I have personally noticed a connection between posture and clarity of vision. Just laid my thoughts out in a blog post with a link to this substack, but the short version is: if the head is not aligned, the muscles that are attached to the eyeball have to compensate to enable light to strike the retina in a way that is most efficient / easy for the brain to process. The more strained and tight our eye muscles become, the more difficult it is for them to move fluidly.
Thank you for this piece Todd. I found this hugely interesting and had not before seen this footage. This really is something I would like to explore more. I am an Alexander technique Trainee and the freedom of the neck is such a big aspect in the Alexander technique as well as the role of the eyes in leading movement. Your post together with the footage got me motivated to explore this in more detail...
If you want a laugh, Mercedes-Benz did a commercial a few years ago and had a "commercial battle" with jaguar that features the head stabilization of chickens and the mobility of cats. It was often how I introduced my clients to the ability to to understand the concepts of brain-eye-body communication. Great article!
I love this.
I have personally noticed a connection between posture and clarity of vision. Just laid my thoughts out in a blog post with a link to this substack, but the short version is: if the head is not aligned, the muscles that are attached to the eyeball have to compensate to enable light to strike the retina in a way that is most efficient / easy for the brain to process. The more strained and tight our eye muscles become, the more difficult it is for them to move fluidly.
My hunch is that this is one reason we're seeing an epidemic of myopia: we're indoors all the time, slumping and staring at screens, and our eye muscles are overworked in unnatural ways. https://kirstenmortensen.com/posture-and-eyesight-some-thoughts-about-natural-vision-and-myopia/
Thank you for this piece Todd. I found this hugely interesting and had not before seen this footage. This really is something I would like to explore more. I am an Alexander technique Trainee and the freedom of the neck is such a big aspect in the Alexander technique as well as the role of the eyes in leading movement. Your post together with the footage got me motivated to explore this in more detail...
If you want a laugh, Mercedes-Benz did a commercial a few years ago and had a "commercial battle" with jaguar that features the head stabilization of chickens and the mobility of cats. It was often how I introduced my clients to the ability to to understand the concepts of brain-eye-body communication. Great article!