This Feels Like the Start of Something Good: The Power of Positive Thinking
How we perceive what happens in our daily lives is almost as important as what actually happens. There are some simple ways to integrate more positivity into your life, like smiling, reframing, exercising, and positive self talk. Integrating more positive habits into your life can have big effects...
Faux Spring: Normalizing a new normal
The shifting weather patterns to a later and later spring and summer are sure to throw us off - especially when faced with Seasonal Affective Disorder. Try getting sun early in the morning when travelling, walking barefoot and visualization to reduce the affects.
How to Turn Any Place into a Happy Place
7 bright ideas for your daily routine and space for even more joy boosts, including: incorporating bright colors into your space, surrounding yourself with light, visualization, flowers and plants, hang up inspiring quotes, set out and display your self-care essentials, and create a feel-good playlist.
Daylight Saving Time—How To Spring Forward Before The Clocks Do
The start of daylight saving time and springing forward means our unsuspecting bodies (and our four-legged friends) will be jolted awake an hour earlier. Though one hour doesn't sound like a lot of lost sleep, science shows that the time change can have a huge effect on our health and well-being.
Winter Part Two: Surfing Through the Second Half of the Frosty Season
Winter doesn´t need to drag on - what if we called the second half of winter ¨winter´s glory days,¨ or maybe even ¨the peak cozy zone?¨. Think of the second half of winter as a playful friend that will walk with you into springtime. Check out these 8 healthy habits to help you finish out the winter!
My Story: How Katheryn Won Against SAD
6 tips on overcoming seasonal affective disorder: take a hot bath with epsom salts, listen to uplifting radio in the morning, use light therapy, eat fermented foods, avoid energy boosting foods from another climate, and exercise!
Give the Gift of Happy This Year
No matter where you are in your holiday shopping, you can't go wrong with giving the gift of HappyLight®. After all, who doesn't love feeling happier and in a better mood all year long? HappyLight - in the spirit of the holidays - is the gift that spreads smiles with each one you give.
Can't Sleep? This May Be the Simple Reason Why (and It's Easy to Fix)
Our modern lifestyles may no longer be constrained by sunrise and sunset, but light remains one of the most powerful influences on our behavior and wellbeing. This realization has fuelled a “sleep hygiene” movement, whose proponents point out that bright lights before bedtime and spending the whole day in a dimly lit office can dampen the natural circadian cycle, leaving people in a continual mental twilight – dozy in the morning, and too alert to fall asleep promptly at night
How to Be Happy at Work
5 simple and quick tips for cultivating happiness throughout the work day: pack a nutritious lunch, take short walks throughout the day, use light to enhance mood, focus on the little pleasures, and team up with coworkers!
The Self-Care Benefits of Travel: How to Prep, Pack, and Make the Most of Your Vacation
We have partnered with our friends at the Dollar Flight Club to help you make the most of your summer or winter vacation! Whether it is choosing a sunny location or prioritizing self-care, these tips can help you plan a get-away to help you disconnect and get a boost in mood!
Bringing Rays of Light to Puerto Rico
We partnered with the Christian Disaster Response through Amurtel USA to deliver 9 pallets (or over 4 thousand) of our Rechargeable ReadyLight Solar Powered Flashlights to the hardest hit areas of Puerto Rico affected by Hurricane Maria. We believe that, when a tragedy like this occurs, it's up to all of us to pull together and help.
Light - A Simple & Essential Ingredient When It Comes to Your Health
When you’re planning what your healthiest day looks like, what do you see? Perhaps you visualize a pair of running shoes sitting next to the door, ready for your morning jog. A grocery list filled with wholesome, nourishing foods. An appointment with your acupuncturist or massage therapist. But when you picture that ideal, healthy day, do you also see yourself soaking up the rays of the sun? Or sitting next to a light therapy lamp?