Let me start with a little story. Stick with me and you’ll see how profoundly important this is to eye exercises.

Do you know of a man known by the name of Galileo Gelilei? Yes, the man who discovered that earth circled the sun and not the other way around. Did you know that even before him, people have always known that something was wrong with the calendar of that time? Every June or so it would start to snow and people in Europe, knowing that it’s not supposed to snow at that time of the year would roll back their calendar to the “correct date”.

If by “secret”, you’re looking for magic bullets, then I’m sorry to have misled you. The “secret” I’m talking will certainly will you improve your vision through eye vision exercises but it will in no way improve them immediately.

In fact, the secret I’m about to reveal to you is about keeping you motivated for the long term. You see, natural vision improvement is a lengthy process and if you don’t keep yourself motivated long enough… you’re going to give up and fail. Then you’ll claim that eye exercises don’t work!

From my experience, that’s where most people fall.

For those of you out there who are just starting out vision exercises, I know it can be a little overwhelming. Just about two years ago I was right where you are. Truth to be told, I felt like giving up. There are so many things to learn about natural vision improvement that sometimes I felt it’s easier to dismiss them as quackery.


Lucky for me, I was desperate enough to keep moving forward.


For those of you facing the problem, here’s my advice: Take little steps. Don’t try to do all the vision exercises because you’ll find them overwhelming. Here are the three that I recommend you start with:

There are 3 principles to natural vision improvement that Dr Bates discovered decades ago. If you want to naturally improve your vision, I think it’s crucial that you understand them. There are numerous eye exercises that you can do but it’s inevitable that sometimes you might interpret them wrongly. Understanding the principles behind them, I believe, would prevent this and hopefully, propel you forward instead of holding you back in your efforts to improve your vision.


The three principles are:


1. Movement. Here’s a little experiment that you can do. Look for people you know who have perfect vision. Would you say they are “active”, “squirmy” or “just couldn’t stay still”? They most probably are. Perfect vision requires movement because rigidity causes fatigue while movement promotes circulation!


2. Centralization. Have you ever tried to see everything at once? Back when I was in high school, I used to force myself to see everything in my surrounding since I thought that would give me an advantage in noticing someone is coming for the ball. My eyesight quickly deteriorated because diffusion causes strain and is unnatural. Our eyes are built for centralization, meaning we see only one small space at a time. Bates once said if you look at a chair, you should be seeing its back-rest, its legs and every other parts separately.


3. Relaxation. We have been educated to think that effort is always a good thing. So in out quest for perfect vision, we often place lots of effort into seeing something we cannot see - and therefore causing us to squint. Sight should be just like any other senses, they do not need effort on our part. If we tried to intervene, it will deteriorate rapidly. So try to relax and let your natural vision system to work. That’s what eye exercises allows you to do - take on a new habit to relax your eyes - and thus rebuild your vision.

If you would like to know whether or not it’s possible to improve your eyesight or if you’re new, read my post on The Case For Natural Vision Improvement.

This post is more about HOW you can improve eyesight. Fact is, there are several easy methods you can implement to relax your eye muscles. Don’t expect them to take effects over night. It takes time. Your eye certainly didn’t get to the way it is over night… I’m guessing it takes years. Reversal of that condition should not take that long but expect it to take at least a few months.

Ever thought that tired eyes at the end of the day are a normal part of life? Well, you’re certainly not the only one who had assumed that.

Most people assumed that the more they use their eyes, the more tired it will get, and therefore it’s normal to feel a strain and perhaps a little headache once in a while.

Fact is, it’s not. Sight is one of our senses as a human. Have your ears, tongue, skin or smell felt tired of doing their job? No. That’s because they work subconsciously, out of our immediate control. When you enter a room with air-conditioning, you just FEEL cool. You don’t have to try.

Consciously take notice of your eyes right now. Is it moving or is it staying still?

If you’re myopic or farsighted, I can bet that it’s still. It’s passive. There’s little movement if any. Now, I want you to do a little “exercise” to see how your eyes really work.

I want you to close your eyes and lightly place your index and middle fingers on it. Just enough to feel your eyeballs, but not hard enough to press on them. Done it yet? After you place your fingers on your eyeballs, I want you to roll your eyes.

Mornings are the best time to do anything beneficial. Things like eating a healthy breakfast, exercising and if you’re religious, praying. This is because doing something in the morning sets the tone for the rest of the day.

If you ate healthily in the morning, you are less likely to eat unhealthily later in the day. On the other hand, if you ate unhealthily in the morning, you’d probably eat things equally unhealthy later in the day. There’s a psychological theory about this kind behaviour but I’m not going into that.

I’d to start this post by apologizing for my long absence since the last post. I was busy moving house and holidaying in Egypt.

And during that period of absence, I’ve received a considerable amount of emails asking me various questions which I will address in the future. For now, let’s settle the 2 most popular ones.

Q1. I’ve been doing this for X amount time, why haven’t I see any improvement?

Q2. How long will I need to do the exercises before I see improvement?

Everyone knows that their body can adapt to demand and challenges. If you carry a lot of weight, your body will grow muscles to overcome the challenges. If you run long distances, your body grow stronger heart so as to sustain prolonged period of energy release.

But did you know that it’s not just your body that can adapt? That’s right. Your eyes also can adapt to different needs. If you constantly look at close range objects, like reading, watching tv and doing the dishes, your eyes adapts and pretty soon you’ll soon find yourself excelling in looking near distance objets… but at the expense of long distance sight… thus the myopia.