Rebuild Your Vision

[eva08]

I came across some websites that offered courses and exercises to improve eyesight and I purchased a course by Orlin G. Sorensen "Rebuild Your Vision". The first half of his book describes how wearing prescription glasses actually damages eyesight with endless references to the various medical news bulletins and research done by doctors and heath professionals over the past 100 {+} years.
To me this was another punch in the face exposing the brainwashed doctors believing that the only remedy is glasses, then stronger glasses and then surgery - a 32 bill $ industry.
With proper eye exercises where eyes need to relax and look into distance myopia or near sightedness would not develop.
In a nutshell - the eye lens is held by muscles that need to tense in order to provide short distance focus; while a normal eye would relax in distance, the eye muscle would not need to work but only relax loosely. (I am just trying to get the idea across)
Now all the school work and intense studying forces young children to focus on books close up and destroying literally natural vision for life, since eyes will continue to grow until 18 or 19 years of age - and they have been then for a very long time been focused on books and close distance.
The other half of the book are exercises on how to start regaining eye muscle flexibility and training the eye muscles to contract and focus.
The author explains his journey on how he found these exercises and applied them himself and regained 20/20 vision from 20/70.
I have not started a dedicated 20 minutes/day eye workout, only one exercise in the few minutes I could look it over; but it all makes sense.
I need to get over the "eyeglasses scam" shock first -- another thing to be appalled about that we have been lied to from the medicos.
Definitely worth while looking into:
Rebuild your vision (http://www.rebuildyourvision.com/)

There are several other vision training courses available besides this one, but i chose this one to start with. They all seem to provide excellent information

[Corncrake]

Really pleased you posted this as I need to get back to eye exercises again. I started to practise the Bates Method many years ago and wore pinhole spectacles which also help exercise your eye muscles. Unfortunately, I stopped because I am lazy but must start again as my eyesight has deteriorated greatly over the past year - probably due to too much time spent at the computer!

[eva08]

Corncrake, could you please describe your experience with the Bates method and the pinhole glasses? This course does not come with the pinhole glasses, but I read much about them and will get a pair -- did they make a difference?

[bennycog]

here is a website with some free information on improving your eysite too..
i wont copy and paste,

http://www.eruptingmind.com/tips-to-improve-eyesight/

[Corncrake]

Here is a description of the 'Bates Method' http://www.i-see.org/bates_nutshell.html - I didn't do the exercises regularly enough to get a good result and at the time my eyesight was only beginning to deteriorate so my motivation wasn't what it would be now. I have to admit to being lazy when it comes to physiotherapy unless it is for something essential like when I broke my wrist. I was desperate to get it functioning again and so practised my exercises rigorously and there was a fast improvement. Regarding pinhole glasses - I got these through Peter Grunwald's programme eyebody.com/. They work through exercising the eye muscles through limiting the amount of light that reaches the pupil and can be quite frustrating to use. There is some debate about how much good they do but I certainly found them helpful while wearing them - I am not sure about the long term effects though. I gather the College of Optometrists says there is no evidence that they work but I don't believe they have carried out any scientific trials.

[Sunlite]

I went to a Holistic Vision specialist 3x and was able to use glasses from 2003 rather than the present ones made in 2011! She too gave me different exercises each time and I learned a lot...I could not afford to continue:(, one of the drawbacks of being in the "poverty" class and I too let the exercises go. Thanks for the post as I will have to make time for them again and stop using my sunglasses!!! The eyes were made for sunlight to help uncalcify the Pineal gland, along with a pure diet...

Sincerely,
Sunlite

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Hi

From the page of The Bates Association (http://www.seeing.org/bave2/bave.htm) explaining principles behind techniques for improving eyesight:
Source: http://www.seeing.org/techniques/principles.html


(...)
Just stop
All the techniques simply require you to look. There are colours, shapes, depths, textures, shades, movements: all these things are food for the eyes and in every waking moment, this is what the eyes see. Right now, and now, and now. This is what the Bates techniques present to you.

If the mind is closed to it, is busy with other things, all that visual information has nowhere to go, and eventually the eyes begin to suffer. But if you look at what is in front of you right now, you come fully into the present moment. Any avoidance of where and who you are right now begins to crumble.

The techniques that are taught in the Bates Method effectively re-establish the normal, natural interaction between eye and mind. To the visually-impaired person, perceiving movement, or letting the eyes feast on colour can seem odd or contrived, but in fact all that is happening is that the mind is learning slowly how to dismantle all its filters.

When the filters drop, suddenly what you have left is the truth of sight: Colour, movement, depth and all the nuances of the visual experience that is, and as it should be, a joy.


And then something amazing happened. Now that I've been seeing movement all day long for the past month, suddenly I remembered: this is how I used to see the world when I was a child!

The techniques described in these pages give an introduction to the extraordinary world of re-learning to see. Spend some time every day - as much as you can - letting your eyes have the simple enjoyment of just seeing.
To me it means to "observe what your eyes see"...

There is a free copy of the book "Perfect Sight Without Glasses" from 1920 by William H Bates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bates_(physician))
Here: http://www.seeing.org/resources/downloads/index.html

Opening quote from the book ;)

On a tomb in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Florence was found the following inscription: "Here lies Salvino degli Armati, Inventor of Spectacles. May God pardon him his sins."

I wear glasses myself and am going to give it a try...

[DeBron]

Thank you all for your information regarding this. I have had glasses since I was 6 and really want to improve my vision.

[4evrneo]

Thank you ! I just recently found out about all this, literally last week. I recently went from contacts to much stronger glasses and just cant get used to them. I will give this stuff a try.

Blessings,
Annette