Eye exercises, bird's eye view, left side - 10/26/10 (Autumn)
Several people have contacted me regarding the eye exercises in these videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-hdj_cUkWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvX0H0fXCA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3OHV9qa9pM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M01lBU3S-6o
and have asked: "Do these exercises improve vision?"
The following letter (with minor variations) is my usual response to anyone who asks this question.
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The eye exercises I demonstrate in my videos are based on the well-known Bates method for improving eyesight. You can find the book easily on Amazon.com by searching for BETTER EYESIGHT WITHOUT GLASSES by William H. Bates. There are several other books with similar titles on Amazon, also by Bates, like THE BATES METHOD FOR BETTER EYESIGHT WITHOUT GLASSES. On Amazon, you can read some of the comments posted by people who bought these books and applied the methodology in their own lives. Some of them threw away their eyeglasses after a while.
Personally, although I am 59 1/2 years old now, I have never worn glasses or contact lenses. I have been doing these exercises daily, for several decades now. They help me maintain good eyesight. I can still see as well as I did during my 20s, 30s, and 40s. The fact that my eyesight has not gotten worse with age is a great accomplishment in and of itself. I am not so much concerned with IMPROVING my eyesight as doing whatever I can to make sure my eyesight does not DETERIORATE prematurely.
The Bates method recognizes that many eye muscles are involved in stretching and compressing elastic eyeballs, to adjust focal lengths for different distances. Wearing eyeglasses tends to "freeze" the focal length of an eyeball at one average distance, causing the muscles that control the lengthening and shortening of the eyeball to ATROPHY FROM DISUSE.
These exercises, which force the eyes to focus on distant objects, then nearby objects, then distant objects again, help exercise and utilize those eye muscles that lengthen and shorten the eyeball.
"Use it, or lose it."
I'm not an eye doctor. I have no way of knowing how much your eye muscles may have already atrophied from disuse, preventing you from focusing clearly upon distant or nearby objects. Or how much elasticity of your eyeballs has already been irreparably lost.
It's quite possible that by doing these types of exercises you'll be able to re-energize and reactivate those important eye muscles, and revive the natural elasticity of your eyeballs.
Read the Bates book, understand the methodology, and try it for yourself. You may find that these types of exercises will help you. Or, you may discover that your eye muscles have already atrophied too much from disuse to be revived by these exercises. Every individual's experience is unique. A lot depends on your own will power to stick to the program, to do the exercises correctly, regularly, with correct intent and understanding, to read an eye chart regularly, etc. Some people may notice improvement, others may not.
Good luck with your explorations.
ChiGuy396
ChiGuy396@yahoo.com
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