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UNCOVERING THE SECRET OF LIGHT
The idea of light as an integral part of life and creation was evident since the beginning of time. From the very frst sunrise to the sunsets of the present, we continue to be awed by the beauty, power, life-creating and life-sustaining properties of light. The rainbow, truly a miracle of nature, confrms not only the importance of color but also those portions of the spectrum for which the human organism is attuned. Eastern mystics felt that each color of the rainbow corresponded energetically to a different chakra in the body. However, the role of light throughout most of history has been primarily thought of in terms of its role in seeing.
Early pioneers, like General Augustus Pleasanton, Dr. Seth Pancoast, Dr. Edwin Babbitt and Colonel Dinshah Ghadiali, found that color applied to the skin had a profound balancing and curative effect on the body. At the turn of the century, science discovered that light via the eyes not only served vision, but also went to brain regions controlling our life-sustaining functions. During that same period, Dr. Harry Spitler discovered that different colors of light entering the eyes could affect the brain centers regulating all bodily functions. Believing that physical and emotional ailments were primarily caused by imbalances in the nervous and endocrine systems, Spitler utilized different colors of light via the eyes to restore balance within these regulatory centers, affecting the source of the visual dysfunctions he found. Based on his discoveries, Spitler conceived the science of Syntonics and established the College of Syntonic Optometry in 1933.
Syntonics, utilized clinically for more than 80 years within the feld of optometry, has been used with great success in the treatment of vision problems associated with strabismus (crossed eyes), amblyopia (lazy eye), visual feld constrictions, focusing and eye teaming skills, head trauma, learning problems, and some diseases of the eyes. My own research also demonstrated signifcant improvement in visual and auditory memory, behavior, mood, and academic achievement.
The reason light impacts us so profoundly is that when light enters the eye, it doesn’t just travel to the brain’s visual cortex, enabling us to see. It travels along several different routes that involve the entire brain, signifcantly affecting all our life-sustaining functions, as well as our emotions, balance and coordination, to name a few. As an example, light entering the eyes goes to the “brain’s brain,” the hypothalamus, which regulates the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and the endocrine systems, as well as our reaction and adaptation to stress. Using light-activated information, the hypothalamus communicates with the body’s true “master gland,” the
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