psychology https://www.fiteyes.com/taxonomy/term/79/all en Research on how moods affect eye pressure https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/research-on-how-moods-affect-eye-pressure <div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/research-on-how-moods-affect-eye-pressure" st_title="Research%20on%20how%20moods%20affect%20eye%20pressure%20" class="st_facebook_large" displayText="facebook"></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/research-on-how-moods-affect-eye-pressure" st_title="Research%20on%20how%20moods%20affect%20eye%20pressure%20" class="st_twitter_large" displayText="twitter" st_via="" st_username=""></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/research-on-how-moods-affect-eye-pressure" st_title="Research%20on%20how%20moods%20affect%20eye%20pressure%20" class="st_sharethis_large" displayText="sharethis" st_via="" st_username=""></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In an <a href="http://fiteyes.com/blog/dave/fiteyes-insight-tonometer-software-version-20">upcoming version of the FitEyes Insight software</a> I hope to provide a very easy way to track moods along with eye pressure measurements. In preparation for that, I am working on a list of moods.</p> <p>If those of us monitoring our own eye pressure at home want to correlate our moods with changes in our IOP, we will need some standardized definitions of moods.</p> <p>I would appreciate any feedback on the following rough draft of a mood list. I don't want the list to be much longer than it is, but I welcome any edits, suggestions, substitutions, changes, etc. Informal suggestions are welcome. So are suggestions from those with formal training and experience in this area. (I lack both.)</p> <p>If you feel there is a mood that affects your IOP, please list that mood (and define/elaborate it as I have done in these examples). </p> <ul><li>afraid ("feeling scared, afraid, frightened")</li> <li>ambitious ("feeling a strong desire for success or achievement")</li> <li>anxious ("feeling nervous, anxious, jittery, jumpy")</li> <li>ashamed ("feeling bristled, offended, outraged, angry")</li> <li>blissful ("feeling joyous, blissful, happy for no reason")</li> <li>carefree ("no cares, no concerns, free, relaxed, at peace")</li> <li>determined ("gearing up, raising intensity, getting ready to meet a challenge imposed upon you")</li> <li>distracted ("feeling distracted, unfocused, mind is over-active")</li> <li>distressed ("feeling uptight, distressed, uncomfortable, pressured")</li> <li>empowered ("feeling empowered, powerful, capable, confident, relaxed")</li> <li>engaged ("feeling engaged, mind is quiet or calm, in the present moment, not distracted")</li> <li>excited ("feeling anticipation, excitement, looking forward to a good outcome")</li> <li>free ("no obligations, no burdens, no restrictions, completely free")</li> <li>guilty ("feeling ashamed, guilty, blameworthy, filthy")</li> <li>happy ("feeling unburdened, happy due to positive circumstances")</li> <li>hostile ("feeling hostile, mad, ready to fight against something or someone")</li> <li>inspired ("feeling inspired")</li> <li>irritable ("feeling irritated, grouchy, crabby, cross, bilious")</li> <li>nervous ("feeling bothered, disturbed, put off, uncomfortable")</li> <li>optimistic ("feeling contented, optimistic, trusting, no concerns")</li> <li>overwhelmed ("feeling burdened, overwhelmed, pressured, too much to do in too little time")</li> <li>sad ("feeling sad, depressed")</li> <li>stalwart ("dealing with enduring hardships, not showing weakness or emotions, summoning courage")</li> <li>strained ("worn down from dealing with (excessive) demands or hard work, yet persevering")</li> <li>upset ("feeling upset")</li> </ul><p> BTW, my list isn't finished, as you see from items like the last one.</p> <p>If you already have some understanding of how moods affect IOP, you may notice the subtle distinctions I made in the list above. (If you want to catch up with some prior discussions related to this topic, see this link: <a href="http://fiteyes.com/search/node/ego">http://fiteyes.com/search/node/ego</a> .)</p> <p>For example, let's contrast feeling carefree with feeling excited (using my definitions). Someone who partially understands that stress can raise IOP may assume that neither a carefree mood nor an excited mood would raise IOP (because both are "positive" moods and neither is considered stressful). This is usually incorrect. Being carefree will not (in my experience) elevate intraocular pressure. However, being excited will quite often raise eye pressure.</p> <p>The reason for the differing results in terms of IOP is both very clear and generalizable to any set of two moods we wish to contrast. (It is also supported by psychological understandings that have survived thousands of years in ancients traditions, but that are not necessarily mainstream.) Therefore, in my list, I have been careful to capture these distinct aspects of certain moods (although I have not finished my list). For example, note the distinction between the closely related moods of "feeling determined" and "feeling empowered". If we use my definitions, I would expect that feeling determined will lead to a slow rise in IOP over time, whereas feeling empowered will not. For another example, feeling sad is not expected (in my experience) to raise IOP, but feeling irritable is. (Who recognizes the role of ego in any of this?)</p> <p>And this also points to the reason why FitEyes needs a proprietary mood list for this research. Normal (mainstream) psychological perspectives don't capture the distinctions I have come to understand from the combination of self-tonometry and Serene Impulse.</p> <p>BTW, the <a href="http://fiteyes.com/blog/dave/fiteyes-insight-tonometer-software-version-20">planned upcoming version of the FitEyes Insight research software</a> will track the durations and intensity of these moods along with eye pressure changes over time. It will also be able to track things like the "end of bottle syndrome" (and, of course, the timing of one's normal use of glaucoma eye drops).</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline inline clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Filed Under (tags): </h3><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tags/emotions">emotions</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tags/intraocular-pressure">intraocular pressure</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tags/Eye-Pressure">Eye Pressure</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tags/self-tonometry">self-tonometry</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tags/psychology">psychology</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tags/moods">moods</a></li></ul></div> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:16:21 +0000 dave 937 at https://www.fiteyes.com How I first became aware that my ego could raise my eye pressure https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/how-i-first-became-aware-that-my-ego-could-raise-my-eye-pressure <div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/how-i-first-became-aware-that-my-ego-could-raise-my-eye-pressure" st_title="How%20I%20first%20became%20aware%20that%20my%20ego%20could%20raise%20my%20eye%20pressure" class="st_facebook_large" displayText="facebook"></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/how-i-first-became-aware-that-my-ego-could-raise-my-eye-pressure" st_title="How%20I%20first%20became%20aware%20that%20my%20ego%20could%20raise%20my%20eye%20pressure" class="st_twitter_large" displayText="twitter" st_via="" st_username=""></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/how-i-first-became-aware-that-my-ego-could-raise-my-eye-pressure" st_title="How%20I%20first%20became%20aware%20that%20my%20ego%20could%20raise%20my%20eye%20pressure" class="st_sharethis_large" displayText="sharethis" st_via="" st_username=""></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This is a story about my first clues into the role my ego played in my intraocular pressure fluctuations (and spikes). This happened in 2006 or 2007 after I had started self-tonometry and had been doing it long enough to see a clear relationship between stress and my eye pressure.</p> <p>A long-time friend invited me to an informal dinner with a world-famous celebrity. I had met the celebrity previously and we got along fine. We shared a common interest in health topics, so the conversations were always interesting.</p> <p>Before going to dinner my IOP was in the teens. We had an enjoyable time at the dinner. The celebrity, the celebrity's friends, my friend and I all enjoyed the conversation and we had a lot of things to talk about. Everyone wanted to know my opinion on various health-related subjects and I was happy to share my knowledge. I was often the center of attention and I enjoyed that.</p> <p>Driving home from the dinner I felt happy. At home I checked my intraocular pressure, expecting it to be low. To my surprise it was greatly elevated -- into the 30's! (IOP that high was pretty rare. Furthermore, my IOP was usually near its low point at that time of day, and it also tends to be lower after eating a meal.)</p> <p>Being a researcher, this raised a number of questions for me and I began a very scientific quest to find answers based on my IOP data. More than a year elapsed before I understood in detail what had happened the night of my dinner with the celebrity. And finding the answers ultimately depended on skills I had gained from more than 15 years of practical research into consciousness. My deep familiarity with non-mainstream knowledge of how the mind works enabled me to eventually gain insights into this eye pressure situation. Therefore, I understand if this isn't obvious to everyone. I'll do my best to explain the basics in this blog post, but I also recommend that interested readers study the ego in greater detail. You may be surprised to know that the best discussions on this topic are found in spiritual texts, not psychological texts. The ancient traditions (Ayurveda, etc.) provide a much more detailed understanding of the ego than most modern text books. (A good lay discussions on the ego can be found in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Earth-Awakening-Purpose-Selection/dp/0452289963/?tag=jaxfl32225-20&amp;s=books">Eckhart Tolle's book</a>.)</p> <p>I'll explain exactly what I came to understand on the basis of the shocking finding that my IOP jumped into the 30's -- after what I thought was a fun and relaxing dinner. However, I need to point out that my understanding came together on the basis of repeated episodes similar to this one over the following months (and years). Those repeated episodes allowed me to test various hypotheses using reliable IOP data from my tonometer.</p> <p>What I eventually realized is that my ego was the most fundamental factor responsible for my IOP spike at the dinner with the celebrity. I wanted to make a good impression on the celebrity. I wanted to be liked and respected. On a subtle level I felt it would be valuable to be liked and to eventually become better friends with the celebrity. This desire to make a good impression created a subtle tension in my body. Through Serene Impulse, which I learned later, I eventually gained the skill to feel this effect in my physiology. However, and more importantly, I also measured it with instruments in later tests and found that my physiological reactions showed quite high levels of stress. (I measured vasodilation, finger and hand temperature changes, galvanic skin response, breathing patterns, heart rate patterns and several other things.)</p> <p>Previously, I had been completely unaware of the stress in situations like this dinner. This was due to several things. I had trained myself, as most of us have, to ignore or block out subtle feedback from my body. I had the idea that uncomfortable emotions were something to be suppressed. And I lacked the skill and training to recognize the physiological symptoms that were present. So while I would have sworn that I was relaxed and having an enjoyable time, my body was in fact in a very stressed state.</p> <p>There was also psychological stress, although I did not recognize this at the time either. But any time we seek to control an outcome that is beyond our control, we will be under stress. In this case, I wanted the celebrity to like me. Obviously, no matter what I did or did not do, the other person could come to not like me for any of an infinite number of reasons that I might never know. What another person thinks is completely out of my control. So trying to achieve control of that leads to stress, even if we don't have immediate awareness of that stress.</p> <p>I later observed subtle changes in my breathing patterns and even changes in the way I communicated in situations like this. When I am trying to control what another person thinks about me, one result is that I spend a lot of mental energy planning what I'm going to say. All this inner mental activity is a type of stress. (This is called being like a duck -- calm on the surface, legs paddling furiously under the water.)</p> <p>In fact, I have now confirmed that any excess mental activity, whether related to stress or not, will affect IOP. When I quiet my mind (and have few or no thoughts), my IOP will drop instantly. Much of our excessive thinking ("self-talk") is generated by the ego. But that's a topic for another article.</p> <p>I'll say a bit about my definition of ego. The more important it is what other people think about us, the stronger (more active) is our own ego in that situation. Over time I had the opportunity to measure my IOP in response to various dinner situations and I did find that the more importance I placed on whether the other person liked me or whether I made a favorable impression, the higher my IOP. That's why the dinner with the world-famous celebrity had such a pronounced effect on my IOP. </p> <p>A friendship with this celebrity, of the type my own friend had forged, had the power (I believed) to change my life. I had seen my friend benefit financially and more. He was flying around in a private jet, going on vacations all over the world, and staying in hotels that cost more for <em>one night</em> than I paid to purchase my first house! He was receiving expensive gifts, regularly eating in the best restaurants and living a life of luxury. He was also attending special events as a guest of the celebrity and enjoying privileges that could not be bought at any price. Although I was not consciously thinking about any of this (and, indeed, I didn't really want that kind of lifestyle), at some level I had placed a lot of importance on being liked by the celebrity. I call that an effect of the ego. But it is far from the only effect of the ego. (Other details will have to wait for another article.)</p> <p>In summary, several things became clear to me as a result of my investigation of the post-dinner IOP spike:</p> <ul><li>At the time I did not know how to recognize my own states of stress. This is an effect of the ego.</li> <li>At that time I was out of touch with my own emotions. This is also an effect of the ego.</li> <li>I had already documented that stress raised my IOP, but this was the first clear example of a stressful situation that did not feel stressful to me (at the time). With my greater awareness now, it certainly would feel highly uncomfortable and stressful to go back into that psychological and physiological state. I would clearly recognize it as stress now.</li> <li>Therefore, this dinner, based on my physiological state, was in fact another example of stress raising my IOP. The source of the stress was my ego.</li> <li>This situation helped deepen my understanding of the ways in which the ego underlies almost all psychological stress. Without ego involvement, we would have almost no stress.</li> </ul></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline inline clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Filed Under (tags): </h3><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tags/intraocular-pressure">intraocular pressure</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tags/Eye-Pressure">Eye Pressure</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tags/self-tonometry">self-tonometry</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tags/ego">ego</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tags/psychology">psychology</a></li></ul></div> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:24:11 +0000 dave 936 at https://www.fiteyes.com I am trying to take life easy but I note that my high eye pressures does not come down https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/anonymous/i-am-trying-to-take-life-easy-but-i-note-that-my-high-eye-pressures-does-not-come <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="premium-message"><div class="premium_teaser_login"> <p><strong>Only registered users have access to the most valuable content of the FitEyes community: Blogs, Comments, FitEyes Discussion Group Archives, unique information on self-tonometry and other user-generated research.</strong></p> <p><strong>You must register</strong> because we have content that cannot be viewed unless you agree to our terms and conditions. </p> <h4>New users please <a href="http://www.fiteyes.com/user/register" target="_self" title="New user registration">click here to create new account</a> to read more...</h4> </div> </div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline inline clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Filed Under (tags): </h3><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tags/stress">stress</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tags/self-tonometry">self-tonometry</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tags/lifestyle">lifestyle</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tags/psychology">psychology</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tags/equanimity">equanimity</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tags/work">work</a></li></ul></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/anonymous/i-am-trying-to-take-life-easy-but-i-note-that-my-high-eye-pressures-does-not-come" st_title="I%20am%20trying%20to%20take%20life%20easy%20but%20I%20note%20that%20my%20high%20eye%20pressures%20does%20not%20come%20down" class="st_facebook_large" displayText="facebook"></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/anonymous/i-am-trying-to-take-life-easy-but-i-note-that-my-high-eye-pressures-does-not-come" st_title="I%20am%20trying%20to%20take%20life%20easy%20but%20I%20note%20that%20my%20high%20eye%20pressures%20does%20not%20come%20down" class="st_twitter_large" displayText="twitter" st_via="" st_username=""></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/anonymous/i-am-trying-to-take-life-easy-but-i-note-that-my-high-eye-pressures-does-not-come" st_title="I%20am%20trying%20to%20take%20life%20easy%20but%20I%20note%20that%20my%20high%20eye%20pressures%20does%20not%20come%20down" class="st_sharethis_large" displayText="sharethis" st_via="" st_username=""></span> </div></div> Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:54:49 +0000 Anonymous 847 at https://www.fiteyes.com Doing things slowly in a fast world https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/doing-things-slow-in-a-fast-world <div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/doing-things-slow-in-a-fast-world" st_title="Doing%20things%20slowly%20in%20a%20fast%20world" class="st_facebook_large" displayText="facebook"></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/doing-things-slow-in-a-fast-world" st_title="Doing%20things%20slowly%20in%20a%20fast%20world" class="st_twitter_large" displayText="twitter" st_via="" st_username=""></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/dave/doing-things-slow-in-a-fast-world" st_title="Doing%20things%20slowly%20in%20a%20fast%20world" class="st_sharethis_large" displayText="sharethis" st_via="" st_username=""></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>The entire following blog post was intially written as a private email to a friend of mine. I decided to share it here.</em></p> <p>I grew up doing fast things in a fast way. I raced motorcycles -- and I have always loved anything fast. But I also tried to accomplish the maximum possible number of things each day and I always pushed myself to do things quicker or more efficiently. Then I developed glaucoma.</p> <p>As I have gotten to know myself more intimately (thanks in part to self-tonometry) I have realized that I actually like to take my time. I enjoy doing things in a non-rushed manner. You could even say that I enjoy being slow! (Something I never would have admitted to myself in my days of racing, even in my most private thoughts.) Even today, I still have a great admiration for people who do things quickly, as if this is an inherently superior way of being.</p> <p>But I now know that I like to take my time doi<img align="left" width="494" vspace="10" hspace="10" height="257" border="0" alt="go slow to reduce eye pressure" src="/sites/fiteyes.com/files/rsz_452300_47133.jpg" />ng things. I still enjoy efficiency. But sometimes it is more efficient to delay the next project's start and finish what was started rather than have to terminate it due to an artificial deadline and then pick it up again at a later time. I like going deep into things (whether discussions, research or building software) and having the time to do it well. And I have found that sometimes I even enjoy doing something in a completely inefficient manner (saying that still sounds <em>sacrilegious</em>). Sometimes I enjoy just plain being slow! (What have I just said! My gosh!)</p> <!--break--><p>Actually, slowness is a kapha tendency. Honoring one's tendencies -- without letting them become imbalanced -- seems to be a valid strategy for healing. Exercise is good for kapha people in part because it gets us going, prevents us from stagnating and getting taken over by inertia. However, keeping kapha balanced is a much different thing from trying to deny one's kapha tendencies and act like a vata or pitta person.</p> <p>When I realized these things about myself, I stopped trying to consult with clients for at least 8 hours per day, for example. I started leaving big gaps between my appointments. This cut way back on my stress and dramatically increased my enjoyment. I think this decision and other related decisions are important to my strategy of protecting my vision. This decision has certainly been a benefit to my overall health and happiness.</p> <p>I think one of the worst things I did was deny my desire to take my time. For most of my life I forced myself to operate in jobs and in situations that demanded doing things as fast as possible.</p> <p>My wife is the opposite of me in this regard. She does not like to spend much time on any one thing. She doesn't care about understanding something in detail, and it is virtually impossible for her to do deep research. But it also makes her an ideal fit for many modern workplaces. Bosses see her as someone who gets things done. Indeed, I also greatly admire this quality of hers. (And few bosses really care about doing things any better than she does them anyway, but now I'm getting off topic.)</p> <p>However, it is clear to both my wife and I that her (lack of depth + quickness) and my (depth + slowness) are complimentary. Neither is inherently better than the other, but modern society tries to force everyone into the mode my wife operates in. Even in areas where depth has traditionally been the most valued trait, CEO's have (for example) compelled employees to follow a model that emphasizes speed above all else, right?</p> <p>A person who doesn't fit well in a corporate culture that demands we do as much as possible as fast as possible, will, at some point, have to face a hard truth. The lack of congruence here is almost guaranteed to result in the development of disease. Often people never make the connection between dis-ease and disease, but my experience tells me that the correlation is nearly 1.0. [EDIT: a correlation of 1.0 means loosely that the relationship is nearly 100% aligned.)</p> <p>I had to accept the fact that leaving time between clients (so that, if an occasional Thursday session needs to run longer, for example, I can go with that and enjoy it) would reduce my potential and actual income. In the beginning my old ideas about being productive, successful, etc. dominated the messages from my own body. I endured dis-ease. Eventually I did listen to my body -- but my first reaction was that I wanted to quit consulting and go back to my previous job. Eventually I just learned to really listen, to pay attention to what was right in front of me. When I gave up my concepts about "success" I found that I could easily do this consulting and be comfortable. But at the time it was a difficult decision. Choosing to be "less successful" goes against everything society wants us to do/be. Society rewards/honors those who destroy their health to achieve some material gains, right? As Eckhart Tolle points out, when we are on our death beds, we may finally see the folly of this way of living. Tim Ferris calls it the deferred life plan.</p> <p>One can learn mental discipline and psychological techniques for dealing with stress in the workplace. But when one is in a job that is against one's nature, it makes mastering the other eminent psychological skills we've discussed seem trivial. I do not feel that simply adjusting, as challenging as that would be, is sufficient to let me accomplish my goals of protecting my vision and improving my vision. I need to be in a situation where I feel totally right all the time. Where I live with comfort (the total opposite of dis-ease) in my physiology 24 hours a day.</p> <p>No matter what worldly success may be achieved by conforming to society's ideals of success, if doing so is against one's nature and takes one out of one's comfort zone, real success and real happiness will never ever be achieved. Nothing but misery, disease and suffering will come from that strategy.</p> <p>The beauty of self-tonometry is that we can quantify and test these ideas. In my case I see a near perfect long term correlation between dis-ease in my body and elevated intraocular pressure.</p> <p>As a postscript, I would like to add that even after I made this decision to honor my enjoyment of working more slowly, I still retained a tendency to want to do things fast and to do more in less time. For example, I have the habit of walking in the evenings. It is good for my eyes. Until more recently, I tried to walk fast. I felt like I needed to get the benefits of physical exercise (even though I was walking primarily for my mind and my eyes). That immediately led to the idea that the more miles I walked in my given hour of time, the better I was doing.</p> <p>Soon I discovered that my walks did not always lower my IOP. Eventually, I tried the idea of walking slowly. (Slowly I started applying the concept of being true to myself to all areas of my life.) At first walking slowly was actually psychologically painful. I felt that I was wasting my time. Eventually, I learned to let myself do it and I found that I could consistently produce lower IOP by walking slower. My best walking is when I turn off my thinking brain and just walk as slow and as relaxed as I feel like walking. When I give up on the idea of making it into a productive exercise, I get much lower IOP. Moral of the story: slower is better. ;)</p> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline inline clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Filed Under (tags): </h3><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tags/stress">stress</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tags/intraocular-pressure">intraocular pressure</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tags/Eckhart-Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tags/psychology">psychology</a></li></ul></div> Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:30:36 +0000 dave 822 at https://www.fiteyes.com Dalai Lama Quote of the Week https://www.fiteyes.com/blog/anonymous/dalai-lama-quote-of-the-week <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="premium-message"><div class="premium_teaser_login"> 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