In my 20s I briefly dated a hard-driving businessman. He seemed like a coiled spring to me, ready to burst into frantic action at any moment. (Yes, he drank coffee non-stop.) I remember once suggesting he relax a bit. He … more...
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Book Review: Take Off Your Glasses and See
This is one of the very first books I read on the topic.
Look at other vision improvement book titles. You see words like “improvement” or “better”. How much better? Is seeing clearly without your thick glasses really possible, or … more...
Vision Practice All Day Long
Dr. Bates, the pioneer of natural vision improvement, was asked over 100 years ago how much time was needed each day to practice healthy vision habits. (Think of the folks who want to know how long they have to work … more...
Vision and Optimism
The first definition I find for optimism is “a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions, and to expect the most favorable outcome”. This is about looking, and intending something positive! The … more...
What Don’t I Want To See?
When I first started improving my vision over 15 years ago, I read all the books I could find by other people who had done it, hoping to learn the secret tricks. I faithfully practiced the exercises I read about, … more...
What Did You Make The Blur Mean?
Let’s say you’ve had a long stressful day, and you’re working on your bills after dinner. Suddenly the numbers start to swim in front of your tired eyes, so you can’t see them clearly any longer. What do you make … more...
Are You Resisting Your Experience?
Years ago in my corporate computer job, I made a sign to hang over my desk saying “Accept it, don’t fight it”. A lot about the corporate culture annoyed or frustrated me, especially the poor or confusing or totally lacking … more...
If I Exercise My Extra-Ocular Muscles, Will My Sight Improve?
A subscriber to my twice-a-month newsletter sent me this question yesterday. The extra-ocular muscles surround the eyeball (see the drawing). Extra-ocular literally means “outside the eye”. These are the muscles you’re using if you turn your eyes to look to … more...
“Meniere’s no more” Inspires “Myopia no more”
According to Wikipedia, “Ménière’s disease (MD) is a disorder of the inner ear that is characterized by episodes of feeling like the world is spinning (vertigo), ringing in the ears (tinnitus), hearing loss, and a fullness in the ear.”[1] For … more...
Is Vision Exercise Like Gym Exercise?
If you’ve followed Dr. Bates’ teachings at all, you know he believed vision improvement is about relaxing the mind and the visual system, so it can function optimally. Straining is the enemy! And when you think of a gym workout, … more...
Vision Practice All Day Long
Dr. Bates, the natural vision pioneer from the early 1900s, was often asked how much practice was needed to see an improvement in eyesight. He said you have as much time to see with poor habits which are hurting your … more...
What Is The Visual Swing?
Most of us can remember riding on a swing as a child, that easy enjoyable back-and-forth rhythmic movement. When Dr. Bates wrote about the illusions of normal healthy sight, he included “the swing”. This is the gentle regular apparent movement … more...
Optometrist Cures Her Own Myopia
The article which follows below, “Optometrist Cures Her Own Myopia,” was originally published in a Special Edition of New Dawn Magazine in 2016. The article is reprinted with permission from New Dawn.
The article was dedicated to the … more...
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment – 5. A Successful and Empowering Solution to Control Myopia
Section 5, the final part of this article, is a continuation from the previous blog post,
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment: Section 4. A Radical Mind-Body Theory For The Cause Of Myopia
5.1 Reversing and Improving Myopia in
… more...Why Is The Eye Chart So Clear?
With the sun higher in the sky now, and noticeably more daylight even when it’s rainy, this seems like the ideal time to continue improving my vision, to nudge it forward from “good enough” to GREAT! With this in mind, … more...
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment – 4. A Radical Mind-Body Theory for the Cause of Myopia
Section 4 of this article is a continuation from the previous blog post,
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment: Section 3. Problems with the Hereditary Theory
The broad advances made in the natural sciences during the nineteenth century inspired … more...
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment – 3. Problems with the Hereditary Theory
Section 3 of this article is a continuation from the previous blog post,
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment: Section 2. Problems with the Excess Near Work Theory
A 1913 edition of an encyclopedia of education noted that recent … more...
Feeling Expansive
To me, the myopia pattern is contracting, pulling in, backing away from everyone and everything which seems too intrusive and “in my face” to look inward instead. The myopic personality puts on energetic blinders to shut out most of the … more...
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment – 2. Problems with the Excess Near Work Theory
Section 2 of this article is a continuation from the previous blog post,
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment: Section 1. Introduction
As stated in Section 1, the nineteenth century consensus view held that children perhaps had a hereditary … more...
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment – 1. Introduction
| Note: This blog post kicks off with Section 1 of an article discussing alternative myopia research and the proven success of Natural Vision Improvement (NVI). For those of you who’ve been led to believe that myopia is irreversible and |