Comments on: Staying Present To See Better https://www.iblindness.org/2437/staying-present-to-see-better/ Improve Your Eyesight and Ditch Your Glasses Sat, 05 May 2018 17:43:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nancy https://www.iblindness.org/2437/staying-present-to-see-better/#comment-5122 Sun, 03 May 2015 15:43:37 +0000 http://www.iblindness.org/?p=2437#comment-5122 In reply to AlkalineWater7.

AlkalineWater7, the reactions to trauma are fight or flight or FREEZE. Think of animals about to be attacked playing dead. Then if the predator leaves, they shake off the trauma and go on, while we’re told “sit still and don’t move!” as kids. Peter Levine’s “Waking the Tiger” is a classic excellent book about this. I’ve done a lot of work personally to un-freeze my body and my eyes. Thick strong glasses sure didn’t help.

]]> By: AlkalineWater7 https://www.iblindness.org/2437/staying-present-to-see-better/#comment-5107 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:25:00 +0000 http://www.iblindness.org/?p=2437#comment-5107 That’s exactly what i’ll do. Just take a snapshot of a scene, and try to remember it in my mind without truly looking at things. It stems from fear; at least for me. It’s just a general uneasy, uncomfortable feeling. I too wanted to escape my environment as well. that’s why i would conjure up a distraction in my mind to distract me from what’s going on. Practically speaking, it’s an unhealthy coping mechanism that i and others have developed. In order to survive long ago, one had to be aware of one’s environment. Come to think of it, i’m kind of viewing this as a screwed up fight-flight reaction to a threat. Instead of taking action, my eyes just freeze up while neither fighting or running away. I would just sit or stand somewhere and look down in shame. This is my behavior when i’m involved in a social interaction or place where many people are present.

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