Curing from the Origin

A while ago I set up the high goal of curing my own bad eyesight, which to my understanding is a result of unnecessary tension in the muscles controlling the eye. First I tried eye focus exercises but a good friend of mine made me understand that the tension originated from tension in other bigger muscles in my body. So I started correcting my posture, which was not too bad to start with due to my many years in martial arts, but there was still unnecessary tension in my shoulders which made them come forward a bit too much. Correcting this proved very hard until I found that the true origin of the tension was even more basic, namely tension in the stomach muscles. That made me lean forward a bit, and then the shoulders followed. Let me just point out that already before this begun I had people commenting that I had a unusually good and well balanced posture, so even small adjustments make a big difference. Because a big difference it was!

As soon as I learned to consciously completely relax my stomach muscles I automatically begun to breathe from the stomach like when you sleep, and as all humans are meant to breathe all the time. Furthermore I did not have to be conscious about my shoulders, they fell into place automatically as my body straightened up. Next the neck followed and my head were lifted and balanced on top of the spine, instead of having to be carried by the neck muscles. I believe that almost all tension in almost all people originates from the stomach because tensing these muscles is a natural response to fear and stress. Then this tension over time spreads to other parts of the musculature and eventually puts stress on joints and bones.

Consciously practicing to completely relax my stomach muscles for some time has relaxed my body a lot, and my body slowly accepts this as the new original position to return to as soon as there is no other action going on. An effect of this is that I now feel a slight tension around my cheeks originating from my neck, this is due to the smaller muscles being used to the wrong position of the body resulting from tension in the bigger muscles. With the new and more healthy posture and moving patterns of my body some smaller muscles have to readjust themselves. My hope is that this will lead all the way to the tiny muscles controlling eye movements, and maybe cure my bad eyesight!