Laser Vision

There are several eye strengthening exercises which will teach you how to get perfect vision without glasses. Lenses such as glasses and contacts are often too easily prescribed by ophthalmologists when some simple eye exercises will greatly improve or cure your eye ailment. Once we start wearing lenses our eyes begin to depend on them and there will come a point when you feel you can’t do without them.

One simple exercise you can use to improve your vision is called the dot exercise. It works on the realisation that our eyes only work to their full potential when they are relaxed and allowed to be mobile. In reality, our day to day lives sometimes limit the amount of movement they get which results in a lot of staring and squinting which are the most damaging things we can do to our eyes.

For example, a child in school spends most of the day being forced to take in lots of uninteresting information. When we are made to do this it tires the mind which in turn strains our eyes. It is vitally important that our eyes are given regular breaks in which to relax and focus on objects further away than books and computer screens.

To do the Dot exercise, find a period or comma on the page and focus on making it as clear as possible. Stare at the period until it comes into focus. Chances are after a few seconds the period will actually became less clear and blurry. Now, try it again but first relax your eyes. Close them for a moment and picture the period in your mind. When you open your eyes do not stare directly at it, but instead let your eyes move around the general area of the period on the page, remember to blink as normal, and you will find that once your eyes are relaxed you will see the period much more clearly.

Dr Bates championed vision improvement and devised many different techniques which he claimed improved a patient’s eyesight. He claimed that strain on the eyes to see was infinite, and he devised a method of relieving the strain.

He particularly explained that a set approach would not work for everyone, and so Dr. Bates became a well known alternative therapist. This is still widely practiced today.

He used techniques designed to dissociate strain and then achieve central seeing; which is the central point of vision omitting staring. He claimed that all errors of refraction and disturbances of function disappear when the eyes see by central fixation; and if there were any other associated conditions they too would be relieved. He also stated that exposing the eyes to sunlight would improve vision.

Medical associates have criticized Dr. Bates methodology and have stated what negative consequences could occur if patients followed the protocol; especially if their eyes are over exposed to sunlight. They also stated that it would be negligent to not wear corrective lenses while driving and would worsen or even cause serious implications to the eyes.

One of his techniques to vision improvement was closing the eyes which would help relax them; the patient would cover their eyes with their palms applying no pressure at all to the eyeballs. The theory behind this method was to eliminate light creating total relaxation of the eyes. Although some patients stated that they have illusions of light and colour; Bates claimed these would totally disappear when the eyes were relaxed.

The Bates Association for Vision Education are qualified professionals that teach the Bates method for vision improvement. The teachers mostly work with children, but offer individual lessons to adults.

Workshops and lectures as well as training are offered on an ongoing basis. Pupils are taught how to improve their eyesight without having corrective surgery; as well as teaching how to increase the chances of eliminating degenerative eye disease. Black lettering is used as well as the swing method to help correct vision.

It is debatable as to whether these methods really work; or maybe it is mind over matter and those that claim that there is improvement could be purely from “autosuggestion”. Dr. Bates and vision improvement has no solid evidence of proof that this therapy actually works. However, many individuals claim that it does.