Healing Metaphors A-Z - Glaucoma

Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a disease of the eye, resulting from a pressure build up within it. This pressure can eventually lead to optic nerve atrophy and blindness. The predilection for this disease is inherited ancestrally. It is representative of an emotional pressure, or a place where a part of us (a self) is suspended in emotional trauma. We are pushing ourselves to do something, but can’t see a way to do it and go forward. Blindness eventually ensues because there is something we don’t want to see. At some level we are adamant or stubborn about something. We are reluctant to recognize our responsibility and the need to change, find the way forward or lead. Instead, we give ourselves away emotionally until we reach a point of feeling stressed and overwhelmed.

Chuck Spezzano and Janie Ticehurst, Healing the Body Through Mind and Metaphor