Changing your vision habits, most of
which may be incorrect or even damaging to your vision health, is not an easy
task. Once these visual patterns are deeply ingrained in your mind, they have
become your long-term memories, and to change them or to eradicate them becomes
a new challenge. But you can and you must overcome that challenge through your
mind power.
Harness your mind power to do two things for
you:
- To restore your memories of clear, sharp visual images
- To visualize familiar images of clear vision, such as imagining total darkness in order to totally relax your optic nerve (total relaxation occurring only in total darkness) connected to your brain.
Memory and imagination are powerful tools for you to improve your vision, because your mind has a deep connection with your eyes. Effectively using your mind can successfully stimulate clearer and better vision. It is always mind over matter.
Changing vision habits
How
do you change your bad vision habits? There is a saying: “It is difficult to teach an old dog new
tricks.” The conscious mind is often reluctant and resistant to any
change. Believe it or not, most of us are stubborn creatures—more like an old
dog—who do not want to get out of own comfort zones. The only way to overcome
this obstacle is through changing the subconscious mind.
Basically,
your mind is made up of your conscious
mind and your subconscious mind.
Your conscious mind makes decisions and you act accordingly, but it is your
subconscious mind that directs your conscious mind. That is to say, in your conscious
mind, you are fully aware of your actions and their respective consequences; in
your subconscious mind, where you store your emotions and memories, you only
respond spontaneously to repetitions of words and images in the form of
affirmations and visualization. In other words, if you keep on repeating
positive self-suggestions or visualizing positive images in your mind’s eye,
you can effectively change the thoughts in your conscious mind through
your subconscious mind.
Changing any bad habits is not easy: it requires
the wisdom of letting go.
Stephen Lau
