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.
When a patient stares or strains to see by looking at a light-coloured surface he may see, or imagine he sees. floating black specks, strings of black thread or small light-coloured globules resembling tears. The floating specks may be apparently a quarter of an inch or more in size and they may be of any shape.
Many nervous people have been made very unhappy by seeing these floating specks. The cause of floating specks is strain or an imperfect memory of perfect sight. Persons with normal vision can he taught how to imagine them by straining.
In the treatment of floating specks it is important to convince the patients that they are unreal, they are only imagined and not seen. It helps much to impress on the patient's mind that to see these floating specks requires a sufficient strain.
Frequent palming, long swing and central fixation exercises are very helpful to cure the trouble of floating specks. Two more instructions are necessary:
1) Whenever floating specks appear, ignore and shift sight to near.
2) Never experiment whether they are visible or not.
A doctor friend can see consciously at will, any time he desires, floating specks. He notices the strain in the eyes at that time. On taking the sight away from the floating specks and paying no attention to them and giving the eyes some rest, they are no longer seen.
(See details of floating specks from Secrets of Indian Medicine)
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