The use of colour as a therapy is truly a non-invasive and powerful therapy that dates back thousands of years. Colour is simply light of varying wavelengths and is a form of energy. This light energy affects all living cells. Used in the right way, these different frequencies of light can have a profound and healing effect on all creation, human or otherwise.

It is a well-known scientific fact that everything has a vibration and that all things have their own unique vibration or frequency. These wavelengths resonate with energies in different areas of the body as we absorb colour energy not only through the eyes but also through the skin and our electro magnetic fields.

Colour Therapy can be used for any problem, whether, physical, mental, emotional or spiritual for specific problems as well as over all, relaxation therapy. Colour energy can be the catalyst for our healing process and encourages normal and healthy workings of the body.

Some people have definite colour preferences:

Either a) by life experiences – a negative life experience will make us dislike a certain colour, a positive life experience, involving a particular colour, will make us feel drawn to that colour; or b) an aversion to a colour can indicate an imbalance in a particular area of the body.

Music Therapy

Research has shown that music has a profound effect on your body and psyche. It is scientifically proven that music has an influence on your brain waves. It is very beneficial to children within the classroom situation as it helps to promote movement, it calms children down, and it eases muscle tension.

With alterations in brainwaves come changes in other bodily functions. Those governed by the autonomic nervous system, such as breathing and heart rate, can also be altered by the changes music can bring. This can mean slower breathing, slower heart rate and in activation of the relaxation response.

Music can also be used to bring a more positive state of mind, helping to keep depression and anxiety at bay. This can help prevent the stress response from wreaking havoc on the body and can help keep creativity and optimism levels higher.

Music has also been found to bring many other benefits, such as lowering blood pressure, boost immunity, ease muscle tensions, etc.

Ozone therapy

Ozone therapy can provide a wide range of health benefits, from relaxation and detoxification to immune system stimulation and increased blood circulation. It helps relax and loosen muscles by reducing the build-up of lactic acid. It oxidises toxins so they can be eliminated through mayor organs. Blood circulation is increased, which helps injured muscles repair quicker.

Ozone therapy stimulates vasodilatations of peripheral blood vessels for pain relief and speeds up the metabolic processes of the organs and endocrine glands. It promotes cleaner, softer, rejuvenated skin and normalise cell respiration.

Ozone therapy also helps with chronic fatigue and environmental illnesses; it stimulates the immune system and reduces carbon monoxide poisoning. It increases oxygen, assisting the body’s natural detoxifying process.

Ozone therapy is considered the most effective method to treat nearly every condition and is used legally worldwide. It has little or no side effects. Remember, ozone is an oxygen compound and is non-toxic and life giving.

Multiple intelligences and Education (Dr Howard Gardner)

According to Smith and Smith’s (1994), Howard Gardner’s work has been a paradigm shifter. He questioned the idea that intelligence is a single entity, that it results from a single factor and that it can be measured simply via IQ tests. His theory has been embraced by a range of educational theorists and significantly applied by teachers and policy makers to the problems of schooling. It would allow for different ways to teach, rather than one.

It is important as to know what the learner’s strongest intelligence is and to use it to his benefit in teaching. It is however also very important to develop the weaker intelligences. By doing that, you will get the child to use maximum of his potential.

The multiple intelligences defined by Gardner are:
• Linguistic intelligence.
• Logical-mathematical intelligence. 
• Musical intelligence. 
• Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. 
• Spatial intelligence. 
• Inter-personal intelligence. 
• Intra-personal intelligence. 
• Naturalist intelligence. 
• Spiritual intelligence. 
• Existential intelligence. 
• Moral intelligence.

Brain Gym

Brain Gym is a program of simple, fun, physical activities that quickly improves learning in all areas. In over 90

countries worldwide, thousands of teachers and students use Brain Gym effectively to improve reading skills, raise test scores and learn anything easily and quickly. By doing that, you develop neural pathways necessary for learning and remembering.

Movement, as used in Brain Gym, is a natural and essential element of optimal brain functioning. Students will: 
• Learn anything quicker and easier.
• Control ADD/ADHD.
• Raise test scores.
• Boost learning for special needs (autism, dyslexia, etc).
• Lower stress. 
• Calm down. 
• Stay on track.
• Improve listening.

Creating the future (Techniques of Dr Luis Alberto Machado)

Every man has the natural right to develop his own genetic potentiality and the right to use all the existing scientific knowledge that can facilitate this development. Therefore society has the duty to make the fruits of science available to all people. In the fulfilment of this duty, and as a proof of his will to make education the priority task of his Government, the President of Venezuela, Luis Herrera Campins, at the beginning of his Administration in March 1979, appointed a Minister of State for the Development of Intelligence. Dr Luis Alberto Machado was the first person to be appointed as Minister of Intelligence in Venezuela.

The development of intelligence is a fundamental educational factor. Education for participation requires a process aimed at the self-discovery of the person and his/her environment, one that will reinforce the reasoning capacity for analysing and judging and will enrich the inner world of each individual through the awareness of his own dignity and that of his neighbour. It is a true process of personalisation, that is to say, the strengthening of the human being and his/her specific qualities – mental, physical, emotional and social.

Through the development of human intelligence, we can achieve that future. Now at the end of the 20th century, this has to be our goal. Our universal goal. Dr Luis Alberto Machado writes: “No one is born civilised or primitive. The difference between a primitive man and a civilised one is not biological; it is educational.”

Thinking skills (Edward de Bono)

We assume that everybody has the ability to think, which is not true. Indeed, it is an art. The teachings and programmes of De Bono are used in our school, like: 
• Six Thinking Hats.
• Six Action Shoes.
• Thinking Tools.

Light & Sound Technology

An AVS (Audio Visual Stimulation) system consists of a light/sound synthesiser, stereo head phones and stimulation glasses with pulsating lights. It has different set programmes. The first aspect of AVE involves dissociation. This is the clearing of thoughts. Secondly, cerebral blood flow increases. Most cognitive and emotional disorders involve areas of the brain that are low in blood flow. A study by Fox and Reichle shows AVE increased cerebral blood flow up to 28%. Thirdly, EEG activity changes. The concept of entrainment is about altering brainwave activity. Aberrant brainwave activity in various conditions such as depression, anxiety, ADD, seasonal affective disorder, chronic fatigue, learning, etc., may be restructured into healthier patterns.

Control Theory /Reality Theory (Dr William Glasser)

This theory is all about having more effective control over our lives and to stay in control. It is important that learners discover their different need systems, to understand your behaviour and why you react in a certain way. In Control theory, we also assist the learner to discover their picture system, sense system and behaviour system.

The practice of Reality Therapy is an ongoing process made up of two major components: the counselling environment and specific procedures that lead to changes in behaviour.

Suggestopedia (Dr Lozanov)

Dr George Lozanov from Sophia, Bulgaria, received the Nobel Prize in the early 1960s for his research and teachings. His research showed that one can learn a child in 3 x 45 minute sessions 150 new word in a foreign language.

The three major building blocks being: 
• A relaxed and happy environment.
• Involvement of hemispheres, the cortex, sub-cortex, the conscious and sub-conscious.
• Positive suggestion.

Visualisation

Richard Eckersley, a scientific journalist did an article on “Japan widens the gap in the intelligence race”. He reported about a comparative research study that was done between the differences between the intelligence of children (VSA versus Japan). It was found that the Japanese children had a higher intelligence by 15%.

Visualisation is a powerful tool for the following reasons: 
• Self-image 
• Psychological growth 
• Improved empathy 
• Increased creativity 
• Better memory 
• Better concentration