Can coloured lights heal?

What happens in a colour light therapy session?
If you're new to colour light therapy, you'd begin a session with Gordichuk by looking at a "True Colour Wheel" (click here for image) to determine your relationship with certain colours and the treatment needed. Depending on the condition, Gordichuk then chooses an appropriate therapeutic shade of light, using principles from the "SpectroChrome Wheel" (see it here).

Either lying on her massage table or sitting in a chair, you're then bathed in a healing colour or it's only applied to a specific body part, depending on the condition. You relax and soak in the colour for under an hour, the total time depending on you. "Your body will tell you when you've had enough," she explains.

According to typical colour light therapy practice, your body receives light information through both the skin and the eyes. Inside your brain, the hypothalamus -- a small section responsible for regulating hormones, the nervous system, blood pressure, equilibrium and a host of other bodily functions -- interprets all this light information, which then triggers responses in your body.

How to select a colour light therapist
When choosing a colour light therapist, Gordichuk recommends asking them where they got their training and how long they trained for. Ask them what associations they belong to, if any, and get them to explain their colour light therapy process before you go to a session.

In everyday life, Gordichuk challenges people to look at their emotional reaction to colour. "Look in your closet, even -- what's in the back of your closet? Something you bought on a whim? Maybe it's a colour you needed that day. Does it still give you the same response?" she asks. "If there's a colour that makes you feel good, go with it. Colour and light is everywhere, so let's use it!"

To read more about Cathy Gordichuk's practice or her School of Vibrational Studies, visit www.colourenergetics.com.

For a list of colours and their healing properties, click here!

Books on colour therapy