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Post by Angeleyes on Jan 28, 2006 21:37:51 GMT 1
Hi, Yesterday I started the vision improvement exercise program. In 8 weeks on 24 March I will get my eyes tested to note the improvement. I've started a few times before and then fizzled out. This time what's different is that I'm registering my commitment on here and I've noticed that my previous attempts have all improved how I see my life in some way. What I've done before is seen what needs to change in my life but not done much, eg my debts, I haven't made them much smaller because I didn't have enough money, now I see that there may not be an instant cure to some of my issues yet, but if I work on things steadily bit by bit I will improve my situation. So if this applies to debt it can also apply to my vision improvement and if things take off and go faster thats great, if not working on it bit by bit will still make improvement. I also have looked at one of my greatest fears, being visible especially regarding putting out flyers regarding my healing business, I have flyers printed since September but haven't put them out in case I'd be ridiculed for doing Angel healing, I had expected people would approach me in the car park and have a go at me for claiming to do such a thing. It was only when I looked at this more closely I've realised I've received many flyers in car parks and either used them or binned them, I've never felt the need to have a go at someone becuse they put a flyer on my car. So that's on the agenda for this week, putting out my flyers.
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Post by queen8 on Jan 28, 2006 22:50:05 GMT 1
I just want to send you good wishes and say that I'm proud to follow you and your development!! I'm looking forward to hearing (reading) what's happening!
This is also an inspiration for me to make a more steady program for myself! Thank you!
You write about being afraid that people will have a go at you when you do what you believe in. I notice that every time I check this message board, I'm afraid I'll find a message that critizises me, I'm afraid that someone (the worst, of course, is if Martin contradicts me or says I'm wrong or something like that, as he's more an authority) will say "you got it wrong. How could you?!" Now that I'm aware of it, I can do something about it, and I will. One step at a time!
What's your inner picture of what it will be like the 24th of March?
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Post by Maria on Jan 29, 2006 2:04:54 GMT 1
I'm so happy for you Alice. I certainly learned a lot during the 8 weeks I posted my vision journey, and I'm very interested to follow along on yours. I'd also like to know more about your angel healing, as I'm considering starting up some sort of healing practice myself. We can take it off line if you prefer not to post here... my email's on the members roster Peace, Maria
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Post by gilly on Jan 30, 2006 12:36:30 GMT 1
Hi Alice, hi all, Good on you for re-starting the programme! Best wishes from me for a speedy improvement. The criticism thing's one you have to just grow a thick skin for - I still do my exercises when I'm alone in the house because I feel that I'll be laughed at otherwise, and I find it difficult to do them at the weekend for that reason (I hate hearing the usual question - "what are you doing? Ah, it's your eye exercises, is it??" with the thinly veiled condescention). Be strong though, and you'll pull through. This message board help a lot though (i.e., you guys help a lot). I'm now getting lost of eye-improvement dreams, and my dream images are sharper than before. Spooky or what?!? So keep writing and keep checking in because we're all helping each other here. love and kisses Gilly
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Post by gilly on Jan 30, 2006 12:38:19 GMT 1
Ooooh sorry, I'm not getting lost at all, except in typos. Must make the effort to be more precise (write that out 25 times!!) G
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Post by Angeleyes on Jan 31, 2006 14:17:48 GMT 1
Thank you everyone for your support. It is great to feel othes are genuinely interested in seeing how I get on. Queen 8, I had a realisation that as long as I put off starting there would never be a success and that although I have made changes in how I view my world my eyesight wasn't improving and recently seemed to be getting worse, along with my finances and my interest in life which of late had become even more mundane and full of duties. I realised that commitment meant just doing the exercises and being open to change in myself so I started this time with the knowledge that I didn't have to wait til Monday and that if I falter I can dust myself off and start again. I had at first decided that I would check in on 24 March and see what improvement there had been, then I thoughtwouldn't it be great to be halfway back to normal vision which would be -5. I have 2 family occasions in April and June and I would love to be able to go without my glasses and see the steps, so I don't fall over and break my neck and I would love to experience these 2 events in my children's lives from a normal 20/20 reality. But thank you for your question because it reminded me that Martin has mentioned before that improvement can also be instant. This time I am trying to be open to sticking the course how ever long or short it might take. I noticed I tend to put my head down to read or do things so now when I read I hold the book up in front of my eyes to try and improve eye movement. I have also been able to answer the phone without putting on my glasses even though I still think I need to put them on. Today has been the 5th day I did all the exercises, which is the longest I've ever done this before.
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Post by queen8 on Jan 31, 2006 16:33:01 GMT 1
I'm amazed at your perseverance!!!! Doing all the exercizes for five days is great! (I do them most days, but I have difficulty finding a routine, a special time of the day). If, one day, you're not able to do all exercizes, you know you've done them for several days in a row before, then it's easier to get going again, I imagine!! I just asked about your inner picture of what the result will be like because I've had a hard time "seeing the result in the future" myself and wondered how it worked for you.
I think you're great!!
Love, Queen
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Post by gilly on Jan 31, 2006 17:13:43 GMT 1
Well done Alice - five days in a row is great The more you manage, the more a single blip doesn't matter - but at the same time, you want to go for longer and longer without a break. I've been known to do the hatha yoga (kind-of secretly) in the passenger seat of the car in the evenings when I hadn't had time to do them in the morning. They my partner turns his head, sees me rolling my eyes and says "You doing your eye exercises or something?". (I should mention here that he doesn't disapprove, he just finds the whole thing completely baffling.) I've even tried to see if you can do hatha yoga with your eyes closed, so you can do them when people are likely to be looking at you and thinking you're half-crazed - like on the bus or something - but they're not quite so effective. However, I started counting these as half-sessions, so I wasn't really breaking up the flow... I also used to do tick-off boxes, which helped for a while then I just got guilty if I didn't manage to do everything. Can we do a deal? I'll do eye balancing every day if you keep doing your exercises? I just started eye-balancing the other day, so we'd both be at the beginning... Oh, Queen - tell us about your future-perfect-vision self. I forgot we were supposed to think about that. love to all, Gilly
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Post by queen8 on Jan 31, 2006 22:17:21 GMT 1
Funny you ask when that's one of my difficulties. According to the theories I've read about visualization, it's important and works good to have a picture of what it will be like when you reach the goal. And I just can't seem to grasp it... I had this "vision" today or yesterday, though, of myself walking out of something like a carneval outfit. I don't see myself (the "new" me) clearly, but I understand it as a picture of getting rid of the old "pretending to be like everyone wants me to be" self. In my vision the outfit is much easier to focus on, than focusing on the new me, and that's how I feel, I don't know what the " new" me is like or what it involves, so I feel like I have to jump into the dark... No, I guess that's why I'm going slowly, one step at a time. I just wondered if you (take it personally whoever wants to!) had a clearer picture of the future than I do, as I have the idea that it would help us if we have... Feel free to comment! I'll add that I, too, do the eye exercizes with closed eyes sometimes, esecially when I'm tired. When I feel it's too demanding to keep my eyes open, it's still good to move them around and give them some attention (and love)! Love and smiles
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Post by Martin Brofman on Feb 1, 2006 8:54:00 GMT 1
When you visualize the end result, you imagine yourself seeing clearly. You imagine yourself reading a book or newspaper, and you don't put the picture "out there." Instead, you imagine the scene through the eyes of the person in the picture. YOU are the person seeing clearly, with the attitudes of a person who sees clearly.
You imagine yourself getting your eyes examined and imagine the surprised look on the face of the eye doctor when he sees what you know - that you see clearly.
All this is on my CD with the eye exercises.
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Post by gilly on Feb 2, 2006 14:22:25 GMT 1
This might seem strange, but (for me at least) seeing clearly is not a very straightforward issue. What I've discovered is that seeing clearly through the use of glasses gives a different sort of clarity to the one that I experience in my (evasive and transient) clear flashes. Clear sight with glasses involves sharpness but slightly deadened colours and a kind of flatness and uniformity - like watching TV or a film at the cinema. Clear flashes vibrate - colours are more vibrant, there is more visual depth and each object seems to exist as a separate entity, rather than a painted still-life in which all the separate bits are inter-related and behave uniformly - becasue the artist is in control and imposes his/her view on everything (sorry about this - I tend to lapse into metaphor and analogy with things that aren't all that immediate ). So imagining myself with perfect vision is not easy, because it's been a VERY long time since I had 'perfect' sight. Now that I've realised that it's not the same as perfect-sight-with-glasses, it's even more difficult to imagine. BTW, my 'vision' of myself with perfect sight isn't all that different to Queen's . I too see myself in costume, completely at ease because I'm expressing myself as I want to, not as society dictates. The costume is always the same, as are the surroundings; and they get clearer with each 'visit'. Incidentally, the surroundings have been familiar to me since I was a small child (with perfect sight), and the 'costume' is work in progress, as is my vision improvement, and maybe completing bits of the dress (it is to be my wedding dress...), takes me physically and mentally closer to completing the rest of the picture that I'm visualising in ever-increasing detail. There's something in all that outpouring which makes sense - to me at least - i.e. to exist in perfect balance, and vibrate at my own frequency instead of the one that others expect of me (or the one that I think they expect of me). It's getting there that's the biggie! Gilly
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Post by Martin Brofman on Feb 2, 2006 17:18:31 GMT 1
Surprised, though, that your vision of the future does not mention seeing things clearly.
...and it might be easier than you thought.
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Post by gilly on Feb 2, 2006 17:36:03 GMT 1
Well, as I said, I'm not sure which clarity is the real one /main one /best one (or will be the real one for me). I'm working on it now that I get clear flashes (they last slightly longer in dreams), but until I know what I'm looking for, I'm not sure what it'll look like. Does that make sense? As I said in my previous post, I've realised that there's a difference between glasses-clarity and no-glasses clarity; I certainly never expected that! If you've been wearing glasses for 20 years, as I have, you kind of forget what it was like before. You have to reconstruct what you think it will be like, then be prepared to change that if that turns out to be wrong... So, in the absense of an internal vision of seeing clearly, I have an external picture of myself, seeing clearly, and the picture is clear. But, the picture is not static - it keeps evolving as I work my way closer to understanding what clarity really is. G
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Post by queen8 on Feb 2, 2006 22:53:54 GMT 1
I had a great experience reading what you'd written, Gilly. Lots of tears and the feeling "I'm not alone". Thank you!
You also wrote "sorry about this - I tend to lapse into metaphor and analogy with things that aren't all that immediate". Please don't be sorry for being you!!! I know I also say and write things like that, excusing my special "effects", but I try to watch out so that my words don't fight against me, to put it that way. I usually need a picture, analogues, something I can touch or see or hear, not some vague (though beautiful) philosophical description. That's also why I think it would be important for me to see clearly the end result, what it will be like to see clearly. And when that picture is not clear yet, does that mean that I'm not ready to make the final move yet? I'll continue to work on it, though, trying to see more of the me without a costume and try to BE that me (not just watch her from the outside) and feel what she feels. I understand now that I've been looking at her instead of looking at things from her perspective. I have a problem settling how much will be good in the new "bubble". Most people say "there are always ups'n'downs", everyone has those days when you just feel like crying, there are always things to work on in your life, etc. So it's hard to make it realistic if the life in the new bubble is "too perfect" (!), if you see what I mean. "Don't settle for anything but the best"...hmm, I'll have to find out what is my description of "the best"...
I hope we're not messing up your writing about your exercise program, Alice! Keep up the good work!
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Post by Angeleyes on Feb 3, 2006 14:22:33 GMT 1
Hello, Today is my first day of my 2nd week. Day 6 I found it hard to get past my reesistance to doing the exercises, so I know that is a good sign, this program is definitely working! I still did the hatha yoga exercises and the affirmations, then yesterday and today back to the full exercises program. This time round I feel I'm doing this for me, other times I wanted other people's acknowledgement and encouragement, but this time I know my vision is something I want to change so I'll do it. Today everything looks much brighter and I'm typing this without anyglasses. I've tended to stay off the computer as I like to put my glasses on to use it. I see I was wearing my glasses much more than really necessary, so I have taken them off today. This week I left some of my leaflets on my work in a local herbal clinic and put an advert in a local paper, it was a small ad due to financial reasons and yet with my willingness to be seen I've had as many callers as I've had in the past with adverts 5 times the size. I find my neck is really tense and sore after doing the hatha yoga exercises and hurts when I am doing the palming. I have problems with my neck apart from this so I suppose I could do some exercise for it and find out what this means in my consciousness. I also see I'm resisting becoming more organised yet this will free up more time for my vision improvement so I need to see ways of doing this.I had seen my future vision of me with normal vision outside a church wearing an aqua blue dress, and it was warm and sunny. I see Martin's thought is much more real and I am working on it but I feel uncomfortable with it and tell myself I won't have to go to the opticians to prove I've perfect vision as I'l already know. I see this is avoiding acceptance that my vision is normal 20/20 and it is a natural part of the process to have it documented by my optician. So I'll work on this too. Good luck to all of you with your improvement
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