Yoga of Perfect Sight

Treatment of Myopia

The cause of myopia is not reading small print but an effort to see distant objects. When the normal eye stares at a distant object or tries to read two parts of the Snellen test card letter perfectly at the same time, an effort to see is made and myopia is produced. There is a strain: and the greater the strain, the more imperfect the vision. This suggests the cure of myopia.

The production of improved or perfect sight is easy as it does not need any effort, it comes only by rest or relaxation. Most people with myopia are not conscious of the stare or strain or the effort to see. Persons with normal vision are often able to demonstrate that myopia is caused by strain.

In the treatment of myopia the first thing is that the patient should know that the cause of myopia is the stare or the effort to see at a distance. When the patient looks at the white centres of letters of the Snellen test card with gentle blinking and without any effort to see. the vision is always found to be improved, and when such a practice is continued several times a day, the patient is habituated to look at things without effort and the vision is considerably improved.

The Snellen test card can be used in various ways to improve the vision. Usually patients of myopia improve more when the chart is held at five feet or less, then the distance of the chart is gradually increased. When the patient sways his body from side to side, the chart appears to be moving in the opposite direction, and this imagination is beneficial. Then gradually the sway is shortened. If the test card does not appear to sway, it is usually an indication of strain or an effort to see.

If the letters on the test card appear double, it is because the patient is trying to see the letters. This double vision cannot happen if the patient imagines the card moving slightly from side to side and does not try to see the letters. Palming when done successfully relieves such symptoms quickly.

Reading newspaper type or fine print in dim light is very useful to myopic patients. It helps to lessen myopia and develop normal vision. Looking at a blank wall of one colour and imagining something interesting and pleasant is also very useful to all cases of defective vision.

If one can imagine a small letter "O" with its white centre perfectly, first with eyes closed, then with eyes open while glancing at the chart letters, the vision is decidedly improved and sometimes surprising results are obtained.

Reading fine print or photo type reduction in good light, in dim light and in candlelight alternately helps the patients to relax their eyes; all pain and strain and headache are quickly relieved.

Control of relaxation is the key to cure myopia and many other diseases of the eye.

Before and after sleep practise palming. While walking or dressing or going to school blink gently.

If you can teach others how to blink, this will greatly help you to adopt the right habit.

Before children go to school, they should read the chart at 10 or 20 feet distance and read fine print. By this practice many of their defects of vision have improved and their eyesight restored to normal.

The superiority of the relaxation treatment is very well indicated in a letter received from Mr. S.S. Parekh of Ahmedabad Advance Mills: "My two daughters, Hemangini and Surekha, who took eye treatment from you at Pondicherry were showering all praise on you for the wonderful effect it had on their eyes. The number of Surekha has completely disappeared and that of Hemangini has gone down more than 50%."