CLOSE-UP : Am I Blue?

If you’re having a bad day on the job, it may not be the color of your parachute that’s the problem. It may be the color of your aura. Barbara Bowers, who reads auras for her corporate clients, will be happy to tell you if you’re simply a blue trapped in an office of yellows.

“Each color has a spectrum of behaviors--attitudes, beliefs, values,” Bowers explains. Yellows, for example, “love to exercise, can’t sit still.” Greens are “very good at public relations, advertising, sales, psychotherapy.” Reds are the doers, full of “passion, courage, commitment and stamina.” Blues are “nurturers, caretakers.”

For the past nine years, the La Costa-based Bowers has traveled the country eyeing electromagnetic auras for such corporations as Lorimar, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Brink’s. Her book “What Color Is Your Aura?” is in its fourth paperback printing. She also conducts corporate workshops entitled, “What Color Is Your Team?”

“I can take a look at integrity issues and how they fit into the team that’s already in place,” says Bowers, 53, who has Ph.D.s in psychology and religion. “I know how to build a team so that you don’t end up with one that’s top-heavy in leaders or bottom-heavy with followers.”

Charles Wallace (“yellow, with red overlay”), chief operating officer at New Field Enterprises, a Century City real estate management firm, worked with Bowers six years ago when he was head of budgeting at Lorimar. “At first I felt like I was going out on a limb when I told the staff, ‘We’re going to have this lady come in and have lunch with you and she’s going to read your aura!’ ” he says.

And JoAnn Cipiti (“green, with red overlay”), manager of marketing development and training for Blue Cross/Blue Shield in Detroit, used Bowers last year. “It’s been very successful,” she says. “There’s been a real improvement in morale, motivation and productivity.” Not to mention color coordination.