Bruise Colours

You bump into something, and a bruise appears. So far, nothing unusual. But then you watch it change — from deep blue through dark purple to yellowish green and finally to pale yellow, before it disappears entirely. Medically, this is a well-understood process: hemoglobin is broken down, biliverdin forms, then bilirubin, and the body clears away what is no longer needed. A repair program, clean and efficient.

But there is a second reading. Because colours are not merely biochemical coincidences — they carry an emotional charge that reaches far beyond the physical. The psychosomatic perspective asks not only: Why is there bleeding beneath the skin? It asks: What does this colour progression reveal about your inner experience? What comes to the surface that ordinarily remains invisible?