TONES: Blue — Jessiena Lake

**Blue TONES**

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Color affects us all in many ways from what we wear to the food we eat. The color blue is calming and associated with trust, security and protection, but can also be associated with depression or “feeling blue”.

Surrounding yourself with blue could promote feelings of peace and relaxation, security and safety, making it perfect for healing through a hard time or finding calm in the storm.

Naturally blue foods are rich in anthocyanins, which are antioxidants that can prevent cancers, improve heart health and improve memory. Here are a bunch of blue options for you to try.

**SMOOTHIE OVER EVERYTHING**

Blueberry, blueberry yogurt and blue spirulina smoothie.

A blue background with an overhead view of a clear plate, fork and knife with a heart shaped blue corn and blueberry waffles sprinkled with blue cornflower petals. — **I LIKE YOU A WAFFLE LOT**

Blue corn and blueberry waffles with blue cornflower petals.

**CHIP! CHIP! HOORAY!**

Blue corn chips with bluberries and blueberry cheese.

**YOU’RE SO FLY**

Butterfly pea flower tea.

**CAULI-POWER!**

Blue corn taco shells with purple potato, purple cauliflower and purple sauerkraut. When purple potatoes are roasted they turn blue. When purple cauliflower is sauteed it turns blue. When purple sauerkraut is heated with a small amount of baking soda, it turns teal. Blue foods through the magic of food science!

**YOU’RE BERRY CUTE!**

Blueberry ice cream with blueberries.

**BLUE TONES: MUSIC**

Songs and artists in tones of blue.
**Spotify**
**Youtube**
**Apple Music**

**BLUE TONES: MOVIES**

Films in tones of blue, because 2020 has been long and your watch list is so short.
Check out a playlist of the movies **here**.

A blue background with Jessiena dressed in a various shades of blues- a blue skirt, blue top, blue vintage jacket and blue suede sneakers. She is surrounded by blue covered books and inflatable blue letters and is holding a stack of blue books and i — **BLUE TONES: CLOTHING**

Blue is my favorite color and so I reserved it for one of my favorite pastimes- reading. Here’s more about wearing blue from around the world.
Calm, trust, authority and relaxation, wearing blue will have those around you at ease.
In Western Culture blue is considered a masculine color, as well as one of authority and security, as many police and security uniforms are blue. It is also a color of calm and relaxation, harnessing the feeling of being near water, but “feeling blue” and “the blues” are associated with feeling down and out.
In other cultures, the masculinity represented in the United States, is replaced by femininity in China, blue also symbolizes: healing, immortality and trust. Similarly, in the Middle East, blue represents security, immortality, heaven and religious spirituality.
In other cultures blue is also a symbol of religions from the Virgin Mary’s robes, to symbolizing divinity in Judaism. In Catholicism blue represents optimism and health and in Hinduism blue embodies love and happiness.
Understanding what colors mean in other cultures can help to connect us to our increasingly global world.