Light Therapy Desensitization
Michael P Lebowitz DC 11279 E Beck Lane,
Scottsdale, AZ 85255 970 623-9565
Abstract
Visible
light is like a multivitamin, consisting of many different frequencies ranging
from approximately 400-700 nm. Selective malabsorption due to emotional trauma,
wearing glasses or contact lenses, being indoors etc., can contribute to organ
dysfunction, various subclinical maladies, and repression of unpleasant/traumatic
memories. Just like prescribing specific nutrients- prescribing treatments with
specific frequencies of light can help restore normal homeostasis and thus
stabilize your patient.
Key
Words: Light, Color, Desensitization
Introduction
Color
therapy, the use of full spectrum lighting, etc. have been the focus of
research for many decades. Pioneers such as Dinshah
(1), Babbitt (2), Spitler (3), and Ott (4) have brought many valuable findings to the field of
light and health. Approximately 25 years ago, Jacob Liberman
O.D., PhD. (5) started using specific frequencies of the visible light spectrum
to successfully treat a wide diversity of symptoms. I will be quoting heavily
from a paper I wrote for the ICAK in 1993 called Spectra View Technique (6).
“Liberman feels that there are three factors that block
biological receptivity or absorption of selective frequencies of visible light.
The first is excessive time spent under artificial light. Artificial light
being imbalanced compared to sunlight causes certain body sensors to lose part
of their function according to Liberman. The second
is excessive use of sunglasses or tinted glasses. The third, physical or
emotional trauma, may cause certain sensors to close down such that even if
people are exposed to certain frequencies of light, they may not fully absorb
them.
Liberman hypothesized that
stimulating the body (through the eyes) with the portion of the spectrum that
is blocked will cause the “unstimulated sensor to awaken”. In his clinical
experience he found that having people look at certain colors would evoke
different emotional responses varying from depression to elation. He decided to
treat (having the patient look at certain colors through an apparatus) with the
colors that made people uncomfortable or exacerbated their symptoms. By doing
this, peoples’ addictive behavior would change, often intensifying at first but
then resolving. He also found that old unresolved emotional issues and memories
would resurface and with further treatment resolve along with their physical
symptoms.”
Being
intrigued by his work in the early 1990s with the help of a patient we
developed a machine called the Spectra View that had the option of looking at
any one of 106 different light frequencies or colors and we started our research.
Discussion
Following
Liberman’s theories, we decided to do something
opposite to our usual way of thinking. We treated with the frequencies or
colors that caused inhibition of an intact muscle to mimic in a sense Libermans treating with colors that made the patient
uncomfortable. We would use 2 colors per session 10 minutes each and then the
next treatment retest those and either retreat with them if they still caused
inhibition, or move on and test others. To get through them all often took
20-70 sessions so we only did it on very select patients. I had perhaps my two
most dramatic results on any patients that I ever had in practice by utilizing
the technique. About half the cases we treated had dramatic results (e.g.one DC
gave up a 25 year habit of chewing tobacco after
session 7 which was something we were not focusing on), while the other half
had no discernable change. I stopped the technique after a year as it just
didn’t fit into my one room practice but will mention the 2 most dramatic case
histories before moving on to newer applications.
Case
Histories
1.
Alice is a personal friend and she
was 45 years old when we did the treatments. She suffered from continual
shoulder pain, chest pain, irregular heartbeat, as well as debilitating left
rhomboid pain aggravated by stress. She had lost vision in one eye seven years
previously as a result of a car accident. The top eye hospital on the east
coast told her the vision loss was permanent. She suffered from depression and
unknown to me at the time had tried to commit suicide three weeks prior to
starting the treatment. Previous treatment by me had yielded only very
temporary alleviation of her pain (using standard AK and nutrition). During the
spectra view therapy we discontinued all other treatment. Alice also had a
doormat personality- just asking to be taken advantage of by others and had
virtually no self-worth despite being a very talented woman. After session one
(looking at the colors that weakened – 2 colors ten minutes each) the left
rhomboid pain as well as the shoulder pain and chest pain vanished, never to
return except for a brief period during another session that was especially
traumatic. After session four, her energy which had been very low since her
accident returned to normal. The psychological abuse
she continually received from her husband no longer effected her. Session six caused extreme pain behind
the eye she was blind in and session seven brought vision back to her eye.
During session ten she “saw” her mother beaten by her father when Alice was
just an infant and her father trying to strangle her (she was later able to
confirm this incident while talking to her mother). She also saw her birth (she
was a home birth) and also verified the furniture in the room, etc. in a
conversation with her mother. Subsequent sessions brought new memories,
headaches, nightmares, etc. It took 31 sessions before she tested clear. By
then Alice was asymptomatic, no longer a “doormat” and had a zest for life.
Once her children moved out of the house she divorced and became a happy,
healthy, fulfilled, independent woman.
2.
Paula was 19 years old and had just
gotten engaged. At 19 she had already been married and divorced twice. At 5
foot 5 inches she weighed 265 pounds. I had treated her a number of times
helping various musculoskeletal issues but was unsuccessful with weight loss.
She agreed to undergo a 7 day water fast and did not
lose one pound. Shortly after that we commenced treatment. All in all it took about sixty sessions. After one particular
session she remembered a Thanksgiving party at her house where she was sexually
abused by a cousin when she was still in diapers (she was not able to confirm
this one way or the other). She shared the incident with me and then told me
that every Thanksgiving as far back as she could remember she would have major
vomiting episodes. Over the next 3 months without a diet change Paula lost 100
pounds and called off the third wedding. Her case seems almost physiologically impossible
but I saw it myself.
Color Therapy Desensitization 2015
With
the advent of more advanced computer technology we decided to revisit light
therapy. We made 60 different color slides to view on a computer screen. The
treatment procedure is as follows
1.
After checking the patient for dysbiosis,
metals, foods, etc., see which of the colors cause an intact muscle to be
inhibited. These colors should also block all (or almost all) your positive
findings. If some do not, only prescribe the ones that do.
2.
Have the patient at home treat with
the positive colors for a total of 20 minutes per session for 14 days (if there
are 10 colors- treat 2 minutes per color, 8 colors 2-1/2 minutes per color etc.).
Treatment should be in a dark room and the color should take up the whole
computer screen. Warn them there is a chance they will have some memories come
up during the session or in dreams. If a color seems to be significant while
treating, they can increase the time on that color and for the session.
3.
In two weeks you should retest the
colors for muscle inhibition. Usually none will weaken. If some do continue
those for another week
4.
Once no colors weaken, use a weak
indicator muscle and see which colors cause muscle facilitation. Treat as in
step 2.
5.
Recheck 2 weeks later as in step 3.
6.
Continue until no colors cause
muscle facilitation.
We
hypothesize that this home treatment helps balance the
sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system as taught by Jacob Liberman. On a practical level most patients feel they have
benefited from the treatment and we have found less recidivism of dysbiosis,
metals, etc. Patients report being more emotionally stable. We also feel we may
have corrected a patients receptivity to frequencies
of the visible light spectrum as well as replenished deficiencies of some of
the frequencies and as a result helped “heal” various traumas, organ function,
etc. While sunlight has all the visible light frequencies, just like sometimes
we need to prescribe a specific vitamin or mineral as opposed to a multi, in
these cases we need to prescribe specific visible light frequencies.
Old
technique vs new- pros and cons of each
Conclusion:
Light
therapy is a powerful technique to help your patient heal. Using colors that
either inhibit or facilitate muscles in the above mentioned fashion can be a
valuable home therapy the patient can do on their own to help stabilize their
nervous system and decrease recidivism.
References
1.Dinshah, Darius
Let There Be Light, Malaga NJ: Dinshah Health Society
1996
2.Babbit, Edwin
Principles of Light and Color, Whitefish MT, Kessinger
Publishing, 2010
3. Spitler, Harry The Syntonic Principle: Its
Relation to Health and ocular, Eugene OR, Wipf &
Stock Pub 2011
4.Ott, John Health
and Light: The extraordinary study that shows how light affects your health and
emotional wellbeing, Baltimore: Ariel Press Baltimore 2000
5. Liberman, Jacob Light Medicine of the Future: How we can
use it to Heal Ourselves, Rochester VT Bear & Co, 1990
6. Lebowitz, Michael Spectra View Technique. ICAK Collected Papers
1993-4
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