Eye Strain

Strain of Body and Mind

I never had any kind of subjective feeling of an eye strain ever, although I had been a patient of myopia till 53 years of my life!

I could go on reading for hours and hours together without any kind of tiredness in my eyes too.

I would watch TV and read on my bed, lying down in recumbent positions, but my eyes never got strained.

I would also read in low light conditions as well as in moving buses and trains, but no subjective problem was ever there with my eyes.

I'll tell you one more thing: I don't subjectively know till date what a headache is like. I never had it in my life.

But my eyes were bad! They were myopic!

My diopter number was -2.25 in both the eyes.

And then, one fine morning it instantaneously came down to zero and the vision, to 20/20!

As a virtual miracle!

I still do all the so-called bad things, as mentioned above, with my eyes; only taking care that my third eye always remains open.

And my eyesight is fine too, now at my age of 55 - without taking any other kind of eye care!

I never had any eye strain before too, but it is something much better with them now, in the sense that they ooze energy - that is what my subjective feeling with them is.

Opening third eye is, in itself, the best kind of vision therapy on earth; and, in fact, the only one that is a sane one!

When it comes to the question of eye strain, no one ever understood it so comprehensively as did Dr. W.H.Bates of the United States of America almost 80 years back. I'll better reproduce his own words here regarding eye strain:

'Temporary conditions may contribute to the eye strain to see which results in the production of errors of refraction; but its foundation lies in wrong habits of thought.'

'It obviously requires an eye strain to fail to see at the distance, because the eye at rest is adjusted for distant vision. If one does anything when one wants to see at the distance, one must do the wrong thing. The shape of the eyeball cannot be altered during distant vision without eye strain.'

'It is equally an eye strain to fail to see at the near-point, because when the muscles respond to the mind's desire they do it without strain. Only by an effort can one prevent the eye from elongating at the near-point.'

'Mental strain of any kind always produces a conscious or unconscious eyestrain and if the strain takes the form of an effort to see, an error of refraction is always produced.'

'A schoolboy was able to read the bottom line of the Snellen test card at ten feet, but when the teacher told him to mind what he was about he could not see the big C. Many children can see perfectly so long as their mothers are around; but if the mother goes out of the room, they may at once become myopic, because of the strain produced by fear.'

'Unfamiliar objects produce eyestrain and a consequent error of refraction, because they first produce mental strain. '

'A person may have good vision when he is telling the truth; but if he states what is not true, even with no intent to deceive, or if he imagines what is not true, an error of refraction will be produced, because it is impossible to state or imagine what is not true without an effort.'

'Mental strain may produce many different kinds of eyestrain.'

'According to the statement of most authorities there is only one kind of eyestrain, an indefinite thing resulting from so-called overuse of the eyes, or an effort to overcome a wrong shape of the eyeball.'

'It can be demonstrated, however, that there is not only a different eye strain for each different error of refraction, but a different eye strain for most abnormal conditions of the eye.'

'The eye strain that produces an error of refraction is not the same as the eye strain that produces a squint, or a cataract, or glaucoma, or amblyopia, or inflammation of the conjunctiva or of the margin of the lids, or disease of the optic nerve or retina.'

'All these conditions may exist with only a slight error of refraction, and while the relief of one eye strain usually means the relief of any others that may coexist with it, it sometimes happens that the eye strain associated with such conditions as cataract and glaucoma is relieved without the complete relief of the eye strain that causes the error of refraction.'

'Even the pain that so often accompanies errors of refraction is never caused by the same eye strain that causes these errors. Some myopes cannot read without pain or discomfort, but most of them suffer no inconvenience.'

'When the hyperope regards an object at the distance the hyperopia is lessened, but pain and discomfort may be increased. While there are many eye strains, however, there is only one cure for all of them, namely, relaxation.'

'You can teach people how to produce any error of refraction, how to produce a squint, how to see two images of an object, one above another, or side by side, or at any desired angle from one another, simply by teaching them how to think in a particular way.'

'When the disturbing thought is replaced with one that relaxes, the squint disappears, the double vision and the errors of refraction are corrected; and this is as true of abnormalities of long standing as of those produced voluntarily.'

'No matter what their degree or their duration, their cure is accomplished just as soon as the patient is able to secure mental control.'

'The cause of any error of refraction, of a squint, or of any other functional disturbance of the eye, is simply a thought - a wrong thought - and the cure is as quick as the thought that relaxes.'

'In a fraction of a second the highest degrees of refractive error may be corrected, a squint may disappear, or the blindness of amblyopia may be relieved.'

'If the relaxation is only momentary, the correction is momentary. When it becomes permanent, the correction is permanent.'

'This relaxation cannot, however, be obtained by any sort of effort.'

'It is fundamental that patients should understand this; for so long as they think, consciously or unconsciously, that relief from eye strain may be obtained by another eye strain, their cure will be delayed.'

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