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“Life lives,
life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life
tries. But life looks different through everyone’s eyes.”
1. A.
Eye: The greatest wonder
Humans are the best of the creations in the process of
evolution. Before you finish reading this sentence,
approximately one hundred billion (100,000,000,000) operations
will have been completed inside your eyes. However fantastic it
may seem, you have the privileged possession of the Universe's
ultimate technology. No scientist has ever come close to fully
grasping it, let alone inventing anything remotely similar.
Whatever you have in your life is meaningful through your
senses—vision and others. Your family, your house, your office,
your friends and everything else in your surroundings, you
quickly identify thanks to your vision. Without eyes, you could
never get a quick, complete sense of everything that's happening
around you. Without them, you could never imagine colors, forms,
scenes, human faces, or what the word beauty means. But you do
have eyes, and thanks to them, you can now read these printed
words before you.
Our body is a repository of wonder. It encompasses an
unimaginable set of complex abilities in its limited dimensions.
From whistling a tune to the thought of splitting of an atom, we
are wonderfully created. Yet, the greatest wonder of all is the
creation of an eye. It is so wonderful that it makes our
existence fascinating. The body is an intelligent tool that
surpasses all species on earth! It genuinely reflects the
innermost of our being- our emotions, attitudes, appetites,
feelings, imaginations and above all our true image through the
signals and cues of the body language.
The core elements of body language are gestures, postures,
facial expressions, appearance, eye expressions, modulations of
voice and the use of space and distancing. Although each element
has its own place in the study of kinesics, facial and specially
the eye expressions have their outstanding fields of
observation, perception, interpretation and operation.
Verbal communication, which includes rhythm, pitch and tone as
well as the actual words, only accounts for 35% of total
communication. This leaves a pretty hefty chunk of the
communication up to body language. More interesting is the fact
that people make eye contact only about 20% of the time. So what
are our eyes doing for the remaining 80%? The answer: a volley
of movement as we switch in and out of different modes of
information recall (recalling past experiences) and construction
(creating new information from previous experiences).
The eyes give the most revealing and accurate of all the human
communication signals because they are a focal point of the body
and the pupils work independently. A blink. A wink. A sidelong
glance. Your eyes speak volumes to the others around you - and
every time, a raised brow or wide stare at you is a valuable
clue to the other’s unspoken words. One should spot the eyes if
they are angry, epoxy, bored, surprised, greedy, frightful, sad,
lying, accusing, cruel, foxy, pitiful, mischievous etc. etc.
Why to say that eyes are powerful? Gaze at someone’s eyes and
see what happens. It arouses strong emotions in others, either
you may become a soul mate or you may get a slap on your face!
1. B. Eye: a symbol of consciousness
The eye identifies universal physical perspectives of the
terrain. The act of seeing is regarded as a sign of life. Power
of eye represents the power of the whole person. Eye is
considered to be a symbol of higher consciousness. It represents
in-sight; it represents physical, psychic and spiritual
awareness. It is a symbol of wisdom and of clear perception. All
things are viewed through an eye of conscious creation in the
alchemy of time. It is the center of the spiral of creation. The
Eye is the Eclipse of consciousness at the end of time.
Everything sweeps forth from the 'eye' - experience consciously
- then return to the eye as the patterns of virtual reality.
The opening of the eye is basically Iris - Isis - I. It is
symbolic of time of awakening, the evolution of consciousness.
Hence Eye represents I.
The eye has a pupil. We are pupils in this universe (i.e.
university) experiencing consciously through the lens of time.
It is believed that we have a third eye just above eyebrows in
the center of forehead. This is related in the realm of
mysticism as the spiritual center which can perceive
extrasensory dimensions and spiritual realities. Directly in
line with this center, in the middle of the brain, lies pineal
gland, this releases the chemical that controls high
consciousness. It is believed that this was once an eye that
over the centuries became buried in the center of the brain. In
the Hindu pantheon of Gods, Siva is endowed with three eyes and
Indra has eyes all over his body. Some deities are described as
having thousand eyes. Many Buddhist Temples exhibit all-seeing
eye on their towers. In the case of Siva, having three eyes
signifies power; it also signifies knowledge of everything
around. Vishnu's eyes are half-closed in the sleeping posture,
but they are wide awake within, aware of and regulating every
object and phenomenon in the entire universe.
The eyes are described as the windows of the soul…and the
mirrors of the heart. Emerson precisely puts up the importance
of eyes, “The eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or
can insult like hissing and kicking; or in its altered mood, by
beams of kindness, makes the heart dance with joy.”
A variety of metaphoric expressions are used for the kind of
look and attitude the eyes convey. A major function of the eye
is to retrieve the implicit meaning in a communicative event.
The eyes can be steely, knowing, mocking, cunning, piercing,
shifty, wise, inviting, scary, disinterested, appreciative,
pitiful, disappointed, depressed, cruel, emotionless or blank.
1. C. Brain and Eyes
To see an object, all you have to do is to turn your gaze at it.
You don't need to bother giving "project, capture, and analyze"
orders to your eyes, the components inside them, the optical
nerves running to the back of your brain, nor to the brain
itself. You need only look, just like the rest of the billions
of creatures who have ever lived on our planet. Without having
to work out the optical measurements, your eye's lens can focus
onto distant objects. Without needing to accurately compute the
precise contractions of various muscles surrounding the lens,
you only desire to see, and within a fraction of a second, that
process is carried out for you. Like many people, you may never
have realized what a miracle it is that thousands of independent
processes can operate in a perfect harmony to enable you to see.
The sense organs are the portals of our awareness. It is through
the sense organs that every one of us is connected to the outer
world. Eye is singular in being a facial and a sense organ par
excellence, but essentially it is an extension of the brain. To
limit this reality only to anatomical region where the eye as an
organ is located is an injustice to the potential, to the visual
field and to the perception the eye renders to each of us under
the reign of brain. I was not struck with the statement the eye
being an extension of brain. In our college life, no professor
gave us such thinking. We learnt that brain and eyes are the
separate organs, although connected. I wonder at the Almighty’s
creation of the human body. The brain extended its region as it
wanted to look at the world through the eyes. Open the eyes to
see the outer world and close it to look within. The journey of
both is complex, deep and enlightening. The statement ‘The eyes
are the window to the soul’ is worth recalling in the context of
spiritualism.
Researchers Arendt and Wittbrodt while elucidating on the
evolutionary origin of the human eye, writes, “It is not
surprising that cells of human eyes come from the brain. We
still have light-sensitive cells in our brains which detect
light and influence our daily rhythms of activity.” “Quite
possibly, the human eye has originated from light sensitive
cells in the brain. Only later in evolution would such brain
cells have relocated into an eye and gained the potential of
conferring the vision.”
Neuroscientists have concluded that it is the eye that scans
when our brain is processing information about other people’s
emotions. The amygdala are found in each site of brain in medial
temporal lobe and are known to process information about facial
expressions.
1. D. Face and Eyes
Face is, truly, the mirror of life. A face is often called as an
organ of emotions. Our face is exquisitely expressive. It
defines our identity. It speaks for itself. One can
categorically make a statement that the face is mightier than
the word.
Facial expressions are clearly related to expressions via eye.
Face is the most important part of "face to face" bodily
encounters. The expressions on face are retrieved and
comprehended via eye, and the facial expressions depend on the
support of the expression via eye. Smile is among many
expressions that depend not only on facial parts, such as lips,
mouth and cheeks, but also on the expression given out by eye.
Areas of face involved in emotions indicate that fear and
sadness are best produced by and nudged from the eyes and
eyelids area. A combination of cheeks, mouth, eyes, and eyelids
reveals happiness. Surprise is identified in brows and forehead
more clearly. Surprise is identified also in eyes and eyelids as
well as the combination of cheeks and lip movements.
1. E. The function of seeing the ‘true’ image
The eye might be a window to the outside world, but in our sense
of sight it plays only the role of an instrument. The spot where
vision is established is deep inside the brain.
To recap the steps of seeing: Beams of light enter the eye and
pass through the cornea, the pupil and lens. The cornea's convex
structure and the lens break up the light beams and, after
turning the picture or image of the scene upside down, direct it
to the retina. The job of the lens is to focus light rays on the
back of the eyeball - the retina. The lens works much like the
lens of a movie projector. If you sit in the dark theater and
look behind at the stream of light coming from the projection
booth, you will notice that light goes through a powerful lens,
which is focusing the images onto the screen, so you can see the
movie clearly. In the eye's case, however, the film screen is
the retina. Light-sensitive receptor cells—the cones and
rods—then convert the light into electrical signals, to be sent
to the brain. The image that comes from the retina is an
upside-down picture of the world. But the brain reverses this
accordingly, letting these electrical impulses provide it with
information about the object—its type, size, color, and
distance. This entire process takes place in less than a tenth
of a second.
During the assembly of a visual image, a staggering number of
processes take place in less than a second. No computer in the
world has yet been able to match this speed. But equally as
staggering is the fact that the brain's optic nerves invariably
restore reversed images from the retina back to their original
state.
After the retina converts beams of light into electrical
signals, they are sent to the brain via the optic nerves in a
thousandth of a second. Signals received from each eye contain
all the visual information about the object one perceives. The
brain combines the two images received from each eye to create
the single three-dimensional image you see. It also chooses out
the shapes and colors that are of interest in that image and
determines the distance involved. In other words, it is the
brain—not the eye—that sees.
Optic nerve is the great messenger in the back of the eye. The
rods and cones of the retina change the colors and shapes that
we see into millions of nerve messages. Then, the optic nerve
carries those messages from the eye to the brain! The optic
nerve serves as a high-speed telephone line connecting the eye
to the brain. When we see an image, our eye "telephones" our
brain with a report on what we are seeing so the brain can
translate that report into "building," "banana," “sky,” or
"tree," or whatever the form of an image.
2. A. The eyes and mind: synthesis through body language
The eye is not just an organ for letting things in, but can also
let out what is inside us (the ear on the other hand let the
things only in). Watering of eyes, a peripheral expression
reflects the inner state of mind like grief and sadness. We
cannot hide our emotions consciously. Our eyes reflect every
minute change in our mental state, unknowingly and
unconsciously. The retina imprints a true image as it is
reflected. You stand before the mirror and you will find that
the mirror doesn’t add anything of its own. The eye doesn’t add
anything of its own in reflection. It sees as it is - a virtual
reality. But it is the perception of the mind that rules over
the eye.
Remember that awareness consists in taking full account of the
truth. “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to
comprehend.” The eye reflects the true portrait of the mental
state.
The eye conveys, receives, and interprets nonverbal information.
This process has several levels:
1. The level of anatomical facilitation and constraints.
2. The physical perspectives more or less universal (Gibson,
1950), and seen through the human eye.
3. The social, cultural and linguistic regulation of the process
of seeing by the eye.
4. The interpersonal norms and interpretation of nonverbal
communication through the eye.
Glances, stares and eye movements are believed to reflect mental
state such as anxiety, anger and sadness. When a person has his
eyes closed, rapid eye movements (REM) can be observed visually
through the eyelids and slow eye movements are also noted at the
time of sleepiness.
An old saying goes, ‘look a patient in the eye when you talk to
him.’ Looking into the eyes reflects emotions, convictions and
moods. It also reflects the hidden facets of personality, the
intent and the motive.
Fairy eyes -
2. B. How the eyes communicate
There are three ways in which eyes are used to communicate
1) Dominance versus submission
2) Involvement versus detachment
3) Positive versus negative attitude
There are three levels of consciousness and control
1) Conscious use of eyes to communicate, such as the flirting
blink and the intimate nose-wrinkling.
2) The very extensive category of unconscious but learned
behavior governing where the eyes are directed.
3) The response of the eye itself which is completely outside
both awareness and control-changes in the sparkle of the eye and
the pupillary reflexes.
2. C. Eye contact
Eye contact is one of the most important aspects of non verbal
communication and is critical in making the right impression
when the people meet on the very first time. Believe it or not,
the first impression of others is established within the first
few seconds of meeting.
Normally, human being maintains eye contact for around 60-70% of
the time. A visual connection is made as one person gazes into
the eyes of another. Highly emotional link is established as two
people simultaneously observe each other’s eyes. Gazing at
other’s eyes arouses strong emotions. Thus eye contact rarely
last longer than few seconds before one or both viewers
experience a powerful urge to glance away. Any longer eye
contact runs the risk of making the other person feel
self-conscious or uncomfortable.
We generally begin a conversation by looking away and end it by
looking back at the listener; we alternate between gazing at and
gazing away. If we study the body language of eyes we find that
there is more direct gaze when people like each other and
co-operate. On the other hand people make less eye contact when
they dislike each other or disagree.
A point of note is that in primates the unwavering gaze evolved
as a sign of dominance and threats, while gaze avoidance
originated as a submissive cue.
Confident people usually make more frequent eye contact when
communicating. Nervous and surprised people can be wide eyed
while untrustworthy and defensive people will often squint and
dart their eyes from left to right. Open and warm communicators
may also appear to be wide eyed which can also be a sign of
intelligence or attentive listening. Open communicators will
also make use of smiling eyes. In contrast an angry person may
stare with squinted eyes for an uncomfortable length of time.
Autistic children fail to use socially normal patterns of eye
contact. In adults, eye contact shows personal involvement and
creates intimate bonds. Mutual gaze narrows the physical gap.
It's not the quantity of eye contact, but the quality that
matters!
2. D. Konopacki’s interpretation of four basic eye movements
• Eyes focused straight ahead: It means the listener is
receiving your words passively and may be daydreaming.
• Eyes positioned upward to right: The listener is paying
attention -- either relating your words to a recent experience
or analyzing the logic of your statements.
• Eyes positioned upward to left: A listener looking to the left
is analyzing information using the right side of the brain --
the emotional side -- relating your words to a more distant
experience.
• Eyes cast downward: It means the listener is concentrating --
either in a positive or a negative way. On the negative side,
the listener may be thinking about how to end the conversation.
2. E. Gaze
Gazing means looking intentionally.
Types of Gaze
a) Mutual gaze: Give a feeling of intimacy, mutual attraction,
and attentiveness.
b) Business gaze: When we direct our gaze at this area, we have
a look of seriousness; hence the other person realizes that we
mean business. As long as we keep to this label of gazing we
will be in control of the interaction.
c) Social gaze: To create a social atmosphere, the gaze must
drop below the other person’s eye level; the triangle is located
between the eyes and the mouth.
d) Intimate gaze: The gaze area ascribed to intimacy ‘extends
across the eyes and below the chin to other parts of the
person’s body’. The triangle of greater intimacy covers the area
between the eyes down to the crotch. Those who use this gaze are
indicating their interest in each other.
e) Natural gaze: This gaze can last from 5 to 10 seconds. We use
it when we talk to another person in an excited, enthusiastic
and confident manner. It is natural in one-to-one conversation.
The 5-second period makes listeners feel comfortable.
2. F. The brows, lids and the eyes
Primarily, the brows have two major movements, brows up/down and
squeeze. The brows up/down alone does not convey the whole
meaning of emotions; they are used in conjunction with the brows
squeeze and different combinations of the lids. Generally, brows
squeeze is in every emotion; regardless of type of emotion, it
denotes thought.
The upper lids tell us the alertness of a character, and the
lower lids intensify emotions. The eyeballs mainly just
communicate where a character is looking. The subtext of that
can lead to some powerful emotion, but the eyeballs themselves
don't say a whole lot; it's the entire eye area acting together
that creates a feeling. Hence it is necessary to study the eye
as a unit. It is the cluster of movements to be studied in
totality.
3. A. Examples of Body-language of eyes:
• Eyebrows raised = surprise
• Raised eyebrows with deep breathing and redness in eye = anger
• Winking = humorous, not believing what you say
• Closing both eyes = reflective thinking
• Closing both eyes while you are talking and nodding = negative
opinion
• Looking with eyes half closed = doubting
• Frequent blinking = sadness, suspicion
• Looking to other side when you are talking = ignoring,
suggesting to leave
• Looking into eyes and half smiling = love
• Bright eyes = intelligence, insight, psychic awareness
• Green eyes = jealousy
3. B. Decoding eye messages: some examples
Dreamy eyes -
a. Blinking: A rapid closing and opening of the eyes. The
normal, resting blink rate of a human is 20 closures per minute.
Significantly faster rates reflect emotional stress.
Blinking denote suspicion, aggression, egoism and stranger
anxiety.
b. Eyes as lie detectors: When we recall visual information we
look diagonally up to the left. On the other hand, when we look
up to the right we are constructing visual information. Both
visual and auditory construction has often been mislabeled as
lying; this is only half true. Looking up to the right indicates
they're making things up but does not mean lying necessarily as
they may be guessing or confused and not actually intending to
deceive. Looking directly right means possibly constructing
sentences – i.e. telling the truth but not sure how to frame
into words.
There is also a small percentage of people with what is called
the thousand-mile stare. These people look like they are looking
right through you when communicating but actually require very
little eye movement when retrieving or constructing information.
c. The dilating pupils: The size of the pupils may reveal a
great deal about a person's current state. The pupils dilate and
contract as the attitude and mood change from positive to
negative and vice versa. Strong emotions, convictions, and moods
often stimulate the sympathetic nervous system and cause
dilation of the pupils. Conversely negative mood causes the
pupils to contract-commonly known as ‘beady little eyes’ or
‘snake eyes’.
It is found that women’s pupils dilate faster than men’s to
create rapport with what their brain sees as another person’s
eyes. Studies have shown that humans (especially females) are
judged as more attractive if their pupils are wide open and more
dilated than is normal. Centuries ago, prostitutes used to put
drops of belladonna (atropine) into their eyes to dilate their
pupils and to appear more desirable.
Romantic encounters mostly take place in dim light as that
causes the pupils to dilate.
Humans are the only primates with pronounced whites of the eyes.
d. The eye brow flash: This is a universal, unconscious, inborn
and a long distance ‘hello’ greeting signal. The purpose is to
draw attention to the face so that clear signals can be
exchanged. Flash and smile help develop rapport. The golden rule
is always eyebrow flash people you like or those who you want to
like you.
e. The looking up cluster: Lowering the head and looking
up is a submissive gesture. There is some childish tinge in this
gesture, too.
f. Eye block gesture: Unconsciously used gesture, as a person
becomes bored or uninterested in you or thinks that he is
superior. In eye block gesture eyelids close or remain closed
for a longer time. If accompanied by head-tilt-back gesture, a
person gives an impression that he is ‘looking down his nose’.
This eye block gesture emits negative vibes.
It has more recently been discovered that people close their
eyes briefly before giving a false answer.
g. Flashbulb eyes: An involuntary and dramatic widening
of the eyes, performed in situations of intense emotion, such as
anger, surprise and fear. Flashbulb eyes are controlled by
impulses from the nervous system’s fight-or-flight division.
h. Eyebrow raiser: It is performed by lifting the arch of short
hair above the eye, and by elevating the eyebrow by contracting
the occipito-frontalis muscle. It occurs in uncertainty,
disbelief, surprise or exasperation. Women widen their eyes by
raising their eyebrows and eyelids to create ‘baby face’
appearance. This has powerful effect on men by releasing
hormones into the brain, which stimulate the desire to protect
and defend females.
Eyebrow raiser adds intensity to a facial expression. It
strengthens a dominant stare, exaggerate a submissive pout, or
boost the energy of a smile and in association with
head-tilt-back, it suggests disdain, haughtiness, or pride.
i. Eyebrow lower: Projected by frowning or scowling, as
in anger, concentration, displeasure, or thought; depress, knit,
pucker, or wrinkle the brow by contracting the corrugator,
procerus, and orbicularis oculi muscles.
This is a sensitive indicator of disagreement, doubt, or
uncertainty. Slightly lowered eyebrows may telegraph unvoiced
disagreement among the group.
j. Staring: There is also a small percentage of people
with what is called the thousand- mile stare. These people look
like they are looking right through you when communicating but
actually require very little eye movement when retrieving or
constructing information.
4. A. Love and eyes
The eyes are the immediate and powerful communicators of our
emotions. It is almost impossible to mistake the feelings that
the eyes convey. The communication between mother and child soon
after birth is chiefly through the eyes. The child searches her
mother’s face until it focuses on her eyes and then smiles,
reassured by the glow of love it finds there. Let us take up the
example of Love - a basic, complex and multi-faceted emotion and
you see, the relation between love and eyes is eternal. It is
the eyes that lead one to fall in love and the same bears the
brunt of suffering caused by separation - sleeplessness, crying,
anxiety, depression, humiliation and anger. It is the eyes that
reveal one's suffering caused by broken love, in spite of his
efforts to hide the grievances. It is the eye that gives hope to
a lover. Eyes communicate a lover’s physical state and mental
distress caused by love. It is the eyes that crave to see the
lover and when this wish is fulfilled, all the agony becomes a
remote event. Even the secret glance of a lover is enough to
console. There is no sign more revealing than tears that expose
the love locked in. The disappointment in love and consequent
frozen emotions get a permanent place in eyes and such eyes can
be caught by a discernible physician.
4. B. Tears in the eyes
For crying out loud, the eye has its own special bathing system
- tears! Above the outer corner of each eye are the lachrymal
glands, which make tears. Every time we blink the eye, a tiny
bit of tear fluid comes out of the upper eyelid. It helps wash
away germs, dust, or other particles. It also keeps the eye from
drying out. Then the fluid drains out of the eye by going into
the lachrymal duct.
And how about the last time you felt sad, scared, or upset? Your
eyes got a message from your brain to make you cry, and the
lachrymal glands made many, many tears.
4. C. Interpretation of Dreams of eyes
Dreams of eyes reveal dreamer’s attitude to and understanding of
the world
Clear, strong eyes = good insight, clear perception
Eyes with little or no vision= inability to make a sense of the
world
Warm or smiling eyes = inner peace, contentment
Worried or concerned eyes = isolation
Cloudy eyes = financial problems
Injured or diseased eyes = defamation
Eyebrows = dignity, honor
Hair shedding off from eyebrows = worried about status
Eyelashes = secrets or secretive pursuits
Wide and open eyes = excitement
Narrow eyes = deceit or cheating
Darker eyes = emotional disappointments
5. A. Homoeopathic perspectives
The holistic nature of homoeopathy ‘sees’ no boundary to
incorporate the pearls of knowledge and significance from the
universe into its domain which constitutes to make the concept
of totality more meaningful.
Let us illustrate ‘revealing through the eyes’ with homoeopathic
remedies.
We have a host of remedies for disappointed love. The chief ones
are Nat-mur, Acid-phos, Aur-met etc. In Nat-mur eyes appear wet
with tears. It is as if all disappointment and sadness has been
locked in the eyes. You open up the mind in the interview and
you may note wet eyes but it is not heavy trickling down. The
patient tries to control, he can’t cry (rubric: crying,
difficult). Brooding as a triggering factor causes the eyes to
be wetly. Nat-mur has ailments from suppressed tears also. The
eyes of Nat-mur project a combination of love-sickness, anger,
sadness and a defeated, hurt feeling.
Acid-phos has profound grief and consequent indifference. He
develops apathy and emotional numbness. Prolonged chagrin
exhausts the system and this is reflected in the eyes in 3 ways:
eyes become lusterless, staring and sunken. He answers
reluctantly, slowly and shortly. While answering there is
minimal or no eye contact. The eyes show the utter feelings of
despair and grief.
Aur-met has the emotional causative modalities of grief, anger,
guilt, disappointed love etc. There is more gaze avoidance due
to guilty feelings. I remember a case of ulcerative colitis
where a patient spoke with me with hands on forehead, looking
down and closing the eyes throughout the interview. Also
remember Aurum met for violent anger where eyes become red and
dilated. In a milestone movie of Sholay, Sanjivkumar vividly
depicts the state of the Aurum met eyes. Eyes of Aurum met
reveal forsakenness, hostility, guilt and despair.
Calcareas, Barytas, Kalis, Silicates, Lithiums etc. keep minimal
eye contact out of shyness. Guilty conscience, however, refrains
one from keeping eye contact. I remember during my childhood I
ate 4 laddus when I was hungry. My father brought it from the
temple to distribute to all family members. After realizing my
mistake I had no courage to look at anybody.
No homoeopath can ever afford to overlook Pulsatilla eyes. It’s
like a tank of tears. You turn the valve on and the stream of
tears starts flowing. Pulsatilla can hardly narrate her symptoms
without weeping. Pulsatilla eyes give a message that she is in
need of sympathy and her watering eyes definitely takes it from
you.
Lachesis sees through and through. It has penetrating eyes,
angry and passionate eyes, wild and unsteady eyes and eyes full
with envy and jealousy-green eyes. I remember a case of 13 years
old boy who wanted to take revenge against the murderer of his
father. When his father’s issue came up in the interview, his
eyes turned fierce. Lachesis also exhibits sensual eyes and they
could be torturing to the others. The eyes of Lachesis are so
powerful that it has the ability to infect others.
Mischievous eyes of Tarentula are spotted easily esp. in
pediatric prescribing. The tinge of smile on the face coupled
with foxiness is recognizable to an astute observer.
I recall a schizophrenic with a typical stare. She was absorbed
in her state. I desperately tried for totality but nothing came
out and I prescribed Helleborus nigra with a good response. A
young lady with fissure-in-ano was prescribed Lachesis
successfully as she blinked innumerable times during interview
and the prime cause of blinking was suspiciousness coupled with
egoism.
While giving a workshop outside India, I was confronted with a
case in a group. I interviewed a lady for 2 hours and she didn’t
look at me at all. No eye contact for two hours! Amazing. This
gave me the theme of ‘disconnected.’ Her life situation
confirmed the theme. Non-aligned in the family she was, with a
strong humiliated feeling and extreme hostility against husband,
she was barking against husband in a filthy language. She was a
victim of cancer which represents the theme of disconnectedness.
I fished out Lyssin which considerably helped her. In the live
subsequent follow-up in the workshop, the patient spoke with me
with a good eye-contact. The language of the eyes gave me the
central connecting thread running at disease process level,
emotional level, life situation level and at system level.
Who can forget the eyes of Phosphorus? Catherine Coulter
describes this well, “This sparkling element captures the
attention, and the Phosphorus individual has a similar
eye-catching appeal; he attracts by his looks and manner.
Particularly arresting are the eyes: shining with a soft,
luminous quality that draws another closer or with a captivating
brightness, they are emblematic of the whole person.”
Carcinocin eyes reveal innocence, truth and diligence coupled
with longing for true love and affection. The responsive eye
contact eases a physician who can be sure that the patient is
cooperative. There is no malice in the eyes and eyes are full
with sympathy and affection.
I close off your eyes, my readers, from this article, with the
message of every patient ‘look me in the eyes...
Is there anything eyes don’t reveal?
References:
1. The healing power of Illness: Thorwald dethlefsen
2. Nature and Human Personality Homoeopathic archetypes:
Catherine Coulter
3. A Select Homoeopathic Materia Medica: P.I. Tarkas & Ajit
Kulkarni
4. Center of Nonverbal Studies: David Givens
5. Body Language: Allan Pease
6. Nonverbal consciousness and Homoeopathy, A thesis: Ajit
Kulkarni
7. Communication via eye and face in Indian contexts: M. S.
Thirumalai
8. Many internet sites |
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