What Are the Benefits of Salt Crystal Lamps?

With the world becoming increasingly more technological and with more pollutants released into the air every day, positive ions are emitted into the atmosphere--negatively affecting our health and well-being. Ions are particles in the atmosphere that hold a positive or negative charge. An area heavy with positive ions acts like an energy vampire, causing fatigue and malaise. Salt crystal lamps can recharge the environment and help you feel more healthy and invigorated.

Description

• Salt crystal lamps are most popularly made from Himalayan rock salt crystals. They are available as electric lamps or as receptacles for candles. They give off a soft, relaxing light and are generally white or pinkish.

Good Vibrations

• Salt crystal lamps give off negative ions and work as an amplifier for these ion vibrations. Negative ions positively affect the atmosphere, neutralizing the effects of the positive ions generated in rooms where many electrical appliances are present.

Cleansing the Atmosphere

• Salt crystal lamps have a cleansing effect on a room's atmosphere. They are purported to reduce fatigue, minimize the effects of radiation and help improve a person's ability to concentrate.

Salt and Earth's Electromagntic Field

• Salt is essential to a human's body functions. Salt crystals resonate with the Earth's electromagnetic field, which is known as the Schumann resonance. The Schumann resonance refers to an alpha frequency in the eight- to 12 cycles-per-second range. The alpha frequency refers to the slow-cycle brain waves that exist when a person is in a relaxed state. Salt crystals are purported to resonate, or reinforce and accentuate, these alpha or relaxed brain waves, generating a sense of calm and peace.

Speleotherapy

• Speleotheraphy, or underground climatotherapy, is an alternative treatment for asthma popular in Europe. Speleotherapy or climatotherapy involves an individual going down into a salt mine for resting periods to absorb the healing vibrations present in the salt crystals. Although there is no scientific explanation, doing this appears to give some benefit to asthma sufferers. It involves spending two to three hours a day underground in salt mines, which are rich with ions, over two to three months. Placing salt lamps in the home is a way to replicate the good atmosphere of the salt mines.