Is seasonal depression getting you down? Or perhaps you might be suffering from a certain, terribly inhibiting sleep disorder, such as insomnia or sleep apnea? Even those dealing with acne, psoriasis, jaundice, or general bodily pain should want to check out light therapy using colored gel filters.
Light therapy is a well-known, safe, and effective medical treatment, used mainly for health, beauty, and overall well-being. Although this health practice is derived from antiquity, you may have seen an example of it being used in modern popular culture already, as displayed in the TV show, Broad City. In the fourth season of the Comedy Central series, main character Illana, treats her Seasonal Affective Disorder with a “Happy S.A.D. lamp” in the fall and winter months, where her mental health suffers due to a lack in Vitamin D, and the basic human need for sunlight. Seasonal Affective Disorders are serious issues for many people around the world, which often become rampant with the changing of seasons, where the lack of sunlight creates an imbalance in circadian rhythms, and lead to depression. The SAD lamp is proven effective in this episode, and helps Illana decrease her dosage of antidepressants for a given amount of time.
While you can find lamps just like the prop seen in "Broad City", and all over the web, there is another, more versatile option to consider, with the simple, yet effective addition of color. To supplement this general white light therapy practice, one might consider light therapy using color gel filters, also known as Chromotherapy. Chromotherapy is an ancient treatment method, re-emerging as an “old new age” therapeutic option embraced by hoards of modern patients and health practitioners alike. When using this method, gel sheets are to be used as a type of filter, removing certain colors from an original source of white light, rather than adding the color you see in the physical gel itself. Using any of these gels with medically approved SAD lamps ensures the process of light therapy is UV ray free, and safe to use on the skin and eyes, so individuals prone to, or currently suffering from skin problems need not worry about harmful side effects.
Practitioners of this type of new age medicine often relate single colors of the visible light spectrum to each the seven chakras, or spiritual centers, located along the spine. With the use of chromotherapy, these chakras can be balanced and increase well being, as according to ayurvedic, or globalized, medicine originating from India. The benefits of chromotherapy have been recognized, in this case, as spiritual, as well as physically and psychologically useful since the 10th century. Here, color light was once used for both diagnosis and treatment of disease, by Avicenna, ancient physician and “father of modern medicine”.
From this point on, the antique method of medical treatment has only grown exponentially in popularity, and it has even entered the mainstream beauty market, with light treatment acne-reducing face masks being sold in superstores around the world. The bandwagon is moving along fast, and it is just about time for you to hop on! Join the chromotherapy movement now, by creating your own, personalized, color light therapy with individual gel sheets in any color you could possibly think of, each relating a different health, beauty, or spiritual benefit.
There are countless practical, everyday uses for light therapy, whereas chromotherapy expands such effects of the new age healing method through the differing frequencies and vibrations of light colors, other than white light. To expand on the scientific claims behind this commonly used practice, there are just two bodily receptor organs for light, which happen to be the eyes and skin. Color only exists as we see it through our eyes, and otherwise exists as wavelengths and frequencies which contact the skin. This knowledge helps chromotherapists realize the different effects each type of frequency has on individual organs, and their given health benefits derived from each one. For example, indigo colored light is known to relieve pain, while yellow increases mood as well as metabolism, and heals the skin. Purple light has been proven to increase sleep quality and reduce stress, as red light addresses the liver and supports circulatory and nervous functions. Therefore, you may pick and choose your desired benefits such as ones listed above, along with many more, using StageSpot's individually colored gel filter sheets, and go on your own way with the varying healing methods of your preference!
