| What is ILT? |
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Here's how Interactive Light
Therapy (ILT) is believed to reduce/eliminate symptoms:
Symptoms and slow brainwaves
are related.
When people are overly stressed, injured, or traumatized, their brainwaves
get fixed, or "stuck" in a pattern of predominantly slow waves.
This is called "EEG slowing" - meaning that the strongest or
dominant brainwaves are cycling at very slow speeds - and it's associated
with symptoms such as anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, hyperactivity,
distractibility, mood swing, confusion, disorganization, and problems
with sleep, concentration, following conversations, reading comprehension,
memory, attention, etc.
We believe that EEG slowing occurs when the integrating function of the
brain's cortex is inhibited. Interactive Light Therapy helps restore this
integrating function, and is thus a direct means of affecting, and often
resolving, the symptoms listed above. Like a conductor leading a symphony
orchestra, ILT brings out the brain's natural ability to perform with
clarity, harmony, and balance.
ILT reduces "EEG
slowing".
With the help of sophisticated computer technology, the patient's
dominant, or strongest, brainwaves control the rate at which a set of
tiny lights flash dimly before the eyes. The brightness of the lights
is carefully adjusted for comfort as the interaction of the lights and
the patients brain gently reduces the strong slow frequency brainwaves.
At the same time, the higher dominant frequencies are increased. These
changes are equivalent to greater functioning, both neurologically and
behaviorally. When the slow wave activity is integrated by more wide-ranging
and variable patterns of activity, symptoms decrease or disappear.
Number of Visits:
We have found that approximately 85% of people experience an improvement
in some or all of their symptoms during or immediately after the very
first time they come in. Additional sessions are generally needed to continue
allowing the brain to re-train itself. The total number of sessions that
most people end up coming in for varies according to the level of improvement
they are seeking. Somewhere between 3 - 15 visits is the average for most
people.
At the culmination of therapy, the brain adapts to this new flexibility
and, like a thermostat that has been re-set, it no longer needs the help
of ILT.
The process is easy and highly
enjoyable.
There is nothing for you to learn, to focus on, or to practice. The lights
do all the work and you can simply relax and enjoy feelings of peace and
well being. After a session people generally feel very relaxed but also
very alert with a calm focused mind. A deep sense of happiness is also
very common.
Any side-effects and do the
results last?
In almost 14 years of helping thousands of people
with ILT, no one to date has reported any lasting negative side effect,
nor have they been harmed in any way, nor have they developed any new
symptoms. A small percentage may notice that in the first week or so while
certain symptoms are greatly improving, others may slightly worsen. This
happens only in a small number of people and is generally well tolerated
because it only occurs in the presence of them feeling much better as
other symptoms are going away. For all those who have been helped by this,
they report that the benefits they gained seem to only sustain or increase
after their treatment. If in the future someone suffers a head injury
or goes through highly significant emotional traumas, it may be helpful
to come back in again for 1-3 sessions to re-balance the brain, if they
feel this is needed.
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