Red, yellow, orange, green, blue, violet and indigo.
I hope you’re still with me. Onto something slightly different, but related—how light affects the body.
When the body (or a part of the body) malfunctions, it is replaced in a way similar to how machinery is handled. When these malfunctions are treated with chemical ingredients they sometimes cause negative side effects. Contemporary medicine uses these chemical ingredients to suppress how the machine is malfunctioning—but does not address the root issue, which is diseased life energies.
Albert Einstein had a theory about this. His approach dealt with the body not as an amalgamation of parts but as a total system operating in harmony with the electromagnetic light energy of the universe.
His understanding was that chromotherapy (vibrational healing through specific light waves) lies in reroutes energy fields that form complex relationships with other fields surrounding the physical/cellular substance to “fix” the malfunction of how the machine works.
We are surrounded by light (and thus, color). If we are engulfed in light it goes that this light and color can affect our health in both positive and negative ways. For example, you don’t want to absorb too many gamma rays! An inverse to this is far infrared—which is also a specific wavelength of light that gets absorbed into your body and raises your core body temperature.
A rise in core body temperature is very similar to exercise which when sustained over a period of time causes the body to sweat—which is extremely healthy. This is also true when your body absorbs specific colors of the visible light spectrum.
According to the theory of chromotherapy, the body itself is composed of colors.
The body exists from colors—the body (and its parts) is stimulated by colors. Internal organs and limbs of the body have their own color; and thus, their own vibrational energy/wavelength. We are all energy—down to the cellular level. Our body parts, organs, skin, hair and cells are energy centers which vibrate and harmonize with the frequencies of these colors and these colors harmonize with these body parts.
When these individual body parts deviate from these expected normal vibrations the body is either diseased or malfunctioning. By vibrating these malfunctioning parts with their harmonized wavelengths (colors) they become balanced and the diseased energy patterns are corrected.
Here are the health and skin benefits of each color:
Red—Younger looking skin. Decreases signs of aging, including fine lines and wrinkles, by increasing collagen production.
Violet—Cell renewal. Increases cell regeneration, which helps to cleanse the skin and reduce inflammation.
Blue—Combats acne and whitens teeth. Reduces the bacteria that causes acne and whitens teeth.
Cyan—Smoother skin. Smoothing, calming, healing treatment, that helps irritated and inflamed skin.
Green—Even complexion. Balances out redness and blotches for naturally beautiful skin.
Yellow—Reduces redness. Alleviates inflammation, sunburn, rosacea, or other skin conditions to enjoy healthier skin.
Orange—Glow from within. Revitalizes your skin for a brighter glow. Adds radiance and vitality to dull skin.
Infra-Red—Literally means ‘below-red’. Penetrates deeper into the skin for better rise in core temperature.
Light Placement
As I previously mentioned, I think it is quite lazy to put a small panel of LED lights in the ceiling of an infrared sauna. What you need in a sauna environment is to be much closer to the LED lights to be getting the maximum effect of the colors emitted, ideally within 2-3 inches away from the light source. This makes sense as you want maximum absorption of the colors/light. The closer away from the heaters, the less absorption. So make sure you’re close!
TLDR:
Chromotherapy harnesses a small and narrow band in the electromagnetic energy spectrum (known as the visible color spectrum). It is composed of blue, green, red, violet and combined derivatives, which produce the colors that fall between the ultraviolet and the infrared ranges of light energy wavelengths.
These colors, with their individual wavelengths and oscillations, combine with a light source and thusly applied to impaired organs or malfunctioning life systems, provide healing energy required by the body to escape disease and repair malfunction. Light affects everything and the associated colors which come from it generate electrical impulses and currents that activate the biochemical and hormonal processes in the body which stimulates the necessary natural mechanism to balance the entire system.
To answer the original question, red light therapy is a subset of chromotherapy and they have the same goal.
