According
to Dr. William Bates
(1860 - 1931), the founder of natural vision improvement, poor vision is the
result of eyestrain, due to mental and physical stress on the eye, and hence
the distortion of the eye shape, leading to nearsightedness and farsightedness.
Dr. Bates strongly believed that eye
relaxation holds the key to improving vision. Given that vision
health is holistic health,
which means it includes the health of the body, the mind, and the spirit as
well, the eye exercises recommended by Dr. Bates may help only partially to
correct eyesight. Eye relaxation begins with the mind first, and not the eye.
The mind must be completely relaxed before it can relax the body—and then the
eye, which is only one of the organs of the body. In other words, eye exercises
can relax the eye only when the body is also completely relaxed. You can relax
the body and the mind through meditation.
Given
that natural healing always takes time, natural vision improvement through eye
exercises also takes time. Eye exercises are instrumental in both relaxing and
strengthening eye muscles in order to correct eyesight.
However,
if you want to have a quick-fix, then eye exercises are not for you. Indeed, many
people are unwilling to try eye exercises to improve their vision. For one
thing, many are still skeptical about the body’s capability to heal itself; for
another, many consider poor vision a handicap rather than a physical condition
that needs to be addressed. Indeed, many people believe that their poor vision
can easily be fixed with eyeglasses or contacts, so they do not see the reason
to use tedious eye exercises to correct their vision.
Practicing
eye exercises has to be diligent and consistent. In addition, it is recommended
that you stop wearing glasses or contacts as much as possible. That means you
must get yourself accustomed to blurry vision around you as a result of not
wearing eyeglasses or contacts. In addition, you must not strain to see clearly
when your vision is blurry. The only promise is that you will see clearly only
when your vision improves, and not before. All these pre-conditions may turn
many away from the use of eye exercises to correct vision.
That
said, eye exercises in conjunction with body and mind relaxation can indeed
improve and correct eyesight. You have nothing to lose, even if you cannot
completely dispense with your eyeglasses or contacts—at least your vision may
not deteriorate any further with age. The bottom line: wearing eyeglasses or
contacts will never improve your vision; they will only make it worse, not
better.
If
you really want to improve vision, go for eye exercises. If, on the other hand,
you want a quick fix, maybe you should go for glasses or contacts. The choice is
yours. Remember, if you do not want vision self-healing, you may not want
self-healing in other health issues you may have—you may end up being another
victim of the sickness industry, which also includes the optical companies.
Also, read my book NO EGO NO STRESS to find out how the ancient wisdom
from China may help you live a stress-free life as if everything is a miracle even in this contemporary material
world. Reduce your stress to have better vision.
Stephen Lau
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