The Secret Behind Your Vision Problems: 15+ Common Eye Issues Explained!

Hello, good morning, good afternoon depending where you are in the world and be very very welcome to our third live linked to lesson number three of the free four-part masterclass wake up your eyes. And today we are going to be talking about something that's very fascinating and maybe surprising for you, but for me this is one of the cornerstones of your success for your vision improvement for deep profound transformation of your eyesight for you to see clearly again in a lasting way and actually at the same time as you see clearly with your eyes from your eyes to the outside to see clearly from the eyes to the inside. So today we're going to be talking about how you can free your emotions to see clearly again. And we are in the middle in the second half of this free four-part masterclass where you are receiving completely for free the equivalent of 300 dollars worth of value of content. The things that I'm teaching here I used to teach in weekend workshops and that's the money I would get in Western Europe 300 euros in the Americas 300 dollars. But thanks to the magic of the internet and the commitment of the team we can do this workshop for free several times a year. And so today we're going to talk about the relationship with between emotions and eyesight. For those people who have come through the podcast that was broadcasted in the way forward with Alex Zack we just dipped out on this topic in that podcast and today we're going to go a lot deeper. And what else are we going to talk about today? So we're going to talk about the relationship between emotions and eyesight. We're going to explain 15 eyesight symptoms actually all the symptoms that you may be experiencing at this moment and maybe symptoms that my family members have. So that you have clarity of what is going on what what is the message behind the symptom in your eyes. We're going to go deeper on lesson number three of video number three. We're going to explain the symptom translation technique. You will get your symptoms explained and maybe even symptoms you have never heard of. And we were we will answer questions that you have and common questions that we usually get when we broadcast this lesson. On the way you may be meeting some people that have done it that have experienced success with these ideas and these tools. You have already met Diana in the previous days she's been with me every day so far this week and today we also have the visit of Maria Lievana. So Maria Lievana is also a vision coach. She's also an English teacher by the way and she started her journey with a very very intense myopia nearsightedness. When you started with the clear sight method you could only see at this distance, right? And I remember a few months in you could see things out the window and recognize things at the other side of the river that you can see through your window at home. Do you want to say something about how this emotional level for vision improvement had an impact for your vision journey and your vision improvement? Yes, of course. >> [clears throat] >> Well, the first thing I noticed is that I when I enrolled the course I couldn't I wasn't a person who would easily speak publicly and look where I am now. So the first thing not speaking publicly because I was very ashamed of myself of what I was going to going to say everything everybody was going to think of me. And then I had a personal transformation which came little by little. Also some other symptoms in the body changed at the same time like in the I had problems with the stomach. And they all were easy everything got better. And I started going for walks in in a place next to the to the Atlantic Ocean near to next to where I live. And it's true what I I thought were clouds at the beginning in the end seemed to be houses. And I can distinguish all houses now and I can stare at the at the screen I said that the distance was this so I have a very longer a much longer distance now from the screen and I can see the screen and I can see so many things I don't I hardly ever use my glasses anymore. Okay, congratulations. So from looking at your hands distance to having your daily life be normal and barely ever using glasses that's a a big big transformation. Thank you Maria for coming to share. Maybe we'll talk with you a bit more later. And anyway, you're being part of this free four-part masterclass that we have been teaching since 2016 in Spanish and in English and over time there's been almost 6 million participants of this wake up your eyes free four-part masterclass in 192 countries and I'm seeing that today we have people from Indiana, Arizona, Queens, New York, from Australia also from Arizona from Montreal, Quebec, Arkansas in the house from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago from St. Petersburg in Florida from the United States Ohio. So very nice to see Norway, Arizona very nice to see diverse crowd once more coming from Germany. So we have a lot of people in Europe and in the Americas that's good. Louisiana, the Netherlands. Great. I'm glad that you're communicating and you're here it's likely that you are wearing glasses or contacts or that you have had or fear having a surgery. Also from New Brunswick Canada again great. So if that's the case if you're worried about your eyesight if you have seen your eyesight decline over time you are in the right place. You're going to keep learning tips and techniques and tools and ideas that will help you recover your eyesight improve your eyesight naturally and have a much more optimal eyesight for life. And if you know anyone else that has eyesight issues share with them what you're discovering share with the people you care about you could be transforming somebody else's life and they can be very happy and grateful for it. We have students also that have arrived to us because of a referral from a friend from a mother from a son from a sister and you could be doing lots of good. I see there's more people from the Netherlands from Quebec from Kansas City great more more and more people are joining in. Welcome everyone. And the question is are you interested or committed? And the people that are resisting that are still here after three intense days with the videos with the lives and you keep coming back that is showing your commitment. Congratulations to you. And I would like to know if you have watched lessons number one and two videos and the lives. Hopefully you have been catching up. And if you have watched video number three we we released it today and we sent you the content by email. So in order to be receiving the videos you need to be registered. If you aren't registered make sure you visit our page clearsightmethod.com leave your name and email and you'll be getting um all the all the videos all the content. Also you can subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can follow us on Facebook. We are leaving these lives for the moment visible available in in those platforms. Okay, so if you have watched video number three did you identify the situation that was happening at the time when your eyesight declined? Did you identify the situation that may be at the origin of your eyesight decline? Did you identify the situation that is even nowadays keeping you from seeing clearly? And as I let you have some time to answer to that question I see that some people have watched all three videos that's amazing. Hello also from the UK. Yes, you have watched everything great totally committed I love that. Oh, this is the team sharing the direct link to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Oh, somebody got registered but didn't get the emails that's interesting. Maybe you can write to our email ianoa@clearsightmethod.com and our team can help you whatever the issue has been. Okay. Okay, and yes, I saw video three the emotion behind the astigmatism for me is on point. So happy uh to uh to read that. Uh okay, somebody's saying no, just general childhood stress. Well, if it's general childhood stress, there may not be a specific situation at a given moment, but if if there was stress during childhood that this is definitely enough. Okay, absolutely fear founded uh Michael and COVID and all the surrounding stuff, of course. Uh Michael or Michelle, yes, fear was the emotion. Okay, um And that Murphy, I was a young child when I needed glasses and clear the beginning of emotional status. Okay, sometimes it takes a little bit longer to uh remember or to figure it out. Um but for 80% of people, it tends to be a very, very important factor. Ooh, yes, I found out my ex. I suppose that you meant cheated on me. Yeah, sort of breakup for trust. Okay, also committed I have watched all the videos I have identified beginning beginnings of nearsightedness in my 20s and somewhat less beyond the set of cataracts in my 60s. Okay, great that you identified the time when they started. I would like to invite you to think about what was going on at the time when these symptoms started. Were there any challenges, um any situations generating stress? Uh it would be interesting for you to see. Okay, emotional triggers to vision decline has long been known to me. It's multifaceted. Okay, I'm very happy that you're aware of that. I have identified the time and emotion, but how do I release it? Very good question. We'll talk about this today. Uh if you had it shortly after birth, could it be a generational pattern? It could be. It could be the climate of what was going on in the family at the time uh a little bit after birth. Were there some challenges? Because babies are sponges to the emotions of adults. Um so um that's something to look at also. Uh parents divorce followed by doing things I didn't want to do. Okay, that's quite clear. Uh I am very clear on what happened and I'm working on it at the moment. Great. So, I'm very, very happy uh to notice that a lot of you uh who have been watching um uh have identified, have pinpointed uh the emotional um challenging situation that was behind the loss of vision. And today we're going to more about this, but it's very, very good for those who have watched the videos that they you started looking at it because once you are aware of it, then you can do something about it. And if you want to see clearly, uh of course, uh besides attending today and talking about all these emotional aspects of eyesight vision, I remind you that tomorrow uh we're going to have another lesson. Tomorrow you're going to receive the lesson in by email in in the video, the video by email, >> [clears throat] >> and then on Saturday we're going to have another um live session. And this time the live session won't happen um in uh in YouTube and Facebook. It will be directly on Zoom so that we can see each other, we can see each other's faces, and we can interact in a different way. Mhm, so that's going to be special. The time is going to be the same as usual, 10:00 a.m. Pacific, 12:00 noon Central, 1:00 p.m. Eastern, 6:00 p.m. if you're um in the more um western part of Europe, London, Dublin, Lisbon, 7:00 p.m. uh for continental Europe, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, uh Rome, Madrid. Okay, and to uh get that, uh be sure that you sign up through clearsightmethod.com. Okay, this is the third day in a row you're hearing me speak, so I am not going to introduce myself in the same way as I did the other days. Uh I'm going to tell you more about what's my emotional motivation to be here uh teaching you today. And of course, you already know that I'm a uh university professor. I'm the director of the International Center for vision coaching and the director of the degree uh training of natural vision improvement professionals, the vision coaches, and I'm the creator of the Clear Sight Method. Um I have been uh doing research for 20 plus years on this field out of the 100 years of scientific discipline on natural vision improvement. But today I would like to tell you more about where I come from and why I'm motivated to be here uh teaching you. Mhm. And uh there is um actually um a social impact question that is at stake, uh a social problem. Mhm. In the past couple days you have already learned about uh what I know, uh but I would like uh you to join me into this vision for the world. Yeah? In 2019, in October 2019, the World Health Organization released um released a document saying stating a report on the state of um eyesight in the world saying that at that time 1/3 of the world population had already vision problems, even though 80% of them are preventable or curable. And that report also said that by 2050, half of the world population will have some impairments with their eyesight. Now, this was shortly before COVID and the lockdowns. Mhm. And as I told you yesterday, within the first three months of the lockdowns, there was an observation of a vision decline in many parts of the world. So, in 2020, these projections were corrected, and uh the research that was generated then shortened the projection to 2030. So now the expectation is that by 2030, 4 years from now, half the world population will have vision problems. And I cannot stand still knowing what I know and letting this silent pandemic vision problems spread in the world. So um I uh uh um elevated my vision and my mission and my objectives. Yes. Um knowing that there's over 100 years of research on natural vision improvement that offer a solution for vision problems beyond just wearing glasses or having uh drops or medical treatments or getting surgeries. So, my vision is to spread natural vision improvement uh by inspiring 20 million people take care of their eyes and improve their eyesight naturally, and by training a thousand professionals, a thousand vision coaches. Yes, uh I'm trying to get, and I'm not the only one, there's other colleagues too, but the idea is to generate this tipping point mhm, uh when there's enough of a mass of people who know about these new habits, then we can collectively create a cascading movement of transformation. Like it happened with brushing your teeth. Nowadays, you probably brush your teeth probably even three times a day, and let me tell you that brushing the teeth is a new habit that started uh during the world wars. Mhm. And it was soldiers going to the war that learned the discipline of brushing their teeth that started teaching their families, and after there was the tipping point that was reached, then there were public policies uh teaching everyone and wanting everyone to brush their teeth. And nowadays, we find it very normal. So, let's generate another social cascading movement uh for everyone to know about natural vision improvement uh so that we can um enjoy the beauty of life and optimal eyesight for life. And let's transform what nowadays is uh a pandemic, a silent pandemic for uh the eyesight with problems with the eyesight into a movement of clarity, and you can be part of this movement. And the first step is taking care of you. It's starting with yourself. When you prove, when you are um when you are living proof of the transformation that you that is possible, that you have generated, then you can inspire others to be part of the movement. And Diana and Maria, for example, uh they started by improving their own eyesight, and nowadays, they chose to become natural vision improvement professionals and teach others how to do it. And maybe you don't want to change careers and you don't want to change professions, that's fine, that's okay. But once you improve your eyesight, you can also inspire your family. Mhm. And let that what runs in the family be clarity and not uh vision problems. Yes? Okay. >> [laughter] >> Exactly. It's that. It's that when you when you transform yourself and you see that transformation, you don't want to keep it for yourself. You just say, "Okay, this has to be known. This has to be shared." And and other people has to know about it and and that they can if I if I could, if Maria could, if I know I could do it, so all of you can. Yes. Absolutely. Okay, so let's continue. So, as I was saying just before, my vision is to bring clarity to the world with a cascading movement, and my mission is to inspire 20 million people to take care of their eyes and improve their eyesight naturally by 2030, and we have already achieved 30% of that goal and also to train 1,000 vision coaches by 2030. We have already trained 250 since 2024, which was the first graduation, right? So, we're on track for inspiring for training enough vision coaches to inspire 20 million people. We still need to raise our game, but we're on our path to do it and you can be part of the solution, too. You can be part of this movement starting with yourself, starting with living your own transformation. So, I would like to know with what you have been doing so far in the couple days that this course has been taking place, what have you noticed? What has already changed in your eyes, in the sensations in your eyes? What have you noticed change already in your eyesight? Uh-huh. And there may be various things. It may be that you're seeing smaller print further or closer, right? With the eye chart or with a small print, but it could be other things that your eyes are more relaxed, that they're more moist, that your vision field is wider or you're more aware of the periphery of your vision, that you notice light or colors or details in a way that you were not noticing before. And it's important that you pay attention during the process to improvement, what is changing? Because every time something changes and improves, it's proof for you that eyesight can improve. And if you can improve a little bit, you can improve more. And if you want to improve a lot more, well, keep practicing the things that we're teaching and if you want support, if you want help with this process, from tomorrow onwards we're going to open the registration to the advanced paid program. And again, if you just take the information from the free course and be successful with it, we're going to be very happy for you. We know that a lot of people are successful already with the free course, but if you feel like you need more support, more time to go deeper, to be in a cohort of people that are going to be doing the same thing, to have accountability, well, I would like to invite you to consider tomorrow joining the advanced program. And I see some people are having results. Calmer feeling, eyesight is better, but shortly. Okay, you're building a new habit. If it lasts for a few minutes, at least it's proving to you that it's possible. And you need to keep training to keep practicing so that it becomes something stable. Okay, less pressure, less straining, not as blurry, great. If it's not as blurry, then it is more clear. You can feed your brain with positive words that help your brain achieve the results that you want. Okay, Lena, I can read in the sunlight without glasses. Yay, congratulations. That's really good. Or Smita, I'm avoiding the use of glasses. I feel the eyes more tired and puffy, strain on forehead. Okay, then maybe you need to dose the the rest and the use of glasses in a slightly different way to make the process kind with yourself. It doesn't have to be a struggle, yeah? But great that you're on it. Okay, Suzanne, palming, sunning, moving the eyes, focusing more, stop wearing glasses except when driving, great. Vision is clear. I think I need glasses with lower prescription and do not know how to do this. Well, you can do it two ways, Suzanne. You could go to your optometrist or your optician and request under correction and if they support you, that is great. And if they don't support you, there are websites where you can purchase the glasses that you want and you can under correct yourself. In that case, I would advise half a diopter less to one diopter less. Okay, Michelle Lan, I noticed I can see my phone better this morning and the trees look sharper when I walk my dog. Congratulations. Okay, and Michelle also saying the eyes are more relaxed. So, you are having improvements or you are seeing other people having improvements just with two, three days of practice. Imagine if you make these tools that we're teaching you, that we're sharing with you, a habit, how much further you can go, how much more you can improve your eyesight and let us teach us even more. So, today we're going to talk about we're going to be talking about emotions and vision. And even though it may sound like it's, I don't know, relating cars with apples, actually there is a very, very direct connection between emotions and vision. The eyes are part of the brain. They are really brain. It's like the little hands of the brain that is showing up more to the exterior to get in touch with the world. So, through the optic nerve, the eyes are connected to 85% of the brain. And so, our thought processes, our emotions impact our eyesight dramatically. So, we need to talk about this. I have a colleague that says, your health can improve to the extent of the dimensions of yourself that you've recognized. How many dimensions you recognize of yourself? The more dimensions you recognize, the more things you're going to take care of, the better off you're going to be. And if we talk just about eyesight, mainstream optometry will consider only the optics of the eye, right? And it's only taking care about lenses. And they don't even consider the muscles around the eye. They're just focusing on the crystalline and the tissues inside the eye. And guess what? Not only you need to consider also the outer part of the eye with the muscles outside, but you also need to consider that vision doesn't even happen in the eye. It happens in the brain. And if vision happen in the brain, the processing of information in the brain is impacted by other things that are happening in the brain. Are you relaxed or are you tense? Are you afraid or are you feeling safe? Depending how you feel, polyvagal theory, contemporary polyvagal theory, which is part of neurosciences and neurophysiology, tell us that we really don't see the same when we're relaxed and happy or when we're triggered and we're in fear. So, and if we're talking about emotions, then we need to consider that actually relationships and culture and social context have something to say of what's going on, right? So, we're actually multi-dimensional beings and as somebody was saying here, the quality of your eyesight is multifaceted. There are several factors. Yes, the physical is very important. Yes, nutrition is important. Yes, movement is important. Yes, how you use your eyes is important. But this emotional aspect, emotional, mental, subtle aspect have a lot of impact in your eyesight. And if this is surprising to you, it's the first time you're hearing about this, today I'm going to actually share some scientific research on the topic and even I will give you some references from journals and articles. If you want to have a look, you'll be able to check what I'm talking about. Now, this being said, the research on the impact of emotions on eyesight started in the '50s, in the late '50s of the 20th century. So, I wasn't the first one to do research on this topic. I have followed a line of researchers. The first one was probably Dr. Charles Kelly. Dr. Charles Kelly was a psychology student. Can you hear the noise from my window? Should I close the window or it's okay? No? Okay, it's all good. Okay. So, Charles Kelly was a psychology student and he was very near-sided. He was myopic. He had to wear glasses in order to see far away. He could see near, but not far away. And at some point, he recovered his eyesight with Margaret Darst Corbett. Who is Margaret Darst Corbett? Margaret Darst Corbett was one of the direct disciples of the ophthalmologist that was the pioneer of natural vision improvement, Dr. William Horatio Bates. I already mentioned him two days ago. And in the beginning, Dr. Bates was only teaching other doctors, medical doctors, ophthalmologists or at least medical doctors. But as he understood more and more about how eyesight works and how eyesight can be restored naturally, he realized that the kind of work is almost more educational than medical. So, he started broadening the scope of people that he was teaching and Margaret Darst Corbett was one of the disciples of this later part of his professional life. And she was actually a children's teacher. She came into learning the Bates method because her husband had eyesight problems and she became fascinated and motivated and so she learned the Bates method. She was extremely successful. She had a practice in LA that attracted a lot of famous people, actors and actresses and writers and artists. And actually one of the very famous disciples or students or clients of Margaret Darst Corbett was Aldous Huxley. You probably have heard about Aldous Huxley. A lot of us had to read a Brave New World as part of the literature program, right, when we were in high school. Um and so um he almost won the Nobel Prize for literature. He was nominated many times. Uh and uh he was a very well-known author at the time. Well, Aldous Huxley wrote a book in 1942 called An Art of Seeing or The Art of Seeing. And he actually wrote this book uh in gratitude for having recovered his eyesight and to support Margaret Darst Corbett when she had a trial for um malpractice for for practicing medicine without license. And in this trial it was proven that she was not practicing medicine, but it was an educational approach on um natural vision improvement. And so she won the trial. Now, Aldous Huxley had been blind since age 16 because uh a keratitis punctata. Mhm. And he learned Braille and uh well, he was really really impaired. And thanks to the work that he did with Margaret Darst Corbett, uh Aldous Huxley was able um to most of the time be functional without glasses. Mhm. Sometimes he would need them uh and sometimes uh most of the time he could work without or live without glasses. And actually his second wife, Aldous Huxley's second wife, wrote a wrote a biography on Aldous Huxley and he said that his greatest achievement in his own opinion was the eyesight improvement that he had had. Okay? So, you have a little bit of background of who Margaret uh Darst Corbett was. She helped Aldous Huxley go from blindness into being able to function without glasses most of the time. And so Charles Kelly got rid of the myopia or the nearsightedness uh also working with Margaret Darst Corbett. And later on he went on with his studies after studying psychology and he went on to do a PhD dissertation at the New School of Social Research in New York in collaboration with Columbia University. Mhm. And uh this dissertation that was on the link of emotions and eyesight won the best PhD dissertation of the year award. And we're talking about very prestigious institutions of higher education in the United States. Um after this um PhD uh got this award, uh he was featured in the New York Times, in Time Magazine and he was interviewed in the radio and television both in New York and California. So, maybe uh you would like to know what is uh the core uh the core idea of this Aldous uh sorry, Charles Kelly's dissertation. And by the way, I see that the team has shared uh a reference to one of the to the book that he later on wrote. This is the reference to the PhD dissertation. Mhm. Psychological factors in myopia and it was um defended or presented in 1958. Mhm. And then a few years later he wrote a book uh in 1971 called New Techniques of Vision Improvement where he not only spoke about myopia, but he spoke about other uh vision symptoms. Yes? After um more or less at the same time as Charles Kelly, there were other researchers uh working on similar topics like Jack Fox uh worked on functional factors in myopia and he did a PhD dissertation at the University of California in Los Angeles at UCLA. And in 1976 uh Carlin Zeigarnik wrote a psychological approach to the improvement of myopia, another PhD dissertation at the University of Colorado. So, this research is not new. It started as a number of decades ago. And let's talk first about what is the core genius idea behind Charles Kelly's PhD that uh won him uh the award for the best PhD um uh of the of Columbia University or University of Columbia. >> [clears throat] >> So, uh we have already spoken about um uh on day one in the class, we talked about William Bates' theory, right? Uh we explained how if you want to focus near or far, objects that are near or far, you need to use two mechanisms for focusing. Uh conventional ophthalmology and optometry tends to focus only on the role of the crystalline, which is this natural lens inside the eye that is controlled by the ciliary muscles. And when you want to see near, the crystalline bulges up, mhm, uh like a lens, magnifying lens. And when you see to want to see far away, um the crystalline flattens out and then you can see far away, right? Um and this, of course, is a mechanism that is at play. This mechanism was discovered by Hermann von Helmholtz in um 1855 in the [clears throat] 19th century, okay? Now, uh if you have a projector and you want to uh uh and you want a sharp image on the screen, the projector has a little wheel with a lens that you can adjust to see the image sharp. But we also said 2 days ago that if you want that image on the screen to be sharp, besides the lens, you need to adjust the distance between the projector and the screen. And that tends to have a bigger, more important uh impact on how sharp the image is than uh just uh the little lens. And that mechanism in the eye is governed by the outer muscles. Yes? The recti muscles that are up, down and to the sides and the oblique muscles that hold the eye uh like a belt. And so when you want to see near, uh your eye becomes like a zoom in a camera. And when you want to see far, then your eye with a um so these would be the oblique muscles. And when you want to see far with the recti muscles, the eye becomes shorter, more flat. Yes? And we saw how refractive errors are associated to tension in the muscles, right? Astigmatism, irregular tensions in the recti, uh hyperopia, um uh constant tension in the recti so you can see far, but not near. Um myopia, there's tension in the obliques so you can see near, but if the obliques are always tense, you cannot see far. And uh with presbyopia or the need for reading glasses, it's the muscles around the crystalline that are tense and so they don't allow uh the the lens to bulge up anymore. So, we saw in lesson number one how when you relax the muscles around the eye and in the eye, that allows you to improve your focus. Okay? So, that's basically um one of the main ideas of Bates' uh theories on focusing. Okay? The eyesight symptoms are caused by muscle tension in the muscles that govern focusing in the eye. Now, because Charles Kelly was a psychology student, he had also been acquainted with um the ideas by uh psychoanalysts. Uh you've probably all heard about Sigmund Freud, but be behind or beyond and after Sigmund Freud, there were a number of other psychiatrists and psychologists and doctors that um some followed Freud's idea ideas and others became like heterodox psychoanalysts. And among them, uh there was Wilhelm Reich. Mhm. And after him, uh uh Dr. Lowen and Dr. Pierrakos, all of them were psychiatrists. And they developed um the theory of muscular armor. Mhm. And what's uh what's the nugget or the core idea behind this theory? Uh that is that when you have unprocessed emotion, the unprocessed emotion will get stored in your body as muscle tension. So, the origin of muscle tension very often is emotional tension. And for example, uh and this is uh common sense, people who tend to be happy or sad or angry or fearful, they don't hold themselves in the same way in the public space. Aha. The way their bodies uh are uh generate or are holding or carrying different kinds of tensions. Yeah? They developed uh a quite detailed uh map of the body uh as a map of emotions. Yes? And uh but they hadn't particularly worked on the eyes. And Charles Kelly was like, wait a minute. If you're telling me that myopia is because of muscle tensions in the oblique muscles and hyperopia is because of muscle tensions in the recti muscles and astigmatism uh it's irregular tensions in the recti muscles. And then uh presbyopia is tension in the ciliary muscles. What if the origin of that tension in those muscles is actually emotion? And would it be true that depending on the eyesight symptom, there would be a different kind of emotional challenge or suppressed emotion? And that was the overarching hypothesis of his PhD. He worked with myopia, and so he discovered the emotions hiding behind myopia, and he set a new highway for research that was then followed by others. Among them, Dr. Martin Brofman, that was my mentor, and so I learned about this hypothesis by Dr. Martin Brofman. Okay, but we'll talk about my side of the research later. Okay, so the question he asked was, what if emotions created eyesight symptoms? So, as I said, Martin Brofman extended Dr. Charles Kelley's research, and his findings were published in a book called Improve Your Vision, Improve Your Eyesight. I think you have it, Diana. Show it. Improve Your Vision by Martin Brofman. Yeah. Martin Brofman was my first teacher, my first mentor in the area of natural vision improvement. Then I learned from others as well, but I was very, very influenced by his work. I discovered his books in 1999, had my first in-person training in 2002, and between 2007 and 2014, I became the direct personal translator of all the workshops that Martin Brofman delivered in Spain. I would translate Spanish to English, English to Spanish. Yeah, he would have liked actually for me to translate his books into Spanish, but then the publisher decided otherwise. Anyway, so thank you, Diana, for showing the book. So, I had the pleasure and the honor to work very closely with Dr. Martin Brofman, and he quantified and specified the emotions hiding and described the emotions hiding behind many other symptoms, eyesight symptoms. Okay, so this is what we're going to talk about today. Now, I took Dr. Martin Brofman's hypothesis and findings, and they were mostly clinical. He worked with thousands of clients, and I transformed it into a systematic research together in a collaboration with Dr. Anita Meidani or Anastasia Meidani at the University of Toulouse. Dr. Anastasia Meidani is a sociologist of health and the body, and together we created a survey with more than 2,000 participants, where we were asking about when symptoms started, what was going on at the time, and we could establish correlations between eyesight symptoms, emotions, and typical situations in life. Yeah? We're going to talk about this in a moment. Now, the the thing that I want to share with you also on this is that one of the findings that we had in this research was that 82% of people 82% of people participating in this research would spontaneously mention a stressful event at the time of their eyesight decline. 82%. So, it follows the Pareto rule, the Pareto principle, that certain factors can explain 80% of the result. If you have a factor that explains 80% of the result, that's something important you need to look at. Okay? It's a very big correlation for social sciences. In social sciences, when you have 20%, 30% of correlation, you're already observing a trend. So, 80% is really massive. It's really huge. It's actually 82%. So, what happened to the remaining 18%? I'll let me talk about this a little bit, too, because of that remaining um 18%, there was an extra 6% that said, "No, nothing particularly nothing particular happened. When my eyes were starting declining, I lost my job. I cannot think of anything really. My father died. Really nothing weird. I was depressed. I cannot see what could have happened. We went to live to another country." So, they were minimizing they were minimizing an event that actually fell into the category of one of the five most stressful events that a human can go under go in their lives. Okay? Sociology of life events and biographical trajectories have identified that there's five kind of events that are the most stressful for us humans. Not all of them, quote unquote, are negative, but there's they don't have to be, quote unquote, negative, but they're certainly stressful. Yeah? For example, a baby born in the family. It may be a very happy event, but it's certainly stressful. It changes a lot of life patterns. There's a lot of adjustments that are needed. Of course, somebody dying, very stressful. Changing the place where you live, and it may be an upgrade, but nevertheless, it is stressful, and you need a time to adjust to the new place where you live. Losing a job or changing jobs, very stressful, also. Or a relationship that ends, whether it's a breakup or a divorce. These are the five categories of most stressful events in a human's life, and these 6% of people were saying, "No, nothing happened," and they were mentioning one of these five. So, they were minimizing the impact, but it was nevertheless a time of stressful events. So, if we add them, that would be 88% of people's eyesight decline started at a time where there was a stressful event happening in their lives. Now, what about the 12% remaining? It could be that nothing happens. It could be a coincidence, or it could be, because this is also a psychological mechanism of protection, that something did happen, but they forgot. They suppressed, they repressed the event. But because we don't know, we're going to be conservative, right? And we're going to stay with, at least in 88% of cases, eyesight declines following or at the same time as a challenging moment in your life. And this is very important, because if you understand that the cause was the stressful event, then the focus to find a solution is around the stressful event, the emotions it left, the changes in your perception of life that it generated. That's where the cause is. But if we don't know about that, then we place the trying to find a solution somewhere else, the optics of the eye, right? But we're not reaching the root cause. When you solve the root cause, the solution is a lot more lasting. It's a lot deeper. And there's a second effect when you work on the root cause, and that is that when you work on your outer clarity, you get inner clarity, and that also makes you happier. So, not only you see more clearly, and you can use your eyesight for practical things and have a a more comfortable life, but you also live from a place of freedom, of inner freedom, satisfaction, happiness, relaxation, and that is a lot more satisfying in life. Okay? It makes you think of the German New Medicine. Well, it has a lot in common with it. The origin story of both traditions, if you may, or both schools of thought is different, but they have a lot of points in common, absolutely. Diana, Maria, do you want to mention something at this point? Do you want to make a comment, either of you? Raise your hand if you want. Okay. Yes, this is it makes so much sense to think about the emotion or emotions behind the symptoms, because you can make a lot of practices with your eyes, moving your eyes, well, all the things we are we are delivering here. They're useful. Yes. Yeah, of course. If you only do that, there could be a ceiling, and you don't go any further, or the symptom comes back. Yes, and when you understand that there was something behind that symptom, there you say, "Aha, that's why. That's why it happened." And well, it's a better understanding. Even as you said, I know of yourself. Because when you you you create clarity to the outside, you also see yourself clear. And you you can find the the the that meaning that was Yes. Yeah. >> Let's Let's say the same thing with different words. Yes? For example, and this is one of the symptoms that we're going to talk about. Let's say that people develop myopia, nearsightedness, at a time where they feel threatened by a trend a change in life. Yes? And so, the inner mechanism, when you feel threatened, is to hide from a threatening world. And you exercise, and you do all these things, and then you see better, and then you see better a threatening world. So, you want to go inwards again. Yeah? And until the moment where you can let go of the feeling of living in a threatening world, then the healing can be complete, because otherwise, your body's going to try to recreate the same mechanism of protection. So, that's that's the idea. So, I see Everett Murphy saying, "Fascinating. I have noticed that days when I feel like everything is going my way, my vision is literally clear." Absolutely. Absolutely. And then something magical happens and that is that your eyes can become even a kind of GPS for you in your life. So, you will start to notice in what places, with what activities, with what people you see more clearly. And that's kind of okay, that's the your place to be in life. Uh-huh. Your eyes are the organs that are showing you clarity. So, you can follow them as guides, but for that you need to understand their language, their metaphors, their messages. And that's what we're going to talk about today. Okay? Yes. Um thank you. Thank you, Vianna. Thank you. Uh so, we're going to talk about first the symptom translation technique. And actually, this symptom translation technique you can use for eyesight and you can use also for other body parts and other symptoms. Mhm. If we uh consider that um a symptom is not an enemy, but a messenger and that your body speaks what your soul has been shot, right? Um and so that the symptoms are adaptive responses of your body to the challenges that your body has in the environment. And then we can look at um symptoms as messengers, as friends that are trying to tell us something you we need to pay attention to. And so, how does this symptom translation technique work so that we can understand the message of the symptom? So, whenever a given symptom appears, like I remember someone here said that they could identify that some symptoms started in their 20s and then other symptoms started in their 60s. Okay, so it's interesting to understand what symptom appeared at what time in your life. You were what age or in what year, in what month, yeah? More or less. And then you can ask yourself, what was going on at the time that the symptom appeared? Um and you look at the symptom as a response to that challenge, to that situation. So, question number one, when did the symptom appear? Question number two, what was going on at the time that the symptom appeared? Question number three, what does the symptom allow you to do or keep you from doing? Because what the symptom accomplishes is the message of the symptom. Mhm. What your symptom is allowing you to do or keeping you from doing, that's what the symptom intends to do to protect you from that situation. Now, if we elevate our understanding, our awareness and our consciousness, we can probably find a higher level solution that doesn't require having a symptom. And I'm going to give you an example of something that is not related with eyesight, but just to uh so you understand. So, once there was a lady that came to see me with a broken leg. And the leg wouldn't heal in the normal uh standard time for bones to heal. And uh so, she was coming for a session um to help her leg heal. Her bone. Um it was the femur. And so, I asked her, "When did the leg break?" And it coincided with a breakup of her boyfriend. Interesting. Um okay, and what does the broken leg allow you to do or keep you from doing? And she told me with open eyes, like realizing at the same time as she was telling me that the broken leg was allowing her not to go to work, to have a legitimate um justification not to go to work. Where actually her ex was working. And so, having a broken leg allowed her not to have to face the guy that she just had broken up with and apparently it was a an ugly an ugly separation. So, once she understood what the broken leg was accomplishing to protect her from having to face her ex, then she could find other solutions. Maybe go on holidays, maybe ask for paid leave, maybe change department. Uh-huh. Maybe change jobs. In a way that she wouldn't have to see the guy immediately, have some time, buy some some time. The moment she realized that, she chose to go on holiday, she had holidays. And then her leg could heal very quickly. But imagine if your eyes have gone bad to keep you from seeing a difficult situation and now you have to put on glasses, now you see the difficult situation clearly again when you're not ready to look at it. So, this is another way in which wearing glasses immediately make the symptom progressive. Because if with the glasses you see the situation you didn't want to you didn't want to see, then your muscles generate more tension not to see that situation that you're not ready for seeing. And so, in this way the symptom progresses and becomes worse and worse. At the same time as your glasses make your eyes dependent and chronicify the tensions in the muscles. Okay. So, okay, I know so, if my eyesight declined, then yeah, there's something that I didn't want to see, something that I couldn't see, something that was hard to see. Yes. Mhm. But when I'm saying you this, please don't consider that you're guilty or something or that it's your fault. It's it's what your body could do best at that time to protect you and to keep you safe and to make you survive psychologically. Yeah, so now don't blame yourself for having generated the symptom. What you can instead is considering yourself responsible and also creative. If you were capable of creating the system, you are as capable of healing it. You can undo it. You have the same power to go the other direction and generate a different reality for yourself. Okay? So, when you can understand when you can understand the messages from symptoms, uh-huh, then you have the tools to make this dialogue with yourself, with your needs and make the shifts and the changes in your life that you need. Okay, I see my mom's eyes got better after she quit her microbiology job. Maybe she didn't like that job very much and it was a liberation. So, yeah, that can happen, too. Okay? Okay, so now we are going to look at different symptoms and go more in depth, more specifically to understand what's the kind of message that usually tends to hide behind every specific eyesight symptom that we will talk about. Uh and Silvia is like, "And what if the decline in my eyesight is due to age?" I do not believe that it's due to age. We spoke yesterday how about that is a false limiting belief. Uh um symptoms are not biologically programmed to be triggered at certain dates. It depends on what you are doing with your time, what habits are you cultivating and also at that age, what happened? Because sometimes in different societies at certain ages not nice things start to happen. Like you have to retire when you love your job or other things. Anyway, we're we're going to talk about this in a moment. Okay? And in any case, like the team is saying, we have had students improving their eyesight at any age, in their 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, even in their hundreds. We have one example. Okay. In any case, as I said, uh when you work on this um metaphorical aspect of uh eyesight and emotions, uh it not only brings back clarity for your eyes and your eyesight, but it also brings clarity for your vision of yourself and your vision of the world. So, you get two benefits, seeing clearly and being happier. So, now let's jump into the symptoms and as I'm going to be talking about the various symptoms, I would like to invite you to pay close attention. Maybe you want to jot on a piece of paper or on a notebook the symptoms that you have, uh-huh, so that you pay attention at the explanations I'm going to be giving about what are the usual uh emotional causes for those various symptoms. Okay, so we're going to start. Okay, let's see. We're going to start with myopia, mhm, with nearsightedness. And I believe, Maria, that you had that. So, uh after I do the explanation, I'm going to invite you to jump in and say something about your experience. And same uh Vianna, since you're both here, when you hear a symptom that you had, please jump in so we can have a more in the flesh example of uh the symptoms. So, when a person is myopic or experiences nearsightedness, what happens is if this is a metaphor of our personal space, a person that is nearsighted can see clearly near, what's near, but cannot see well what's far away. So, metaphorically, what is this person doing with their energy? They're holding their energy. They're um stepping back. They're hiding from what is perceived as a threatening world. Mhm. Myopia typi- typically start in childhood, more likely, at a time when the person experiences a change that they were not prepared for. Mhm. And one very interesting uh yes, Ray Charles became blind after watching his brother drown. Exactly. And that's an example that I'm going to give that I was going to give talking about blindness, but so you saw the film and you are aware about it. Yeah, so with myopia we were saying uh typically starts at a time where there's a change that the person is not prepared for. Historically, myopia was basically produced and started uh in Prussia in the 19th century when the compulsory school started for all kids. Mhm. There was almost no myopia then, but at that time when everyone had to go to school and it was not just any kind of school, they were kind of based on the military model, uh very disciplined and nobody can talk and they have to sit and they have to ask permission for everything. So, uh school was a a historical producer of myopia. And not just in the 19th century, nowadays a lot of people start having myopia when they start going to school. And it is a big change, being at home with your parents, in an environment that is known, uh with a lot of more flexibility to negotiate things and then you have to be sitting not moving, paying attention with uh more discipline and uh maybe it's not when school starts, but when you have a teacher that is difficult or at the time when you're bullied in school. Anyway, uh uh a lot of myopia started school uh around uh challenging situations. So, I see Maria, you want to say something? Was that your case? More or less. I don't know when my near-sightedness exactly started, but I remember being criticized at school by other students, teachers. Mhm. It didn't affect me as a child, but as I began being a teenager it started affecting me. Mhm. So, I I I went from it doesn't matter to I feel really good every time I speak in public and it links to the thing I said before. I didn't I wasn't aware of how could I could I speak in public. I would I would have so many resistance to do that. And I had resistance because I had that feeling about myself. Interesting that uh uh how both are connected. So, your eyesight got worse when you became shy to speak in public because you were criticized and as you were improving your eyesight and feeling more confident, then you could also recover that capacity to speak in public even on the internet where thousands of people Yeah. Yes, so school is one of the factors, but it doesn't have to be the only one. Uh it can also be that there's stressful situations at home. Maybe grandpa one grandparent dies or a parent loses their job or worse, the parents are arguing or they separate or they divorce. Mhm. Also changing the place where you live uh maybe the cause of myopia. Uh change of apartments, change of cities, change of countries, changes of school. Uh-huh. Uh those kinds of changes can be challenging for a kid and can be the moment where myopia starts. Um also changes in cycles, like you finish primary school and you go to middle school, you finish middle school and you go to high school, you finish high school and you go to university, you finish university and you have your first job. Yeah, every time there's a change in situation that is challenging, it's a moment where myopia can start. Mhm. Also um uh when start experiencing puberty and there's a new uh with the hormones and all of that, there's a new range of experiences that we have to open to, like attraction, am I attractive? Uh is the person that I like going to like me? Or am I going to be liked by people I don't like? And that brings also another set of challenges that can also be the time when myopia starts. And finally, there's another kind of myopia uh that's uh is happens more in adulthood or young adulthood um and that happens to women with pregnancies. And having a child, we said, is one of the five most challenging life events that one can live. Uh so, for a woman either having their first child or having the child number X that for them means, "Oh my god, how am I going to do this with so many kids?" That's also um a moment for myopia starting. And I'm seeing that Lizzie shows saying, "Your explanation of myopia matches 100% my experience. I've been aware for a while that when I'm afraid I imagine a barrier around myself where I feel safer and even trying not to look outside that space." It's extremely good that you're so conscious about this because actually what happens when you have near-sightedness is that you stop looking far. And so the eyes and the brain adapt. So, when you are near-sighted, you want to be looking far even if you don't see clearly yet. Uh-huh. Uh it's like when you're trying to learn to play the piano, you need to stretch your fingers so that you reach all the notes. So, you want to see clearly again far away, you need to look far away even if you're just paying attention at the colors, the shapes and you don't um intend to see sharp. Uh-huh, but it's important to practice looking far away without expectations, just as a game. And now, in emotional terms, if the cause behind myopia is fear, insecurity, mhm, uh looking at a threatful um a threatening uh future, then what is uh the solution? To um generate trust and confidence. Confidence in yourself, trust in life. So, a mantra, if you want to let go of myopia, is to repeat to yourself very often, "Everything's okay. Everything will be okay. And if something comes up, I will be able to handle it." Mhm. To have trust in yourself, trust in life. Mhm. When people develop myopia uh and because behind myopia there's fear and insecurity, they start to be looking at the future with fear and so they become preoccupied. Mhm. They become um uh people that are also in prevention, like they're always thinking ahead of the of what could happen. They're thinking about a thousand possi- possible negative futures. Guess what? There are not so many possibilities, there's only one future and probably not as bad as you thought. Uh-huh. So, another thing that you need to do if you've been um uh experiencing myopia is let go of the control, uh-huh, which is a compensating mechanism for the fear and the insecurity. And instead of be looking and thinking about the future all the time, be present in the present. When you are present in the present, the present becomes a present, becomes a gift. But if you're always thinking about the future, you're missing the moment of joy, which is the present moment, being here and now, being present to your senses. Mhm. We did a little exercise um in the um the way forward podcast with Alex and maybe you were there. Uh maybe you weren't, but if you pay attention at your hand and you're looking at all the details of your hand, the colors and the volumes and the the lines and the shapes and you're completely immersed in your hand, you're going to see it sharper. But if you start thinking about the shopping list that you need to do for next week, uh the uh hand is going to become blurry. And people that experience near-sightedness are doing that all the time. Their mind is in the future, they're not present in the present. So, this is something that you need to practice if you've been experiencing myopia. Be present in the present, let go of the future and trust the process. Trust yourself, trust life. Mhm. And uh trust uh that that things are okay, they're going to be okay and if something comes up, you're going to be able to handle it. Yes? Okay, so Kathleen is like, "My eyesight started to decline when I was 13 with myopia starting high school and going to new school, a world of adulthood. I was really scared of growing up." This makes a lot of sense. Yay, so happy that you're having aha moments and now you have clarity on what to look at, where to look at so you can solve uh myopia. Now, with hyperopia or far-sightedness, uh with hyperopia, people with hyperopia at any age, they cannot see well near, but they see what's far away. Mhm. And with hyperopia, uh the underlying emotion is often also um fear, but the um coping mechanism is different. Mhm. With myopia, when you're afraid, you hide. Mhm. With hyperopia, when you're afraid, you run away, you're looking for the emergency exit to leave. Uh-huh. Um people that experience hyperopia at some point in life, it was not safe to be present where they were, so they felt like they had to run away, go someplace else, look for something else. Mhm. Um and so uh change can be very positive, of course. Uh sometimes we need to change career paths or partners or place where we live or whatever, but when it becomes a fixed mechanism that you're doing automatically, then you don't allow yourself to experience the benefits from commitment and engagement in long-term processes. And with people with hyperopia, there is a left tendency of having to run away, having to flee. Because of whatever was not safe at the time the hyperopia started. So if you've been experiencing hyperopia, what you can tell yourself is that now now it is safe to stay where you are and you have the right to remain where you are, to relax, to get comfortable and to get the benefit of living the full experience. How about a mix of both? Okay, this is an interesting question, Liliana, because it's impossible for one eye to have myopia and hyperopia at the same time. Because one eye cannot be long and short at the same time. It can be either long or short, but it cannot be both. Now, two eyes, one could be short and the other could be long. So you can you could be nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other. And in that case, you need to understand the polarity of the eyes. If you're right-handed, if you're right-handed, then your right side of your body is your young side, the side about action, projects, things that happen outside of the house. And your left side of your body, your left eye, is the yin side, about the things that happen inside of the home, intimacy, emotions, relationship, caring. And because in many societies and historically in many cultures, the activities outside of the home were assigned to men and the activities inside of the home were assigned to women, our young eye is often relating to how we see men, important men in our life, father, a brothers, a male partner or male children, and the yin eye is associated to how we see females, important females in our life, our mom, our sisters, a female partner or our daughters. For left-handed people, it would be the other. Yes? So if you, let's say, experience myopia on the young eye, and the right eye if you're right-handed, and you experience hyperopia in the left one, then you would be hiding from men or hiding from the outer world or hiding from your projects, and you would be running away from women, running away from emotions, running away from intimacy. I hope that makes sense. Now, what is likely to happen, Liliana, is not a mix of myopia and hyperopia. What you're probably experiencing is a mix of myopia with presbyopia, with the need for reading glasses. And that's a different symptom. With presbyopia, the tension is in the ciliary muscles around the crystalline, and that's what a lot of people experience, quote unquote, with age, and that's what we're going to talk about next. Okay? So presbyopia, the so-called need for reading glasses that comes with age. And again, the fact that it comes with age is only a statistical, frequent experience. It's not a biologically determined law. There's a difference. A lot of people experiencing something doesn't make it something that's determined or that's compulsory or that's a rule or that's biologically determined. So let's talk about presbyopia now. With presbyopia, they also call it the syndrome of the arm that is too short. You you need to put things further away so you can see them, and it comes they tell us, but it doesn't come with age per se, but with the things that we experience with the social age that we have. And what we're doing with our energy is that we're bringing it further and further away. So what happens? We're giving away our energy to other people that we think are more important than us. In our Western societies, with age, we tend to feel less important. Our societies tend to be ageist. So when you're older, you're not as attractive, you're not considered as useful. You want to buy a new house, you go to the bank, they tell you you don't have enough working time in front of you to be able to pay back the loan, so they're not going to give you the money. Uh-huh. Technology goes fast and you your grandchildren know how to work all the devices and you and you don't even know where to start. So that's what happens with age, that we emotionally feel that we have lost our value. And when we feel that we have lost our value, then we give our energy to others. And now we're paying attention to what our children need, our spouses need, our parents need, the neighbor needs or whomever, and we stop paying attention to ourselves, to our own needs and to put ourselves in the center. With presbyopia, people tend to look into the past as the best part of their life. And they look at the past with regret, with nostalgia, with guilt, with anger, as if the best of their life had already happened. So if you want to heal from presbyopia, then what is the antidote? Well, first, you need to put yourself in the center of your own life. Make yourself the main character of your life, the protagonist again, the king or the queen, and treat yourself as you would treat the person that you're most in love with. Give yourself the priority. And what does that mean? Well, maybe you've been working for many years and maybe you were taking care of kids and maybe now you don't work and the kids are gone. Great. This is the time to do all those things that you were holding back from that you wanted to do all your life. This is the time to start painting or traveling or dancing or doing those things that were kept in the drawer because you didn't have time for them. And even if you're never going to do a painting exposition, take the time to paint because you deserve to have fun, period. It doesn't have to be practical or useful to anyone. You are so important that you deserve to enjoy that time for you. So sometimes, for that, to put yourself in the center and do the things that you love, you need to practice what I call positive selfishness. But how does this work? Okay, you need to put yourself first in priority. So first, me. After that, me. Later, me. And if there's something left, it's for me. And it may sound exaggerated, but actually, if you've developed presbyopia, you have been paying too much attention to other people and you need to bring that attention back to yourself. Yourself first. You need to fill your cup first. You cannot give what you don't have. So you need to fill yourself with care, with enjoyment, with love, yeah, with self-care, and treat yourself like a princess, like a king, like a queen, and once you are fulfilled, then the remaining time, energy and focus you can give to others. Now, a second ingredient that is very, very important to let go of presbyopia is to make sure that you make the rest of your life the best of your life. Instead of looking at the past with regret, what do you need to do to make your life exciting now? And to look forward to the future. And I'm very happy, Silvia, that there's bells ringing. Sounds like this is making sense to you. And they this making sense to a lot of people because presbyopia nowadays is unfortunately very, very spread. After your 40s, after your 50s, a lot of people develop presbyopia. And interestingly, presbyopia is more prevalent and happens earlier for women. And nobody's going to be surprised because women tend to be the caretakers for everyone else. So now it's time to pay attention to you first, okay? Okay, thanks for waking me up. Great that you got this, Silvia. I love the support that's happening in the chat at this moment. I don't know, Diana, Maria, you want to say something about this? Is this something you experience? Yeah, yeah, I know. Um that's why when we Well, I have a mix of of of symptoms, but understanding the meaning behind presbyopia is like, wow. Like Silvia is saying, wow, wow. Yes, it is. Because then I understood why, for example, on a plane they tell you put your oxygen mask first to you and then to the other to the person next to you. And I said, no, if my kid is there, I put the But yeah, and and you you can be, you know, so understanding this, well, at that moment, yeah, make make my my eyes open big because then I understood, okay, now it's the time for me and me and only me because if I'm good, if I'm well, the people around me will be better, too. They they will feel this energy. So, yeah, especially for women that we we we tend to, you know, to care for others, for everyone, even the neighbors. And yeah, and we spread that energy and that we we have lost in ourselves. So, yes, yes, it's true. I love the sentence that Michelle Henry wrote, "Queen of Queen for the day, every day." So, that's what you need to practice if you want to let go of presbyopia, okay? Now, let me tell you that I have had myopia and hyperopia and presbyopia and astigmatism. So, all these symptoms that we're talking about, I have healed from, even also the next two, amblyopia and strabismus. So, I also had to face the kind of emotional challenges that I'm talking about in order to heal from these symptoms and nowadays I see very very very well. I have never worn glasses and this emotional aspect can really work very quickly and it makes you happy at the same time as it allows you to see clearly. Okay, let's talk about Oh, and for those who are asking, "Can I reverse my myopia of minus nine power?" Yes, you can. And can can you reverse cataracts? Yes, you can. You can reverse any symptom. Keep paying attention cuz I'm going to be talking about the various symptoms, yes? Okay, with astigmatism, we said that astigmatism is caused by irregular tensions in the recti muscles. And [snorts] so, because of the irregular tensions, they distort, they bend the cornea in a way that makes that light impulses arrive irregularly to the retina. So, people see distorted images, yeah? Sometimes with a halo, sometimes a little bit double. So, what's the emotional aspect behind astigmatism? Well, you have distorted your values. And we're talking here not about values in terms of like liberty and equality and solidarity and fraternity, but more what is real for you, what are your real priorities. What makes your heart sing? What's the path of your soul? I developed astigmatism in my early 30s and presbyopia in my early 30s. So, I had to look at how I was finding that best of my life was already behind in my early 30s and with astigmatism, what your eyes are telling you is that you have betrayed yourself to please somebody or to gain the approval of somebody or to fit in a mold that is of what is expected from you. So, if you have developed astigmatism, look back at when the astigmatism happened and what decisions you made in your life to please someone or to fit the mold or to search for approval for somebody. And you need to stop doing that and to do what is true for you. For me, I could let go of astigmatism when I realized that actually becoming a university professor and having a career in science and academia was my father's dream and I was being the good girl searching for approval from dad and doing what he wanted. He always wanted to have a female scientist in the family, so I was that. And I didn't stop being connected to the university, but I shifted my project from just basic research into something that would be applied and that would generate well-being and happiness for other people that would be a social contribution, which is what I'm doing now. So, this way I don't get to have astigmatism anymore, yeah? A friend of mine who was a writer, a self-taught writer, was reading all the various schools and trends in literature, in worldwide literature, and she developed astigmatism at a time when she was reading French classical writers that she found particularly boring, but she thought that she must read them to have a complete a culture on writing and literature. And as she was and so she bought glasses with astigmatism and as she was pushing through to read the boring French writers, boring for her, in the library one day a book fell from a shelf opening a page and said, "The organs that you don't use deteriorate." And she chose to take her glasses, break them, and throw them. And she kept reading that book that happened to be from a Sufi writer and she found the book fascinating and the Sufi writers fascinating. So, when she stopped forcing herself to do something she didn't want to do, she found boring, but she thought she must, in her case reading classical French writers, and she stopped doing that and she started doing what really made her heart sing, reading the Sufi writers, the astigmatism disappeared immediately. Okay, so um Okay, so if you have developed astigmatism, ask yourself where you have betrayed yourself, where you stopped listening to the path of your heart in order to please someone or search approval for someone, yeah? Okay, let's move on because I I know this class is a little bit longer because we have a lot of symptoms to talk about, but I would like to hear um um um if this is making sense, if this is resonating. And if you only have astigmatism in one eye, which can happen, it's not very common, but it can happen, then you need to see if you have betrayed yourself in the area of projects, things that happen outside the house, you the way you see men or if you've betrayed yourself in the area of intimacy, relationship, care, the things that happen at home, yeah? That's I how I would look at it. Amblyopia, when you have a lazy eye, your brain is not processing the information from one eye. I had that and Diana had that, right? So, when there's amblyopia, you need to ask yourself, is it difficult to see mom or to see dad? Is it Usually amblyopia happens when you're a child and so projects and things outside doesn't make so much sense. It's more about mom and dad and the dynamics in the family. My amblyopia was healed uh so early on that I don't even know which one of the eyes was amblyopic and my parents don't remember either, but maybe you have information on that, Diana. Yeah, actually, well, because of the symptoms that come after amblyopia, I had a combination of of those. Yes, I had one eye that was almost lost because of my strabismus and well, but that was that. At that time, I was eight years old. Then I could relate when I was when I was an adult, I could relate to the the emotion behind the symptom. What was my my brain telling me what in fact it was protecting me not to see something. So, one of my eyes was becoming quieter, you know, and because yeah, we don't like that that lazy because no eyes are lazy, but they need care. They need attention. Yes. Could amblyopia be confused with astigmatism? They're kind of difficult. With astigmatism, you see distorted lines and you see double even when or when you look with your eyes separately, you see distorted, you see halos, you see maybe double. Whereas with amblyopia, your brain is only considering the information from one eye. So, you may be seeing double, but only when you look from both. Actually, it's more with strabismus that there when there's a squint, right? So, no, they're kind of different symptoms. Now, let's talk about strabismus and both Diana and I also had strabismus, right? We had a squint. And with strabismus, what happens, often it's associated with amblyopia. Amblyopia and strabismus or lazy eye and a squint often come together. But we're understanding them separate. So, with a squint, you have one eye that's going inward or it's going outward, uh-huh? Or it could be the other one that goes inward or goes outward, yeah? Usually, it's the amblyopic eye that is not looking at anything in particular, the brain is not paying attention, and so that eye is not looking at the thing that you're looking. It's going inward or outward. And so, again, it's interesting to see if it's your yang eye, the eye of seeing dad, the eye of seeing your projects, your your will, or the yin eye, the dad the eye of seeing mom, the eye of seeing intimacy, emotions, yeah? And if it's going inward, what usually happens is that mom and dad are fighting and the child feels guilty about it. It's pointing at me. It's my fault. It's because of me that mom and dad are not getting along. And when there's one uh outward strabismus, actually, the experience of the kid is like, "If I connect with dad, I cannot connect with mom. If I connect with mom, I cannot connect with dad because they're so different that I cannot make them work together and collaborate. In the in the perception of the kid, it's like male energy and female energy are not compatible. They're not working together. So, I have to choose sides. I have to choose loyalties. So, if you have kids that have strabismus around you, please make them know and understand that nothing of the dynamic of the parents is their fault and that whatever their story is with mom and dad, that they are loved, that they are the result of love and that they have the right to be connected to both their parents. This is of utmost importance for people with strabismus and amblyopia. And if you have clarity, if the challenge is more with mom or more with dad, well, then we can create a context for that child to feel the love both from dad and mom. And here there may be questions about love language, right? Because different people understand expressions of love in a different way, but look at the difference. If the focus is about the child, the person feeling the love and feeling connected, or if the experience is about putting glasses in front of the eyes and making the person even be bullied and at school and be called called four eyes and things like that, right? This is what happened to you and to many children that have issues with eyesight in their young age. Okay. Okay. So, if you see double with your right eye only when you look up from the top, okay, if you see double only with your right eye, that's that is astigmatism. It's not strabismus or amblyopia. Yeah? With strabismus and amblyopia, you see double when you're using both eyes, okay? Okay. Okay. And with vertical strabismus, then there is a thing to clarify about hierarchy and who is higher and who is lower and how do we feel with people that are beyond above us or under us. That that's uh the thing. Yeah? Smita, you're asking about that. Okay. Let's see. And Thomas is saying, "It's resonating. I have a bit of most of them. What do I do first?" Well, make sure that you make yourself happy, that you pay attention at your needs, yes? And step by step. Maybe focus on what makes the most sense or seems to be the stronger challenge or on the contrary, the thing that's easier to have a quick win, yeah? But awareness and consciousness is a very big very very big important first step. Okay. Now, some people have spoken about double vision. Double vision could be caused by astigmatism, it could be caused by strabismus, it could be caused by cataracts at the physical anatomical level, but we need to look at diplopia or double vision as a symptom by itself in terms of what it means. What what it means emotionally. Okay. So, when you see double, whether it's with both eyes or with one eye, whatever the cause is, it means that there's something inside of you that you haven't been able to reconcile. There's two options, two ways in your life that you have the feeling that you have to choose and you cannot integrate them both. Sometimes it's a conflict between mom and dad or male energy and female energy, but it can be about something else. I remember the case with this student, it was very very clear. She started having double vision when she got an extremely good job in the UK and she was from Spain. And the job that she had in the UK satisfied her enormously. She really had a blast with her job and her career, but she was miserable because she was away from her family in Spain. Yeah? So, she felt divided between her job and her family and she couldn't have both things that made her happy at the same time. The moment she figured out how to keep that amazing beautiful job and have time to enjoy her family, then the double vision went away. Yeah? So, you missed the name of number six, it's strabismus. Yeah? Okay. So, when you have or squint, when you have double vision, look at where in your life, in your feelings, in your emotions, in your in your needs, you feel divided. And do what you need to unify and integrate your needs and then your vision can unify again. Okay. Now, cataracts. Some people were asking about cataracts. With cataracts, the crystalline becomes progressively opaque. In mainstream ophthalmology, what they do is they remove the natural crystalline and they replace it by an artificial clear lens, yes? Now, you need to know that cataracts can be reversed with movement of the crystalline. The more you move the crystalline, the more flexible and transparent it remains. And the way to move the crystalline is to look far and near and far and near. And nowadays we spend too much time looking near and not nearly enough time looking far away. So, that's one part. Now, in the emotional aspect, if the window to our soul becomes not transparent, but it's as if there's a blind in front of the window to our soul. We have closed the blinds of the window with cataracts. Why would you do that? Why would you close the windows to the world or the windows to your soul when you're not interested in life anymore, when you you don't have anything to look forward to? And that's what often happens with cataracts. Cataracts tend to happen at a time when the person loses something that was very important to look forward to waking up in the morning and go out and see the world and live life. For example, people that love their jobs, when they retire or they lose their job, they develop cataracts at that time. If that's what made them motivated to get up and and live life, right? But it can be for other reasons, too. For example, sometimes women in later age, the thing that they're really looking forward to is to be grandmothers, right? And to enjoy their grandchildren. And what if your kids don't have grandchildren? Or what if they do, but they live far away? Or you don't get along with a spouse or you don't get along with your own children and you don't have the possibility to see what you were most looking forward to. That could be another reason for cataracts. Sometimes we also found the correlation, particularly for men in Mexico. I'm mentioning this because it's another case. It doesn't have to be that kind of thing, but it could be that kind of thing. Men that are very attached to their sexuality, their sexuality really makes their life interesting and that's what motivates them. And with, I don't know, problems with prostate or something else, the sexuality starts to not be as interesting or not function as well. If they lose sight of that which made them so happy, that's the moment where they can develop cataracts. So, I hope that you understand the kind of thing that I'm talking about. Yes? Okay. So, that's the emotional aspect behind cataracts. So, what if you got cataracts from IOL lens? Whatever the physical cause is, you can always consider if this emotional aspect makes sense to you. And with cataracts, the invitation is to look forward to more exciting things in life. Okay. How about macular degeneration? When there's macular degeneration, so, I'm going to show you the eye. So, the part that's affected is the macula, which is responsible for central vision. So, people with macular degeneration see black or blurry in the center of their visual field and maybe they see well with their peripheral field, right? So, in emotional terms, the question is you lost sight of something that was central in your life. Yeah? And what was central? It could be a relationship, it could be a project, it could be something else, but if you have lost the center of your life, you need to find out something else something else that can become that new axis or new center to make your life interesting and exciting. With retinopathy, it's the opposite. With retinopathy, the center is okay and it's in the periphery that there portions of the visual field that are lost. So, in this case, the person is so focused on what's important that they lose sight of the context. They forget to go slow and smell the flowers. They forget to put things into perspective in the frame. So, that that's it. And with glaucoma, when there's high intraocular pressure, we already said that the aqueous humor the aqueous humor leaves between the cornea and the crystalline. And when there's too much aqueous humor, well first off, we already told you yesterday and the day before yesterday that if you alternate palming and sunning and palming and sunning, the iris will be opening and closing, opening and closing, and that helps pump the aqueous humor out and correct the intraocular pressure. But if there's too much intraocular pressure in the structures in the front of the eye, they push towards the back of the eye. So all of this is pushing towards the back of the eye, and the problem is generated in the optic nerve. Where first the peripheral neurons, the neurons of with information from the periphery are lost progressively. And if the glaucoma goes to the last consequences, you could also lose central vision. But more typically with glaucoma, you lose peripheral vision first. Mhm. And so with glaucoma, we have both things. We lose sight of the context, we lose sight of the perspective, we're too focused on what's the main thing or the only thing or the important thing. But also with glaucoma, there is an experience of a lot of pressure in life. Yeah? So you've been experiencing glaucoma, you need to chill, relax, smell the flowers, go slow, take advantage of the context. Yes? Enjoy the video of life. Now, vitreous detachment and retinal detachment, they could go together, they don't have to, but emotionally they're also kind of related. With vitreous detachment, we're told at the anatomical level that the vitreous humor declines in quality over time, and as it collapses, it could rip off part of the retina. Yeah? The retinal detachment is dangerous, and if you see like water cascading or black dots or you lose a spot of seeing, you want to go to an ophthalmologist quickly because maybe it has to be the retina that be anchored quickly. But any in any case, in emotional terms, in emotional terms, when there's a vitreous detachment, the person has lost something that was important. Mhm. So there's a sense of grief that has to improve. And with retinal detachment, the thing that the person lost had even more importance. Retinal detachment usually happens when we have lost a very important relationship, like an important person died, mom or dad, or there was a divorce, something like that, a breakup. Mhm. Okay, if you've had glaucoma and it's been affecting your central vision more than the peripheral vision, then you have lost sight of something central in your life. And what about floaters? It's coming up. Give me a second. Be patient. It's coming, coming. Okay. Eye fatigue. So the floaters will come up in a moment. If you are experiencing eye fatigue, the question is what are you tired to look at? Cuz your eyes are the windows to your soul. If your eyes are bored of looking too much at something, they get fatigued. They need other kinds of stimuli. They need to see beauty in different ways. Maybe you need to go outdoors and look at the flowers and the birds and the sky. Huh? Your eyes are telling you something through their fatigue. You're bored of something. When the eyes are watery or dry, they may seem opposite symptoms, but they're both related to the tear, the quantity and the quality of the tears in your eyes. Guess what? Your eyes have two functions, seeing and expressing emotions. If you inhibit one of them, the other one gets inhibited, too. Inhibited, too. If you have dry eyes or watery eyes, probably it's about something that you haven't cried or that you haven't finished crying. So often watery eyes and dry eyes are talking about sadness that hasn't been expressed or made conscious. Mhm. There's people who developed watery eye or dry eye after one of their parents dies, and they showed strong to support the other surviving parent. Guess what? Even if your mother lost their spouse, you lost your father. So you also need to have a time and a space to do your grieving. Huh? And maybe you do it with a professional or in the bathroom when nobody's looking, but you need to have a space where you can express your emotions. Yeah? When you have itchy eyes, conjunctivitis, or pterygium, there's different levels on irritation and inflammation in the eyes. Maria, you've had this? You want to talk about it? I had very, very frequent conjunctivitis. The physical cause was I wear what I used to wear very frequently contact lenses. Mhm. Which are caused everything. Well, every little dust that enters your eyes may may cause a conjunctivitis. Infection. Yeah. >> But when I did the Clear Sight Method course, I found out that every time I had a conjunctivitis, I had an It was at the same time what you told before about the yin eye, the yang eye. So when I was disturbed by something that had to do with my mom, Mhm. my left eye started to itch. You got You got conjunctivitis at that time. Interesting. Now, let me explain because I haven't told it yet. When you have your eyes itching, actually when you have any body part that's itching or that it's inflamed, it's actually a reflection of anger, of suppressed anger. Mhm. So if you got conjunctivitis on the left eye, probably you were annoyed by your mom, but you were not allowing yourself to experience it consciously or to express it. Would that make sense? That makes sense. Absolutely sense. It was because I didn't express it. And if I didn't express it, it become with an itchy eye on the first day, first two days, the third day it became a full conjunctivitis. So it was like that. Yeah, so if you're having inflammations and itchiness in your eyes, look at what what do you need to express around anger? What boundaries have not been respected or who are you looking with at in your life with annoyance, you know, being annoyed? Okay, and somebody was asking about floaters. So this is coming, too. So floaters in an anatomical sense, actually we all have floaters throughout our whole life. Floaters are normal to a certain extent. Floaters are simply the cellular regeneration of the vitreous humor. If you look at a white wall or at the sky or at water, you see kind of translucent worms moving in your visual field. And it's normal to have some of them at any age. Yes? Now, what's not normal is to have a bunch of them and for them to become annoying. A lot of floaters could be the effect of vitreous detachment. But the floaters themselves, emotionally what they mean, sometimes they're called also people call them like spider webs, or they say that they have flies in their in their eyes. So the expression around the floaters usually in different languages is as if we had bugs in our eyes, in our visual field. So the question here is what is bugging you? What is bothering you? What situations, what people, what thoughts? But when you experience a lot of floaters, something is bugging you. And what's interesting is that the floaters can diminish in quantity. They If you observe them with curiosity instead of being annoyed by the floaters themselves, but look at them as if you were looking at snowflakes falling, that can shift the experience already. And your your brain can Photoshop the presence of floaters. So you can see clearly again and not experience floaters. Yeah? Okay, I'm seeing people say, "Thank you for that. So on point. This is beautiful. I love that you're Yeah, that this is making sense." Thank you, Maria. Thank you, Rihanna. So we were on floaters. Let's talk about photophobia or glare, sensitivity to light. Sometimes people when they go outdoors, they're like, "Oh my god, the sun is too strong." And I'm seeing more and more people have their dyed like dyed windows in the cars or wearing sunglasses all the time. So that's a sign of photophobia. First off, yesterday we already explained that if you have photophobia, sensitivity to light, the best thing you can do to let go of it is actually sunning. Go out in the sun, do the sunning, and you'll see that progressively your pupil will work again mhm and will be able to adapt to the level of light. If you're uh wearing sunglasses all the time and you are in the car with tinted glasses, your pupils tend to be dilated constantly, so the moment you go in the sun, they're not capable of closing anymore. And that causes blurry vision, and that could cause glaucoma in the future, so you don't want that. Mhm? But in any case, in uh emotional terms, when there's sensitivity to light and photophobia, it's a reflection of how comfortable or how uncomfortable you are with uh people shining bright their own lights. People with photophobia seem to be annoyed when there's someone shining. And uh if you're annoyed with somebody else shining, it's because you haven't come to terms with your own light and shining bright as you are by yourself. Mhm? So, um um to release photophobia, uh you need to become empowered and and be proud of your own uh of your own self and your own light. Okay? Now, styes. Mhm? Um when you have styes, there's a little ball uh growing in your eyelids. Often it's in the upper ones. It can also happen in the lower ones. At the physical level, it's because um the glands, the uh Zeiss or meibomian glands have become stuck, and so there's grease that is being infected and kept in the eye. Mhm? So, you could apply dry heat and help the grease uh melt and uh help the sty go, but in emotional terms, the styes are talking about something that you're holding in and you're not expressing, and it's growing inside. So, things held and repressed and not expressed. And um Okay, I'm seeing uh Nadia says a lot of it I'm realizing is interconnected. Like what is bugging me with floaters can be connected to being frustrated with having glaucoma and losing the focus on something central to my life. Okay, so you're connecting the do- the dots between everything. That's that's beautiful and amazing. So happy for you. Okay, keratoconus. This is not a very common symptom, but with keratoconus, what happens is that the cornea is uh has become weak, and it becomes pointed, and there's a risk of breaking. I I see Diana, you're showing something. You want to show something? The shape, like the shape of a rugby ball. Yes, just to >> or rugby ball. Yes. Mhm. Yeah. And so, it could break, and it can distort objects. Uh cornea being uh the most powerful lens in the in the body, in the eye, uh the cornea is a metaphor for empowerment. Cuz it's the most powerful lens. And uh when you develop keratoconus, you feel disempowered. You feel weak. And if the cornea would break, uh it's extremely painful. So, the experience of being disempowered and powerless is extremely painful. Color blindness. When you confuse colors, like red and green is the most uh common confusion of colors. Um well, you need to understand uh you're not only confusing the colors, but you're confusing what those colors represent, what they stand for. Mhm? And red is associated with danger and also with trust and safety, uh-huh, confidence. And green is associated um with uh love and self-love. Uh if we associated uh energy centers and solar ple- and the nervous plexuses in the body with the colors of the rainbow, so someone that confuses green with red is confusing love with security. And they can go together, but they can be different. And when the people understand that they're different concepts, then they can start seeing the colors separately again. And we've had students achieve that, even though color blindness is supposed to be genetic and it's supposed to be impossible to heal. Well, when you make the distinction, you can heal. And blindness, and I would like to uh find the comment of the person that was talking about Ray Charles, because that's exactly it. Uh if you can find it, uh Diana and Maria, please uh highlight it. With blindness, when someone becomes blind, they are so unhappy, so miserable about something that has happened, that they would rather not see the world at all than look at it and see the world without that thing or with that thing that makes them so miserable. And if you want to um um uh look for uh the film Ray, which talks about uh the life of Ray Charles, indeed, Ray Charles became blind after watching his uh um younger brother and best friend drown in front of his very eyes. And well, it was an accident. He was four and uh uh and the brother was two, I believe. And uh and uh he didn't help him get out of the bucket where he drowned, because he didn't understand the situation, but when the um the adults came and in panic discovered that the little boy had drowned, in the emergency and the urgency of the situation, somehow they made him guilty of uh the death of his brother. And so, he lived tortured all his life of having caused his brother's death, and that was unbearable for him to see. And actually, every time he would be tormented and tortured by the experience with his brother, his eyesight would get worse and uh the his eyes would be worse. Um so, when you have experienced blindness, you need to solve that thing that has made you so unhappy and find happiness again. Mhm? And Diana and Maria, uh you had a colleague, a fellow student in the third in your generation studying to become visual that [clears throat] came blind to the training, and over time, completely blind in one eye and only 30-40% of vision in the other eye, and uh he recovered uh completely the vision of the eye where he had 30% and like 70% of the eye that was completely blind. And now this guy plays golf, plays tennis, with with requires three divisions, so both eyes participate. So, you know from the experience of your fellow um student that uh it's possible to recover from blindness if you're to do the work, uh the exercises, the practices, and the inner work. Yeah. Um would you like Yes, go ahead, Maria. No, and it was amazing how he can you can when we have heard his story, because all doctors say that there was no hope for him. He was given the stick. And there was so many things, and then he in- started improving, improving, and here he is. Yeah, every time he came to class, he said, "You know what? Today I can see the the first time I remember when he he told us about that blind eye, I'm starting to see the contrast of light and darkness, the colors, the shapes." And we were like, "Woah, oh my god." And yes, it was like that. And well, now he's well, he's a vision coach. He's totally functional with with his two eyes. Um but yeah, and it is possible, but there was a lot of inner work. A lot. Going back to childhood, to emotions, working on that, and and being aware of what was causing that that blindness, yes? Yeah. Yeah. >> Oh, there it is. I was trying to find that. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, Ray Charles became blind after watching his brother drown, indeed. So, you can see with what we have explained and what research shows, that actually the way the the eyes are literally the window to your soul, and you can see how accurately your eyes reflect your eyesight reflect what's going on for you. And by the way, let me share with you a couple of more pieces of research, which is actually quite interesting. In um '96, Martin Birnbaum and Kelly Thomas wrote an article in the Journal of the American Optometric Association about visual function in multiple personality disorder. And what they found is that if a person has several personalities, one personality can see perfectly clear, and another personality can be myopic or far-sighted. And the moment of the change of personality is exactly the moment of the change in eyesight. Which means that if you're willing to do the inner work, your eyesight, your eyes will respond instantly. There's another article that is more uh contemporary, uh so by Hans Strasburger and Bruno uh Waldvogel. Um the article is sight and blindness in the same person, mhm, dating individual system, and it's been published in 2015 in a psychological journal, and you can uh find it online. Mhm? Here's the reference. And this is even more impressive, because this person was blind with one personality, and with another personality could see. And the moment the shift when one personality would go to the other one, that instant, that very instant, the eyesight would be back. So, this means that if you're willing to do the inner work, you can recover your eyesight instantly. The moment you shift your mind, the moment you let go of the limiting beliefs, the moment you let love in your life, the moment you allow yourself to enjoy the beauty of life. And the moment that happens, you can see clearly again. So, the hope and the possibility is 100% there. The opportunity is there. It is for you to choose what you want. Mhm. Are you willing to go for it? You want to do it? Um or not? Or you have other priorities, other things that are more important. Yeah, and here's the biographical movie of Ray Charles, Ray, from 2004, directed by Taylor Hackford, if you want to have a look. Thank you. I don't know if it was Maria or Diana that put it there. Uh thank you. Thank you very much. Now. Um So, um there are some questions that we sometimes have that I would like to address. Yeah? Like, what if the symptom is from birth? Well, if the symptom is from birth, you can wonder what was happening when your mother was pregnant of you. What was the emotional climate at that time? What was she going through? Because when you are in your mother's womb, your mother is your environment, is your universe. In my case, I was born with three symptoms. And when I spoke with my mother about what happened during the pregnancy, I understood what stress what she she was going through when she was pregnant of [clears throat] me. And her struggles had nothing to do with me. Or um of course she loved me. It was not that she didn't love me, but she was stressed about things at work and things with the family, and that reflected in my eyesight. And um you may be wondering, but what if it's genetic? We already spoke yesterday about how genes can be um uh shifted like on and off, um depending on what you're doing, how you eat, how you exercise, how you feel, what you think, what you're doing with your life. So, epigenetics uh rules over genetics. And this emotional aspect is very important. And what if it runs in the family? Well, you know what? Uh things that run in the family are also beliefs about life, uh how you see life, priorities. Uh there's a lot of norms and rules and values that run in the family. So, you can shift those values, those rules, those visions of the world, and you can allow now that what runs in the family is clarity. And how about for children? Well, children are very emotional beings. So, of course there can be emotional causes to children's vision problems. You need to see what's happening in their environment, in their world, in the family. Mhm. And what if I don't remember or I don't find anything? Well, if you don't remember, it may have been suppressed as a defense mechanism, but don't worry because the emotional level is only one of the levels that you can work on. For me, it's very powerful one, and uh it really helps most people a lot. But if this is not resonating with you, don't worry. You still have the exercises that I taught up to now, and there's more things that are going to come also tomorrow and on Saturday. Yeah? I would like to know what you have taken away, uh and also I want to have a look at the chat and see if there's some other questions that we can answer to. Okay. Uh thanks to Clear Sight Inspiration, I have gone without corrective lenses for 24 hours. Yay! The longest time in 20 in 70 years. Congratulations. I have to figure out how to get glasses with a lower correction. You can look online. You can ask your optometrist and your optician, maybe they help you. If that's the case, great. Otherwise, you can search online. Um Okay, can damage because of the met to peak send be healed? From a behind the need for the met tragic loss of your spouse. So, I understand there's grief uh behind the symptom that was developed. Okay? Uh biggest obstacle has been my fear of not seeing or missing something. When there's a fear of not seeing or missing something, there's an underlying need for control. So, probably what you've been experiencing is near-sightedness or myopia. So, trust the process. Trust yourself. Trust life. Maybe you're going to miss a detail, but you're probably going to be able to be functional. Mhm. In any case. Uh can EFT work? Yes, I've heard I'm aware of uh emotional freedom technique. Any technique that allows you to work with your emotions can help, of course, your vision improvement, but you need to be aware of the core origin story for the vision decline, and pay attention at that. Yes? Um okay, we already talked about vertical strabismus. Okay, Michael says this give me a lot to think about. My cataracts started forming during the pandemic. A lot of people experienced all kinds of eyesight symptoms during the pandemic because it was a scary time. Absolutely. Aha, it was a scary time to be a person completely dedicated to natural health. Well, guess what? Those times have passed. You're here. You survived already. So, now you can open up again to enjoy the beauty of life and to feel safe. And if you're [clears throat] here, you have found another environment, a community where you can fully be yourself because we love natural health around here. Uh okay, we already spoke about two different eyes, one having near-sightedness and the other one far-sightedness. Okay, me and my friend got myopia at the age of 10. My power gradually increased, but my friend's power remained stagnant. Now my age is 28, and my power is minus nine. Well, you need to know that we have had students with minus 18 go down to zero. And we know several people with 8.5 or nine go down to zero. So, it's possible. So, the difference for your friend and you may have been that you wore glasses all the time, and he didn't. Or it may be that you grew more and more insecure and fearful, and he didn't. Yeah? So, but in any case, whatever happened for him and for you, there's hope for both of us, for you, both of you. Yeah, so we already spoke about glaucoma. Can palming be done laying on your back? Absolutely. Yeah? In that case, you may want to have a cushion to hold your elbows or put um uh a belt or a band for your elbows not to fall to the sides and be comfortable, but you can certainly do it. Uh what is seeing a lace or web shape in the sky even with eyes closed? So, it could be the floaters that we were talking about. Yeah? Um Now, if you're worried about something, uh go see an ophthalmologist. They can tell you for sure and make a diagnosis, and you can uh feel uh better about it. Mhm. I often have watery eyes when I'm outside, not so much indoors, and I know I suppressed a lot of emotions since childhood. There you go. Also, in what way being outdoors makes you feel more vulnerable or more emotional than being indoors? Cuz that's also another aspect. And also there would be there could be a little bit of photophobia. Mhm. So, look at do more sunning, and also check with your personal power. Mhm. Okay, this uh we already found. Thank you very much. Uh Okay, it happened to me to lose with Ray Charles. You were so right. After a verbal threat from a very close relative, my right eye got blind for two days. Well, um I experienced some form of color blindness, not in the sense that I couldn't distinguish this color from that color, but rather that I saw everything in black and white for three days. This happened during the pandemic, uh and so I had been teaching this for decades, so I knew everything that I'm teaching you. And uh so instead of running to the ophthalmologist very worried, I looked at what had happened to me. And uh my best friend was pregnant with a girl, and I was going to be um the godmother of that girl, and then she lost her pregnancy. And so, I was very close to my friend supporting her during through the loss, but I also had my own grieving. So, for several days, I couldn't see only see life in black and white. Life life life had lost its color because I was not going to be the grandmother, uh sorry, the godmother of that child. So, when you understand these emotional connections, you can also make uh good choices. Mhm. Okay, what is the light flash sometimes sometimes I get in my left eye? It started about a year ago and doesn't bother me too much. Some something that sometimes I notice. So, um Um that could be caused by tension in your retina. Uh it can go away with palming. This being said, if it's um if it happens relatively frequently, I would go to an ophthalmologist uh just to make sure that your retina is not in danger. Mhm. Um It's called photopsies, by the way. Uh what about if a floater has a repeated shape? Well, emotionally, it still means the same. Now, if in if the floater is black instead of being translucent, it could be the sign of a little hole in your retina. So, you want to have that checked. As well. Silvia is like I love myself now. Yay. There is hope if I put the work. Absolutely. Can your eyes grow back? Well, you would ask my teacher Martin Brofman. He would tell you that anything can be healed and everything is possible. And for what's the function of the iris, the iris regulates the relationship between light and darkness. So, that's something that you need to ponder about. How do you feel with the shadow? How do you feel with the light? How comfortable are you to adapt with yin and yang and opposites? Okay, that would be the metaphor. Lena, I have got so much more clarity about everything. I already want to help others. Yay. So, join the Clear Sight Method tomorrow and also join the Vision Coach Degree whenever we teach it in English. It will be a beautiful to have you. Thank you for opening up my eyes and see that it has nothing to do with energy and emotions in the mind, body, and soul. Absolutely. As a Theta Healer practitioner, I'm super eager to get clearing these emotions. Absolutely. Any technique that can help you clearing emotions and thoughts and programs can help you clarify your eyesight. Thank you so much. You answered so many of my worrying questions. God bless you and your devoted team. Thank you. Okay, let's see. Let me have another look. Let me have another look. Will this recording be available? Yes. Yes, it's there in on Facebook and YouTube. So, subscribe to our YouTube channel, follow us on Facebook, and you can see it there. And what if I do have a little hole in your retina? Well, if you do, at the physical level, you're going to want to have that anchored. And unfortunately, that's one of the few cases where a little intervention is needed with a laser. And then Natural Vision Improvement can help you regain that little spot that you may have lost. Yeah. And we'll teach more about this, how to do this inside the Clear Sight Method. My eyesight always is best when I'm outside a lot. Absolutely. And do eye yoga daily. Well, go for it. Your eyes are telling you what they need. And thank you a lot for your explanations. Great. Okay, so thank you for sharing the things that that you took away. Thank you so much. And if with the first two lessons you already thought that you got $300 of value, I would think that today that has I hope exceeded your expectations and brought something new for you to consider about improving your eyesight. And now, would you want to receive even more? Even more information, more tips, more techniques, more tools so that you can keep improving your eyesight. Can scarring on the optic nerve heal? Yes, it can. It has been an amazing session. So happy to hear that. Well, if you want even more, if you want to improve your vision in a lasting way, well, then come back tomorrow because tomorrow video four is released. You're going to receive it by email. Tomorrow we're not going to have a live. The live will happen on Saturday. And on Saturday, instead of meeting in YouTube and Facebook, we're actually going to meet directly on Zoom so we can see each other's faces. You'll meet other people of the team. You'll meet other people who have done it. We'll show you the platform. You can ask your questions. And I will present the six scientifically proven levels to improve your eyesight. So, up to now you discovered three. The physical level, light and energy, and emotional. Tomorrow, we are going to talk about three more. Of course, nutrition is going to be there, but there's a couple more and it will be a surprise. And Michael is I'm so bummed I have to miss the live on Saturday. Well, you'll be able to watch the recording. But if you can come live, it's going to be a lot a lot nicer if you can do this. Thank you so much. It was super interesting. So happy. So, come back tomorrow. Watch the video tomorrow to discover nutrition and two more levels to improve your eyesight. Also tomorrow, registration will be open for the Clear Sight Method Advanced Paid Program. Tomorrow the class is free. Saturday the class is free, but we're going to open registrations for the paid course and we're going to leave the registration only open only for a few days. So, if you're loving this and you want to go deeper and you want to have more support and you want to have a cohort of people going through the experience with you and have accountability, etc., well, check for the offer that you're going to receive tomorrow because it's going to be amazing. You're going to receive an offer for about half the price of what usually is paid for the Clear Sight Method for having participating this free four-part masterclass. And for the free part, tomorrow you're still in lesson four going to learn about the six scientifically proven levels to improve your vision, how you can install your daily habits to see clearly again. You're going to be presented with the Clear Sight Method Advanced Program. And you will understand the benefits of participating to the Clear Sight Method, the stuff and the bonuses you can get, how to register, and much, much more. And does this work for your symptom? Yes, it does. Does it work at your age? Yes, it does. Whether you had surgery or not, yes, it does. Is the Saturday Zoom event at the same time? Yes, it is. And thank you for all the gratitude and recognition. So happy that you're enjoying this. So, if you want to create the habit of seeing clearly every day, make sure that you watch video number four, that you come on Saturday, and consider maybe joining the Clear Sight Method Advanced Paid Program. And more than anything, imagine how you will feel seeing clearly again. How you will feel if in a year, in five years, in 10 years, seeing better and better with age instead of seeing worse and worse. Imagine. Imagine the inspiration for you and your family. Thank you for the great scientifically based work. Thank you very much. It's my pleasure. This is my life's work. I love doing this. Imagine how for you to see clearly will impact your family. Not be dependent on them. Showing them a way to be empowered and having an optimal eyesight for life. Yes, and what happens if you don't do anything? If you don't do anything, you know that with time the most likely thing to happen is for your eyesight to decline. But there is hope. There's something you can do. If you do something, if you keep practicing, if you maybe join the Clear Sight Method, you can see clearly again. So, are you interested or committed? Again, the question. The ball is on your side. Tomorrow, watch video number four, come on Saturday, and you're going to have a few days if you want to join the Clear Sight Method Advanced Program. And again, I have good news. Tomorrow you're going to get a great offer. You are going to be able to register for about half the price of the regular standard price. In any case, congratulations for being here, for showing up three days in a row, or for watching the recording three days in a row, for learning all of this, and for the willingness to take care of yourself and make your life, your health, and your eyesight better. So, I'll see you tomorrow and in the meantime, take care, be happy, enjoy the beauty of life, and we'll see each other soon, and you'll see me and everything better and better. Bye-bye. Take care and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye-bye.