Further, many people are hesitant to undergo corrective eye surgeries such as Lasik because of the risks involved.

So what other option is there? Well there natural ways to improve your vision and decrease your dependency on glasses.

Here’s what you need to do.

1) Reduce the Effects of Computer Vision Syndrome

Computer Vision Syndrome is defined as the “group of eye and vision problems related to near work that are experienced during or related to computer use”. There are various symptoms such as tired, sore and dry eyes, eye strain, headaches, slowness in changing the focus of your eyes and excessive tearing.

However, there are habits that you can develop in order to reduce the effects of Computer Vision Syndrome.

Create an ergonomic workstation – maintain a viewing distance of 20-28 inches and the center of the computer screen should be 4-9 inches below your eyes, because your eyes work best with a slight downward gaze.

Eliminate glare in your work area – Adjust blinds or curtains to minimize sunlight. Turn down overhead lights so that the brightness of the screen and the surrounding room are balanced. However, do not, however, work in the dark

Take a break – It’s easy to lose track of time at the computer. At the very minimum, take a break at least once an hour for about 10 minutes and blink frequently.

2) Provide Your Eyes with Proper Nutrition

Your diet affects your overall health; and that includes your eyes. Here are some of the specific nutrients that directly affect the health of your eyes.

Vitamin A – I am sure that you’ve heard that carrots are good for your eyes. Ever wondered why? Carrots contain a carotenoid called beta-carotene. Your body converts beta-carotene into vitamin A, which is an anti-oxidant. Antioxidants such as vitamin A are essential to eye health. Vitamin A is known to:

• Help your eyes adjust to light changes
• Moisten the eyes, which can enhance visual acuity
• Prevent the forming of cataracts
• Help prevent blindness from AMD (Age-Related Macular Degeneration)

Vitamin C and E – these two nutrients also assist in the long term health of your eyes.

Lutein – Studies have shown that Lutein, which is found in foods such as dark green leafy vegetables, eggs, corn and pumpkins, may reduce the risk of AMD as well as it may play a role in helping reduce the risk of cataract extraction.

Water – Drinking water frequently also helps.

Increase the intake of nutrients that promote healthy eyesight… There are actually eye vitamin supplements especially formulated for healthy eyesight.

3) Do Eye Exercises

Eye exercises are exercises that are used to improve your eyesight through conditioning the muscles responsible for clear focus or eye teaming (controlling how you use and aim our eyes together).

There is great debate as to the legitimacy of using eye exercises to improve vision. However, there are numerous references as to the benefits of doing eye exercises and there are several natural vision improvement programs available. Here are some eye exercises to improve vision that you can try.

Keep in mind though that natural vision improvement isn’t easy… But here are some tips to improve your chances of success:

• You must be patient, disciplined and committed in order for eye exercises to work for you.
• It’s important to understand that in most cases, the condition of nearsightedness or farsightedness was developed over a period of many years and there it is unfair that substantial improvement through natural means can be gain in a relatively short time-frame.
• You can’t expect to not do the exercises and yet expect to improve your vision… that’s absurd! You have to do the exercises regularly… preferably at least once per day.
• You have to wear your glasses as infrequently as possible. This helps you decrease you dependency on your glasses. Many eye exercise programs suggest that you get a pair of glasses with a weaker strength while going through the program.

So if you want to improve your eyesight, but can’t afford eye surgery or are afraid of the possible risk, then natural vision improvement is an alternative to consider. Just remember, you have to be disciplined, patient, avoid poor eye habits and eat the proper nutrients.

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Eye exercises that are known to aid in improving eye vision are everywhere. But the question is, have you ever tried it? Many people rely on checkups, eye glasses and contact lenses to cure their visual problems. The thing is that most of them, even after wearing eyeglasses for years, show no effective results.

Bates Eye Exercises is formulated by Dr. William H. Bates to aid in improving one’s vision. The good thing with Bates Eye Exercises is the fact that it will not cost you a single dime. How will you start accepting this visual cure when you have depended on your eyeglasses for so long? First is to leave your mind open for other alternatives like Bates Eye Exercises. If you do not trust something then you will not comply with it willingly. Doing Bates Eye Exercises requires one to obediently do the eye exercise that is suited for your visual problem.

Second comes asking yourself what is causing your visual problem? If it’s spending a lot of time watching in front of the television or staying focused on your computer for too long. This will lead to eyestrain which will cause your eyes some problem. Change and limit the bad habits. Next is to have yourself checked by an optometrist. It is possible that you will be prescribed with eyeglasses or contact lenses to improve your vision.

Having eyeglasses or contact lenses with you does not guarantee cure and this is where Bates Eye Exercises comes in, while the eyes are helped by the prescriptions given to you, Bates Eye Exercises will also aid in helping your eyesight improve naturally. These exercises include Palming, Visualization, Movement and Sunning.

This is just one of the ways of treating your eyesight without costing you too much. Just as the saying goes, “There is no harm in trying”.

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These 3 tips are very interesting to me, because they talk about 3 of what I believe are the most important things you need to do if you want to see results with natural vision improvement.

1. Be consistent with your eye exercises
2. Keep yourself motivated
3. Learn to be more relaxed

Here’s the link to the blog post - 3 Simple Eye Exercise Tips

Hope you enjoy the tips!… And leave a comment and let me know what you think about the tips.

William

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One of the reasons I created this blog is to share information about natural vision improvement with you….

Well today I came across an informative article on Yahoo! that I thought I’d share

Here’s the link – 4 Ways to Improve Your Eyesight

After you’ve read the article, you can look around my blog find other ways to improve your vision

Till Next time,

William

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I just wanted to take the time to wish all the readers of my blog the best wishes for the New Year…

I urge you to make a commitment to really give natural vision improvement a chance in 2011. By give a chance, I mean that you should be committed to:

1. Doing eye exercises on a regular basis… preferably on a daily basis
2. Ensuring that your eyes get the right nutrients
3. Developing and maintaining habits that are healthy for you eyes

To your improved vision,

William

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Many people that have eye conditions such as myopia, astigmatism or hyperopia, that requires that they wear some sort of corrective lenses such as eye glasses or contact lenses generally don’t like wearing them.

Natural Vision Improvement purports that by doing eye exercises you can improve your vision naturally without having to undergo LASIK surgery.

But the question remains in many people’s minds… do eye exercises really work?

Well let’s try and answer that question…

MEDICAL EVIDENCE
Natural vision therapy is recognized by a number of medical associations and institutes including the American Optometric Association, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Center for Health Statistics and the Association of Academic Health Centers

For example, the American Optometric Association “affirms its longstanding position that vision therapy is an effective therapeutic modality in the treatment of physiological dysfunctions of the vision system.” – American Optometric Association, 1985.

There have been numerous articles published in optometry related journals such as the American Journal of Optometry & Physiological Optics, that provide a solid base of research supporting vision therapy as an effective treatment for accommodative deficiencies.

NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS
Many popular eye exercise programs such the Rebuild Your Vision Program, The Janet Goodrich Program for Natural Vision Improvement and the Program for Better Vision have many many testimonials on their websites.

You are encouraged to visit any one of the website of any one of these eye exercise programs and read through the testimonials… real people… real results. there are people of varying backgrounds, lifestyles, geographcial locations and more… that have experienced varying degrees of improvement over varying time frames.

IT’S ALL ABOUT WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT
You must be patient, disciplined and committed in order for eye exercises to work for you.

It’s important to understand that in most cases, the condition of nearsightedness or farsightedness was developed over a period of many years and there it is unfair that substantial improvement through natural means can be gain in a relatively short time-frame.

You can’t expect to not do the exercises and yet expect to improve your vision… that’s obsurd! You have to do the exercises regularly… preferably at least once per day.

You have to eat healthy. Proper nutrition is an integral part of any eye exercise program. It’s important that you get the right vitamins and minerals that are essential to maintaining healthy eyes, such as vitamins A, C and E, and lutein.

These nutrients help your eyes adjust to light changes, moisten the eyes, enhance visual acuity and help prevent the forming of cataracts.

You have to wear your glasses as infrequently as possible. This helps you decrease you dependancy on your glasses. Many eye exercise programs suggest that you get a pair of glasses with a weaker strength while going through the program.

I hope that the above has answered your question about do eye exercises really work. Also, if you do decide to improve your eyesight naturally by doing eye exercises, follow the simple tips above to improve your success.

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As I mentioned in the last post, I received my Personal Eyesight Training Kit recently, and I wanted to let you know what’s included in the kit. The Kit comes in neat plastic case approximately 22 cm high by 16 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick.

Janet Goodrich Personal Eyesight Training Kit

….and inside this case you’ll find the following items:

1. The Personal Eyesight Training Kit Booklet
2. A pair of Pinhole Glasses
3. An eyepatch
4. Several charts and cards  – distance charts, fusing charts, reminder cards, etc.
5. An USB drive filled with pdfs and audios of the lessons (this is really cool!) and some music.

Janet Goodrich Personal Eyesight Training Kit

In the coming days, I talk about each one of the above components of the kit in some measure of detail and explain each item’s purpose.

Until next time,

William

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Just wanted to mention that my Janet Goodrich Personal Eyesight Training Kit arrived in the mail today…

I’m pretty excited about starting the eye exercises to improve vision and I’ll be posting my progress on this blog in the coming weeks.

Till Then,

William

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I was watching a couple of videos on the Janet Goodrich Method Website last week. The videos were about the Personal Eyesight Training Kit – how the kit came about, what’s included in the kit and there were also some testimonials from people that have successfully used the Janet Goodrich System to restore their eyesight.

Of particular interest to me, was the second video in which one of the users, Dan, talks about how he started doing eye exercises, his struggles and his eventual success.

Dan talked about when he first started using doing eye exercises, he was very enthusiastic and did the exercises everyday!! However, as time went along, he did the exercises less and less frequently. After some time passed, during which time he did the exercises on and off, Dan made personal commitment  to truly give eye exercises a real effort…

….and through some regular “push” from the folks at Janet Goodrich Method, Dan was able to achieve some real success with restoring his vision.

Check Out Dan’s Testimonial in Video#2 – http://www.improvingmyeyesight.com/janet-goodrich-personal-eyesight-training.html

I can certainly relate to part of this story… when I first started doing eye exercise, I was very enthusiastic myself and did the eye exercises fairly regularly, but then I became delinquent.

The important thing to remember is that restoring your vision naturally by doing eye exercises is not as easy as some may be led to believe… it requires commitment, determination and patience. You’ve got to do it consistently and that’s when you’ll see results.

Check Dan’s Video testimonial along with other testimonials – http://www.improvingmyeyesight.com/janet-goodrich-personal-eyesight-training.html

By the way, I’ve decide to get myself one of the Personal Eyesight Training Kits… so look out for updates on that!

Till next time,

William

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Well, the truth is, I can’t point to any specific thing and neither can my optician. However, I can tell you about some of the changes I’ve made since I started my quest to improve my vision a couple of years ago… I’m sure that the improvement can be attributed to one or more of these things:

Eye exercises – Doing eye exercises to improve vision was one of the first things I started doing. Intially, I followed the steps in the Rebuild Your Vision Program very regularly. However, in more recent times, I have been doing the exercises rather infrequently.

Nutrition – I decided to use a multivitamin that has the vitamins and minerals necessary for healthy eyes, such as lutein. I am currently using MegaMen Sport, because I’m so active (swimming, cycling, etc), but you can check out the Occu-Plus Formula or any of the eye vitamins product on this page.

General habits – There are couple of habits I’ve developed over the past couple of years:

• Practicing the 10-10-10 rule when using the computer… as well as trying to blink more frequently when I’m at the computer
• Not depending on my glasses too much… I don’t use them unless I have to.

So there you have it… the changes I’ve made to help improve my own eyesight.

Have you seen any improvement in your eyesight? And if so what have you been doing?

William

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