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:
Vision Exercises For Newbies
Vision Improvement Principles
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.
How To Improve Your Eyesight
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.