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3.7.3 Syntonics: The Concept The word Syntony means to bring into balance. Within the Autonomic system, there exists a state of dynamic antagonistic tension between its two systems, the sympathetic and parasympathetic. Optometric Syntonics theoretically serves to correct imbalances within these systems. When these two systems are in balance the nervous system is said to be in a syntonic state. Basically, disease of the human system is, according to syntonic principles, primarily a disorder in the Autonomic Nervous System and phototherapy is used to manipulate the nervous system back into balance and health (College of Syntonic Phototherapy, 2002). There are two schools of thought within the Syntonics community. The first, best documented and researched, is Dr. Harry Riley Spitler’s method. This entails the use of specific frequencies of light for specific physical ailments especially those related to ocular diseases. This therapy treats only physical illnesses and focuses very little on mental and emotional ailments. The second focuses on the latter. People such as Dr. Jacob Lieberman and Dr. Steven Vazquez are two researchers that have broadened the scope of Syntonics into the field of holistic psychology/psychiatry. Three different syntonic methods will be discussed, according to Harry R. Spitler, Jacob Liberman and Steven Vazquez. This will give examples of the use of Syntonics on each level of the human organism - physical, emotional and psychological. 3.7.4 The Development of Syntonic Phototherapy Early researchers such as Pleasanton, Babbitt, Pancoast and Dinshah, clinically found that colour, applied to the skin, could have profound, yet non-intrusive curative effects on bodily ailments. In 1909, Dr. Harry Riley Spitler investigated the role of the eyes in phototransduction, as well as the role of light and colour in organic function and development. After seventeen years of research and clinical application, Spitler discovered that different frequencies of light entering the eyes could augment the brain’s major control centres that regulate all bodily functions. He stated that the portions of the brain that control the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system, are also connected to the eyes by the shortest, most direct, and most highly organised nerve pathways in the brain. He concluded that by altering the colour and quality of the light entering the eyes, he could alter, beneficially or detrimentally, the balance within both systems of the autonomic nervous system thus affecting resultant functions. Based on his discoveries, Spitler formed the principles for a new, exclusively optometric, functionally orientated clinical science that he called Syntonics. In 1927, Spitler developed the 69PDF Image | THE USE OF LIGHT AND COLOUR AS A HEALING MODALITY
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