Words of Wisdom

I was browsing today on the website www.visionsofjoy.com and found these few words which I can relate to. As some of you may know I am very interested in restoring my eyesight to "normal" or as I'd rather put it "totally clear" in the near future.

"If only we could give up, let go, let the thing be done for us,
of how much strain would we rid ourselves!
What a difference between trying to do a thing and doing it;
between trying to see and seeing!"

L.M. Stanton, MD
(Better Eyesight magazine, January 1927

Am finding out some great information about our eyes and minds that is totally fascinating. My favourite book on the subject is "Take off Your Glasses and See" by Jacob Liberman. He was an optician and decided to do a few experiments of his own and discovered that it is our minds that govern our vision and ability to see. I quote "Vision care is still overwhelmingly based on the assumption of the old medical paradigm. However, my clinical experience overwhelmingly shows that these beliefs are actually a major source of the current epidemic of vision problems." (book written 1995) I have found that vision doesn't occur at any single point in the body - such as the eyes - but throughout the body and the energy field that surrounds us. I have found that our eyes are also made up of thinking cells, just like every other part of the human body. When we feel sad or scared, we see in a depressed or fearful way; when we feel expansive, are vision literally "opens up" "