You don't go telling everybody about your lamp that you just bought. Particularly if it is a naturally mined one from salt. But, this is one is interesting as it has a strange story to tell.
Yesterday I was shopping, window shopping only I told myself. I was attracted to a new shop and was hoping it was similar to my favorite one in Santa Barbara called Paradise Found. I always walk out of that shop with a favorite item and some incense. I think I this may be early to judge, but it is close. It first reminded me more of something in Isla Vista, hemp and tye dye when you first walk inside. Nice tables of things you can touch, try and test out. Puzzles first attracted me, then half way in the store I was amazed at all the stones and gems. Next was a very nice display of Lucky Bamboo. The sales person stopped me to ask if they could help me. I most always say, just looking...but I told him I was looking for a gift for my husband. He asked what he likes and I rattled off Tai Chi, Chinese coins...and then he said..I've got something he just might enjoy. We walked past the Lucky Bamboo and a table, with two tiered displayed luminous rocks, three sizes of these rocks. The glow was so strongly attracting me to them. I started touching all of them that were glowing and they were all a gently warm. He described them as Himalayan Salt Lamps. The were all unusual, individual in natural shapes and colors ranging from quartz like white to a deep amber sort of orange or apricot. Not veins, or marble like, but translucent and the warm glow...I could not get enough from the attraction these had on me. In the core center of each was a night light fitting, on a wooden base and a on/off switch.
I purchased one, about 6 lbs heavy. When I gave it to Billy, he was in disbelief, then we turned it on....amazing. We love this lamp, now we started researching about these.
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This is what I found about these: (http://www.naturalsaltcrystallamps.com/how-salt-lamps-work.html)
The salt crystal lamp binds the negative ions with the excess positive ions. When the lamp becomes warm, it absorbs moisture and the crystal will be damp on the surface. This builds up the ion field. Through the lamp, the positively charged atmosphere of a room can be neutralized. In addition to this, the colours of the salt crystal stones have a healing effect. The therapeutic value of the coloured crystals can reorganize the epidermal layer of our skin. Tests made with kids having ADHD symptoms have shown that after only one week of exposure to crystal salt lamps, their symptoms subsided. After removing the lamps, the symptoms returned.
It's a well know fact that, through scientific and empirical research, salt crystal lamps exhibit biophysical characteristics, which demonstrate a positive effect on our well-being. From a scientific view there are three natural action principles at play: ionization, the electromagnetic oscillation and the transparent-crystalline structure developing the light waves.
Characteristics of the salt crystal lamps in detail, we would like to point out that salt is a primal element, like water and air and its natural minerals and trace element have unique biophysical and biochemical characteristics. Salt is to be regarded as neutral, chemically as well as physically, without its own polarity, always balancing and neutralizing. Exactly like our planet earth's makeup, human beings consist of about 70% water; brine water more specifically. This enormous potential on enclosed brine solution transmits the cosmic oscillation (vibration) energy, not only evenly over our planets, but also reaches deep into our most minute cells and nerves. It is not only the salt from a chemical view that the body needs in order to maintain our entire bodily functions, but the salt, from biophysical view, will always be able to bring the body back into its natural energy vibration rhythm.
Worldwide laboratory tests with the most diverse kinds of measuring methodology furnished the proof that lighted salt crystal lamps deliver ions to our environment. Primarily, the research points to an increased number of negative ions. The emission of ions is primarily caused by the alternating actions of the salt's ability to first absorb water, and then evaporate it. To explain this more precisely, the heated salt crystal attracts the water molecules from the ambient air to its surface. The salt goes into a solution as it mixes with the water molecules. Sodium, as the positively charged ion, and chloride, as a negatively charged ion, becomes neutral and are emitted back into the environment. The uniqueness of this ion emission interrelation is only possible with the mineral salt, since salt possesses this transformation ability with water due to its electrically neutral atomic structure.
Scientific investigations of the last decades proved clearly that a balanced ion relationship with a little surplus of negative ions could have extremely positive affects on our entire physical condition and our health. The heated salt crystal lamps can be referred to, according to research, as natural ion generators. Here however it is pointed out that the emission of ions by heated salt crystal lamps, should not be regarded as the primary characteristic, because from scientific standpoint, the surplus of negative ions is negligible. More important is its ability to
clean the ambient air. Depending upon size and surface area of the salt crystal used for the lamp, the ambient air surrounding it is measurably cleaned by the transformation cycle of hydrogen and oxygen, as well as sodium and chloride ions. This characteristic
is especially helpful for relieving the symptoms associated with asthma and allergies in general.
The research of the characteristics of pure, or cleaned air through the action of the salt crystal lamps, is based on a medical therapy called Spelaeotherapy, a treatment where the patient enters an underground salt mine and is exposed to the concentrated atmosphere of negative ions. Further scientific research has not taken place yet under medical guidance, since scientific investigations are still at the beginning stages. One cannot compare the therapeutic effect of a singular salt crystal lamp to the effects found in a salt cave (mine), when conducted according to medical guidelines. However, there have been a great variety of holistic and positive self-therapy results, which can be classified as scientifically subjective, and should be recognized and considered.
Also, a salt crystal, in its neutral state, exhibits this exact frequency oscillation value. But due to our industrialized and technical way of life, the human organism is being affected, particularly in our homes and offices, to artificial electromagnetic wavelengths with the most diverse frequency values, caused by electronics devices. These frequencies have been proven not only to disturb our human organism, but also to promote illness, since they constantly overlap our natural resonant frequency. As a result of this constant exposure to various frequencies, our own electromagnetic energy field becomes imprinted by the frequencies forced upon it, which upsets the natural development of our cells. Because of the atomic structure of the salt, which is already neutral, it is most likely that the artificial frequencies can be harmonized or balanced by the lit salt lamp as it works as a natural amplifier for the resonant frequency of 8-10 cycles per second, which is so necessary for our life. With the use of a salt crystal lamp we can adjust and neutralize electromagnetic wavelengths caused by electronic devices in natural way.
The healing effect of colors was introduced to me by Acupuncture. This is a partial list of effects:
- Orange - Facilitates a feeling of security and is helpful to our nervous system and our mind and activates the kidneys and bladder.
- Yellow - Encourages intellectual comprehension and activates the pancreas, liver and gall bladder.
- Red - Strengthens the vital life force and activates the heart and circulation.
- Pink - Supports the sense of partnership and love and opens your emotional body.
- White - Has a cleansing and detoxifying effect and represents the healing aspect.
- Brown - Helps to find ones own balance and supports earthiness.
When we talk about light we mean, for the most part, the oscillation energies, or electromagnetic wavelengths, which lie in a nanometer, range visible to our human eye. From the colour therapy it is well-known that the human organism needs the light waves of the rainbow spectrum (300-700 nanometers) for the health and preservation of the body. Our body's cells are supplied by light with new energy in the form of electromagnetic wavelengths. Thus the atomic structure of each individual cell vibrates in its own given order and can radiate bio photons as the cell's own electromagnetic energy field.
The specific oscillation values of salt crystal lamps depend upon crystalline colour structure in the so-called warm clay/tone range of 600-700 nanometers. For decades, the field of medicine has been using irradiation with monochromatic light, since these colour vibration areas exert direct influence on our cell producing functions. To what extent a salt crystal lamp can be employed for natural irradiation therapy, is yet to be seen without further research. However, salt crystal lamps have been used therapeutically for years.
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After all this reading, I still have the same feeling I got the first reaction from these...similar to that of cozy near a campfire in the outdoors, coals from the campfire and the night sky, stars and the moon...dreamy.
