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Old 07-24-2007, 03:48 PM
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I did some light therapy a while back which was very helpful (as you're apparently aware). The stuff I did was called Fight or Flight therapy, and as far as I can understand it's sort of a subsidiary of syntonics that's focussed almost entirely on the nervous system (conventional syntonics was originally used just for treating vision problems, the positive psychological results people experienced from it were originally seen merely as a positive and unexpected side effect).

This light therapy helped me in many ways, most notably as a "jump" as you put it, to the other therapies I'd been doing. I'd been doing conventional therapy for my PCS and PTSD for almost a year and a half when I started light therapy, and although the conventional therapy had been effective enough to get me to a point where I didn't NEED medication anymore, I still felt like hell every second of every day, so I was in no way at a point that I was pleased with. The conventional therapies I'd been doing had also seemed to plateau, and little progress was being made, which is why I sought out the therapy in the first place. My therapists were skeptical of light therapy before I did it, but after just one week of the light therapy they were both astounded with how much more responsive my mind and body were to treatment.

At this point, about 10 months after I started light therapy, I'm still not completely cured, but I'm light years beyond where I was before I did it. I truly feel that a lot of the therapies that have really done wonders for me, in particular cranio sacral work, might not have worked at all had I not done the light therapy first. It really seemed to open up my nervous system and make it capable of receiving changes, whereas before it had been in this clenched up, unmovable, concrete state.

The only thing I can really point to and say "the light therapy was solely responsible for THIS happening" is that... and this sounds kind of weird... the light work made me able to cry again. Like I said, this sounds weird, but before I did the light therapy every day of my life since my accident was a total and unrelenting hell, and I was completely aware of this fact, and yet I was unable to cry over it (the only emotions I could produce were anger and fear). After doing the light therapy for a while, I was really able to get in touch with all of the sadness and other emotions that are tied into this event in my life, so that I could actually feel how truly upset my whole mind and body were, instead of just getting furious at the various activities that I could no longer do. This helped my therapy immeasurably.

I'm considering doing some more light therapy if the mix of stuff that I'm doing now (hypnosis and cranio sacral work) doesn't completely rid me of the residuals from my accident, but I haven't started researching it much just yet. EMDR is high on my list, but I've heard it can be pretty intense.
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