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| stanfr |
Posted - 06/19/2007 : 03:17:34
I've been pondering about how all my psychosomatic symptoms and health problems are predominant on the right side of my body, which i postualate corresponds to a troubled left brain hemisphere. I could entertain the idea that things like disc herniations, which can be transitory, might in fact be influenced directly by the mind (as opposed to Sarno's initial idea that these are 'normal' degenerative aging processes), but there were other structural abnormalities, like bad eyesight and a deviated septum, that i couldn't see how they could be psyche related. Out of curiosity, i did a ggogle on "myopia, psychosomatic".
What i found was quite astonishing. Not only does even mainstream medicine acknowlege a strong connection between stress and refractive eye disorders (the wikipedia article is a decent reference) but there's a whole slew of 'fringe' opthamolagists that practice "natural vision correction", particularly the Bates Method, which postulates bad vision is due to stressful practices. I'm sure i've heard these things before, but have always passed them up as crackpot ideas. But, in retrospect, my own myopia began in third grade, same year i moved x-country from a private school to a public school, coinciding with the start of severe bullying (which i now know to be a big contributor to my TMS equivalents). So, something i'll have to look into more. I had always assumed myopia was an inherited characteristic involving a lenghthened eyeball, but apparently it's way more complex than that, and that environmental factors can play a huge role. Fascinating stuff! |
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| stanfr |
Posted - 06/19/2007 : 06:40:36
Thanks for that response sensei; i had been contemplating laser surgery before this latest bout with TMS(equiv), needless to say i think i'll hold off until im confident ive addressed the other problems-S |
| sensei adam rostocki |
Posted - 06/19/2007 : 05:44:19
I had laser vision correction in the middle of battling back pain. I would occasionally get periods of blurry vision which were unexplainable to my eye doctor. After beating back pain, the occasional blurry vision continued for about a year. I soon realized it was part of the TMS and was able to banish it. The connection came to me since the episodes corresponded to times of emotional stress.
Besides my own experience, there is a long historical record of psychosomatic eye problems including what used to be called hysterical blindness. The eye is not immune to TMS or any other psychosomatic condition, - Sensei
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