Vision Issues

Fritz Perls among others asserted that many vision issues were related to brain states. An anxious person, for example doesn’t want to see very far, etc. He used to use Gestalt therapy to change people’s vision, and I’ve seen it happen a number of times over the years.

I’ve worked with several clients who had glaucoma, usually also had tone issues that resulted in high blood pressure and other issues. As always, looking at the whole client rather than a specific symptom is important, but we generally had some success with the vision issues over a period of training as we changed the overall level of stress in the body. Biggest issue I ran into was the client’s sensitivity to his/her eyes. Even with eyes-closed training, there was often a report that the eyes were tired or hurt or such after sessions. So take it slow and careful.