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.
Many near-sighted patients can read fine print at less than ten inches from their eyes, easily, perfectly, and quickly by alternately regarding the Snellen test card at different distances, from three feet up to fifteen feet or further. The vision may be improved, at first temporarily, and later by repetition a permanent gain usually follows.
It is a valuable fact to know that when fine print is read perfectly the near-sightedness disappears during this period. The reading can be maintained at first only for a fraction of a second, and later more continuously.
Near-sighted patients and others, with the help of fine print, can usually demonstrate that staring at a small letter always lowers the vision and that the same holds true when regarding distant letters or objects.
With the help of fine print, near-sighted patients can also demonstrate that one can remember perfectly only what has been seen perfectly, that one imagines perfectly only what is remembered perfectly, and that perfect sight is only a perfect imagination. A great many people are very suspicious of the imagination and feel or believe that things imagined are never true. The more ignorant the patients. the less respect do they have for their imagination or the imagination of other people. It comes to them as a great shock, with a feeling of discomfort and annoyance, that the perfect imagination of a known letter improves the sight for unknown letters of the Snellen test card.
Seven Truths of Normal Sight
Normal Sight can always he demonstrated in the normal eye, but only under favourable conditions.
Central Fixation: The letter or part of the letter regarded is always seen best
Shifting, The point regarded changes rapidly and continuously.
Swinging: When the shifting is slow, the letters appear to move from side to side or in other directions with a pendulum-like motion.
Memory is perfect. The colour and background of the letters or other objects seen are remembered perfectly, instantaneously and continuously.
Imagination is good. One may even one the white pan of letters whiter than it really is, while the black is not altered by distance, illumination, size or form of the letters.
Rest of relaxation of the eye and mind is perfect and can always be demonstrated.
When one of them seven fundamentals is perfect. all are perfect.
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