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Orange Workbook

A Physical-Emotional Spiritual Gift,
Feminine in Nature, the Natural Joy-Bringer

You might be an orange if …

When in their giftedness, oranges tend to …

(According to Joseph Crane)

When in their traps oranges, tend to …

(According to Joseph Crane)

Reflection Questions

The following are contemplation questions to help you explore your orange gift, know yourself, and improve. While answering these questions, refer back to the information you just read about the gifts and traps as necessary.

  1. 1. You and your soul-ray color are both gifts, and as such, have gifts to share with the world. This makes you a master, or expert, on how this gift is done. How do you see yourself living in your gifts?
  2. 2. Which aspects of your gift seem new to you? (Maybe you’ve never thought about them before.)
  3. 3. Which aspects of your gift would you like to embrace more fully now that you are consciously aware that you have special access to them? What would be the result?
  4. 4. What traps do you struggle with in your life at this time?
  5. 5. Can you identify triggers that move you into any of these traps? Which triggers move you into which traps?
  6. 6. The way out of a trap for an orange is to give yourself divine love and joy. What do you think this means? How would your life change if you did this often?
  7. 7. Can you set a goal to become good at recognizing when you are in your gifts, and when you are in your traps? Which do you want to accomplish first? How long do you think it would take?
  8. 8. What questions do you have about your gift?
  9. 9. Do you have any insights about what it is like to have this gift? No one knows your gift like you! Please share your insights below.

The following questions were written by Kim Brushaber, an orange good at sharing with other oranges how they can grow.

  1. 10. One of oranges’ greatest joys in life is to help uplift and inspire others. This becomes increasingly difficult to do when you are in your traps and not feeling like your regular bubbly self. Many oranges isolate themselves from others when they are depressed, and it can frequently take another orange (orange’s helper color) to help them get out of their funk. What happens to you when you are in a funk? Why do you think you feel that way? What happens to other people around you?
  2. 11. Oranges love to uplift other people. However, we discover that not everyone wants to or can be uplifted. Oranges will frequently criticize or blame others when they work hard at uplifting someone who is unwilling to budge. What do you do in these circumstances? How could you react differently? Are there people in your life that you really should let go of?
  3. 12. Oranges love to chase the fun stuff. Frequently this causes an orange to overbook their social arrangements. Oranges will pick whatever sounds like the most fun in the moment. Unfortunately, this makes them appear to be rather flaky or over committed at times. How can you balance your schedule better in order to ensure that no one is left sad when you don’t show up at their party? What can you do differently so that you don’t feel pulled in so many different directions?
  4. 13. One of the greatest joys in an orange’s life is making someone’s life even better after they’ve left it. This has sometimes come at a cost of sacrificing your own happiness. Are there places in your life where you should draw boundaries? What are you doing to inspire your own happiness? What would you say to yourself to uplift you? What makes you happy that has nothing to do with other people?
  5. 14. Oranges are viewed by others as the everlasting energizer bunny. Keeping the party going and everyone happy takes a lot of work. One way to recharge is to find another orange. Do you have a list of other oranges in your life who can help to recharge you? What do you do to recharge yourself?
  6. 15. Oranges are perfect at seeing the silver lining in everything. It’s very uncomfortable for an orange to stay in a bad mood for very long. How do you handle negative emotions? How do you handle other people’s negative emotions?
  7. 16. Oranges get bored easily. It’s part of our nature to do whatever seems like the most fun, and if it isn’t fun it isn’t worth doing. Unfortunately, much of life is boring. Oranges do whatever they can to make a moment interesting, but it’s not always appropriate to do so. How do you handle the boring things in your life? Is there a better way for you to handle them?

Oranges spend so much time making other people happy. Sometimes, it’s taken for granted. If you have conditioned people around you to depend on you, they can react negatively when you take your sunshine away. People may call you selfish if you take time for yourself. People may not take you seriously. Other people’s negative comments about you can be very devastating when all you are trying to do is bring joy and happiness to everyone around you. How does being orange impact other people’s perceptions about you?

  1. 17. Can you see how other people’s judgments about you are actually about themselves more than they are about you?
  2. 18. How do you deal with these situations as they come up?
  3. 19. How can you react while maintaining your positive orange attitude?
  4. 20. Oranges are naturally the life of the party. They light up the room when they come in. Everyone is their friend. Have you ever taken a moment to really understand what a gift that is that you bring to others? Have you been complimented on your stories? your jokes? your dancing? your laugh? Do you realize what you bring to people around you when you are in your gifts?
  5. 21. Oranges help people shift from a bad situation to a good one. Change is not an easy thing for most people. Oranges intuitively know what to say or do to make someone’s life better. We do it naturally without even knowing we’re doing it. Like George Bailey said in It’s a Wonderful Life, we affect people every single day. Have you taken a moment to recognize the good that you do for everyone around you? How have you inspired someone this week? Write about those experiences.
  6. 22. For oranges, rules are made to be broken—but only in the name of fun. What rules have you broken that were meant to be broken?
  7. 23. What rules have you broken that you have regretted?
  8. 24. What rules do you wish that you could go back and break?

Now, back to my questions about the orange master chakra.

  1. 25. One major thing another orange can do for you is mirror what you are feeling so you can decide what you want to feel. Can you see how this might make it easier to adjust your course? Describe any other oranges you have known and what they did for you.
  2. 26. Now, review the observations about how oranges benefit from each other’s presence in relationships in the Light Partners chapter.

What is your reaction to this information?

  1. 27. Reciprocal colors, such as orange and orange, provide each other with what the other is missing without the effort of trying. This is why they are considered best-case scenarios when it comes to romantic relationships. What are some insights you have about this?
  2. 28. How do you feel about being orange? What is it like? What do you like the best about it? the least about it? What would you like to change? If you were to describe your gift to someone else, what would you say?
  3. 29. Honoring your gift is very important. The more you honor it in yourself, the more others will honor it in you. The less you are to be walked on or your gifts disregarded. You will gain more respect for who you are and your light will shine more brightly, because these things will be present in you. In fact, they already are in a much deeper way simply because you’ve engaged with this information so far. What commitment are you willing to make regarding honoring yourself?
  4. 30. How can you honor yourself for your own greatness?
  5. 31. Envision by drawing or writing what it means to be an orange and what you will accomplish in the future with your gifts.

Daily Practices

The following sequence of questions will help you notice your gifts more and how you share them. It will help you grow in your light, the light of who you are, and avoid pitfalls you may be experiencing on a large scale. You can continue these practices as long as you wish to check your awareness about living in your giftedness—your special way of bringing joy to those around you. The more aware you are, the more you will be able to avoid your traps and their associated consequences. Realize that traps are not bad; still, they will feel inconvenient or unpleasant. The goal is to learn from the experience of being in your trap, and notice when you are in one, and then choose to return to the best part of you.

Reflection on your soul-ray color…

  1. 1. In what ways did you live out of your gift today? Be specific. Please refer to the beginning of this workbook and the descriptions of your gifts and traps when completing this section.
  2. 2. Did you catch yourself going into any traps today? Were you able to avoid these traps?
  3. 3. Are you in a trap now and not aware of it? If so, what would you like to do about it? Make a decision and a commitment now. Either give yourself your gift right here and now, or make a decision to take action in this regard tomorrow.
  4. 4. Remembering who and what you are as a master of the clear chakra—orange—is the first step toward being able to securely remain in the light of your own power. If you memorize your gifts and traps, you’ll know when you are in one versus the other and how to slide back into your connection with the divine, otherwise known as the best exit for your trap, which is listed below.

The following list is a reminder of how to exit from the orange traps. Because oranges can shade to the two colors right next to them, red and yellow, once in a while, they will get stuck in the trap of one of these colors. If you suspect this is happening, you may use the list to remember how to remove yourself from the trap of the other color.

List of exits from orange’s traps …

More Aspects of Your Gift

Now, let’s talk more about that aspect of being an orange, which is that oranges can shade the territory of red and yellow in order to live out their gifts. Reflect on how, why, and when you shade red and yellow. Read the description of reds in their giftedness and then answer the questions below.

  1. 1. When do you most often find yourself utilizing red?
  2. 2. If you need to be red, you can be. When might it be good to shade red?

Oranges are especially good at using their yellow gift to analyze what is going on for their own future plans and even to help others enjoy life more. Explore your yellow side by thinking about the following description and how it applies to you. (Read the description of yellows in their giftedness.)

  1. 1. When do you most often find yourself utilizing yellow?
  2. 2. If you need to be yellow, you can be. When might it be beneficial to shade yellow?

To help yourself return to your joy, please use the meditation on "Being Joy" in the violet workbook. It walks you through how to return to your nice orange self if you’re out of touch with the true reality of how happy you are.

Releasing Anxiety

Sometimes you have trouble releasing your baggage. All the energy you have can sometimes get backed up and you don’t know what to do with it. The burden of making others feel happy can make you feel as though you are responsible for others. This exercise follows the orange energy pattern of bubbles, which has you releasing your worries and cares through balloons.

It’s a sunny day. You are in a room, and you leave to go outside. You put your feet in the grass. The yellow dandelions look bright and sunny against your bare feet as you lean against the bike rack.

To the bike rack are tied innumerable orange balloons. You choose one.

Into this balloon, you put something you no longer desire to carry with you on your journey.

You let it go.

You take another balloon. Into this balloon, you place a worry or a care.

The balloon sails high up into the air until you can no longer see it.

You take another balloon, and that balloon contains another thought you no longer wish to have.

You let it go.

You take a fourth balloon and put something else into it you crave to let go.

There are as many balloons as you need to handle stress, fears, struggles, and tiredness. You keep placing these types of things into the balloons until you are finished and you don’t have any more of them left.

As you let go of each balloon, you feel a little lighter.

And a little lighter.

Until, when you are totally finished, you brush off your hands and take a step forward.

Now, you feel even lighter than ever before and are ready to face the world.

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