Thursday, December 28, 2017

Blocking the Strong Eye Exercise

• 5. Block the Strong Eye (tape the medium-sized piece of paper onto the bridge of your nose so that it blocks the central vision of your strong eye; now read with your weaker eye while waving your hand in the periphery of your stronger eye): 10 minutes.

This next exercise, as physical as it is, can also give you a whole new mental outlook of the world. Sun light is the best natural lighting in which to do this exercise. Otherwise, very strong interior light will work if it makes it easy for you to see the letters.

  Look at the page in front of you from a distance that is comfortable and easy to read. Wave you hand to the side of your head, from all the way above your forehead to the side of your eyes and beneath them. You could also wave around a colored piece of paper, a toy with different colors, a stick with ribbon, or anything else that draws your attention. Look centrally at the letters on the page while peripherally sensing the object that you wave. As a result you will be working both your periphery and center together. That will release your eye from strain. Your eyes, as I mentioned before, cannot strain if both eyes are being used together. 

  Whenever there is strain, it is because one eye is being used more than the other. This exercise can make a huge difference by helping you to integrate the center and the periphery. Anytime you are looking at something that you can't easily see, like a menu or a newspaper, wave your hands to the side, and slowly but surely the letters will become clearer to you. 

  Now take a small piece of paper, approximately one inch by two inches (1" x 2"), and tape it to the bridge of your nose so it covers your stronger eye. To make sure you have done this correctly, close your weaker eye and make sure you cannot see the page with the stronger eye that is covered. Then wave to the side of your covered eye and read the page with your weaker eye.

  Make no effort when you read with your weaker eye. Any effort that you will make will slow down your progress in several ways. It will stop you from adopting the habit of looking with your weaker eye at small areas. If it is strenuous for you to look with your weaker eye, your instincts are going to try to prevent your progress. You only need to make one big effort: the effort to make no effort! This will become easier through relaxation. 

  You are now waving your hand to the side of your strong eye. Wave quickly. The wrist flips toward your ear, and you make sure that your hand does not move farther than your periphery can see. Your strong eye is truly looking straight at the paper, but the central vision of your strong eye is being put on hold for the moment. The periphery of the stronger eye is being fully used and, in fact, may expand. You will be paying attention to a peripheral view that many people inhibit when they look centrally.

  Be sure to relax your face. How do you relax your face muscles?
Close your eyes the entire time and take a few deep breaths before beginning. Start by tensing the muscles of your face as much as you can using grimacing facial expressions; hold for 10 seconds and then release. Take several deep breathes, and you will feel your facial muscles begin to relax.
Your face relaxes when you jaw drops and you have a sense that the  cheek is a bit longer. Relax your neck and create a sense that the neck is lengthening a bit. In fact, you can even imagine from time to time that a string lifts your head up and that your neck is lengthening. 

  Keep waving your hand while reading, with your weaker eye. Put the page at a distance where the print can be read with slight effort. Your job is to minimise the effort. The way to do this to follow each letter as if you are spilling dark ink on it or painting it with a marker, as if you were writing it line by line, point by point. Observe the white of the letter and the black of the letter. When you remove the piece of paper, your two maculae will be working together without one suppressing the other.

  Most farsightedness could be reduced and perhaps eliminated with this kind of eye exercise. 

Cheap Sunglasses

Buy yourself some cheap sunglasses and remove the lens from the side of your weak eye. Then cover the other removed lens with an opaque tape such as dark duct tape. Put the glasses on and look into the distance with your weaker eye. 

  After you have looked into the distance for .a while, take a rubber ball or a tennis ball and play with that ball at a distance. (Have three balls available when you do any exercises requiring a ball so that you will have another on hand when one gets away from you.) For example, you can look at a wall twenty(20) feet away; then take the ball and throw it at the wall ten times and catch it. The ball may not return straight to your hands, but don't lose your patience, just keep playing with it. This exercise helps to develop the lens and also helps with central vision.

Related image   Figure 2.18. The 'one-eyed-Jack' glasses block the central vision of your strong  eye while encouraging the peripheral vision to expand.


After doing this for a while, attach an eye chart to a wall. It is best to have two(2) eye charts available; a ten-foot chart and a twenty foot chart. The twenty-foot (20') chart is especially good for those people whose vision is poor. The ten-foot (10') chart is for those whose eyes are stronger.

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  Stand five to ten (5-10) feet away from the charts to look at the first two or three lines. Stand between ten and twenty feet away to see the top six lines; you should not be able to see the bottom four lines too well. Then take a ball and throw it so it hits the large letters of the twenty-foot chart and one of the large letters of the ten-foot chart. Throw the ball and catch it. Do this fifteen times in a row. You may find that you can see an extra line on the eye chart, maybe even two additional lines. Take your glasses off and use both eyes. With both eyes, you most likely will see one to three lines better, and there will be a very nice feeling of clarity of vision through deep relaxation. You allowed the strong eye to rest and the lens of the weak eyes to work fully. The lens became flat when the ball hit the chart and round when the ball returned to your hand. And you let your macula work well from afar because the central vision works well when it looks at small details. 

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  Next, you can work with the eye chart the same way in which you worked with the page in front of you. Put the piece of paper on the bridge of your nose to block the central vision of your strong eye. Wave to the side of your strong eye while looking with your weaker eye at the print that you see clearly. For example, if it's easy for you to see the first letter or the first line, but it becomes progressively harder for you to see the second or the third line, then look at the first line, point by point and line by line. Do this as if you were spilling black ink on each of the letters and making them sharper by following the different parts of each letter. 

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⇧Figure 2.20. Put the piece of paper on the bridge of your nose to block the central vision of your strong eye. 

  Wave to the side, above, and below your strong eye. make sure that the strong eye does not see any letter on the chart. (If you close your weaker eye, the paper should block the central vision of your strong eye, and your strong eye would not be able to see the chart.) When you wave your hand to the side of your strong eye and you look with your weaker eye, you wake up the macula and strengthen it. This strengthens the nerve impulses and the muscles of the weaker eye, and it feels good!

  Just as you did with the larger print, look at the smaller print while imagining that you are drawing the shapes of the letters. many people then see the small print better. Look at the lowest line that you can see (which could be the third, fourth, or fifth line on the chart) as you wave your hand to the side. Now look three lines below and look at the spaces between the letters. If you cannot see the spaces between the letters three lines below, look two lines below; if you cannot see the space between the letters two lines below; look one line below. Always look below your comfort zone at spaces between the print, even though you cannot read the print. Close your eyes and say to yourself. "The ink is black and the page is white," while imagining that your hand is waving on the other side. Saying this makes your brain engage with much smaller spaces from the distance that you can comfortably see the eye chart, whether its five, ten, or twenty feet, depending on your vision.

  You will then get engaged with that particular distance, and that engagement gets you to see well from that distance. Keep waving your hand on the side of your strong eye while looking at the print that you cannot really see. After looking from point to point in that print, look back at the line that you could see. Fully half of my workshop participants and private clients can see that line clearer, and some of them could even see an extra line, or a few letters of the extra line, clearer.

  One particular optometrist, who attended a workshop of mine, told me this was "eye-opening" for him (no pun intended). And indeed it was. When you take the paper off, you experience that with both eyes you can see a couple of lines below the ones that you saw before, for the two maculae are working together without one suppressing the other. The effort of looking is then diminished, the desire to look increases, and the other exercises that you started to do will work better for you. When you look from a distance, you will make no effort to look at details. They will come and go; slowly and gradually, you will see more and more of them, as far as the horizon and as close as forty(40) yards (or 36.576 metres) away. 

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Look at Details One More Time

As I said earlier, the motivation to look at details is so important. it is nice to see adults wanting to look at something trivial, something that is not necessary for life, like an animal walking, a beautiful garden, a sunset, or cloud formations. You cannot pay your bills with gorgeous skies, but when you look at them in a meaningful way, you're engaging in something significant.When we were kids, we did not judge anything because we were not capable of earning a living then. We looked at everything out of curiosityㅡand, indeed, childhood vision is precious and great.

  When we lose our curiosity, we lose much of our vision. Through inhibition and the request of life, we learn to look at letters in order to gain content from them, and sometimes to see a page at a time, without looking at one single dot on that page. We observe other people only in order to understand what their expression means to us for a particular purpose or endeavor. By looking at a food shelf without paying attention to all that's on that shelf, but just looking at the specific item that we need, we soon cut out 90 to 95 percent of the details that the world presents to us. The reason is that we know what we want way too well.

  The problem is that we suppress the work of the central vision and of the whole eye mechanism. The visual mechanism ( the brain) does not pay attention to most details. The eye does the same thing.many muscles get frozen; the ciliary muscles of the lens get frozen;

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the iris muscles of the pupils get frozen; 

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and some of the external muscles get frozen as well. since they are not being used. Much of the retina is not working.

  I will never forget a time when I saw a father and his daughter looking at some print. She was fifteen and he was in his mid-forties. She could see print much smaller than he could. He could see down to the fifth-print level, and she could see down to the eight. I said to him, "At your age, you could see exactly what she sees." After seeing hundreds of kids and how excellent their vision can be compared to the "normal" vision of adults, I could understand that childhood vision, even if it is less than normal, is much better than most adult's vision. The father said to me,"What have I done all my life? I've missed out on something very important." he had done very important things in his life: he was a surgeon, he had operated on people and saved lives, and he read books, but he did not pay attention to his own visual system; day by day, second by second, it decayed. It was clear to him and to me that if he could begin to be vigilant about his visual system and work with it, he could learn to improve his sight. Even after decreasing his visual acuity as much as he had, he was able to gain a lot of acuity that day and saw better.

 In the cases of people who have lost retina cells, renewing an interest and appreciation of details can help them gain back much of their lost vision. Your curiosity and need to look at details increases with these exercises, and you will feel more alive. You will feel that you breath better and meditate clearer as you go along in life. 

  Our work, therefore, is to wake ourselves up to look at details and to revive the dormant centers in our brain. Much of the potential we possess is latent and asleep. It is hidden from us because we adopt bad and wrong habits that we incorrectly think will work for us. 

  There is a continuous debate these days about vision. One side believes that simply having normal vision function is sufficient. The other side believes that paying attention to your vision function and working on it constantly is just as important as its functioning. The second group of people is still a minority, by that minority is growing. If you are reading this blog and practicing the exercises, you are in the minority that believes we should always work on improving and sustaining our good vision. If you are in the minority, you also believe in vitalizing our vision and giving it life. 

  These eye exercises and those that follow can help you see better and to feel better. Make time to do these exercises daily. The most important thing in life is to pay attention to the universe. The universe begins with you and your body. When you pay attention to your eyes, you'll be in better contact with the whole world. You'll also bring more circulation to your eyes, and you'll feel better. Then you can help your own life and will find it is easier for you to help the world. 

  Sometimes an exercise will work perfectly fine one day, and not the same way the next day. There could be many reasons why this happens. For example, palming will work better if your shoulders are relayed and worse if they have retained tension. Shifting will work much better if you are refreshed. Blinking (discussed in the next blog post) will work much better if you have a good night's sleep and if you are relaxed at the time.

  One sign that you are doing well is if you find yourself looking at details for no special reason: observing and not ever straining to see them, but always having a sense of all the details in the object  you're looking at; you are enjoying the object or looking at it in total neutrality. If you find yourself breathing deeply and absorbing the world with a greater joy, then all these exercises will carry themselves into your day-to-day life and become natural habits. 

•Physical Exercises for Glaucoma: 20 minutes daily

Good thoughts and good prayer can be healing. Visualize that blood is circulating to your retina, making it soft and nurturing your optic disk. Also visualize that the fluid in its clear form is flowing in the area between the cornea and the macula. Visualize that good blood circulation is nourishing your optic disk and retina. Visualize the blood coming from the back, and from your neck to the back of the head, and nourishing your optic disk. Visualize that blood is flowing into your eyes and draining from it. Then visualize that the aqueous humor is flowing into the front area of your eye from the lens to the cornea, nourishing both, and draining into the the area of your nose. It's amazing how powerful the human body is and how much it does all at once. It is not power that belongs to you but to nature, and you are a wonderful guest of nature's within your own human body. There is a connection between that power and of all universal powers around you; this connection gives that power a tremendous amount of strength.



  The power that brings rain from the sky and wind to the earth, the power that is mysterious to all of us and runs the whole universe, is the same power that moves your blood and your fluids. It does so constantly The more you acknowledge its power and its strength, the better it will work for you. There is a connection between your mind and soul and the natural functions of your human body. When you have glaucoma, physical exercises are important to prevent the pressure from mounting and growing in your eyes and, in fact, will reduce it. Other exercises will be important to preserve your vision. All of them will be a pleasure to do. When you work on your body, you work for the purpose of having fun with it, and it is a pleasure to do the work. When you have that feeling, it is going to be wonderful to heal your glaucoma and to overcome it. It will create a better connection between you and your internal forces, and it will help you to tune in to the forces of universe. It is probably the best antidepressant you can ever have. 

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