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Happy Light Therapy For Depression SAD Guide (Best Happy Lamp Reviews) Verilux Vs Sun Touch Plus
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hey everybody just wanted to come at you
with a video about happy lights as you
can see I have a few different options
right here that I will get to later on
in the video but this but just to give
you a little background about my story
so I've struggled with depression for
quite a quite a long time I also have
OCD I also have insomnia and I've also I
would say have felt plagued by that
early morning fog you know where it's
like I wake up and it takes so long for
me to feel like I'm finally awake
and ready to start my day so yes I've
struggled with a lot of these things and
yeah I want to talk to you about happy
lights also just want to put out there I
am totally not a doctor so you know the
information that I'm gonna be telling
you in this video is more from my
personal experience using happy lights
so some of you out there may have
already searched extensively online
about happy lights and you may have
discovered claims that these lights can
boost mood or improve your focus or
improve your sleep among other things
light therapy can be used to treat a
number of conditions out there some of
those conditions include seasonal
affective disorder different types of
depression sleep disorders jet lag or
let's say you're trying to change to a
different work time schedule dementia so
yeah so there's there's a lot of
different conditions or disorders out
there that these kind of lights can help
with now when it comes to the type of
light that you should get the
recommendations that I've come across in
my research online are that you want to
get a light that provides an exposure up
to 10,000 Lux and emits as little as
possible UV light when it comes to
actually using your light box the
recommendations out there are to use
your light box within the first hour of
waking up and you want to have your
light therapy box on for about 20 to 30
minutes and you want to keep your face
about 16 to 24 inches away from that
light and you want to make sure that
your eyes are wide open but you don't
want to stare directly into the light
now before you even go out and you
research about happy lights you might
want to ask yourself some important
questions first such as why are you
getting this happy light in the first
place so if you're trying to let's say
treat a certain condition like seasonal
affective disorder you might want to ask
the question does this particular light
treat seasonal affective disorder is it
designed to treat that that condition
also you want to ask the question how
bright is the light you know how bright
does this light get because depending on
the type of condition that you're trying
to treat you know you may need a certain
brightness level and there's some lights
out there that may not be bright enough
to treat the the condition that you're
wanting to treat so I would definitely
ask the question how bright does the
light get another important question to
ask is will this damage my eyes will
this light hurt my eyes so you
definitely want to check up on that you
know will the light emit harmful UV
light so that's it that's another great
question to ask another question to ask
would be what style of light should you
get as you can see there's many
different styles of lights
just the way that they stand up when you
put them on a table you know there's
smaller lights there's bigger lights do
you want your light to let's say hang on
a wall so the style of light you know
asking what style of light you want may
also be another important question as
well
so I think the big question out there
that a lot of people might be wondering
is do these happy lights actually work
you know if I you know let's say turn on
these lights am I just all of a sudden
gonna feel happy happy happy happy you
know am I just gonna be healed of all my
disorders and conditions and mental
illness and you know everything that I
got going on you know is this does this
really boost my mood does it really
improve my focus and take away all that
mental fog and you know all those other
things that I might be having problems
with to answer that question simply I'm
gonna say yes and no so I'm kind of
in-between on it because here's the
thing my experience my personal
experience using happy lights if you
like let's say just go ahead and turn on
a light and you're like oh wow you know
I want to feel happy right now I have
found that inconsistent usage of happy
lights really doesn't do anything for me
you know so just turning it on like one
time and only using it one time and I'm
like oh nothing happened
you know I would say not does it doesn't
really help much or doesn't really make
a difference however where I would say
yes yes it does make an impact is if you
you know put this into your daily
routine and you use it every day and you
wake up you know first thing in the
morning and you turn on these happy
lights and you know you follow the
directions on how to use them then I
would say yes yes yes yes
definitely these lights can have a huge
impact or have had a huge impact at
times
my well-being in terms of boosting mood
and focus and an improved sleep I would
say yes yes these happy lights have
definitely helped me in those areas I've
also done cognitive behavioral therapy
for sleep and was using the happy lights
during those times
and yes I would say it definitely helped
me to get back to I would say those
circadian rhythms those natural sort of
like sleep rhythms where it's like you
know I feel tired at the time that I
want to feel tired what I want to go to
bed and then you know wake up and then
use these lights so yes I would
definitely say it helped with sleep and
yeah boost boosted mood
along with sort of getting rid of that
that early morning fog that I would
experience in the morning sometimes
going to work and it feels like I'm not
present and I'm just kind of checked out
and it really takes a long time for me
to get into the day and I feel like
these lights for me during that time
when I was using them consistently
really jump-started my day and was a
really great practice so I would say
that yes definitely these lights are
amazing and great especially if they're
combined with other healthy practices
now here's the thing about happy lights
is that you know if you're just doing
like unhealthy things in your life you
know other unhealthy practices like just
eating really poorly horrible diet you
know not getting exercise you know
really not taking care of yourself as
much as you use these lights every day I
feel like you're not gonna get the best
result it's kind of like you know if you
go out and you're just eating all this
junk food and you eat junk food right
before you you go to bed you know you
wake up in the morning and you turn on
these light these happy lights it's not
really gonna you know counter the
effects of what you might experience
from you know eating a bunch of junk
food so I would definitely recommend
using your happy lights combined with
other healthy practices you know like
exercising you know eating right also
you know other therapies for you know if
you're getting this for like mental
illness or something so like cognitive
behavioral therapy for sleep so more
specifically on how I used my happy
light in the past
so so there was a time where I was
trying to wake up at the same time every
day I just get up out of bed turn on my
light stand in front of the light and
then I would also do some little
stretching routine and take my light and
put it on the floor you know when I
would have it on in the morning and yeah
it was very helpful for just getting me
up and it was great all right so let's
go ahead and look at the lights that I
have here displayed
so pretty much I have two different
brands I have the verilux the the happy
light brand so I have two of those and
then I also have a Sun touch plus so
looking at this light right here this is
the Sun touch plus from nature bright
this is a really nice light right here
10,000 Lux lights it has four different
timer settings so you can you know turn
this light on and have it on for 15 30
45 and 60 minute intervals so pretty
much after you know let's say if you
haven't set for 60 minutes it'll just
turn off on its own and has an on/off
switch and it also has an eye on therapy
feature which I actually don't know much
about if you know much about the eye on
feature and the Sun test touch plus
please feel free to report about it in
the comments below I've actually had
that feature on before while just using
the light in general and honestly I
don't I don't know if that had any
effect on me at all or I didn't really
notice anything in that realm you know
more or less I feel like I was just more
buying this light for the light itself
now I'm going to go ahead and turn this
light on so that's what it looks like in
the camera here but because I'm using my
camera you know it may look a little bit
different in video than in real life but
but yeah so that's what it looks like I
would say that it's it's a
very nice light I don't feel like it's a
too bright and my eyes you know I can
get my face very close to it and yeah it
feels very nice so yes so that's the Sun
touch plus by nature bright which you
can currently find online so the next
light I wanted to show you is buy
verilux it's a 7,500 Lux brightness
light very compact design this light
right here has an on/off switch unlike
the Sun touch plus lights this light you
can turn it on and just keep it on for a
long time then you know turn it off at
your choosing so it's not you know
limited by the timer feature so if I
just go ahead and turn this on I believe
this is the brightest setting on this
light because it has a couple different
settings on the front here so if I now
switch it into the other setting I
believe this is slightly dimmer though
if you actually look at it up close it
may be hard to tell the difference
between both of these settings the next
slide I wanted to show everybody out
there is this giant sized happy light so
this is the happy light deluxe buy
verilux it's a great light 10,000 Lux in
brightness UV free the on/off switch is
located on the top of the light and
let's just go ahead and turn it on so
that's what it looks like when this
light is turned on you know it has a
very nice feel to it I don't feel like
it's too intrusive with the light so
yeah so this is a great option right
here and this light what's cool about
this let me go ahead and turn that off
is that it has a stand so you'll notice
that there's a stand in the back what
you can do is if you want to you can
actually put that stand back in place
and then if you want you can actually go
ahead and then hang this light from a
wall
when it comes to my honest opinion of
these lights right here pretty much I
would start out by saying this is the
light that I use the lease yeah I just
don't really have much usage for this
this this lights but yeah when I first
started using happy lights the Sun touch
Plus was my go-to this was actually my
first happy light that I ever got this
is a great light right here so I would I
would use this very frequently when I
started my routine with the cognitive
behavioral therapy for sleep so yeah so
the Sun touch plus light great light
really like this lights but ultimately
the light that I actually now like the
best out of all three DS Lite the three
of these lights is the happy light
deluxe yes yes I love this light this is
now my new favorite and the reason why I
like this is first of all it just emits
so much light you know there's so much
light that comes out of this I also like
that I can just hang it up on the wall
if you look at this it has such a flat
design it doesn't really protrude
outward from the wall very much
so it's a very great light to hang up
and I find honestly when that when the
light is hung on the wall that I'm that
I'm more likely to use it because I feel
like you know even with these lights you
know I may have to actually move the
light and get it out and so that
actually takes more work so I'm if I
have to do more work to turn on these
lights but I'm probably not gonna use
them as much
whereas this light I just hang up on the
wall it's really simple to turn on it
only just has one button to turn on and
I can turn it off when I want to turn it
off so ultimately this is my go-to light
now for for happy lights this is my
favorite the happy light deluxe
but I also like the
suntouch plus as well so I would say you
know yeah these are my two favorites but
right now this is my go-to I love this
light so there's my opinion about happy
lights please please feel free to share
your experience you know ask me
questions about happy lights in the
comments section below I would love to
hear it and also you know share about
your depression you know sure about your
seasonal affective disorder share about
you know whatever it is that you
struggle with that makes you want to get
a happy light to begin with so yeah so
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and I wish you the best
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