Vegan color wheel

The other morning my mother said to me that my smoothie was a "funny green color" for a breakfast, reminding her of peas. I guess that's one way of looking at it. I look at it as a invigorating way to start the day! 

According to color-wheel-pro.com, the color green has many great characteristics. Being an interior designer made me aware of how colors evoke certain feelings. Here's what they say about green:

"Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is also commonly associated with money.

Green has great healing power. It is the most restful color for the human eye; it can improve vision. Green suggests stability and endurance. Sometimes green denotes lack of experience; for example, a 'greenhorn' is a novice. In heraldry, green indicates growth and hope. Green, as opposed to red, means safety; it is the color of free passage in road traffic."

So what does this have to do with becoming a vegan? Nicole has taught me through health coaching that you should view food as medicine. Ask yourself "What effect will this food have on my body if I eat it?" Well why not entice your stomach visually. 

For several months now I've been eating a bright green breakfast smoothie. I use kale and spinach (green) chop bananas (yellow), peaches (orange) apples (red) and or berries (red, blue) to add to my smoothie. Whip it all up with my vanilla zrii meal replacement shake and I'm good to go. The process of buying bright color fruits and veggies-laying them out in the morning -chopping and preparing them for my smoothie-in itself is therapeutic. I see it, smell it, touch it then eat it. Each step stimulates a sense, all beginning with color. I found this changes my thought process and motivates me to create beautiful color combinations with produce as I did in interior design and graphic design. I will use the vegan color wheel as a resource in more of my meals.