Seeing Clearly - 5 - Improving Your Aim

Seeing Clearly - Lesson 5 - Improving Your Aim

Closed Eye Tracking for Blind Spots

The conscious mind is almost entirely housed in the muscles of the eyes - Milton Erickson

There’s nothing about this lesson that suggests it has anything to do with aim, until you open your eyes.

Lesson 5 explores the way the eyes hold their gaze while the body moves around the eyes, while the eyes move, even differences when standing, lying on your side and back. With eyes mostly closed, the guidance is to observe how the eye muscles guide the eyes’ movements. We go slowly to pay attention to the quality of the eyes’ movement, noticing any little jumps or jitters. Does a quick look come easier that a slow roll? How far down the back can you feel the movement of your eyes. Can you back move your eyes?

He’s playing with lots of moving parts with this lesson. The lesson shifts from standing to lying on the back to lying on one side and then the other. All the better to feel and compare the weight of the eyes in different orientations. Also to feel how different muscles are involved in vision.

Stand up at the end and aim, with the whole body lined up with relaxed eyes that easily hold their mark.

For the science nerd segment, we looked at the facial muscles that affect and are affected by the eyes.

This week we look at tears as they lubricate and protect the eyes.


The Curriculum Includes:

  • Our Eyes and Ourselves

  • Relaxed Eyes

  • Breathing to See

  • Easy Seeing

  • Improving Your Aim

  • Seeing Deeply

  • Integrating your vision

  • Wrapping it Up

David Webber overcame severe optic degeneration and shared his learning

David Webber overcame severe optic degeneration and shared his learning

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How you might feel after this lesson:
Eyes glide in the sockets without jitters or jumps; face soft and easy; eyes focus independently and together; eyes connected to the muscles of the torso and arms for coordinated aim and movement.

Jacki Katzman