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In the case of the eye exercises proposed by Bates, such feedback is about the continuity in terms of more and more frequent and predictable eyesight acuity, longer duration of acuity periods, their prevalence over blurry periods, all in all – a sense of progress towards the goal, which simply must not fade away. Running out of motivation is always a problem, and when it comes to fghting myopia it is arguably a central one.
Is such progress, inseparable from a strong feeling, conviction or sense of it, always destined to fade away and dissipate before reaching its target? Since this is the Book of Light, it is appropriate to pose the question - what can light do about it?
This is a distillation of my own pursuit of sharpness.
A sudden light signal, especially natural salient visual sensations like a sunbeam or its refection, normally leads to instant mood change for the better and the related lust of gazing directed towards the source of the signal. This is what most of us4 experience in numerous day-to-day life situations when an unexpected light level change, like when we get out of a building and fnd ourselves in the open air, in an instant brings back the lightness of being. Furthermore, in such situations persons with bad eyes who refrain from wearing glasses and whose eyes are used to functioning on their own may experience instant and sudden sight vision sharpening which I was able to testify myself pretty soon after letting go of the glasses.
However, since we cannot rely only on sporadic, unexpected or sudden light signals if we wish to bring about a viable method of natural vision improvement, there must be a light device which is to streamline and catalyse this process. The desirable mental/cognitive state, inseparable from the lust of gazing and the will to see despite the adversity so intransigent as myopia, cannot be maintained by unexpected and unpredictable light stimuli alone. On the other hand, such a drive also cannot last too long if powered solely by the expected or predictable light stimuli either.
What would happen if the light were taken as a reward, a temporally distant stimulus produced as a result of our psycho-motor striving, in a way corresponding to our expectations? And what would happen if one’s anticipation or craving for the light were taken as an equally important part of the whole process as the experience of the rewarding light itself, accompanied by delicate mind-body coordination fne tuned in order to reach it?
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4 In various cases of photophobia or epilepsy this is not the case.
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