Relaxation - Palming with Memory, Imagination. Seeing Black

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STORIES FROM THE CLINIC

Eyestrain

By Emily C. Lierman


A girl who had worn glasses for more than twenty years, came to me to have her eyes tested after she had been to an oculist and had had her glasses changed. She complained of constant pain in her eyes. Her vision with each eye separately was 15/30, or one-half of normal vision. While reading the letters of the Snellen test card at fifteen feet, she did not blink, until she began to read the letters on the line that should be read at thirty feet. Then her eyes began to water and she complained that they burned like fire.
Palming
I told her to sit down and close her eyes to rest them. I made her comfortable with a cushion for her elbows while palming, and a foot-stool to raise her feet from the floor. I asked her to remember something perfectly and then let her mind drift to something else. She was told that it was necessary to remember pleasant things; that otherwise her mind would be under a strain and her vision would not improve. Like many patients, she began to question me about what the mind had to do with the eyes. She was told that when the mind is under a strain, all other parts of the body are also under a strain. When the mind is relaxed, the eyes are also relaxed and things are seen without effort or strain. Mind strain is always associated with eye-strain. You cannot affect one without affecting the other.
While she was palming, the patient described many colors that came to her mind. She described their combinations in making beautiful paintings and fancy draperies. After palming for more than ten minutes, I told her to remove her hands from her eyes, to stand and sway her body from left to right. By glancing at only one letter of the test card at a time and then looking away, she read 15/10 or better than normal vision in ordinary daylight.
I tested her sight for the reading of fine print, and she read it with perfect ease, first at four inches and then at ten inches.
When I saw her again, she had discarded her glasses, her pain was gone, and her eyes no longer troubled her.


Fundamentals

By

W. H. Bates, M. D.



1 - Glasses discarded permanently.
2 - Central fixation is seeing best where you are looking.
3 - Favorable conditions: Light may be bright or dim. The distance of the print from the eyes, where seen best, also varies with people.
4 - Shifting: With normal sight the eyes are moving all the time.
5 - Swinging: When the eyes move slowly or rapidly from side to side, stationary objects appear to move in the opposite direction.
6 - Long swing: Stand with the feet about one foot apart, turn the body to the right—at the same time lifting the left foot. Do not move the head or eyes or pay any attention to the apparent movement of stationary objects. Now place the left heel on the floor, turn the body to the left, raising the heel of the right foot. Alternate.
7 -Drifting swing: When using this method, one pays no attention to the clearness of stationary objects, which appear to be moving. The eyes move from point to point slowly, easily, or lazily, so that the stare or strain may be avoided.
8 - Variable swing: Hold the forefinger of one hand six inches from the right eye and about the same distance to the right, look straight ahead and move the head a short distance from side to side. The finger appears to move.
9 - Stationary objects moving: By moving the head and eyes a short distance from side to side, being sure to blink, one can imagine stationary objects to be moving.
10 - Memory: Improving the memory of letters and other objects improves the vision for everything.
11 - Imagination: We see only what we think we see, or what we imagine. We can only imagine what we remember.
12 - Rest: All cases of imperfect sight are improved by closing the eyes and resting them.
13 - Palming: The closed eyes may be covered by the palm of one or both hands.
14 - Blinking: The normal eye blinks, or closes or opens very frequently.
15 - Mental pictures: As long as one is awake one has all kinds of memories of mental pictures. If these pictures are remembered easily,
perfectly, the vision is benefited.

#2 – Central fixation - Place the object the eyes are looking at in the center of the visual field.
#5 and 9 – Oppositional movement.
#6 – Long swing - The head, eyes do move with the body, in synchronization, at the same time, in the same direction.
#8 - This can also be done with the finger 6 inches in front of the face/nose, between the left and right eyes.
#10, 11, 15 Memory, imagination, remembering, imagining objects, mental pictures clear.
#13 – Palming and other activities, correct eye functions listed above and in this book are described with diagrams on http://www.cleareyesight.info and in the E-Book: Do it Yourself – Natural Eyesight Improvement.


Seven Truths of Normal Sight

1—Normal Sight can always be demonstrated in the normal eye, but only under favorable condition.

2—Central Fixation: The letter or part of the letter regarded is always seen best.

3—Shifting: The point regarded changes rapidly and continuously.

4—Swinging: When the shifting is slow, the letters appear to move from side to side, or in other directions, with a pendulum-like motion.

5—Memory is perfect. The color and background of the letters, or other objects seen, are remembered perfectly, instantaneously and continuously.

6—Imagination is good. One may even see the white part of letters whiter than it really is, while the black is not altered by distance, illumination, size, or form, of the letters.

7—Rest or relaxation of the eye and mind is perfect and can always be demonstrated.

When one of these seven fundamentals is perfect, all are perfect.