Quote:When people do let go, there are two stages to pass through. The first stage is your vision will get slightly worse, as you stop overcompensating for the original strain. Stay with it, though, and the next stage is your vision clearing up effortlessly. This causes some degree of anxiety in some people, as it may feel wrong to improve your vision without doing anything. But once you've crossed that barrier, you understand the truth of what Bates was writing about and you can go forward with more confidnce. http://effortlessvision.com/forum1/viewtopic.php?t=460
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Quote:The normal eye is always at rest and nothing is done in order to see. If anything is done it is always wrong and always produces imperfect sight. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iblindness.org/articles/bates-throwaway.html">http://www.iblindness.org/articles/bates-throwaway.html</a><!-- m -->
This is a point that people often don't get. They get the idea that relaxation is important, but they keep trying to do something with their eyes in an effort to clear up the blur. Chronically blurry vision is the result of trying to clear a blurry image by doing something to your eyes. It's a little deceptive, because you can improve your vision a little bit by straining in an effort to compensate for it, but not entirely, and it won't improve over the long term. Stop doing it, and things may appear blurry at first because you aren't compensating for it, but after a moment your vision will clear up.
That is the real meaning of "doing nothing" that you may read about here and there. It doesn't mean don't do any exercises. It means realize what you're already doing to your eyes in an effort to clear the blur, and stop doing that. Anything you do is wrong.
Dave
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"Half of our funny, heathen lives, we are bent double to gather things we have tossed away." - George Meredith
Doing nothing means do nothing to improve your vision through unnatural means such as staring, squinting, forcibly trying to relax or remember a period, wearing glasses and other aids. Eye exercises such as shifting are not unnatural because it is a way to try to imitate the vision habits of the normal eye. The normal eye never stares or squints and doing these to improve vision will always fail in the long run. As long as exercises are done correctly, they never involve effort at all, and is equivalent to 'doing nothing' because the healthy eyes does these exercises all the time.
wen doing nothing, should u be aware of ur eyes or ignore them and completely? Because if ur ignoring ur eyes, u might be unaware of urself staring or squiting like u've just described? Maybe if i notice that, i should slowly shift away and stop staring. :
Exercise should and can be done only when you are conscious of it - it is only a way to mimic the normal eye. Over a course of time you will find that you become less and less aware of the process of seeing. It is impossible to choose to ignore the eyes by force because it involves effort. It has to happen on its own. The exercises are meant only to create conditions favourable for that.
I've tried "doing nothing" for the past few days and it more difficult that doing everything. I find that if you engage in long and interesting activities you forget about the eyes. If you are always preocupied with exercises you will always remain conscious of your eyes.
I think high myopes never forget their eyes even when they are apparently immersed in something. You know I never forgot to take my glasses to work in 13 years. What does it show? Every moment you see, your consciousness is overlapped with a mental impression of the form - "Currently I percieve a blurred image. I dont see well. I need to put on my glasses". This impression is subconsciously present in every moment of your life this is why I never even once forgot to take my glasses. You do forget your eyes when you see better with glasses, but this is not desirable either. The only way therefore is to get completely acclimatized to the blur and begin to accept it as normal ( for the time being) and not attempting to see anything more than what you see. When this practise is carried out for sometime you no longer think of the blur because it is normal for you. When you forget your eyes this way, they should begin to improve.
i think im starting to understand a little about doing nothing. Even if u cannot forget about being myopia, u should just relax and dont try strain urself shifting purposely all the time. Let the eye natuarally control its movements and let it be free. Forget about your eyes as Ram said
But avoid day dreaming. People stare wen they do this, but if u have to, close ur eyes when daydreaming.
