EYESTRAIN AND FATIGUE

Strained eyes have been accredited with the power to impair the body's vitality by ninety per cent. When the system is thus depleted, fatigue is felt as an ever-present condition and the point of exhaustion maybe reached before the day is fairly started. Once the mind and eyes are re relaxed, this nerve force is restored for normal functioning, and a person's power and potentialities are tremendously increased.

We have all had the experience of a moderate day's work irritating, rushing and exhausting us because we started the day with tension. But on a day when we feel relaxed, eight hours of hectic activity, multiple problems and many irritations will be taken in one's stride with no more than average weariness as a result. This can only happen if and when we maintain relaxation while we work.

The optic nerve and the nerves which are distributed in the stomach are in such close sympathy that one can tense or upset the other. An attack of acute indigestion can react on the eyes and lower the vision. Conversely, strained eyes can upset the stomach and bring on indigestion or nausea. Car-sick children, bookkeepers and draughtsmen who grow nauseated at their work, get relief when they learn to use their eyes with relaxation.

We cannot relax the eyes without at the same time, relaxing the entire nervous system. This in turn, improves the condition of every organ and every part of the body by freeing the circulatory channels from tension, thus speeding the ciruculatory channels from tension, thus speeding the circulation. Conversely, the body affects the eyes. If a person is anaemic and the red blood count low, the retina will be anaemic too, and the eyes will lack power and endur ance. The same holds true of muscle tone. A person with slack muscles in the rest of the body, will have poor muscles tone in the eyes. This may show up lack of endurancend lack of power to maintain good focus. when the blood count and muscle tone improve, a marked step up in vision can be noticed.

Eyes however, can be affected even more violently by the emotions condition than by the physcial condition. The physical condition is likewise affected by emotions, since mental strain creates tension throughout the system .The eye h protected outside world and has a remarkable ability to repair itself from external accidents but it is exceedingly vulnerable and can be seriously injured inside by what can happen within, in the mind and in the emotions. Eyes have been known to be cut or punctured, scratched or burned People with in and still mend themselves but apparently-normal eyes strain and have been known to suffer torn retinas and heavy blinding haemorrhage because of grief or shock or mental strain. When there comes surcease of emotion and mental relaxation can be induced, there may be hope of improvement for even such eyes.