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?

But the truth is, your brain is the one that causes the window to be wrong in the first place. Why? Because it adapts to the environment you’re in. If you’re spending most of your time doing close range work, and you’re always under a lot of stress, then your brain will adapt and send signals to your eyes to make it myopic.

The key to natural vision correction, therefore, is not in correcting the eyes. It’s in correcting the brain. For starters, here’s what you can do:

1. As much as possible, get rid of stress. People who are stressed have higher incidence of eye problems.
2. Try to focus on one task at a time. Studies have shown that multi-tasking decreases productivity and places unnecessary strain on your eyes.
3. For every 50 minutes of work that you do, palm for 10 minutes. This eye exercise is a great way to rest and restore your eyes.

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?

Strain. Unnatural way of seeing places strain on your eyes and thus deteriorates them. Some examples would include staring and leering. These habits are also enforced by the norms of the current society. Think about it. Stress, multi-tasking and poor nutrition are just some of the things that can directly be traced to poor vision.

Strain, of course, causes the eye muscles to get tensed chronically. The goal of eye exercises, therefore, is not to “strengthen” the muscles of the eyes. On the contrary, the goal is to relax them.

Repetition is the mother of all skills. If you do something enough times, you’ll eventually master it. Eye exercises are designed to simulate proper vision habits. If you do them enough times, you’ll eventually learn how to see to correctly subconsciously.

And before you know it, your vision would have improved.

Now, some people will inevitably ask if strain causes vision to deteriorate, then why doesn’t it improve when you sleep? The reason is simple: Because the strain is chronic. It’s just like a cramp on any part of your body. Does it heal when you sleep? No!

In fact, they often get worse! To cure the cramp, you’ll have to relax the muscle. The same principle applies to improve vision.

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”.

Even the Pope did that.

If you were an astronomer at that time, the belief of that day would have prevented you from discovering the truth… even though you intuitively know there’s a problem there. Why? Because the very definition of astronomy is the study of how the sun circled earth. That’s a fundamental assumption that everyone accepts.

And that assumption was made way back in ancient by Aristotle, the man who invented the calendar. For thousands of years, even as man progressed in the field of science, no one ever questioned it. Until, of course, a man by the name of Nicolas Copernicus came along and theorized otherwise.

Galileo merely used his invention, the terrestrial telescope to prove it; he did not discovered it. Having the proof he needed, he publicized his finding.

But guess what the Pope did? He threathened Galielo of imprisonment because his findings is “inconsistent with the bible’s teachings (which is entirely untrue). Dismayed and afraid, Galileo kept quiet… until, of course, the Pope died and was replaced with the next Pope.

And by a stroke of luck (or so he thought), the guy who next became Pope was his college room mate. So guess what? Thinking he’s now safe, he released his findings once more. Because, hey, he’s my friend. He won’t persecute me right?

Boy, was he wrong. This time, Galileo wasn’t just asked to keep quiet. He was placed under house arrest and tried for heresy… until the day of his death.

So what has this got to do with eye exercises?

Do you see the many similarities of that story with the optometry industry today?

There’s a belief that the only way to improve your eyesight is through laser eye surgery or you have to wear glasses your whole life. If you go to a conventional optometrists, you’ll never learn the truth either. If you felt that there’s something wrong with the norms of today, do something about it! Try the alternative. Try eye exercises.

If it doesn’t work, at least you can say that you’ve given it your all. At least you’re not just a sheep following a blind shepherd!

And if you think the people in power today wouldn’t allow that to happen to you… read that story again! The people in power always try to stay in power by denouncing a revolutionary breakthrough. That’s just the way it always has been. Why? Because revolutions affect the people in power the most.

Imagine the change eye exercises would bring to the optometry industry if it was made mainstream… I don’t know about you, but I’d say the government, optometry associations and even rich people with businesses in the optometry industry would hate it!

If you still don’t believe that eye exercises, click here for the numerous verifiable testimonials. Don’t be just another astronomer. Be the Galileo of your time.

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.

I’ve done several on the subject. So what I’ll do here is refer you to them. Read these:

1. How Imagination helps improve eyesight
2. Simple habits to improve vision
3. Get Better Eyesight by Resting Your Eyes
4. Can Blessed Herbs Help Your Rebuild Your Vision?
5. Eye strengthening exercises

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.

Yet every day, we try to control our eyes. Controlling our sense of sight is a harmful practice and if done enough times, your eyes can adapt to fit into what you want – turning it into a chronic condition. And that is how most of us are inflicted with myopia.

The key to perfect vision, therefore, is relaxation. What I meant by “relaxation”, is not sitting down and doing nothing. I mean letting your natural instincts to take over so you don’t have to consciously control what you see. I know it sounds easier said than done and that’s why you’re here.

As with any good habit you want to pick up, seeing naturally is something you have to consciously practice first before you subconscious picked up the habit. The easiest way to do this is to do the eye “exercises” in the Rebuild Your Vision Program. These “exercises” are designed to mimic the natual way our  eyes are supposed to function in.

Follow the course for around 90 days or so and you’ll definitely see SOME result. Don’t worry, the program comes with a 12 month guarantee so if for some reason it doesn’t work for you, simply ask for a refund.

Photo by Kyle May

For those of you who are in the know, you should by now know that glasses are actually bad for your eye. If you ever want to rebuild your vision, you should wear it only if it’s absolutely necessary for you to.

For those of you with really bad eyesight, that would be a problem. I know it was for me. My eyesight was -5.00, I couldn’t even see the text in the monitor without leaning forward.

So what did I do? I sought for a natural alternative… and I found it. You see, this alternative is so inexpensive, it’d be financial suicide for big businesses to let you know about it… let alone endorse it.

It’s called a pinhole glasses. Pinhole glasses is essentially a glasses with pin holes instead of lenses.

What it does is it focus light rays into one point… just like a healthy eye would, making your vision clearer without the use of lenses. Except for the strange looks, it’s the perfect alternative because it doesn’t strain your eye.

I definitely don’t recommend wearing it in public places but for the rest of the time, you should definitely switch to it. Note: It does require a little adaptation.

If you want to find out more about pinhole glasses, do a Google search about it and you should find tons of website about it. I don’t want to insert a link here and make you think I’m just trying to promote a website.

How do I know it works? Because I did it myself. For now, the blog is still under construction so keep your eyes peeled!