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.

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.

In my previous post, I talked about the  link between our mind and our eyes. What you see goes into your brain (mind) and you think is really also what you see.

Now, there’s a way to make use of this link to your advantage. Many alternative eyesight improvement teachers teaches their students to palm and imagine an image that you like – or something that relaxes you. For example, a sunny beach or perhaps your baby.

Anything will do so as long as it makes you happy.

Naturally improving vision is one of those thorny issues. It’s true that you can do it, but it affects the people “at the top”.

You see, back in 2005, when I started to look for an alternative to glasses due to mockery, I find myself questioning the assumption I’ve always had.

The assumption that “myopia is genetic”. I was told that this is the case, and I’ve always taken it for granted.

I’ve never question its validity. What I found in my search for an alternative shocked me to my very core. I’ve never thought that naturally improving vision naturally is… not only is it possible, it’s actually quite painless.

The sun might the key to improve your eyesight naturally but how many times have you heard that the sun is bad for you? Not only are you told that the sun causes melanoma (skin cancer), it also causes cataracts and a host of other diseases.

So did people do? They put on lots of sunscreen and wear their sunglasses every time they see a ray of sunlight. What happens then?

The number of these diseases, allegedly caused by sun, increases! In fact, the incidence of cataracts are expected to triple in the next half century. Now that’s strange. Why do you think it’s so?

Since this is my first post in this blog, I want to start from the most basic – and fundamental – concept is you desire to rebuild your vision naturally.

This is step 1. Anything that you do in your effort to rebuild your vision will be discounted if you don’t do this first.

What is it? Well, the very first thing you need to do is don’t wear your glasses! Or at least reduce the time you use it. Let me just caution you here: Though any reasonable person would have figured this out by themselves, I should still tell you to wear your glasses when you are driving or doing anything potentially dangerous!