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Color Therapy
We treat physical and psycho-emotional issues with color therapy at Comprehensive Naturopathic Care. We offer visual field assessments and treatments, color therapy, homeopathic color remedies and color puncture. This therapy is simple to administer.
Colors and their Meanings
Magenta: The emotional equilibrator,
the color of letting go -- the womb
Far Red (Ruby): The color of life instinct -- sacrum
Red: The color of passion -- sex organs, bladder
Red Orange: The color of freedom -- abdomen, large intestine
Orange: The color of self-esteem -- small intestines,
kidneys
Yellow: The color of hope -- adrenals, spleen, pancreas
Yellow green: The color of peace -- stomach, liver, gall
bladder
Green: The color of love -- lungs, breast, heart
Blue Green: The color of wholeness -- esophagus, hands,
thyroid
Blue: The color of joy -- neck, nose, lips, mouth, ear
Indigo: The color of understanding -- sinuses, eyes,
brain
Violet: The color of faith -- top of skull
For example, sitting in front of yellow green light on a color machine for 3 minutes several times a week helps detoxify the body. Yellow orange helps depression. Wearing yellow colored glasses may restore one’s sense of fun. Blue calms and activates the parasympathetic nervous system. Red is a stimulant.
Visual Field Color Assessment
A Visual Field Assessment offers good information about how a person sees the world. The patient looks with each eye in turn at a dark page where colors of white, blue, red and green are brought in from the periphery from eight different directions. From this, the size of the peripheral field, the size of the blind spot as well as the size of the color fields are determined for each eye and are interpreted. Tiny color fields are indicative of the actual visual field of the patient and have a direct effect on how limited or how wide is a person’s view of the world.
Rolling up a piece of paper and looking through it offers a good understanding of how someone with a restricted visual field sees and responds to the world. Light therapy can help expand these fields with corresponding shifts in health and behavior patterns.
If your field is narrow, light therapy will help to expand your fields, with a corresponding change in health and behavior. Once we have assessed your field, we remedy the narrow fields with a prescription for sitting in front of the color machine for twenty sessions, with a re-evaluation every six sessions.
Fields may appear abnormal as a result of stress, pressure on the optic nerve, head trauma (traumatic brain injury, or TBI), emotional trauma, high fevers, and more. Color therapy has proven to be helpful in treating depression, anxiety, emotional blocks, chronic pain, immune dysfunction, food allergies, detoxification, malignancies, stress, sleep, brain function, childhood trauma, spiritual growth and more.
Voice Spectrum Analyzer
The voice spectrum analyzer allows one to determine the most healing color for a given client at this time, based on defects in the individual voice spectrum. Light works faster than sound in treating. It is effective for bringing up the parasympathetic nervous system
Color Puncture
Stimulating acupuncture points and meridians can rebalance the organ systems of the body in a technique called Colorpuncture, developed by German naturopathic physician Dr. Peter Mandel. According to Mandel, certain colors seem to stimulate or “tonify” acupoints, while other colors “sedate” or disperse the energy of acupoints. Dr. Mandel has also noted that certain acupoints have more of an energy affinity for, or resonance with, certain wavelengths of color. His research further determined that the light source must either be touching or within one to two millimeters of an acupoint for this effect to occur. This suggests that light-stimulated acupoints could actually transmit light energy into the organs of the body through the acupuncture-meridian system.
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The use of color and light in healing is actually quite old. The Priests of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, and China used color or colored light in many of their healing practices. Sunlight therapy was a common medical practice in historic Greek, Chinese and Roman times for the relief of skin disorders such as psoriasis. In the 1890s, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Neils Finsen reported that he could heal skin lesions caused by smallpox and German measles by using red and infrared-light treatments. The use of colored light in healing was banned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fifty years ago because it was thought to be nothing more than medical quackery. But today, FDA approved phototherapy devices like the Lumatron developed by Dr. John Downing, are being used for the therapeutic application of specific colors and frequencies of light to the body. Recent medical research has begun to validate some of the many healing applications of light energy. Light therapy is based on the theory that light stimulation of the optic nerve sends information to the hypothalamus, which helps control our physical and emotional well-being. For example, the hypothalamus regulates pituitary function, which in turn regulates our hormones. So by working with color in appropriate and effective ways, a practitioner can have significant effects on body physiology and biochemistry. Specifically relating to the autonomic nervous system, the color blue supports the parasympathetic nervous system, and the color red supports the sympathetic nervous system. If you are sympathetic dominant, treatments with the color blue will help tune down your SNS and bring up your PSNS. Each organ in our body connects to a color, as do our physical
and psycho-emotional issues. Color therapy has proven to be helpful
in treating depression, anxiety, emotional blocks, chronic pain,
immune dysfunction, food allergies, detoxification, malignancies,
stress, sleep, brain function, childhood trauma, spiritual growth
and more. |
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