Issue with eyes and health

I am wondering if anyone has any insight into the following based on yoga principles?

I worked on computers in graphic design for about 6 years. I was spending 8+ hours a day staring quite intensely at the computer screen due to working with graphics and fine detail. The rest of my life became quite sedentary... not much exercise.

Now my posture is not very good - forward head posture, tilted hips, curvy back. Im pretty sure also that my nervous system is wound a bit high as i have also been dealing with stress and anxiety, mostly due to the physical discomfort/symptoms and searching for a cure all. I am working on the posture with a chiropractor and looking at getting into yoga.

Specifically though i have noticed that my eyes seem to get quite tense in vision and say for instance if i am in a supermarket and walk along the isles with my vision darting from product to product i start to feel dizzy... as if my head/brain is getting overloaded with visual signals.

I have not been working in graphic design now for the last 2 years and try to limit my computer usage but still get these symptoms...

Dry hair

This seems like a strange and unimportant symptom compared to some of the symptoms MFS manifests, but I'm wondering if anyone with MFS has noticed that their hair has dried out since getting MFS?

My entire life, I've had healthy amounts of oil in my hair - to the point that I would have to shampoo every day.

Since the MFS, I've noticed that my hair is really dry, and only needs to be shampooed every few days.

I'm just wondering if all the cranial nerve issues can cause this, and if anyone else has experienced this.

Dry cough

I'm new to all of this. I've been reading alot of posts. My hubby was dx w/ GBS-MFS last June. We thought he had recovered for the most part, but had two seperate episodes ( one in Dec and one now)that were possible residuals or relapses. Some one had posted that they had a dry cough before symptoms began. Is this normal? My husband has had the coughand has been sneezing alot, along with numbness and tingling. He just assumed it was allergies or a cold. Will allergies or a cold trigger a relapse? We are still learning about this disease. There really isn't much info about residuals. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.thanks, Michelle
I am sorry to be so long in welcoming you, but have been away a couple of weeks. You might want to try the main forum or adult forum for more input. My GBS-MFv was triggered by a sore throat both times but a dry cough is something I have no experience with. There was a thread about residuals once. They are many and varied. A simple cold can make you feel like the symptoms are recurring, then ease off along with the cold as it gets better. It is just a part of the overall weakness we have to deal with. Spend time going back thru all the threads on the main and adult forums and you will find many more answers then I can possibly give.

Yoga and body image

I've taken yoga classes off and on at my gym, and recently had more time and started going more often. Now/this time, it has felt really amazing - so much so that I've started going to some basic beginner's classes at a studio. It may partly just be a matter of coming to yoga at a time that is right for me, but whatever the reason, I'll take it!

For me, I've had different issues in my life, but probably the most important is that I was very overweight as a child and have had some pretty negative attitudes toward my body. I've lost weight and work out regularly - I'm not overweight anymore, but even so, up to now almost anything I did in relation to my body was to try and change it. I don't go to yoga with the idea that I'll lose weight or get more fit - I just enjoy it.

And just to mention this to any teachers reading - another thing that I think has made a difference is one particular teacher who creates a nice atmosphere - yes, at the gym - and makes some small/light adjustment on almost everyone (not the same adjustment, but just something). Growing up overweight has made me very sensitive to whether I feel like I fit in/stand out, belong/don't belong, etc. and in some way in relation to that, this teacher's way just really helps me. .

I guess I don't have a specific question, but I would love to hear others' experiences starting yoga under similar circumstances - or teachers who have had students with this issue.




I guess teachers probably know this, but just to say - the way you teach a class really can impact people in a positive way even if you don't know it in that particular case - I'm not super thin but people would have no way of knowing by looking at me that I used to be overweight, even though this has probably been one of the biggest factors shaping my fairly negative body image.

What is Yoga?

Would be good to add- for there to be an inside there must be an outside.

The human and yoga are more complex then many think.

The nervous system is so affected during childhood by its personal experience of the environment that it grows into a being with personal characteristic reactions, biological as well as emotional, that are unique for each personal experience.

Ignoring the importance of personal experience (to the outside world/environment) and its effects on the human nervous system one instant and forgetting inheritance in the next, we find ourselves agreeing with statement like this-

"The greatness or the smallness of a man is determined for him at birth, as strictly as its determined for a fruit, whether it is a raisin or an apricot. Education, favourable circumstances, resolution, industry, may do much, in a certain sense they do everything; that is to say, they determine whether the poor apricot shall fall in the form a a green bead, blighted by the east wind, and be trodden under the foot; or whether it shall fall and expand into tender pride and sweet brightness of golden velvet."
without being shocked by their contradictions.

Our ideas of human nature, character, and action are a collection of contradictory half-truths, held together by a thin veneer of beautiful but empty phraseology. There is no doubt that at conception it is very strictly determined whether the newborn offspring is going to be a human being or an apricot. Thereafter, favourable circumstances, resolution, and industry have, if we know how to use them, atleast as much importance as our inheritance, provided we have normal human structure. But no amount of industry or resolution on the part of the apricot will make the slightest bit of difference to its greatness or golden-velvety appearance for that matter, only favourable circumstances are neccessary. Passive, vegetative reliance on circumstances as a means of subsistence is a condition met only in children, people with arrested development and fixed infantile reactions, some self declared 'yogis' who want to run away from society or themselves.

So yes yoga is an inward journey-but also so much more than that. As how we sense,feel,react to others and the environment,while listening to our inner dialogue without letting thoughts,feelings,emotions such as 'this is rubbish,this is great,im angry,sad,happy,warm,cold,tense' control us so we can become more neutral observers. In fact the ancient yoga books ask 'what is the self? who are we?' We are the observer of our thoughts emotions and feelings.

Also many things can be describes as - a vast body of wisdom which provides a set of tools for human evolution/development/growth/transformation such as buddhisim,religon,kung fu etc

dhanurasana- you think when ever sex might happen with my partner I go through that list and more- you should try it for a laugh.