Light, Energy, Healing
Sunrise-Sunset
Utter stillness and tranquility cut the symphony of early morn. An orange sun rose on black mountains and the clear horizon sang, a voiceless chorus to serenade the dawn.
A great gift that Merri and I received with our mountain home is a long range view from the office and front room that reveals the glory of sunrise.
There are few greater pleasures than sitting in the office early as the day gets its first cut and bleeds a thick rind of orange. Then the sky washes itself in a patina of salmon, pink and gold.
Sunrises have always been mystical. Many cultures worship the sun. Others have exercises involving the sun such as the Sun Salute (see below). One wise Taita Yatchak in the Andes told me that the secret of abundance lay in visualizing the golden orange of the sunrise.
Now technology is beginning to show that that these secrets make good scientific sense.
Merri and I have been studying with Dr. Joe Spano about the power of light in health and healing. In this process we came across information at the leading edge of health treatments for all types of illness:
aches and pains, wounds, burns, cavities, joint problems, arthritis, fibromyalgia, brain cancer, osteoporosis and much more.
What is the Science?
Infrared light increases energy inside cells by stimulating cytochromes which are part of the electron transportation chain that converts sugar into energy. This stimulates cellular reproduction, relaxes muscles and stimulates nerve transmission, enhances the immune response, reduces scar tissue and promotes wound healing, stimulates collagen production (making skin tighter), increases blood capillary circulation and vascular activity, stimulates production of endorphins and enkephelins from the brain, increases RNA and DNA synthesis, stimulates production of the adrenals which reduces pain and stimulates the production of adenosine triphosphate, (ATP) an immediate energy source for muscle contraction. Plus there have not been any reported negative side effects.
This means that infrared treatment is being used for arthritis, wounds, burns, against cancer, for bone loss, diabetic ulcers, poor blood or oxygen supply. The treatment can be very effective for pain and
inflammation reduction. There are numerous studies of subjects who had lost their protective sensation in their lower limbs due to diabetic neuropathy. All the limbs actively treated with infrared showed improvement. The placebos in the double blind studies showed almost no improvement.
This has been especially helpful for people who in their older age lose their balance and fall. Infrared improves the foot sensation. All the subjects tested improved balance and gait. Falls decreased 96%.
Infrared helps overcome strains, pains and much more. Infrared machines are in space, and are also used in US Navy nuclear submarines for SEAL teams.
More News About Infrared
Newsweek International Magazine shined even more light on this light subject with an article “Therapeutic LEDs use light to penetrate deep into tissues and boost the body’s own natural healing processes” by Anne Underwood. The article said that Marines that ship out to Iraq take light 8″ black plastic disks that contain 192 red and infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The light heals and the LEDs, (Light Emitting Diodes) can boost the body’s own natural healing processes. The articles stated:
Studies are showing that these new devices can help ease chronic pain, speed wound healing and prevent acute mouth ulcers in certain cancer patients. Even the U.S. Defense Department and NASA are studying LEDs as potential aids to healing injuries on the battlefield and in outer space. And plans are in the works to introduce the technology, patented in at least nine European countries, to the U.K. later this year.“In one published study, LEDs developed for NASA sped wound healing in a U.S. Navy submarine crew by 50%. Other researchers have shown that certain infrared wavelengths stimulate the release of nitric oxide in blood vessels, causing them to dilate. This, in turn, increases circulation to a wounded area, improving delivery of oxygen and nutrients and the removal of wastes. That may be why LEDs seem to relieve ailments from muscle strains to shin splints.
“LED devices may even help reverse diabetic peripheral neuropathy or nerve impairment in the limbs-long thought to be irreversible. In a study last year in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, doctors treated 49 subjects with an infrared-only LED device from Anodyne Therapy LLC. After just six 30-minute sessions, 48 of the patients showed improvement. Similarly, says Denver podiatrist, Dale H. Carnegie, one of the study’s authors, the Anodyne device can help heal diabetic foot ulcers. Ultimately, he says, this could spare patients with diabetes from having limbs amputated.”
The more we looked the more ways we found that these LEDS are being used.
Light Can Do Much More
The Consumer Health Organization of Canada, a non-profit organization, explains an article by David Olszewski entitled HEALING WITH SINGLE FREQUENCY LIGHT why these lights work. Part of the article really captured my attention and made me realize why sunrise is so healing that it may seem mystical. Here are excerpts from the article:
IN EARLY EXPERIMENTS In 1965, the Russians and Czechs were trying to standardize colour therapy, which is the use of colours to treat the body. When they used a single colour on a number of people, they got different reactions because colour affects emotions and produces different effects. The Russians wanted to have a standard treatment, so they theorized that if they isolated one frequency of blue, or red, they could duplicate colour therapy on a regulated basis. They started separating different frequencies with lasers, and they discovered a lot more than they expected to find. They discovered that a single frequency light in a laser can stimulate DNA in damaged cell tissue. They used a low power laser under 50-milliwatts because higher lasers can cut tissue.It didn’t matter what the frequency was. It could be infrared, red, blue, or green, as long as it was single.
I understood this to be like hearing. If you are at a party with loud music blaring and hundreds of people babbling, you have to work hard to hear and absorb what someone says to you. Yet if you are sitting in a quiet room with no distraction, and only one person speaking, the information given is easily heard, understood, absorbed and used.
In other words, when the body is exposed to one frequency of light, it is more easily absorbed and used.
At the quantum level of our existence, we are just frequency (as is light). So when we absorb light better, it has a profound impact on the balance of our health.
Now here is the special sunrise information and how science ties into mysticism.
The article also says, as you move toward the red end of the spectrum, the rate of cellular regeneration increased. For instance, a single frequency in the green range might affect the kidney 40 times better than a normal base-line study, whereas a red would be about 4,000 times faster. So over the years they migrated to infrared, red and eventually the 660 nanometer wavelength because it was the fastest way to regenerate tissue. So if you have an injury you would normally recover from in ten days, you can actually recover that tissue in two days by treating it with light.
WAVELENGTH OF CELL TISSUE
About ten years later at the University of Chicago, researchers discovered that the average wavelength of cell tissue in the human body ranged between 600 nanometers and 720 nm; 660 is the mid-point. So in essence, the reason a 660 nm works better than any other single frequency is because it is closer to the resonant frequency of cell tissue. The other reason is that 660 nm absorbs better in hemoglobin.
You can read the entire article here.
The colors we see at sunrise (and sunset) are created when the sun drops to an angle low in the sky. The sunlight has to travel through more atmosphere before it is seen. This added atmosphere increases the filtering of the light. This added filtering reduces the number of frequencies that reaches us. Pure white sunlight is composed of all frequencies.
Red, orange, salmon and pink sunrises and sunsets are composed of far fewer frequencies, and they are in the 600 nanometer range!
Let’s add two and two together. There are numerous strong suggestions that something as simple and safe as a single color of light (in the red range) can improve health.
Light at sunrise and sunset consists of light in the red range.
Need I say more. Enjoying the sunrise and sunset can be good for your health!
Using LED lights can be, as well.
You can consult your health care professional about this but there are also steps you can take to gain general benefits from light at home.
There are now a multitude of LED light instruments available on the ranging from a few hundred to thousands of dollars. The question is which one to choose.
To answer this question, Merri and I turned to one our main health care advisors, Dr. Joe Spano. (See more about Dr. Joe below.)
We asked Joe what he recommends as he has used light and sound for healing for many years.
Joe explained that for home use, simple and inexpensive is usually best. The key is to stick to LED in the 630 to 690 nanometer range (simpler to use than laser).
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About Dr. Joe:
Dr. Joe Spano is one of the great healers that Merri and I have worked with and is a consultant to the Slower Network. Dr. Joe is an M.D. who has practiced complimentary medicine for more than the 20 years we have known him.
Joe really knows his stuff. He is board certified in internal medicine and anti-aging, he was an instructor in Physical Diagnosis at Tulane University Medical School, Chief of Staff at Naples Community Hospital, President of the Department of Medicine, and is listed in Best Doctors in America.
We are impressed by his balance as well as his medical credentials. Not only is he a great doctor who has taught guided meditations and healing through sound for 28 years, but he has a long list of published scientific papers with names like, Production of Precipitating Antibody to Hepatitis-Associated Antigen (HAA) using Pepsin-treated HAA as well.
Joe sees beyond just medicine, having been on the founding board of Seacrest Country Day School, on the Collier County Economic Development Board and the Collier County Conservancy and Christian Medical Foundation.
Ruth Montgomery, past president of the prestigious National Press Club, wrote about Joe Spano in her best selling book.
Merri and I especially like the fact that Joe lives by the maxim of Physician Heal Thyself. I know his age, but if you meet him, Ill bet your guess won’t come close. He looks, acts and is a young man biologically. Chronologically, he is well past what others call retirement age.
Yet there is even more, that I consider the most important fact of all. We have spent all types of time at all kinds of occasions with Dr. Joe ranging from hiking in Andean mountains to being at healings, attending funerals, parties, formal meetings and visiting orphanages. Even Joe’s and our daughter roomed together for years. When you do so many things together over two decades, you get to know the man. We know that Dr. Joe is in great health, strong, wise, kind, gentle, sympathetic, giving, charitable, successful, astute and most of all, he cares.
More about the Sun Salute
Throw away the stretchers, ski machines, dumbbells and gyms you never visit. This one exercise gives strength and flexibility yet takes as little15 minutes a day. It’s called the sun salute and exercises every muscle group in the body. Four repetitions a day can make a difference. In just a few minutes you can make a difference.
Do fifteen a day (seven minutes) for two weeks. Then if this takes too much time do just four a day for awhile. Then do fifteen any day you can. You will see big differences in your muscle tone and flexibility.
This exercise stimulates every major muscle group and all key reflex points as it helps balance your health in a multitude of ways.
Until next message, may your sunsets and sunrises be glorious and golden in their reds and oranges!
Gary
