Shaking Off Fear and Short-sightedness

I was introduced to Manos Sin Fronteras when I was 12 or 13 years old, my parents used to apply the treatments on me. I'll never forget the first time they did the “Balancing of the Nervous System”. I had a laughing attack, I felt so happy and I couldn't stop laughing.

I couldn't wait to take the courses, I was so excited, I didn't really understand what it was, but it gave me so much hope and I wanted to treat my eyes. Since I was a child I always had a strong astigmatism, at one point my teachers thought that I was a special needs child because I sat in front and paid attention, but my notes didn't reflect it.

After I received the 1st and 2nd levels, I started doing the treatment for the 5 senses every day. Year after year, every time I went to the ophthalmologist, my sight was a little bit better, and the doctor didn't believe it, I went from a 5 to a 1.25.

I started university and stopped doing the treatments for my eyes and started doing them for my brain and memory, to deal with my sometimes overwhelming emotions, the feeling and fear of not being able to or not being good enough. And little by little the fear of the future increased and with this fear a myopia began to develop, especially in my right eye.

There is a course held by the president of Manos Sin Fronteras called The Body Speaks ("Cuerpo Habla"), which teaches us to listen to the signals of our body. When we hold on to strong emotions, we absorb them, and the body eventually finds a way to release them. Knowing this, we can begin to listen to our body and work through these emotions.

The eyes are the window of our soul and the condition of my eyes betrays the fears I have of the future because of situations I have lived in the past. In recent years I have been able to work on the emotional side, to see that many of my mother's behaviors, I have them too and be able to work them, and my left eye can see much better than my right one. The right eye, as some of us have learned, is the rational side and after observing my behavior I realise that I am not objective at all in the way I see life.

I have read a little of what myopia is in terms of our body’s voice and it is not only the lack of objectivity, and the fear of the future, but also worrying too much about myself and not about others. I recognised myself in this and it really hit me.

For all the other short-sighted people who read this, here are some of the ways we can help ourselves.

Accept that the past is not an indication of the future, that we had a bad time in the past does not mean that the same thing will happen again, leave those fears that hold us back!

Open up to the ideas of others. There is a phrase by Shunryu Suzuki that I love: "In the mind of a beginner there are many possibilities, in the mind of an expert there are few.”

And when we feel a little lost and feel a little sorry for ourselves: Find a way to help someone else, to recover some of that generosity of spirit.

See life in a more positive way, stop expecting the worst. It's similar to the first, but it's worth saying it several times.

Rediscover the hope for the future and recover the joy of living! Every day we choose what we do in our day, the attitude with which we receive the new day, and every day is an opportunity to start over.

There is nothing we have or should do, these words are rooted in our ego.

And the last and greatest is with our goal, either this or that: meditate every day!

To connect with ourselves, to give oxygen to our brain, the food it needs and to give the heart space to express itself.

I have endless gratitude to La Jardinera who teaches us to live lighter, to love work, who teaches us to share and to help each other, and who has given us the greatest gift of our lives that is La Enseñanza and Meditation.