Chinese Acupuncture, Alex? Really? Well … A Quick Word Of Warning:
It is Sunday, I am deeply disinclined to be productive. Dozens of e-mails about technical problems and advertising recommendations are accusingly staring at me with increasingly non-current date stamps, from my e-mail inbox.
Instead of dealing with any of that, today is going to be entirely about something reflecting my mood of the moment. I hope you may find it in your heart to forgive me for not being more practical with your time reading this article.
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You really should see some of the e-mails I get.
The highly specific instruction that people get to cure their eyesight, they truly boggle the mind. Courses, where you are instructed to look at a specific sequence of specific shapes and colors, while twisting your head this way and that, and precisely timed instruction just how long to do each.
And in some of the better courses, there is a grain of truth. They tell you that you need to look at print-out chart of blue and green orbs for exactly 17 minutes at a time, precisely 42 minutes after sunrise. But also, they say that you need a lower prescription for close-up, and active focus (or whatever they choose to call it). Tricky! So you get a whole lot of very specific and very useless instructions, and a few things that actually will contribute to improving your vision.
It’s genius marketing, truly. I marvel at their ingenuity.
How very inspired and most guru-esque is that artful approach, where you must gaze at blue orbs while chanting an ancient Indian shaman’s eye chakra activation ritual? And yes, also reduced prescriptions and pushing focus, but first you need to buy just this very specific incense, and burn it next to seven small purple candles. While also pushing focus and taking breaks. And the candles must be lit in the specific sequence that the mystic eye guru has discovered, while visiting the all-seeing monks in the mountain villages of the Himalayas.
I must say this, while looking at those courses: I realize that I fail you, by not including these rituals in the #endmyopia Method. I am a square old man from a square old European city, without ever having taken a single trip to see Indian eye-shamans, and all I have for you is pulling focus and rehabilitative prescriptions. I imagine you looking at my course, thinking … Alex is just the very most boring and least inspired therapist of all time. No chants, no incense, no orbs. Boo.
I also get at least one e-mail a week, asking about Chinese eye acupuncture.
More than a few of these e-mail include accounts of improvement experiences. When I ask whether the individual also happens to be working on focus and healthy distance and break habits, unfailingly they of course also do these things. But, the Chinese acupuncture, it surely must be adding so much to the improvement!
Perhaps. Perhaps it is. In all fairness, I haven’t tried the blue orbs, or the tribal chants, or the incense, or the eye acupuncture.
You might get so much more enjoyment and bragging rights and spiritual enlightenment, if I were to sell shaman chant CDs (or perhaps something easily downloaded via iTunes?). If you could get just the right shade of blue orb right from the #endmyopia online store, and a referral to my favorite Chinese eye acupuncturist. Then you could proudly share your brilliant find of the brilliant old man who really can fix myopia (and is also so interesting and well traveled, and knows all the ancient Chinese medicine).
And while I may be filling your time right now with a bit of sarcasm, there is some benefit to these methods. They inspire confidence and adherence and belief. There is significant power in ritual as well as in positive attitude. I do believe that more than a few participants would genuinely benefit from some mystical add-ons to the boring old focus topics and prescription talk.
It isn’t something that I can do though, quite unfortunately. Blue orbs, remaining conspicuously absent in the #endmyopia Method course.
The problem is of course of the old dog vs. new tricks. If I were to go to India and China, and if somebody managed to show me enough evidence of tangible and easily reproduced fact, perhaps. I could grow a long, gray beard, and wear beads and robes, and my Austrian English accent may eventually sound more Indian influenced, and I might do long video recordings with blue orbs and piercing eyes and mystical background music chants. I’d inspire a whole new generation of the world’s youth to stop using massive prescriptions, while watching YouTube on their iPads. It would probably and most ironically, make a difference.
Meanwhile, this is all just going to continue to be entirely without transcendental experiences, and talking about boring old topics of getting breaks from close-up and pushing some focus. I know. Alex, you say, so unimaginative.
Enjoy your Sunday, shanti shanti!
