Week 5 Lesson Tips
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General Tips
- Your eyes will get tired and get strained as you train to use them correctly. At some point, you will push hard to improve that your eyes can remain blurry from the stress (it is temporary). If you close your eyes and sense them, you will notice the tension and cramping. Vision is a strange animal, it defies our conventional thinking that trying harder will help us improve and do better. You do not want to try harder to see. You want to train hard to master the skills of using your eyes so they see effortlessly. Sometimes you will forget the difference during the training and you end up causing your eye muscles to strain. If you find yourself trying hard to see, do spend time just enjoying the scene you are looking at. Pay attention to the color, brightness, distance and beauty of the scene. Focus on seeing well rather than training to see well.
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Step 2 Tips
- When you master fusion, you will be able to look at the fusion chart and easily merge the two dots at any width. You can move the chart and still be able to maintain the third dot. While maintaining the third dot, you will be able to relax the eyes to see the fine print. There is a subtle difference between relaxing the muscles for converging and the muscles to increase sharpness that you have to feel and master. The subtlety is in releasing control of the eye muscles while you are looking at the smallest detail. Try to notice the difference and practice until it becomes second nature.
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Step 3 Tips
- As you are looking at something near or far, your eyes may want to tense and lock to see clearer. It is a bad habit we developed from misuse. When you feel the muscles trying to tense and lock, stop it by focusing on a small point and moving from one small point to another at varying distances. Keep moving your eyes from one point to another until the tensing subsides. By keeping the eyes focused and the muscles moving, you can prevent the muscles from locking and train the muscles to use this method to see clearly. Be aware of your eye muscles and use this technique each time you sense any tension.
- When you master focusing on a small area, you will notice that the area where the eyes look is sharp, and areas away from it will look foggy. Looking around an area will allow you to see more of an area sharply. Remember to consciously pick a spot to focus. You should continue to practice to master this skill if you do not see this effect.
- The most difficult and time consuming part of improving your vision is the last 15 to 25 percent where your eyes must master the fine adjustment for constant sharpness at all distances. There is a fine balance that you must feel, recognize and sense in your eyes that only experience and determination can eventually reveal. Bad habits, work demands (8 to 10 hours in front of a computer each day), and stress will continue to interfere. It will be a challenging at times, but it can be done. The last 15 to 25 percent will test your determination and mastery of the skills you have learned. The eyes can make this last adjustment. You have the tools and skills to do it, you only need to continue to hone the skills and understand the balance. As long as you continue to hone the skills, you will move one step closer to the goal.
- Train step 3 at dusk and at night. Try to feel the balance needed between seeing clearly and relaxation. As you train in low light, be conscious of relaxing the extraocular muscles because we tend to strain to see clearer. Use the subtle relaxation skills learned in the fusion training to help sharpen the image.
- Paste an eye chart on the wall and set up objects (anything that you can focus on) 5 to 8 inches apart between you and the chart. Instead of objects, you can use a bed with printed sheets or a long object that has regular points to focus on. You should be about ten feet from the chart. Practice step 3 using the objects and the eye chart as the points to focus. Do not forget to use the fusion chart. Practice in bright light, and eventually in low light.
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Some variations to the training once you have reached 20/50 or better:
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Step 4 Tips
- All the skills learned is to lead you to one last lesson – to use your eyes smoothly and effortlessly to adjust to different distances and light. It means you can see without any need to control the eye muscles. Any thought controlling the eye muscles to focus triggers a chain reaction that leads to eyestrain. The eyes can only sustain relaxed sharp vision when there is no thought of trying. Keep this in mind when you are practicing the lesson or using your eyes — look without effort.
- The eyes may need to work to converge, move, or read but it can do it without any help from your thoughts. In fact, thoughts interferes with the eyes automatic functions. The eyes only need to know what you want to see and it will handle everything else. This lesson train you to keep the interfering thoughts out of your eye’s way so it can work properly. Consciously not using the eye muscles, focus on the center of vision (a small area), and concentrating on the movements will help to keep your mind occupied and distracted from wanting to help the eyes.
- The eye (extraocula) muscles causes distortion and double vision when they over-tense. You can roughly tell which of the muscles are over-tensing by the double vision it cause. For example, if you see a faint double vision on the left side of the image, then the left muscles of your eyes are most likely over-tensing. If the faint double vision is on top, then the top muscles of your eyes are most likely over-tensing. If a faint double vision is diagonally to the top left, then both the left and top muscles of the eyes are over-tensing. Any combination can create double vision and distortions. By noticing the distortion you know which muscles are over-tensing. Noticing is the first step towards overcoming. Once you notice the tensing, observe it, do not try to stop it because the more you try to stop the more tense the muscle gets. Trying to stop a muscle from tensing only focus your mind more on it. We relax best by taking our mind away from the thing that cause the stress. Instead, close your eyes and concentrate on feeling the rhythm of your breath. When the mind is focused on your breathing it forgets about tensing the muscles.
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