Enhance Sensory Spaces with StarEFX Fiber Optic Sensory Lighting

Lighting therapy + color therapy = SENSORY LIGHTING

With the use of specific colors incorporated with special fiber optic lighting combined, the two therapies create a dynamic interactive sensory experience. The purpose of combining both color and lighting therapies in one product is to activate a person's neuro-stimuli of proprioception (the awareness of where your body is in space) with their vestibular system (the sense of balance), enabling the brain to enhance itself and develop its cognitive ability. Sensory lighting works as a complementary therapy, designed to act as an aid in benefiting both health and behaviors in children and adults.

More Information on the Specific Elements of Sensory Lighting

Lighting as a therapy

Lighting is utilized in therapeutic industries and more recently, for the increased benefits to patient and customer experiences. Sensory lighting has established positive long-term and short-term psychological and physiological results. Physiologists and psychologists have long understood how light can affect a person's natural circadian rhythms that affect overall health. Children's moods are strongly affected by lighting – for some it provides a calming, soothing effect, while for others, it acts as a stimulant. Certain light levels and colors can be beneficial and the ability to control visual stimuli within the space is important.

Color as a therapy

Color therapy is a type of holistic healing that uses the visible spectrum of light and color to affect a person's mood and physical or mental health. When color passes through the retinal cells in the eyes, the receptor cells absorb the hues and send a signal to the brain where the specific colors are deciphered. These brain impulses stimulated from a specific color through the retinal cells also fall on the hormone-regulating endocrine glands, which then evoke emotional and psychological responses.