Light Therapy For Brain-Body Healing
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What Is Light Therapy?
Light therapy uses specific wavelengths of color — from red and blue to green, yellow, and infrared — to activate healing in the brain and body. Each color supports different systems: It’s not a trend — it’s backed by neuroscience and used to improve everything from mood and sleep to pain and inflammation.
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How It Works
Our body is made up of responsive cells — including proprioceptive receptors that react to sensory input. LED light therapy mimics the sun’s natural color rays, using specific wavelengths to shift how cells function. Some colors reduce inflammation, others balance mood, regulate the nervous system, and is even FDA approved to help minimize cancer symptoms. Light becomes a way to speak directly to the body.
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Home-Based Healing
At BrainPassion, we show you how to use light therapy as part of your at-home care routine. We help you understand where to place the light based on your brain’s needs, how long to use it, and how often. We also guide you in pairing light therapy with specific brain exercises or emotional regulation tools to get the most benefit.
Let’s Talk Science
“If you put a diamond up to the sun, we will see the color rays the sun shines naturally.” This is how my nana used to explain it to me when I was only seven years old, and it’s really that simple. The sun radiates energy at all “wavelengths — from radio to gamma ray” — meaning it lets off a high power of energy based on frequency. We directly see the impacts of this when a rainbow appears — it appears when sunlight refracts and reflects off water droplets. Now, we have been given an amazing gift to use this science as a tool, just like understanding the concept of motion likely inspired the usage of cars as a tool.
This tool is called phototherapy or light therapy, and it’s used today for various medical conditions, one being jaundice and another being cancer. We use a combination of neuroscience, kinesiology, biological science, and color therapy, so we have a deep understanding of how certain colors impact synaptic connections through neurotransmitter production, or how some colors can greatly minimize inflammation, kill viruses, or help depressive symptoms.
What Is Light Therapy?
At BrainPassion, we use full-spectrum light therapy to support a wide range of brain and body challenges. From emotional dysregulation, anxiety, and sensory overload to chronic pain, fatigue, sleep disruptions, and chronic illness — light helps rebalance the systems underneath it all. It’s also a powerful support for ADHD, hormonal shifts, executive function, and so much more. By speaking directly to your cells, light gives your brain and body what they need to reset, regulate, and begin healing.
Understanding Color Therapy
As I mentioned, understanding color therapy is a vital aspect of this because if we combine certain colors with light rays, we create a replica of the light rays that are emitted through sunlight. This means that you don’t just want to use any type of light — you want to use a light box that emits enough light to actually send a wavelength strong enough to impact your body. You also want to use lights intentionally. This is where combining phototherapy or light therapy with color therapy can be very effective. Our lights are homemade and shipped with special care by individuals who have respected and used lights for over 20 years. This is a simple and non-invasive way to help you find a healthy brain-body balance, and it can greatly help you minimize physical health symptoms.
