Scandinavia Light Association

05/05/2024

An invitation from the ILA board to join the ILA group on Telegram. We have made a group called Lightcoloursound to connect with ILA members, like-minded peo...

08/04/2024

Hello all ILA friends! 🤗
NEW PLATFORM AVAILABLE!!! 😍

I guess we all feel changes in our everyday life, and also for our beautiful ILA.
As a Board of ILA, we have noticed changes how to reach out to people.
Therefore we now have decided to start a TELEGRAM platform to meet there as our main stage. 🤗

Telegram is an app, a community, to meet to make a nice comment, tell about an exciting event or just share a thought of wisdom and knowhow.
We will also make this platform as an ILA News platform instead having the newsletter on mail. 👌
We also can have group-chats for discussions and arrangements beside communications when time is right for that.
It is also important to mention that Telegram is heavily strict about security to protect all kind of information.

THE NAME OF THE TELEGRAM APP IS:
🌈 COLOUR LIGHT SOUND FOR HEALTH & WELLNESS,
THE LINK IS: https://t.me/lightcoloursound 🌈

The Board of ILA wish you warmly welcome to a "Happy Hour", a moment within Telegram to interact and share stories, thoughts and meet like-minded people. 😍

Please share this link to people so that we can grow, meet and make some happy moments of joy and wisdom.
Hope to see you all in TELEGRAM https://t.me/lightcoloursound

Warmly greetings from ILA Board. 🌿🌸🌿
Witten by Anne Kaas Iversen.

A community for sharing about light, color, and sound for healing

08/04/2024

Hei alle ILA-venner. 🤗
Vi merker nok alle at vi er inne i annerledes tider på mange måter.
Også Styret i ILA har merket at det er vanskeligere å nå ut til venner med det skrevne ord, det er få tilbakemeldinger generelt og Styret har derfor bestemt at vi ønsker å gå inn på en mer muntlig måte ved å gå inn på plattformen TELEGRAM der vi håper at dere alle vil gå inn å bli med oss.
Telegram er en app som tilbyr mer muntlige samtaler og kommentarer, der vi alle kan komme med spørsmål og hjertesukk, ting vi lurer på faglig, eller en hyggelig tanke og oppmuntring.
Vi ønsker nå å få denne plattformen opp å gå, og håper at du og kanskje noen du kjenner vil være med oss.
APPEN HETER COLOUR LIGHT SOUND FOR HEALTH & WELLNESS, LINKEN ER: https://t.me/lightcoloursound

Velkommen til å bli med oss inn i vår nye, spennende og uformelle plattform. 🌈

Ønsker deg en fin aprildag med varm hilsen fra Anne. ☀️

19/03/2024

Can you imagine HOW colours can have an impact on your life and your decisions? 💛🧡🩷❤️🩵💙💚 Here you can listen yourself as Thelma, who also is the President of ILA, International Light Association tell you how to work on colours through her and Marys own tool, Colournostics, So exiting!!! 😍

Do you want to understand how generational patterns are influencing our lives? Colournostics is an easy tool to discover these patterns and transform them. W...

24/12/2023

Kjære alle venner her inne. ❤️ Jeg ønsker dere alle en God Jul og fine juledager. 🎄 Ta godt vare på hverandre og la oss alle trekke pusten og gi oss selv og hverandre tid og gode øyeblikk etter et år som har vært krevende både her hjemme og ute i en verden full av kaos og smerte. I slike tider -og alltid er det så uendelig viktig å gi hverandre støtte og opplevelser preget av godhet og medmenneskelighet. Se personer i din nærhet med et smil og en klapp på skulderen. 🙏 En varm hilsen til dere alle fra Anne. 🎄❤️🥰❤️🎄

29/11/2023

Spennende invitasjon fra Mark Wentworth om et GRATIS foredrag 8. januar kl 19.30. 🌸
Gå inn og se her, og meld deg på. 🌸
Tema? 🌸
Fargen som skal prege året 2024, kan du gjette hvilken det blir? 🌸

Invitation I invite you to join me on Monday 8th January for a free zoom on-line exploration of the personal and collective influences of 2024's colour of the year - - “It’s all about love” In Colour PsychoDynamics, Rose is symbolised by the Lover archetype. In order to embrace love ...

30/10/2023

📣 🗞 We have a theme for upcoming ❗🗞📣
🔆 💡 Light in Our Lives 💡 🔆

Start planning events and activities for 2024 raising awareness associated with this theme on various topics such as:
🔆 🌳 The beautiful effects of light and colour in nature
🔆 📶 The ways in which new technologies in lighting enhance our daily lives
🔆 🌇 The ways in which natural daylight enhances design and architecture
🔆 🏥 How the science of light brings life-changing advances in healthcare
🔆 🌃 The ways in which light pollution impacts our ecosystem and appreciation of the night sky
🔆 🛰 How our lives are enriched by telescope images of the universe
🔆 🎭 The ways in which metaphors of light are used in art and culture.
And many more!

🔔 Stay tuned for more info on registration.
🔔 Check out our latest updates in the October newsletter
https://mailchi.mp/ef8758f872d1/idl-2024-newsletter-october-2023

26/10/2023

GLAMOW, an exciting Light Norwegian company! 💡💡💡

In Norway, we have this great company called GLAMOX. They are in charge of lightning in so many ways.
One of their contributions during the last decade, is lightning within health, and they have contributed a lot in this field.
They have sold lightning to hospitals within psychiatry with exciting and positive results.
In this article you can read some more of lightning and how light affects shift working that is working on. 💛💛💛

I wish you a great day from Anne. 🍂☀️🍂

Shift work can disrupt the circadian rhythm and harm health. A human-centric lighting solution can improve the health of night shift workers in healthcare and manufacturing, where shift work is common.

Read more about the research from Bergen University: https://www.glamox.com/en/pbs/news-and-stories/bergen-university/

09/10/2023

BEHANDLING AV MUKOSITT HOS BARN - MED LYSBEHANDLING!!! 👌
For en spennende artikkel dette er om barn med Mukositt og lysbehandling! Les dette, det er virkelig verdt en titt.
Det er også tannleger som anbefaler denne behandlingen med lys på sine voksne pasienter, er ikke det strålende?

Og- du finner hele artikkelen i ILA`s nyeste Newsletter på vår hjemmeside dersom du er medlem.
Gå gjerne inn på www.lightcoloursound.org

Shining a Light on Mucositis.
A new study conducted by St. Jude Nursing Research uses a painless therapy to help children avoid a common side effect of bone marrow transplantation.

Light is powerful. It cuts through the darkness. It illuminates the soul. It vanquishes the “dark side.” It travels at 186,000 miles per second. For patients undergoing bone marrow transplants at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, light also lessens the symptoms of mucositis.

Mucositis is a painful inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the mouth and the digestive (GI) tract. After chemotherapy, sores and ulcers may develop in those areas — causing swallowing problems; mouth, throat and GI pain; breakdown of the stomach lining; and a high infection risk.

Patients use soft-bristle brushing, a special mouth wash and ice chips to combat mucositis. But around-the-clock ice chips are not practical, especially when transplant drugs may be given continuously and overnight.

“One of the most distressing symptoms associated with transplant is mucositis,” says Michele Pritchard, PhD, of Nursing Research. “Patients can develop small sores under their tongues and suffer from throat pain.”

Shine on
St. Jude clinicians were determined to take mucositis prevention further.

The solution? Shine a light on it.

Although light therapy, or photobiomodulation therapy, has been used to manage mucositis in adult patients undergoing bone marrow transplant and head or neck radiation, its use in children has been limited.

“We first started talking with dentists familiar with light therapy to determine how we could implement this form of symptom management for our young transplant patients,” says Belinda Mandrell, PhD, of Nursing Research and the study’s primary investigator.

Belinda Mandrell, PhD
Filling a need: Belinda Mandrell, PhD, and her team developed a study designed specifically for bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients.

How does it work?
Chemotherapy or radiation therapy can cause inflammation and cell death. Light therapy helps reverse this process. When absorbed by the cell, the light increases cellular metabolism and decreases inflammation.

St. Jude Nursing Research staff developed a study designed specifically for bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients.

“We developed this as a prevention, not as a treatment,” Mandrell says. “We start light therapy on the first day of admission as a preventive measure.”

The researchers want to see whether light therapy reduces oral mucositis in children and adolescents. All study participants are getting blood stem cell transplants from matched or unmatched donors. The researchers also want to explore whether the treatment works for those who receive their own cells as part of the transplant process.

Susan Ogg, RN, of Nursing Research delivers light therapy to patient Jennings Palmer.
Preventing problems: Susan Ogg, RN, of Nursing Research delivers light therapy to patient Jennings Palmer.

Swift and painless
The daily low-level light therapy is given both inside and outside the mouth for one minute per site. The child receives treatments until engraftment of the new bone marrow occurs or for 20 days, whichever is earlier.

Patients can watch TV, read or play games during the light therapy.

“So much of cancer treatment may cause discomfort or pain,” Pritchard says. “This doesn’t cause pain. It’s like a flashlight on their cheek.”

Older patients may hold the light probe themselves, taking an active part in their own therapy.

“It’s reassuring to caregivers that this can be a passive treatment for their children, especially if they’re not feeling well,” Pritchard says.

For those who are school age and older, the light therapy may be given using a probe that resembles a lollipop that can be held in the mouth. Small dental light probes may be used under their tongue or along the gum line.

“We ask the patient their level of pain before and after the treatment. We also document their need for nutritional support, blood and oral cultures,” Pritchard says. “We hope this helps decrease days in the hospital and reduces associated blood infections.”

The protocol has been active for about a year, with no reported toxicity or adverse events.

“Sometimes a child might complain that something hurts before we can see anything going on in their mouth,” Pritchard says. “When we treat that area, they say it really helps with the pain.”

This light therapy study shows that we will go to any length — and will try even seemingly unusual techniques — if it can make those hardest days easier for our patients.
Brandon Triplett, MD

More than prevention.
The team now has enough data to recommend light therapy for patients who receive radiation to the head and neck as well as for other bone marrow transplant patients. Early results have shown the treatment to be successful in preventing serious mucositis.

“I’d like to see light therapy given as a supportive care option not only for mucositis prevention among BMT patients, but as therapeutic treatment for patients who develop mucositis,” Mandrell says. “Additional projects include implementation in wound healing.”
Although providing the therapy might sound easy, it requires specialized equipment and an experienced team of clinicians.

“Our team sees these patients every day to deliver therapy,” Pritchard says. “We couldn’t do this without our great bedside nurses.”

Brandon Triplett, MD, of St. Jude Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy says the study illustrates the staff’s dedication to the children of St. Jude.

“Transplantation is one of the most powerful cancer treatments we have. Due to that intensity, it’s also one of the most difficult treatments,” he says.

“To me, this light therapy study shows that we will go to any length — and will try even seemingly unusual techniques — if it can make those hardest days easier for our patients.”

From the magazine Promise, Summer 2021.

21/09/2023

ANADI MARTEL tells about light! 🌈
On this ILA page we want to send you some videos and articles, and what we first want to send out, is a short summary from the ILA conference in USA in 2017.
Our great leader for many years, is Anadi Martel. He is a researcher Physicist for light, colour and sound, and has written a super book, "Light Therapies, A complete guide to the healing of light". It is a comprehensive guide to the benefits of light and colour and how it works.
It is a book we really can recommend to learn about items within these therapies and behind the scenes of research.
In this short video, you get an insight in what light is and how it works, and also for how long light therapy has been used in different terms in this world.
And I promise, you will be surprised to hear that. 🤩

You can see the video on the link here; 👇

Opening remarks to the International Light Association 2017 Conference, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, by ILA president Anadi Martel.What is the Power of ...

31/08/2023

Dear ILA friends and members. 🤗
Now our latest newsletter has arrived, and again with so many interesting articles to read and interviews. 😍
We will have our AGM (Annual General Meeting) in October, and as a member, you are most welcome to participate.
The International Light Association exists to support you, as a member. And then you also have a voice to vote.
This AGM will be a virtual meeting at 16:00 CET on Sunday October 22nd. For those of you who are eligible to vote - members in good financial standing - the annual report, financial report and new slate of Board Officers will be sent out ahead of the meeting for on-line voting.
BUT:
If you are not yet a member, we invite you to join the Association and share your knowledge for health and wellbeing. And for those already part of the group, we encourage you to regularly update your entries, so that information about your events and development is current and more widely available.
TO BE A MEMBER: 👌
You just easily can go into our great website and sign up for membership here; www.lightcoloursound.org
YOU ARE MOST WELCOME TO JOIN US! 💛🧡❤️💚💙💜

02/07/2023

Hi all followers of ILA! 🤗
Our very new Newsletter of ILA has just got out this week.
It is full of exciting news and videoes. 😍
If you want to have a look, you might be interested in getting a member of ILA, and see all we offer of works of light, sound and colour in health and wellbeing.
Welcome to visit our great website www.lightcoloursound.org. 🤗

Wish you all a great Sunday. 💞