A Tip For Reducing Eye Strain…
One of the readers of the blog made a suggestion that I would like to share with everyone. Here is the comment the person made:
“Hi, here is a tip to reduce eyestrain. Download the free software SharpTimer from download.com and set it to pop up a notifing window every 20 mins. This will alert you to when you should give your eyes a break!”
One of the recommendations for reducing eyestrain from computer use is to take frequent breaks. You can read about it here. This software would certainly make it easier to remember to take those needed breaks.
P.S. I have been continuing with the exercises… Not as often as would have liked due to a hectic schedule… but I intend to remedy that.
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Hi William,
We, me and you, are on the same boat.
Please, just keep on relaxing your eyes’ tensions because there (and here) is the answer.
Just keep on being aware that each second you improve yourself.
Just be faithful, now, now, and now as well.
And – of course – now too!
Alex
Hi again William,
I would like to share with all of you two potentially useful programs I came into last week.
http://sighttrainer.awardspace.com/
http://www.topshareware.com/Anti-EyeStrain-download-13026.htm
P.S.: please be so kind to forgive me for my not yet satisfying language skills, since I’m neither English nor American!
And – here I am again – another potentially useful book I’ve bought and read some days ago (it’s very cheap and I found it interesting):
http://www.powervisionsystem.com/
Another useful page:
http://www.wikihow.com/Exercise-Your-Eyes
Have a look at this article.
I think they are coming toward us, but they’re keeping on forcing themselves refusing the truth they are afraid of. They aren’t able to let the truth flow free yet, so they sadly keep on writing things like some of those ones you can read in this PDF document.
http://white.stanford.edu/~dumoulin/artikels/PDF/Schaeffel-CB-2006.pdf
Thanks for all the links Alex. I would certainly check them out and perhaps leave some comments on the blog about them.
P.S. How are your eye exercises coming along?
Hi William,
well, I’m not doing the Rebuild Your Vision program exercises (that I found on the web a couple of weeks ago) since it seems full of promise but for me it’s too expensive taking into account that it’s an almost-”closed box” product (I mean that I would like to have a quick look at more exercises or just have more information about the whole program before paying so much money).
I know that common myopia simply consists in the fact that both of our focusing systems have been forced to focus nearer and nearer points. These two systems are: 1) muscles controlling eyes direction; 2) the ciliar muscle, which deforms the crystalline lens. Both of them have been got used to keep themselves hyper-contracted since our glasses/contact lenses compensate this “defocus” (you know, it’s like keeping on using crutches after recovery from an injury, without doing rehabiliting physiotherapy; quite silly, huh?!).
Said that, I’m doing some common exercises to relax my eyes muscles, going out with under-corrected lenses and without wearing any lenses when I’m at home.
In the meanwhile, I’m trying to create come useful mental exercises (often mixed with breathing), images, Flash animations, etc. according to what’s my knowledge of the whole issue. I’m sure to have understood where’s the truth, I only have to find its practical application in this very case.
My myopia is quite high and I can tell you that I was very pleased last week when, for about three minutes, I could see much more clearly than usual. From that moment on, while my myopia is quite the same but I know me and it are getting better, I can’t stand the correction from my prescrition anymore: I need a lower correction since I perfectly feel my eyes protesting when I try to wear my full-correction lenses in front of them.
Anyway, I always like to remind myself that it’s only a matter of tensions, thought/body relationship and our fault in refusing to face up to our fears.
Now I have to go, let’s keep in touch and support each other. See you
Hi William.
I just have had an enlightment.
When a person works in front of a monitor, he/she can wear a pair of glasses for longsightedness so that he/she can have the monitor focused while the eye is actually focusing BEYOND the screen and stays relaxed!
It’s as simple as truth!
Correction of this hypermetropic lenses has to be the one right for the distance at which the person decides to stay from the monitor.
This “trick” is highly useful for already myopia-affected people, when they’re already doing focusing exercises and wearing under-corrected lenses. And the same trick, applied in the opposite way, is the one that farsighted people can use to relax and heal their eyes.
Keep tuned in for more of these enlightments of mine
))
Alex
P.S.:I came up with this half an hour ago, when I noticed that my under-corrected lenses are making me see very clearly today, and I’m starting to feel that I want to increase again my distance from my monitor.
Wins the game who first makes the opponent win.
I just found this site via 43 Things. I haven’t set “restore my eyesight naturally” as a 43 Things goal, yet, but it’s a subject I’ve been looking at just a little bit for years.
Using a monitor for a while at a normal distance with glasses makes my vision worse I’ve noticed, but without glasses I would have to put my face close to the screen.
Yeah, you’re right, some parts of you (your eyes?) would like to get closer to the screen but feel it’s too far at the moment.
It’s like jumping over a pole, if you set it too high you feel it impossible.
You can play with 3 “variables” to limit or extend the number of heights you can jump:
- decrease or increase the time you spend practicing the same height
- weaken or strengthen your muscles
- use or remove external tools that help you jump
Just think 10 seconds: try to figure out the situation you are in at this very time and how you are playing with your variables…