"That afternoon I asked my first patient...to hold one hand over his right eye and the other over all but the outside half of his left eye. I was completely surprised when he became a bit agitated and said, 'Oh, my God!'. [Schiffer:] 'What's that?' I had no idea what he meant. [The patient said:] 'I have all my anxiety back.' Some months earlier, ...[he] had entered treatment for profound anxiety stemming from childhood mistreatment. By this time, his symptoms had been substantially relieved. 'Try the other side [right side of the right eye],' I retorted.'That's better!' he immediately responded, to the relief of both of us. I asked him to go back and forth, and he repeatedly felt his symptoms when he looked to the left side of his left eye, and he had the complete relief of his symptoms when he looked out of the right half of his right eye. We were both amazed."