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Seasonal
Affective Disorder, Relaxation, Meditation,
Ganzfeld
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Morning
StarLight Personal/Private Light Screen
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Let there be light!
Relax,
benefit from light therapy wherever and whenever you choose.
No other light therapy
system
in the world is more convenient, more effective, more reliable, and
less
expensive than Morning StarLight.
Morning StarLight
personal/private
light screen can help in many ways, from nearly instant relaxation to
stress
relief to anxiety relief to alleviating mood disorders such as winter
blues
(SAD).
Morning StarLight fits
over
your eyes like sunglasses. The light screen
bathes your eyes with cool, safe, soft, white light with optimum
brightness. Using Morning StarLight is both
personal
and private and unnoticeable to others nearby. Morning
StarLight
personal/private light screen weighs 3 ounces, is portable. You can use
your light for light therapy
anywhere,
anytime you choose, even while commuting or during breaks to clear your
mind, calm your nerves, and focus your mental energy.
Light therapy can be helpful
in providing relief from a broad range of emotional, psychological, and
physical disorders. Satisfied clients typically use Morning
StarLight
15 to 30 minutes a day, usually in the morning. Many use Morning
StarLight
as an aid in meditating. Morning StarLight is an effective, pleasant,
and
inexpensive means of light therapy that will help you smooth out some
of
life's rough edges.
Light
Therapy
Research
validates what most people intuitively know: access to light is
necessary
and supplemental light is beneficial in many instances. However, there
is no clear consensus about all of the maladies that can be relieved
with
supplemental light. A wide range of duration of exposure, light colors,
and light intensities have been studied. There are proponents of
every combination of these three factors. Some of these researchers
argue
that their combination is the best. Our contention is: white light is
usually
more appropriate than other colors; soft light is more likely to help
in
reducing stress than harsh bright light; and duration of exposure is
mostly
a matter of personal preference. The positive experiences of tens of
thousands
of satisfied individuals who are using some kind of light therapy
system
validate this view.
Light
therapy has been used successfully to treat a wide range of mental,
emotional,
and physical problems and for developing human potential. Examples are:
- Relaxation
- Stress
relief
- Meditation
- Treatment
of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Compensation
for changing sleep patterns
- insomnia
jetlag
shift
work
- Self
hypnosis for self healing and self education
- Cognitive
therapy
- Coping
with an anxiety disorder
- Creative
thinking
- Relief
from allergies
Morning
StarLight creates a deliberately induced altered state of
consciousness.
The effect is called the ganzfeld phenomenon. The ganzfeld (German for
"all field") is an unobstructed, featureless field of light. In the 30s
researchers first observed that people gazing into a ganzfeld enter a
profoundly
altered state. At first their attention turned inward, then it moved
into
a deeply relaxed, meditative state. The ganzfeld phenomenon is
thoroughly
researched and widely considered by scientists to be one of the most
reliable
techniques for entering into an altered mental state. Morning
StarLight
enables you to enter a meditative state quickly. Traditional meditation
techniques may take many months of practice. The ganzfeld effect works
for most first-time meditators in a matter of a few minutes.
Experienced
meditators describe the effect as instant meditation. This mental
condition is also the perfect entry point for self-hypnosis and
cognitive
therapy. Your mind is better able to concentrate on positive thoughts
and
to minimize or eliminate negative thoughts.
Considerable
controversy exists among experts over intensity and color of light and
duration of exposure necessary for treating SAD. Despite this, tens of
thousands of SAD sufferers use some form of light therapy. In our
opinion,
it comes down to a matter of personal preference. We believe that for
most
people, light therapy does not require being irradiated with harsh,
hot,
glaring, bright light. Morning StarLight is a soft, gentle, effective
alternative
with the added advantage of being able to be used wherever and whenever
you wish.
People
with SAD have recurrent episodes of depression in fall and winter
months
of the year. More women than men have SAD. SAD is usually a chronic,
lifelong,
recurrent seasonal condition. The usual symptoms of winter
depression
include oversleeping, carbohydrate craving, and weight gain. Other
symptoms
include the usual features of depression, especially decreased sexual
interest,
lethargy, hopelessness, and social withdrawal. The most common
characteristic
of people with SAD is their re action to changes in environmental
light.
The farther north a person lives, the longer and more severe their
winter
depression is likely to be. People with SAD sometimes report that their
depression becomes worse when the weather is overcast or their indoor
lighting
is diminished.
More
than 10 million Americans suffer from SAD. Experts also estimate that
an
additional 35 million Americans have a milder version of the disorder
that
leaves them more tired, less productive, and prone to gain a few pounds
during winter months.
The
cause(s) of SAD is unknown. Researchers are studying a variety of
neuro-chemical,
hormonal and chrono-biological theories to determine the cause and to
improve
available treatments. White light has been shown to reverse
winter
depressive symptoms of SAD in most people. Morning StarLight has the
appropriate
color and is of sufficient intensity to help most sufferers of SAD.
Morning
StarLight can be used to compensate for changing sleep patterns,
insomnia,
shift work, and jet lag. Many persons' circadian systems do not readily
adapt to night work. This results in a decline in alertness,
performance,
and quality of daytime sleep. This problem can be remedied with use of
Morning StarLight at night and darkness during the day.
Description
of the Technology
The
personal/private light screen provides more than 250 LUX of soft, cool,
white light. The light is created through an electroluminescent
process.
Other kinds of light sources typically generate light through
thermoluminescent
processes. With Morning StarLight no heat or glare is created that can
cause discomfort. Also Morning StarLight does not generate infrared or
ultraviolet light that can injure the cornea of your eye. Morning
StarLight
generates only cool, soft white light in the visible spectrum.
The
personal/private light screen is designed to fit comfortably and snugly
over your eyes, much like conventional sunglasses. The wrap-around
configuration
insures that all external visual stimuli are excluded. Morning
StarLight
radiates a featureless soft white light field that creates an immediate
sense of relaxation and helps you suppress incidental, stray, or
undesired
thoughts. Use of
Morning StarLight screen is inconspicuous
and is both personal and private.
Morning
StarLight can be used to compensate for jet lag. You can wear your
light
screen while in flight without disturbing other passengers. You also
can
read, write, operate your laptop computer while getting light therapy.
Other
light therapy products use banks of very bright lights that are
positioned
from two to four feet away from your eyes. Morning StarLight is
positioned
less than an inch from your eyes; consequently, we can scale back light
intensity. The light screen requires very little energy (a small
nine-volt
battery) to provide sufficient light. This is because the light source
is close to your eyes. A cumbersome bank of lights would have to
generate
more than 3,600 times as much light to furnish an equivalent amount of
light from Morning StarLight.
Morning
StarLight is designed to provide many years of satisfying service, at a
cost of pennies per session. The light screen is powered with an
inexpensive
nine-volt battery for portable use or with conventional AC power when
used
at home or work.
Morning
StarLight engineering staff has extensive experience in developing a
broad
range of leading-edge optical systems. They have been awarded patents
in
optical character recognition systems, fiber-optic networks, wireless
optical
data communications networks, and optical computing. With Morning
StarLight
they have united the latest advances in visual optics, psychology
research,
and eye physiology into an inexpensive, effective light therapy system.
Features
Morning
StarLight features
- Effective
light therapy. Use of supplemental light has positive effects for many
persons, alleviating various seasonal and emotional stresses.
- Personal/private.
Use is inconspicuous and unobtrusive.
- Designed
for Portability. Battery powered. Light weight, less than 3 ounces. Can
be used anywhere at anytime at your convenience. Convenient carrying
case.
- Low
cost.
Cost less than a fourth of other light therapy systems.
- Money-back
30-day guarantee if you are not satisfied that Morning StarLight
provides
safe, convenient, near-instant relaxation.
How
It Works
An
inverter converts constant DC voltage from the battery to an
alternating
AC voltage.
The
lamp is much like a TV screen. It is made of a layer of phosphor that
is
contained between two flexible plastic sheets. One of the sheets is
clear,
which allows light to pass through it. The AC voltage is applied
to the layer of phosphor. As the voltage increases, the energy level of
the phosphor increases. As the applied voltage decreases, the phosphor
releases energy by emitting light.
The
chemical composition of the phosphor used in the lamp determines the
color
of light emitted. The material used in Morning StarLight has been
chosen
to create white light that closely approximates first light at dawn.
The
brightness of the light is determined by the material that is used, the
amount of voltage applied to the material, and the frequency at which
the
voltage varies. The amount of electrical energy required for the
Morning
StarLight lamp is extremely small, a fraction of a watt.
The
process with Morning StarLight is electroluminescent. Light created by
this process is cool, uniform in intensity, and completely safe. The
nature
of electroluminescent light allows you to be as close to the source as
you wish.
Conventional
lamps create light with a thermoluminescent process. Heat is created in
addition to light. This kind of light may
include some light in the ultraviolet
and infrared portions of the spectrum. These extreme components can be
harmful and must be filtered out to make the light safe for your eyes.
Lamps of this kind usually have one or more points of brightness, which
may make them too intense to be viewed directly for more than a few
seconds.
Even with very small thermoluminescent lamps, heat and intensity limit
how close you can be to it.
