A manual on the natural care of the eye with exercises to improve eyesight & treat various eye disorders. Also includes letters by Sri Aurobindo on yogic vision
This book, which is a comprehensive manual on the natural care of the eye, starts from the concept that eyesight is intricately connected to the mind and explains how good habits of eye care and mental relaxation can keep the eyes rested and refreshed. It then suggests simple but effective exercises to improve eyesight and treat various eye disorders. There are also chapters on the discoveries of Dr W. H. Bates and the physiology of the eye, as well as case histories, question-and-answer sections, and some letters by Sri Aurobindo on eyesight and yogic vision.
Central Fixation:—The retina of the eye has a point of maximum sensitiveness called the "macula lutea" in medical terms. The eye with normal sight, therefore, sees that part of everything best on which it fixes itself, and the other parts not so well. This quality of the eye is called central fixation.
Central fixation educates the eye to focus correctly. Central fixation is found defective in almost all abnormal conditions of the eye.
To improve central fixation it is necessary to take the help of a Snellen test card. Take the card in your hand. Keep your sight just below the letter 'C' on the white background. While keeping the sight below the letter, the whole of 'C' is visible but the bottom part of 'C' appears more distinct than the top part of 'C'. Now shift your sight to the white background just above 'C' and note that the top part of 'C' has become more distinct than the bottom part. In this way shift your sight three times from bottom to top and top to bottom of 'C'. Similarly practise on the smaller letters up to the sixth or seventh line of the Snellen test card. If the part of the letter regarded does not appear best. close the eyes for half a minute and remember the black or white colour, then open the eyes and practise on the letter. Then increase the distance of Snellen test card to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 feet gradually and practise central fixation. While practising central fixation, palming may be done at times. If you find difficulty in regarding one part of a letter best, regard one letter of a line in such a manner that the one following it appears less distinct.
To improve central fixation on the reading matter of a book, keep the sight just below the line of letters and shift the sight from one end of the line to the other. Note that each word coming nearer the sight appears more distinct than the others. Blink gently.
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