Improve Your Vision – Without Glasses

Eye care is essential for the serious condition of strabismus.

Strabismus, or cross-eyes, is caused by an unequal pull on the muscles of the eyeball so that the two eyes are not directed toward the same point at the same time. This lack of fusion causes many distressing physical conditions, such as insomnia, intense fatigue, even nausea and gastric disturbances. It is usually accompanied by an intense sensation of sleepiness when one attempts to read.

The personality effects of this kind of tension appear particularly in children who are often ill-tempered and highly nervous.

In most cases of crossed eyes, the sufferer sees better with one eye than with the other. Because of the inability to fuse properly, the stronger eye becomes stronger, while the weaker eye grows weaker until it loses the sense of sight.

Babies frequently develop crossed eyes soon after birth, though it more commonly appears in the third or fourth year; the condition is sometimes acquired in later life as a result of mental or physical strain or a sudden, severe emotional shock or some serious illness.

The orthodox treatment for cross-eyes is glasses, often with prisms incorporated in them, or an operation. In operating, one muscle is cut and another is tied and they are left this way. No vision is built up in the center and the eye constantly struggles to get back to its crossed position where it built up a false center of vision on the retina. Naturally, the eye attempts to get back into the position where
it sees best. This constant struggle results in continual nerve strain which wreaks havoc with the patient’s nervous system.

The visual eye correction method is to build up the nerves in the center of vision and relax the tense muscle so that the eye will naturally come back to its right position.

In correcting cross-eyes in very young children, patch the good eye so that the child will be compelled to use the one that is crossed and thus stimulate its functional activity. At first this is apt to upset the child and the patch should be removed at the end of a few minutes (if he is only a baby or toddler); at the end of an hour if he is older. In time it should be left on all day.

With two Chinese chopsticks (or long knitting needles) and two pencils for our equipment we are going to do the X and V drills.

X AND V DRILLS

Hold a chopstick horizontally with thumb and forefinger of the left hand. The stick should be on a level with the eyes, the point toward the nose at right angles to a line connecting the two eyes, and the other tilted slightly upward. Cross the chopstick vertically with a pencil.

Slowly move the pencil back and forth, focusing the eye on the point of intersection. You should get the illusion of the stick forming an X with the point of crossing where chopstick and pencil touch.

Move the pencil to the top of the chopstick and you get the illusion of a V with the apex at the far end and the sides of the letter opening toward your face.

These drills are excellent to train eyes in correct fusion habits and give eye sight improvement. If the squint is pronounced, it will be difficult at first to get the illusions of the X and the V. Do not overdo the exercise and fatigue the eyes. At first your eye muscles may have a drawing sensation. Stop the exercises and alternate with a period of relaxation.

Blink often to avoid staring and to relieve tension.

After practicing the eye exercises for a few days you will begin to get the proper images. As the muscles start to limber up, you will experience great relief and comfort in your eyes. If you do these eye correction exercises in the morning, you will loosen up tense muscles and induce better fusion during the day.

Improve Your Vision And Get Throw Your Glasses Away

Eyesight improvement is achievable. You can learn to see without glasses and be relieved permanently of the pain and distress so frequently associated with defective sight. But you cannot Improve your vision by magic.

CENTRAL FIXATION

The retina is a sensitive film on which the picture falls. But there is one point on the retina where the vision is perfect; that is the Macula Lutae, a point only one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter in the very center of the retina. When we focus at this point we have what is known as central fixation and our vision is perfect.

If you have lost the capacity of central fixation you are seeing with Eccentric fixation which often causes headaches, fatigue, pain or discomfort of some kind, such as twitching of the eyelids or the eyeballs. This twitching, by the way, can be stopped by pressing the sides of the base of the nose as high as the inner canthus with the forefingers of both hands, avoiding any pressure on the eyeballs. 
Continue the pressure for several minutes, with the eyes closed, and you will obtain relief.

One way of checking on whether you are seeing by central or eccentric fixation is to look at a word on this page. Do you see it most sharply where you are looking or do you see it better when you look a little away from it? When you look at the top of a printed letter do you see the bottom of the letter more clearly than the top? If so, you have lost central fixation.

If you are to see, you must bring your mind to bear on what you see. Because the eye can focus sharply and is at its maximum power only on a very small area at a time, an attempt to see a larger area results in a blurring of physical vision and a lack of mental focus. Teach yourself to look at what you see, to watch one tiny area at a time. For when the central fixation is perfect, the eye sees perfectly.

THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE

For significant eye sight improvement, give the object you are looking at your mental as well as your visual attention. The more clearly it registers on your mind, the more clearly it will register on the eye.

Test this out for yourself. In the room where you are sitting there are probably a dozen objects which you no longer “see” because you are so accustomed to their presence that you are no longer aware of them. Look at each one in turn, not staring, but with quick, easy glances, thinking about what you are regarding. That doorknob-could you have described it before? Now you know its approximate size, contour, the material of which it is made, its relative position on the door, because your mind and not alone your eyes observed it.

Even such a familiar phenomenon as a moving picture gives us what we believe we see rather than what we actually see. A series of still pictures provides us with an illusion of movement.

SEE A SMALL AREA AT A TIME

Instead of staring, trying to take in a whole picture at one time and thus defeating the object of central fixation, look at one small part of the picture, shift your gaze to another small part, and another, blinking naturally all the time. The smaller the area, the more clearly you will see it.

People who have acquired bad seeing habits always try to increase their area of vision by staring, which defeats its own purpose. Staring not only causes muscular tension but a lowering of vision. You can test this for yourself by staring fixedly at an object or a word on this page. After a few moments of this effort the letters lose their sharp clarity and become blurred.

Eyesight improvement can be achieved with consistent time, effort and proper eye health care!