Wouldn’t you welcome the chance to take a more relaxed approach to solving your problems, pausing for breath in this helter-skelter bedlam that seems to rule your daily life?  When you decide to workout, either looking to lose some weight or just keep in trim, the one thing that you’re sure of is that there’s ‘no gain without pain’, but does that have to apply to every aspect of our lives?

There is a sort of implanted mentality at work here, which tells us that good medicine has to taste bad, and effective treatments for all sorts of ailments are almost bound to cause discomfort, in some way.  Forgive my saying so, but I think this is rubbish. There’s been a huge swing away from ‘modern’ medicine in the last fifty years, just because it sometimes causes more pain than it cures. 

People look seriously these days at ‘alternative’ treatments, often with very surprising success. Acupuncture is very popular for addressing all sorts of problems, though there s the discomfort of the needles to consider. There is a similar treatment, however, which is equally effective, but in a much more pleasant way –  colorpuncture.

What on earth…. I hear you mutter, but it is an old and proven form of treatment.  Based on the use of acupuncture pressure points around the body, the therapist brings relief by directing tightly focused, different coloured light beams at them, the mix dependant on the problem to be addressed.  It isn’t a new idea, by any means, and today there are over 3,000 practitioners in the USA, Germany and Australia.

How do they achieve the different colours for best effect?  Believe it or not, by focusing the light through precious stones. I know it sounds ridiculous to suggest that such stones have healing properties, but this truly is an ancient belief. To Eastern cultures, sunlight itself creates biological energy, which they consider to be the ‘life-force’ of the planet. 

To the Chinese this is ‘Chi’ energy, to the Japanese ‘Ki’ and to the Indians ‘Prana’.

Healing with light and colour has been used for millennia by some cultures.  Ancient Egyptians even built colour therapy rooms, in which the patient was flooded with light of the colour deemed most effective for their problem.