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15/02/2009, 01:10 AM
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Seeing Clearly
Is
Not Enough
Seeing clearly is not the most important task for our eyes; nature has made them in such a way that it seems to be much more important to see the big picture. If you look at the inside of the eye, only five percent is responsible for clear vision, for detail. Ninety-five percent is meant for peripheral vision, which helps you to see the whole picture. But our whole society, particularly now that we work with computers, pays much more attention on focused vision. You can imagine if people are wearing glasses and their whole focus is on the detail, how important that becomes, and how easily they lose the connection to the overall picture.
Focused vision activates the left hemisphere of our brain, our intellectual, analytical approach, while our peripheral vision relates more to the right hemi-sphere, to feelings or emotions. It helps us mainly to move, to coordinate our body, and this is much more important for survival.
Vision doesn't happen in your eyes but in the brain. The eyes are the doors, the windows. If you are short-sighted, that means you create your own view of the world. Not only the lens of the eye but the whole apparatus - the cornea, the shape - work together like a unit. If this unity is out of balance, like with myopic people where the eyeball is too long, the light is not reflected in the back. So the usual treatment is to give them glasses.
In the past, eye doctors were more interested in teaching you what you could do to relax your eyes so you didn't depend on glasses. They were prescribed temporarily, like a bandage. You got a progressively weaker prescription until you didn't need them any more. It is absolutely known to medical science - there's a lot of literature - about how we have been conditioned to become dependent on glasses.
In the nineteen-thirties an American businessman got the idea to sell glasses, so that people would become dependent on them and buy more. He even used movie stars for his advertisements , because wearing glasses was not so common then.
Our eye conditions are just symptoms, a hint that your eyes are telling you in their own language that something is wrong. The way we usually deal with this information is to go to an expert who helps us to see sharp and clear and, according to his expertise, that's enough. But that's not actually what the eyes need; if it was, then we wouldn't need a stronger pair of glasses after some time. I have eye doctors as clients who tell me they are not educated to find out the cause of the eye conditions.
The way you use your body consciously or unconsciously affects the function of your body. The same thing is true of the eyes. If you use your eyes in a tense or extensive way, your brain and your body also become tense.
For example, people do a lot of computing. That's a two-dimensional action - it's a flat screen. We forget our periphery and the third dimension because we use our focused vision only, so everything becomes flat. We aren't even aware of how we sit in front of the computer, and we don't notice how much tension our body accumulates. This affects our overall energy.
Using only focused vision is looking: light or energy goes out of your eyes to the object, let's say to the mon¬itor or to the computer, but you don't really receive anything back because you're not aware of depth.
Seeing, using your peripheral vision, means receiving.
You see an object, and if you become aware of depth, then there is an observer who sees the object and in-between is some space. This helps you to become aware of yourself at the same time.
If you only look you lose a tremendous amount of
energy. Scientists say that about 70 to 80% of our energy goes out through the eyes. You might remember going to a big exhibition or museum and looking at all the pictures, and after one hour you felt exhausted. Why? You just looked at pictures - but your energy went out.
However, if you imagine the picture - or even your computer monitor - is looking at you, suddenly you start to create a circle of energy. This is rejuve-nating, it is regeneration.
Many times people come with complaints about computer work. Even with so-called normal vision, they find themselves tired at the end of the day. They have a burning sensation, itching, eyes tearing from looking at the monitor for many hours.
If you come to me like this, I'll ask your permission to "interview" your eyes directly and ask them how they are doing, and you answer for them. They are usually happy that they finally get recognition and respect, and they will tell me very freely what they need.
I also lead people in a guided fantasy to get a feeling of how big the eye is, how it sits in the cavity. At the end when they come back, I tell them, "Now allow your eyes to look wherever they want to look. Imagine that they are two children and you are giving them permission to play where they want, not where your intellect wants to go." Most of the time the eyes want to look out of the window to a shady place. It is very relaxing.
This works better than relaxation exercises. It is very impressive, because people's own eyes are telling them what they need, and it's not me telling them what to do. Then they do it.
We spent too many hours looking from a certain distance, so the eyes want to have breaks and the possibility of looking far away and then coming back. They don't want exercises to be stronger; they want to have the opportunity to relax, and to have their needs respected. I recommend interrupting computer work every fifteen minutes to look away from the monitor and out of the window; and then come back. I also ask people to become aware of the space between them and me. They become aware that there is a depth in their vision, and it feels relaxing for the eyes. I ask, "Are you still able to see me as well as the computer screen?" They are surprised to be able to do that.
That means that the moment you include depth or peripheral vision - I call it soft vision - you are still able to focus on whatever you do, but you broaden your visual field. On the outside it becomes bigger, and on the inside you combine both sides of the brain, and that is what it is made for.
If people were to start seeing in this way, they would increase their awareness and make better use of their potential. They would feel part of the whole more. Again, it doesn't really happen in the eyes. Since the eyes are an extension of the brain, this helps to activate the brain. What is so amazing is that we are not aware of it at all.
I've always liked to work with the eyes. I found out that there are many simple and effective ways to deal with eye dis¬orders, such as giving your eyes a voice. I ask them, "How do you feel? How is your relationship with the other eye? How is it with the person taking care of you? What would support you to be more relaxed?" The person feels inside and answers in words.
When I do this with my own eyes, I notice that they only want a few ordinary things. If I don't pay attention they burn - then if I do what they want, the burning goes! It can be something simple, like drinking enough water or doing palming - warming the palms, cupping them and putting them loosely over the eyes without touching, then noticing the darkness. This technique regenerates the retina.
Other aids are: looking far away; using a soft focus to look at things my eyes want to look at; looking from the back of my head, the vision center of the brain. Even blinking - which moisturizes the eyes.
People tell me: "Your eyes are shining like any-thing!" That makes them more enthusiastic about using these tools for themselves.
Create a revitalizing energy circle
Standing before the mirror, first look into the reflection. You are looking and the reflection is the object. Then change the whole situation, reverse the process. Start feeling that you are the reflection and the reflection is looking at you. And immedi¬ately you will see a change happening, a great energy moving towards you.
If you do it for a few days you will be surprised how much more alive you feel the whole day. Just a few minutes standing before the mirror and letting the energy come back to you so the circle is complete. And there is a great silence.
The incomplete circle creates restlessness. When the circle is complete it creates rest, it makes you centered. And to be centered is to be powerful ¬the power is yours.
Excerpted from The Secret of Secrets,
Bayt alHaq website..... www.BaytalHaq.com
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ريثما أترجمه للعربية، أرحب بقراءته و ترجمته ممن يحب.
Seeing Clearly
Is
Not Enough
Seeing clearly is not the most important task for our eyes; nature has made them in such a way that it seems to be much more important to see the big picture. If you look at the inside of the eye, only five percent is responsible for clear vision, for detail. Ninety-five percent is meant for peripheral vision, which helps you to see the whole picture. But our whole society, particularly now that we work with computers, pays much more attention on focused vision. You can imagine if people are wearing glasses and their whole focus is on the detail, how important that becomes, and how easily they lose the connection to the overall picture.
Focused vision activates the left hemisphere of our brain, our intellectual, analytical approach, while our peripheral vision relates more to the right hemi-sphere, to feelings or emotions. It helps us mainly to move, to coordinate our body, and this is much more important for survival.
Vision doesn't happen in your eyes but in the brain. The eyes are the doors, the windows. If you are short-sighted, that means you create your own view of the world. Not only the lens of the eye but the whole apparatus - the cornea, the shape - work together like a unit. If this unity is out of balance, like with myopic people where the eyeball is too long, the light is not reflected in the back. So the usual treatment is to give them glasses.
In the past, eye doctors were more interested in teaching you what you could do to relax your eyes so you didn't depend on glasses. They were prescribed temporarily, like a bandage. You got a progressively weaker prescription until you didn't need them any more. It is absolutely known to medical science - there's a lot of literature - about how we have been conditioned to become dependent on glasses.
In the nineteen-thirties an American businessman got the idea to sell glasses, so that people would become dependent on them and buy more. He even used movie stars for his advertisements , because wearing glasses was not so common then.
Our eye conditions are just symptoms, a hint that your eyes are telling you in their own language that something is wrong. The way we usually deal with this information is to go to an expert who helps us to see sharp and clear and, according to his expertise, that's enough. But that's not actually what the eyes need; if it was, then we wouldn't need a stronger pair of glasses after some time. I have eye doctors as clients who tell me they are not educated to find out the cause of the eye conditions.
The way you use your body consciously or unconsciously affects the function of your body. The same thing is true of the eyes. If you use your eyes in a tense or extensive way, your brain and your body also become tense.
For example, people do a lot of computing. That's a two-dimensional action - it's a flat screen. We forget our periphery and the third dimension because we use our focused vision only, so everything becomes flat. We aren't even aware of how we sit in front of the computer, and we don't notice how much tension our body accumulates. This affects our overall energy.
Using only focused vision is looking: light or energy goes out of your eyes to the object, let's say to the mon¬itor or to the computer, but you don't really receive anything back because you're not aware of depth.
Seeing, using your peripheral vision, means receiving.
You see an object, and if you become aware of depth, then there is an observer who sees the object and in-between is some space. This helps you to become aware of yourself at the same time.
If you only look you lose a tremendous amount of
energy. Scientists say that about 70 to 80% of our energy goes out through the eyes. You might remember going to a big exhibition or museum and looking at all the pictures, and after one hour you felt exhausted. Why? You just looked at pictures - but your energy went out.
However, if you imagine the picture - or even your computer monitor - is looking at you, suddenly you start to create a circle of energy. This is rejuve-nating, it is regeneration.
Many times people come with complaints about computer work. Even with so-called normal vision, they find themselves tired at the end of the day. They have a burning sensation, itching, eyes tearing from looking at the monitor for many hours.
If you come to me like this, I'll ask your permission to "interview" your eyes directly and ask them how they are doing, and you answer for them. They are usually happy that they finally get recognition and respect, and they will tell me very freely what they need.
I also lead people in a guided fantasy to get a feeling of how big the eye is, how it sits in the cavity. At the end when they come back, I tell them, "Now allow your eyes to look wherever they want to look. Imagine that they are two children and you are giving them permission to play where they want, not where your intellect wants to go." Most of the time the eyes want to look out of the window to a shady place. It is very relaxing.
This works better than relaxation exercises. It is very impressive, because people's own eyes are telling them what they need, and it's not me telling them what to do. Then they do it.
We spent too many hours looking from a certain distance, so the eyes want to have breaks and the possibility of looking far away and then coming back. They don't want exercises to be stronger; they want to have the opportunity to relax, and to have their needs respected. I recommend interrupting computer work every fifteen minutes to look away from the monitor and out of the window; and then come back. I also ask people to become aware of the space between them and me. They become aware that there is a depth in their vision, and it feels relaxing for the eyes. I ask, "Are you still able to see me as well as the computer screen?" They are surprised to be able to do that.
That means that the moment you include depth or peripheral vision - I call it soft vision - you are still able to focus on whatever you do, but you broaden your visual field. On the outside it becomes bigger, and on the inside you combine both sides of the brain, and that is what it is made for.
If people were to start seeing in this way, they would increase their awareness and make better use of their potential. They would feel part of the whole more. Again, it doesn't really happen in the eyes. Since the eyes are an extension of the brain, this helps to activate the brain. What is so amazing is that we are not aware of it at all.
I've always liked to work with the eyes. I found out that there are many simple and effective ways to deal with eye dis¬orders, such as giving your eyes a voice. I ask them, "How do you feel? How is your relationship with the other eye? How is it with the person taking care of you? What would support you to be more relaxed?" The person feels inside and answers in words.
When I do this with my own eyes, I notice that they only want a few ordinary things. If I don't pay attention they burn - then if I do what they want, the burning goes! It can be something simple, like drinking enough water or doing palming - warming the palms, cupping them and putting them loosely over the eyes without touching, then noticing the darkness. This technique regenerates the retina.
Other aids are: looking far away; using a soft focus to look at things my eyes want to look at; looking from the back of my head, the vision center of the brain. Even blinking - which moisturizes the eyes.
People tell me: "Your eyes are shining like any-thing!" That makes them more enthusiastic about using these tools for themselves.
Create a revitalizing energy circle
Standing before the mirror, first look into the reflection. You are looking and the reflection is the object. Then change the whole situation, reverse the process. Start feeling that you are the reflection and the reflection is looking at you. And immedi¬ately you will see a change happening, a great energy moving towards you.
If you do it for a few days you will be surprised how much more alive you feel the whole day. Just a few minutes standing before the mirror and letting the energy come back to you so the circle is complete. And there is a great silence.
The incomplete circle creates restlessness. When the circle is complete it creates rest, it makes you centered. And to be centered is to be powerful ¬the power is yours.
Excerpted from The Secret of Secrets,
Bayt alHaq website..... www.BaytalHaq.com
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