Self-healing in inner awareness is an effective method of improving eye health by helping to alleviate ocular disorders. One great advantage of self-healing is that it can improve ocular disorders facilitated by continuous daily stress, severe stress, repressed emotional tension, anxiety, & other psychodynamic factors. There is a long list of ocular disorders related to various types of stress, and unfortunately, most people never realize the connection. For example, stress causes a constriction or tightening of the blood vessels through much of the body including the eyes. This vessel spasm leads to ocular migraines with shimmering vision loss, temporary loss of peripheral vision, constricted visual fields, fluctuating visual acuity, and transient vision blackouts. People suffer these disorders and rarely associate them with their inner tension. Stress also causes muscle spasms both inside & around the eyes. This can bring on twitching eyes and eyelids, pain behind the eyes, reduced muscular motility of the eyes, eye focusing spasm, over convergence of the eyes, eyestrain while reading or viewing a computer, & blurred distance vision after lengthy periods of reading.

Stress also weakens the immune system so the body is less able to overcome infections like recurring cases of conjunctivitis (pink eye), styes, eyelid infections, and corneal inflammations. Stress is a major factor in the development of autoimmune diseases like arthritis which, in turn, causes eye diseases like iritis, iridocyclitis, episcleritis and scleritis. Severe tension is also suspected as a cause of some forms of retinal edema (swelling) and retinal detachment. It is well known that stress worsens glaucoma, diabetes, and high blood pressure. These three conditions can lead to severe vision loss or eventual blindness. So one of the major approaches to improving glaucoma, diabetes, and hypertension should be eliminating or reducing stress. Stress & psychological difficulties also cause hysterical amblyopia, reduced field of vision, psychosomatic vision loss, temporary blindness, fluctuating eye muscle disorders, and many other ocular difficulties.

Unfortunately most eye doctors today never advise their patients to reduce their overall stress to help improve their ocular disorders. That's because eye doctors geberally know next to nothing about effective methods of healing like self-healing in inner awareness. Instead, doctors concentrate on relieving the signs & symptoms of the disease rather than healing the deepest factors related to the eye disease. Stress as a causative factor in eye diseases is a dilemma for eye doctors. Stress reduction is outside their range of expertise. So physicians typically fail to refer their "stressed out" patients for self-healing therapy. Eye doctors find it much easier to prescribe an ocular medication, or perform laser surgery rather than grapple with stress & the psychodynamic aspects of eye care. Consequently, if you have some damage to the eyes caused by blood pressure, diabetes, or glaucoma, the eye doctor will often suggest performing eye laser surgery to improve the condition, instead of offering stress reduction as an initial alternative. While laser may help your eyes for a while, it never helps to improve the underlying condition as effectively as overall stress reduction. Remember, to be comprehensively treated, glaucoma, diabetes & hypertension always require stress reduction, and self-healing is the best way to reduce stress.

During the 1940's, the renowned eye surgeon D.O. Harrington wrote, "Ophthalmologists have been accused of inducing and maintaining more anxieties than they cure". What he meant is that eye surgeons did nothing to improve the many eye disorders precipitated by stress or psychological factors, & this neglect often caused even more pronounced worry & stress in their patients. By not zeroing in on those causative factors and treating them appropriately, eye physicians actually were encouraging the development & maintenance of an even greater numbers of ocular disorders. And the same is true today in all areas of medicine- perhaps more so. Eye physician's for the most part refuse to acknowledge that many ocular disorders are aggravated & prolonged by stress. Today's patients are seldom told that many common ocular disorders are influenced by generalized stress which first damages the major physical systems of the body, and then harms the eyes. While stress is recognized as a common result of our contemporary lifestyle, eye doctors rarely suggest that patients alleviate their tension to help correct the aforementioned ocular illnesses.

When appropriate, eye patients should use self-healing in inner awareness for stress reduction which unquestionably can help heal particular eye diseases. Self-healing is used to relieve stress in glaucoma patients which helps maintain a lower eye pressure. Reduction of significant stress also helps improve the immune & circulatory systems which can help prevent optic nerve damage & peripheral vision loss from glaucoma. Eliminating stress improves ocular migraines, fluctuating visual acuity, twitching eyes and eyelids, pain behind the eyes, reduced muscular capability, eye focusing muscle spasms, eyestrain while reading, computer fatigue, and so on.

Secondly, self-healing is also employed to improve general physical disorders which cause damage to the eyes. For example, stress reduction improves high blood pressure & diabetes, thus helping to alleviate the hemorrhaging in the eyes from these disorders which causes blindness. Herpes Zoster virus infection, or "shingles", often occurs after severe or prolonged stress and physical debilitation especially in senior citizens. Once present, shingles causes additional stress, as well as severe pain & depression, all of which are relieved by utilizing self-healing in inner awareness. Healing in inner awareness has been used to eliminate shingles in a period of three weeks, and then bring about complete reversal of Bell's palsy, in the same patient during a similiar period of time. Self-healing in inner awareness also helps psychological difficulties that cause reduced field of vision, transitory vision loss, temporary blindness, fluctuating eye muscle coordination, and many other psychodynamic ocular disorders.

Self-healing in inner awareness is also used to relieve the fears and discomfort of minor ocular surgical procedures such as foreign body removal, draining styes, probing clogged tear ducts, cleaning corneal abrasions, & removing burned tissue. Self-healing lessens any fears & stress prior to laser surgery for diabetes, cataract or glaucoma surgery. Additionally glaucoma pressure testing can be done on pregnant women in deep relaxation without using anesthetic drugs, thus eliminating any drug risk to the unborn fetus. Self-healing & deep relaxation are used to improve the effectiveness of visual training programs, in which eye exercises are used to improve eye muscle disorders like strabismus (crossed eyes, wall eye), double vision, lazy eye, vertical muscle imbalances and more. Self-healing enhances a person's motivation, more effectively develops visual skills, improves performance during eye exercises, helps achieve eye focusing flexibility, & embeds the recently acquired skills to form new habits. We often use deep relaxation with new contact lens wearers to remove fears of lens handling & touching the eyes, to readily learn contact lens insertion & removal, for reduction of lens sensation, to develop proper blinking, and to learn & remember proper lens hygiene.

Without any doubt whatsoever, you should use self-healing in inner awareness to help eliminate or improve ocular disorders, to correct eye muscle functions, to restore eye health, and enhance many of the therapeutic procedures performed by the eye doctor. Self-healing can be learned in Dr. Kearney's office while the patient is being concurrently treated for an ocular disorder at another doctor's practice. Clearly, self-healing in inner awareness should be utilized by all individuals with any of the aforementioned ocular disorders.