Some Facts and Research on Using Color and Light for Healing:
An English Translation of 2 Chapters From the Book of the Same Title

© Copyright 2003 by Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D.; USA
(Explore Issue: Volume 12, Number 6)

In the German-speaking countries of Europe, color therapy through the eyes has become very popular in recent years amongst alternative health practitioners and in spite of it’s American birthplace is more strongly represented at alternative medical meetings in Europe then it is here in the US at this time.

3 events were most instrumental to this rise in interest:

1. The publication and success of Dr. Klinghardt’s German textbook on holistic healing (see below);
2. The inspired teaching of Steven Vasquez PhD, in Europe (originally facilitated by Dietrich’s book and efforts);
3. The PhotonWave color-instrument which was originally conceived by John Searfoss OD and is being manufactured under guidance of color therapist Leona Vermeire in Belgium.

Following is an English translation of 2 chapters of Dr. Klinghardt’s book, “Some Facts and Research on Using Color and Light for Healing,” translated from:
“Lehrbuch der Psycho-Kinesiologie- ein neuer Weg in der psychosomatischen Medizin” (Textbook of Psycho-Kinesiology – a new approach in psychosomatic medicine), by Dietrich K. Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D. for Verlag Hermann Bauer, Freiburg, Germany, 1995.

During the 19th century the American surgeon, E. Babbit, M.D. proved that treatment with colored light could achieve very significant healing results through its effect on the human energy field, the light receptive autonomic nerve fibers in the skin and via the nerves that connect the eye directly with the limbic system.

In the beginning of this century the East Indian genius Darius Dinshah, who had immigrated into the USA, introduced a system of color therapy, that involves shining the color onto the body or body regions for about 1 hour/day.

The American physician Riley Spitler, M.D. proved in the 30s that many patients with psychiatric illnesses could be cured or improved if the client looked into a specially designed colored lamp. He developed several instruments and started the science of “syntonic optometry.” He found that the optimum treatment time is twenty minutes a day for a course of twenty days. This should be followed by a pause of several weeks before another twenty-day cycle. He achieved impressive healings in patients with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression and other psychiatric disorders.

Colored light - when beamed into the eyes with a projector-like device – can activate repressed memories from childhood - even from the intrauterine period or from a past life - which may now become available to work with in a psychotherapeutic way.5 In terms of modern neurophysiology we know now that distinct color frequencies can reactivate synapses in the brain which were previously blocked. If nerve conduction is reestablished in these areas, memories which were isolated, are reconnected with the synaptic network of the brain and can again be accessed and integrated by the conscious part of the brain. The detrimental effect of unremembered trauma on the body seems to lastingly and often completely disappear.