Meir Schneider

Natural vision Improvement with Meir Schneider

Aired On: August 18, 2023

Episode Description

Schneider Self-Healing Method combines breathing, unique bodywork, movement and visualization techniques that can help anyone to become more aware of their own body and be empowered to take charge of their own healing. His method is effective to help people to see well (with or without glasses), get rid of computer stress syndrome, help overcome nearsightedness(myopia), teach to not need readers, prevent macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, retinal detachment and others. Meir applied his Method of Self-Healing to help others who suffered from a wide range of degenerative conditions such as polio, muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis, in a natural way. Through his methods, you can learn how you can improve your eyesight and how you can move better, prevent most illnesses with simple exercises. This can be done with simple exercises which can be entertaining and pleasurable. You will also learn how flexible your brain is and find new ways to bring out your body’s resources in daily life. Other advantages of his methods include: • Reducing computer eyestrain • Overcoming the dependency on glasses • Improving joint mobility • Preventing all back problems • Getting rid of the nagging back pain • Overcoming headaches

Meir Schneider. Natural Vision Improvement

Book: Vision for Life

Awakening power of healing

415-665-9574

www.self-healing.org

  • He was born with congenital cataracts: he underwent five unsuccessful surgeries and suffered massive scaring.  He through his methods changed his vision from one percent to seventy percent.  Now he has a driver’s license
  • He specializes in teaching low vision patients and teaches all over the world.

Goal. He wants self healing to be the first approach in healing / rehabilitation

  • He wants to teach how to use muscles we never use
  • For example optometrist will first give eye exercise
    • Physical therapists will give muscle training before using a wheel chair

Improving vision

  • Never strain to see
  • Be aware if your normal tension
    • For example look outside at a distance (eyes are relaxed when looking at a distance)
    • Put your palm on your nose and look at the different lines on your palm
      • Eyes are stressed when looking close
    • Then look outside at a distance
    • Most are stressed from looking close and in dim light recommends looking at a distance for twenty minutes.  Then look near.   This will rest the lens muscles and will prevents cataracts

Cataracts

  • Arises because the lens becomes convex from the tension of the muscles
  • With close work on computers, it is expected that cataracts will occur at a younger age.
  • Eventually, the lens becomes rigid.  The cells of the lens become crowded
  • The doctors will recommend removing the lens
  • Can prevent the worsening of cataracts
    • The lens is the only part of the eye that grows
      • The retina changes layers but does not grow in size
  • The only way to save the lens is to
    • Look at the distance and relax
    • In the beginning of cataracts look at a distance for forty minutes first with both eyes then cover the stronger eye, then look with both eyes and imagining the distance

It is important to be in total darkness when sleeping and is important to adapt   to the strongest light that we can

  • Looking in the sun light is good; it is good to adapt to the strong sunlight
    • Pupils become constricted in the sunlight
  • Adapting to the sunlight is important otherwise the pupils become sluggish with poor adaption
    • An example of adaption is that people can see will through a pin hole
  • Adapting to the dark is also important
    • Children who have sleep with light in the home, tend to develop high myopia
      • This can lead to retinal detachment, retinal detachment, glaucoma, macular degeneration

Peripheral vision

  • Is important to expand peripheral vision and at the same time looking at small details.
    • Helps prevent macular degeneration
      • The macular is only 1.5 percent of the full retina
      • Macular degeneration is helped by looking at details
    • Looking at small letters make normal letters look clearer because one leans to look at smaller letters.
    • Movement of hands in peripheral vision will strengthen peripheral vision
    • His daughter was born with cataracts.  It is recommended to have these removed before eight weeks of age when vision develops.  She did exercises which developed her macula which allowed her to see very well without a lens

Far sightedness (presbyopia)

  • In these days are becoming farsighted earlier. It used to occur in the fifties, but now in the thirties.
  • Approaches,
    • Learn to strengthen the ciliary muscles (the muscles of the lens)
    • Increase the light; try to read outside in the shade and put the page in the sun
    • Put two fingers at the bridge of the nose.  Try to see the finger nail and look back at the paper
    • Or put paper over the strong eye.  Read large print with your nose on the page (the muscles cannot easily contract in this position). When you put the paper at a normal distance, your will see normally
    • Look at details. Always pay attention to small details. Look at small print without straining to see this small print; then look back to see large print
      • Example, look at print and turn all lights off   Then turn the lights back on. Pupils extended then contracted so one sees better.

We need to use all of our muscles

  • Most people use approximately 70 of their 600 muscles
  • We need to use more of our muscles with less strain
  • Isolate / separate muscle groups and isolate movement
    • Eg move legs sideways
    • Lift one toe at a time

For near sightedness

  • On an eyechart,
    • Have to learn to look at a distance without seeing it well
    • Look at eyechart and then at a distance
    • look at spaces between the letters, then look st the smaller spaces
      • wakes up amygdala (?)
      • the smaller lines below it will start to appear
      • then move further from eye chart and repeat

For astigmatism

  • Put chart on nose and look line to line
  • Or cover stronger eye, look with weaker eye from far to near.  Repeat
  • Or look at chart with numbers cover strong eye, look at big number, then smaller numbers.  Then take off cover and do exercise with both eyes

Glaucoma

  • Prevent destroying optic nerve by getting more circulation to optic nerve

Floaters

  • Look at the floater, then look at a distance
  • Full blinking helps
  • He recommends against eye drops as one can become dependent on them

Dry Eyes

  • Loosening the lower back helps

Helping the back

  • Be mobile and flexible
  • learn to use muscles never used before
    • make sure have good movement in feet, thigh, arm
    • Isolate muscles in back
    • Develop muscles in feet and ankles
    • When one bends, they tense their neck so is important   to look up,
  • Walk and run backwards and sideways
  • Relax the back
    • Tennis balls near the vertebrae
  • Two enemies
    • Shoes on cement.
      • Change shoes two to three times per day.  Take them off when can
      • Walk and run on beach (can do on grass, best barefoot
    • Chair
      • Every twenty minutes stand up and look up at ceiling. Grab calf and pull it backwards while looking at the ceiling
  • Need to find pain and find reason for pain

Lowering blood pressure

  • High blood pressure
    • Walking, loosening, relaxing clearing thoughts
    • Loosening shoulders and hips  
    • Improve circulation
      • If feet and hands are cold, circulation is bad solution is to loosen hips and shoulders so muscles will not squeeze blood vessels leading to improved circulation
    • Improve joint mobility
    • Better activity of nervous system and improve balance
    • Dance
      • Lift right arm with left leg; lift right arm with left leg 4 minutes two to three times per day
    • If feel stiffer  or tired than normal means blood not flowing will
    • Exercise
      • Walking always reduces blood pressure
    • Make sure digestion and secretion are good
    • Work on clarity of thought
      • Not engage in thoughts that bring worry or feel uncomfortable
      • Stay away from toxic people
    • Massage face, head, body; rub feet
    • Rest don’t get too tired during day
  • Low blood pressure
    • Take 2-3 cold showers per day
      • Will increase work of heart
      • Loosen up hips and shoulders

Scoliosis

  • Body work technique
    • Pull skin to get vertebrae to work together
    • Create evenness in the back
    • Some scoliosis comes from uneven calves so create evenness in calves

Kyphosis

  • Work on tennis balls to relax back.
  • Some people lying on broomstick on vertebrae helps some
    • Can only be done under supervision
    • Tilts his pelvis up, puts his hands behind his head lifting head til chin touches chest, then puts his head back.  He then puts his head back.  This evenly distributes pressure.  Back become straighter and feels lighter when he stands up
  • One exercise is to roll side to side on the floor
    • Strengthens muscles not previously used
  • Sand on hands and feet and pull pelvis forwards and backwards

Improve Balance

  • Strengthening calves and shin muscles important
  • It is trying to establish balance in challenging situation is important
  • Walking forward and backwards on straight line improves balance
  • Walk sideways
  • If balance is poor can walk forward, backwards, sideways in pool
  • Sit and grab leg and lift it up and down
  • Walk on trampoline ,
  • Walk on beach. Helps calf muscles
  • With heals on ground lift toes up and down
    • Then balance with calf and shin
  • Lift one leg while sitting
  • Lift both legs while sitting

Summary

  • Exercise ciliary muscles of the lens by looking close then relaxing by looking at a distance  (helps lens accommodation)
    • Look at details. Strengthen pupils
    • It is good to practice adapting  to strongest light and weakest light (darkness)
    • Sunning exercise
      • Close your eyes facing sun, move head side to side chin to shoulder to chin to shoulder           
      • When facing sun, pupils constrict, when move away, pupils expand
      • Constriction and expansion of pupils strengthen muscles
      • If muscles get weak, get farsightedness, then cataracts with cloudy vision
    • Palming
      • Putting palms over the eyes and focus on palms
      • At least 25 minutes per day
    • Important
      • Work on accommodation
      • Peripheral vision by having motion in the peripheral fields close to the eyes
      • Balance of two eyes
      • Balance within each eye
      • Body- eye coordination
      • Improve blood flow to visual system through exercises
      • Exercises by covering parts of eyes or covering strong eyes and do exercises of looking far and near or walking around

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