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Recently I did a search online for the term “how to improve your eyesight” and found a lot of people on “Yahoo Answers” searching for the same information. It was kind of disturbing to realize that more and more of the people asking this question are of the younger generation. I believe this is becoming a lot more common due to all the technology they are using. If you are interested in learning how to improve your eyesight, here are some things to consider.
Option #1
Under normal circumstances, the first thing most people do when they start having eyesight problems is to visit their Optometrist. After a thorough examination, a prescription for eyeglasses usually comes next. Because we do not know any better, we to believe this is the only alternative. But eyeglasses will not cure your eyesight problems. When you wear any type of artificial lens you are just masking the problem and training your eyes to continue with their bad habits. This can cause the muscles that control the lens inside your eye to weaken and over time your eyesight will eventually get worse.
Option #2
A lot of people will consider having Lasik eye surgery because they are tired of wearing eyeglasses and believe that this is their only cure. Unfortunately, Lasik eye surgery is not covered by insurance and is rather expensive. I also know for a fact that it will cure the problem for a period of time but unless you learn how to maintain your vision, you will eventually end up the same place you started. My sister had it done and she is back to wearing contacts again and has for many years now.
Option #3
What other alternative do people have? Something that most people do not consider which is to improve your eyesight through natural methods. I was not aware that you could improve your eyesight naturally until I started doing more research myself.
Back in the late 1800′s Dr. William Bates researched natural ways to improve your vision and came up with a series of eye exercises people could do that would improve their eyesight. By implementing some eye exercises each and every day, your eyesight can be improved through natural methods. These eye exercises will actually strengthen the eye muscles which can eventually put them back to their natural state. This is becoming more and more attractive to a lot of people because doing eye exercises cost nothing and there is no risk involved. Results may vary but it can actually cure your eyesight problems.
Those are just a few things to consider when eyesight problems arise. You can learn how to improve your eyesight naturally and never have to worry about needing a few of these options.
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In general, the eye’s focus and pupil size are under control of the internal muscles, while external muscles have more responsibilities. External muscles direct the eyes to the right point and keep the retinal image in constant slight motion. In fact, both internal and external muscles are quite important in maintaining good eye health.
Like any other muscle system, eye muscles are subject to fatigue after continuously use without breaks. They can be fatigued if the eyes are used for prolonged ocular activity. In addition, those activities that require added effort and concentration can cause eye fatigue more easily. After proper rest, eye muscles can recover their optimal levels of function.
Eye muscles do need proper rest and relaxation, similar to other muscles of the body. Excessive eye use can push eye muscles to their limit, which can lead to vision problems. This abuse of the eye prevents eye muscles from restoring to their normal state.
Experts have suggested that eye muscles can benefit from exercises, just like the body. A New York ophthalmologist named Dr. William Bates had developed a series of eye exercises for vision improvement, which can eliminate eyeglasses, contact lenses and surgery.
Dr. Bates thought that people with poor vision can benefit from those exercises, without the help of eyewear and vision surgery. In his mind, eye problems were caused by eye stress, tension as well as laziness. Eyeglasses and contact lenses could actually increase the laziness of the eyes. In fact, those methods initiated by Dr. Bates were first introduced in the early 1900s. And until now, many people have been taking these proven methods.
Eye muscles fixed on one particular scene has been believed to cause strain to the eyes. In this consideration, it is quite reasonable that eye relaxation can provide an improvement between the optic nerve and brain, which brings clear vision.
Remarkable visual improvements have been reported on all groups, such as those are nearsighted, farsighted, astigmatic as well as people with lazy eyes. Dr. Bates’ exercises have proven to be effective, although medicine has simply ignored the exercises’ benefits.
Palming, swinging and daily color awareness are some of the Dr. Bates’ exercises, most of which should be performed for about 30 minutes every day.
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Before we get into it, I’d like to clarify something right off the bat… if you have difficulties in dealing with the truth if it’s uncomfortable, you might as well stop reading now. If you, on the other hand, are dying to find out where high myopia comes from, and especially what you can do about it, so that it stops getting worse and worse every eye exam, you are in the right place.
Still with me? Great, I promise I won’t let you down!
The truth can be confronting at times and even more so when the “authorities” in the field hiding it from us, either out of ignorance, or out of profit thinking.
High Myopia & The Ophthalmic Industry
You see, when you go to an optometrist or eye surgeon and ask for the reason of your high myopia, they usually tell you that your lens is shaped too steeply, so you need to wear glasses or undertake surgery. So, I’m asking, should we trust them blindly, just because they studied for many years, or should we maybe get a second opinion?
The scholars of this world have believed for centuries what the catholic church wanted us to believe is true, so they were wrong, even though they were the most educated. Not because they were bad people, but because it didn’t suit the catholic church and it’s interests to listen to science.
Theories About The Causes Of Myopia
Unfortunately the ophthalmic industry, just like the catholic church a couple of centuries back, has interests that don’t encourage them to teach students the truth. At universities they still teach a theory about eye problems that was established by German physicist Hermann Helmholtz, rather than the much more accurate and modern theory of one of their own, ophthalmologist Dr William Bates.
So the reason why your eyes get worse and worse with glasses over the years has to do with the whole industry subscribing to the wrong theory. If they were right and glasses, contacts, or eye surgery would truly improve your vision and not just function as a crutch, wouldn’t you get weaker and weaker glasses prescribed, until they are gone?
Well, I haven’t heard that in a while…
True Causes For High Myopia
You have to understand that there are multiple reasons for high myopia. Some are physiological, and many are psychological. The physiological reasons are not the shape of the lens. That’s just the symptom of all the underlying reasons.
High myopia is often a result of bad posture, which restricts proper blood circulation throughout the body, and therefore doesn’t deliver appropriate amounts of oxygen and nutrients to the eye muscles. Together with already existing strain on the eye muscles that determine the shape of the eyeball, the lack of oxygen increases the tightness and strains the muscles even more.
The strain on these eye muscles flattens out eyeball, extending it like a zoom on a photo camera, and because the eyeball is full of liquid, it changes the shape of the lens. In other words, the lens gets pushed out, bends more than it should, and therefore is shaped more steeply. The more tension on the eye muscles, the more the eyeball is extended, and in turn the more myopia you get.
Treatments For High Myopia
High myopia can only be treated by getting rid of the tension in the eye muscles. To do so successfully and long-term you have to find out where the tension comes from, ie you have to determine the underlying causes for myopia. You can do that by yourself, totally naturally, you just need to become aware of how to do it.
Glasses, on the other hand, will never release the tension of the eye muscles, on the contrary, over time they will increase it, and that’s why you need stronger glasses.
Sadly, if you ask your optometrist or eye surgeon about the eye muscles and the influence on the shape of the lens they will tell you that it’s not true. They think that only one muscle around the lens is responsible for its shape. So if you ask, and you get that answer, ask them why others improve their vision naturally with natural vision correction methods (which are supposedly shenanigans and cost only a hundred bucks one time) and need weaker and weaker glasses until they are gone, but you, using the “correct” approach, get more high myopia and need stronger and stronger glasses (and spend a hundred dollars or more a year!).
You’ll be surprise how much they’ll stutter on mumble something that doesn’t make sense…
Next time we’ll have a look into some of the psychological factors that cause high myopia, and are the underlying reason for the eye muscles to tighten up in the first place.
Evgania Mehler helps people with high myopia to improve their vision & gain perfect eyesight with her natural myopia correction method that goes far beyond ordinary eye exercises, even if they are almost blind. To find out more go to http://www.Unleash-Your-Vision.com.
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