Color Therapy

Visual Field Testing

Color Auricular Therapy

COLOR THERAPY

Magenta: The color of the womb
Ruby: The color of life instinct -- sacrum
Red: The color of passion -- sex organs, bladder
Red Orange: The color of freedom -- abdomen, large intestine
Orange: The color of self-esteem -- small intestines, kidneys
Yellow: The color of hope -- adrenals, spleen, pancreas
Yellow green: The color of peace -- stomach, liver, gall bladder
Green: The color of love -- lungs, breast, heart
Blue Green: The color of wholeness -- esophagus, hands, thyroid
Blue: The color of joy -- neck, nose, lips, mouth, ear
Indigo: The color of understanding -- sinuses, eyes, brain
Violet: The color of faith -- top of skull

Light affects our physical and psychological well-being. Color therapy explores our physical and psycho-emotional ailments and helps us transform them into health. The therapy is based on the theory that light stimulation of the optic nerve sends information not only to the cortex, but also to the hypothalamus, which is the master controller of our physical and emotional well-being.

Each organ in our body connects to a color, as do our psycho-emotional issues. Color becomes a vehicle to help bring our body to health. Color also helps to bring up the psycho-emotional issues that have kept us stuck and led us toward illness. Color then provides the bridge to defuse the charge around the issues, leading to more confidence and peace. As emotional states are transformed, the immune system is impacted in a positive way.

Color therapy has proven to be helpful in treating depression, anxiety, emotional blocks, chronic pain, immune dysfunction, food allergies, detoxification, malignancies, stress, sleep, brain function, childhood trauma, spiritual growth and more.

The work begins with a color assessment, which takes about 45 minutes and costs $60. Your color assessment may also include Autonomic Response Testing with Dr. Zieve. From there a program is developed for you that includes time at the color machine and time working together with Eve. Call us or stop by the front desk and set up a time for your color assessment and begin the process of using color to help facilitate your healing.
Color Therapy is facilitated at Comprehensive Medicine by Eve Greenberg, MA, LPC.

VISUAL FIELD TESTING

Visual Field Charter: an instrument used to measure the visual field using different colors to determine the brain’s ability to process sensory and perceptual information.

Field of Vision: the ability of a person’s eye and brain to perceive things peripherally while looking straight ahead. While peripheral vision is defined as a more global ability of the brain to accept light in a less detailed way, the field of vision indicates the more specific amount of light that the eye can admit and the brain can translate into visual information or perceptions.

How Does It Work?

The way to measure the extent of a person’s visual field is to determine, while the subject is focused on a central point, at what range outside that point the individual begins to detect color, specifically white, blue, red or green.The measurement of this range of color recognition can be enormously helpful in determining the overall function of the brain and thereby the subject’s mental, emotional and physical well being. Just as a basal thermometer gages the body temperature, which information can be translated into a determining factor of a person’s physical condition, the visual field measurements can be used as an indicator of emotional and physical stress. Research indicates that the size of our visual field can change relative to emotional states; history or presence of emotional trauma; and history or presence of physical trauma.

Visual Field Charter and the Functional Visual Field: The instrument is used to measure the functional visual field. White, blue, green, and red target colors are used. The results furnish information about how well the person tested can use visual sensory and perceptual information. The size of the measured visual fields may indicate the impact of stress on the visual field of awareness. This stress can be emotional or physical. Small visual fields are often associated with impaired performance, while larger fields are often associated with improving or enhanced performance and functioning.

Visual Field Charting

Each eye is tested separately. The client is asked to focus on the center dot of the field chart paper throughout the field charting procedure. The practitioner moves the target wands at a consistent speed throughout the procedure. The white target is used first to measure the overall functional visual field. Next the blind spot is tested, followed by the color targets.

The target side of the wand is moved from the periphery toward the center, measuring each section of the field chart. While the client will be able to “see” the wand, at some point the color being presented will seem to suddenly appear in their visual field. While continuing to focus on the center dot, the client is asked to say the name of the color - white, blue, green, or red - when the end of the target wand is first visible in his/her peripheral vision.

As each section of the visual field is tested, a colored mark is made on the gray charting paper. This gives the client and the practitioner a graphic map of the size and extent of the functional visual field.

COLOR AURICULAR THERAPY

Colored light placed at acupuncture points helps restore balance to the flow of chi, or vital energy, through the body’s meridians. Pulsed light, as opposed to a constant light source, has been found to increase the response of the body to this therapy. Organisms become more receptive to colored light when it is pulsed.

This therapy is practiced at Pine Tree Clinic. The therapy is non-invasive, painless, and simple to administer. Color auriculotherapy is a form of acupuncture that recognizes that there is a map of all the body’s acupuncture meridians on the ear, and that light enters the body through acupuncture points. Practitioners may effect changes in meridian function by applying light and color on the ear points, or on standard body points. The therapy was developed by Tony Cocilova of LifeForms, a company in Prescott, Arizona.