Yoga for Your Eyes –Meir Schneider

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While most of us know that we can improve our health and live longer by eating better, getting regular exercise, reducing stress, and learning relaxation, when it comes to our eyes we have a kind of learned helplessness. Very few of us believe there is anything we can do to make our eyes healthier and improve our eyesight. The fact is, however, that the things we do to improve our bodily health are also good for our eyes. The eye is not simply a mechanical tool. Like every other part of your body, it is profoundly affected by your state of mind. For no good reason, the popular belief today is that vision can only deteriorate and cannot improve. Statistics show that most people who see poorly never see well afterwards; their vision just gets worse and worse. But these statistics might look very different if we were taught how to take care of our eyes - and, even more importantly, if we understood that we have the power to improve our eyesight. MEIR SCHNEIDER WHAT IS VISION? Vision is the sum total of sensation, perception, and conception. Mechanically speaking, your retina has about 126 million light-sensing cells that produce some billion images every single minute. The brain cannot possibly assimilate all those images to create a picture, so it selects — basically determining how much of a picture you will and will not see. How clear or how poor your vision will be is largely a function of your brain. Western medicine tends