For millions of years, every cell of our body has been tuned to the natural clock work of light and dark cycle of earth’s rotation. In the recent centuries, technological developments and our lifestyle changes have disconnected us from this natural cycle, where our internal body clocks have been led astray!
Our daytime lighting levels are considerably lower and the night time lighting levels are considerably higher, impacting the working of our internal clocks, thereby impacting many of our biological functions, adversely.
This alarming disconnect from natural light and dark cycle has resulted in increasing prevalence of many lifestyle diseases and problems like, insomnia, depression, mood disorders, obesity, overeating, heart diseases and hypertension, diabetes, cancer etc either directly or indirectly.
The critical question is ” How awake are we during the day and how asleep are we during the night?
Growing evidence indicates the urgent need for us to sync ourselves with natural cycles, which can improve our overall physical and mental health, concentration, memory and performance.
Unhealthy lighting in your home could be negatively influencing your productivity at work or children’s performance in studies.
Do you want to improve your Productivity?
Do you want to increase your children’s or your Concentration?
Do you want to increase your children’s or your Memory?
Do you want a brain that is Healthy?
Do you want to age Healthily?
Do you want to be Healthy?
Do you want more Happiness?
Do you want more Willpower?
Do you want to achieve all of your Goals?
Do you want to control your Impulses?
Do you want to be more Creative?
No matter of magic pills, supplements or healing techniques can help.
Healthy light and dark cycle exposure could be the only Solution!
Healthy light and dark cycle can fine tune your Psychological and Physiological conditions.
The objective of this book is to educate the reader, why healthy lighting is essential to improve productivity, concentration and memory and how to achieve healthy exposure to light and dark cycle. Since we spend the critical triggering points of our day at home, it is essential to be aware of the lighting impact and create healthy environments around us.
When designed correctly, healthy lighting can enhance your health, improve the moods, emotions and behaviors.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted a policy that it supports the need for further research into the health effects of light and the development of new lighting technologies for indoor and outdoor lighting to reduce the effects of artificial light on our body clocks.
Understand and harness the benefits of healthy lighting techniques to improve health efficiency and energy efficiency of your homes.
Who is this book for?
-For anyone who lives in a home – owned, rented or shared.
-For home owners
-For architects and designers
-For contractors
What content does the book cover?
The book discusses the guiding principles for ensuring light and dark cycle cues in your homes. The book can be broadly divided in to three sections. The first section is about, what is healthy lighting? The first two chapters discuss the history of light and dark cycle, how our internal systems respond to light and dark cycles, circadian rhythms etc. The chapters three to five can be considered as the second section which answers the question, What are the characteristics of the light and dark cycle?. The remaining chapters cover the how to create light and dark cycles with artificial lighting. Considering a sample house with New york latitude and longitude coordinates, sample healthy lighting designs for different areas of the home like bedroom, hall and bathroom are shown in highly visual details.
The book contains rich and colorful graphics and hence suitable for only devices with colorful displays.
