Eyes are the mirror of our health, mood and temperament. They help us to perceive various objects, protect us from dangers by giving forewarning about impending dangers. But for the eyes, all our activities of life would have come to a grinding halt and all the charm, beauty, perception, vision, pleasure, etc. would have been lost to us. We can behold beauty through our eyes. It has been well said that beauty lies in the beholder’s eyes but, then, one must have eyes to behold.
Eye Care: Loss of Vision and Its Fitness
Less than 10 percent of the population is born with blurred vision, upset binocularity (two-eyedness), or diseased eyes. But by young adulthood, a disturbing 60 percent of the remaining 90 percent have nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, crossed or wall eyes, or ocular disease conditions. This provocative statistic clearly demonstrates that we as a culture are slowly losing our natural vision-fitness.
Eye Care: How Fit is Your Vision? Eye Fitness Questionnaire
From case histories and clinical research we find that certain behaviours are related to vision-fitness. The following questionnaire wil help you identify particular behaviours that apply to your vision-fitness. Indicate on a scale from zero to ten how difficult these activities are for you.
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Eye Care: Three Aspects of Vision Fitness
You may be able to hit a fast-moving ball, read words and sentences, and observe data on a computer screen without difficulty. But when you have to process information at higher degrees of understanding, you tend to make less sense of what you are seeing.
Eye Care: Various Eye Conditions
Nearsightedness: Fear of seeing the future. Pulling inward to self: “I am afraid to see what’s out there.”
Farsightedness: Fear of seeing the present: “I have to see out into the future.” Anger toward self or others. Pushing space and people away. Wanting to break out and be independent.
Eye Care: Importance of Natural Light and Color
Most books on the anatomy of the eye mention that 25 percent of the visual fibres which leave the retina bypass the pathways to the visual area of the brain. It has been proposed that these fibres, carrying the electrical equivalent of white sunlight, go to a part of the brain known as the hypothalamus. This ‘master regulator’ makes adjustments to the nervous system of the body, balancing the functions of organs such as the pituitary and adrenal glands.
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Eye Care: Vision Games For Better Eyes
The vision-fitness exercises, which I call vision games, are distributed over the three phases, which will take between one month and two years. I like to describe the vision work as a game so that you have fun incorporating the play into your daily life.
Eye Care: Vision Fitness Exercises for Specific Eye Parts
Eye Anatomy – Vision-Fitness Exercise
Cornea – Blinking every three seconds
Iris muscles/Pupil – Using full-spectrum lighting; exposing
Lens/Ciliary muscle – closed eyes to sunlight and blinking
Retina/Fovea Eye – Breathing; zooming (near/far focusing)
muscles Overall – Non-staring; moving the eyes frequently
eye/mind relaxation – Eye-muscle stretching
Overall eye fitness – Palming the eyes, Visualizing the parts of the eye while exercising
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Eye Care: Eye Strain, Color Blindness, Blindness and Conjunctivitis
EYE STRAIN
Eye strain is neither a medical term nor a diagnosis. In contrast to widespread belief, you cannot damage or strain your eyes by using them under difficult conditions, such as reading small print in poor light or wearing glasses of the wrong. Although aching and discomfort are commonly attributed to eye strain, they are often headaches that are caused by tension or fatigue of the muscles around the eye as a result of frowing or squinting.
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Eye Care: Myopia, Hyperopia, Astigmatism and Presbyopia
MYOPIA
To enable us to see clearly, light rays need to be focused by the transparent cornea at the front of the eye and by the eye’s lens so that they form a sharp image on the retina, the light-sensitive membrane at the back of the eye. In people with myopia (nearsightedness), the eyeball is long relative to the combined focusing power of the cornea and the lens. Light rays from distant objects are therefore bent too much and are focused in front of the retina, resulting in blurry vision. Myopia is a very common condition that sometimes runs in families and can usually be corrected.
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