the body using special color slides and a light projector to bring the body or body part back into balance. Dinshah Ghadiali developed the Spectro-Chrome system of color therapy used successfully in the early part of the 20th century.

(chromopathy, chromotherapy, color healing): Method that states that colors - e.g. of light, food, and clothing - have wide ranging curative effects. Supposedly, cures result from correction of "color imbalances." Color therapy often is a form of chakra healing.