Ledman: This may be of some interest to you........from Darrell
(660 owner)


Sunrise-Sunset

Utter stillness and tranquility cut the symphony of early morn. An
orange sun rose on black mountains and the clear horizon sang, a
voiceless chorus to serenade the dawn.

A great gift that Merri and I received with our mountain home is a long
range view from the office and front room that reveals the glory of
sunrise.

There are few greater pleasures than sitting in the office early as the
day gets its first cut and bleeds a thick rind of orange. Then the sky
washes itself in a patina of salmon, pink and gold.

Sunrises have always been mystical. Many cultures worship the sun.
Others have exercises involving the sun such as the Sun Salute (see
below). One wise Taita Yatchak in the Andes told me that the secret of
abundance lay in visualizing the golden orange of the sunrise.

Now technology is beginning to show that that these secrets make good
scientific sense.

Merri and I have been studying with Dr. Joe Spano about the power of
light in health and healing. In this process we came across information
at the leading edge of health treatments for all types of illness:
aches and pains, wounds, burns, cavities, joint problems, arthritis,
fibermyalgia, brain cancer, osteoporosis and much more.

What is the Science?

Infrared light increases energy inside cells by stimulating cytochromes
which are part of the electron transportation chain that converts sugar
into energy. This stimulates cellular reproduction, relaxes muscles and
stimulates nerve transmission, enhances the immune response, reduces
scar tissue and promotes wound healing, stimulates collagen production
(making skin tighter), increases blood capillary circulation and
vascular activity, stimulates production of endorphins and enkephelins
from the brain, increases RNA and DNA synthesis, stimulates production
of the adrenals which reduces pain and stimulates the production of
adenosine triphosphate, (ATP) an immediate energy source for muscle
contraction. Plus there have not been any reported negative side
effects.

This means that infrared treatment is being used for arthritis, wounds,
burns, against cancer, for bone loss, diabetic ulcers, poor blood or
oxygen supply. The treatment can be very effective for pain and
inflammation reduction. There are numerous studies of subjects who had
lost their protective sensation in their lower limbs due to diabetic
neuropathy. All the limbs actively treated with infrared showed
improvement. The placebos in the double blind studies showed almost no
improvement.

This has been especially helpful for people who in their older age lose
their balance and fall. Infrared improves the foot sensation. All the
subjects tested improved balance and gait. Falls decreased 96%.

Infrared helps overcome strains, pains and much more. Infrared machines
are in space, and are also used in US Navy nuclear submarines for SEAL
teams.

More News About Infrared

Newsweek International Magazine shined even more light on this light
subject with an article "Therapeutic LEDs use light to penetrate deep
into tissues and boost the body's own natural healing processes" by
Anne Underwood. The article said that Marines that ship out to Iraq
take light 8" black plastic disks that contain 192 red and infrared
light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The light heals and the LEDs, (Light
Emitting Diodes) can boost the body's own natural healing processes.
The articles stated:

“Studies are showing that these new devices can help ease chronic pain,
speed wound healing and prevent acute mouth ulcers in certain cancer
patients. Even the U.S. Defense Department and NASA are studying LEDs
as potential aids to healing injuries on the battlefield and in outer
space. And plans are in the works to introduce the technology, patented
in at least nine European countries, to the U.K. later this year.

"In one published study, LEDs developed for NASA sped wound healing in
a U.S. Navy submarine crew by 50%. Other researchers have shown that
certain infrared wavelengths stimulate the release of nitric oxide in
blood vessels, causing them to dilate. This, in turn, increases
circulation to a wounded area, improving delivery of oxygen and
nutrients and the removal of wastes. That may be why LEDs seem to
relieve ailments from muscle strains to shin splints.

"LED devices may even help reverse diabetic peripheral neuropathy or
nerve impairment in the limbs-long thought to be irreversible. In a
study last year in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical
Association, doctors treated 49 subjects with an infrared-only LED
device from Anodyne Therapy LLC. After just six 30-minute sessions, 48
of the patients showed improvement. Similarly, says Denver podiatrist,
Dale H. Carnegie, one of the study's authors, the Anodyne device can
help heal diabetic foot ulcers. Ultimately, he says, this could spare
patients with diabetes from having limbs amputated."

The more we looked the more ways we found that these LEDS are being
used.

Light Can Do Much More

The Consumer Health Organization of Canada a non-profit organization
explains an article by David Olszewski entitled “HEALING WITH SINGLE
FREQUENCY LIGHT” why these lights work.
Part of the article really captured my attention and made me realize
why sunrise is so healing that it may seem mystical. Here are excerpts
from the article:

“IN EARLY EXPERIMENTS In 1965, the Russians and Czechs were trying to
standardize colour therapy, which is the use of colours to treat the
body. When they used a single colour on a number of people, they got
different reactions because colour affects emotions and produces
different effects. The Russians wanted to have a standard treatment, so
they theorized that if they isolated one frequency of blue, or red,
they could duplicate colour therapy on a regulated basis. They started
separating different frequencies with lasers, and they discovered a lot
more than they expected to find. They discovered that a single
frequency light in a laser can stimulate DNA in damaged cell tissue.
They used a low power laser under 50-milliwatts because higher lasers
can cut tissue.

“It didn't matter what the frequency was. It could be infrared, red,
blue, or green, as long as it was single.”

I understood this to be like hearing. If you are at a party with loud
music blaring and hundreds of people babbling, you have to work hard to
hear and absorb what someone says to you. Yet if you are sitting in a
quiet room with no distraction, and only one person speaking, the
information given is easily heard, understood, absorbed and used.

In other words, when the body is exposed to one frequency of light, it
is more easily absorbed and used.

At the quantum level of our existence, we are just frequency (as is
light). So when we absorb light better, it has a profound impact on
the balance of our health.

Now here is the special sunrise information and how science ties into
mysticism.

The article also says, “as you move toward the red end of the spectrum,
the rate of cellular regeneration increased. For instance, a single
frequency in the green range might affect the kidney 40 times better
than a normal base-line study, whereas a red would be about 4,000 times
faster. So over the years they migrated to infrared, red and eventually
the 660 nanometer wavelength because it was the fastest way to
regenerate tissue. So if you have an injury you would normally recover
from in ten days, you can actually recover that tissue in two days by
treating it with light.

WAVELENGTH OF CELL TISSUE

“About ten years later at the University of Chicago, researchers
discovered that the average wavelength of cell tissue in the human body
ranged between 600 nanometers and 720 nm; 660 is the mid-point. So in
essence, the reason a 660 nm works better than any other single
frequency is because it is closer to the resonant frequency of cell
tissue. The other reason is that 660 nm absorbs better in hemoglobin.”

You can read the entire article at
http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=20000102232338

The colors we see at sunrise (and sunset) are created when the sun
drops to an angle low in the sky. The sunlight has to travel through
more atmosphere before it is seen. This added atmosphere increases the
filtering of the light. This added filtering reduces the number of
frequencies that reaches us. Pure white sunlight is composed of all
frequencies.

Red, orange, salmon and pink sunrises and sunsets are composed of far
fewer frequencies, and they are in the 600 nanometer range!

Let’s add two and two together. There are numerous strong suggestions
that something as simple and safe as a single color of light (in the
red range) can improve health.

Light at sunrise and sunset consists of light in the red range.

Need I say more. Enjoying the sunrise and sunset can be good for your
health!

Using LED lights can be as well.

You can consult your health care professional about this but there are
also steps you can take to gain general benefits from light at home.

There are now a multitude of LED light instruments available on the
ranging from a few hundred to thousands of dollars. The question is
which one to choose.

To answer this question, Merri and I turned to one our main health care
advisors, Dr. Joe Spano. (See more about Dr. Joe below.)

We asked Joe what he recommends as he has used light and sound for
healing for many years.

Joe explained that for home use, simple and inexpensive is usually
best. The key is to stick to LED in the 630 to 690 nanometer range
(simpler to use than laser).

He recommends two LED (not laser) instruments to his patients, one
called the Chi Light which provides the option of pulsed or continuous
beam (priced at $295 plus $6.95 shipping including a manual) and
another that has only a continuous beam but is far less expensive ($99
plus $6.95 shipping including the manual).

Dr. Joe keeps some of these lights in stock and we can pass orders onto
him. To order, send me a note at gary@...

To enhance the health focus of this site we are starting an “Ask Dr.
Joe” feature here. If you have medical questions about how light can
help, please send them to me at gary@... and Dr. Joe will
answer them. Some will be posted at the slowR.com site (no names or
addresses will be shown).


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About Dr. Joe:

Dr. Joe Spano is one of the great healers that Merri and I have worked
with and is a consultant to the Slower Network. Dr. Joe is an M.D. who
has practiced complimentary medicine for the more than the 20 years we
have known him.

Joe really knows his stuff. He is board certified in internal medicine
and anti-aging, was an instructor in Physical Diagnosis at Tulane
University Medical School, Chief of Staff at Naples Community Hospital,
President of the Department of Medicine and is listed in “Best Doctors
in America”.

We are impressed by his balance as well as his medical credentials. Not
only is he a great doctor who has taught guided meditations and healing
through sound for 28 years, but he has a long list of published
scientific papers with names like, “Production of Precipitating
Antibody to Hepatitis-Associated Antigen (HAA) using Pepsin-treated
HAA” as well.

Joe sees beyond just medicine, having been on the founding board of
Seacrest Country Day School, on the Collier County Economic Development
Board and the Collier County Conservancy and Christian Medical
Foundation.

Ruth Montgomery, past president of the prestigious National Press Club,
wrote about Joe Spano in her best selling book.

Merri and I especially like the fact that Joe lives by the maxim
of“Physician Heal Thyself”. I know his age, but if you meet him, I’ll
bet your guess won’t come close. He looks, acts and is a young man
biologically. Chronologically, he is well past what others call
“retirement age”.

Yet there is even more, that I consider the most important fact of all.
We have spent all types of time at all kinds of occasions with Dr. Joe
ranging from hiking in Andean mountains to being at healings, attending
funerals, parties, formal meetings and visiting orphanages. Even Joe’s
and our daughter roomed together for years. When you do so many things
together over two decades, you get to know the man. We know that Dr.
Joe is in great health, strong, wise, kind, gentle, sympathetic,
giving, charitable, successful, astute and most of all, he cares.


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More about the Sun Salute

http://www.garyascott.com/images/sunsalute.jpg Sun Salute (See this
picture). Throw away the stretchers, ski machines, dumbbells and gyms
you never visit. This one exercise gives strength and flexibility yet
takes as little15 minutes a day. It's called the sun salute and
exercises every muscle group in the body. Four repetitions a day can
make a difference. In just a few minutes you can make a difference.

Do fifteen a day (seven minutes) for two weeks. Then if this takes too
much time do just four a day for awhile. Then do fifteen any day you
can. You will see big differences in your muscle tone and flexibility.
This exercise stimulates every major muscle group and all key reflex
points as it helps balance your health in a multitude of ways.

Until next message may your sunsets and sunrises be glorious and golden
in its reds and oranges!

Gary

P.S. Share sunsets and sunrises with us. Join us at our 2005 courses.
Details are at http://www.garyascott.com/catalog/iclub.html

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