Take your index finger and hold it in front of your face. Focus your eyes on the end, then slowly bring it in towards your nose, maintaining your focus on that single point you selected earlier. Once you have done this, congratulate yourself, you’ve just completed your first Vision Exercise.
Chances are, this isn’t the first time you’ve done this particular eye exercise; it’s pretty common amongst adolescence trying to cross their eyes. But what children don’t realize is that they’re actually training the muscles in their eyes to cross themselves. A similar practice is witnessed in autostereograms, optical illusions such as the Magic Eye, where training the eyes to cross or diverge can reveal 3D images within imperceptibly off-patterned images. These are sometimes confused with stereograms, where two slightly different images are aligned next to each other. Through the use of prisms, they may be used as a single three-dimensional object.
Vision therapy has been in practice for over a hundred years, finding its roots in an effort to cure an affliction known as strabismus. This particular ailment involves a failure of the eyes to properly focus on an object, specific examples of this include lazy eye, wall-eye, cross-eye and is sometimes even diagnosed as dyslexia. Like many other vision problems, curing strabismus is possible through eye exercises.
Today, specialists will utilize ‘experimental’ behavioral vision therapies in order to improve the vision of their patients. However, these eye therapies are not approved by vision insurance and can cost their patients thousands of dollars. This is not to say that they are incapable of using vision therapies to correct eyesight without lenses or surgery, they have shown some amazing results in the field.
There are, however, several copies of the ‘home game’ distributed in sources all around the world. One such product is known as Vision Without Glasses. This program details many eye exercises used to help improve the eye’s functionality with practices based upon motion, coordination and release of strain. While it bases itself on the work of Dr. Bates, much research has brought it further from the earlier beliefs that direct sunlight is good for the eyes. Decades of research have brought the radical beliefs of an unqualified doctor full-scale into a verifiable program guaranteed to improve vision and assist with many physical ailments.
For those considering an alternative to corrective lenses or surgery, eye therapies are a viable option. If you don’t have thousands of dollars, you may want to consider improving your vision through eye exercises in a more affordable program such as Vision Without Glasses.
Regards,
Jared Blake
