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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 11:49 am 
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Fiat, me too -- I wouldn't get hung up about it. A couple of thoughts about it: when looking naturally, say walking through the forest when you're not consciously doing vision practice, it's normal for something you're not looking at directly to grab your attention. So you turn your head to look and investigate more fully. When I get a different letter on the eye chart grabbing my attention, I do think of eccentric fixation, and remind myself that I'm looking at something else, scanning for even more details there. (I'm teaching my bran to focus on one thing at a time.) Or sometimes I'll direct my attention to the distraction, as if to satisfy it that I'm not ignoring it completely, and then return to where I was.

Really, I think this is just more re-calibrating, not a big deal.

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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 12:29 pm 
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OK. Thanks! While I'm at it, I've got a bit of shoulder and neck tightness/strain, and I don't know how to get rid of it. Ideas?

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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 1:34 pm 
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Do the Long Swing, just letting your arms hang loose. Too much trying!

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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 4:33 pm 
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Nancy wrote:
Shambles, you're welcome. It's every teacher's joy when a student "gets it" in a new way. A lot of what I write is what I wish I had known earlier myself, like I'm somehow teaching a younger me. An image expanding and contracting, as if your brain is re-calibrating the correct size, is a necessary step when minus glasses make things appear smaller and closer. Some patches on the eye chart appearing darker than others is your central fixation re-emerging, rather than continuing to see a large area all the same, the way glasses make you see. Your natural vision is re-asserting itself. Nice going!


I've noticed this pulsing that you describe when I look at street lights after dark. They look like pulsating dandelion cotton fuzz. I, too, wondered if my brain wasn't trying to re-calibrate the street light to the correct size. Neat. :)


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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 5:18 pm 
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Nancy wrote:
Do the Long Swing, just letting your arms hang loose. Too much trying!


Oh yes, the long swing! Thanks!

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