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eyes/ears/nose/throat
glaucoma: non-acute
psychospiritual approaches

metaphors and correlations

• Stony unforgiveness; pressure from longstanding hurts; overwhelmed by it all. (Hay, 1984, p. 164)
• Eyes represent not liking what you see in your own life. (Hay, 1984, p. 163)
• With glaucoma, raised pressure within the eye leads to restricting the field of vision until actual tunnel vision occurs. The wider view is lost; in effect, one is blind to all except that one aspect of reality that one wants to see. The raised pressure within the eye represents the psychological pressure of unwept tears. (Dethlefsen, p. 151)

Chinese psychophysiology:
Liver ~ Gan is the residence of the Hun (Ethereal Soul); it relates to decisiveness, control, and the principle of emergence; maintains smooth flow of Qi and Xue (Blood); controls the muscles, especially their contractility; reflects emotional harmony and movement; and opens into the eyes.
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Healthy expressions are kindness, spontaneity, and ease of movement.
» Liver Xu (Deficiency) signs include impotence; frigidity; pain in thighs, pelvic region, and throat; ready tendency to "the blahs" (Seem, p. 28); timidity; depression; irritability; vertigo; pruritus; dry eyes, skin, and/or tendons; asthma; aching at the waist; hernia; and difficulty raising head up and down. Liver Yin Xu (Deficiency) predisposes to the Shi (Excess) conditions of Liver Wind, Liver Yang Rising, and Liver Fire Blazing.
» Liver Shi (Excess)
signs include discontent; anger; pain in lumbar region and genitals (Seem, p. 28); muscular tension; excessive sex drive; insomnia; moodiness; excitability; genital diseases; red, tearing eyes; compulsive energy; and bitter taste in the mouth. Chronically suppressed anger can implode and give rise to Fire in the Liver and Gall Bladder with symptoms of irritability, bitter taste, headaches, etc.
» Liver Wind derives from Liver Yin Xu (Deficiency) and/or Liver Xue Xu (Blood Deficiency) and their subsequent inability to embrace the Yang, and can manifest as joint stiffness, dizziness, tremor, paralysis, convulsions, rashes, itching, and neurological problems.


therapies

behavior modification:
• Challenge the common belief that disease eventually leads to blindness (Bry, p. 90)

imagery:
• beach ball (Chavez)
• sponges soaking up fluid around eyeball (Bry, p. 89)

affirmation:
• I now create a life I love to look at. I see with love and tenderness. (Hay, 1984, p. 163-4)

psychotherapy:
• When eye or visual problems occur, the first step is to put aside your contacts or lenses for an entire day, so as to consciously experience the total life situation that results. Make a written account of just how you saw and experienced things, what you could and could not do, what your found difficult, how you coped in your relationships, and so on. The following questions could also be addressed:
» What is it that I do not want to see? Am I afraid to see things in their full clarity?
» Is my subjectivity in the way of my awareness? Am I neglecting to recognize myself? What aspect of my nature am I so keen to look away from?
» Can I really bear to see things as they really are? (Dethlefsen, p. 152)

process paradigm: (experientially oriented)
• What is the symptom preventing me from doing? What is the symptom making me do? (see process interview: eyes/ears/nose/throat system)

related materia medica listings:
the shadow and physical symptoms
converting a symptom to a signal
imagery: precautions
imagery: techniques
affirmations: guidelines and precautions
process paradigm


footnotes