Light Therapy
Chromotherapy (or color therapy as it’s sometimes called) involves the use of color and light to stimulate wellbeing. Different colors and shades have different wavelengths and significance.
In modern times, it is often thought about as LED lights and something that is measurable. Often a machine and/or pads are used that can be plugged into an outlet. That is all well and good and we also use these techniques at Persephone Healing Arts Center. However, light therapy in the deeper sense goes far beyond that.
It is working with the light during the day and also the dark during the night. And it is working with the entire color spectrum between white and black.
Colors are therapeutic. Different people feel attracted to different favorable colors. Each of the four temperaments has a different color.
We can put a more sad and depressed and melancholic patient into a blue room, picking them up where they are at, and then have them sit in a red room to activate their will forces.
Conversely, we can put a patient with anger management issues into a red room, and then have them sit in a blue room to help calm them and resolve these issues.
One of my favorite anecdotal stories goes back centuries, when a man approached a quite famous physician of that time because his wife was dying of heart and kidney failure and on her deathbed. The physician came to the house, shone an oil lamp through a blue curtain so that the light would fall directly on the woman.
The woman made a full recovery.
These methods work using the etheric forces. The use of infrared light pads or other colors to work with the etheric forces, then influence the physical body from there.
We use colors in theater, and a good Shakespeare play always used, to and still has today, some cathartic effect for the person watching the play. Color included.
There is more and more research on Infra-red light therapy being conducted and explaining how light therapy can be used in for neuro degenerative illnesses as well as other medical conditions such as COVID. Fascinating. Science is catching up with what has been well used in more traditional ways, over the past hundreds and thousands of years.
