OT: Vision Improvement Exercises

[Guest guest]

Hello Katy,

Congratulations on your achievement of improving your sight so dramatically !

It almost sounds like you are minimizing the level of difficulty this entailed

for you, but I tell 'ya - habits are way harder to break and rebuild than just

doing some set excercise x-number of times per day. So, Kudos to you, Girl !

I've done the excercises, don't know which doctor's book it was by. I ordered

it about 5-6 years ago and was very diligent about it for 6 months solid.

Nothing happened.

So, I'd love to hear the vision " habits " you practiced that improved your

vision.

Anyway you could summarize and give us the Clift Notes on it?

Thanks,

Fuzzy-eyed Angel

From: " Katy " <iowakatybug@...>

He believes bad vision is largely bad unconscious habits that need to

be unlearned and good vision habits relearned.

I read about 5 books on the topic, and found Relearning to See to be

the best. I went from -4.00, -4.00 to -2.00, -2.00 in about 2

years. My origional perscription was -2.00, -1.75. There aren't

structured daily exercises, but habits to practice whenever

possible. I didn't do any exercises, but just tried to use the

vision techniques whenever I happened to think about it.

Katy

[Guest guest]

Hi!

I've been looking for my 'eye' books, can can't put my hands on them.

(It's not a vision problem, but a

" I-cleaned-up-and-now-can't-find-anything problem... sigh.) The titles

aren't too relevant anyway, I didn't do the exercises in them for any

length of time. HOWEVER, a main idea in both (both based on the Bates

method) is to wear your glasses as little as possible - ideally not at

all. That worked for me. I was also changing my diet as my eyes

improved (low carb, then NT). I credit both for the improvement.

I don't have numbers, but the last time I went to the eye doctor (2

years ago ?), he said that if my eyes kept improving at this rate my

vision would be perfect next time I came in. Needless to say, I

haven't been back and I don't need or wear my glasses. My vision isn't

perfect yet, but I don't think I've put on my glasses in a year. I

keep an old pair of prescription sun glasses in the car just in case I

get pulled over when driving and the officer asks where my glasses are

(I haven't renewed my license in a while). BTW, I'm 41, and began

wearing glasses for near sightedness when I was 19. The eye doctor was

mildly impressed by the improvement, but still spent a lot of time (in

my indignant view!) checking to see if I needed reading glasses. I had

been changing my diet and eye glass wearing habits for about a year at

that point.

All the best,

Jan

>

> Hello Katy,

>

> Congratulations on your achievement of improving your sight so

dramatically !

>

> It almost sounds like you are minimizing the level of difficulty

this entailed for you, but I tell 'ya - habits are way harder to break

and rebuild than just doing some set excercise x-number of times per

day. So, Kudos to you, Girl !

>

> I've done the excercises, don't know which doctor's book it was by.

I ordered it about 5-6 years ago and was very diligent about it for 6

months solid. Nothing happened.

>

> So, I'd love to hear the vision " habits " you practiced that improved

your vision.

>

> Anyway you could summarize and give us the Clift Notes on it?

>

> Thanks,

> Fuzzy-eyed Angel

[Guest guest]

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>I don't know about the site you posted, but there's a wonderful book out by

> Quackenbush. Sorry I can't recall the title, but the author's name

>should be sufficiently unusual to make a search easy. It helped me (myopia,

>astigmatism), but then I got sidetracked into dietary issues, and I have yet

>to get back to that program.

I have that book -- it's called _Relearning to See_ -- and I also have

_Better Eyesight Without Glasses_ by Bates, which I think is the original

text, but then I got these contact lenses which are safe to wear for 30

days at a time and I never actually read them.

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[Guest guest]

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<I have that book -- it's called _Relearning to See_ -- and I also have

_Better Eyesight Without Glasses_ by Bates, which I think is the original

text,

Quackenbush does say he is building upon the work Bates, and he references

Bates a lot, but I never could follow what I thought (perhaps misunderstood)

the Bates method to be. I always had the idea that Bates was advocating a

strengthening of muscles, and his exercises required more discipline than I

had in those days. In contrast, Quackenbush makes the case for a retraining

based on relaxation and a kind of imaginative playfulness. That is what

worked for me.

<but then I got these contact lenses which are safe to wear for 30

days at a time and I never actually read them.

I wore the regular contacts (all that were available in those days)for about

twenty years, very happily. But then my eyes became very dry (the beginning

of blepharitis) and at the same time I found I could no longer see anything

up close while wearing them. I hope you are able to wear this new kind

forever, but if not--hand onto that Quackenbush book!