Dr. Cyber, I see it that way too. 🙂 You can reinforce the positive feedback loop, reaching out more then feeling more confident so reaching out even more, or the negative one which I do think is contributed to by glasses. I’m happy for you about your progress.

My theory is that if people relax to improve their natural vision then they also reduce the nervousness that they experience. And since nervousness signals uncertainty to them nervousness makes them scared. Thus if the nervousness goes away they become less scared.

I think that NVI can do more than improve natural vision just like cycling does more for people than make them better cyclers. Bates also wrote about what other advantages NVI can give you, like being better resistant to pain (though I can not confirm if he was right about that). It is important to view the body in the holistic way since the body does work holistically. Training ones eyes might do more good then just improve ones eyes.

Christopher, I agree! I do the Long Swing many times a day, often more for my body than for my eyes. But it is all connected. 🙂