Yoga of Perfect Sight

Hypermetropia

Persons who need plus glasses suffer from hypermetropia. Hypermetropia is found developing at any age but it becomes a great puzzle to the doctor when hypermetropia is found developing in old age when the lens becomes hard. Recently within a week five persons who developed hypermetropia in their old age were recorded in our Eye Clinic. At first these persons needed glasses only for reading at the age of forty but later on they were prescribed bifocals. Then, due to strain in reading, number of glasses went on increasing quite fast. In the case of a lady patient the last prescription of glasses was of +4.0 for distance and +7.0 for reading, and even with such a high power of glasses the vision was quite poor and she was suffering from headache and eye strain. These cases drew our attention to study hypermetropia more carefully.

When the sight is good for distant vision that does not mean that the sight is also good for reading at ten or twelve inches. Poor sight for reading is usually corrected by the use of reading glasses. In old age serious eye troubles are caused by the strain of hypermetropia. In the early stage these diseases are more readily curable than after they have become chronic and more serious. The treatment which cures hypermetropia is the treatment which prevents and cures serious eye diseases. The strain of hypermetropia causes glaucoma: when this strain is relieved, glaucoma usually improves.

In studying the production of hypermetropia it is interesting to note the conclusion of a well known eye specialist. He was asked this question: "Is hypermetropia curable?" He replied that it was not curable. He was then asked, "Why do you claim that no one can cure hypermetropia?" He answered, "I know that it cannot be cured because I was unable to succeed and if I cannot succeed no one else can."

A patient reported that he was using plus bifocals for a long time but after his retirement he gave up reading and did not use glasses again. This improved his eyesight greatly. When tested on the eye chart he could read the last but one line from 10 ft. and could read fine print in good light at 12 inches. When he reported this fact to his optician, the latter did not believe his statement. When patients of hypermetropia improve their eyesight spontaneously or by relaxation, the result becomes a very great puzzle to the doctors and opticians. It is because their whole conception about the formation of visual defects is based on fallacies; they cannot answer this question: why is hypermetropia developed or cured in old age? And when such cases come before them, the tendency is just to ignore and give suitable glasses.

Children suffering from hypermetropia are very easily cured by palming and reading of the Snellen eye chart and fine print daily. All their discomforts fade away within a few days and their memory and imagination improve. A child wearing glasses of +6 was cured in a week's time.

A patient of hypermetropia was developing a cataract; by the treatment of hypermetropia the cataract was cured and all the discomforts of reading faded away. In another case hypermetropia changed into myopia when he was fifty-seven. He had practised some Yogic exercise of concentration on a bright object.