Light Therapy | Vitamin D | Light Therapy Relieves Depression
Basic imagery meditation is the focus of Tranquility is Yours. The visual imagery can power your ability to discover inner resources and refuel your outer expressions to help you deal with stress. When you allow yourselves to focus on the imagery, the videos can trigger your mind to let go and allow you to deepen the experience of inner peace and tranquility that the stress relieving technique of imagery meditation can provide. You may be surprised at just how relaxed you may begin to feel and how quickly you can experience fast stress relief.
It sounds simple, but these images are a great meditation tool to help you find moments of tranquility that can allow you to rejuvenate yourself while experiencing the simple beauty that is everywhere around us. You can also just close your eyes and use the audio from the video clips as your meditation tool. Imagery meditation is just one of many effective ways to reduce stress. You'll find a variety of different stress relief techniques, stress help and stress tips as you browse the site.
Stress can rob you of the joy you should be experiencing in life. Don't let stress rob you. When you feel anxious or stressful, take a moment for quiet meditation. It can help you respond in a positive manner to the dynamic situations around you. Check your signs of stress here, and for stress relief tips click here.
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You can also try Breathing Exercises for relief from any stress or tension. Breathing exercises can provide immediate release from stress and anxiety. Yoga also offers a series of breathing exercises. Our Yoga page provides a link to some very good posters of Yoga Poses. Good Yoga illustrations are not easy to find. The Yoga Posters and Step-by-Step Yoga DVD are very descriptive and useful for beginners. And if you just want to focus on relaxing, our Relaxation Exercises page has a few stress relaxation exercises that will help you feel completely relaxed. To bathe your stress away visit our Epsom Salt page, and to soothe stress and depression away visit our Aromatherapy, or Self Hypnosis pages. You can also relax by playing our stress relief game.
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Depression and stress have a tendency to intermingle, making it difficult to put your finger on the exact reason why you feel depressed or stressed. You may even feel that it’s not one thing that’s getting you down. It’s everything, and you just can’t seem to kick a consistent feeling of gloom? You can probably categorize those feelings as depression.
For some people that feeling of gloom and depression is called SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is a depression disorder associated with light deprivation during the winter months. Seasonal Affective Disorder is caused by a melatonin imbalance initiated by a lack of exposure to sunlight. SAD sufferers are not the only ones feeling stress, depression and the negative health affects caused by a lack of appropriate sunlight. We are all feeling its impact. Our lifestyles limit our exposure to sunlight. You naturally get vitamin D from sunlight, and a lack of exposure to sunlight is the main cause of vitamin D deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiencies can cause severe health issues. Osteoporosis is linked to a lack of vitamin D. Rickets is another bone-wasting disease that is linked to a vitamin D deficiency, and chronic vitamin D deficiency is often misdiagnosed as Fibromyalgia, because the symptoms are so similar; muscle weakness, depression, and unexplained aches and pains.
You can get vitamin D through food and supplements, but sunlight exposure is the only reliable way to generate vitamin D in your body. Studies show that healthy levels of vitamin D inhibit prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, depression, and even schizophrenia.
People with dark skin tend to need 20 – 30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fair-skinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D. In fact, doctors have now discovered that vitamin D deficiency is causing high rates of prostate cancer in Black males. People who are over weight have been found to need twice as much vitamin D, because obesity tends to impair how the body utilizes vitamin D. In general, studies show that your risk of developing serious diseases like diabetes and cancer can be reduced by 50% - 80% with simple and sensible exposure to natural sunlight on an average of two to three times each week.
When your exposure to natural sunlight is limited, you can combat the depression related to SAD or the health issues associated with sunlight deficiencies with light therapy or photo therapy. Light therapy is exposure to light through special light therapy lamps or light boxes that are brighter than indoor light, but not as bright as direct sunlight. Light therapy has been found to be effective against depression, and it can reset your biological clock, or circadian rhythms, which controls when you sleep and when you wake up. Exposure to this special light has been found to be close enough to natural sunlight to allow the body to produce needed vitamin D.
Light therapy can offer effective mood altering and physical health benefits for generally anyone, and it has already been clinically proven to reduce stress.
The photo therapy lamps or light boxes used in the treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder are considered safe and effective for the intended purpose, as long as photo-sensitizing drugs are not being taken at the same time, and no eye sensitivities exist. It is recommended that light therapy should be used under the supervision of a medical professional, but some light boxes have such low light density that they can be used without consulting a physician.
Light therapy may be most effective when used first thing in the morning when you wake up. You and your doctor can determine when light therapy works best for you. You usually sit approximately 12" from the light anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes per session. It is neither recommended nor necessary to stare directly into the light. A positive response to light therapy usually occurs within 2 to 4 days, but it may take up to three weeks before symptoms of SAD or depression are relieved, and it can take months to correct a vitamin D deficiency.
We can all benefit from the use of light therapy. More often than not, most people usually do not get the kind of exposure to the sun that could be beneficial. You tend to be stuck inside buildings all day long. You may go to work before sunrise, and get out of work as the sun is going down, or has already set. If that sounds like your lifestyle, you may be a good candidate for light therapy.
Light therapy is a viable alternative to consider when stress or depression has taken over, and you need more than aromatherapy, candles, or relaxation to get results.
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