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A 21st Century Healing Technology - Laser Therapy

by Wendy Boast

This article offers a detailed and technical explanation for the effectiveness of cold, or lower-level laser treatment for a wide range of health challenges. It is based on the inf...

A Bright future for Light Therapy

by David Noton, Ph.D.

In July of this year (1998), when the summer sun was striving bravely to overcome a dark and rainy English spring, a group of researchers and physicians, leavened by a goodly crew ...

Bioptron® Light Therapy: Polarized, Incoherent, Polychromatic and Low Energy Light

by Hani Rifai

This article recalls the history of light therapy, dating back to 1400 BC, including the awarding of one of the earliest Nobel prizes to a doctor practising light therapy. Bioptron...

Colour Boosting for Cancer Patients

by Sue Shattock

In this article, the author, an Aura-Soma and metamorphic technique practitioner who has trained in many different forms of self-healing, focuses on the energy-boosting properties ...

Colour Breathing for Healing

by Alison Bourne

The author describes how four years ago she developed a simple self-help therapy called Colour Breathing to aid relaxation and achieve inner and outer harmony and health.

Colour Integrated with Aromatherapy

by Gwyneth Pick

Over the last twenty years, the subject of Aromatherapy has been much talked about and is fairly well understood by most people. The shop shelves are well stocked with 'aromatherap...

Colour Light Therapy

by Charaka Satyam

Light is life. Without light, foods would not grow, flowers would not bloom and the life of animals and man would simply disappear. Sunshine raises our spirits and quite literally ...

Colour Therapy for Anorexia and Depression

by Alison Demarco

Alison studied colour therapy with Vicky Wall and created her own colour system – the Colour Profile Analysis System. This includes Alison's work with Harry Oldfield and electro-cr...

Cranial Laser Reflex Technique for Muscle Release and Pain

by Gill Jacobs

This article describes the innovative new development called Cranial Laser Reflex Technique (CLRT), which involves brief laser stimulation of specific cranial reflex points. The au...

EEA / Kirlian photography and Colourpuncture

by Angelika Hochadel

Kirlian photography shows the electromagnetic field surrounding the body. This is usually achieved by placing the finger and toe tips on a photographic unit and the energy emission...

Healing with Colour Therapy

by Pauline Wills

The author states that we are ‘beings of light’, and need light for our well-being.  In our aura’s etheric layer are eight energy centres, or chakras, each vibrating to its own col...

Illumination Therapy

by Dr Charles Newman

Personal transformation is the process of individual change that results from an increased level of perceptive awareness.

Light and Colour for Optimum Health

by Kathleen Ginn

Over the last ten years, following a history of poor health, Kathleen Ginn has studied light and colour and has reaped their benefits for health and well-being. She is a lecturer a...

Light and its application in Acupuncture

by David Barker-Hall

The therapy known as Acupuncture has fragmented into many differing methods, with each system appealing to various groups or individuals. In this article we will now consider yet a...

Light Medicine and the Future

by Steven Paul Warren

...as the medical profession finds itself exhausting the valuable resource of antibiotic therapy through its overuse, many doctors are looking for viable alternatives. Light therap...

Light Therapy for Migraine

by David Noton, Ph.D.

Can light really be a treatment for migraine? For many migraine sufferers light is the last thing they look to for relief; when a migraine strikes, they typically retreat to a dark...

Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) for Hard-to-Heal Conditions

by Gill Jacobs

In this article, the author focuses on the power of light and colour to heal, a form of treatment that can be traced back to ancient Egyptian times. She also looks into the disco...

Research: Light Treatment and Biorhythm

by Barry Fowler

This review summarizes some of the landmark developments presented at the 2006 Conference of The Society for Light Treatment and Biorhythm Research held in Quebec in July 2006.

Seasonal Affective Disorder

by Wendy Morray-Jones

It has long been known that certain diseases can be linked to the changing seasons. In the fifth century B.C. Hippocrates wrote that "Such diseases as increase in the Winter ought ...

Self-Empowerment with Colour Healing

by Marion Zacks

Using colour therapy these days is not about telling individuals what they need and prescribing for them. It is about facilitating and supporting those who wish to help themselves ...