Health and mind 1: seeing!!

Seeing, just proper seeing is also a yogic exercise, like breathing, I feel. Yoga means ‘to unite’, and here the whole body and mind unites with the eye when one sees properly, relaxed and without effort, and to his best ability. To my amazement, I came to know that Dr.Bates had already explored, pioneered and spearheaded in this field of seeing properly and without effort. As per their website, Bates association for visual education has evolved the methods, and has trained a set of practitioners to teach people to see the right way! They teach one to improve the eyesight without lens (read glasses) or surgery. Please refer http://www.seeing.org/ or Google search “seeing” and click on Dr.Bates method – Bates Association for visual education, for more information. I am yet to find more about them, or enroll myself for improving my vision though!

When you put your body and mind behind seeing and without effort, the system pools up maximum or the needed energy for seeing and you are able to focus on the object fully. When the eye focuses, the zooming probably automatically happens! In a Phillips TV advertisement, Sachin Tendulkar declares that when he starts batting, he sees the cricket ball as a peck initially, but, as he bats more and more, he is able to see the ball as big as a football over the time! The Cricket coaches always advise the batsman to keep his head down, and probably that helps him to focus on the ball more easily. Pete Sampras, as I watched him in TV, used to swerve to his right and left to gear himself up to focus on the ball that is being served. Most Indians have read in Mahabharat about how Arjuna fully focused and concentrated on the reflection in the pond of the eye of the revolving fish yantra and shot at it by an arrow from his bow to win the hands of Draupadi. In a movie, Bruce Lee, when he points a finger towards moon, asks his disciple to see the moon, and only moon. A lover gobbling up his or her darling with his/her eyes is an ever endearing scene to poets and of course to all of us!

Any instructor on personality development, asks you to look directly on the eye of the person you are engaging in a conversation or in an activity. This helps you to develop confidence. But, seeing anything to your best always makes you confident naturally. You are looked upon as a leader. You are faster, more courageous and adventurous and more of an extrovert, when your vision is better, and proper seeing helps you to improve your vision and grasping.

Proper seeing in the relaxed manner probably pumps more blood to the brain. This helps you to feel fresh alert and energetic all through the day! Thus a simple natural yogic exercise that can be practised all through the day!

When a child is seeing along properly what he/she writes, his/her handwriting improves dramatically. And any act one does, seeing the act properly all along, comes out perfect, and the act is also executed faster