Light Therapy | Vitamin D Deficiency | Seasonal Affective Disorder

Light Therapy | Vitamin D | Light Therapy Relieves Depression

Basic imagery meditation is the focus of Tranquility is Yours.  The visual
imagery can power your ability to discover inner resources and refuel your
outer expressions to help you deal with stress.  When you allow yourselves to
focus on the imagery, the videos can trigger your mind to let go and allow you
to deepen the experience of inner peace and tranquility that the stress relieving
technique of imagery meditation can provide.  You may be surprised at just how
relaxed you may begin to feel and how quickly you can experience fast stress
relief.

It sounds simple, but these images are a great meditation tool to help you find
moments of tranquility that can allow you to rejuvenate yourself while
experiencing  the simple beauty that is everywhere around us.  You can also
just close your eyes and use the audio from the video clips as your meditation
tool.  Imagery meditation is just one of many effective ways to reduce stress.  
You'll find a variety of different stress relief techniques, stress help and stress
tips as you browse the site.

Stress can rob you of the joy you should be experiencing in life.  Don't let stress
rob you.  When you feel anxious or stressful, take a moment for quiet
meditation.  It can help you respond in a positive manner to the dynamic
situations around you. Check your
signs of stress here, and for stress relief tips
click here.

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Find your inner peace.  Meditate, daydream, or just let your mind go.  Click on
the video icons in the upper right hand corner of every page here on
Tranquility
is Yours, and allow your mind to find relief from your everyday stresses.  Give
the clips time to load. The videos are built to play in Windows Media Player.  If
you use Real Player the clips may have to download.

You can also try
Breathing Exercises for relief from any stress or tension.  
Breathing exercises can provide immediate release from stress and anxiety.  
Yoga also offers a series of breathing exercises.  Our Yoga page provides a
link to some very good posters of Yoga Poses.  Good Yoga illustrations are not
easy to find.  The Yoga Posters and Step-by-Step Yoga DVD are very
descriptive and useful for beginners.  And if you just want to focus on relaxing,
our
Relaxation Exercises page has a few stress relaxation exercises that will
help you feel completely relaxed.  To bathe your stress away visit our
Epsom
Salt page, and to soothe stress and depression away visit our Aromatherapy, or
Self Hypnosis
pages.  You can also relax by playing our stress relief game.

Work on bringing peace and tranquility into your environment as well.  Surround
yourself with beautiful
tabletop water fountains, uniquely scented aromatherapy
candles, and bath sets on our pages featuring tranquility products.  Creating
tranquil surroundings can help you stay focused on reducing the stress in your
life.

When you need to relief stress, remember the videos at
Tranquility is Yours are
available to give you moments of peace and relaxation when you are unable to
escape the stress-triggers in your daily life.  Just click the video icons in the
upper right hand corner of every page, and use the meditations tools at
Tranquility is Yours to lean how to relieve stress.
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Depression and stress have a tendency to intermingle,
making it difficult to put your finger on the exact reason why
you feel depressed or stressed.  You may even feel that it’s
not one thing that’s getting you down.  It’s everything, and
you just can’t seem to kick a consistent feeling of gloom?  
You can probably categorize those feelings as depression.  

For some people that feeling of gloom and depression is
called
SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is a depression
disorder associated with light deprivation during the winter
months.  Seasonal Affective Disorder is caused by a
melatonin imbalance initiated by a lack of exposure to
sunlight.  SAD sufferers are not the only ones feeling stress,
depression and the negative health affects caused by a lack
of appropriate sunlight.  We are all feeling its impact.  Our
lifestyles limit our exposure to sunlight.  You naturally get
vitamin D from sunlight, and a lack of exposure to sunlight is
the main cause of vitamin D deficiency.
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Vitamin D deficiencies can cause severe health issues.  Osteoporosis is linked
to a lack of vitamin D.  
Rickets is another bone-wasting disease that is linked to
a vitamin D deficiency, and chronic vitamin D deficiency is often misdiagnosed
as
Fibromyalgia, because the symptoms are so similar; muscle weakness,
depression, and unexplained aches and pains.

You can get vitamin D through food and supplements, but sunlight exposure is
the only reliable way to generate vitamin D in your body. Studies show that
healthy levels of vitamin D inhibit prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian
cancer, colon cancer, depression, and even schizophrenia.

People with dark skin tend to need 20 – 30 times as much exposure to sunlight
as fair-skinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D.  In fact,
doctors have now discovered that vitamin D deficiency is causing high rates of
prostate cancer in Black males.  People who are over weight have been found to
need twice as much vitamin D, because obesity tends to impair how the body
utilizes vitamin D.  In general, studies show that your risk of developing serious
diseases like diabetes and cancer can be reduced by 50% - 80% with simple
and sensible exposure to natural sunlight on an average of two to three times
each week.

When your exposure to natural sunlight is limited, you can combat the
depression related to SAD or the health issues associated with sunlight
deficiencies with
light therapy or photo therapy. Light therapy is exposure to light
through special light therapy lamps or light boxes that are brighter than indoor
light, but not as bright as direct sunlight.  Light therapy has been found to be
effective against depression, and it can reset your biological clock, or
circadian
rhythms, which controls when you sleep and when you wake up.  Exposure to
this special light has been found to be close enough to natural sunlight to allow
the body to produce needed vitamin D.

Light therapy can offer effective mood altering and physical health benefits for
generally anyone, and it has already been clinically proven to reduce stress.  

The photo therapy lamps or light boxes used in the treatment of Seasonal
Affective Disorder are considered safe and effective for the intended purpose,
as long as photo-sensitizing drugs are not being taken at the same time, and no
eye sensitivities exist.  It is recommended that light therapy should be used
under the supervision of a medical professional, but some light boxes have such
low light density that they can be used without consulting a physician.  

Light therapy may be most effective when used first thing in the morning when
you wake up.  You and your doctor can determine when light therapy works best
for you.  You usually sit approximately 12" from the light anywhere from 10 to 30
minutes per session. It is neither recommended nor necessary to stare directly
into the light.  A positive response to light therapy usually occurs within 2 to 4
days, but it may take up to three weeks before symptoms of SAD or depression
are relieved, and it can take months to correct a vitamin D deficiency.

We can all benefit from the use of light therapy.  More often than not, most
people usually do not get the kind of exposure to the sun that could be
beneficial.  You tend to be stuck inside buildings all day long.  You may go to
work before sunrise, and get out of work as the sun is going down, or has
already set.  If that sounds like your lifestyle, you may be a good candidate for
light therapy.

Light therapy is a viable alternative to consider when stress or depression has
taken over, and you need more than aromatherapy, candles, or relaxation to get
results.
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