Have you ever noticed flickering lights or streaks in your vision, even in the dark or with your eyes closed?
This "visual noise" is your optic nerve working overtime, constantly sending signals to your brain when it should be resting. For many, the optic nerve continues to send out these signals, creating white flashing lights and streaks—sometimes even at night.
This happens because of the constant bombardment of light from smartphones, electric lights, and screens, as well as from not having a dark enough sleeping environment. As a result, your optic nerve never fully relaxes, leading to stress in your brain and nervous system, and poor sleep.
If I could wave a magic wand and have everyone do one Feldenkrais session to help, it would be the one below called "Covering Your Eyes."
I’m sharing it with you now because I recently made my bedroom even darker than usual, and I found myself naturally doing parts of this session.
For years, I’ve used blackout curtains, but I took things further and added tinted film to my windows to keep more light out. And I went up on the roof to cover two small skylights. Now, my bedroom is so dark I can’t see my hand in front of my face at night.
The result?
Not only do I sleep better, but my eyes and the muscles in my face have visibly relaxed.
You can experience this too: Find the darkest room in your house, close the blinds, turn off the lights, and listen to this Feldenkrais session below.
Even just a few minutes can make a difference—you don’t need to do the entire session.
It is done lying on your back, and you can even do it in bed if you like:
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Peace,
Ryan
Several Feldenkrais-based series on the eyes can be found here.
