🌈 Using Color to Balance Your Animal’s Energy and Emotions

Discover how color therapy can help balance your animal’s chakras, support healing, and deepen your connection. Learn practical ways to introduce color-based energy healing at home.

Jun 07, 2025

By Melissa | Animal Intuitive, Energy Healer & Holistic Pet Health Coach

Missed the First Part?

If you’re reading this and haven’t seen last week’s post on animal chakras, start here first. It lays the foundation for understanding how energy flows in our animals—and today, we’re building on that knowledge with one of my favorite tools: color therapy.

What Is Color Therapy?

Color therapy, or Chromotherapy, is a healing method that uses the vibrational frequencies of colors to support physical, emotional, and energetic well-being.

Whoa—wait, vibrational frequency? What does that even mean?

Think of it like this: everything around us is made of energy, and that energy moves in waves. Each color has its own unique vibration, like a radio station tuned to a specific frequency. When we (or our animals) are exposed to those colors, our bodies and energy fields respond to that signal. It’s kind of like giving the body a gentle energetic nudge back toward balance.

Each color corresponds to different energies, body systems, and emotional themes. Exposure to these colors—through light, visualization, clothing, food, or surroundings—can help bring the body and energy field back into balance.

In both human and animal holistic work, color therapy is often used on its own or alongside chakra healing and other intuitive practices. And yes, animals absolutely respond to color, too. While I’ll be focusing on cats and dogs here, I’ve also used color therapy with horses, goats, pigs—even chickens! The principles apply across species, and it’s always incredible to see how each animal responds in their own way.

How I Use It in My Practice

Color therapy can come up in many ways. Sometimes I guide it directly with a pet’s guardian, and other times it naturally arises during energy healing or animal communication sessions. As I run through an animal's chakras, I might see a specific color that wants to come through or the animal will share a color with me directly, almost like a request for support.

I use physical tools like:

Soft fabrics or felt swatches
Crystals
Colored beds, toys, or surroundings

That said, I also encourage being mindful of things like food bowls, water dishes, or crates.

Letting the Animal Choose

One of the simplest ways to begin is to lay out several color options and see what your animal chooses. I often suggest this with clients: just offer a few fabric swatches, crystals, or colored toys, then observe. Let your animal guide you.

Is your dog grieving? Try offering green (heart chakra).
Is your cat anxious? See if they gravitate toward red (root chakra).
Is your pup recovering from a throat issue? Blue may call to them (throat chakra).

A Story: Sally the Cat

I was recently working with a cat named Sally who showed me the color blue throughout her session. Her throat chakra was very active, and the color was strong and present. When I asked her person about it, she told me that a new cat had just been welcomed into the home and Sally was feeling displaced. She felt like she had lost her voice.

The blue made perfect sense. It became a beautiful way to support Sally’s emotional healing and expression. Her guardian began including soft blue fabrics in Sally’s space, and soon after, Sally began to seek them out.

How Color Shows Up in My Home

In my own home, color plays a role every day. I’ve noticed that during thunderstorms, several of the animals will curl up on a red bed in one particular room. Red relates to the root chakra, which supports safety and grounding. They intuitively find what they need.

These little moments remind me how naturally animals understand their own healing.

Physical Conditions and Chakra Support

As I mentioned with my own animals, color therapy supports not only emotional and spiritual health, but physical well-being too. When animals have physical conditions, I often work with the corresponding chakra color:

Chronic kidney disease might relate to the sacral chakra (orange)
Digestive upset can link to the solar plexus (yellow)
Respiratory issues may connect to the heart (green)

Again, color therapy isn’t a fix-all—but it offers gentle, energetic support that works beautifully alongside both conventional and holistic veterinary care. It’s not a replacement for medical treatment, but it makes a wonderful complementary practice that can offer added comfort and insight.

Everything Works Together

I often combine color therapy with other energy modalities like Reiki, scalar wave, fascia work, muscle testing, tuning forks, and animal communication. These tools work together synergistically, amplifying healing in a way that is gentle, intuitive, and deeply resonant.

Try a Color Practice at Home

As I mentioned earlier, I keep different colored beds and fabrics spaced throughout my home, and observing my animals’ choices has been a guiding practice. You can try something similar:

Gather a few pieces of fabric, felt, or colored toys
Offer them to your pet in a calm space
Watch where they go, what they touch, where they lie

You might be surprised what they choose. Let your intuition guide you, too. This at-home practice is one of my favorite tools for tuning into your pet’s energetic needs—and a great way to begin exploring color therapy together.

Want a Deeper Dive?

If you’re curious to explore your animal’s energy and emotions more deeply, I offer one-on-one sessions that include energy healing, chakra reading, and color therapy.

Book a session here

And if your pet has a favorite color or you try this practice, I’d love to hear from you. Comment below or send me a message—I always love hearing your stories.

Up Next: Tools You Can Use At Home

Next week, I’ll be sharing more tools you can use at home to support your pet’s energetic health—including pendulums, crystals, and simple energy-clearing techniques. Stay tuned! In the meantime please join my private community where we keep the conversation going.

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Disclaimer: The information shared in this blog is for educational and informational purposes only. I am not a veterinarian, and my services are intended as a complementary practice to support your pet’s overall well-being. They are not a substitute for professional veterinary care, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your veterinarian regarding any medical concerns, conditions, or treatments your pet may require.