Trunk from The Tao Bums shared an interesting practice recently on “reclaiming visual qi”. Here is a little blurb.
We humans have a lot of yi (attention, awareness, focus) naturally invested in vision; it’s our predominant perceptual avenue. Modern life, physically sedentary and mentally over-active, exacerbates this predominance. What often results is that there’s too much yi habitually located in the eyes and in front of the eyes (outside the body), as well as excessive tension in the ocular muscles and along the optic nerve pathway. There’s excessive yi in front, yet a deficit of yi in the back regions of the brain, which throws brain alchemy off. The yi, and consequently the chi, gets stuck in the front exterior.
Read the full article at Brain Massage Meditation.
Interesting synchronicity too because I’ve recently begun working through the eyeQ program which is mostly geared toward increased reading speed, but also claims to improve visual acuity in general. As I wrote in my reply in the thread on The Tao Bums, I tend to use my vision in a very grasping way.
Try the meditation. Let me know how it goes.
