Guest guest Posted January 10, 2001 Report Share Posted January 10, 2001 Dear Steve, Interesting post. Dr. Mason told us that to improve vision by exercise: 1) Cut a piece of string about 10' long 2) Crumple up some aluminum foil into balls and attach them around the string every foot. 3) Attach the far end of the string to a ceiling fixture or top of a book case. 4) Sit in a chair or couch and pull the string tight so that the balls of foil are suspended in the air in a line away from you. 5) Focus your eyes on the farthest ball. Then focus on the next nearest ball. Then continue the process, focusing perfectly on each ball in order until the closest one to you 6) Then repeat in reverse order, focusing on the closest one, then the next farthest, etc. all the way to the farthest one. 7) Do the whole exercise, far to near and back, five times 8) Repeat every day Using this technique, he said that he had helped many people to improve their vision to the point where they could throw away their glasses. He said that lactic acid would build up and crystallize on the six muscles that control the shape of the eye for focusing. This exercise helped to break off the lactic acid crystals and allow the muscles to focus the eye properly. He had them do some ozone ear insufflation for the worst cases, to help with removal of the lactic acid. Best of Health! Dr. Saul Pressman, DCh Re: Re: here's cayenne in your eye > 13 years ago I reduced my prescription from 20/600 to 20/200 using the > methods of Gloria Ginn, who teaches vision improvement in LA area. Bates > method mostly, but also some original ideas there. Now, at age 54, I often > get 20/20 flashes for long periods. > > Some of her methods I will briefly share: as you take a walk, notice > movement. Instead of hard focusing from point to point, keep an " open focus " > seeing large " chunks " of the visual field. As you walk everything is moving > relative to everything else. The fire hydrant you walk by is rotating, > apparently, and moving laterally relative to the house behind, the trees in > the distance are moving relative to each other, and the houses, etc. This > little exercise seems simple but is very powerful, I can get vertigo if I do > it too much. > > Young kids and wild animals live in a world of movement like that. Only we > adults learn to stare and hard focus due to computer use, TV, reading books, > etc. In addition to the eye exercises from the video, and eye drops, it is > extremely useful to adapt some little changes in daily activities that will > help the process. Some examples -- some of these ideas come from my > Feldenkrais work, the Bates Method, Gloria Ginn, and just things I have read. > I'd like to share some of these: > > 1) Visiting with people, notice the periphery and behind them moving. There > is always some movement of them releative to your head. Yes, eye contact is > good, you don't want to be shifty eyed, but -- look through and deep into > their " essence " as you do this, don't stare at their eyeballs!! You look > through and into their eyes with a " soft-hard " focus, looking with the heart, > not the eyes. That is actually rude; all animals in nature, including us > people,row or do any skilled activity, like hitting a golf ball, while > staring. Always go quickly into soft open focus as you move the limbs to do > such things. Staring immobilizes the musculature and makes such activites > impossible to do well. For instance, to throw a stone at a tree. Pick up > stone, see tree and everything in soft open focus, then prepare to throw, > going through the motions mentally first and cock the arm. Just before the > throw, hard focus for a half second only -- this " calibrates " the musculutare > to be accurate. Then you forget the hard focus, the worry about how to be > accurate, and just let the body throw in " open focus eyes " . You will be > amazed at your accuracy. > > 3) Reading should be done with a mobile head, done some kind of little > movement. All of us were taught to read by being told not to move the head > left and right to read the print. Any child will do this, unless instructed > otherwise. Why? Because there is a deep, primal, even genetic, program that > dictates that the head will turn where the eyes and curiousity go. This is > certainly a survival mechanism, among other things. The first grade teacher > violates that by telling the child " No, Jonny, keep the head still as you > read. Don't turn head. Your eyes can move faster than your head. You will > never learn to read fast if you do that " . By saying that, the teacher just > almost guaranteed the child will have a tense neck --- for life --- including > reduced circulation to head, brain, eyes. Probably will have a stroke later > in life 20 years earlier than otherwise also. Bottom line: YES, it is true > you don't want to turn head with each line. But that DOES NOT MEAN to > rigidigy the neck, holding it stiffly straight ahead. Nothing could be worse > for the eyes. You let the head do a little dance. Relax the neck. Tense neck, > for one thing, means you cut off some blood circulation to eyes. Notice on TV > the speed reader advertisement: they are doing a little juggle movement of > head as they speed read. > > 4) Sit up front in movies, more eyeball movement, less staring. This, from > Gloria Ginn. She tells all her clients this, to see lots of movies, but sit > right up front. If you can't dod this, start by going closer one row at a > time, or something. How close you are comfortable is a measure of how much > you stare. Staring people will always want back row. (a > generalization/oversimplification not always true, for exampe far sighted > people...). > > 5)Minimize computer and TV time. They create habit of staring. If > unavoidable....often shift gaze to periphery of computer screen. Look near an > far often. Because, TV especially creates the illusion of depth perception > but does not require the focusing muscles of the eyes to work. So the habit > can be acquired of forgetting how to easily focus near to far. This is a way > to cultivate nearsightedness. By the way, ph Chilton Pierce, author of > THE MAGICAL CHILD etc, now with Radio Free Maine, recently cited a study in > which children age 8 or so were tested on a little story to read. Hard copy > reading: they scored 80 percent. By audio, they scored 70 percent or a little > less. Projecting the page on a 35 mm projection screen, scores were 40 > percent. Put the same material on a computer screen, and you get scores of > TEN PERCENT. > The scientists doing this study theorized this was because computers and TV > give out DIRECT LIGHT which is something the brain does not accept willingly. > In evolution, for example, everything always is seen in direct light. Except > starlight, the one exception. You don't look directly into the sun, or you > go blind. You dont' look direclty into fire at night, this compromises night > vision, this gives a negative survival value. > So -- if you want to learn a language, etc, DON'T use the computer to do it. > Eschew on line education. minimize computer time. You can't improve vision, > if there is a primitive part of the brain that is constantly telling > you...this is direct light, this is dangerous, etc. > > 6) Before bed especially spend a couple minutes doing work with eyes to > eliminate the stare. many ways to do this from Bates Method, Feldenkrais. > Elephant swing. Palming. Rolling head as you lie on back, seeing room move > back and forth, just 30 seconds of that will do it. Close eyes an imagine > movement, any kind of movement , as you drift off to sleep. If you go to > sleep in visual stare-lockdown, you will guaranteed be prone to insomnia, > because staring is only done in nature in moments of great stress, and > readiness to fight or flee. Releasing the stare before sleep is better than > sleeping pills, trust me. > > 7) Driving a car; see the periphery, to each side, flying by. Keep it open, > and check your mirrors often. Don't let yourself just keep staring at the > road in front with not movement of head, neck, eyes. > > 8) Find a way to include in your daily life some activity or exercise that is > NOT " straight ahead " . Straight ahead means stair steppers, bicycle, running, > rowing machine, nordic track, most weight machines, etc etc. Even swimming. > Activities that encourage turning the head include slow walking, looking > around. Basketball. Tennis. martial arts. Dancing. Most health clubs have > very little, if any, machines etc that would encourage or require even a > slight turning of the head. All this engenders staring. Now, health clubs > even have TV's up above. To further make us Stare!! Avoid those places like > the plague. > > 9) When doing eye exercises of any kind, feel the back of the head (this, > from Gloria Ginn). Eyes have tiny movements hundreds of times per second. If > this movement is not interferred with the eyes " sparkle " or " dance " which is > what you see in little kids sometimes and rarely, in adults or young people. > It is very attractive and magnetic and desireable. Anytime you voluntary > control the eyes, this sparkle is guaranteed GONE. As in, Look up, look down, > look to the left, etc. Sometimes such abuse is taught as vision imprvement in > yoga classes etc. It is a mechanical voluntary over control of the eyes that > nature NEVER intended. The eyes are motivated to move around by CURIOUSITY > and INTEREST and IMAGINATION. So instead of telling yourself to " look left " > " make circles " etc instead imagine a little object or black dot or whatnot > moving left or circles in your visual field. The eyes will automatically go > with what the imagination creates. > > you can do a quick self test to see how much you turn the head. As you sit > here reading this, pause and turn your head far to the left or right for 10 > seconds. How comfortable was that? When was the last time you did that? Neck > unwillin to turn means tendency to have staring eyes. Staring eyes means > tunnel vision and tunnel brain. Meaning -- tendency to overspecialize and > over intellectualize. People like that-- can become CEO of a major > corporation for example by " hard focus tunnel vision brain " and not even be > AWARE that things they do contribute to destruction of environement etc. > This tendency begins by placing baby in carriage rather than being carried as > in native cultures. In a carriage, with the bucket seat, baby has to work > hard to turn head, > > I read a book once, forget the title, in which the author contended western > civiliation is destroying the planet (no news here) because the children are > not carried by mothers. All other cultures -- through history, that did NOT > tend to destroy the planet, with reverence for the earth etc - mothers > carried babies for LONG TIME. When carried as a baby, you get a " roller > coaster ride " all the time. Everything moves..while in the comfort and safety > of Mother's embrace. So movement and open focus becomes natural. Western > culture cultivates the stare. If you are pursuing vision improvement, it is > essential to be aware of this. > > Sorry for the long post, hope it is useful. It is a topic close to my heart, > that I have long taught classes on, and employ in my own life. > > Steve Hamlin > > OxyPLUS is an unmoderated e-ring dealing with oxidative therapies, and other alternative self-help subjects. > > THERE IS NO MEDICAL ADVICE HERE! > > This list is the 1st Amendment in action. The things you will find here are for information and research purposes only. We are people sharing information we believe in. If you act on ideas found here, you do so at your own risk. Self-help requires intelligence, common sense, and the ability to take responsibility for your own actions. By joining the list you agree to hold yourself FULLY responsible FOR yourself. 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Guest guest Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Eye Exercises From Wong, Natural Remedy for Eye Strain? Eye exercises are widely promoted as a way to improve vision naturally. Although there's no evidence that they can correct any visual problem such as nearsightedness or farsightness, some people who work on computers all day find them helpful to relieve or prevent eye strain. Once you've memorized the routine, you can easily do it throughout the day. Here's how to do it: Sit at the edge of your chair with your back straight. Close your eyes and place the palm of each hand over an eye, so you feel your palms warming your eyes. Remove your hands, keeping your eyes closed. Inhale deeply through your nose. Exhale and let your head drop forward then rotate it from side to side. Shrug your shoulders, making circles with them forward and backward. Close your eyes tightly and lift and tighten your shoulders as much as you can. Hold for a few seconds and then exhale, suddenly releasing your shoulders and opening your eyes. Repeat this several times. Blink repeatedly, fluttering your eyelids until your eyes become moist. Repeat this several times. Breathing naturally, focus on an object far away from you for about half a minute. Try to maintain your focus, then blink rapidly several times. Then focus on a nearby object for about 15 seconds. Try to maintain your focus, then blink rapidly several times. This exercise is designed to help counteract the tendency to squint. With your eyes half-open, look up while exhaling. This exercise helps the extrinsic muscles that move the eyes. Try to keep your head straight and in line with your spine. Roll your eyes into all of the directions below while exhaling: UpwardDownwardTo the rightTo the leftUp to the right at 45 degreesUp to the left at 45 degreesDown at 45 degrees to the rightDown at 45 degrees to the left Hold each of the above positions for a few seconds and then return your eyes to the center while you inhale. Again trying to keep your head straight, look straight ahead at an object. Exhale and look from side to side without turning your head. Now try to exhale and turn your head from side to side several times letting your eyes follow the head movement. Then turn your upper body from side to side and let your eyes follow. Place your palms over your eyes to warm them. When you are ready, remove them and open your eyes. Updated: February 6, 2008 http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/illnesswellness/a/eyestrain.htm Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Mobile. Try it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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