| What's Your ColorPrint? Do
You Know Who You Are? A Vision of the Future: An interview with Jamie Champion by Tim Miejan Fast-forward 50 years. There's a young woman sitting alone at a bar, and a guy is eyeing her from across the room. He gets up the nerve and stands up. He begins walking slowly in her direction. He moves silently behind her and whispers in her ear, "Show me your colors -- and I'll show you mine." The young woman slowly turns her head toward him, whispering, "Orange...Gold...Purple...White...and...Indigo Tan, of course, I'm from Minnesota." That surely could happen. In fact, men and women, parents and children and brothers and sisters have been comparing each other's unique ColorPrint for more than five years in the Twin Cities, and the founder of this unique personality profiling system, James Champion, has been developing and refining it now for the past 13 years. He has identified ColorPrints for more than 3,500 people and has yet to find two people with the same profile. In fact, the odds of that are like finding two people with the same fingerprint. "We're all wired so uniquely," Champion said in an interview during a recent visit to the Golden Valley Wellness Center, Golden Valley, Minn. "In the ColorPrint process, there are 52 distinct colorful windows that humanity is expressed through. Each of us has a distinct patterning within those 52 colors. For every one of us, if we're supported and encouraged to show up according to our natural self, that is the way our health, well-being, joy in life is determined." Champion was a pre-med student who, once exposed to alternative healing techniques, began to recognize a natural integration of a wide array of ancient and modern healing systems. He earned a degree in human nutrition, but did not limit himself. He was exposed to Dr. Randall Stone's polarity therapy, which viewed the body as an atomic system with a wireless anatomy, and he learned kinesiology and the principles of energy pathways throughout the body. In time, he identified 52 colors that resonate with the energy currents within the human anatomy, and he identified the specific characteristics of each color as they relate to our physical, emotional and spiritual nature. He also identified how the energies represented by the varying colors relate to the elements of the natural world -- earth, water, fire, air and space. The result was the ColorPrint Personality Profiling System». Grounded system "We call it Holochromatic Life Sciences," Champion says, "and it's very grounded system based on psychology systems and medical systems that are thousands of years old. I have a very scientific background in terms of what I do. "I certainly have a lot of 'new age' people who instantly get what this is about, and yet I've had very conservative people who know nothing about auras and nothing about chakras who also resonate completely with what I tell them. Even if there is skepticism coming in the door, usually when someone has their profile completed, they go, 'Wow.' Probably 10 years ago when I first started and had less of a database of results, people who were trained to look at things through a very scientific lens were the most skeptical, but now I attract a lot of those people because of the track record I have." When Champion evaluates an individual's ColorPrint -- only a 10-minute process -- he uses various pulse points on the body and uses kinesiology, or muscle testing, to pinpoint particular energies that are identified as colors. "I'm testing specific patterns of energy, vibrating at specific wavelengths, that hold this person together," he says. "When we arrive at a particular color, that color is either comfortable in that person's experience or not. Immediately there is permission for us to be natural and to be ourselves. Because this is such an empowering language of what makes human beings unique in all their particular dispositions, the ColorPrint provides an affirming way of looking at ourselves. So much of our culture looks at things in not-so-affirming ways. This is an affirming way in which we can look at our particular gifts and talents." Your five colors Initial ColorPrint gatherings, such as those that take place several times each year at Golden Valley Wellness Center, identify five principle energies of a person, and nine other energies can be revealed in more advanced sessions. These five core energies, which can be identified as early as two or three years old, are: ´ Environment color -- represents the environments in which you thrive and the manner in which you make decisions. It correlates to the health of the nervous system. ´ Expression color -- describes how you express yourself in the world and make a difference in career and hobbies. It directly affects the health of the glandular system. ´ Intimacy color -- corresponds to your private nature, how you support yourself in daily activities and how you connect with family and friends. It relates to the health of the organs. ´ Life Force color -- relates to the passionate, guiding force of your life, which gives you zest for life and recharges your battery. It relates to the health of the joints, sense organs, immune system and reproductive system. ´ Intention color -- is the energy in the background of your life, representing the style in which you live your life. It relates to the health of the body's tissues. For example, a hypothetical subject named Bob has Orange as his environment color, which is an energy that thrives on organization and being methodical. Orange thrives in chaos, because it creates order out of chaos. His expression color is Green. Green people love facts, data and analysis. They have unparalleled concentration skills and are perpetual students. Green in the expression area can represent an interest in the sciences, technology, education or anything that challenges them mentally. Bob's intimacy color is Magenta. That frequency represents encouragement and support. Magenta is needed when life gets tough. We may unconsciously seek out friends or acquaintances who have Magenta. His Life Force color is Orange Tan, which represents an insatiable appetite for discovery and problem-solving. They are driven to discover the depths of the universe and will have a zest for life when they are using their mental powers to do just that. Finally, Bob's Intention color is White, which is empathic and compassionate. Wite Intention people are tireless healers who have compassion for the suffering and devotion to their Higher Power. The incredible array of color combinations within each of us are shared with those we come in contact with. Patrick Weseman, a yoga instructor and life coach who founded the Golden Valley Wellness Center, notes, "We're all medicine for each other." Champion says 19 out of 20 of us do not allow our colors to shine vibrantly in our lives. Actually, he says, we go out of our way to not allow them to be seen. "Most of us are hiding out, playing games, wearing masks and doing the dance we're told to do," he says. "We don't have to hide ourselves. ColorPrint identifies our innate gifts and celebrates our radiant beauty." Vibrations of light Champion emphasizes that these colors represent vibrations of light frequencies in our bodies, and that no two people have the same pattern. There are no bad colors, but there are healthy and unhealthy colors. If we came into our body with specific gifts that were stifled and scorned by those around us, then we have the challenge in our lifetime to embody those gifts and make that energy frequency or color as vibrant as possible, as opposed to keeping it shut down. All five colors in alignment is physical well-being. "Back in 1906, Einstein said, E=mc2. Since then, we've been living in an energetic paradigm," Champion said. "The universe is made up of these vibrations of these frequencies of energy. And yet our languaging hasn't caught up with that. Our understanding of human relationships isn't looked at through that lens. "With this model, we're looking at literally who are human beings in their resonance, like music, like paintings. If you can interpret and understand what those messages and signals are, not only can we benefit from their music and their creativity and their gifts, but they can shine more effectively. "It's a language of light frequencies that resonate to those energy patterns that hold our body together. This is a way to be able to say, 'Well, whether it is a stereotype of what men are supposed to be or what women are supposed to be, this blows all those stereotypes out of the water.' It just says, 'Here are the gifts I have.' I no longer have to apologize for those, and I can let those shine. My relationship works. My health works. My job works. Everything gets into alignment. It's like tuning a piano. We each have some wonderful notes to play in this human spectrum. If I have to apologize for those notes, then my music of life isn't going to be as beautiful as it could be. Champion believes ColorPrinting can become a common fixture in society. He says it would allow each of us to know ourselves better, and it would allow us to understand those around us with much more awareness. From the family structure, to the educational system and to the workplace, ColorPrinting would allow the gifts and talents of each individual to be acknowledged and encouraged, from infancy onward. "One of my heart passions is to see this work go into the schools," he said. "I think we all have stories in our own lives of educational experiences that were wonderful or not-so-wonderful. So much of our self-identity is formed in school. If we had teachers who knew our gifts, then they could be nurtured and supported. Many native cultures name individuals once they identify particular gifts and talents, and then they get behind those and support them. "We need to get more organic and natural with how we understand the uniqueness of our kids." While Champion is the only person who is able to identify the energy patterns or colors with his specific technique of pulse reading and muscle testing (his advanced students have yet to achieve 100 percent results), three students have been named communication consultants. They follow-up with each person who goes through the ColorPrint process, spending an hour with them to explain what each color means and how it shows up in their life. Found her passion Joan Breen Blanchard, a noted interior designer in Roseville, Minn., is the only active communication consultant at this time. She has studied with Champion for five years and has assisted him in communicating with clients for the past two years. "I do the interior design to pay my bills, and I do this because it is the passion in my life right now," she said. "I'm wired to believe in humanitarian causes, and this is a cause for humanity." She was initially invited to a color party and had no idea what it was. On that day, she was introduced to a process that changes people's lives. "When I walked into this color party, I got shivers in my body. And I pay attention to myself when I get shivers in my body. I didn't know what it was about. I proceeded to sit down and have this stranger tell me all these things that no one else could know about me, except for my best friends. I knew at that time that it was fun, it was colorful, and all my life I've been trying to have more fun at work, and not have work be so hard. So I knew I needed to find out more about this. "Once I found out about it, I wanted to learn all I could about it, because this goes to so many dimensions. My belief is that 50 years from now, this will be common language. We're just at the tip of starting this. We're into transforming people. And when people are able to be who they are in life, life is going to be more enjoyable and easier for us." She said learning about her colors helped her embody who she truly is. "Learning my colors reinforced some of my qualities that I may have been timid about stepping into," Blanchard said. "I found out that there was clarity that was needed in some of my colors, so I did some work with Jamie about that, and then I started seeing everything differently. I had been looking at life through a clouded lens. I could see through it, but it wasn't easy all the time. So getting my colors cleared, and in order, has helped me to see clearly. To be able to speak exactly how I am feeling, if I am grounded in who I am. "My biggest challenge is my crystal energy. My crystal energy reflects and energizes. I could pick up energies from other people without knowing that I needed to clean them out of my system. It also is a gift in my interior design work. I could be with a couple and the husband might say, "I want my house to be like this," and the wife might say, "Well, I want my house to be like this" -- and I could see what they both were talking about and I could resonate with it and reflect back to them what they were saying in visual terms. And then they say, "I don't know how you do that?" That's the gifts of what some of my colors do. "Knowing my colors helped me ground into who I really am, not who I was supposed to be -- as a mom, as a daughter. This is me. This is what you get." She has seen this process change people's lives. "One of the first people that I communicated to was a young man who was shut down and hardly talked. He found out that his color was all about talking and communicating, because if you don't talk, you never find forgiveness in life. I immediately saw a transformation happen in him -- and it gave him permission to speak. And I thought, 'Whew...this is powerful.' That happens all the time. There's some piece that people hear about themselves, either 'Ah, yes! Thank you...I'm going with it' or, ' a little fuzzy...I don't understand it.' "But now you're aware of it. It's life changing. It's transformational." Jamie Champion will return May 13-16 to the Golden Valley Wellness Center to speak on the ColorPrint Personality Profiling System». Call the center at (763) 544-0644 or Jamie Champion at toll-free 1 (877) 457-2882 for more information. E-mail mycolors@aol.com and you will be notified when the ColorPrint website is up and running. Tim Miejan is editor of The EDGE. Contact him at (651) 578-8969, toll-free 1 (888) 776-5687 or e-mail editor@edgenews.com Copyright © 2004 Tim Miejan |
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