Nikken Kenko "Full Spectrum" Light And Benefits

Health Benefits of Full Spectrum Lighting

Full spectrum lights display the entire wavelength of light, from infrared to near-ultraviolet. This type of lighting seeks to duplicate the light from the sun, which is considered full spectrum. All living organisms need the benefits that natural sunlight gives, but it may not always be practical or possible to be exposed to the sun's rays. These indoor lights dependably give off the full spectrum of light, regardless of the weather, time of day or atmospheric conditions. Many health benefits are associated with these lights.

1. Seasonal Affective Disorder - This condition is caused by a lack of exposure to sunlight. Symptoms include fatigue, depression, inability to concentrate and sleep problems.
2. Visual Clarity and Color Perception - Full spectrum lights imitate the sun's rays at noon. This clear, brilliant light decreases eye strain and fatigue.
3. Vitamin D Absorption - Vitamin D deficiency usually happens due to lack of exposure to the sun's beneficial rays.
4. Stimulates the Pineal Gland - This gland produces melatonin, which regulates normal sleep patterns.
5. Mental Alertness - This is a result of establishing a regular sleep pattern by the stimulation of the pineal gland.
6. Improves Mood - Generally, full spectrum lights give people a feeling of well-being.
In moderation, sunlight improves your immunity, prevents disease, increases intelligence, stimulates your metabolism, and boosts your energy level.
Specifically, the full spectrum of the sun's light rays has been shown in medical and scientific studies to:
• Positively influence your risk of getting sick (there is a preponderance of evidence suggesting that decreased sun exposure is closely related to your risk of acquiring the flu, a common occurrence particularly during the colder months).
• Lower your blood pressure (in fact, the farther from the equator you live, the higher your blood pressure).
• Even help babies sleep better at night (this is great news for you parents out there).
The problem is that getting adequate sunlight isn't easy these days. Most of us suffer from "sunlight starvation." We all need about one hour of unfiltered sunshine each day. Unfortunately, the majority of us don't even come close to receiving that amount.
Useing full spectrum lighting may provide benefits like:
• Improved mood
• Enhanced mental awareness, concentration and productivity ...
• Superior visual clarity and color perception ...
• Better sleep ...
• Super-charged immune system ...
• More energy ...
• Reduced eye strain and fatigue with a glare-free and comfortable reading environment ...
• Greater learning ability and intelligence ...
To begin with, when light enters your eyes, it not only goes to your visual centers enabling you to see; it also goes to your brain's hypothalamus.
The hypothalamus is so important to the body's functioning that it is known as the brain's brain. This means that it controls the part of the nervous system regulating automatic and metabolic processes in the body. The hypothalamus controls body temperature, hunger and thirst, water balance and blood pressure. It links the nervous system to the endocrine system.
Additionally, it controls the body's master gland, the pituitary, which secretes many essential hormones. The hypothalamus initiates the body's stress response, affects our emotions and controls immune functions.
Significantly, our "body clock" is also housed in tiny centers located in the hypothalamus. Our body clock-controlled circadian rhythms are the 24 hour cycles of light and darkness.
These light-sensitive rhythms are not an invention of modern society. They are biological constructs imposed upon us by Mother Nature.
Consequently, anything that disrupts these rhythms (like inadequate sunlight) has a far-reaching impact on our body's ability to function.
This explains why, since sunlight has been shown to be the most effective regulator of the body clock, it is also the quickest method of recovering from jet lag. (Or you can supplement sunlight with full spectrum lighting indoors.)
But it gets even more interesting. In 1998, scientists found that they could reset the body clocks of study subjects by shining bright lights onto the back of their knees. This demonstrates that areas of the skin are significantly affected by light, just like the retinas of our eyes. This led researchers to conclude that the body may have more than one body clock, although the eyes still seem to be the main route by which the circadian system senses light.
So why the anatomy lesson?
Well, the body clock control centers in the hypothalamus are also connected to the pineal gland, which is considered the body's light meter. The pineal gland secretes the important hormone melatonin.
Melatonin, the "hibernation hormone", increases with decreased light, which explains that tired feeling that comes on when it begins to get dark outside -- even if it is only 4 o'clock in the afternoon. And it also explains why decreased melatonin is found in those with insomnia (and why full spectrum light is beneficial for healthy sleep).
Conversely, serotonin, the brain hormone associated with mood elevation, rises with exposure to bright light, and falls with decreased sun exposure. This has been proven by many scientific studies, including one reported in the well-respected medical journal Lancet in 2002. This study measured blood levels of serotonin, finding that production of serotonin by the brain was directly related to the duration of bright sunlight.
This has been proven by many scientific studies, including one reported in the well-respected medical journal Lancet in 2002. This study measured blood levels of serotonin, finding that production of serotonin by the brain was directly related to the duration of bright sunlight.
What's more, full spectrum lighting has even more benefits...
Studies have shown that poor lighting in the workplace triggers headaches, stress, fatigue and strained watery eyes, not to mention inferior work production.
Conversely, companies that have switched to full spectrum lights report improved employee morale, greater productivity, reduced errors and decreased absenteeism.
Why Use Full Spectrum Lighting?
No life can exist without the presence of natural sunshine. Each spring we feel the joy and energy that longer sunfilled days bring. All of nature wakes up to the added benefit of more and more natural light.
When daylight enters our eyes, it reaches the pineal gland (also known as the seat of the soul or the third eye) and activates our Endocrine system which is connected to our immune and nervous systems. The pineal gland reduces the production of the light sensitive hormone, melatonin from 100% in the night to 10% during the day. The balance of melatonin has been proven to be a crucial element in many health related studies and has been linked to estrogen production, and many cancer related diseases. Stimulating proper production of melatonin from the pineal glad is paramount to good health.
The question is how do you do this? The answer to that has been addressed by many photobiologists as of late. "They state that exposure to Full-Spectrum light has an important influence on the endocrine system and can reduce the risks of many diseases, including cancer. These studies have shown that the retina can, when stimulated by the proper wave lengths of light, synthesize melatonin directly to the pineal gland. Malillumination can prohibit proper secretion of melatonin. So light of a proper type and intensity can be considered a nutrient.
At the beginning of the 20th century over 70% of north Americans worked outdoors thus benefiting from exposure to essential natural outdoor light. The result of this change has been severe in many cases due to spending more and more time under the type of lights which are missing that portion of the sun’s spectrum which is important in triggering proper melatonin secretion.
It is estimated that over 38 million north Americans feel the effects of malillumination causing poor work conditions which can result in less energy and productiveness.

There is convincing research that poor lighting environments can produce increased depression and even result in more severe cases called S.A.D. or "Seasonal Affective Disorder." This problem increases more and more as the winter months bring shorter and shorter days. "Sunlight Starvation" also affects millions more in the form of a milder version called the "Winter Blues".
Since 1978 researchers and scientists world wide have documented the successful use of bright light therapy as a significant antidepressant. According to the Dec 8th, 1993 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, for many patients with S.A.D., light therapy should be regarded as first-line treatment. Light therapy is endorsed by the American Psychiatric Assoc. and the National Institute of Mental Health. Your insurance carrier may reimburse the cost of this purchase if prescribed by your therapist.


Full Spectrum lighting Helps Relieve Stress in the Workplace

For at least eight hours a day each week, most of us work under lights we would never consider putting in our homes. Headaches, eyestrain, and foggy thinking - symptoms most commonly attributed to stress or fatigue are actually the result of the antiquated fluorescent lighting still being used in 99% of offices nearly 75 years after its invention, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that it is harmful to people’s health.
A recent Steelcase Workplace Survey illustrated the need for change with over half of the workers surveyed stating that poor lighting in the workplace triggers tired or watery eyes, and another third of office workers stating they suffer headaches from poor lighting.
Years of research has led to the realization that people depend on full spectrum light- the full range of rays from ultraviolet to infrared, with rainbow colors violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red in between - for optimal health. While full spectrum light is available in abundance in the form of sunlight, the fact that the majority of the world’s population now work indoors has created a need for a new source of healthy lighting.


Learning Ability
In 1973, Dr. John Ott studied the effects of natural full-spectrum lighting and regular florescent lighting on students in the first grade in Florida. Students in the natural lighting had marked improvement in attention, retention, energy and mood. Students in the florescent lighting were lethargic, moody and didn't get nearly as good grades. Replacing overhead florescent lights with natural full-spectrum light bulbs has a positive effect within a few hours of insertion.



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Blog Update! More Info about the NEW KENKO LIGHT!!!

Human beings weren’t meant to be indoors all the time. Sunlight is the natural form of light, and its day and night cycle promotes better sleep, daytime alertness and energy. Ordinary electric bulbs cannot produce the sun’s balanced range of light wavelengths. KenkoLight can. It brings the outdoors into your home or office with full-spectrum light as invigorating as sunshine — without glare, eyestrain or the sun’s potentially harmful UV radiation. KenkoLight features energy-saving LED technology and flicker-free operation, for use as a desk lamp, room lighting or anywhere.

KenkoLight is supplied with an adapter to operate with standard AC house current. A brightness control dial adjusts KenkoLight to any desired level of illumination. The weighted base ensures stability. An integrated USB port allows you to connect or recharge a USB 2.0-compatible device.

Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone!

Doing this business may require that you GET OUT of your zones of comfort!

Where At Least I Know I'm Free

Some say, "The Glass is half full..."
Others say, "The Glass is empty..."
I say, "Are you going to drink that?"

Life is a grand adventure... a buffet of endless things to enjoy.
God did not send us down here to flounder, mope or stew... but to enjoy life!

This is my message for the day. Happy Memorial Day and God Bless!

Josh Nelson



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How NEVER to get sick!

It's a trick I learned a long time ago and I feel like sharing it to all of you today. This and perhaps other reasons is why I NEVER get sick for extended periods of time. Whenever I DO get sick or remain with a head cold, it's usually because I ignore this simple affirmation and I want to feel sorry for myself.

I think what sux WORSE is knowing exactly WHY I get sick and it's given me to power to control it. I have to admit, when I had the accident, at one point in my self-loathing and weight-gain, I actually WANTED to get sick. I let myself get SO sick that I laid on the couch with this feeling of, "wanting to be taken care of." or exercise the idea that, "Well I'm definitely not working out today or ALL this week because I've got a cold."
I digress. I'm rambling and I'm sorry.

The secret to NOT getting sick or EVER having a cold is:

I feel that nasty tickle in the back of my throat and this is how I choose to deal with it.

I tell myself, speaking directly to my body, and say,

"Hell no! What do you think you're doing? What's going on here. Why have you let this creep up on yourself like that?

I address the infection creeping up on my ear or the soreness and potentially WEEK ending virus that's trying to wreak havoc on my body and I say this,

"You have NO idea who you just came up against, head cold! My body is equipped with special forces strike teams, on the mark marksmen, weaponry that makes the US Army look like it's playing with plastic "B-B" guns and you're trying to invade my body? Laughable! I've already sent the task force. Leave now or get absolutely obliterated!"

I have an over developed imagination... so without trying to bore you, I say any number of things speaking to the body as though it were under my command, which it is, and I remind it about the POWER it possesses.

My body, as well as yours, has "UN-IMAGINABLE IMPRESSIVE POWER to defeat any rinky-dink head cold within an instant! Upon command, you can tell this body to INSTANTLY take care of the problem. I call it "Mafia Power."
I am the "Godfather..." and one of my goons are reporting an issue somewhere in my body territory and I tell the goons, "Make it look like an accident."

I tell the illness or potential head cold, basically, that it stepped foot in the wrong body.
It's milliseconds are numbered and that it doesn't stand a chance against the awesome forces that I have at my command!

During the time I was laying in bed (1/2 hour ago) and since I sat down on the computer now, that NASTY itch that threatens 2-3 days of rest has ABSOLUTELY disappeared. I flicked this sickness like a booger! It was sitting on my shoulder and I simply said, "Hell no! You've awoken a sleeping giant and you have just lost. You lost the minute that you attempted to infect my body!"

That's basically my story. I pumped the body with what it needs but within seconds of giving it some vitamin C and other healthy resources/pills, I sense NO presence of ANY illness whatsoever.

*Here's an anecdote that I think ALSO provides something interesting to this story

I got to bed late last night. I don't know. I had some mild insomnia. So, the BODY has been extremely uncomfortable with the body transformation that I have ordered up for it. I've got some "hold outs" in my thinking. Could this sickness be self-sabotage?
How easy could have been for me to say, "Oh no. I need to sleep some more... sleep this one off and HOPE for the best?"

I kid you not! It's 5:12 A.M. as I write this... I've been up for 45 minutes.
I probably got to sleep at 11:00 A.M. and it's NOT unusual for me to wake up at 4 or 4:30... I do this EVERY morning because I WANT a better looking body. Even BETTER looking that in the pictures above! So why did I share this with you?

The body resists change sometimes. When it's uncomfortable, it will attempt to (in an act of self-sabotage) access an OLD program or idea. This body of mine has gotten sore, been woken up, forced to run on a treadmill and perform other seemingly super-human feats and personal bests in lifting weights...

I submit that it's NOT the body in charge over the mind. It's the other way around!
The Body may send signals to the brain but it's up to US to put new ideas and new programs into the brain that ultimately governs our continued efforts for body change.
Our minds act like traitors against the change we wish to do with our body for various reasons. Perhaps, we like our sleep. Perhaps being big is how we define ourselves.

I'm even willing to submit that people resist change so much that they'll sabotage themselves, were it possible, into submission of an older program because that body got plenty of rest, goodies and possibly other vices under the old program SIMPLY because by changing the appearance, they can NO LONGER define themselves as who they USED TO BE... and THAT SCARES PEOPLE!

Have some confidence in your body that it can do the task at hand!
Have an even BETTER program for your mind to follow because if your goals are to "Look great, feel good and lose the weight..." the greatest search engine in the world; even GREATER than GOOGLE will begin searching your mind for answers... and if the FIRST 10 listings include, "Quitting, giving up, you can no longer get sympathy for being the fat guy or woman, I want sleep, this is too hard, I want a lap-band, I'll start tomorrow, My back hurts, I feel sick... etc..." then your dreams will go down in flames.
You have to enter this new idea and make it searchable in your personal
"Google Mind Search." and you have to continue updating the Google Search by imputing ideas that are in harmony with the type of "Drop Dead Gorgeous" body that you want and you have to continuously do so in order for your NEW results or NEW possibilities to be the top 10 search engine ideas that pop into your brain! Bar none, this is how the mind works. This is what I teach... and this is why I charge 200 dollars an hour. I help people create new lives for themselves no matter what the goal is. No matter HOW big that goal happens to be and I am 100% confident that I can help people achieve that goal, no matter HOW big someone thinks it is.

The bigger the better... but let's start with mastering the body and the cure for the common cold... Which is an absolute confidence in the bodies ability to heal itself and the minds' ABSOLUTE control over this body and how it feels.

Baby steps!



Josh Nelson

Eviction Notice - Use of Daily Affirmations For Positive Results on Goals/Weight Loss

"This is a "Sample" idea on a creative way to lose weight. When affirmations are done creatively, they mean more than just someone else's words trying to convince you of a body-image goal. If you like this one, you may use it. Just substitute words as needed; name = your name, etc... and then print it out.



Eviction Notice!!!

[Joshua Reid Nelson]
[Body of Joshua Nelson]
[503-555-1212]

[05/13/2010]

[Hydrated/ Soluble Fat]
[Located in the: Abdomen, Back-side, Face, Arms and Legs]

Dear Fat Cells in the amount of 45 lbs,

You are hereby given notice that the undersigned is terminating your tenancy of the premises located at [The Body of Joshua Reid Nelson], where you are a tenant from month to month under the lease dated [October 20th, 2009], between [Joshua Reid Nelson] as landlord and [Fat Cells] as tenant.

This termination is to be effective on [June 30th, 2010]
You must continue to provide me energy until this date. You may leave before the appointed time but must not linger any longer than the said date.

You are required to vacate and surrender all things pertaining to the corporeal site including the view of the muscles, veins and in some cases, the beatified tan which I am having painted upon the exterior. Upon termination, the security deposit in the amount of stored energy will be returned to you or otherwise applied according to law.

If you fail to vacate the premises by the above date, the undersigned may commence eviction proceedings against you and/or exercise other available rights and remedies under the law.

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

Very truly yours,

__________________________
[Landlord’s name]