Rewilding and Healing Your Eyesight Part II
Rewilding your eyesight means retraining your mind how to ride the wild willful ponies we call your “eyes”.
You, like me, probably learned as a child in school, and as an adult in the workplace, to tug at the reigns of your eyes, demanding (through squinting and staring) that they just see what you want them to see. Much like school and work demanded of you to ’snap to’ and do what they commanded you to do.
Learning to see, to ride those frisky, untame-able, przewalski’s ponies, really comes down to three things you’ll ask your eyes to do, and a whole lot of letting them do what they want to do.
These three things, in the beginning, you will practice separately, over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over…
I want to state first that I have myopia (nearsightedness), so that my descriptions will provide instructions specific to that kind of eyesight issue. You can apply this to presbyopia (farsightedness), but you’ll need to figure out how by yourself, for now. Now, the “things”:
Thing #1: Identify something that you do over and over anyway, that involves either sitting, standing or walking, with a view into the distance (i.e, not in a windowless room, but walking down a street, driving, working at a desk in front of a window, etc.).[aka the WAYK “Same Conversation”, for you smarty pants out there].
Thing #2: Broaden your vision to “wide-angle vision”.
[See the vision section of the sensory tune-up]
Thing #3: Look for the smallest detail in the distance, even if blurry and “impossible” to see.
Simple! It will never get any harder than this. It just takes time, and some other details and tiny wrinkles can accelerate the process, if you know about them, but you don’t need to. Wide-angle vision, and hunting for the smallest detail, in a consistently recurring familiar setting with a view of the distance, will do it all.
Of course, if you can learn it all just from this, you’ll impress me.
Next, in Part III, I’ll explain the step by step nature of the process.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Hi Willem.
Your vision stories really inspire me. Before reading about it and listening to your podcast I would never have imagined that we could heal our vision. It makes me wonder what other seemingly irreversible things we can heal from and continue to improve.
James
January 29th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Another great post Willem. My vision has weakened in the last couple years due to too much time spent in front of the computer screen, but I suspected that it could be healed. Now, I’ll practice these “things” you’ve suggested. Thanks alot.
- Misko
January 29th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
James-
Exactly. I wonder that kind of thing all the time. What else can we regain and rewild?
misko-
Excellent. I still haven’t quite figured out the step by step via the internet. I can demonstrate it in person….much like “Where Are Your Keys?”. The internet has become my bane in regards to teaching things, anymore.
January 30th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Great series!