Hello.
Today I start the topic of basis of works ...
with blind persons who lost their sight.
As I said to teach person who lost sight to perceive ...
this world is quite easy.
It takes several hours,
2-3 hours ...
till the client starts to register consciously changes,
to perceive something, to see something
But gradually.
People sometimes ask me a question ...
that is rather zero ...
whether we do not interfere in karma ...
of a person when we teach him to perceive this world?
No. I had consultations with several people ...
who deals with regression, regression therapy.
No, we do not interfere.
Because he can only change his condition by himself.
In this case we only helps.
So we can help to change quality of his life ...
but the change itself is up to him.
Important condition during training with blind persons ...
is a play,
a condition of play.
You have to provide atmosphere of play,
fun and jokes during all work with...
blind persons so that all ...
in your communication ...
is rather positive...
to very positive
than vice versa.
It is the condition.
One of the basic rules-
you are in charge, you control the process.
You must not succumb to the mood of client.
You must not.
You know the goal, you lead him,
you lead the client to this goal.
Not vice versa.
If he could he would have come himself to this goal.
Remember it. It is very important rule.
Before the first lecture, before the first session...
you must find out two basic things.
Where you will be training...
and who will be present.
It would be best if you train somewhere in ...
your room or in the office,
train at your place.
As he needs to get into an unknown space ...
and in this way you will get more quickly to the goal.
Therefore if possible train somewhere in your area.
Who will be present.
If the person is adult it would be good...
if you are alone with him.
He may be accompanied ...
but ...
it is better that person who accompanies him leaves.
And you would be alone during the lesson.
We will be speaking about the person who accompanies later.
When we have condition that we must set a play,
the first session and especially first 5 -10 minutes ...
must be almost stage play.
Theater.
Prepare your particular script in order ...
to know particularly what you will say ...
when people or he himself enter.
Where you will seat him ...
what you will offer, water, tea.
What will be options if he agrees with the offer.
You must thoroughly plan these first several minutes.
Then the next rule when working with blind person you must not reply by noding.
They do not see you and do not notice ...
this simple movement yes, no.
And they will get angry that you do not reply.
So please get used to the fact ...
that to any question even closed one you reply verbally.
Next rule – you must comment a lot your activity ...
for example:
I wil go and take a glass,
I will bring aids,
I will sit down across from you.
It does not matter that you will speak a lot
You must speak a lot.
At this moment you must.
And perception, visual perception, which the person ...
does not have is replaced by acoustic information.
In a short time you need not strain so much.
In a short time you can relax and do not try to speak about
each movement but in the beginning ...
comment almost each of your movement.
Another advantage is that training will be at your place,
your commentary can be connected ...
with what the person perceives around.
We offered water, tea, it was accepted, you sat down.
Your working place will be ...
always big empty desk.
Empty in the beginning.
And the first question,
which you ask when you sit down is:
¨How are you?¨
Easy, classic question ...
but please listen carefully to the reply.
Anything the person replies
will be a reply about his mood,
his psychological condition,
he is in depression or not,
he is an optimist or not,
he is able to talk about his feelings ...
with you though he almost does not know you or not.
Therefore listen really carefully.
Next question will be serious:
"How did you lost sight? "
Short question, detailed reply.
Reply should be more or less detailed
so that you understand how it happened.
It would be good ...
if you do not start crying during that.
That person does not need pity.
He needs help.
If you feel you are on the edge,
stop him somehow and say
"Okay it is enough, I understood and ...
we will pass to next question because...
we have a lot of things to do. "
You must not feel sorry for him.
You must not feel sorry for that person.
He did not come for pity.
The third question:
"What is your goal?"
I want to see - it does not work.
Person should reply specifically,
what specific he wants to see.
He wants to be able to shave in front of mirror.
He wants to be able to read,
watch tv,
see stars,
to see the colour of hair of person he likes.
Goals should be specific.
And you write them down.
They can be many, on two or three pages,
it does not matter.
It is much better than I want to see.
Specific goal.
Thus you get reply to these three basic questions.
And we get to training.
Training itself should not be longer ...
than one hour because brain of the client ...
is not used to such an activity.
And he will be exhausted.
I usually organize two hours´ training ...
but we speak a lot about different things
and make such pauses during this time.
But training, work,
exercise itself should not be more than an hour.
If person lives outside the city ...
and have come for several days,
it is better to make several sessions in the morning,
during the day, in the evening than ...
work for three hours at a stretch.
Good rest is necessary.
Training –
ask person to describe what he sees in the room ...
and again there is an advantage if he is at your area,
at your territory, the area is unknown and ...
it will be more difficult to describe it.
Do not be afraid of this question ...
nd encourage him to try to describe ...
or name what he sees...
because really a very small percentage of blind persons...
is blind for 100 percent.
Very few, They perceive.
There are optic nerves which perceive colours,
there are optic nerves which perceive light and darkness.
It is very rare that none of these nerves ...
work so person perceives something.
According to that you can ask whether ...
the clieng can distinguish the weather, sun or overcast.
Whether he sees, perceives whether light ...
is switched on in the room,
when he goes to the bathroom whether he switches ...
on the light or not.
Whether he can determine position of windows ...
in an unknown room.
When you ask all this,
first of all remember what he replies ...
and at that moment he also realizes that ...
he can see quite a lot.
At this moment you can tell him:
"you see that, you perceive that,
you register that ...
and therefore ...
from today...
you must stop talking about yourself as blind. "
It is a huge psychological step,
it is difficult but he must do it.
He must not talk about himself as blind.
If someone asks – "I see badly"
This definition.
He simply must do it otherwise he can not achieve big success.
He will develop to some extent but then will stop.
He must do it.
Simply describe what he sees around himself at your room.
Here I have prepared room,
there are white walls, black and white furniture so it is easier.
In any case the client should try to describe
as exactly as possible what he sees
and especially he should not hurry,
during training do not hurry up.
Let him try to perceive, to have a look at wall,
at the corner, he should try to understand ...
what it is.It is a work.
Do not be in a hurry.
He simply must do it.
And right during this exercise you must –
I use such a strong word you must-
but yes you must ...
teach him to praise himself.
Aloud, not silently for himself,
He should say "I praise myself, I am content, I praise myself. "
Aloud.
He can invent something like that
but surely praise himself aloud.
In this case praising oneself is...
a medicine which he needs.
Another rule for you –
you must not use the word bad ...
or mistake.
You really must not.
Then you will gradually understand in which places ...
it can appear.
After the client describes your room ...
do not evaluate it exactly.
" Well, ok it is correct, help him but we continue in training. "
The first exercise is to show him a sheet of paper.
During the first day you introduce two colours.
And colours should be contrasting.
Either yelllow as a light colour ...
and as a dark colour for example blue.
You can choose green, red.
It should be contrasting.
Give the sheet of paper to the client ...
and ask if he knows the colour of this sheet.
Do not accept reply " I do not know".
He should reply something.
He should reply any colour.
He should try to work.
Because if he says "I do not know"
it means: "I close the door and do not ...
care and do not want to talk about it."
No. He has come because he wants to learn to perceive, to see.
So that is why he has to succumb.
If he does not know exactly ...
but he should have some opinion.
Ask him to say at least something.
I hope you are not tired of such detailed commentaries.
So you give him the sheet of paper,
ask him the colour, he replies anything,
you say it is yellow.
Attention.
Do not say "It is bad, mistake."
In case he has replied something else,
simply say it is yellow and
let him take this sheet in front of him ...
and look at him as at newspaper.
And it is easy because ...
one knows how newspaper looks like,
how to hold it in front of the face as if reading it.
He holds it in front of him like this
and now question ...
come whether he should close his eyes or open them.
It is interesting question,
logical but he should open his eyes ...
so that he can learn to perceive the world ...
visually as in the past.
So eyes should be open
and look at that yellow sheet of paper
and his task will be to name several objects or things ...
of yellow colour which can be yellow.
Many.
Your task as a lector is to achieve
that the client stops searching objects...
in his memory and that objects start ...
to appear spontaneously.
That he opens the gate to universe to the dictionary
and there he has every second further,
further and further objects which can be yellow.
As soon as you feel that it is not a problem for him...
to name something yellow, stop him.
You say great, well.
And give him another sheet of paper.
For example blue one.
And again he looks at it as at newspaper ...
and he names objects,
things of blue colour.
At this moment all realize that the list is almost the same.
It is fine.
He does not have to find other things,
you can say the same things as with ...
yellow and blue for example yellow sock, chair and so on.
The list can be the same.
Thus he holds and he names the objects and he should also ...
continuously says the objects, good.
Then again ...
give him yellow, give him blue, say yellow,
blue and then take them and give one of ...
these sheets to his hands and ...
let him determine the colour.
Here starts the exercise.
We give it one by one, sometimes yellow sometimes blue,
we change it, you can give four times
in a row the same colour because ...
if he perceives it he will not make a mistake.
If he makes mistakes, it does not matter.
Do this exercise, give him sheet of paper ...
for example 20 times ...
and stop.
Remember if he made mistakes or not.
And stop.
This exercise with colours has finished for today.
We did exercise with colours today...
and now you will be practicing with ...
black and white.
With contrasting pictures.
You can find your contrasting pictures.
The important is that they are contrasting.
I use in the beginning basic pictures.
It is a house because the basis is a square,
a smile because the basis is a circle.
Symbol of a woman, basis was a triangle.
A man.
Of course these pictures are few,
later you will use more complicated pictures.
For example have a look they are similar in fact.
They are similar in fact
so if the person will already perceive
and he will perceive better so that is good
and you tell him it
and you must also praise the client.
You will start with pictures in such a ...
way that you say that here is smile.
For start it can be format A4,
bigger sheet of paper which smile is printed on.
Big.
You tell him it is smile if he perceives it.
If so, it is great.
If no, attention, take the his hand
of this client and show him with finger where the line is.
Several times lead the his finger around the circle ...
so that he notices.
Person perceives, feels his body,
And exercise with hand is important,
hand as an aid is very important.
You showed him smile, then show him house
in the same way so that he starts to perceive.
Ask him whether he perceives and feels.
If he is not content,
if you feel that he is not content
with his feeling, do not ask him but continue.
Show him woman that he shows with finger triangle, head.
Describe what it is.
Circle. triangle,
Rectangle.
Circle.
Describe.
Then take two cards, start with two.
Two cards.
For example smile and house.
And do the same what you did with colour paper.
Give either house or smile.
Let him say what it is, what he thinks it is
Do not ask him whether he sees...
but he should try to answer.
In fact 90 percent of blind persons ...
perceive this already during the first training.
But now the exercise takes about an hour ...
and you must stop.
That is all for today.
It is enough for one day both for you and the client.
Have a nice day.
See you next time.
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