6 Free Easy Ways to Improve Your Vision

6 Free Easy Ways to Improve Your Vision

1. The Belief Placebo
Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer proved that by simply helping a person believe they would see better manifested that intention into reality. Interestingly, the scenario also worked when a typical eye chart was reversed, so instead of starting out large and getting smaller, the smaller letters were on the top.  The researchers wrote:

“Because letters get progressively smaller on successive lines, people expect that they will be able to read the first few lines only. When participants viewed a reversed chart and a shifted chart, they were able to see letters they could not see before. Thus, mind-set manipulation can counteract physiological limits imposed on vision.”

Your first step to recovery is believing it is possible. The more you set your mind on this fact, and then take steps to enhance your vision naturally, the more likely it is to become a reality.

2. Relieve Your Stress
Your eyes suffer directly from the amount of stress. When your mind is under a strain you eye usually goes more or less blind. Your center of sight goes blind first, partially or completely, according to the degree of the strain, and if the strain is great enough the whole or the greater part of your retina may be involved.

When your eye possesses central fixation it not only possesses perfect sight, but it is perfectly at rest and can be used indefinitely without fatigue. It is open and quiet; no nervous movements are seen. In other words, there are no muscular insufficiencies.
Natural relaxation, the kind without the use of drugs or alcohol, will help you to see better. Addressing the things that contribute to your stress is key to help you recover your vision.

3. Relax Your Thoughts
Your blood and circulation are highly impacted by your thoughts. When the circulation in your brain is normal, and not excited, the supply of blood to your optic nerve and your visual centers are normal, and your vision is perfect. Your circulation is disturbed when your thoughts are abnormal. Then your circulation is disturbed, the supply of blood to your optic nerve and visual centers is altered, and the acuity of your vision is lessened.
Obviously you cannot “make” yourself see, but by learning to control your thoughts, you can help yourself to see better.  Just as you can consciously think thoughts that disturb your circulation and lower your visual power, you can also consciously think thoughts that will restore normal circulation and thereby improve refraction errors and many other abnormal conditions of your eyes.

True relaxation is never a result of effort.  As long as you think, consciously or unconsciously, that relief from strain may be obtained by effort, your improvement will be delayed.  If the relaxation is only momentary, the correction is momentary. When it becomes permanent, the correction is permanent.

The fact is that when your mind is at rest nothing can tire your eyes, and when your mind is under a strain nothing can rest them.

4. Nourish Your Eyes
Eat plenty of foods containing lutein: spinach, broccoli, zucchini, peas.
Increase your intake of omega-3s; krill oil is a great choice. Raw egg yolks contain zeaxanthin and lutein. Consume plenty of raw vegetables.  And the fun part, lots of fruits, especially dark berries such as blueberries and black berries. Avoid processed foods.  Give up foods containing trans fats.

5. Throw Away Your Sunglasses
There are more than 1500 wavelengths of light that you need to nourish your eyes.  You can't get them if you're always wearing those sunglasses.  When your eyes don't receive this solar nourishment they will become progressively malnourished and worsen your eyesight.

Of course sunglasses are necessary for extreme and short term circumstances.  These would include skiing down a mountain or boating on a bright sunny day where the snow or water where the increased reflection is potentially harmful.  Otherwise, get yourself a hat to keep the sun out of your eyes but not block any of the helpful sunshine.

6. The Bates Method
Dr. William Bates, who died in 1931, was a pioneering medical doctor and ophthalmologist. He was a maverick who dedicated his life to learning why people develop eyesight problems. 

Dr. Bates' alternative approach was so effective and a threat to the traditional eye community, that leading eye specialists in the 1900s manipulated New York politicians into making it illegal. They simply could not tolerate the competition from his new approach.  The Bates Method is still outlawed by New York State, amazingly enough!

Dr. Bates believed, and proved, that the most common vision problems are not irreversible. Chronic tension in some or all of your six extrinsic eye muscles is the culprit. These muscles can be retrained to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and presbyopia.

His natural vision program requires just a few minutes a day of easy practice.  These are not eye exercises.  His program focuses on relaxation, mental reframing and perspective shifting. This combination of simple yet powerful methods of vision retraining can help you to see better naturally.

When your mind is under a strain you eye usually goes more or less blind. Your center of sight goes blind first, partially or completely, according to the degree of the strain, and if the strain is great enough the whole or the greater part of your retina may be involved.

When your eye possesses central fixation it not only possesses perfect sight, but it is perfectly at rest and can be used indefinitely without fatigue. It is open and quiet; no nervous movements are seen. In other words, there are no muscular insufficiencies.

Two Techniques to Try:

1. Close your eyes and rest them, remembering some color, like black or white that you can remember perfectly. Keep them closed until they feel rested, or until the feeling of strain has been completely relieved. Now open them and look at the first word or letter of a sentence for a fraction of a second. If you have been able to relax, partially or completely, you will have a flash of improved or clear vision, and the area seen best will be smaller.

After opening your eyes for this fraction of a second, close them again quickly, still remembering the color, and keep them closed until they again feel rested. Then again open them for a fraction of a second.  Continue this alternate resting of the eyes and flashing of the letters for a time, and you may soon find that you can keep your eyes open longer than a fraction of a second without losing the improved vision.

If your trouble is with distant instead of near vision, use the same method with distant letters. In this way you can demonstrate for yourself the fundamental principle of the cure of imperfect sight by treatment without glasses.

2. "Palming" is one of the most relaxing things you can do for your eyes.  This is one of the Bates Method techniques to help you relax and sharpen your vision. He concluded from his study and treatment of thousands of eyes that tight muscles actually contort the eyes and restrict circulation. He found that palming helps those muscles relax and let go.

   1. Rest your elbows comfortably on a table or desk.
   2. Cover your eyes with your cupped palms as shown. Add a pillow under your elbows if more height is needed to keep your back relaxed and straight.
   3. Breathe deeply while you palm for a few minutes.

Resting your eyes from all light stimulation is an integral part of Dr. Bates' program. 

Palming just a few minutes in the morning, at night, or while at work can be very restful. Many of those who practice regular palming report clearer vision and a reduction of symptoms such as headaches and dry eyes.

Thanks to www.mercola.com

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