I have a bad reputation here for promoting things you can buy. In this case, however, I think you all will be willing to entertain this recommendation.
Over a month ago I bought the Vision For Life programm. This programm is truly amazing, and I can speak from experience that it works.
Most of us, being avid readers especially of wonderful books in classical tongues, have come to wear glasses. Although it is possible that a predisposition to weakness in the eyes may be transmitted genetically, evidence shows us that nearsightedness itself is not an inherited condition. Indeed, just like any other system or muscles in our body, we can exercise and train our eyes to see perfectly.
I arrived at my university almost three years ago, enjoying the sights and all the new people around — yet, I quickly discovered that I could barely make out the faces of people at a distance, especially those I didn’t know. I realized that I had to get glasses. God I hated glasses. I knew it was inevitable, since that day I found my high school medical chart, looking at first grade, fifth grade, all 20/20 scores for my vision … all the way up to the year I got my first computer, whereupon my scores plumetted sharply. I was so unwilling to get glasses; I remember speaking to the ophthomologist all those years ago, asking him what I could do about the problem, knowing that the computer was the culprit. “You’re not likely to stop using the computer any time soon, are you?” he asked me. I shook my head, and I don’t remember what he responded with, only that it was self-evident that there was no possibility for reversal.
One of the things I had already known about my vision was that one eye would be stronger than the other on different days. However, the day I went to Pearl Vision to get my first glasses, it seems my right eye was weaker than the left, for the stronger perscription in the right lens fixed my right eye in a permanently weaker state, which I despised for the following year. Since my vision was never worse than 20/70 and I didn’t need my glasses even for driving, I wore them as rarely as possible. Still, I found that the imbalance dreadfully annoying, and that my glasses had already begun to grow less effective. So I went back to get another perscription. I remember telling the optometrist that I felt as if the glasses had made my eyes weaker. The woman insisted that this was not the case, that it is actually the brain that adapts to the glasses, meaning that the visual imput from the eyes, unchanged apparently in that year for me, was less effective for the weakened brain. What a load of nonsense.
I knew positively that my eyes were being weakened by the glasses, and I felt for certain that the muscles that control the eyes could be trained again somehow — I imagined some sort of glasses to wear while using the computer or reading that made the screen appear far away, thusly negating the effects of near-point activity. I had all but lost hope, when this summer I came upon the above website. It has a great money-back guarantee, so I thought, what the heck.
As for the optometrist who told me that drivel about the brain being the culprit — perhaps there is some validity, since the brain can adapt to visual stimulus over time (the experiment involving subjects that wore glasses that made them feel as if they were walking on the ceiling comes to mind, whose brains after a matter of days adjusted to the visual imput by correcting the twisted information). However, the brain is always inclined to make it easier to see, not worse.
There are many programms out there to retrain vision; this just happens to be the one I came across. The basic principle is that — and I’ll use us nearsighted people for now, though the above programm can be implemented by hyperopic or presbyopic individuals as well — the muscles that controll the lenses of our eyes are relaxed when we look at objects seven feet away. More than that, the muscles cause the lenses to expand; nearer than that, the muscles make the lenses contract. So when we are reading these words on the screen, our eyes are in a state of strain in order to focus at something so close. Bookworms as a lot of us are, we don’t get out as much as we should, and the imbalance in focusing habits causes the eye to adapt to its situation — which is to fix itself to make near-point reading the standard mode of operation, while atrophying our farsight. Remember all those puerile warnings about if you put your face like that or cross your eyes like that they’ll get stuck that way? Seems it wasn’t fokelore. The human body is designed to adapt like this — a significant example is Richard III, whom we may know from Shakespeare as the evil hunchback — he, and many other soldiers of that time when they were young, could choose the sword, or the axe as their weapon of choice. Those who wielded the axe were more likely to survive, and much more deadly — the tradeoff, however, was the destiny to become hunchbacked, since the practice required repetitive training in one arm, and eventual overdevelopment of that side of the body to compensate, in order to make an effective warrior.
Our eyes are hunchbacked. And the worst thing we have done for them to effect their quasi motion has been to wear glasses. Glasses make the computer screen, for example, or anything else in view to appear as if it is much closer — thereby straining the eyes further, pushing farsight even farther away, and making the lenses permanently contracted. Not only that, but the consistent strain actually causes the eye to change shape, becoming elongated, so that it can see close objects with greater ease. When I went to the optometrist the second time, it was discovered that, mirabile dictu, apparently I had astigmatism the whole time! a slight astigmatism in my right eye — remember how my perscription had been stronger in the right eye? By wearing my glasses, my eyes actually changed shape. This is the definition of astigmatism.
Glasses have been the bane of my exsistence the past few years, for I refused to wear them all the time (thank heavens!), and so I was forced to carrying the clunky things around everywhere in my pocket. And now my vision is nearly perfect. I won’t wear glasses again for the rest of my life. I can see faces, the moon, the stars … I don’t know about the rest of you, but clearly you can see how passionately pissed I was at having to wear glasses, how cheated I felt and it seems I was, and how important it was for me to rid myself of those dreaful things that now sit in a dark corner of my messy room. If figured there might be other people here who would be interested too. I think it’s the most amazing thing I’ve come across since Lingua Latina.
When you go to that link above, it’s offering a free mini course as a sample — I highly recommend it. It’ll give you a great idea of what the programm does. Otherwise I think all the information you need is on the website there.
