ADHD BEHAVIOURS and the impact of colour and light

hetwoman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:46:55 CDT

A typical ADHD behaviour is to constantly fidget and be on the go. These children very often fail to achieve in a traditional educational environment simply because they cannot focus and the inability to complete a task is one of the defining symptoms for the condition.
During 5 years I was based at a pupil referral unit for children who were unable to cope in mainstream education, I researched using sensory equipment which was normally used with physical disabilities in children, within the ADHD context.

What I found was very exciting. Children respond very well to colour. A useful tool was to colour in patterns’ with children and interpret the colours that they use and the way they go about the pattern as an interpretation into their learning personality. By using light and colour equipment in a special way known as ‘rainbow journey’, I was able to evolve a formula for identifying colour diet deficiency. We all need colour. This is light transmitted along the optic nerve which upon going through the pineal gland splits into rainbow pathways, each of which fire a sequence of pineal circuits and brain hormones. Sometimes these colour triggers are deficient, a little bit like the seasonal affective disorder, whereby people are known to go into depression a certain times of the year because these brain hormones are out of balance.
By using homeopathic colour essences as defined by the colour formula, and working with games involving specific colours with the children, we saw a dramatic improvement in the hyperactive behaviours and in almost every case there was a better result in the children having better sleep patterns,

One technique within the rainbow journey is to allow the child to play in UV light for a while. After a 10 minute session they would typically return to class in a more focused and attentive way. The Ultra Violet passing through the pineal gland simulates the UV in early morning sunlight which activates serotonin the feel good brain hormone. It also triggers the pathway to the evening sunlight which is higher in infra red light and this is what triggers the melatonin pathway which is another brain hormone that helps the nervous system get ready to relax for a goodnight’s sleep.

This cycle is what is compromised in so many ADHD behaviours.

ADHD a natural approach

hetwoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:30:46 CDT

Hi, I am Linda Porter, and I have developed a way forward for kids using natural remedies for ADHD. This is through HET (Holistic Educational Therapy). HET is a natural, comprehensive programme which has been of help to many children and families when they have been at their most desperate in struggling with ADHD symptoms and similar behavioural problems.

HET is not only about following a natural programme of remedies which spans a number of different complementary therapies in order to deliver effective relief of ADHD symptoms, but being able to measure the difference it makes to your life. This is where HET has got it’s commendations from OFSTED over the past 10 years, in being able to prove it delivers. Through HET stepping stones you can prove this for yourselves as a family.

Using an ADHD natural therapy approach to ADHD doesn’t just heal the learned experiences, that create problems for us in life but provides us with a new way of learning through interacting with natural things through part of our programme called HET Eco therapy. This is a programme of fun filled family based projects that take children out of the confines of classrooms where they traditionally fail to achieve with ADHD and similar types of behaviour problems.

Tasting snowflakes on your tongue for the first time is exhilarating!!! Teaching someone to do that is a JOY! HET teaches children joy through the family project based natural curriculum.

Part of HET is the Snow friends project which shares a new way of experiencing life and opens a way into discovering how HET turns life around.

Resonating with this with this article, feeling that tingle inside you as you read it, is the confirmation that following it up can change what is your reality around you and for others too and I mean…. immediately!

Becoming involved with the HET Pet programme online can reunite two snow friends who have already done so much to help children and families as HET Pets.

Let me introduce Ruby first, she began life off in what is referred to as a ‘puppy farm. From there she was ’rescued’ by one of my students at the time, that’s how we came by her. The student was asked to quit my programmes when I discovered that she made money out of rescuing dogs and then selling them to other people who had experienced loss of a pet.
When I was researching HET with some young people in a pupil referral unit– my dog came in with me to make some new friends.

When the children had worked through a special friendship programme with Ruby, they visited the animal sanctuary and met new friends there. This programme is freely available as a download from my website and is an amazing way in to working with children through animals, which they will nearly always respond to. Animals help them identify with themselves in a one -step removed kind of way.

Anyway, to finish the story Ruby met up with Daisy a rescue German Micro pig with her own story whilst I was based in Somerset establishing a family retreat around HET – this concept has now been created online to reach more families.

When the main in charge decided he could use the retreat facility differently we had to leave. Ruby stayed with me of course but Daisy went into lodgings at a local farm – Now they’re both pining for each other. The aim of bringing the snow friends back together is providing an opportunity to help people change their lives for the better through natural Personal Holistic Happiness Programme and gives children, families and HET trainees an opportunity to experience the benefits of HET for themselves. Details of the project and HET are available from the site.

The different HET remedies and approaches and how they are used are explored by the children in the animal’s stories and empowers them to make better choices through safe and simple self help approaches. Just one of many effective ways for children and families to work with HET. A powerful and natural approach to ADHD and similar behaviourally demanding symptoms.

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