"Now the value of light therapy becomes clear when we consider the connection between the Light and Life, the eye and optic nerve, the brain and then the nervous system which relays information from the Light throughout the entire body. We are literally translators of Light."
Our capacity to receive Light can be more or less. Opening out to Light and colors of the spectrum express different frequency of Light – opening out to Light is literally life enhancing.
Historically Light has been used medically since 1869? and of course further back [ancient Egyptians] simplistically we now have two significant markers for well-being in collective contemporary culture – the problematic of shut down nervous systems due to excessive screen use, the need for natural daylight for vitamin C"
The charts above are of each eye and represent the fields where I can see those colors. The right eye is expressing energy out in the world and the left eye is inner private sense of self. These are some of my key takeaways:
- Big Field of vision white field expanded - large capacity for awareness pick up a lot of information in peripheral vision
- Green field smaller than red - quite stressed internally
- All fields dip in around the liver area
- Like to manage my stress through conversations but must be honest which can be seen in the large protrusion on the right.
Once you have your chart, you then start on your colored light on an entertainment programme; so a focused use of a certain color for a certain time. For me, my course of light therapy was Violet, Indigo, Turquoise and Lime.
- Violet - ultra soothing, sedates, spiritual, decreases activity in nervous system, promotes prediction of white blood cells
- Indigo - awareness, intuition, patterns, higher thought processes
- Turquoise - soothes pain, repairs, rebuilds burnt skin, equilibrium, process
- Lime - detoxing, energizing, stimulating, alert
I started off my programme but fell off it after three days. The first two days consisted off violet and indigo light which would be to sooth me. Unfortunately, the main thing I noticed through this time was the opposite. I spent the next three weeks in one of the worst rages I have had for a long time; as someone who is usually calm and cant remember the last time I raised my voice this was quite strange for me. Even when I am usually angry I tend to be able to hold my tong fairly well, take a breath and be reasonable. After two days on indigo light however this went out the window and I was furious, even telling a lady in the street to 'get the fuck out my way' when I was on my evening run. I also decided to demand more money from my boss at work and the list goes on...
I spoke to my mum about this after about three weeks as she kept asking if I felt like the light had soothed me, a question in itself that would pull me into a boiling range. Although the light was meant to relax me, I felt like it had opened the flood gates to something else.
I recently read a book by John Gray, one of my favorite authors, about how to heal from traumatic events where you loose someone close to you. In the book, he talks about the layers of emotion and what they mean and how we can get stuck in a certain layer if we don't process things properly. The first top layer of emotion is anger, which a lot of women have a hard time expressing. The layer underneath anger is often sadness or fear, this is the layer that many women tend to get stuck in as they cant express their anger. After the recent events in my life I noticed that I dealt with a lot in the past 6 months fairly well and calmly; for me I think the light therapy brought me back into that first level of emotion to process it and release the anger I felt.
I decided to carry on with the Turquoise and Lime light after three weeks of being extremely angry when it started to subside. Turquoise light is to sooth pain and heal and then the lime is to energize again.
I am still in this phase currently and I am starting to see some good results in terms of my mood and stress coming out less. It was interesting for me that I during this time I had some big realizations about my life and verbalized some issues that I know I have had for a long time. The whole experience was very interesting and if nothing else I feel like I know myself a little better now. Many of the things that came out in my chart (there were more than the ones above) were things I know but don't verbalize and getting the chance to talk about them was rather refreshing. I also am not trying to take better care of my liver and bought a liver testing kit to hopefully find out if there are any issues there.
If you are interested, you can email my mum to discuss light therapy more on ruth.brocklehurst1@gmail.com . For me it is something I would recommend and do again if you are open to doing the treatment and accept that certain emotions that come up will need to be processed. I have taken more of an interest this year in health and this was a great way to put me back on track. After getting COVID for the second time in January (and barely excersing for a year) I do feel like this was a step in the right direction for me.
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