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.

People improved their eyesight often tell me that the world seems “flatter” for some reason when they wore glasses. Thinking back, I also had the same experience.

You see, when you wear glasses, the world seems less 3-D. It’s more like a photograph sometimes… I know this is difficult to grasp but hear me out.

When I first looked into imprving my eyesight naturally several years ago, I read a paragraph that, simple as it may sound, is somehow enlightening.

Here’s what it says: When you move, your surrounding should appear to be moving in the opposite direction.

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.

Did you know that your iris enlarge when you see someone or something attractive? And that they shrink when you see someone or something unattrative?

I know, it sounds cruel but the fact is, your body literally wanted to see less of ugly things and/or people.

This phenomenon implies that there’s a very strong connection between your mind and your sight. Studies have shown that your eyes react to what your mind thinks.

In other words, your iris enlarge when you’re fantasizing… and your iris shrink when you’re having nightmares. Your eyes don’t rest when you are asleep. It “sees” whatever is in your mind.

Resting their eyes is one those crucial activities most people don’t do. I admit that I often forget about them too.

But I can tell you that doing any near point activities, for a prolonged period of time, is harmful for you eyes. That includes staring at your monitor, watching tv, cooking, housework, reading and so on. You get the idea.

The rule is to dedicate 1 minute to rest your eyes for every 10 minutes of work. I generally opt to rest 3 minutes for every 30 minutes.

When it comes to rebuilding vision, I’ve always recommended a holistic approach.As you might have known, supplements is crucial in helping your eyes work the way nature intended to.

But no matter how much vision improving supplements you gulp down, if you body cannot efficiently absorb and make use of it, it’s all a waste. Believe it or not, it occurs more often than not. Notice how you are consuming all those multi-vitamins and eating a healthy diet doesn’t seem to help improve your health… or it takes a very long time to have an effect?