Life and light

All life and energy on earth is derived from light - solar energy from the sun. All the energy we take into our bodies is derived from the sun. Every function of life - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - is light dependent.

The idea of light as an integral part of all life and creation was evident since the beginning of time. From the very first sunrise to the sunsets of the present, we continue to be aware of  the beauty, power, life creating and life sustaining properties and emanations of light.

Throughout most of history, the role of light in human functioning has been limited to and primarily thought of in terms of its role in initiating the process of sight. Early researchers, such as Babbitt, Pleasanton, Pancoast, and Dinshah, clinically found that color, applied to the skin, could have a profound, yet non-intrusive rebalancing and curative effect on bodily ailments. At the turn of this century, science first began to realize that light entering the eyes not only served vision, but also traveled to other very important brain regions. It was in that same period of time that Dr. Harry Riley Spitler theorized in great detail about the role of the eyes in phototransduction, as well as the role of light and color in total organismic function and, development.

After seventeen years of ongoing research and clinical application, Spitler discovered that different frequencies of light entering the eyes could augment the brain's major control centers that regulated all bodily functions. Believing that physiological and emotional ailments were primarily caused by imbalances in the nervous and endocrine systems, Spitler utilized different frequencies of light by way of the eyes to restore balance within these regulatory centers, thereby directly affecting the source of the visual dysfunctions he found.

Based on his discoveries, Spitler conceived the principles for a new, exclusively optometric, and functionally oriented clinical science that he called Syntonics.

Syntonics (optometric phototherapy), utilized clinically for more than 60 years within the field of optometry, is that branch of ocular science dealing with the application of selected visible light frequencies through the eyes. This ocular application of light has been utilized with great success in the treatment of various visual dysfunctions associated with strabismus (crossed eyes). amblyopia (lazy eye), visual field constrictions, accommodative/convergence problezits (focusing and eye teaming skills), head trauma, visually related learning problems, and even some diseases of the eyes.