1. The first cardinal rule of better vision is to stop wearing glasses. If you can’t see without your glasses, then go get one that’s 2 to 3 degrees weaker than then one you’re prescribed. This allows your eyes to relearn how to see the way nature intended. Glasses are also a source of strain because when the optometrist test your eyesight, he/she is testing it for a fixed distance away. When you wear your glasses to see distances shorter than what’s tested, it produces strain on your eyes because your eyes have to adjust. Unfortunately, most of us spend most of our time seeing things in close distance – things such as TV, monitors and books.

Do you know what’s the 80/20 rule? If so, do you know how it applies to vision therapy?

The 80/20 rule states that for everything that you do, 20% of your effort results in 80% of your achievements, while the rest of the 80% of your effort results in the rest of the 20%. This rule generally applies to any type of endeavour you undertake.

Businesses often generate 80% of their revenue from 20% of their customers. Body builders built 80% their muscles from 20% of their workouts. And people who rebuilt their vision have 20% of the eye exercises to thank for 80% of the result.

In one of the most spectacular research, Anna Gislen discovered how sea gypsies constrict their pupils in deep water instead of the usual reaction to expand them. The difference in constricting the pupils and expanding it, determines whether one could see under water or not.

This research showed just how much your brain affects your sight. Truth is, it’s not you eyes that determines whether you can see or not. It’s your brain.

When one mentions of “vision correction” there’s a tendency to think there’s something wrong with the eyes. Bu did you know that your eyes are the ones actually doing the “seeing”?

They are merely windows in which light rays passes through. These light rays are encoded into brain signals that are sent to the visual cortex (the part of your brain that processes these signals). The brain then decodes those signals and generates the images that you see.

In trying to correct their vision, most people try to fix the window. After all, we’ve often been told that because the window is wrong, light rays landed on the wrong part of the eye. Right?

There’s a reason why stuffing your face with carrots doesn’t hep improving your vision. It’s because few people suffer from bad vision because they did not consume enough vitamin A.

Vitamin A is an abundant vitamin. It’s found both in meat and vegetables. In vegetables, it’s known as beta-carotene, a component that can be converted in vitamin A by your liver.

So if the lack of vitamin A is not the reason why your eyes are deteriorating… then what is?

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.