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Does Eyesight Respond to EFT?

By Dr. Patricia Carrington

I will try to answer the question of whether eyesight can respond to EFT in this review of the e-book, “Improve Your Eyesight with EFT,” by Carol Look, LCSW, and EFT Master.

From time to time I review products that I consider to be of special value to EFT users. This is one of those.

In her new 134 page e-book, “Improve Your Eyesight with EFT”, Carol Look has accomplished something unusual.  She has provided us with an eight-week self-help program designed to improve eyesight using EFT.  This book is an interactive experience; you must work with it to make it work.  If you put just a little bit of effort into it, however, the book may well be able to improve your eyesight markedly, perhaps even dramatically.

Before considering the details of the e-book, you may be wondering – Why should EFT work to improve eyesight?

The answer seems apparent to me as a clinical psychologist and researcher long aware of mind-body interactions.  I have been curious for some time about the effects of applying EFT to eyesight problems, and feel compelled to ask you the following questions:

Question 1:  Do you see your eyesight as influenced by your response to your environment, either physical or emotional, or do you see it as a more or less unchangeable physical condition (i.e. as either black or white ––you either have good vision or you don’t; you either need some sort of lenses or you don’t )?

Question 2:  What do you expect from your vision as you get older?

Question 3:   How do you see nature’s healing processes as applied to the state of your vision, now or in the future?  Are you only hoping to neutralize your eyesight problems in one way or another but never really cure them?

In a book written many years ago, the then Director of the General Electric Company’s Lighting Research Laboratory, Dr. Matthew Luckiesh, asked his readers to imagine what would happen if “crippled” eyes “could be transformed into crippled legs.  His comments were:   “If this (transformation) happened, what a heartrending parade we would witness on a busy street!  Nearly every other person would go limping by.  Many would be on crutches and some in wheelchairs.”  He was at that time referring to the widespread use of eyeglasses (now we would add to this the even more widespread use of contact lenses) on a PERMANENT basis, as usually being the sole treatment for eyesight problems.  Many years later, that is still, regrettably, the case.

If it is legs that are crippled, however, doctors typically refuse to let their patients rely just on crutches.  They regard the use of crutches as a necessary temporary strategy, and while paying attention to external conditions, they do their best to improve the internal conditions of the defective limbs, so that nature is allowed to do its work of healing.

If respect for the power of natural healing is applied to crippled legs, why is a similar respect for the recuperative powers of the human body not applied to defective eyesight?  This question is not generally asked by the medical establishment which, until now, has simply taken it for granted that defective eyesight is incurable and inevitable with age, and this is inspire of the eye’s demonstrably close relationship with the mind and the emotions.  It is not generally assumed that eyesight can return to normalcy through improvement within the mind-body sphere, and you yourself may unwittingly have adopted this point of view, as do most people.

Carol Look therefore presents a radically new approach to defective vision and for this reason using her method requires somewhat of a leap of faith.  To change one’s eyesight by behavioral means (i.e. EFT in this case) seems impossible in terms of what we have been told countless times.  Yet the fact is that psychological experiments have determined that the act of seeing involves consciousness and that in fact our perception and our emotions are intrinsically linked.

Consider for example the statement, "He/she made me so mad I couldn't see straight!”  This refers to the effects of anger on the focusing and flexibility of the eyes.  In fact, studies have shown that anger can actually redden the eyes and swell the minor blood vessels.  Rage can also cause the vision to blur and "warp" so that the person actually “can't see straight” when they are too angry.

If you decide to work with the e-book, you will be introduced to exercises involving many different emotions, including that of anger, and you may be startled when you discover the usefulness of EFT for the latter and the beneficial impact of the book’s anger exercise on your eyesight. Traditional acupuncture probably offers the best explanation for this.  In oriental medicine the eye is associated with the Liver/Gallbladder meridian, and the emotion associated with that meridian is, you guessed it, Anger. It is really more a form of deeply held anger, of resentment/rage.

When Carol compiled the statistics for her 8-week study, she found that those people who had stayed with the program (not all had stuck with it by any means, anymore than everyone sticks with anything) more than 75% reported an improvement in their eyesight that varied from slight to dramatic. She documented a number of emotions that affect eyesight. Sadness, fear, discouragement and similar negative emotions can affect the eyes almost instantly.  We know that tension is intensified in the eyes within a split-second if you experience any form of emotional distress and is manifested as tight lids and tight muscles.  Tense facial muscles often create a furrow between the eyebrows in an effort to relieve inner discomfort adding a further difficulty, and tense eye muscles then create congestion, which leads to restricted circulation in the region of the eyes and greatly lessened oxygen supply to the eyes, etc.

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