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Have you ever noticed that when you cut your finger -  the blood comes out of it. You also know that it will heal eventually because our body has this great natural restoration power. Now, you can put the bandage to help it heal or just wait till it will stabilize and the wound will disappear.  So the question is can your eyesight improve the same way ? 

For some reason glasses ( bondage ) does not heal the wound ( restore your vision) . However, If you have pretty bad eye sight , your still can get your perfect eyes back. All you need to do is certain exercises to help your vision improve naturally. My grandmother is a great example.

 At the age of 60 she stopped using her glasses for half a year.  She was committed to getting her clear vision back and her efforts were successful ( that happened when she stayed with us in the United States).  However, later on, I visited her in Ukraine and saw her wearing glasses again. 

She got back into the habit of putting on her glasses and her eyesight returned back to her "normal". That was her decision and I respect that. After all, you can't force anyone to do anything, one has to genuinely desire to succeed. 

So, let's take a look how did she achieve better vision without glasses ? 

We will leave my grandmother for second and get acquainted with Honest Eye-care physician William Bates (1860–1931).
 ( free book you can download here ). He was an ophthalmologist in the New York area who taught himself to overcome his presbyopia ("farsightedness") and then proceeded to refine  the techniques he developed for himself to help others to learn to see without the aid of lenses. 

Initially, Dr. Bates thought he was in the business of helping people. He prescribed glasses to his patients but he could not understand - none of the glasses improved their eyesight. After all  William Bates observed patients coming back for stronger glasses...
 
Some of the people would call Mr. Bates  and report their glasses lost or broken.  In 19th century glasses were expensive, so patients would spend a month or two without them.

 Upon their arrival to his office, Mr. Bates would check their eyesight and discover that it improved drastically.  After 30 years of experimenting he concluded that without glasses eyesight improves due to the eye muscles getting exercises.  

Mr. Bates concluded that Helmholtz theory is inaccurate (eye - care physicians around the world have been prescribing the glasses for over 200 years according to Helmholtz theory). 

What about my grandmother? What did she do ? Well, it was the combination of both : physical and mental preparedness to " fix her vision". I admired how she was screaming : "  I CAN SEE!!! "  while looking on the chart  (you can download free eye charts here ). She stopped using her glasses and at the beginning I did not think something can come out of it, but later when I caught her reading the book without glasses ( which was unheard for her)  I was very happy :) 

She proved to me that even 60 years old lady with "huge glasses" can change something if she really wants.  I can testify that environment here in United States was more suitable for her - she could do vision exercises  ( she did not watch TV since it was in English). Plus we encouraged her to try it out.

So, gradually after 4 month of practise  she could see such small text that she was "shocked" too :)  Of course after my grandmother left to Ukraine, and got back to her TV watching habit, she became more passive - I guess that is what TV does with people. I am glad I quit watching it in 2001 ( 11 years and counting ) . Actually, thanks to quitting TV you are reading this article - I build website and my commitment is helping as many human beings as I can. Not watching TV really helps me to be productive and create content that people find valuable.

All right, so let's get back to improving your vision. 
Please, visit resources page where I prepared free eBooks, free eye charts, exercises and other helpful tools for you to succeed in improving your eyesight.  

If you are looking for inspiration, here's an article on how one man successfully conquered his myopia. This man's life  taught him that the medical community, no matter how much they insist you submit to their care, actually know very little about the workings of the human body. 

He became predisposed to distrust these and other authorities when it comes to proclamations concerning the abilities and inabilities of the human organism  :) - sounds like me.

You may want to read why your eyesight is getting worse where I analyse the relationship between the glasses and myopia. Also you will be surprised to learn that optometrists were VERY against spectacles when they were not so widely prescribed. So it is an interesting read. 

   

    

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