natural vision improvement - short exercises and recommendations

8/2/2019 Natural Vision Improvement - Short Exercises and Recommendations

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Some call it natural vision improvement which is more like for us that have/had poor vision, but in

my opinion it is spreading to good vision habits that are good for everyone to know and practice in

their life.

It would be good to know as using vision is affecting reading, learning, decision making and is

immerging from attention and imagination and memory.

So, there is where I see the importance of this, combined with deep feeling of unhappiness or too

many worries that every child put in glasses experiences.

A few things we do not know about eyes functions and what happens to the eye when we are

wearing glasses which is good for everyone to know, and then will give you some links you can do

your own research if some more interest arises with you.

- the clear seeing is effortless; the main reason for poor vision is trying to see and

straining

- to see clearly we need to blink regularly, it is refreshing eyes with tears and gives to the

retinal cells a short break from light- we also need to breathe, nice deep abdominal breathing is the best. We usually under

stress have stiff abdominal muscles and have just quick shallow breathing. This affects

vision

- poor posture may result into poor vision as eye is trying to balance body with the

environment

- children often become short-sighted in their early years of schooling in simple reason of

fear of unknown. How, you might wander. Well, they just cant match new information with

the memory and imagination. Or of too much ambition to know everything quickly. It is

well known that short-sighted people are achieving very high distinction results, for

example. So, it is not that of too much reading the vision becomes poor, but is related to

how we read. We should blink and breathe, then have a regular breaks, look into distance

every 10-20 mins. Maintain good posture while reading, not becoming stiff for hours whilereading good book.

- Sport and outdoors is very good for maintaining good vision. Especially tennis, jumping on

trampoline.

- Eyes also need good circulation, so any facial massage could help, although there are some

acupressure points for good vision, I heard in China they practise those.

- Good nutrition: carrots as we all know and all yellow and red fruit and vegetables

In relation to these functions of the eye:

- Effortless, no staring, no trying to see, no straining

- free movement in all directions

- fluctuation or tremors, called saccadic eye movements; eye is in constant micro

movement and that is how it is picking up the light and creating images in the vision centrein the brain; the more movement the more light and the better images we see

- changes shape to see distances (shortens) and close (lengthens) here the role to this is

by 6 muscles that are around the eye.

- central-fixation (this is the term introduced by Dr. Bates who is the father of Natural

Vision Improvement, Ill give you reference at the end of the letter), meaning we can see

the best just a small area where the axe is pointing. This is found as a problem with

people with poor vision, they are trying to see big area with looking just in one point

without movement. Thats why we need more eye movements.


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There are some recommended exercises or better say daily practises:

- palming; just sit and close the eyes with the hands so no light is coming in. this should give

relaxation to the eye nerve as there is no stimuli coming in

- sunning; this means with closed eyes face the sun, for a few mins. This is not dangerous as

is recommended in early morning and late afternoon, and with closed eyes. This improves

sun tolerance and is making pupil more flexible to open- close which is its function, good

to combine a few mins palming and sunning interchangeably.

- Long Swing, while standing or sitting turn your head form left to right and back in 180

degrees. Eyes just look straight, breathe and blink softly, not sticking the eyes for

anything particular, and should get the feeling of the room moving in opposite direction of

head. This can be done before going to bed as it relaxes eyes and the whole body and can

improve sleeping

- Shift, this can be done on distance on letter or any other object by shifting the eyes

from left side of letter to right, or up-down or diagonally. Here also you should get the

feeling of the letter moving in opposite direction of the eye movement. People with poor

vision cant get that feeling, and also need to start with bigger distances, and their

shifting goes slower. When vision is good shifting can be done on very small distance, even

on black dot, is very quick and illusion of swaying is achieved.- Yawning, groaning

- 3D images, I personally enjoyed and practiced most of this. I think it was good gymnastic

or eye-robics for my eyes after all these years of wearing glasses. I could practice all

other above mention after a few months of 3D images viewing.

- There are many picture books for searching after details in many, like SPOT WHAT,

WHERE IS WALLY

- For reading, you know they say after 45 everyone will need reading glasses but it Is not

true. To practice reading you just need to stretch the eye muscles, which you can do if

you just simply follow the lines between rows. You can turn the page upside down to avoid

trying to read, and just go in the white line between the rows, left right and back. Do it

for half a mins or so, then turn back to read the text, you might see the improvement.

- Reading small print is good exercise, smaller possible. Like this: Reading small print is good exercise, smallerpossible. Like this

- Stretching the eyes in all direction and zooming

- Computers and video games also shouldnt be a problem, if the seeing is not under strain

and even can help with lots of movements around the screen

- Edging, following along lines of everything in your sight, close and in distance

- Left and Right Brain integration: move left hand and tight foot, then opposite, we have

been recommended this by the midwifes for babies development. This is because seeing

close is left brain function (detailed) and seeing distances is right brain function (spatial).

Following the lazy 8 or infinity sign helps in this.


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The references:

1. as I mention this is stared with Dr. Bates, who was optometrist, lived about 100 years ago,after discovering that the main reason for all the poor vision of any type is strain decided tochange the practice and invented these exercises and good vision habits. He helpedthousands of people. Unfortunately, his methods and recommendations and research didntgo thru into official optometry. He also wrote I book, and here are some links where his

research can be found described:his book: http://www.central-fixation.com/library.phpor for download:http://www.seeing.org/resources/downloads/index.html

2. Janet Goodrich, Se was Bates follower, American psychologist, who actually practised her inAustralia, had been focused on Childrens vision, her daughter I think is continuing thebusinessjanetgoodrichmethod.com/

and some other useful sites, includes also names of optometrists that became behaviouraloptometrists or natural vision teashers:

www.vision-training.com/index.htmlwww.naturalvisioncenter.comwww.cleareyesight.infowww.iblindness.orgwww.exerciseyoureyes.com/ Jacob Liberman

3. These is also one reference to the way of our attention that I liked very much, you might bealso interested, and mentions techniques of vision improvement, but is mostly teaching abouttwo main attention styles focused, linear, and spatial, bring more peripheral awareness of theworld around us. And all oour stress today is due to our living in constant overfocusedattention, and that moven to the other mode diffuse and immersed is solution to bring ourenergies back and live more fulfilling lives.http://www.openfocus.com/ here it is if you wantto know more.

4. 3D imageswww.magiceye.comwww.colorstereo.com

And a few words about glasses.

- when person starts using them the eye movement reduces, the eye is trying to move but

the light and all work is being done by glasses so the movement is being opposed by

refraction of the light thru glass and some pain in the eye is then experienced

- the head movement reduces

- some people, have balance problems

- and becomes worse as the eye is working less and less

- in order to be able to see thru glass the eyes need to stay in deformed, stressed position,

therefore it is really dangerous for someone just to put someone elses glasses

- there are many aspects of vision and glasses are improving only one, linear detailing

aspect reducing all others, possibly affecting brain functions, the way of thinking and

attention giving.
http://www.central-fixation.com/library.phphttp://www.seeing.org/resources/downloads/index.htmlhttp://www.seeing.org/resources/downloads/index.htmlhttp://janetgoodrichmethod.com/http://janetgoodrichmethod.com/http://www.vision-training.com/index.htmlhttp://www.naturalvisioncenter.com/http://www.cleareyesight.info/http://www.iblindness.org/http://www.exerciseyoureyes.com/http://www.openfocus.com/http://www.openfocus.com/http://www.magiceye.com/http://www.colorstereo.com/http://www.seeing.org/resources/downloads/index.htmlhttp://janetgoodrichmethod.com/http://www.vision-training.com/index.htmlhttp://www.naturalvisioncenter.com/http://www.cleareyesight.info/http://www.iblindness.org/http://www.exerciseyoureyes.com/http://www.openfocus.com/http://www.magiceye.com/http://www.colorstereo.com/http://www.central-fixation.com/library.php

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