Hi all,
I am suffering from myopia. Will I able to improve my eye-vision by doing pran mudra. I have started doing pran mudra daily for 15 minutes. How much time will it take to improve my eye vision through pran mudra.
Also, can anyone guide me as to for how much time daily I should practise pran mudra to see improvement in my eye vision.
Hi Siri,
You don’t tell us if you suffer from simple or degenerative myopia. Simple myopia is easily treated these days with prescription lenses or special contact lenses. Also note that usually myopia has already developed in most sufferers by age 12 although they may only be diagnosed with it in adulthood. So by that time the shape of the eye has been changed and is fixed.
Denegerative myopia is much more difficult to treat, but there are new treatments on the market.
In terms of what you ask: I would like to challenge you in a different way. I suffer from myopia as well and after doing pran mudra for six months 3 times a day for 15 minutes, nothing has changed nor has anything stabalised, in fact with my next eye test it was revealed that everything got worse actually.
During a session to my reflexologist in 2001 I told her about it and she asked me what happened in my past as a child that I didn’t want to see? It took a lot of courage to go back in time to age 10 and to confront the emotions of what happened to me at that age and to investigate everything. It took me about a year to work through all the emotions. I went back for an eye test and guess what, my eyes stabalised. I know that my myopia will be there for the rest of my life, because beyond a certain age the shape is fixed and not changeable, however I also know that it won’t get worse also.
With this I don’t say pran mudra won’t work, it didn’t work for, but perhaps 6 months of practice wasn’t enough, point was I didn’t had mush more time to spend on a practice that is going to take be too long, at that point I needed a faster cure and working with my emotions provided for me that cure, although not physically permanent. Today I feel indifferent towards my myopia, it doesn’t bother me anymore and I hardly give it any energy or thought these days as opposed to when I was younger.
Hope this helps.
I think in such cases eye excercises (such as rolling eyes, chaging focus etc) are more
effective. I don’t have very effective experience with pran mudra either. Maybe it works
too gradually for eyes to be of any practical use. I heard that some ayurvedic eye drops
(from Pantanjalee Yog Peeth) are also very effective on eye problems.
Are there eye exercises / meditations that are specific to the yoga tradition? I have done rolling my eyes and some eye mandala tracing before. In a visual culture, I think that these type of exercises are important to do to help dissolve energetic blockages that are connected with our vision.
By the way, Aldous Huxely wrote a book on how to improve eyesight, he wrote from his own experience, since he improved his eyesight from near blindness to functionality. He used the Bates Method.