How to Use Far Infrared

Sunlight is composed of visible light -- the seven colors of the rainbow -- and invisible light -- infrared rays and ultraviolet rays. Infrared rays penetrate deep into your skin, raising the body's surface temperature and causing you to sweat and release accumulated toxins in the body. In so doing, infrared rays detoxify the body, raise metabolism, relax the muscles, kill many pathogens, rebuild injured tissue and strengthen the immune system. These findings are supported by extensive research done in Japan and China over the past 25 years, according to Chi Machine International. In Japan, an infrared society of medical doctors and physical therapists explores further infrared research.

Things You'll Need

• Sauna
• Heat lamp
• Infrared mattress

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Instructions

• 1

  Sit in an infrared sauna for health benefits. When you bask in the sun on a hot summer day, your body feels deliciously warm and you feel hot. When a cloud passes over and blocks the sun, your body suddenly cools. Such is the heating effect of the sun's infrared heat rays on your body. Emitting infrared rays that penetrate two to three inches deep into the body, an infrared sauna works on the same principle: it heats up the body, causing you to sweat and thereby increasing circulation and nourishing damaged tissue. As you are not getting ultraviolet light -- the bad rays from the sun -- you can enjoy the sun's healing power without its dangerous effects.

• 2

  Using a heat lamp, which is less expensive than a home sauna and takes up relatively little room, is another option for getting infrared heat therapy. Though less powerful than a sauna, the healing infrared rays nevertheless penetrate deep into the tissues, muscles and joints. Heat lamps are a popular means for relieving pain and are used to heat up preterm or ill newborn infants in an intensive care unit.

• 3

  Sleeping on an infrared mattress allows you to get healing infrared rays into your body while asleep and at the same time keeps your body toastily warm during the night. It is an easy way to detox the body, relax the muscles and alleviate pain. Many mattresses have a timer that emits infrared rays for as long as eight full hours.