One of the most famous examples of light therapy in use in conventional medicine is ultraviolet light exposure for jaundiced babies.Light Therapy and the Neural Crest
One of the most famous examples of how light therapy is being used in conventional medicine is the use of ultraviolet light to cure jaundice in babies. But light therapy can also be used to rebalance the autonomic nervous system to cure autoimmune disease, cancer, parasites, and more. The skin and the brain are derived from the same structural origin that takes shape right after a human being is conceived in the womb. This embryonic structure is known as the neural crest. The neural crest begins as a flat piece of tissue when an embryo is first developing. The neural crest then folds up and forms a tube that later becomes the autonomic nervous system including the ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system, the dorsal and ventral branches of the parasympathetic nervous system (of which the vagus nerve is a part), parts of the brain and the front part of the skull, as well as the chromaffin cells of the adrenal glands and the other endocrine glands (chakras).What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
The autonomic nervous system is made up three branches that manage how our bodies function. These three branches work together to ensure survival and when they work together in a balanced way we feel healthy and happy.Polyvagal Theory: The Three Branches of the Autonomic Nervous System
The three branches of the autonomic nervous system include:- The Sympathetic Fight-or-Flight System
- The Parasympathetic Rest-and-Digest System
There are two branches of the parasympathetic nervous system according to Dr. Stephen Porges, the originator of Polyvagal Theory. This particular branch of the parasympathetic nervous system deals with restful, relaxed states of being that often involve some form of “socialization” or even healing trance states. This is the branch of the autonomic nervous system that works with healing, detoxification, and rebuilding and rejuvenation of the body, as well as socialization. Many people today have a very difficult time switching over into this branch of the autonomic nervous system. This is the branch of the autonomic nervous system that must “switch on” at some point in order for the body to heal.
- The Parasympathetic Play-Dead System
This second branch of the parasympathetic nervous system is not currently recognized in conventional medicine. Dr. Stephen Porges theorized that the “play-dead” or “freeze” parasympathetic nervous system branch is a part of our nervous system that was leftover from a time when humans were being chased by hungry animals in the wilderness. More primitive animals of prey, for example, like the gazelle, will go entirely limp and behave as though dead if they are being attacked by a predator as a reflex involving this second branch of their parasympathetic nervous system. Humans have the same reflex, and a number of diseases including autism, autoimmune disease, resignation syndrome, and more involve the pathologic activation of the Play Dead or Freeze Response (which is also known as Cell Danger Response when this syndrome is being observed at the cellular level).
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The Sympathetic Nervous System “Switchboard”
The Sympathetic Nervous System is made up of a switchboard of nerve bundles known as “ganglia” that line up about 1” to the right and left sides of the spine, all the way down the back from the top of the neck to the tailbone. These ganglia each run a specific organ or organs and they can either “turn on” the organ or “turn it off”. But when a given ganglia switches to the “off” mode, the organ does not just stop working. Rather, when one of the Sympathetic Nervous System ganglia are switched off, one of the two branches of the Parasympathetic Nervous System then takes control of that organ.In stressful situations, the Sympathetic Nervous System stays switched on pathologically. Humans were designed to regularly switch from sympathetic control over their organs and tissues into parasympathetic rest-and-digest mode throughout the day. In fact, there’s a clock used in Traditional Chinese Medicine that tracks the times of the day when a given sympathetic nervous system ganglia switches off so that the parasympathetic rest-and-digest nerves can take over. If our bodies are out-of-sync with the environment though, or if an organ is overly toxic or diseased, the body can get confused and either stay in a sympathetic nervous system mode (which often leads to pain caused by trigger points in skeletal muscle tissues) or the body may go into a full or partial parasympathetic play dead mode.
n conventional medicine, the autonomic nervous system consists of just two branches, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems. But Dr. Stephen Porges developed the Polyvagal Theory which says there are 3 autonomic nervous system branches: 1 branch of the sympathetic nervous system and 2 branches of the parasympathetic nervous system.The Two Parasympathetic Nervous System Branches
The parasympathetic play-dead system exists to help our bodies deal with material that is simply too overwhelming for us to work with consciously and that is too overwhelming for us to overcome using the sympathetic fight-or-flight response. For example, while a sympathetic fight-or-flight response gives us a burst of energy to run away or lift heavy things with superhuman strength, the parasympathetic play-dead response allows us to convincingly appear lifeless to deter predators. This play-dead response can also save us from feeling a lot of pain at the moment of death so it’s an important physiological tool that our bodies need. Unfortunately though, if we confront situations that are traumatic in that they overwhelm us with negative emotions and a situation that feels too dangerous for us to express the negative emotion or take action to overcome it, we can end up getting stuck in a play-dead or freeze response that persists even beyond the moment when the traumatic event happened. Portions of our cells may literally go dormant in response to a physical, biological, or emotional trauma. Trauma, according to this definition, could be any situation that is powerfully negative and that does not permit us to save us ourselves including, as examples:- Undergoing any type of surgery.
- Receiving a devastating medical diagnosis, prognosis.
- Receiving a treatment plan that is terrifying.
- A medical procedure that’s physically painful and/or terrifying.
- A dental procedure that must be done and that feels physically painful and/or terrifying.
- Experiencing a car accident that was terrifying and that involved some kind of physical restriction wherein you couldn’t move.
- Observing a car accident that was terrifying, but that took place in a situation wherein you couldn’t help or take action.
- Being physically, verbally, or sexually abused as a child.
- Being exposed to one more infectious pathogens that overwhelm the biology of the body.
- Receiving a series of vaccines that overwhelm the biology of the human body.
The parasympathetic play-dead system causes all or a part of the body to go offline to conserve energy in a last ditch effort to survive. An organ or several organs may, for example, go into a semi-dormant state. Or, part of the cells that make up an organ may go dormant, creating a situation where the patient feels chronically ill because organs and tissues are not working properly or in sync with the other organs of the body. Of course, a situation like this can easily spiral outward into a bigger problem if it isn’t properly dealt with in some way using non-toxic medicines to heal the body. Unfortunately, most of the pharmaceutical medications prescribed for the health issues caused by this autonomic nervous system imbalance actually worsen the problem by increasing toxicities in the body. Medicine can, after all, overwhelm the human physiology and actually cause additional cells to go dormant in response. More cells, more tissues, and other organs may then get involved in the play-dead response as cells recognize the presence of poisons in the body and go into a dormant state to protect themselves.
Dr. Pottenger was a physician who believed that all disease could be viewed as nothing but an autonomic nervous system dysfunction or imbalance. A system of conventional medicine known as Neural Therapy uses procaine injections aimed at the sympathetic nervous system ganglia and parasympathetic nervous system nerves to cure disease states like autoimmunity, cancer, chronic pain conditions, or even mental health problems like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) quickly and easily. This system of medicine uses procaine, the first anesthetic medicine ever developed, to rebalance the autonomic nervous system. Though this is a system of medicine that belongs to conventional medicine, it is practically unknown to patients and even other doctors because Neural Therapy allows doctors to cure disease, which is not profitable for Big Pharma. Big Pharma has used a technique called “shelving” to hide Neural Therapy from patients even though it is an older system of medicine with miraculous healing effects.
Yet another system of medicine known as Endobiogeny views the endocrine system and the autonomic nervous system as the most basic functional systems in the body that coordinate and adjust all other functional systems (such as organs, tissues, etc.). Endobiogeny is a system of medicine that was developed by a group of physicians who could see that the endocrine system and the autonomic nervous system work together fluently through the pineal gland.
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Forms of Energy That Can Be Used for Healing
But let’s go back to our discussion of light therapy and review for a moment. The skin and the autonomic nervous system are derived from the same embryonic structure. Though this connection may not seem important, most alternative systems of medicine use an anatomical model of the body that explores the development of the human from its earliest moments of conception to discover the energetic connections between organs and tissues. While conventional medicine groups organs and tissues anatomically based on obvious or arbitrary connections, most other systems of medicine acknowledge that function derives from energetic connections and anatomical relationships reflect these energetic connections.Form vs. Function OR Form Is Function?
In conventional medicine, anatomy (structure and location) is something separate from physiology (function). In autoimmune disease, for example, people feel sick without an anatomical explanation about why they feel sick. Conventional medicine solves this disconnect between organs that appear to be healthy and normal and the patient’s symptoms and lack of proper, healthy function by saying that the immune system is structurally abnormal. Scientific studies have, as a result, become hyper-focused on the structure of the immune system. But the immune system is structurally pleomorphic. In other words, it is constantly changing shape to adapt to the environment. So scientists who study autoimmune disease from the point-of-view espoused by conventional medicine regularly end up in a cul de sac of illusions and unsolvable equations.Many other systems of medicine like acupuncture or Ayurveda combine concepts of structure and function into a seamless whole. Anatomy and physiology are not separate things according to these systems of medicine which is why they’re viewed as holistic. When we talk about light therapy, resonant frequencies, or the use of electricity or electromagnetism to heal the body, we’re talking about form AS function and function AS form. Form and function are a part of the same fabric, so to speak in the manner of Einstein’s E=mc2 equation. One could say that energy and matter are interchangeable in health as in physics, which makes sense even to westerner’s in the developed world who have been taught to view the body as a puzzle of disconnected parts and functional units that are roughly connected to the brain but not to each other or to the external environment except in the most crude and uninspired ways.
Systems of Medicine That Use Electricity to Heal
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, for example, acknowledge that chi or prana is an electrical-type of energy that flows through the fascia, a translucent connective tissue that envelopes every bone, every muscle, and every organ of the body as a kind of flat, extensive electrical wiring. The flow of energy through the body is predictable and a healer or the patient themselves can treat a diseased organ if they know where the energy and electricity for that organ originates in the body. Acupuncture uses needles, for example, that transmit human electromagnetic energy through the tiny metal coils into the skin. Some acupuncturists use laser light though as an alternative to needles that works just as well to stimulate the flow of chi through the proper meridians in the body.Ayurveda uses a lot of oils that are also electrical to improve the transmission of energy in the body and they focus on breath and prana as a life-giving form of energy. Studies into breath have demonstrated that changing pH levels work to cause energy transmission or stagnation in the body. Breath and heart rate variability are a measure of human health because a person who is able to alter breath rate and heart rate fluently in response to environmental changes can electrically change the flow of their internal energy (via alterations in pH and blood flow changes) to maintain balance in the autonomic nervous system and body tissues which is equivalent to good health.
Dr. Jerry Tenant is a conventional medicine doctor who became very ill when he first started practicing medicine. In an effort to cure himself of his disease, he developed a system of medicine that looked at the voltage of cells. He found that muscles in the legs and arms produce electricity that fuel organs in the abdomen via fascia, the electrical wiring that connects muscles and organs. By electrically stimulating skeletal muscles, he found that he was able to heal internal organs by giving them the electrical energy needed to heal.
Dr. Bob Beck was an orthopedic surgeon who developed an interest in electricity in an effort to regrow limbs. He noted that certain animals like salamanders are able to regrow their limbs and he wanted to know why humans were not able to do the same thing. His discoveries in the field of electrical medicine led to the development of the micropulser, a tiny tool that can be used to shock and kill pathogens in the body. He also developed transcranial electromagnetic stimulation that can be used to treat and cure depression naturally without drugs.
Dr. Isaac Goiz uses magnets to cure disease. He applies two magnets of opposite polarity to specific areas of the body to create polarization and change the pH in certain channels of the body, re-establishing the proper electrical flow in these areas that have lost their polarity.
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Forms of Energy Used to Heal the Body
Every human being begins as a tiny mass of bubbles that later becomes a flat piece of tissue that then folds itself first into a tube and becomes the spinal cord and autonomic nervous system and the skin. From these origins, our bodies unfold like flowers from a seed. The heart unfolds into the right arm, which is why people feel a heart attack as right arm or right shoulder pain. The bladder meridian travels up through the head which is why older people sometimes develop dementia in response to a bladder infection. The pathways that energy follows through the body were developed along a pathway of evolution that begins with conception.Electricity and magnetism (or electromagnetism) is a form of energy and vibration that our bodies can use to heal. Light is related to electromagnetism as a healing agent in the body, but light-energy is a little different than electromagnetic energy in terms of how it works to heal the body. Nonetheless, light therapy still works as a healing agent by donating photons which are packets of energy that the body can use to heal. The absorption of photon-packets of energy by the skin is something that directly impacts the autonomic nervous system via the connection between the skin and this whole-body energy-conducting structure. While electricity and magnetism works with the fascia or tissue fluids and pH which are deeper layers of the physical body that connects the organs to our skeletal muscles in predictable, medically useful ways, light and photon-packets of energy that are absorbed by the skin directly impact the sympathetic nervous system switchboard and the balanced functioning of the parasympathetic rest-and-digest system with the fight-or-flight functioning of the sympathetic nervous system.
In contrast to electricity and light forms of energy, resonant frequencies administered using a Rife Machine, for example and sound energies / vibrations are used to kill pathogens by resonating with the critters that cause disease, but resonant frequencies can also help dormant, sleepy cells reawaken to do things like regrow hair in bald spots. So resonant frequencies can be used to reawaken the cells that are in a dormant state through resonance while light can be used to reawaken these same cells by donating packets of energy that cells can readily use.
When we look at light therapy, it can be helpful to understand light energy within a bigger context of vibrational therapies that are being used to overcome disease. If you are working with light therapy at home or as an alternative medicine practitioner, the application of different wavelengths of light to the skin will actually also be impacting the autonomic nervous system and you can be more effective at treating disease if you use any one or all of the bodies of knowledge listed below about the autonomic nervous system as a road map for treatment:
- Dr. Stephen Porges’ 3-branch model of the autonomic nervous system
- Acupuncture meridians
- Dr. Jerry Tenant’s Healing Is Voltage skeletal muscle-to-organ anatomical illustrations
- Dr. Isaac Goiz’s Biomagnetic Pairs
- Segmental Anatomy
- Neural Therapy
The simplest and most accessible road map that patients and healers can use to get started with light therapy are the acupuncture meridians. Remember, the science of light therapy can be approached using any or all of the systems of medicine in the list above. Photons of light that are applied topically to the skin are unlikely to do harm even if you misapply them to the wrong areas of the body, so patients and healers can experiment to find the best healing options that work for them. But as you experiment, understand that there is a science to how light therapy works and how to use it most effectively to optimize the results.
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