Covering the eyes
Submitted by Lynette Reid on Thu, 2007-04-26 10:38 
We can address the eyes in many ways in our explorations: in this lesson their calm, and the quality of our vision of the dark, is a marker of the overall state of the nervous system. See Bourdon's image Eyes and nervous system to feed your sensing and thinking.
What else can you do with this lesson? We go left and right, up and down. How about making clocks?
- Lesson Title: Covering the eyes
- Teacher: Lynette Reid
- Volume: Alexander Yanai
- Lesson Number: 10
- Length: 47:53 minutes (21.92 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 22kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Covering the Eyes
This is the first time I've understood the connection between lessening/calming the activity of the nervous system and the increasing darkness behind the eyes. Is this the objective of what is known as 'palming?'
Laurance Rudic
http://www.laurancerudic.blogspot.com
palming and nervous system
Here are some quotes from the transcript of this lesson in Alexander Yanai:
"Notice that even though your hands are covering your eyes you still see all types of shapes and different colors as in a kaleidescope. This happens because when your optic nerve is excited it cannot record anything except colors and shapes. This shows that your whole system is not quiet."
And later, about the spreading darkness, "This is the type of black your whole optic nerve sees when it is calm and not doing any movement or receiving any impulses. This is the darkest black a human can see."
I have felt for myself over the years that times when my "whole system is calmer" (as I have come to understand that feeling) indeed there is less activity and color when I close my eyes, and the reverse.
I'm curious to know what the point of palming is thought to be in other traditions--is it characterised in energy terms? And I'm curious whether anyone bothers to investigate it scientifically now. It's the sort of thing that could easily be investigated.
phosphenes
Aha; they are called "phosphenes" and since Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation has taken off since the late 80s, there is a research industry in measuring the production of phosphenes by means of electrical stimulation applied to the brain "non-invasively" through the skull. More anon.
Eyes, Jaw, Tongue
I liked this lesson, it seems to have that calming effect for me.
As I moved my eyes to the right I noticed my jaw and tongue moving slightly in same direction.
I played with this and all the other options I could think of,seemed to have a relaxing effect on all those areas.
More importantly for me is the enhancing of awareness, options, and my ability to enact that I got from this lesson .
I also like the fact I can play with variations of this lesson, at different times and in different possitions, as I move away from the "lying on the floor in order to do Feldenkrais" habit that I had developed
This comment comes rather a
This comment comes rather a long time after yours, but if you notice your tongue accompanying your eyes in a reflexive way, it would be especially powerful for you to construct a lesson for yourself where you deliberately invoke that connection, and play with the timing of it (have your eyes lead, have your tongue lead)--and then try out taking eyes and tongue in opposite directions.
thank you....
for the light path: covering the eyes
I will work in this difficult way for me.
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