Complementary Health with Color and Light Therapy
Personal therapy sensory devices are projected to become a billion dollar industry in just three short years.
This category includes devices such as personal massagers, sound therapy products and air quality apparatuses. Last year the sale of this kind of personal therapy equipment totaled $934 million. Light and color therapy products made $26 million in sales.
Such tools for
health and wellness have made groundbreaking breakthroughs with 21st century science and technology. New techniques in color therapy include shining specific shades of color on designated body parts to treat certain health conditions. Shining shades of light into the eyes can help patients deal with emotional issues that could be contributing to internal physical diseases.
One of the latest gadgets creating a buzz is colored light points that help facilitate acupuncture stimulation.
Proof of the existence of
light therapy (formerly referred to as phototherapy) for the treatment of physical disorders hails from ancient times in India, Greece and China. Sunlight and color were also often used by ancient Egyptians.
Color therapy works because it is a trigger for the realignment of cellular metabolism. In turn, this helps balance the autonomic nervous system, an essential factor in regulating the body’s heartbeat, digestive tract and stress responses. It is a valid treatment used in chiropracty, acupuncture, optometry and psychology.