Comments on: Escaping From Your Eyes

By: iblindness

iblindness — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 05:33:00 +0000

In reply to Ted Monhollon. Don't worry about perfect visualization with your eyes open, or even perfect anything. One thing at a time. The first step is encouraging it with your eyes closed. I don't play an instrument, but I can see how closing your eyes would help you concentrate and feel it better.

By: Nancy L. Neff

Nancy L. Neff — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:42:00 +0000

David, this is excellent, and I’ll share it on my page. And I love the visual! My best methods for getting out of my eyes are something physical, working out with the focus and attention on my form, or just going for a walk outside and connecting with the scenery in a relaxed way, not using it as “vision practice” because then I’m too tied to how well I’m seeing. Thanks for this.

By: Ted Monhollon

Ted Monhollon — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:20:00 +0000

This ones different but closing my eyes while playing guitar or my hand drum is really a different feel than with eyes open. I’m trying to understand though, if a trait of perfect vision is that these closed eye visuals are just as good with the eye open? That those states of allowing visualizations to appear is just as intense and relaxed?

I was at a drum circle last weekend talking to another guy about closed eye drumming and he mentioned the same thing I had felt; that when I open my eyes in the middle of drumming it’s kind of distracting and I might lose my rythym. He wasn’t wearing glasses so that made me wonder if that deeply in tune state of mind is really present in the waking state of a person with normal vision.