Timing Your Light Therapy for the Best Effect
Light therapy is very versatile; there are many kinds of light therapy used in order to treat the different kinds of affliction. What affliction you are combating will have an effect on which light therapy system you use, and also on the schedule in which you use it. If you are treating such things as skin conditions, then the timing isn’t as much of an issue. If you are treating allergies, then the treatment would happen when the allergy symptoms appear.
People that are considered sleep phase delayed, meaning they tend to gain energy later in the evening, waking later in the morning and feeling sluggish, need a totally different treatment schedule than those considered to be sleep phase advanced, meaning these individuals become tired much earlier and are at their most awake state in the morning. Therapies to treat these two conditions use the same light therapy system but the session times are different in order to normalize the internal body clock that controls the sleep cycle. The main thing that both types of individuals need to do is to subject themselves to the light therapy sessions on a regular schedule that is designed for their condition. If light therapy is not applied in a scheduled manner, the individual may end up with a much more confused body clock, resulting in worse sleeping habits and emotional side effects such as anger, impatience, and general feelings of agitation. Misuse of the light therapy may also result in eye strain.
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