Articles about Light and Colour

Note about this page: The latest issue of Positive Health magazine is published on the 4th Thursday of each month. The articles from that issue are placed on this web site on or about the same date.

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.

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.

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 to reach their full potential through the use and understanding of colour energy.

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 room and avoid all light!

Colour Boosting for Cancer Patients by Sue Shattock For everyone involved in the cancer journey whether carer or cared for, taking the time to absorb the energy of colour can help provide a simple but much needed boost anytime and anywhere.

Ultraviolet – the true story by Jeffrey Darlington For too many people, the dermatologists' message comes across as "the sun is bad for you". It's not true: the sun is good for you.

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 another system of Acupuncture which we will refer to as Aculight therapy.

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 therapy is beginning to rapidly find its place once again amongst the armoury of the modern physician.

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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 ‘aromatherapy’ products of one kind or another. Colour Therapy, however, has perhaps only more recently been brought to the attention of those interested in so called ‘alternative therapies.’

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 emissions from these regions are recorded. . . Colourpuncture is a therapy using coloured light, instead of needles, on the acupuncture points.

Illumination Therapy by Dr Charles Newman Personal transformation is the process of individual change that results from an increased level of perceptive awareness.

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 of new-age healers and visionaries, met at Reading University near London, to share their experiences with "light therapy"

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-crystal therapy, and her training with the late Dr Muriel Mackay on nutrition and natural healing.

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 to cease in the Summer . . . the physician too must treat disease with the conviction that each of them is powerful in the body according to the season which is most conformable to it."