It tends to cponcentrate in gel and collagen so taking the oil in a liquid form is best. You can readil get liquid in a health food store that is molecularly distilled. It sits on a shelf and needs no refrigeration.
Hope this helps you with your vision.]]>
It tends to cponcentrate in gel and collagen so taking the oil in a liquid form is best. You can readil get liquid in a health food store that is molecularly distilled. It sits on a shelf and needs no refrigeration.
Hope this helps you with your vision.]]>
In my personal experiences, it's had both positive and negative effects to my eyesight, mostly minute changes. But occasionally, if I'm in the right frame of mind, it can really help with being sensitive to my body/psyche which pushes me to focus on relaxation. I then have some real glimpses into clarity and, I think, clear flashes. It sort of puts one in a slightly different state to observe the world, thus giving you another vantage point to observe and improve yourself.
I can't say I completely condone it, cause I've had that anxiety/paranoia increase after consuming that people talk about, but I'm theorizing that it is no fault of the herb.
Though I know it's complex and probably includes many harmful and beneficial effects, I'd like to reach some more solid conclusions on this substance.]]>
In my personal experiences, it's had both positive and negative effects to my eyesight, mostly minute changes. But occasionally, if I'm in the right frame of mind, it can really help with being sensitive to my body/psyche which pushes me to focus on relaxation. I then have some real glimpses into clarity and, I think, clear flashes. It sort of puts one in a slightly different state to observe the world, thus giving you another vantage point to observe and improve yourself.
I can't say I completely condone it, cause I've had that anxiety/paranoia increase after consuming that people talk about, but I'm theorizing that it is no fault of the herb.
Though I know it's complex and probably includes many harmful and beneficial effects, I'd like to reach some more solid conclusions on this substance.]]>
It's been a while since I posted but I want to share another idea I've thought about recently that seems to have helped drastically with the consistency of my eyesight throughout the day and I'm convinced it's the more long term route to recovery.
Sometimes it can be hard to explain what exactly one means when talking about an idea they use to improve eyesight because if taken the wrong way or not implemented properly, could easily worsen eyesight by improving consciousness of eyesight improvement but I'll try to explain in the simplest way I can.
So recently, I was listening to an audiobook called, "The Magic of Thinking Big" and it talked alot about the idea of belief and how it is such an underrated concept in modern society. How can we truly improve ourselves in a certain area if we lack the belief and vision of our end goal? In truth, many of us on the path to self improvement take in the ideas pretty well but fail to actually maintain sight of the end goal so as soon as things get difficult, we give up and think that there has to be an alternate easier path. What we don't realise is that because we are diverting our energy into worrying about easier ways to do whatever it is we are trying to achieve, it isn't allowing us to put in our full effort and attention to the very path we are taking to fix the problem.
Basically this kinda hit home with me, I was looking out of the bus and thought, "How can I see what is there right in front of me in 100% crystal clear vision if I don't even believe what I'm looking at is really there?". You might think from that sentence I'm a little bit mad, of course we know the objects are there but are we really giving the objects our 100% attention when looking at them? That's the only way to know for sure that they are there! Basically, STOP TAKING THINGS FOR GRANTED! Start being alot more interested in your surroundings - this doesn't mean to forcefully take in more by moving your eyes around, quite the opposite. Start paying close attention to what you see, even if it is blurry, as it will certainly become more clear if you are curiously trying to decipher what that image actually is on a poster 20 feet away. This is much better at training your brain to reconnect with your visual system as you are literally tasking your visual system for the whole day to give feedback on your surroundings that your brain can take in and decide whether it is interesting or not. Most of the time, we just assume things that we can't see are uninteresting, this is definitely not the case.
Now when there's something I can't see, I don't just give up like I normally would. I say, "well hang on a minute, is there something actually there that I could almost certainly see and be interested in if I were up close?" If the answer is yes, I allow my eyes to rest on that object for the time my subconcious tells me to, not allowing my conscious mind to interfere and move my eyes away just because I can't see it. The brain wants to know what it is, so by moving your eyes away deliberately to rest them on something you can see you are disrupting the natural synchronisation of the brain and eyes. I realise this is difficult to digest but it's a much easier concept than it sounds. It's hard for me to explain exactly what is going on because I'm not really doing anything much different other than having belief in what I'm looking at (the object REALLY is there), belief that I can see it (my eyes were designed to take in my environment, what's the point in having them if I don't use them properly) and allowing my eyes to focus on whatever they naturally rest upon. No longer do I try to look at different distances all day long, that is just interfering with the natural functioning of the eye because for 95% of the time your not really controlling your eyes with your conscious mind and I think that is when they are truly in the rest state. I have found it to be much more important to maintain interest in your environment and don't let your belief slip for one second that you can't see the object or that the object really is blurry.
I know I have came out with a few theories before but I feel like my understanding is getting better each time and this one feels better than ever. It feels like my childhood again. I'm not using my eyes for the sake of using them anymore but to actually engage my brain with my surroundings, constantly looking out for points of interest. Note: I am doing this in my mind.
So instead of moving my eyes, I say to myself things such as, "I believe in what I see is truly there, I want to understand my environment more, I want to know what that material is, is it like material x from (recall specific memory) or is it different?" I think it's important to start linking what you see to memories and other things you have seen as the more you do this, the more interesting using your eyes becomes which is only going to make them better. I've certainly been enjoying my eyesight more than ever for the past week of approaching it in this way. Also, remember, blurriness never matters as long as you can see what is there. Don't think, I can see that but there is still some blur, that is only going to reinforce the fact your eyes aren't the way they should be. Instead think, what is that object, constantly reinforce that thought in your head and don't let any thoughts of blur come into it. Become so curious about the object that it becomes impossible for you to think about your eyes with your conscious mind anymore because your brain has now taken over to decipher what the object is.
Anyway, as always, I hope this helps. Feel free to add anything else that you guys think is important!
David]]>
It's been a while since I posted but I want to share another idea I've thought about recently that seems to have helped drastically with the consistency of my eyesight throughout the day and I'm convinced it's the more long term route to recovery.
Sometimes it can be hard to explain what exactly one means when talking about an idea they use to improve eyesight because if taken the wrong way or not implemented properly, could easily worsen eyesight by improving consciousness of eyesight improvement but I'll try to explain in the simplest way I can.
So recently, I was listening to an audiobook called, "The Magic of Thinking Big" and it talked alot about the idea of belief and how it is such an underrated concept in modern society. How can we truly improve ourselves in a certain area if we lack the belief and vision of our end goal? In truth, many of us on the path to self improvement take in the ideas pretty well but fail to actually maintain sight of the end goal so as soon as things get difficult, we give up and think that there has to be an alternate easier path. What we don't realise is that because we are diverting our energy into worrying about easier ways to do whatever it is we are trying to achieve, it isn't allowing us to put in our full effort and attention to the very path we are taking to fix the problem.
Basically this kinda hit home with me, I was looking out of the bus and thought, "How can I see what is there right in front of me in 100% crystal clear vision if I don't even believe what I'm looking at is really there?". You might think from that sentence I'm a little bit mad, of course we know the objects are there but are we really giving the objects our 100% attention when looking at them? That's the only way to know for sure that they are there! Basically, STOP TAKING THINGS FOR GRANTED! Start being alot more interested in your surroundings - this doesn't mean to forcefully take in more by moving your eyes around, quite the opposite. Start paying close attention to what you see, even if it is blurry, as it will certainly become more clear if you are curiously trying to decipher what that image actually is on a poster 20 feet away. This is much better at training your brain to reconnect with your visual system as you are literally tasking your visual system for the whole day to give feedback on your surroundings that your brain can take in and decide whether it is interesting or not. Most of the time, we just assume things that we can't see are uninteresting, this is definitely not the case.
Now when there's something I can't see, I don't just give up like I normally would. I say, "well hang on a minute, is there something actually there that I could almost certainly see and be interested in if I were up close?" If the answer is yes, I allow my eyes to rest on that object for the time my subconcious tells me to, not allowing my conscious mind to interfere and move my eyes away just because I can't see it. The brain wants to know what it is, so by moving your eyes away deliberately to rest them on something you can see you are disrupting the natural synchronisation of the brain and eyes. I realise this is difficult to digest but it's a much easier concept than it sounds. It's hard for me to explain exactly what is going on because I'm not really doing anything much different other than having belief in what I'm looking at (the object REALLY is there), belief that I can see it (my eyes were designed to take in my environment, what's the point in having them if I don't use them properly) and allowing my eyes to focus on whatever they naturally rest upon. No longer do I try to look at different distances all day long, that is just interfering with the natural functioning of the eye because for 95% of the time your not really controlling your eyes with your conscious mind and I think that is when they are truly in the rest state. I have found it to be much more important to maintain interest in your environment and don't let your belief slip for one second that you can't see the object or that the object really is blurry.
I know I have came out with a few theories before but I feel like my understanding is getting better each time and this one feels better than ever. It feels like my childhood again. I'm not using my eyes for the sake of using them anymore but to actually engage my brain with my surroundings, constantly looking out for points of interest. Note: I am doing this in my mind.
So instead of moving my eyes, I say to myself things such as, "I believe in what I see is truly there, I want to understand my environment more, I want to know what that material is, is it like material x from (recall specific memory) or is it different?" I think it's important to start linking what you see to memories and other things you have seen as the more you do this, the more interesting using your eyes becomes which is only going to make them better. I've certainly been enjoying my eyesight more than ever for the past week of approaching it in this way. Also, remember, blurriness never matters as long as you can see what is there. Don't think, I can see that but there is still some blur, that is only going to reinforce the fact your eyes aren't the way they should be. Instead think, what is that object, constantly reinforce that thought in your head and don't let any thoughts of blur come into it. Become so curious about the object that it becomes impossible for you to think about your eyes with your conscious mind anymore because your brain has now taken over to decipher what the object is.
Anyway, as always, I hope this helps. Feel free to add anything else that you guys think is important!
David]]>
Easily Erase Astigmatism Program
And here goes my question. Does anybody know or tried this program ?]]>
Easily Erase Astigmatism Program
And here goes my question. Does anybody know or tried this program ?]]>
Although many people understand this they still get caught up in trying to see things clearly right away when looking far away. If you have been looking at things close up all day with great clarity then your ciliary muscle expects to remain that way to allow you to see your "optimum distance" of clarity. Therefore, the ciliary muscle becomes sort of frozen which, in turn, means that there is really only a very small range of distances your eye looks at with comfort. So instead of looking into the distance you'll look at things nearer to you and even if you do look into the distance, much of the time the ciliary muscle remains in that frozen state so you're not really seeing beyond a particular distance. Things take time and the way in which we use our eyes is something that has developed over the entirety of our lives. Therefore, by simply changing our habits on one occasion we can't expect to make any lasting improvement in terms of clarity. This can be frustrating as we don't want to have to live our lives constantly thinking about vision improvement.
The major turning point for me was recognising that regardless of clarity when I'm looking at distant objects, my ciliary muscle is starting to relax. I've become obsessed with the idea that looking around my environment and into the distance it prevents my ciliary muscle reaching that frozen state. This means that the lens becomes more flexible and I'm more comfortable with looking at a range of distances. So I want to reiterate my point, I think that if you make a conscious effort to shift your thinking towards, "looking at distant objects relaxes my eyes" then it will be true. However, as long as you think that clarity is the sole factor that determines the eyes being in a relaxed state, then you will stick to your old habits and ways of seeing that you've being doing for years in order to optimise your eyesight for modern day usage (computers, smart phones etc).
Furthermore, next time you look into the distance be aware, beforehand, that the very action of looking far away is relaxing your eyes even if the image is not immediately clear. Even if it doesn't clear up just looking far away is good for the muscles of the eyes and will reduce strain as long as you let go of the notion that everything has to be seen with perfect clarity. Become more obsessed about the idea of keeping your eyes relaxed throughout the day and it will do more for you in terms of improving your eyesight than obsessing over the idea of clarity. Realise how different it feels when the eyes are relaxed, how the whole face and body also feel relaxed, you may even start to associate this relaxing feeling with looking far away. Recognise the feelings of strain in your eyes when you are at the computer for 3-4 hours at a time and do something about it. Take a break, look around the room for a little while. Little actions like these throughout the day will do wonders for your eyes. Remember that the eyes weren't meant to function looking at things less than 1m away from ourselves all day long.]]>
Although many people understand this they still get caught up in trying to see things clearly right away when looking far away. If you have been looking at things close up all day with great clarity then your ciliary muscle expects to remain that way to allow you to see your "optimum distance" of clarity. Therefore, the ciliary muscle becomes sort of frozen which, in turn, means that there is really only a very small range of distances your eye looks at with comfort. So instead of looking into the distance you'll look at things nearer to you and even if you do look into the distance, much of the time the ciliary muscle remains in that frozen state so you're not really seeing beyond a particular distance. Things take time and the way in which we use our eyes is something that has developed over the entirety of our lives. Therefore, by simply changing our habits on one occasion we can't expect to make any lasting improvement in terms of clarity. This can be frustrating as we don't want to have to live our lives constantly thinking about vision improvement.
The major turning point for me was recognising that regardless of clarity when I'm looking at distant objects, my ciliary muscle is starting to relax. I've become obsessed with the idea that looking around my environment and into the distance it prevents my ciliary muscle reaching that frozen state. This means that the lens becomes more flexible and I'm more comfortable with looking at a range of distances. So I want to reiterate my point, I think that if you make a conscious effort to shift your thinking towards, "looking at distant objects relaxes my eyes" then it will be true. However, as long as you think that clarity is the sole factor that determines the eyes being in a relaxed state, then you will stick to your old habits and ways of seeing that you've being doing for years in order to optimise your eyesight for modern day usage (computers, smart phones etc).
Furthermore, next time you look into the distance be aware, beforehand, that the very action of looking far away is relaxing your eyes even if the image is not immediately clear. Even if it doesn't clear up just looking far away is good for the muscles of the eyes and will reduce strain as long as you let go of the notion that everything has to be seen with perfect clarity. Become more obsessed about the idea of keeping your eyes relaxed throughout the day and it will do more for you in terms of improving your eyesight than obsessing over the idea of clarity. Realise how different it feels when the eyes are relaxed, how the whole face and body also feel relaxed, you may even start to associate this relaxing feeling with looking far away. Recognise the feelings of strain in your eyes when you are at the computer for 3-4 hours at a time and do something about it. Take a break, look around the room for a little while. Little actions like these throughout the day will do wonders for your eyes. Remember that the eyes weren't meant to function looking at things less than 1m away from ourselves all day long.]]>
So we know, generally, that a typical myopee has become that way as they have, at some point, had to avoid some stressful situations. For whatever reason, at the time, the myopee wasn't focused on the present situation only the possible results and may have avoided eye contact, for example, to remain hidden as to avoid the situation. The myopee may have been successful in avoiding the situation as a result or maybe they just felt less pain and were less connected to the situation because they had already withdrawn their primary form of communication, the eyes. Therefore, the myopee felt they had discovered an effective way of dealing with typical everyday stressful situations and the vicious cycle would continue. When is the main time that the myopee does this? Usually when they don't know the result, they don't feel safe or they have an very overwhelming view that the result can only go badly. In essence, the myopee is living in permanent fear of the future and what they don't know for certain.
Now relate this to eyesight, the myopee is afraid of what is not certain. They know what is in their immediate vicinity is certain and they get comfortable with looking at things within a certain distance. Anything that does not immediately appear certain to the myopee gives them a sense of fear and tension. The myopee has been dealing with those feelings for so long that they hardly know what it's like not to feel that way anymore.
However, for most people, myopia develops in teenage years or possibly earlier. It is not usually a condition we are born with. When I think back to when I was a child, my eyesight was 20/10 (or perhaps even better?) because I remember being able to read every line on the eye chart with ease. But I also remember a major difference in my attitude as a kid. I loved the unknown.
Back then, the unknown to me was exciting because everyday at school was more or less the same and kids do more or less the same thing every day until a certain age. So whenever there was some slight change in my routine, it excited me. The unknown should be exciting and fun because the unknown is OPPORTUNITY. There is no opportunity in staying within your comfort zone which I believe is artificially designed in one's mind as they feel the need to protect themselves against certain situations. I'm not saying that you should do anything but you CAN do anything. When do you feel most alive? When you are doing the same old thing you do everyday or when you are doing something different that perhaps stimulates a different part of your brain. For me it is certainly the latter.
Now most myopees probably look to the future and the unknown and only see obstacles. That is the major difference. Normal people see opportunity and excitement where myopees see obstacles and frustration. Therefore, when a myopee looks at something far away they are trying not to see it for what it is because it contradicts the way that their mind thinks on a level below conscious thinking. They have becomes obsessed with the attitude that the world is a bad place and will only do them harm so they'd rather not see what they don't have to.
So I tried adopting a different attitude about the future today with my eyesight and felt really good about it (good eyesight too). I thought how wonderfully exciting the future could be, literally anything could happen and there'll be so much opportunity to develop myself and meet all kinds of new people. When I couldn't see something, that was good because it was an opportunity to keep looking with the intent of discovering what it was. It was a mystery to be solved not something that I should already know the answer to. It didn't matter what I was looking at, I had generated this new insatiable curiosity about the world and all the opportunity it offered. With the view of so much opportunity in the world, I now wanted to look at things far away. I didn't want to miss out on any of the excitement that life would bring me that day. So please honestly ask yourself. Are you viewing the world with child-like optimism or are you being too pessimistic, not trusting others and focusing on all of the bad things that happen in the world. If so, perhaps shifting your mind's focus towards more optimistic thoughts would go a long way in improving your eyesight.
Please let me know what you guys think. I definitely think this could help some people.]]>
So we know, generally, that a typical myopee has become that way as they have, at some point, had to avoid some stressful situations. For whatever reason, at the time, the myopee wasn't focused on the present situation only the possible results and may have avoided eye contact, for example, to remain hidden as to avoid the situation. The myopee may have been successful in avoiding the situation as a result or maybe they just felt less pain and were less connected to the situation because they had already withdrawn their primary form of communication, the eyes. Therefore, the myopee felt they had discovered an effective way of dealing with typical everyday stressful situations and the vicious cycle would continue. When is the main time that the myopee does this? Usually when they don't know the result, they don't feel safe or they have an very overwhelming view that the result can only go badly. In essence, the myopee is living in permanent fear of the future and what they don't know for certain.
Now relate this to eyesight, the myopee is afraid of what is not certain. They know what is in their immediate vicinity is certain and they get comfortable with looking at things within a certain distance. Anything that does not immediately appear certain to the myopee gives them a sense of fear and tension. The myopee has been dealing with those feelings for so long that they hardly know what it's like not to feel that way anymore.
However, for most people, myopia develops in teenage years or possibly earlier. It is not usually a condition we are born with. When I think back to when I was a child, my eyesight was 20/10 (or perhaps even better?) because I remember being able to read every line on the eye chart with ease. But I also remember a major difference in my attitude as a kid. I loved the unknown.
Back then, the unknown to me was exciting because everyday at school was more or less the same and kids do more or less the same thing every day until a certain age. So whenever there was some slight change in my routine, it excited me. The unknown should be exciting and fun because the unknown is OPPORTUNITY. There is no opportunity in staying within your comfort zone which I believe is artificially designed in one's mind as they feel the need to protect themselves against certain situations. I'm not saying that you should do anything but you CAN do anything. When do you feel most alive? When you are doing the same old thing you do everyday or when you are doing something different that perhaps stimulates a different part of your brain. For me it is certainly the latter.
Now most myopees probably look to the future and the unknown and only see obstacles. That is the major difference. Normal people see opportunity and excitement where myopees see obstacles and frustration. Therefore, when a myopee looks at something far away they are trying not to see it for what it is because it contradicts the way that their mind thinks on a level below conscious thinking. They have becomes obsessed with the attitude that the world is a bad place and will only do them harm so they'd rather not see what they don't have to.
So I tried adopting a different attitude about the future today with my eyesight and felt really good about it (good eyesight too). I thought how wonderfully exciting the future could be, literally anything could happen and there'll be so much opportunity to develop myself and meet all kinds of new people. When I couldn't see something, that was good because it was an opportunity to keep looking with the intent of discovering what it was. It was a mystery to be solved not something that I should already know the answer to. It didn't matter what I was looking at, I had generated this new insatiable curiosity about the world and all the opportunity it offered. With the view of so much opportunity in the world, I now wanted to look at things far away. I didn't want to miss out on any of the excitement that life would bring me that day. So please honestly ask yourself. Are you viewing the world with child-like optimism or are you being too pessimistic, not trusting others and focusing on all of the bad things that happen in the world. If so, perhaps shifting your mind's focus towards more optimistic thoughts would go a long way in improving your eyesight.
Please let me know what you guys think. I definitely think this could help some people.]]>
I have returned from the dead of about 5 years ago when I initially started using the Bate's Method/David's Method in attempt to reverse my myopia. Back then I was 18 at the time and didn't really have much on my plate so I had alot of spare time to practice. I had so much time that at the very start I was dedicating 3 hours plus per day practicing central fixation and palming etc. As a result, within 4 months of starting I had great success and achieved 20/20 vision in my right eye and just slightly worse in my left (confirmed by the optometrist when I went - who actually then told me to ditch my old glasses haha). However, throughout all this time, it felt like I had learned to manipulate my eyesight rather than actually "see" like a person with normal vision.
So a few weeks and then months passed and then I felt like I had no motivation to do those exercises anymore because I had been told I don't need glasses anymore. All that time I had given myself a false goal. Told myself that excellent visual acuity was the result of good eyesight when it is in fact just a side effect.** . Needless to say, my eyesight started to deteriorate bit by bit over time and it became even harder to improve again because I knew all the effort I put in initially went to waste anyway. I started having more things to deal with so I also didn't have enough time anymore to practice the way I used to. Over the last few years I sort of fell into a minor depression (dropped out of last year of uni but thankfully I am now allowed to reattend this year) and that brings me to just a few months ago when I realised I needed to get my life back on track.
One of the things that has always been top of my bucket list is to restore my eyesight. Hence, over the last few months I was trying to get back into it again. I kept thinking to myself there has to be a way to achieve normal vision without dedicating ridiculous time and focus each day to do it. That's when I started looking at some of the blog posts on here again. The most interesting ones to me were the recent ones discussing how myopees hide away and that they are literally not allowing their eyes to see. I tried the suggested approach of trying to focus on a particular body part that feels good for example placing your focus on the spine/heart whenever I was in a stressful situation. Whilst this gave me some initial success, my eyesight still fluctuated alot because I hadn't adjusted the way I was USING my eyes.
That brings me to the important part. When I read through those blog posts they also spoke about how myopees have a sort of soulless stare when looking at objects and other things. So a few days back I thought to myself, "Well what if I just do everything in my power to shift my focus whenever I catch myself staring". I've come to realise in those few days that even though we hear about it all the time that myopees stare too much. We don't consider it enough as a simple solution to fixing the problem. I think part of the problem is we don't realise how much that we are staring.
The problem with staring is not only that it affects the image focus on the retina, it also tenses up the muscles at the back of the eye which causes them to be less fluid in movement as they are supposed to be and keep the eye in a shape where it isn't focusing the image on the retina. For myopees, scanning a room with their eyes in different directions seems to take effort but for normal people that is just how their eyes normally function: they enter a new environment, their eyes quickly scan many objects one at a time to gain a crisp picture of their surroundings.
How I have been seeing like a normal person in the past few days? I started by committing to the mindset of whenever I catch myself staring at something, I MUST shift my focus to elsewhere. Now initially this might take some thinking about, but over time I'm finding that my eyes are getting used to this new way of seeing! And the thing is it has only been 2 days yet my eyes feel more healthy and alive than ever before. Let's think about what's happening here...Basically by adopting this mindset you are constantly practicing the exercise of shifting and you will also begin to unconsciously practice central fixation. This will take some getting used to if you have been used to staring for so long but it just feels so right and it must be how normal people see. And if you don't like looking at peoples faces in crowds look at their shoes, shift from one person's to anothers. Myopees tend to think that the world is all looking at them, but when you start seeing in this way you realise that people are only looking at you for a split second to take in their environment which is what you should be doing aswell. We are all out for ourselves afterall, we have eyes to keep us safe and prevent us from harm.
What I've noticed? The major thing that has occurred is that my eyes no longer feel tense even when looking at screens for large periods of time, EVERYTHING seems BRIGHTER - yep that's the biggy, the whole world seems like a brighter place and even my night vision has drastically improved. I felt like before I was looking at everything through sunglasses. My memory seems to have improved dratically since I'm actually taking in my surroundings now and not living like a zombie. My overall mental sharpness in dealing with social/cognitive situations seems much better too! Bright light isn't so harsh on my eyes. When you can't see something? Don't worry when you can't see something, even people with good eyesight don't always catch things right away, just AVOID STARING to try and see what it is, instead shift around a bit but you have to make sure that when you are shifting, your focus goes with it. This is key, my brain has started to feel more alive in the past few days because I have been staying clear in my intent when looking at my surroundings.
I want to stress again at the end here. Think about an eye that is constantly staring - you might not even realise you are doing it. There's no way that an eye constantly staring can relax because the muscles are in a fixed position which puts the eye in a fixed position which it is not designed to be in.
Also, it's like 3AM where I live right now, I'm sorry if this all sounds like jibberish or repeated ideas but there's just something about my approach this time that feels so natural and I wanted to put as much effort in as I could to share it with you guys! Please give this a try and let me know if it helps you guys too! Remember don't focus on the result of good vision - it will come, focus on avoiding staring at all costs. There's always some alternative thing or spot on a picture to look at. By doing this for a few days my eyesight has already improved tremendously in every aspect. If you guys want any clarification on anything I'll be happy to try help you out, I really hope this helps some of you like it is helping me right now. It probably wasn't the best idea to do all this so late at night but I had to get it out there as it is genuinely the best approach I have made so far in terms of efficiency and side benefits. Hopefully you guys get the main idea
**(This is a big hurdle in people achieving 20/20 vision again imo. You are constantly trying to measure how good your eyes can see something at a distance. How can you concentrate to see things properly and use your eyes properly if you are trying to take a snapshot in your head and compare the quality of that snapshot to past images of a similar distance. Good vision should be something that is noticed.)]]>
I have returned from the dead of about 5 years ago when I initially started using the Bate's Method/David's Method in attempt to reverse my myopia. Back then I was 18 at the time and didn't really have much on my plate so I had alot of spare time to practice. I had so much time that at the very start I was dedicating 3 hours plus per day practicing central fixation and palming etc. As a result, within 4 months of starting I had great success and achieved 20/20 vision in my right eye and just slightly worse in my left (confirmed by the optometrist when I went - who actually then told me to ditch my old glasses haha). However, throughout all this time, it felt like I had learned to manipulate my eyesight rather than actually "see" like a person with normal vision.
So a few weeks and then months passed and then I felt like I had no motivation to do those exercises anymore because I had been told I don't need glasses anymore. All that time I had given myself a false goal. Told myself that excellent visual acuity was the result of good eyesight when it is in fact just a side effect.** . Needless to say, my eyesight started to deteriorate bit by bit over time and it became even harder to improve again because I knew all the effort I put in initially went to waste anyway. I started having more things to deal with so I also didn't have enough time anymore to practice the way I used to. Over the last few years I sort of fell into a minor depression (dropped out of last year of uni but thankfully I am now allowed to reattend this year) and that brings me to just a few months ago when I realised I needed to get my life back on track.
One of the things that has always been top of my bucket list is to restore my eyesight. Hence, over the last few months I was trying to get back into it again. I kept thinking to myself there has to be a way to achieve normal vision without dedicating ridiculous time and focus each day to do it. That's when I started looking at some of the blog posts on here again. The most interesting ones to me were the recent ones discussing how myopees hide away and that they are literally not allowing their eyes to see. I tried the suggested approach of trying to focus on a particular body part that feels good for example placing your focus on the spine/heart whenever I was in a stressful situation. Whilst this gave me some initial success, my eyesight still fluctuated alot because I hadn't adjusted the way I was USING my eyes.
That brings me to the important part. When I read through those blog posts they also spoke about how myopees have a sort of soulless stare when looking at objects and other things. So a few days back I thought to myself, "Well what if I just do everything in my power to shift my focus whenever I catch myself staring". I've come to realise in those few days that even though we hear about it all the time that myopees stare too much. We don't consider it enough as a simple solution to fixing the problem. I think part of the problem is we don't realise how much that we are staring.
The problem with staring is not only that it affects the image focus on the retina, it also tenses up the muscles at the back of the eye which causes them to be less fluid in movement as they are supposed to be and keep the eye in a shape where it isn't focusing the image on the retina. For myopees, scanning a room with their eyes in different directions seems to take effort but for normal people that is just how their eyes normally function: they enter a new environment, their eyes quickly scan many objects one at a time to gain a crisp picture of their surroundings.
How I have been seeing like a normal person in the past few days? I started by committing to the mindset of whenever I catch myself staring at something, I MUST shift my focus to elsewhere. Now initially this might take some thinking about, but over time I'm finding that my eyes are getting used to this new way of seeing! And the thing is it has only been 2 days yet my eyes feel more healthy and alive than ever before. Let's think about what's happening here...Basically by adopting this mindset you are constantly practicing the exercise of shifting and you will also begin to unconsciously practice central fixation. This will take some getting used to if you have been used to staring for so long but it just feels so right and it must be how normal people see. And if you don't like looking at peoples faces in crowds look at their shoes, shift from one person's to anothers. Myopees tend to think that the world is all looking at them, but when you start seeing in this way you realise that people are only looking at you for a split second to take in their environment which is what you should be doing aswell. We are all out for ourselves afterall, we have eyes to keep us safe and prevent us from harm.
What I've noticed? The major thing that has occurred is that my eyes no longer feel tense even when looking at screens for large periods of time, EVERYTHING seems BRIGHTER - yep that's the biggy, the whole world seems like a brighter place and even my night vision has drastically improved. I felt like before I was looking at everything through sunglasses. My memory seems to have improved dratically since I'm actually taking in my surroundings now and not living like a zombie. My overall mental sharpness in dealing with social/cognitive situations seems much better too! Bright light isn't so harsh on my eyes. When you can't see something? Don't worry when you can't see something, even people with good eyesight don't always catch things right away, just AVOID STARING to try and see what it is, instead shift around a bit but you have to make sure that when you are shifting, your focus goes with it. This is key, my brain has started to feel more alive in the past few days because I have been staying clear in my intent when looking at my surroundings.
I want to stress again at the end here. Think about an eye that is constantly staring - you might not even realise you are doing it. There's no way that an eye constantly staring can relax because the muscles are in a fixed position which puts the eye in a fixed position which it is not designed to be in.
Also, it's like 3AM where I live right now, I'm sorry if this all sounds like jibberish or repeated ideas but there's just something about my approach this time that feels so natural and I wanted to put as much effort in as I could to share it with you guys! Please give this a try and let me know if it helps you guys too! Remember don't focus on the result of good vision - it will come, focus on avoiding staring at all costs. There's always some alternative thing or spot on a picture to look at. By doing this for a few days my eyesight has already improved tremendously in every aspect. If you guys want any clarification on anything I'll be happy to try help you out, I really hope this helps some of you like it is helping me right now. It probably wasn't the best idea to do all this so late at night but I had to get it out there as it is genuinely the best approach I have made so far in terms of efficiency and side benefits. Hopefully you guys get the main idea
**(This is a big hurdle in people achieving 20/20 vision again imo. You are constantly trying to measure how good your eyes can see something at a distance. How can you concentrate to see things properly and use your eyes properly if you are trying to take a snapshot in your head and compare the quality of that snapshot to past images of a similar distance. Good vision should be something that is noticed.)]]>
Much has been written about nutrients for the eyes in books. Here is a summary of what has and has not worked for me.
Vitamin C powder from Acerola cherries. I sprinkle the powder onto my yogourt and I do notice my myopia and cataracts have stabilized since I started doing this. Apparently these cherries have an extremely high content of C. You can get this powder from a health food store. Powder is better than capsules as it contains no magnesium stearate.
Vision Formulas:
There are many vision formula supplements out there . I take one from a naturopath from Vermont. It does not have mag stearate. It is very good . Most formulas contain lutein which you can get from tomatoes.
Astaxanthan
This is the name of the pigment that gives salmon its colour. I took the supplement for a few months and did not notice any difference in vision. Recently I ate smoked farmed salmon from Nova Scotia. These salmon are not fed antibiotics and other terrible stuff and the following day I noticed an improvement in vsion. This has happened 2x now so I am assuming that the astaxanthan has to be gotten from the whole food and not from supplements. Raw fish is probably a no no especially farmed because of the toxins, heavy metals etc. I get this salmon from a farmer's market but I do not eat it more than once a week. Would like to hear from anyone else who has had success with this.
Carrots
They have to be cooked to get the beta carotene to convert to carotene. I do notice a difference when I eat carrots, cooked. You have to add fat, like coconut oil to help with conversion of b carotene to carotene.
There are many more foods that would help vision but these are the ones that have helped me.
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Much has been written about nutrients for the eyes in books. Here is a summary of what has and has not worked for me.
Vitamin C powder from Acerola cherries. I sprinkle the powder onto my yogourt and I do notice my myopia and cataracts have stabilized since I started doing this. Apparently these cherries have an extremely high content of C. You can get this powder from a health food store. Powder is better than capsules as it contains no magnesium stearate.
Vision Formulas:
There are many vision formula supplements out there . I take one from a naturopath from Vermont. It does not have mag stearate. It is very good . Most formulas contain lutein which you can get from tomatoes.
Astaxanthan
This is the name of the pigment that gives salmon its colour. I took the supplement for a few months and did not notice any difference in vision. Recently I ate smoked farmed salmon from Nova Scotia. These salmon are not fed antibiotics and other terrible stuff and the following day I noticed an improvement in vsion. This has happened 2x now so I am assuming that the astaxanthan has to be gotten from the whole food and not from supplements. Raw fish is probably a no no especially farmed because of the toxins, heavy metals etc. I get this salmon from a farmer's market but I do not eat it more than once a week. Would like to hear from anyone else who has had success with this.
Carrots
They have to be cooked to get the beta carotene to convert to carotene. I do notice a difference when I eat carrots, cooked. You have to add fat, like coconut oil to help with conversion of b carotene to carotene.
There are many more foods that would help vision but these are the ones that have helped me.
]]>
I have left a certain amount open for peripheral vision of course and so it does enhance peripheral vision I find. Kaplan has his own methods for vison improvement which I find complement Bates.
I have severe myoopia and the start of cataracts. I will NOT have an operation for cataracts under any circumstances.
Thanks to the person who posted about myopia.org/ebook
I really enjoyed it a lot and it certainly clarified a lot about cataracts as well as myopia. I don't like the fact that the aurthor of the book is selling something. He sells the myopter and it looks very strange. Has anyone tried it out? Does it work to stop progression of myopia?
Thaks for your comments
mandalaToronto]]>
I have left a certain amount open for peripheral vision of course and so it does enhance peripheral vision I find. Kaplan has his own methods for vison improvement which I find complement Bates.
I have severe myoopia and the start of cataracts. I will NOT have an operation for cataracts under any circumstances.
Thanks to the person who posted about myopia.org/ebook
I really enjoyed it a lot and it certainly clarified a lot about cataracts as well as myopia. I don't like the fact that the aurthor of the book is selling something. He sells the myopter and it looks very strange. Has anyone tried it out? Does it work to stop progression of myopia?
Thaks for your comments
mandalaToronto]]>
No I am not starting a thread advocating plus lenses. If you are thinking of getting plus lenses as a result of me starting this thread, don't.]]>
No I am not starting a thread advocating plus lenses. If you are thinking of getting plus lenses as a result of me starting this thread, don't.]]>
On the other hand, lets say, if you're watching a movie, and you are closely paying attention, and you are engaged in what the movie is about, your eyes will work entirely on their own, the image will look clearer, and you won't feel much strain. This is what I have noticed.
Also, to those of you struggling to read boards, and projector screens at their schools I have something for you that has helped me, and may help you keep up with your education, and still learn without completely relying on glasses; however, the best option is always to take pictures of the notes, and write them down later when you are in a much calmer situation. This has helped me as well, especially in fast-paced classes. The faster you want to see the board clear up, the faster it will blur more if you haven't noticed.
While your teacher is lecturing, you must forget about your blurry vision, you must also forget about the fact that the whiteboard looks blurry; Instead, listen carefully, and pay attention to your teacher as he or she is lecturing, pay attention to the subject, and without forcing or straining yourself, your eyes will most likely move on their own without force to the whiteboard as your attention is on it. Also, remember, do NOT try to see everything written on there all at the same time, it will only make it worse, keep your central focus on one object, and keep your peripheral focus on the lecture. You must use central fixation, and the only way your eyes will correctly do this, is if your mind does it as well.
On the white board, if done correctly you should see what is written on there as it is being talked about without you even remembering that your vision was blurry in the first place. I have also noticed that the whiteboard tends to blur again upon remembering that the eyesight was blurred, or while trying to "grab" the clear image of the whiteboard.
Remember, will most likely only work if you aren't forcing anything. If you are forcing something, you will still be straining.
Another thing that may help is if you focus more on learning the subject in the same manner that you are focused and engaged in the method. When you are engaged in the method you probably are interested in learning what is right or wrong, and how to improve your optical habits. If you apply this type of focus to your lectures at school, it may help as well, but it can't be forced.
This may or may not be helpful, but I have come up with this based on research, and experience. I hope it helps some of you.]]>
On the other hand, lets say, if you're watching a movie, and you are closely paying attention, and you are engaged in what the movie is about, your eyes will work entirely on their own, the image will look clearer, and you won't feel much strain. This is what I have noticed.
Also, to those of you struggling to read boards, and projector screens at their schools I have something for you that has helped me, and may help you keep up with your education, and still learn without completely relying on glasses; however, the best option is always to take pictures of the notes, and write them down later when you are in a much calmer situation. This has helped me as well, especially in fast-paced classes. The faster you want to see the board clear up, the faster it will blur more if you haven't noticed.
While your teacher is lecturing, you must forget about your blurry vision, you must also forget about the fact that the whiteboard looks blurry; Instead, listen carefully, and pay attention to your teacher as he or she is lecturing, pay attention to the subject, and without forcing or straining yourself, your eyes will most likely move on their own without force to the whiteboard as your attention is on it. Also, remember, do NOT try to see everything written on there all at the same time, it will only make it worse, keep your central focus on one object, and keep your peripheral focus on the lecture. You must use central fixation, and the only way your eyes will correctly do this, is if your mind does it as well.
On the white board, if done correctly you should see what is written on there as it is being talked about without you even remembering that your vision was blurry in the first place. I have also noticed that the whiteboard tends to blur again upon remembering that the eyesight was blurred, or while trying to "grab" the clear image of the whiteboard.
Remember, will most likely only work if you aren't forcing anything. If you are forcing something, you will still be straining.
Another thing that may help is if you focus more on learning the subject in the same manner that you are focused and engaged in the method. When you are engaged in the method you probably are interested in learning what is right or wrong, and how to improve your optical habits. If you apply this type of focus to your lectures at school, it may help as well, but it can't be forced.
This may or may not be helpful, but I have come up with this based on research, and experience. I hope it helps some of you.]]>
First one:
"I was diagnosed with astigmatism in my right eye by an ophthalmologist when I was 20 years old while in college.
Glasses were prescribed and I bought a set. My right eye had a stigmatism I was told by the doctor. A few years later I picked
up a book by an ophthalmologist at a health food store because I wanted to find any alternative to deteriorating visual
conditions. That book explained what astigmatism is and it is a simple phenomenon and an equally simple solution to obtain
proper vision. First a stigmatism will always develop in the dominate eye. Each person has a dominate eye just has one has a
dominate hand, usually right, and even a dominate leg. Mine is left!
To determine which eye is dominate, simply point to a distant object and without moving your hand shut each eye. You will see
that the object moves when one eye is used and does not move when the other eye is used. In other words, the eye that is
doing the focusing is the dominate eye. What the eye does then is uses one eye, the dominate eye, to dominate all focus
actions. Now what happens in time, especially in a "book" focused society (worse now with computers) is the dominate eye will
become strained... literally the dominate eye's muscles will be strained and will LOSE the ability to focus. As such the dominate
eye will ALWAYS have the stigmatism.
The solution then is to relax the dominate eye and retrain the muscles in the dominate eye to be in proper focus. This is
accomplished by a simple exercise. By using an eye chart or my favorite is a distant tree, one puts the palm of the hand over
the dominate eye, but allowing light to come through on the sides, and you focus on the distant tree... A tree perhaps a
hundred yards away. You focus with the non dominate eye on the limbs of the tree for perhaps ten seconds, then transfer the
hand over the non dominate eye and allowing the dominate eye to "re set" by example of the non dominate but non astigmatic
eye. Repeat three times. In a mere minute you have reset the stigmatized eye. This is harder to accomplish for a person who
has over time put on ever stronger glasses. In that case, the book said the process had to be reversed and go backwards to the
lest strong glasses and repeat over weeks to finally get to ground zero. Well, I was fortunate to find this book when I had the
first weak set of glasses; as I said when I was only 20 years old. I used the eye chart provided in the book and now, over 40
years later still have that same eye chart taped to my vitamin cabinet. But usually I use an outdoors object, as I said, a distant
tree. That's because you can use the limbs of the tree to find more refined focus points... some more narrow than others and so
you can intensify the focus exercise.
Oh, one last point for how to do the exercise I described above. You begin by covering the
dominate eye (the stigmatized eye) and focusing on a distant object with the non dominate (non
stigmatized eye) for ten seconds and then WITHOUT blinking, shift the other way around so that
you next cover the non dominate eye and again focus on the same distant object for ten
seconds; repeat without blinking three times and finally uncover both eyes (without blinking) and
look at the object with both eyes. Repeat this three times. (Now you can blink. ) This exercise
takes about 90 seconds. Repeat three times a week or when you notice your eyes are "blurring."
At the end of the exercise you can actually feel the weak (dominate) eye muscle change. What
you are doing is "making" the dominate but strained eye, reset using the non strained eye. And
once again, I got this from the book on the subject by an ophthalmologist."
And this is the other:
"Hi Kathleen, astigmatism is lumpy eyeballs which I figured came from uneven pull from the eyes
that move the eyes, so when I read of Edgar Cayce's eye exercises, I figured that they would
probably help alleviate the problem. This exercise is to roll your head as close to your body
(back, chest, and shoulders) as you can l0 times to the right & then 10 times to the left. I did this
twice a day, upon arising and when retiring to bed. After a few weeks of this I stopped wearing
any glasses for years. When my arms started getting too short to hold my reading material far
enough away to read it (presbyopia in my later 40's) I went to have my eyes checked & was told
I needed reading glasses. I then asked him what about my astigmatism and was told I didn't
have any. After I remarked that I wore glasses for astigmatism for several years before doing
some eye exercises and going without them for more than 10 years, so my eye exercises must
have gotten rid of it. He then informed me that you don't get rid of astigmatism. I smiled at the
optometrist and told him that the glasses prescribed by an opthalmologist for astigmatism was
needed because of eye strain until after the exercises eliminated the need for glasses for years
afterwards."
Thoughts?]]>
First one:
"I was diagnosed with astigmatism in my right eye by an ophthalmologist when I was 20 years old while in college.
Glasses were prescribed and I bought a set. My right eye had a stigmatism I was told by the doctor. A few years later I picked
up a book by an ophthalmologist at a health food store because I wanted to find any alternative to deteriorating visual
conditions. That book explained what astigmatism is and it is a simple phenomenon and an equally simple solution to obtain
proper vision. First a stigmatism will always develop in the dominate eye. Each person has a dominate eye just has one has a
dominate hand, usually right, and even a dominate leg. Mine is left!
To determine which eye is dominate, simply point to a distant object and without moving your hand shut each eye. You will see
that the object moves when one eye is used and does not move when the other eye is used. In other words, the eye that is
doing the focusing is the dominate eye. What the eye does then is uses one eye, the dominate eye, to dominate all focus
actions. Now what happens in time, especially in a "book" focused society (worse now with computers) is the dominate eye will
become strained... literally the dominate eye's muscles will be strained and will LOSE the ability to focus. As such the dominate
eye will ALWAYS have the stigmatism.
The solution then is to relax the dominate eye and retrain the muscles in the dominate eye to be in proper focus. This is
accomplished by a simple exercise. By using an eye chart or my favorite is a distant tree, one puts the palm of the hand over
the dominate eye, but allowing light to come through on the sides, and you focus on the distant tree... A tree perhaps a
hundred yards away. You focus with the non dominate eye on the limbs of the tree for perhaps ten seconds, then transfer the
hand over the non dominate eye and allowing the dominate eye to "re set" by example of the non dominate but non astigmatic
eye. Repeat three times. In a mere minute you have reset the stigmatized eye. This is harder to accomplish for a person who
has over time put on ever stronger glasses. In that case, the book said the process had to be reversed and go backwards to the
lest strong glasses and repeat over weeks to finally get to ground zero. Well, I was fortunate to find this book when I had the
first weak set of glasses; as I said when I was only 20 years old. I used the eye chart provided in the book and now, over 40
years later still have that same eye chart taped to my vitamin cabinet. But usually I use an outdoors object, as I said, a distant
tree. That's because you can use the limbs of the tree to find more refined focus points... some more narrow than others and so
you can intensify the focus exercise.
Oh, one last point for how to do the exercise I described above. You begin by covering the
dominate eye (the stigmatized eye) and focusing on a distant object with the non dominate (non
stigmatized eye) for ten seconds and then WITHOUT blinking, shift the other way around so that
you next cover the non dominate eye and again focus on the same distant object for ten
seconds; repeat without blinking three times and finally uncover both eyes (without blinking) and
look at the object with both eyes. Repeat this three times. (Now you can blink. ) This exercise
takes about 90 seconds. Repeat three times a week or when you notice your eyes are "blurring."
At the end of the exercise you can actually feel the weak (dominate) eye muscle change. What
you are doing is "making" the dominate but strained eye, reset using the non strained eye. And
once again, I got this from the book on the subject by an ophthalmologist."
And this is the other:
"Hi Kathleen, astigmatism is lumpy eyeballs which I figured came from uneven pull from the eyes
that move the eyes, so when I read of Edgar Cayce's eye exercises, I figured that they would
probably help alleviate the problem. This exercise is to roll your head as close to your body
(back, chest, and shoulders) as you can l0 times to the right & then 10 times to the left. I did this
twice a day, upon arising and when retiring to bed. After a few weeks of this I stopped wearing
any glasses for years. When my arms started getting too short to hold my reading material far
enough away to read it (presbyopia in my later 40's) I went to have my eyes checked & was told
I needed reading glasses. I then asked him what about my astigmatism and was told I didn't
have any. After I remarked that I wore glasses for astigmatism for several years before doing
some eye exercises and going without them for more than 10 years, so my eye exercises must
have gotten rid of it. He then informed me that you don't get rid of astigmatism. I smiled at the
optometrist and told him that the glasses prescribed by an opthalmologist for astigmatism was
needed because of eye strain until after the exercises eliminated the need for glasses for years
afterwards."
Thoughts?]]>
That might be related to something that has been done to us. I do understand that the abduction phenomena is so bizarre but IF you want total cure you also need to consider this option, so saying all this if you sense that there might be an implant in your brain that is causing blurry vision then do your own research. You most likely have a nasal implant if you have experienced frequent nasal bleeding during childhood especially at night.
Hope this helps someone.]]>
That might be related to something that has been done to us. I do understand that the abduction phenomena is so bizarre but IF you want total cure you also need to consider this option, so saying all this if you sense that there might be an implant in your brain that is causing blurry vision then do your own research. You most likely have a nasal implant if you have experienced frequent nasal bleeding during childhood especially at night.
Hope this helps someone.]]>
Restore our vision. Maybe even achieve super human vision.
And to do that, why not use very tool at our disposal.
Enter plus lens training:
My personal experience is I so improvement. Significant improvement. And it was fast. I thought I could regain 20/20 or better it was so fast. But, it plateaued. I'm stuck at about the 0.75 mark. (I have some theories why in a moment.)
Plus lens training when done properly is simply coaxing they eye to accommodate a little further outside its normal range of accommodation.
So why does it hurt some?
I believe it's because they are squinting/straining to get a temporary improvement. And we all know strain degrades the vision.
The key I feel is to practice plus lens training using BREATH, SOFT BLINKING, massaging the neck and shoulders, and any other relaxation techniques that work for you to bring the text into clarity.
If you're straining in any way you're doing it wrong.
But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I've seen huge improvement with plus lens training.
So why am I stuck at 0.75 (down from 2.25)?
Well, I have some theories.
Plus lens training is targeting the eyes themselves. But it's doing nothing for the other factors that lead to vision degradation.
1: Body tension, that leads to tension in the eyes. Particularly tension in the neck, shoulders, and thoracic spine.
2: It's not training the eyes to 'dance'. It doesn't re-pattern the movements and break the central fixation habits.
3: It does not address the emotional aspects to vision degradation.
So use the tool for what it can do. But don't stop there, address the other aspects to re-training the eyes to see properly with the tools that work best for those too.
Just my thoughts.
]]>
Restore our vision. Maybe even achieve super human vision.
And to do that, why not use very tool at our disposal.
Enter plus lens training:
My personal experience is I so improvement. Significant improvement. And it was fast. I thought I could regain 20/20 or better it was so fast. But, it plateaued. I'm stuck at about the 0.75 mark. (I have some theories why in a moment.)
Plus lens training when done properly is simply coaxing they eye to accommodate a little further outside its normal range of accommodation.
So why does it hurt some?
I believe it's because they are squinting/straining to get a temporary improvement. And we all know strain degrades the vision.
The key I feel is to practice plus lens training using BREATH, SOFT BLINKING, massaging the neck and shoulders, and any other relaxation techniques that work for you to bring the text into clarity.
If you're straining in any way you're doing it wrong.
But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I've seen huge improvement with plus lens training.
So why am I stuck at 0.75 (down from 2.25)?
Well, I have some theories.
Plus lens training is targeting the eyes themselves. But it's doing nothing for the other factors that lead to vision degradation.
1: Body tension, that leads to tension in the eyes. Particularly tension in the neck, shoulders, and thoracic spine.
2: It's not training the eyes to 'dance'. It doesn't re-pattern the movements and break the central fixation habits.
3: It does not address the emotional aspects to vision degradation.
So use the tool for what it can do. But don't stop there, address the other aspects to re-training the eyes to see properly with the tools that work best for those too.
Just my thoughts.
]]>
This idea occurred to me so I am sharing here so that it might help some people to dig the emotional issues of impaired vision.
Circumcision trauma is now regarded a very serious emotional issue that gets suppressed in the unconscious, because it carries so much pain. There is a vast amount of resources on the net about this issue. (Google)
Recently I found out that this foreskin has so much resemblance to eyelids.
And cutting it is almost like cutting your eyelids off!
With love and respect]]>
This idea occurred to me so I am sharing here so that it might help some people to dig the emotional issues of impaired vision.
Circumcision trauma is now regarded a very serious emotional issue that gets suppressed in the unconscious, because it carries so much pain. There is a vast amount of resources on the net about this issue. (Google)
Recently I found out that this foreskin has so much resemblance to eyelids.
And cutting it is almost like cutting your eyelids off!
With love and respect]]>
I have about 35-40% myopia in my left eye and 20/20 in my right eye. This is called amblyopia, as you know, when the brain when your brain turn off the blurred image from the other eye. My vision switches through the day.
But anyway, there's very little information about amblyopia improvement on Google. Does anyone know anything about this? Do you know one person that has got results?
Or if you know any exercises or methods, I want to know!
The information is needed to be free.
Good day and good luck with the vision training everyone!]]>
I have about 35-40% myopia in my left eye and 20/20 in my right eye. This is called amblyopia, as you know, when the brain when your brain turn off the blurred image from the other eye. My vision switches through the day.
But anyway, there's very little information about amblyopia improvement on Google. Does anyone know anything about this? Do you know one person that has got results?
Or if you know any exercises or methods, I want to know!
The information is needed to be free.
Good day and good luck with the vision training everyone!]]>
First, a bit about my vision. I am in my early 30's and have had myopia and some astigmatism nearly my entire life. I know I was given my first glasses at a very young age, possibly pre-school. I don't remember the details, because I have very poor long-term memory. I do however have good short-term memory which helped me achieve good grades in school. Mention of the correlation between poor memory, poor imagination, and poor vision was one of the factors that drew me so strongly to Bates, along with my lifelong unspoken thought, based on my fascination with evolution and biology from a young age, that it just made no sense that such a high proportion of our population would suffer from such a severe untreatable structural deformity purely as an inevitable consequence of our genes.
I started reading about the Bates method on my own a few months ago and immediately started wearing my glasses as little as possible. Because of my strong correction (-7.75 OD -7 OS) and need to continue functioning in daily life tasks, completely discarding them was not an option.
Next, I got an eye exam from a conventional optometrist for 20/40 "driving/computer" glasses. Although this exam was only a few weeks into my new habit of reduced-glasses-wearing, the 20/20 prescription for my right eye improved by 0.5 to -7.25, which was encouraging. This was the same optometrist who gave me my last prescription over two years ago, so this change in prescription cannot be dismissed as a change in measurement technique. Also, since prescriptions tend to get stronger over time, I suspect that if I had not started vision improvement before the eye exam then most likely I would have walked out with a stronger instead of weaker prescription. I got the 20/40 prescription (-6.25 OD -6 OS) lenses made instead of the 20/20, and that is now what I use when I need glasses.
My next task was to figure out whether I could eliminate my need to wear glasses for computer work, since it is required for a majority of my professional tasks. I decided to try pinhole glasses for this, although I'm aware that there is some controversy about whether they are beneficial. I have found that by using pinhole glasses with a large monitor at a desk and a reduced desktop resolution, I can use a computer effectively, although less efficiently that I used to. Also when I just need to read something I use my iPad instead of the computer because I can read at close range easily without pinhole glasses. Unfortunately sometimes I have to work on my laptop and I need glasses for that.
In case you think it is not possible to go without glasses in modern daily life, here are some of the activities that I, a person with strong nearsightedness, regularly do without a vision correction device: taking the public bus, jaywalking across busy urban streets, household chores like cooking and cleaning dishes, grocery shopping, eating out at restaurants, hiking in nature. When navigating around the city by foot or bus, sometimes I have to use a "safe squint" to read street signs or bus numbers. I do this by covering one eye with one hand, and with the other hand I make a tiny opening by curling my index finger and thumb to look through with the uncovered eye. I also glance at my smartphone occasionally to see where I am on the map or the bus schedule.
I do find it heartbreaking to go on a nice walk and not be able to see the beautiful views, but I believe that this short term decrease in quality of life is outweighed by all the natural light and visual stimulation that I get from using my naked eyes in a relaxed and attentive/curious manner in natural settings.
On my very first outing without glasses, to a busy farmers market, I simply observed my vision without judgement. The most striking observation was that colors were much more vibrant. Neon colors especially were extremely bright! Lights, although blurry, also seemed brighter. Afterwards, when we returned home someone cut open a lemon downstairs and the sharp citrus smell seemed to fill the whole house. However, this highly heightened sense of smell is so far a one-time occurrence.
About three weeks ago, I experienced a major change in my vision. I woke up one day and discovered that I had improved depth perception. I don't know if I ever had any depth perception before! Suddenly what I had read about seeing movement made more sense to me, because I experienced for myself that not only did objects move when I moved but that they moved in relation to each other, and that I could perceive that relative difference in movement as the space between objects. This was a profound experience for me, and a few days later when walking through a university campus with lush landscaping, beautiful brick buildings, and expansive open spaces on a clear sunny day, the amazing beauty I saw with my new-found depth perception brought me to tears. It was as if the world used to be flat and now everything around me felt more real.
I have also discovered since then that my awareness of plants moving has increased. Walking in a city park, I notice movement in the plants all around me that I don't remember seeing before; for example, how the branches of a bush with leaf buds on the tips quiver as they awaken from winter into spring. I also am more aware of movement in my periphery, and my eyes are unconsciously and effortlessly drawn to follow birds flying in the sky.
Now, as I continue to observe my vision and read about the Bates method, I am becoming more conscious of the meaning of centralization. I notice that for objects very close to my face that I "see one small part best" and that by shifting this laser focus on different parts of the object that this creates an incredible 3-D effect that is new to me. I have also noticed that although I can now distinguish various objects in my environment as spatially distinct from each other, each individual object has a uniform blur/static to it, so this likely means that I am not seeing one part best when looking at a distant object (distant for me meaning more than a few inches away!). I have recently felt a sensation in my eyeballs that reminds me of a mechanical camera lens moving in and out to change focus when I try to shift my eyes between different distant objects, but it is subtle and I can't yet reliably reproduce it.
I don't want to leave readers with the impression that not wearing glasses is the only thing I "do" in my self-experiment in vision re-education. During the past few months I have also been actively treating my chronic TMJ with acupuncture, PT, and massage, which I hope will help reduce muscular tension in my head and neck. Some of the other topics I have been studying and practicing lately include Qigong, somatic movement (e.g. Hanna, Alexander Technique), and natural posture (e.g. Gokhale), but I believe these are all related facets in the great mystery of human health.
I noticed that there are some similarities between various Qigong (Chi Kung) dynamic forms and Bates swings and sways. After all, in Qigong the goal is gentle movement in a deep meditative state of mind with conscious attention paid to the breath, and preferably outdoors in a natural environment. Also, for many Qigong forms there are directions for your eyes (and head) to follow the active (moving) hand, and accompanying visualizations for your mind. After I made this connection between Bates methods and Qigong forms, I had a deeper appreciation for my Qigong practice.
My hope is that some of my observations and methods are helpful and encouraging to people considering trying natural vision improvement or who have started it and don't feel like they are making progress.]]>
First, a bit about my vision. I am in my early 30's and have had myopia and some astigmatism nearly my entire life. I know I was given my first glasses at a very young age, possibly pre-school. I don't remember the details, because I have very poor long-term memory. I do however have good short-term memory which helped me achieve good grades in school. Mention of the correlation between poor memory, poor imagination, and poor vision was one of the factors that drew me so strongly to Bates, along with my lifelong unspoken thought, based on my fascination with evolution and biology from a young age, that it just made no sense that such a high proportion of our population would suffer from such a severe untreatable structural deformity purely as an inevitable consequence of our genes.
I started reading about the Bates method on my own a few months ago and immediately started wearing my glasses as little as possible. Because of my strong correction (-7.75 OD -7 OS) and need to continue functioning in daily life tasks, completely discarding them was not an option.
Next, I got an eye exam from a conventional optometrist for 20/40 "driving/computer" glasses. Although this exam was only a few weeks into my new habit of reduced-glasses-wearing, the 20/20 prescription for my right eye improved by 0.5 to -7.25, which was encouraging. This was the same optometrist who gave me my last prescription over two years ago, so this change in prescription cannot be dismissed as a change in measurement technique. Also, since prescriptions tend to get stronger over time, I suspect that if I had not started vision improvement before the eye exam then most likely I would have walked out with a stronger instead of weaker prescription. I got the 20/40 prescription (-6.25 OD -6 OS) lenses made instead of the 20/20, and that is now what I use when I need glasses.
My next task was to figure out whether I could eliminate my need to wear glasses for computer work, since it is required for a majority of my professional tasks. I decided to try pinhole glasses for this, although I'm aware that there is some controversy about whether they are beneficial. I have found that by using pinhole glasses with a large monitor at a desk and a reduced desktop resolution, I can use a computer effectively, although less efficiently that I used to. Also when I just need to read something I use my iPad instead of the computer because I can read at close range easily without pinhole glasses. Unfortunately sometimes I have to work on my laptop and I need glasses for that.
In case you think it is not possible to go without glasses in modern daily life, here are some of the activities that I, a person with strong nearsightedness, regularly do without a vision correction device: taking the public bus, jaywalking across busy urban streets, household chores like cooking and cleaning dishes, grocery shopping, eating out at restaurants, hiking in nature. When navigating around the city by foot or bus, sometimes I have to use a "safe squint" to read street signs or bus numbers. I do this by covering one eye with one hand, and with the other hand I make a tiny opening by curling my index finger and thumb to look through with the uncovered eye. I also glance at my smartphone occasionally to see where I am on the map or the bus schedule.
I do find it heartbreaking to go on a nice walk and not be able to see the beautiful views, but I believe that this short term decrease in quality of life is outweighed by all the natural light and visual stimulation that I get from using my naked eyes in a relaxed and attentive/curious manner in natural settings.
On my very first outing without glasses, to a busy farmers market, I simply observed my vision without judgement. The most striking observation was that colors were much more vibrant. Neon colors especially were extremely bright! Lights, although blurry, also seemed brighter. Afterwards, when we returned home someone cut open a lemon downstairs and the sharp citrus smell seemed to fill the whole house. However, this highly heightened sense of smell is so far a one-time occurrence.
About three weeks ago, I experienced a major change in my vision. I woke up one day and discovered that I had improved depth perception. I don't know if I ever had any depth perception before! Suddenly what I had read about seeing movement made more sense to me, because I experienced for myself that not only did objects move when I moved but that they moved in relation to each other, and that I could perceive that relative difference in movement as the space between objects. This was a profound experience for me, and a few days later when walking through a university campus with lush landscaping, beautiful brick buildings, and expansive open spaces on a clear sunny day, the amazing beauty I saw with my new-found depth perception brought me to tears. It was as if the world used to be flat and now everything around me felt more real.
I have also discovered since then that my awareness of plants moving has increased. Walking in a city park, I notice movement in the plants all around me that I don't remember seeing before; for example, how the branches of a bush with leaf buds on the tips quiver as they awaken from winter into spring. I also am more aware of movement in my periphery, and my eyes are unconsciously and effortlessly drawn to follow birds flying in the sky.
Now, as I continue to observe my vision and read about the Bates method, I am becoming more conscious of the meaning of centralization. I notice that for objects very close to my face that I "see one small part best" and that by shifting this laser focus on different parts of the object that this creates an incredible 3-D effect that is new to me. I have also noticed that although I can now distinguish various objects in my environment as spatially distinct from each other, each individual object has a uniform blur/static to it, so this likely means that I am not seeing one part best when looking at a distant object (distant for me meaning more than a few inches away!). I have recently felt a sensation in my eyeballs that reminds me of a mechanical camera lens moving in and out to change focus when I try to shift my eyes between different distant objects, but it is subtle and I can't yet reliably reproduce it.
I don't want to leave readers with the impression that not wearing glasses is the only thing I "do" in my self-experiment in vision re-education. During the past few months I have also been actively treating my chronic TMJ with acupuncture, PT, and massage, which I hope will help reduce muscular tension in my head and neck. Some of the other topics I have been studying and practicing lately include Qigong, somatic movement (e.g. Hanna, Alexander Technique), and natural posture (e.g. Gokhale), but I believe these are all related facets in the great mystery of human health.
I noticed that there are some similarities between various Qigong (Chi Kung) dynamic forms and Bates swings and sways. After all, in Qigong the goal is gentle movement in a deep meditative state of mind with conscious attention paid to the breath, and preferably outdoors in a natural environment. Also, for many Qigong forms there are directions for your eyes (and head) to follow the active (moving) hand, and accompanying visualizations for your mind. After I made this connection between Bates methods and Qigong forms, I had a deeper appreciation for my Qigong practice.
My hope is that some of my observations and methods are helpful and encouraging to people considering trying natural vision improvement or who have started it and don't feel like they are making progress.]]>
i briefly explain the causes of teary eye.
teary eyes are often caused by weak liver or your liver has no energy and causes tear whenever you want to look.
the cure can be simply done by breathing,
1. shift your intention where your lover locate.
2. deep breathe.
3. exhale with your nose.
you can see effect pretty quick with this method,]]>
i briefly explain the causes of teary eye.
teary eyes are often caused by weak liver or your liver has no energy and causes tear whenever you want to look.
the cure can be simply done by breathing,
1. shift your intention where your lover locate.
2. deep breathe.
3. exhale with your nose.
you can see effect pretty quick with this method,]]>