She Asked About Money. I Called My Mentor. Neither of Us Was Ready for the Answer.
Dr. John Erickson, DC | Laser & Chiropractic Center of the Rockies | Loveland, CO
Case 016 | Series Post #16
She Handled Money for a Living. Money Made Her Sick.
Not the stress of it. The physical object.
When she handled large amounts of green paper currency, she felt it – energy dropping, a touch of dizziness, a subtle wrongness she couldn’t quite name. It happened consistently enough that she had started to notice the pattern.
She came in one day and asked me if she could be allergic to the color green.
A Veteran of Allergy Work Who Had Run Out of Obvious Explanations
She had been working through multiple NAET treatments with me for some time. She had come in with a complex sensitivity picture – significant reactivity to multiple allergens, the kind that takes sustained, systematic work to address. We had been making real progress.
By the time she raised the money question, we had already addressed a number of her foundational sensitivities. She was improving. She was also paying close attention to what was left.
She had noticed that the pattern around green currency was distinct from her other triggers. It wasn’t dust or pollen or food. It was something about the money itself. She wondered if the color had anything to do with it.
I was early enough in my NAET practice that I genuinely did not know the answer. I told her so. I called my mentor – a clinician who had been doing NAET for years – and described the question.
He chuckled. Then he educated me.
Color Is a Frequency. The Brain Treats Frequencies as Information.
My mentor explained that color is not simply a visual experience. Color is a specific frequency and wavelength of electromagnetic energy. When that energy enters the eye and reaches the retina, the brain receives and interprets a signal.
For most people, most of the time, the brain processes these signals without producing a response. But in some individuals, a specific frequency of light – as it interacts with the retina and is interpreted as information by the brain – gets tagged as incompatible or dangerous. The nervous system responds to that tagging.
Not to a chemical. Not to a protein. To a wavelength of light that the brain has decided, for reasons of its own, is a threat.
Green money was delivering a consistent dose of that specific frequency. Her nervous system had a problem with it.
The Assessment Confirmed What the Pattern Suggested
In NAET, the assessment process can include non-chemical environmental stimuli – colors, frequencies, electromagnetic inputs. The principle is the same as with any other sensitivity: identify what the body is treating as a threat and address the neurological signal associated with that response.
Assessment confirmed a sensitivity to the frequency associated with the color green. Her energy dip and dizziness when handling green currency were consistent with a real physiological response to that specific wavelength – not imagined, not exaggerated, not a coincidence.
We treated her for the color green. The protocol was the same as for any other NAET treatment – systematic, methodical, addressing the nervous system’s encoding of the stimulus as incompatible.
Patient-Reported: The Pattern Stopped. And She Felt Different.
Following treatment, she reported no recurrence of the energy drop and dizziness when handling green currency. The pattern that had prompted her question in the first place resolved.
She also reported feeling considerably more relaxed in her daily life after the green treatment. She hadn’t come in asking for that. It came as a consequence of what shifted when the green frequency was addressed.
My mentor had mentioned that green as a frequency carries associations with balance and regulation in the body. Whether that played a role in her particular experience I can’t say definitively. What I can say is that something changed when we addressed it.
The Nervous System Responds to Wavelengths. That Is Not a Fringe Idea.
Research published in Progress in Brain Research has documented that the human retina contains intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells – specialized photoreceptors that respond to specific wavelengths of light and produce neurophysiological effects that go far beyond visual perception. These include circadian regulation, autonomic nervous system responses, and neurological effects that operate independently of conscious visual experience.[1] The brain processes light frequency as biologically meaningful information.
Research in the Journal of Clinical Investigation confirms that neurons and immune cells are physically colocalized throughout tissues, and the nervous system directly regulates immune and physiological responses at a cellular level.[2] A nervous system that has tagged a specific frequency as threatening will respond to that frequency when it appears – regardless of whether the trigger is a chemical, a food, or a wavelength of light.
The question this case leaves open: if the nervous system can develop a sensitized response to a color – to a wavelength – what does that tell us about the actual scope of what the body can react to? And what else might be flying under the radar?
The Strangest Questions Sometimes Point to the Most Important Answers
She asked a question I didn’t know how to answer. I looked it up. I came back with an answer that surprised both of us.
In 27 years of practice, the cases that have pushed my understanding the furthest have often started with exactly that kind of question – the one that sounds impossible until you dig into it.
If you have a pattern of symptoms tied to a specific sensory input – a color, a sound, a frequency, a texture – that makes no conventional sense, that strangeness is not a reason to stop asking. It may be a reason to ask more carefully.
— Dr. John Erickson, DC | Laser & Chiropractic Center of the Rockies | Loveland, Colorado
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Individual results vary. This story is de-identified and shared with permission. It represents a reported patient experience and is not a guarantee of outcome. NAET is a complementary wellness approach and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition.
[1] Price, L.L.A. & Blattner, P. “Circadian and Visual Photometry.” Progress in Brain Research. 2022;273(1):1-11. PMID: 35940711. DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.02.014
[2] Veiga-Fernandes, H. & Artis, D. “Neuro-Immune Crosstalk and Allergic Inflammation.” J Clin Invest. 2019;129(4):1475-1482. PMC: PMC6436850. DOI: 10.1172/JCI124609