Basic Principles of Good Vision
Eye relaxation holds the key to correcting vision problems.
The normal eyeball is round. Therefore,
if you strain to see, your eyeball becomes distorted. As a result, you
cannot see clearly. Because you cannot see, you strain your eyes even more. The
more you strain your eyes, the less you will be able to see, and thus forming a
vicious circle of poorer vision. To break that vicious circle, stop your
eyestrain.
Unfortunately, you cannot consciously
control your eye muscles. That is to say, you cannot tell your eye muscles not
to squeeze your eyes out of shape. What you can do is to control them unconsciously
through awareness.
Fact: Weak vision is due to incorrect refraction—either in front of or
behind, but not directly on the retina. Distorted shape of the eyeball,
due to weak and un-relaxed eye muscles, causes the incorrect refraction on the
eye’s retina.
Solution: Strengthen and relax eye muscles to prevent them from squeezing the eye
out of shape when focusing.
Recommendation: Corrective lenses only create the desire for clear vision but deprives
the eye from naturally adjusting to the constant changing conditions of
the eye, and thus causing eyestrain as a result. Stop wearing your corrective
lenses. Instead, relax your eye muscles to improve your vision such that you
can ultimately do without your glasses.
Practice the following basic
principles of good vision:
Central fixation: Train the eye to focus on only one point one at a time. To
illustrate, let your eyes look at a printed page: Focus on only one word on
the printed page, allowing other words in its vicinity to become blurred; then,
try to see one letter of that word better than the other letters
of that word; then, look at the other letters, one by one; now, look at
the blank space between that word and the next; focus on the next word,
and repeat the process.
The objective of this training is to help you focus on only a very small
area because the macula (responsible for detailed vision) can see only a
very small area. Stimulate the macula to enhance vision improvement.
Shifting: Train the eye
to look from one object to another frequently, from a close object to a distant
one, and then back again in order to relieve tension and eyestrain,
which impair good vision. Reinforce shifting with constant blinking to
clean and to rest the eye.
Sunning: Train the eye
to adapt and adjust to bright light to avoid squinting, which causes eyestrain.
Close your eyes and look up at the sun. Then, turn away from the sun, opening
your eyes, and look at some clouds. Close your eyes for a moment, and then open
your eyes at look at a point a little nearer the sun, but without looking
directly at the sun. Sunning sharpens your vision, as well as prevents
squinting.
Relaxation: Visualizing “black” induces complete relaxation of the eye. A completely
relaxed eye will see only black when it is closed; seeing the field of vision
grayish or light-golden in color means that the eye is not totally
relaxed.
Stephen Lau
Copyright©2018 by Stephen Lau
