Colour Therapy
Colour therapy dates back thousands of years with evidence found in ancient texts from India, China and Egypt. Colour is simply light of different wavelengths, and each colour has its own specific wavelength and vibration. These wavelengths resonate with energies in different areas of the electro-magnetic fields.
Some of us love pink, and some of us dislike it. We all have our colour preferences, the reason for these colour preferences is either due to life experiences involving that colour – being negative, which will make us dislike a certain colour; or a positive life experience which will of course make us feel drawn to that colour. Or the aversion can indicate an imbalance in a particular area of the body.
Colour therapy includes Meditation with colour and Light and Colour applied to specific acupressure and reflex points using a special torch, into which coloured plates are inserted to transmit healing through the meridian network to the organs cells and the brain.
Mordern light therapy
The Danish physician Niels Ryberg Finsen founded modern light therapy about 100 years ago. In 1903 he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in medicine for his achievements with light therapy. Finsen created the first device to generate technically synthesized sunlight and achieved outstanding results in the treatment of patients suffering from a special type of skin tuberculosis. There are clear advantages in using technically synthesized sunrays: for example the parameters of intensity and the emitted light spectrum are controllable and therefore reproducible.
Ancient light therapy
The use of light therapy in medicine has a long history. The first light source used in photo medicine was natural sunlight. Even in ancient Egypt sunlight was used for medical treatments. Later, Hippocrates described the use of sunlight to cure various medical disorders. Although sunlight therapy had no scientific explanation at that time, the healing power of it was clear, and Roman and Arab physicians introduced light therapy into general medical use.
Today it is known that the human organism transforms light into electrochemical energy, which activates a chain of biochemical reactions within cells, stimulating metabolism and reinforcing the immune response of the entire human body.
Article: By Lyn Treloar
