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Why is my eyesight getting worse? Dangers of anxiety and blurry vision (Eye Relaxation PT3of5)

Will — Sat, 14 May 2022 10:49:04 +0000

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Learning why is my eyesight getting worse by discovering how anxiety and stress can cause eye strain and blurry vision. Is essential If you really want relaxed clearer eyesight.

Is there really a relationship between your eyes and your mind? Most medical professionals would still say”NO”. But with global stress at an all time high, are you seeing for yourself the effects that stress has on your eyesight? If you have experienced recent blurry vision and feel it might relate to stress . Then this video can help validate your experience and guide you towards closing the gap between blurry stressed eyesight and relaxed clearer vision.

Poorer lifestyle choices and habits
Lack of blinking
Pupil dilation
Lack of oxygen
Lack of blood flow
High cortisol levels
Fear vision loss cycle

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Top 3 Eye Exercises for Eye Muscle Strain For A Strained Eye Muscle – (PT 2 of 5 Why eye relaxation improves eyesight)

Will — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:54:45 +0000

Top 3 Eye Exercises for Eye Muscle Strain For A Strained Eye Muscle – (PT2 of 5 why eye relaxation improves you eyesight easily)

These top 3 Eye Exercises for Eye Muscle Strain for a Strained Eye Muscle will give you eye strain relief from the computer or digital screen. For maximum eye relaxation repeat these simple eye exercises frequently, especially if you want to improve your eyesight naturally.

By the end of this video you will learn:
Eye Exercise 1: Relaxing your Cillary muscle, responsible for relaxed clearer
vision.
Eye Exercise 2: Releasing tension in your extra Ocular muscles responsible for relaxed eye
movement.
Eye Exercise 3: Relaxing your eyelids especially the muscle which is stopping you from blinking
effectively.

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Let me guess you have been looking at the computer for two or more hours and your eyes for sore, tired, and strained.

Intuitively you feel that his relates to strained eye muscles. Well you’re probably right and top ophthalmologist would go one step further and say your eye muscle strain is likely due to computer vision syndrome. Which effects over 60 million people worldwide and has sky rocketing by at at least 60% in the last few years.

follow these eye exercise if you want long term eye strain relief!

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Why eye strain relief and eye relaxation improves your eyesight easily

Will — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:41:27 +0000

Why does eye strain relief and eye relaxation improve your eyesight easily and naturally?Applying this simple technique to relieve eye strain can improve your eyesight even in front of the computer! Computer vision syndrome is not going anywhere soon, so get ahead of the eye strain curve now!

The old medical model of symptom treating is changing for the better. But don’t wait too long until your eye Dr finally tells you to improve your eyesight through lifestyle change before you do anything about it! If eye strain and blurry vision was a symptom are you treating the cause? If you want to start seeing results with improving your eyesight you need to start taking easy, actionable steps to get you there. By learning why eye strain relief and eye relaxation improves your eyesight easily, you move from reactive eye care to pro active eye care in seconds!

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Morning Eye Relaxation Exercise For Stressed Eyes – Beginners Breath Series 2 of 5 (Belly Breath)

Will — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:27:27 +0000

Good morning, I’m Will Fuller, your peak performance and holistic health coach and thank you for joining me for this: Morning Eye Relaxation Exercise For Stressed Eyes – Beginners Breath Series 2 of 5 (Belly Breath)

You’re probably here because you’ve got headaches, dry itchy eyes, and maybe even some blurry vision from too many hours in front of the computer screen. I’m so glad you’re here because by the end of this morning’s video I’m going to show you how to reduce eye strain as I walk you through a guided meditation.

So by the time we are done you’ll feel less stressed and more relaxed, along with a calmer, more focused mind.

This eye relaxation exercise is part 2 of 5, in my beginners breath series. So make sure you go check out the others when you complete this meditation.

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Top 5 Mistakes Everybody Makes When Meditating

Will — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:25:56 +0000

Learn the Top 5 Mistakes Everybody Makes When Meditating to build a consistent meditation practice. Saving you time, money and a lot of frustration! FREE 5 Day Relaxed Clearer Vision Challenge https://www.envisionselfhealing.com/5-day-relaxed-clearer-vision-challenge
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(10 min) Morning Eye Relaxation Exercise For Stressed Eyes

Will — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:49:14 +0000

Watch this Morning Eye Relaxation Exercise For Stressed Eyes. Especially if you spend long hours in front of the computer screen. Typical side effects from computer eye strain include: headaches, dry itchy eyes, blurry vision, neck and shoulder pain.

Good morning, I’m Will Fuller, your peak performance and holistic health coach and thank you for joining me for this: Mornings guided eye relaxation exercise for stressed eyes

So by the time we are done you’ll feel less stressed and more relaxed, along with a calmer, more focused mind.

This eye relaxation exercise is part 1 of 5, in my beginners breath series. So make sure you go check out the others when you complete this meditation.

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Habits for Humans Interview: Health Planning

Will — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:32:38 +0000

You have planned your financial retirement down to the dollar, but what will your health look like when you get there?

Listen or watch my latest interview on the “Habits for Humans”show. Kim Flynn and myself take you through the 3 steps of how to treat your health similar to your money management: your Dream Retirement Plan (401K Health Plan).

1) First, determine your goals.
2) Next, create your dream health portfolio.
3) Then, build habits in place to achieve your goals.

If you like step by step, actionable plans, this podcast is a must listen.

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(3 min) Distance Looking Eye Exercise To Improve Your Eyesight

Will — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:23:32 +0000

(3 min) Distance Looking Eye Exercise To Improve Your Eyesight

Tired of blurry vision and want to see the clearer close or see clearer in the distance? Do this (3 min) Distance Looking Eye Exercise To Improve Your Eyesight anytime of day. in just 3 minutes!

YES , Spring is here and summer is on it’s way! Many of you know from my online classes that Spring and Summer are my favourite time of year for vision improvement. The colorful flowers are blooming, brilliant blue skies, shiny oceans or lakes and awaken nature. All this makes my eyes and heart smile and I wanted to share it with you!

I recorded this 3 minute guided eye exercise at “Yellowstone National Park” and I have been waiting eagerly for you to watch and follow along. Set a eye exercise reminder on your phone to PLAY and follow this 3 minute exercise Monday to Friday next week and SEE if you can make your eyes smile once a day for 5 days.

Do you know someone who sits behind a computer all day and needs their eyes to SMILE? Simply share the video link and feel good knowing that you made their eyes smile

Stay safe, stay healthy and live with clarity!

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The importance of Removing Stress and Anxiety with Retinitis Pigmentosa and Peripheral Vision Loss

Will — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 04:06:23 +0000

Physical Tension and Stress and its Effect on Retinitis Pigmentosa and Peripheral Vision Loss.

Whether we accept it or not, there are some practices that we are doing that can be harmful to our already decreased vision. We should be aware that there are some ways to help with vision loss and the way we live our newfound lives.

A good place to start is to take away stress and anxiety especially when dealing with Retinitis Pigmentosa and peripheral vision loss and this video will elaborate further. How to relieve your eyes from such situations and some holistic approach towards a healthier vision and self-healing? It may be though medical science but there are some immediate things that can be sought to address the problem.

Two key things that will help with secondary symptoms of Retinitis Pigmentosa and peripheral vision loss:

1. Release stress and tension on the neck and shoulders area.

Though it sounds easy, relaxing the neck and shoulders area are much harder. The reason for that is some people had developed that as a repeated pattern.
In tensing the neck and shoulders area, our brain gets overwhelmed that it somehow affects our peripheral vision.

2. State of anxiety or the “Fight or Flight” response.

If we worry too much, stress ourselves out too much, we are triggering ourselves to a high flight and flight response mode. In doing so, it narrows down our vision, and that is the exact opposite of what we are trying to achieve if we have RP or peripheral vision loss.

Being in the “fight-or-flight response or in a state of anxiety, you are actively disengaging the peripheral vision around you, and you are choosing to focus more on that central vision.

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One way to work out with anxiety is by disengaging the central vision and start to get used of the peripheral vision. Holistic approaches in healing suggest that though you think that you cannot heal your eyes. Plus, the pessimistic idea that we should wait for a miracle cure or gene therapy to have it fixed.

Try to consider the things that you have control over today. You can start to work with alternative processes to somehow alleviate your vision problems. As my expertise in wellness, I suggest that whenever you are in a busy street, and you get anxious, why not try to step aside, take a deep breath, relax and allow your eyes to adjust.

Another thing is, the improvements will show not only in your vision but also the quality of your life and you can slowly start controlling your anxious patterns in more effective ways. Focus on your breath a little bit more and allow yourself to aware of the peripheral vision around you rather than having habitual stress responses.

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The Importance of Removing Physical Tension with Retinitis Pigmentosa and Peripheral Vision Loss

Will — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 02:44:21 +0000

Even if you feel that your vision can’t be improved, that the medical profession is telling you that Retinitis Pigmentosa is irreversible, you just must suck it up and wait until a researcher comes up with a cure. Although that idea is not 100% disagreeable taking into consideration the breakthroughs made by the medical field and profession. There are many components that relate to RP which can be improved.

In today’s video, some key observations that can improve secondary symptoms of Retinitis Pigmentosa and Peripheral Vision Loss. One focus and one effective way are by reducing the tension in your life.

Persons who are holding too much in their lives be it in a social situation or a personal one. Being so tensed and anxious all the time is not that advisable.

But how about other areas of our lives that can be improved, for example not walking around stressed and tensed all the time. Or you are hiding away, becoming a little bit more aloof and isolated. That’s where the flight or fight response comes in, or that fear of being out in the open.
Left alone the prognosis that you will be blind by the age of forty.

Indeed, it is not the most positive way to live your life.
When you are looking into something like the Meir Schneider method or eye exercises and the works here at envisionselfhealing.com, I want you to think a little bit globally, a little bit more holistically about what you could do with your life to help improve the symptoms of retinitis pigments and peripheral vision loss and improvements that you can get in your life.

Even if we’re saying, “Fine, you can’t improve your vision! That’s how it is.”
Let’s put that to one side and consider what else we could look at?
What else could we be doing in our lives if we have peripheral vision loss, Retinitis Pigmentosa, or other severe conditions? What I am recommending is that we take a look at these other facets. The number one thing to be looking at is where our physiological tension is coming from?

By knowing that, we can start to release the tension within us not by just getting a massage but by just doing things by ourselves like stretching, going to yoga, self-massage with tennis balls, or firm rolling.
Try using things that are readily accessible to you.
That sure would improve your vision as a direct response from doing those exercises. Furthermore, maybe your quality of life will develop, and ultimately, that is what we are looking for in our limited time on this planet.

We don’t want to spend it being tensed, hunched, and afraid all the time. Instead, what we are going to think about is how we can relax our body and allowing that tension to let go.
Degenerative conditions like Retinitis Pigmentosa is worsened by tightening tensions around the neck.
The question here is not about how can we cure our eyes, but it’s also how we can slow things down?
How the progression can go less so that we can enjoy the vision that I have while I still have it.
So think about things how you can loosen tensions around the neck as a way of assisting the eyes.
To end with, I am encouraging you to start thinking more holistically about how things can help you with what you are dealing with in life.

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Introduction To The Meir Schneider Method of Self Healing Through Movement, Vision and Body Therapy

Will — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:14:27 +0000

I have learned the Meir Schneider Method 10 years ago and up to now I am currently using and teaching it to the purpose of improving one’s eyesight. I reminisce my first time of the method in ocean park in San Francisco where it all began! This was a big milestone for me because in Ocean Park on this same day was the start of my journey as well 10 years ago.

For those who might not know Meir Schneider, his parents were deaf and he was born in 1954 and he was then blind during his birth due to congenital cataracts. After 17 years, his life changes when he met a boy who gave him hope. That was the time when he began his first book and established the Meir Schneider school and foundation.

His work continues to change all thought out the years and people benefit a lot from what he teaches from all parts of the world. As Meir’s self- hearing method continues to help people, it is even more inspiring to hear testimonies and stories of people who benefited and maximized the benefits of his lessons.

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Sunning Eye exercise during your work day could change your vision and mental health!

Will — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:02:23 +0000

Sunning eye exercise is considered to be one of the powerful eye exercises and is widely used by many people to mainly for the purpose of improving vision and eye health. The sunning exercise was known before as light therapy to warm the eyes but not too hot. This helps in proper blood circulation in the eyes and promote better vision.

In an everyday walk going to work, especially when the sun is out, sunning exercise helps improve vision and mental health. As being exposed in the sun can provide vitamin D, it also helps the overall well-being and vision health of your eyes. Physicians before have made sun exposure dangerous. However, after carefully studying the benefits of sun exposure, it has come to a point that little to minimal exposure to the sun is recommended on a daily basis (before 10 am and after 5 pm). The recommended exposure or execution of sunning is only 5 to 10 minutes a day.

Sunning is an eye exercise which helps relax the eyes through sun exposure. The main concept of sunning is to bathe your eyeballs in the light to constrict (closes) the pupils to give you sharper vision. Some benefits will include helping you read better and sharper vision to details in the world around you. When the eyes are relaxed, this aids in a well-rested sleep at night. This is also a good exercise for people suffering from insomnia. This is a natural way of improving vision and has a couple of benefits as well. One is maintaining the health of your retina which is responsible for a clear central vision and two, optimizes the red blood cell function and creates a good mood and an overall well being.

So what are you waiting for? Do Urban Eye Exercises!

Just five minutes a day of the sunny eye exercise can help strengthen the eyes and retina against the proven harmful effects of screen time and can be a great mental health break!!

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ESH #77 | Lazy Eye (Amblyopia)

Will Fuller — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:00:48 +0000

Lazy Eye or Amblyopia is an eye condition in which a defect in one eye prevents the eye/brain connection from fully developing that eye. This typically occurs before the age of 7. This causes the individual to suppress the defective eye.

Causes of Lazy Eye (Amblyopia)

The suppression of one eye is typically due to something that prevents the eye from seeing well such as cataracts, refractive errors (myopia. hyperopia), eyes with a large disparity between the left and right, strabismus and double vision.

Do You Have a Lazy Eye?

Many people spend a large portion of their lives without even realising that their vision is being effected by a Lazy. A good way to test for Amblyopia is to hold two fingers up in front of you one close to your nose and the other 12 inches behind it. Look at your closest finger. Do you see two behind it? Now look at the furthest finger do you see two fingers closest to you?

Most people without a lazy eye should see one finger when they look at it and the other should be two. The reason for this is we use two eyes to see, when we focus on an object we fuse the two images of the one object together into one clear image. Everything outside this point of fusion is being seen by the two eyes separately creating two images.

I only see one image but I don’t have Amblyopia?

Due to misuse of the eyes it is common for people without a Lazy eye to not see the double image in the background or foreground when holding up their fingers. This is a form of suppression. Where the brain is favoring one eye over the other but not because of a visual defect as a child. We could call this Lazy Brain, instead of Lazt Eye.

Tip of the Week

In the tip of the week this week we discuss how you can easily test which eye of yours is the “Strongest” and which eye is the “weakest”.

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ESH #76 | Rod-Cone Dystrophy

Will Fuller — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:04:35 +0000

What is Rod-Cone Dystrophy?

This hereditary vision condition is explained pretty well in it’s title. Dystrophy is the medical term for degeneration, to waste away. In Muscular Dystrophy the muscles degenerate; whereas in Rod-Cone Dystrophy it is the rods and cones that degenerate.

What Are Rods and Cones?

In the retina (the part of the eye that turns light into visual signals) the rods are responsible for seeing in dim light and for seeing motion. The cones which are the closely packed photoreceptor cells in the center of the retina are, on the other hand, responsible for seeing color and fine detail.

What Can I Do About This Condition?

So far this is pretty straight-forward. If you have diagnosed with this condition you have undoubtedly been told you should expect a degeneration of your night vision and a degeneration of your ability to see color and fine detail and that there is nothing much you can do about it.

However, we would like to suggest that the “Use It Or Lose It” Rule applies here too. If you continue to stimulate and strengthen your rods and cones we believe you can stave off this degeneration. We know this from working with clients and from our own personal experience. Will was born with Retinitis Pigmentosa and Richard with Optic Atrophy. We have used eye exercises to strengthen those areas of our vision that were weak. So you see, what you can do about this diagnosis is pretty straight-forward too: Use your rods and cones!

Strengthen Rod Cells

If you don’t use your rod cells because you are never in the dark, how can we expect them to fully function when we need them to? This is relevant for everyone; not just those of us with eye conditions that make it difficult to see in the dark. Will trains his eyes to adapt to the dark by not turning on the lights immediately when he enters a room. If he is looking for his keys, he leaves the light off. Similarly, as the sun sets he will wait as long as possible before turning on the lights. He also goes on night walks. Since his neighborhood is pretty safe, he can go for walks when it’s dark, allowing the rods to be as active as possible.

The second technique for strengthening the rods is performing eye exercises in the dark with flashing lights. These exercises can be found on our website under Peripheral Vision Eye Exercises. By stimulating the rods with movement and dim light you are helping to activate those weaker cells even more. You can even do these exercises before going on a night walk or before going anywhere that is dark to help activate the rods ahead of time.

Straighten Cone Cells

The cone cells which are found primarily in a small area of the retina called the macula are responsible for sending clear crisp colorful images. These cone cells desire maximum amount of light in order to function at their best and for you to see clearer.

We can explain this visual process by using a solar panel as an analogy. As the light comes into contact with the solar panel, the light is converted into electricity which is then taken to a place to be stored or used immediately. If there is not much sunlight, then we get less energy and power.

In our everyday lives the macula is regularly underused because we ignore fine details in our surroundings and we tend to avoid bright light. The Sunning and Shifting Eye Exercises found on our website activate the cones and retrain the brain to look at smaller and smaller details, making the eyesight clearer.

Tip of the Week: Adjusting to Bright Light and to Darkness

In the Tip of the Week Will and Richard give some simple techniques for adjusting to bright light when you are bothered by it (photo phobia) and adjusting to dark environments as you enter them.

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ESH #75 | Get Rid of Your Glasses: Another Success Story!

Will Fuller — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:50:54 +0000

There is a whole lot of skepticism out there when it comes to eye exercises and getting rid of your glasses. If you ask around you will get authoritative declarations that “eye exercises don’t work” from either people who have never tried the exercises or from someone who tried them once for a week. So how would you feel if you heard that “eye exercises definitely do work” from an expert on exercising every other part of the human body?

Another Success Story!

In this week’s podcast (in between back exercises) Richard talks to Gustavo, a dedicated personal trainer for the past thirty years about his success with the eye exercises.

Gustavo had a moment of reckoning when he realized he could no longer read the small type on his smartphone. At first, he gave into the prevailing belief that eyes are different than every other part of the body; that eyes can only get worse and not better. Reluctantly, he bought his first pair of glasses even though no one in his family had every worn them. He blamed it on his computer use and some intense, high tech intelligence equipment he used in the Marines. Then he heard about our work helping people improve their vision naturally with exercises and it immediately clicked. It made so much sense that the eyes are subject to the same “use it or lose it” rule.

Using the same reasoning he had applied to the larger muscles of the body, Gustavo began to exercise his eyes. Years of working and relaxing the body also gave him the instinct that straining the eyes was harmful to vision. He learned to see with less effort.

After a couple of weeks of doing a variety of eye exercises he began to see improvement. After only six weeks he was able to read the smallest type on his smartphone. Gustavo was happy for three reasons. First, he could see those fine details that he had forgotten were there. Second, he could see that his philosophy that exercise and relaxation can bring vitality and youth back to the body also applied to his eyes. Third, he didn’t have to wear those ugly glasses!

The Envision Self-Healing Approach

Gustavo also saw a major difference in our take on eye exercises. As an exercise professional he is well acquainted with the difficulty of following through on an exercise regimen and he could see that we were taking an approach that was more sensible and fun. We like to encourage our clients to do eye exercises in the flow of their everyday lives, a short exercise her and there throughout the day. This makes an eye exercise program more lighter and easier to fit into a busy schedule.

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ESH # 74 | Does Juicing Improve Eyesight

Will Fuller — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:34:21 +0000

Does juicing improve eyesight? For those of you working hard to improve your vision wouldn’t it be great if you could boost your natural vision improvement program with something other than eye exercises? We are sure you have heard many great things about the amazing health benefits of juicing, but how can it help maintain and improve eyesight?

Does Juicing Improve Eyesight?

To explain how juicing could help improve eyesight you first need to understand the basic concept that we are all made up of tiny cells. I am sure many of you feel that this is an obvious thing to say, but few of us grasp its importance beyond a science exam at school.

We have all heard the saying: “You are what you eat!” However, we would refine that statement to “Your cells are what eat!” Those tiny cells are the building blocks of your body and if you feed them the right nutrition they will sustain a healthy body as a whole.

If you were to build a brand new house that you want to last for 80 years or more withstanding all the elements, you would choose the best materials available on the market. Yes, it might be more expensive in the short run but over time your investment pays off. The same is true for the body and in this case the eyes.

So why juicing?

There are two main reasons why juicing can help get more nutrients into the body.

Higher volume of nutrients
Quicker delivery system

Of course a healthy daily diet of fruits and vegetables are essential for healing and well being. However, it can be very difficult to consume the large amount of nutrients needed to boost the bodies health and eyesight. By juicing you’re removing the fiber and bulk from your food allowing you to consume more nutrients. Secondly, by having the nutrients in liquid form you bypass the stomachs need of churning the food to extract the nutrients. This allows the body to absorb the rich nutrients much quicker.

How does juicing improve eyesight?

There are 3 nutrients essential for good vision Lutein, Zeaxanthin and betacarotene. None of these are produced by the body so they need to be consumed in our food. The best sources of these essential eye nutrients come from fruits and vegetables.

Lutein and Zeaxanthin line and protect the macula from blue and UV sun rays. A good source for them is dark, green, leafy vegetables like Kale and Swiss Chard.

Betacarotene is essential to the health of the retina and specifically for phototransduction. Phototransduction is the process in which light is converted into electrical signals. Those signals are sent to the brain to create a visual image. Great sources of beta carotene are brightly colored fruits and vegetables such as carrots.

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ESH 73 | Glasses vs Contacts

Will Fuller — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:02:55 +0000

What is better for your eyes, glasses or contacts? As teachers of vision improvement you may find it odd that we would encourage the use of either glasses or contacts. However, one of the two can actually be used to help improve vision and assist you in the eye exercises; whereas the other can slow your progress. In this podcast we also share an overall pros and cons list for glasses and contacts to help you decide which is better for you and your eyes.

Glasses vs Contacts – General

Below is a general list of of both positives and negatives:

Contacts Benefits

For those who are self conscious about how they look in glasses contacts obviously allow you to not wear glasses frames so no one will know you need corrective lenses.
Contacts allow you to have a full view of your vision without any obstruction in the periphery which inhibits your full visual range.

Contacts Negatives

Constantly touching the eyes to put contacts in increases the risk of infection.
Although technology is greatly improving the quality and permeability of the contact lens material, it still reduces the amount of oxygen and nourishment that can reach the front of the eye. Those who have fallen asleep wearing contacts and have woken up the next day with red, dry, itchy eyes know exactly what we are talking about!
Despite many people’s best efforts, both contact lenses and contact lens cases can be very hard to keep clean and are prime breeding grounds for fungus and bacteria.
Contacts can be more expensive than glasses .

Glasses Benefits

Glasses are generally cheaper than contacts.
They greatly reduce the risk of eye infections.
Allow oxygen and nutrients to fully access the front of the eye.

Glasses Negatives

The lenses often get dirty or scratched and this can go unnoticed for hours or even days obscuring clear vision.
Frames can be too tight for the head and ears creating headaches and soreness.
The lens of a contact is against the front surface of the eye and so you have full access to the periphery. However, with glasses the lens does not cover your outer periphery. The arms of the frame can also obstruct your field of vision.

Glasses vs Contacts – Vision improvement perspective

You can see from the general list of pros and cons that although contacts can make seeing easier, the overall health and wellness of the eye is at greater risk. There are also other benefits to wearing glasses that can help with your natural vision improvement and eye exercise program.

Eye exercise are best done without any prescription lenses. Unlike contacts, glasses can easily be taken off so you can perform your eye exercises anytime of the day.
Progressive lenses and mono-vision lenses are becoming increasingly popular as a way of seeing clearly both near and far, but they can have a negative effect on both the brain and the eyes. With glasses you can have one pair for seeing near and the other for seeing far eliminating the need for a progressive or mono-vision prescription.
Glasses are cheaper and easier to replace. This means you can start reducing the prescription of your glasses to assist you in vision improvement. It also means that, as you start improving your eyesight through the eye exercises, it is easier and cheaper for you to buy new lower prescription glasses!

Glasses vs Contacts Summary

Although contacts can seem less of an inconvenience on a day to day basis, from a natural vision improvement perspective glasses have more health benefits and make the vision improvement process a lot easier. Glasses allow you to easily remove your corrective lenses to perform the eye exercises. They are also a lot cheaper and easier to replace when you start improving your eyesight.

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ESH #72 | LASIK Eye Surgery Risks

Will Fuller — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:57:41 +0000

There are many risks with any eye surgery, but what about when it comes to LASIK surgery? This eye surgery is often downplayed as a quick 15 minute procedure with minimal risk of complications that only costs a couple thousand dollars. However, we need to ask ourselves whether getting rid of our glasses is really worth the risk of complications that LASIK eye surgery could cause even if they are unlikely?

Anyone reading this could say “You teach natural vision improvement. Of course you’re against LASIK eye surgery!” Which is why, instead of giving you a long list of what could go wrong with LASIK and why you should not touch this type of cosmetic surgery with a 10 foot pole, we are going to share only the four main risks that are most commonly reported to us by our audience and and our clients.

LASIK Eye Surgery Risk 1 – Halos and Glare

There are some people who experience halos and glare at night from street lights and from car headlights etc. This can be due to the pupil not constricting enough, creating a glare effect similar to that of a camera when taking a picture of a light source in the dark. Astigmatism that is not corrected by the surgery can also cause this.

However, there is a percentage of people contacting us who experience halos and glare after the LASIK eye surgery who previously did not experience this. This is more commonly experienced by younger people because their pupils are still flexible enough to fully dilate. When the pupil fully dilates it exposes the surgical incisions that the LASIK procedure causes on the front of the eye (Cornea).

Halos can also be due to the difference in refractive power between the surgically altered portion of the eye and the untouched, natural part of the eye. Unfortunately, even if you are left with seeing halos at night, this is still seen as a successful LASIK surgery by the industry. You will also be told that few people have this problem. In reality it is about 30%.

We suggest dong some personal research first on this “successful” side effect of LASIK and consider carefully if this is a risk you are willing to take. We hear many reports from people that it is highly disturbing to them and can be a particular mental strain at night. We have heard from people who can now no longer drive at night because the halos and glare are too much for them.

You will be told that this is not a serious problem because they can then prescribe drugs to shrink your pupils or you can have more surgery. It is our hope that your common sense will take over at this point. Even most doctors will tell you that prolonged use of any drug can be harmful and having another surgery only increases the chance of more risks.

LASIK Eye Surgery Risk 2 – Dry Eyes

When you cut into the cornea you are tampering with the intricate design of the eye and you are playing with the mechanisms that create tears. This is why people with chronic dry eyes cannot have LASIK eye surgery.

Fake tears will be prescribed if this occurs. However, your tears perform several very important jobs including adding nutrients, immune protection and improving your acuity and you are much better off producing your own tears naturally. The idea of a 20 year old having to apply fake tears to dry eyes for the next 60 years just doesn’t sound like fun to us.

LASIK Eye Surgery Risk 3 – Complications

Another common complication with LASIK is under-correction or over-correction. Over-correction can be very disturbing for someone who has been nearsighted for most of their life and then after a short procedure has suddenly become farsighted. The LASIK specialist will either recommend a “touch up,” meaning more surgery (and more risks) or they will prescribe a new pair of glasses which of course defeats the main purpose of LASIK.

There are also more severe complications with LASIK which can involve loss of vision. We could easily write pages of stories of people with very serious complications that have occurred with LASIK like those found on common LASIK websites such as lasikdisaster.com. However, applying a scare tactic is not our aim here and we’re sure that if you’re considering LASIK you will do your own research into the greater risks of LASIK and weigh the pros and cons for yourself before going under the laser.

Of course there is a risk of complications with any surgery and we would ask that you consider whether those risks are worth the quick fix of not having to wear glasses for the next 5 years or so?

LASIK Eye Surgery Risk 4 -Wearing Glasses 5 to 10 Years Later

It is no secret that doctors believe that your vision can only get worse as you age. Is the prescription you have in your current glasses the same as you had in your first pair or even your last pair? Typically the answer is no. LASIK is essentially making glasses out of your cornea. What makes you think you will keep this prescription for the rest of your life? Although we have heard of people needing glasses within 6 months of having the LASIK eye surgery, it is much more common for you to need glasses again 5, 10 or 15 years down the road.

Of course LASIK’s answer to this eventuality is another “touch up,” but how many times do think you can shave layers off your cornea? If the answer is “not many,” then how long would it be before you need to wear glasses again, defeating the whole point of LASIK eye surgery in the first place. In the process of which you will be taking all those risks all over again that this surgery has to offer.

LASIK Eye Surgery Risks Summary

Our aim here is not to to scare you off the idea of LASIK eye surgery, but rather encourage you to consider the risks you are taking before having it done. The idea of a quick and easy fix for anyone, especially when it comes to health, sounds exciting. However, we would encourage you to at least put some serious effort into doing eye exercises for at least six months. See if you notice any improvements before having the surgery. Natural vision improvement offers safer, cheaper and longer lasting benefits than LASIK, but it does take time.

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ESH #71 | Meir Schneider

Will Fuller — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:41:34 +0000

Dr Meir Schneider first started to use the eye exercises found in the Bates method to improve eyesight 40 years ago. Born blind Meir dedicated his life to eye exercises and can now drive a car in California. Founder of the School for Self-Healing and The Meir Schneider Method, he took the eye exercises created by Dr. Bates and added body movement and massage to maximize its benefits.

Meir Schneider’s Vision Improvement

Meir was born with congenital cataracts. After five unsuccessful cataract surgeries, leaving behind lenses that were 98% scar tissue the doctors certified him blind and told his parents he should learn braille. At the age of 17 Meir Schneider started practicing the Bates method. Up to 13 hours a day he would work on vision improvement. He found that by incorporating massage into this practice he could start to see objects. After recognizing objects he could start to see large print from up close.

Today Meir has overcome all odds and holds a unrestricted driver’s license in California. His success was such that he found the same principles he adopted to improve his vision could also be adapted to other non vision related conditions. Founder of the School for Self-Healing in San Francisco, Meir now works with all conditions including Muscular Dystrophy, Multiple Sclerosis and Polio. Meir also trains people to work on themselves and help others through the art of Self-Healing.

Will Fuller and Meir Schneider

Will was born with Retinitis Pigmentosa a degenerative eye disease that leads to tunnel vision and eventually blindness. For 20 years Will was told nothing could be done to help his eye condition. This changed after he heard a lecture given by Deepak Chopra who mentioned a man called Meir Schnieder who had overcome his blindness through vision improvement exercises. Will immediately bought Meir’s book “My Life and Vision” which motivated him to start performing the eye exercises himself.

As a student of Sport Science and Anatomy Physiology it made sense to Will that the eyes could be exercised just like any other part of the body. After 4 years of performing the eye exercise and seeing improvements, Will moved to San Francisco to train with Dr Meir Schneider to further progress his results and give others the same opportunity he had by coaching them.

Richard Miller and Meir Schneider

Richard Miller was born legally blind with Optic Atrophy. After hearing about the success of Meir Schneider in treating his own blindness, Richard began traveling to San Francisco on a regular basis to receive treatments. Through these treatments and practicing the eye exercises on his own Richard improved his vision to nearly 20/100. He also substantially reduced his myopia and astigmatism prescription and has stopped wearing glasses. Inspired to help others with vision problems, Richard moved to San Francisco three years ago to finish his apprenticeship with Meir.

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ESH #70 | How to Improve Night Vision

Will Fuller — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:29:13 +0000

It’s not just people with eye conditions like retinitis pigmentosa who want to know how to improve night vision. Many people find that as they age their night vision gets worse; they also want to improve it. To get an understanding on how to improve night vision we need to understand what part of the eye we use for night vision and how can we strengthen it.

How to Improve Night Vision 1 : Peripheral Vision Eye Exercise

There are 120 million rods cells in each eye that are responsible for seeing movement and low levels of light. This part of the retina with all the rods cells also provides visual information from your periphery. By strengthening these cells in your periphery you are also helping to improve your vision at night.

By performing the peripheral vision eye exercises you are stimulating the rod cells because you are waving the hands to the side of the face whilst obstructing the central vision. To enhance this process you can perform the peripheral vision exercise in the dark. Because you will be using flashing lights (movement) along with being in the dark, which activates the rod cells even further, you are exercising the rod cells one step further, making it easier to see in the dark.

How to Improve Night Vision: Sunning Eye Exercise

The pupil also plays a part in night vision. It dilates to allow more light to enter the eye. When Sunning you have the eyes closed and face the sun. This fully constricts the pupil. Then as you turn your head to the side the pupil dilates. By constricting and dilating the pupil you are exercising the iris muscles which create the pupil. So when it is night time your pupils can dilate better, allowing more light to enter the eye. As you can imagine, by allowing more light to enter into the eye we can see better in the dark.

How to Improve Night Vision: Palming Eye Exercise

When palming you are spending long periods of time in the dark helping to rest the retina and optic nerve. In doing so we allow the cells in the periphery to be ready to receive information from the eye when there is only a little bit of light.

This can easily be experienced by walking into a dark room with low light. Pay attention to how dark it is in the room and then palm for 10 minutes. When you take your hands away, the room will seem much brighter than before, showing how palming can improve night vision.

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ESH #69 | Get Rid of Glasses: A Success Story

Will Fuller — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 01:40:52 +0000

A large percentage of our vision improvement community is trying to get rid of their glasses. Although we encourage people to have this as an end goal we also encourage people to to focus more on vision improvement even if they still need to wear glasses at times. Nevertheless, it is always great to hear from people who are close to getting rid of their glasses. In this week’s podcast we interview someone who is nearing that end goal.

How to Get Rid of Glasses

Along with eye exercises we encourage people to lower their prescription incrementally allowing the eyes to adapt back to their normal natural way of seeing.

In this podcast we hear a story from Sue who is a vision improvement practitioner in the Meir Schneider method as well as various forms of bodywork.

You will hear how she uses reduced prescription glasses to slowly work her way back to seeing without glasses. She also discusses some astigmatism eye exercises that she discovered on her own and how she integrates eye exercises like distance looking into her daily routine.

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ESH #68 | Top Four Eye Exercises for Farsightedness (Hyperopia)

Will Fuller — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:53:09 +0000

In this weeks podcast we discuss the top four eye exercises for farsightedness (Hyporopia). Be not sure not to confuse Farsightedness or Hyperopia with Age Related Farsightedness otherwise known as Presbyopia.

This is important because he eye exercises that we recommend are different because the cause of the Farsightedness is different. If you are unsure what kind of farsightedness you have, please check out our previous podcast. You can also click here – ESH #67 | What is Farsightedness?

A farsighted person is already under a lot of visual strain from the continuous contraction of the ciliary muscles that focus the eyes. For this reason it is important to make sure the eyes are relaxed before performing some of the more strenuous eye exercises. This is why we have put the shifting exercise last. Do the three proceeding exercises first to create a more relaxed visual system.

Top Four Eye Exercises for Farsightedness (Hyperopia)

Eye Exercise 1: Peripheral Vision Eye Exercise

When using the periphery, accommodation does not take place. This eye exercise allows the constantly contracting ciliary muscles of the farsighted person to rest and relax..
Eye Exercise 2: Palming Eye Exercise

This eye exercise is essential to vision improvement, as it rests and relaxes the eyes. It achieves this through allowing the optic nerve and retina to completely rest from any external light or activity. The palms touching your eye orbits also brings healing attention and energy to the eyes.
Eye Exercise 3: Sunning Eye Exercise

The Sunning eye exercise accomplishes several important, related things. It reduces light sensitivity and thereby reduces the tendency to squint in bright light. It also causes the pupils to fully contract thereby creating sharper vision. At the same time this eye exercise stimulates the macula. Since the macula needs bright light to become fully active, the macula is underutilized if our eyes are not exposed to sunlight.

Eye Exercise 4: Shifting Eye Exercise with Large and Small Print

In this eye exercise you are challenging your shortened eyeball by looking at nearby printed text. This will train the brain to decipher the image more clearly. Potentially you are also lengthening the eyeball.

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ESH #67 | What is Farsightedness?

Will Fuller — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:52:37 +0000

In this podcast we will cover “what is farsightedness (Hyperopia)?”. It is very important when maintaining and improving eyesight to understand your condition. By learning what farsightedness is your are one step closer to understanding how you can work with it. This is particularly important with farsightedness because there are two kinds.

Two Types of Farsightedness

Farsightedness (Hyperopia)
Age related farsightedness (Presbyopia)

What is Farsightedness # 1 Farsightedness (Hyperopia)?

The first type of Farsightedness occurs from a young age. This condition is when the eye ball is too short. When trying to focus on a close object, the image falls behind the retina, causing it to be blurry.

Farsighted (Hyperopic) people can focus on far objects by slightly contracting the ciliary muscles, but they cannot contract these muscles enough to focus on near objects. This constant state of accommodation is a highly stressful situation for the eye and can lead to other problems.

What is Farsightedness # 2 Age Related Farsightedness (Presbyopia)?

When understanding what age related farsightedness is, it is best to think of it as something we acquire as we age whereas the previous type is something we are born with. in this type of farsightedness the muscles that are responsible for rounding the lens allowing us to focus near become weak and the lens becomes stiff. Just like the first type of farsightedness this means the image cannot be focused on the part of the retina responsible for seeing detail even though the eyeball shape is normal.

For a lot more details on What is Age related Farsightedness (Presbyopia) check out this podcast where we cover it in more detail.

What is Farsightedness In Summary

Farsightedness means you can see clearly in the distance but not from near. The first main reason for this is the eyeball being too short, preventing the image from landing on the detailed part of the retina. The second reason is that the muscles in the eye are too weak and the lens is too stiff to focus the image on the detailed part of the retina.

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ESH #66 | Eye Strengthening Exercises

Will Fuller — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:35:05 +0000

In this podcast we will be discussing eye strengthening exercises. By this we mean the muscular strength of the eye rather than the overall strength of the visual system. People forget that we have muscles in the eye which can be strengthened like any other muscle in the body. For those looking to improve eyesight it is much easier to do the eye exercises if we understand how they can help strengthen the eye and thus improve our vision.

We have divided the eye strengthening exercises in relation to the different parts of the eye. The three parts of the eye that use muscles for functioning are:

Extra ocular muscles
Ciliary muscles
Pupil

Eye Strengthening Exercises: Extra Ocular Muscles

There are 6 muscles attached to each eye which are responsible for eye movements. Like any other muscles in the body, if we overuse particular muscles they become stiff and tight. The underused muscles become weak. A muscle is at its strongest when it is rested, flexible and has strong muscle fibers.

Of course we do not need to lift weights with our eyes in order to strengthen our eyes. By performing the eye rotations eye exercises you are stretching and strengthening the muscles around the eye. In doing so you are also resting the nasal extra ocular muscle which are being overused due to extensive hours of near work .

Eye Strengthening Exercises: Ciliary Muscles

These muscles are inside the eye and are responsible for rounding the lens when looking at near objects. Due to many hours of near work these muscles quickly become overworked and weak. So by performing the near and far eye exercise we are fully contracting and fully relaxing the muscles in the eye. Similar to a push up, continuous relaxing and contracting strengthens the muscles making accommodation easier and stronger. This leads to improved eyesight.

Another eye strengthening exercise for the ciliary muscle is the convergence eye exercise. By crossing the eye we are also fully contracting the ciliary muscle. This is the same as using weights to fully contract the bicep in a bicep curl. We are recruiting as many muscles fibers as possible, bringing more strength.

However, in order to do this, it is also very important to have relaxed eyes in the first place. Please see the palming eye exercise and the distance looking eye exercises for tips on how to relax the eyes before trying the convergence exercise.

Eye Strengthening Exercises: Pupil

Technically the pupil is not a muscle but rather it is a hole created by the iris. However, we have found the majority of people find it easier to understand how to strengthen this part of the eye by referring to it as strengthening the pupil. The pupil has a simple but very important job of constricting in bright light in order to protect the eye and make images sharper. Its other equally important job is to dilate so we can see better in the dark and in our periphery.

Few people are exposed to these two extremes so these muscles becomes weak. By performing the eye strengthening exercise “sunning” we fully constrict the pupil and allow it to slightly dilate and relax as we turn our heads to the side. This ability to fully constrict the pupil will help improve eyesight by making images sharper.

The second eye strengthening exercise for the pupil is the peripheral vision exercise. When performing this eye exercise you are dilating the pupil to receive more information form the world around you. Doing this eye exercise in the dark will cause your pupils to dilate even further.

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ESH #65 | How to Improve Vision

Envision — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:56:04 +0000

There are many professionals in natural vision improvement who each have their own ways to improve vision. For us there is not one single thing or activity that will improve eyesight. Rather, it is a collection of components that when put together is not only a recipe for good eyesight but is a simple way for you to understand how to improve vision naturally.

The five main components needed to improve vision are as follows:

Remove Eyestrain
Eye Exercises
Lifestyle
Nutrition
Blood flow

How to Improve Vision Component 1: Remove Eyestrain

When we have eyestrain it shows that the eye is under stress and strain. When we have a cold or are feeling sick we need to rest to remove stress and strain in order for our health to return. This is true for our eyes too. When we remove eyestrain and our eyes are in a state of relaxation then visual health can return and our vision can start improving.

How to Improve Vision Component 2: Eye Exercises

If you want to strengthen your legs, you go running. If you want to be even more specific and strengthen the muscles in the front of your legs, you can do leg extensions with some weights. The same can be said when you want to improve vision. What exercise you do depends on what part of the eye you want to strengthen.

For example, if you want to strengthen the ciliary muscles, the muscles that round the lens so you can see clear up close; you would then do an eye exercise that strengthens those muscles.

How to Improve Vision Component 3: Lifestyle

How we use our bodies on a daily basis determines how our body functions. Imagine if you tied your left arm behind you back and only used your right for a week or so. It wouldn’t take long for your right arm to become stronger than the left. Further, the left would become even weaker from under use. If you want your vision to improve you must be sure you are using your eyes in a way that keeps the whole visual system strong and healthy. You must make sure you are not only working one part or neglecting to use other parts.

For example, people tend to spend most of their time looking from near using the ciliary muscle in the eye to round the lens. This contraction of these muscles and the constant rounding of the lens becomes the normal function. Then, when you then want to look far away you find that the structure of your eye is stuck in its habitual close looking function and so you cannot see clearly in the distance.

How to Improve Vision Component 4: Nutrition

It’s a simple fact that we are what we eat. If you eat food that is low in nutrients then your cells do not have the building materials needed to build a strong healthy body. Our vision is not separate from our body and is also influenced by the nutrients we eat. A well known example is the connection between a vitamin A deficiency and night blindness. If we eat nutritious food that nourishes both the body and eyes, building strength in our visual cells, then we can expect better vision to follow.

How to Improve Vision Component 5: Blood flow

You can have a great amount of nutrients in the body, but if you don’t have a efficient transportation system to deliver those nutrients around the body then the body and eyes will still not get everything it needs to improve eyesight.

Good blood flow not only delivers nutrients and life giving oxygen to the cells of the body, but also removes waste. This is even more true in the eyes. When we perceive light a process known as phototransduction occurs that converts light into electricity so the visual message can be sent to the brain. This process creates debris which needs to be cleared efficiently for good vision to be maintained and improved.

How to Improve Vision Summary

Now we hope you can see why it is difficult to answer someone when they say, “So how can I improve my vision?” Especially in a 140 character tweet! It may seem at first that there is too much to do in order to improve eyesight. However, at a second glance you will notice that it is not that different from what every doctor around the world is advising people to do to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

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There’s one thing we can all agree on: instead of just relieving eyestrain when it occurs, we are much better off preventing eyestrain in the first place. One of the main reasons why we have gone into so much detail in our last three podcasts (“What Causes of Eyestrain,” “The Symptoms of Eyestrain” and “How to Relieve Eyestrain“) is so that you can better understand the nature of eyestrain and how to now prevent it. If you have not done so already we highly recommend you listen, watch or read those podcasts to get a better understanding of what is being covered here.

There are two main ways to prevent eyestrain form occurring

Positive visual habits and
Eye exercises

Other then your parents telling you to “not sit too close to the television or your eyes will go square,” you probably have had very limited education on how to use your eyes in a healthy way. Most of us have no idea on how to use our eyes and visual system in a positive way, in a way that works with how our eyes should be used naturally.

How to Prevent Eyestrain – Positive Visual Habits

By incorporating positive visual habits into your lifestyle throughout the day you will avoiding eyestrain. With these positive visual habits you will be relaxing the eyes rather than building up fatigue from overuse and you will be avoiding the many symptoms of eyestrain: headaches, dry eyes, itchy eyes and blurred vision.

So you can better understand how to have better visual habits and we have discussed each preventive step in more detail.

1) Positive Visual Habit – Looking into the Distance

By looking into the distance on a regular basis you will greatly reduce the chances of eye strain. In our modern day lives we are spending excessive hours and hours looking from near. When we do this we are overusing the muscles within and around the eye in order to stay focused on near objects. By looking into the distance we allow these muscles to relax and the lens to flatten, preventing eyestrain and fatigue.

2) Positive Visual Habit – Balanced Use of Both Eyes

Most people have one eye that they favor over the other, just like having a dominant arm or leg.
You could imagine if you only used one arm all day how it would soon become fatigued. By balancing the two eyes you can prevent your eyes from becoming too tired in this way.

This can be achieved by taking regular vision breaks from your daily activities. Get up from where you are working and walk around the room or better yet go outside. You will enable the brain to use both eyes equally on the larger objects you are seeing.

Another imbalance of the eyes is overusing the central vision and underusing the peripheral vision. Our peripheral vision used to be our main visual mode of function because it helped us see movement or activity around us in our natural environment. Now, most modern lives depend instead upon using central vision to work and survive. So, by paying more attention to our peripheral vision and keeping it active we can balance out the eyes and further prevent eyestrain from occurring

3) Positive Visual Habit – Adapting to Sunlight

It is unnatural for people to be spending long hours indoors and avoiding the healthy rays of sunlight. The eyes in particular need the sun for nourishment and to fully activate their cells. By avoiding the sun we weaken it’s ability to function naturally in sunlight.

By spending time in the great outdoors (whilst still being smart about avoiding overexposure to the sun) we are allowing the eyes to adapt to the sun’s healthy rays. This keeps our vision strong and prevents the eyestrain that comes from squinting and straining in the sunlight.

4) Positive Visual Habit – Resting the Eyes

If you become more conscious about how much you are using your eyes on a regular basis, you can help prevent visual fatigue. When you decide to rest in the evenings after a long day’s work notice whether you’re still using your eyes for many of your leisure activities in much the same way you did at work: watching television, reading, using the Internet. These are all ways of further exerting the eyes even though they are already tired from work. So by finding leisure activates that can rest the eyes or at least do not further work the eyes, we can prevent our visual system from drifting into even more strain.

Eye Exercises to Prevent Eyestrain

Luckily the same eye exercises that could be used to relieve eyestrain, which was covered in last week’s podcast, can also be used to prevent eyestrain from occurring in the fast place.

In summary you can use:

1) Distance Looking Eye Exercise

The distance looking eye exercise to prevent eyestrain that is caused from looking near.

2) Obstruction Eye Exercise

You can use the Obstruction Eye Exercise to prevent overusing the stronger eye. Perform the Peripheral Vision Eye Exercise to bring balance between the central and peripheral vision.

3) Sunning Eye Exercise

The Sunning Eye Exercise helps improve adaptation to sunlight.

4) Palming Eye Exercise

The Palming Eye Exercise brings deep rest to the visual system.

Check out last week’s podcast on “How to Relieve Eyestrain with Eye Exercises” for more details on these exercises and to find out more about how they can help prevent eyestrain.

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ESH #63 | How to Relieve Eye Strain with Eye Exercises

Envision — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:17:55 +0000

“How to relieve eye strain?” is unfortunately becoming a very common question across the world. However, there are some very simply eye exercises that can be performed to bring relief to eye strain symptoms and overcome the feeling of eye fatigue that so many of us experience.

Eye Strain Exercise 1 – Distance Looking Eye Exercise

Although this sounds like common sense, it is surprising how many people forget to look into the distance after spending many, many hours looking near. When we want to focus on a close object the muscles in our eyes contract. This rounds the lens allowing the image to be focused on our macula, which is the part of the retina responsible for seeing crisp, clear, detailed images.

How to Relieve this Eye Strain

Like any muscle this is fine for a short period of time, but as the hours build, the muscle fatigues and becomes weak. Before long eye strain sets in. So by performing the Distance Looking Eye Exercise we allow the muscles in our eyes to relax. We relieve eye strain.

Eye Strain Exercise 2 – Obstruction Eye Exercise

When discussing the causes of eye strain in podcast episode #61 | What Causes Eye Strain we discussed how unbalanced use of our eyes is a big contributor to the strain. Everyone has an eye that they favor just like we favor our right or left hands. Over time this imbalance puts excessive strain on the stronger eye and further weakens the weaker eye.

How to Relieve this Eye Strain

So by performing the Eye Obstruction Exercise you obstruct the stronger eye allowing it to get some much needed rest, helping you overcome the fatigue. At the same time you are encouraging the brain to use the weaker eye, restoring visual balance.

Eye Strain Exercise 3 – Peripheral Vision Eye Exercise

Overly favoring one eye over the other can cause eye strain; so can favoring our central vision over our peripheral vision. As previously mentioned it is our central vision that sees fine detail. The periphery is more for movement and to see in low levels of light. When trying to focus on reading a book or on watching some form of electronic media with our central vision, the world around us can seem like a visual distraction. As a result the brain ignores the periphery and focuses on our central vision.

How to Relieve this Eye Strain

It is easy to see how, over time, this imbalance can fatigue the eyes. By performing the Peripheral Vision Eye Exercise we can bring relief to eye strain by resting the central vision and by reengaging the periphery, restoring balance to our eyes.

Eye Strain Exercise 3 – Blinking Eye Exercise

When focusing on an object the eye lessens the rate of blinking so we can absorb its content more easily. Overtime this creates eyestrain along with the symptoms of sore, red eyes that feel itchy and dry.

How to Relieve this Eye Strain

The best way to help this eye strain is to BLINK. We know it sounds obvious but so few of us do it. By following the Blinking Eye Exercise we can help lubricate and rejuvenate our eyes.

Eye Strain Exercise 5 – Sunning Eye Exercise

After successfully developing a societal fear of the sun many people have weakened the eyes ability to function normally under natural sunlight. Squinting and reaching for sunglasses are clear signs that you have difficulties adapting to the sun. This inability to adapt to sunlight can quickly lead to eyestrain.

How to Relieve this Eye Strain

Performing the Sunning Eye Exercise can bring relief for eye strain by allowing the eyes to adapt naturally to sun by constricting our pupils fully and by waking up the cone cells in our retinas.

Eye Strain Exercise 6 – Palming Eye Exercise

After working all day we come home to rest our muscles and minds with leisure activities. However, most of these activities do not rest the eyes. Watching television, reading and surfing the web do not rest the eyes; they actually lead to even more eye strain.

How to Relieve this Eye Strain

To help relieve this eye fatigue we want to perform the Eye Exercise called Palming. When we Palm we completely rest the visual system by preventing any light from entering the eyes. We also bring healing attention and energy from our hands.

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ESH #62 | Symptoms of Eye Strain

Envision — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:06:20 +0000

Last week we discussed what causes eye strain. This week we want to explore the symptoms of eye strain so you can identify them and start treating any symptom you may already have. Remember that the worst strain is the one you don’t know about; so check the symptoms below and discover if you fall under any of the categories.

Dry, Itchy, burning Red Eyes
Blurred Vision
Headaches
Neck/Shoulder Tension
Sore and Tired Eyes

If you feel any signs of eyestrain then it can help to understand where the strain came from so you can treat or better yet prevent eyestrain from occurring. To help you with this we have discussed each symptom in greater detail below.

Eye Strain Symptom 1: Dry, Itchy, burning Red Eyes

When we spend long periods of time using our eyes for near work or for concentrating on a particular task our blink rate is one quarter of what it should be. Under these stresses we tend to blink only 5 times a minute. This then becomes an important factor in eyestrain because it is blinking that lubricates the eyes and keeps them moist.

After enough time of reduced blinking the eyes begin to feel dry and itchy. Rub them or leave the eyes this way long enough and you will start feeling a burning sensation and finally your eyes become red.

Eye Strain Symptom 2: Blurred Vision

Try and stand on one leg for longer than 30 minutes. This is a good analogy for eye strain and why your eyes might become blurry. In and around the eye we have muscles that are very similar to those in your legs. These muscles allow us to maintain clear focus.

After standing on one leg for 30 minutes you would need to rest your legs. However, now imagine someone telling you to keep standing. With your legs already tired you would work even harder to try and stay in that position. Certainly some wobbling will take place and eventually you will fall over.

The same is true of the muscles in our eyes. They can no longer hold focus without a rest and you will notice the blurred vision (our eyes’ wobbling) as a symptom of the eyestrain you just created.

Eye Strain Symptom 3: Sore and Tired Eyes

When looking at both symptoms 1 and 2 above it is easy to see how it wouldn’t take too long for dry eyes to progress into visual fatigue from overuse which then can lead to sore and tired eyes.

Eye Strain Symptom 4: Headaches

When the eyes become fatigued we tend to squint. We use our facial muscles to make up for the loss of our eyes’ focusing ability. This combination of tight tired facical muscles and fatigued eyes muscles can make headaches another common symptom of eye strain.

Another cause of headaches can come from clenching the jaw when focusing for long periods of time. This creates tension in the jaw and in the the two temporal muscles in the head leading to headaches.

Eye Strain Symptom 5: Neck/Shoulder Tension

When concentrate, looking forwards for long periods of time, we overuse and over recruit muscles in the neck and shoulders. Over time this leads to muscle tension in the neck and shoulders which then leads to reduced blood flow to the head.

Eye Strain Symptoms Summary

Knowing the signs of eye strain we make it much easier to identify what could be making our eyestrain worse. Only then can we start to look at how to treat and overcome eyestrain through changing our visual habits and through eye exercises.

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ESH #61 | What Causes Eye Strain?

Envision — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:31:16 +0000

Many of the clients we have worked with have experienced eye strain and wonder how their particular eye condition causes it. Such complaints as dry eyes, headaches and strain in the eye are common. However, more often than not the cause of eye strain is from how people use their eyes and not the eye condition itself!

Over the last few years we have even noticed a large influx of people who have perfect vision also asking us “What causes eye strain?” It appears that “eyestrain” is becoming a condition that is both common and highly unnecessary since it can be treated and prevented.

It is easy to simply say “the computer causes eyestrain and so just use it less,” but this issue runs much deeper than that. Before we can start to treat eye strain or even better prevent eye strain from occurring in the first place, we need to understand what the causes are.

In summary we could say eyestrain is caused by two main factors:

Two Main Causes of Eye Strain

Poor visual habits throughout the day
Stress and anxiety

Simply telling someone to “use their eyes better” or “don’t get stressed” does not help much for someone looking to understand eye strain, its causes and how to prevent it. So to understand these causes better we have broken them into 5 smaller areas.

Causes of Eye Strain 1: Excessive Near Work

The eye contains muscles both inside and surrounding it. To focus on a near object we have to contract these muscles and work them so we can see clearly. Just like standing on one leg this is fine for a short period of time. However, when 30 minutes turns into an hour and an hour into several hours; it is easy to understand how excess contraction of these muscles without rest can be a one of the leading causes of eyestrain.

Causes of Eye Strain 2: Staring

The average relaxed person should blink between 15 and 20 times a minute. However, in our modern day world we blink half this rate. Furthermore, when reading we blink half this rate again. It is easy to see how this can quickly lead to dry eyes and eyestrain.

Causes of Eye Strain 3: Adapting to Light

With our increased use of the “great indoors” we are spending an unhealthy amount of time out of the sun (a topic which is starting to be debated by the scientific and medical community). Other than the health benefits that a healthy amount of sunshine can give us, it also helps strengthen our eyes. However, after avoiding natural sunlight for so long by being indoors most of the time and wearing sun glasses unnecessarily we weaken the eyes ability to adapt to it. Eye strain then occurs through squinting and straining in sunlight because our natural adaption to sunlight is too weak.

Causes of Eye Strain 4: Unbalanced use of both eyes

Most people have a preferred right or left arm that they function best with. It makes sense for the brain to want to use the stronger, better arm for your daily functions. As we reinforce this over time through habit it does not take long before we become totally dependent on one arm to perform most of our daily functions. Try brushing your teeth with your less dominant hand and you will quickly see what we are talking about.

The problem with this is that overtime we are overusing what is strong in us and underusing what is weak. The same can be said for the eyes. By favoring one particular eye, our “stronger eye”, we make our eyes unbalanced, leading to eyestrain.

Causes of Eye Strain 5: Overuse

Although both causes 1 and 4 of eyestrain could essentially be classified as overuse, we want to isolate this cause for two reasons. One, so the both cause 1 and 4 could be understood better and two so that we can understand how our modern day world is overusing our eyes and causing eye strain.

In the last 100 years or so we have become increasingly dependent on literacy for our survival. Whether it is writing or reading at school, typing a document for work, reading road signs to navigate or leisurely watching TV, reading a book, chatting on Skype, tweeting, liking, poking, blogging, googling or pinging, we are always using our vision and more often than not in a way that encourages eye strain.

Causes of Eye Strain Summary

So by looking at what causes eye strain in more detail it is easy to see how our daily habits are contributing to strain. You can also see how adding stress and anxiety could then exacerbate all these causes making eyestrain even worse.

By highlighting these causes we hope it makes it much easier to start to understand how to treat and prevent eyestrain for yourself. In next weeks podcast we will be looking into the symptoms of eye strain so you can identify it and work on overcoming it.

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ESH 60 | Vision Yoga

Envision — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:33:02 +0000

It is no secret that eye exercises have been part of general yoga practices for centuries. It made sense to the yogis that vision could be strengthened, maintained and improved just like the other parts of the body. After Will’s 30 days of Bikram yoga challenge we got thinking about the similarities between a daily yoga practice and a daily practice of maintaining vision.

Vision Yoga as a Concept

There are many more elements to yoga, but we chose 5 key elements from yoga that correlate well with an eye exercise program that maintains vision. These five are: balance, strength, flexibility, blood flow and relaxation. We hope that highlighting these common elements between yoga and vision will make it easier for those who already have a yoga practice to incorporate eye exercises into their daily yoga practice. Together these two yogas can help maintain the wellness of vision and body and even improve eyesight.

Vision Yoga Principle 1 -Balance

In yoga you want to balance the muscles in the body to help hold the positions. The same principle can applied to vision. When doing yoga for the eyes you want to balance between your two eyes and balance between central vision and peripheral vision. This helps to avoid eye strain, gives the individual a sense of wellness and improves eyesight.

Vision Yoga Principle 2 – Strength

Just like full body yoga the eye has muscles that need to be strengthened in order to maintain and improve vision. In particular we want to strengthen the cilliary muscles to prevent or overcome presbyopia (age related farsightedness). The cilliary muscles are responsible for rounding the lens when looking at near objects. So by keeping these muscles strong we maintain the eye’s ability to see clearly from near.

Vision Yoga Principle 3 – Flexibility

Another challenge with Presbyopia is a stiffening of the lens, so by keeping the lens flexible we maintain our ability to focus on near objects. By keeping the muscles that are responsible for moving the eyes (extra ocular muscles) flexible we can reduce any strain that tightness in these external muscles is causing. This makes the natural visual process of moving our eyes from detail to detail easier to preform.

Vision Yoga Principle 4 -Blood Flow

Increased and improved blood flow is a key component of yoga although many people don’t necessarily identify it as a benefit from their practice. The body must have good circulation in order for it to function at its best. The same is also true for the eyes. In order to maintain vision we must have efficient transportation of nutrients to the eyes and waste removal away from the eyes.

When this transportation breaks down we get problems. A good example is macular degeneration. The eye needs a sufficient amount of lutien to be deliverd so it can stay healthy. The eye also needs to have the waste which is being built up from the visual process (drusen) to be taken away. If this waste accumulates there will be damage to the central vision or dry macular degeneration.

Vision Yoga Principle 5 -Relaxation

Think how good you feel when you get that chance to finally relax at the end of a long day. Well our eyes feel the same way. Unfortunately in our modern day lives the activities we choose to relax like reading, watching TV and looking through old friends profiles on facebook (everyone does it!) are not relaxing to our eyes. If anything our eyes are having to work harder. Using eye exercises to give your eyes the time they need to relax allows overall vision wellness to return.

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ESH #59 | What is the Cause of Macular Degeneration?

Envision — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:51:08 +0000

Age related macular degeneration or, as it is otherwise known, wet and dry macular degeneration is an eye condition that affects the cone cells of the central vision of one or both eyes. Macular degeneration is one of the leading causes of vision loss in the U.S. for people 60 years of age and older. The two types of age related macular degeneration are “Wet Macular Degeneration” and “Dry Macular Degeneration”.

1. Wet Macular Degeneration

In this eye disease the blood vessels feeding the rods and cones leak, triggering “neovascularization,” which is a growth of new blood vessels. However, these new vessels are also leaky, drowning the photoreceptor cells. This leads to quick central vision loss.

2. Dry Macular Degeneration

The chemical process that allows us to see by turning light into electrical impulses is called phototransduction. This process creates debris called drusen. In a healthy eye, specialized cells in the blood called phagocytes consume this debris and carry it away through the blood vessels.

However, in dry macular degeneration this is no longer being accomplished. Debris builds up between the two most inner layers of the eye known as the retina and choroid creating damage to the photoreceptor cells located in the central vision.

What is the cause of macular degeneration?

Now that you see what “Age Related Macular Degeneration” is it is easier to understand why a common understanding of what causes the macula to degenerate is age. Despite a natural biological predisposition to acquiring this eye disease, we can maintain and even strengthen our maculas to slow down and even avoid the symptoms of macular degeneration.

Rather than thinking of age causing macular degeneration you could think of it as a length of time. We consider there to be three common main factors that “over time” causes both wet and dry macular degeneration.

These three causes are:

Poor blood flow,
Overusing central vision
Misusing the macula

Macular Degeneration Cause 1 – Poor Blood Flow

It is the blood’s job to deliver nutrition, defense and oxygen to the cells of the eye to keep them healthy. In wet macular degeneration the blood vessels in the eye have become weak and are leaking. This shows that a correct amount of blood and nutrients are not being sufficiently delivered. In the case of Dry macular degeneration not enough phagocytes are being delivered to the eye to clear the debris (Drusen) away creating a detrimental effect on clear vision.

A secondary purpose of the blood is to take waste away from the eye. In the case of Dry macular degeneration this is clearing the drusen away from the Macula keeping it clear to function at its best and to stay strong and healthy.

Macular Degeneration Cause 2 – Overusing Central Vision

Just like any part of the body, if we misuse the macula over time it will fatigue and degenerate. Imagine hold a weight with your arm out straight for 14 hours a day for the next 6 months. It wouldn’t be long until the main muscles used in holding the weight fatigue. Surrounding muscles then have to start picking up the work from the fatigued muscles creating strain and a big challenge on the body to maintain overall strength.

The same can be said of overusing the macula when we spend all day and night reading smart phones, tablets, ebooks, books, newspapers, laptops, watching TV etc. This overuse causes fatigue in the visual system, making it hard to keep up with eye maintenance.

Macular Degeneration Cause 2 – Misused Macula

The Macula’s purpose in life is to see crisp clear details and colors. The macula need strong light to accomplish its purpose and the brighter the light the brighter the color and the sharper the image. Hiding from the sun and using poor indoor lighting dose not allow the macula to be fully activated on a regular basis. Just like anything else; if you “don’t use it, you loose it.” Overtime the macula degenerates as it is not being fully activated in the way it was designed.

The same can be said for looking at fine details, something that we stopped doing due to the changes in our modern lifestyles. Again, the less we activate the mechanism that is responsible for seeing detail, the macula, the more vulnerable it is to degeneration over time.

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ESH #58 | Peripheral Vision Loss

Envision — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:06:23 +0000

Whether you have experienced a sudden loss of peripheral vision or you have had peripheral vision loss over a long space of time, it can be a great advantage in maintaining and improving your eyesight to understand what causes loss of peripheral vision and what symptoms go along with it.

What is peripheral vision?

In the center of each eye we have a high concentration of cone cells, 6 million to be precise (give of take a few). This concentration of cone cells is called our central vision. These light sensitive cells are responsible for seeing detail and colour. Outside of this central vision is our peripheral vision which consists of 120 million Rod cells. These cells are responsible for detecting movement and low level light.

Causes of Peripheral Vision Loss

You can see that we have many more cells dedicated to our periphery than to our central vision. This is why sometimes peripheral vision loss (tunnel vision) can go unnoticed if this loss happens over a longer period of time. An example of this is peripheral vision loss caused by Glaucoma. Since there is not necessarily any pain with glaucoma, we often do not notice we have lost particular areas of our visual filed until the later stages when more rod cells have been affected and we experience tunnel vision or blind spots.

Other causes of peripheral vision loss can be retinal detachment, strokes, rod dystrophy, head or eye injuries. In fact, anything that can lessen blood flow to the Optic Nerve can lead to vision loss because it is the blood that nourishes the optic nerve and the optic nerve is responsible for sending the visual signal to the brain.

The loss of peripheral vision can be in only one eye. It does not necessarily happen in both eyes. This could be another reason why someone may not notice peripheral vision loss, because the brain can use the better image from the eye that is not damaged to make up for a loss in visual field of the other.

Symptoms of Peripheral Vision Loss

Other than tunnel vision, a symptom of peripheral vision loss can be difficulty seeing in the dark or night blindness. This is true in the eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. Another symptom might be pockets of missing peripheral vision which can be experienced as static or white noise.

If you have experienced any of the symptoms mentioned on this page or feel that you may be experiencing peripheral vision loss make sure you see an eye doctor as soon as possible.

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ESH #57 | Top Three Eye Exercises for Presbyopia / Age Related Farsightedness

Envision — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:45:37 +0000

What is Presbyopia or Age Related Farsightedness? Put simply Presbyopia is a weakening of the eye muscles and a stiffening of the lens. Just like any other muscle in the body you can strengthen your eye muscles if you know what exercises to do and how to do them. In this podcast we discuss the three top eye exercises to improve presbyopia so that you can read much easier and clearer!

1. Convergence/Presbyopia Eye Chart

This first eye exercise for age related farsightedness is the Presbyopia Eye Chart which can be found by clicking HERE. This free eye chart has everything you need to start improving your vision. By converging your eyes (crossing the eyes) you are strengthening the eye muscles and structures which are used in accommodation (focusing on close objects).

2. Near and Far Eye Exercise

The Near and Far Eye Exercise is also meant to strengthen the weakened muscles in the eye which are the cause of presbyopia. The reason for this is straight forward. When you look near the structures needed to make vision clear when looking close are being exercosed. Then when you look into the distance those muscles and your whole eye relaxes. It is easy to see how doing this vision “push up” can strengthen your eyesight and allow vision improvement to take place.

3. Sunning Eye Exercise

When looking at close objects the pupil constricts to make vision clearer. With age related farsightedness we want to strengthen the muscles of the pupil so we can obtain the sharpest sight possible. The Sunning Eye Exercises continuously constricts and dilates the pupil allowing the eye to build strength. It also fully activates the cone cells, which are the cells in the eye that give us crisp clear vision.

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ESH #56 | The Brain That Changes Itself

Envision — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:33:10 +0000

Is the brain something that develops as a child and can never be changed as an adult or does the brain continue to change itself throughout your life? If it does change then what impact does this have on our ability to improve our eyesight with eye exercises?

In this podcast Will and Richard discuss the book “The Brain That Changes Itself” by Norman Doig M.D. As a scientist in Neuroplasticity his focus is on how the amazing brain continuously changes and how we can make the most of this valuable information.

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ESH #55 | Top 3 Eye Exercises for Myopia or Nearsightedness

Envision — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:41:52 +0000

Anyone who has Myopia (Nearsightedness) and has heard about natural vision improvement wants to know which eye exercises will improve their blurry vision in the distance.

Our approach to self-healing is to improve eyesight holistically. We work on all aspects of the body to improve vision. However, we also know that those who want to help blurry vision or stop their Myopia (Nearsightedness) from getting worse want to know the top eye exercises which are specific to improving their sight..

The first eye exercise for Myopia can be seen as common sense. Simply do the opposite of what caused your Nearsightedness in the first place, look far. The eye exercise Distance Looking is as simple as finding an object or view that is 20 ft or more away from you and then relaxing and softly gazing into the distance.

The second eye exercise that we recommend for improving Nearsightedness is Palming. This exercise helps to deeply relax the eyes from all the hard work they perform throughout the day. Most people report greatly reduced eyestrain as a pleasant side effect.

The final top eye exercise for Myopia is Sunning. This eye exercise helps constrict the pupils, making eyesight clearer. It also activates the cone cells, which are responsible for crisp detailed vision.

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ESH #54 | Good Computer Posture

Envision — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:21:39 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard discuss proper posture at the computer. Since we are all spending so much time at the computer, good posture habits at the computer are becoming more and more important.

Not only are we hurting our eyes by straining and staring at the screen, we are also hurting our bodies and our eyes through poor posture. Poor posture leads to poor circulation and that leads to vision problems in the long run.

With a few simple tricks though we can correct our posture and return nourishing blood flow to our visual systems.

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ESH #53 | How to Have Good Posture

Envision — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:08:01 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about the basics of good posture. They start with the position of the head and neck and continue on down to the shoulders and hips.

Good posture relieves muscle tension and encourages better blood flow and therefore better vision.

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ESH #52 | Is Your Food Killing You?

Envision — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:28:47 +0000

In this podcast Will relates his experiences with “hot” yoga. Will also talks about a new study that has found that processed meats shorten our lives while Richard discusses a study which indicates that a low protein diet extends our lives.

In the question of the week from a heavy computer user they talk about the need for relaxation in dealing with convergence problems at the computer.

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ESH #51 | Are You Eating Horse Meat?

Envision — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:47:19 +0000

Do we really know what we are eating anymore? Odds are we are not eating horse meat, but this latest food goof points out the importance of paying attention to whether our food is organic, grass fed, free range, etc. and then making informed choices about how much we are willing to risk our bodies for the sake of a few extra dollars.

In this podcast Will and Richard suggest eating a smaller quantity of organic meat as a safer option. In the first part of the podcast Richard talks about posture and Will talks about Bikram (Hot) yoga.

In the question of the week they talk about the importance of closed eyes during the sunning eye exercise.

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ESH #50 | What is Presbyopia (Age Related Farsightedness)?

Envision — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:16:50 +0000

What is Presbyopia? Otherwise known as Age Related Farsightedness or “old age farsightedness,” this eye condition first occurs at middle age when the lens inside our eye becomes stiff and the muscles that we use to bend the lens become weak.

This stiffness and weakness makes it difficult to focus our eyes on a close object like a book or a menu. Presbyopia forces us to start wearing “reading” glasses when we can’t hold text far enough away.

So what can I do about presbyopia?

You can start buying stronger and stronger reading glasses and let your eyes get weaker and weaker or you can try the Presbyopia eye exercises program on this website!

In the question of the week Will and Richard answer a question about oversensitivity to light or “light phobia.”

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ESH #49 | What Is Nearsightedness (Myopia)?

Envision — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:19:22 +0000

According to the American Optometric Association Nearsightedness, or Myopia as it is otherwise known, effects around 30% of the US population. This figure is set to rise considerably over the next decade due to the increased amount or near work and visual strain we put on our eyes.

A study in Asia has shown that 90% of school leavers now have the eye condition Nearsightedness. Twenty years ago the rate was only 20%. This rapid increase rules out the theory that Nearsightedness could only be caused by genetics.

So what causes Nearsightedness and what is it?

Nearsightedness is the elongation of the eyeball which develops up to the age of 21. Symptoms of nearsightedness are just like the name implies: objects nearby are clear and objects in the distance are blurry. The images created by distant objects cannot focus on the detail sensitive center of the retina because the eyeball is too long.

After the age of 21 adults can develop Pseudo Nearsightedness or Pseudo Myopia. Symptoms of this kind of myopia are again blurry objects in the distance. This is caused by a spasm of the Ciliary muscles which keeps the lens rounded. This creates the effect of nearsightedness because as the light enters the eye the image of a distant object falls in front of the retina. The distant image is again seen as blurry.

In the question of the week Will and Richard discuss whether alcohol is bad for your eyesight.

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ESH #48 | Adapting Eye Exercises to Your Environment

Envision — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:03:56 +0000

Come rain or shine consistently doing eye exercises is the key to success in improving your eyesight naturally. So what happens when you want to do the the Sunning Eye Exercise but have no sun? Or the Distance Looking Eye Exercise without any distance?

In this podcast Will and Richard explore the different possibilities available when you want to do an Eye Exercise but the weather is not behaving the way it should.

They also discuss methods of overcoming the difficulties that many people face when doing eye exercises in an environment or surrounding that does not quite fit the exercise.

In the question of the week they discuss whether reading really close up could be making your eyesight worse.

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ESH #47 | 5 Steps to a Successful New Year’s Resolution: Set A Time Frame

Envision — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:14:46 +0000

The clock is ticking! With this last podcast in the five part series on Creating a Successful New Year’s Resolution you will now be able to finish making your goal and start working on achieving it!

In this week’s podcast Will and Richard discuss making your goal “Timely,” which is the final part of the SMART goal setting approach. By setting a relevant and attainable time frame to your goal you create motivation and urgency to achieve it.

However, If the time frame is too long then there is a lack of urgency to complete the goal as you have “plenty of time to achieve it.” If you do not allow enough time then you create too much negative pressure on yourself and could make the goal unattainable.

The question of the week this week came from the Envision Self-Healing Facebook Fanpage. The questioner asked “Can juicing make eyesight worse?”

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ESH #46 | 5 Steps to a Successful New Year’s Resolution: Make It Relevant

Envision — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:40:05 +0000

In this week’s podcast Richard hits the wall while on the floor at spin class. Will and Richard discuss the fourth step in creating a New Year’s resolution that you can keep. Make it relevant?

Is it relevant to your vision condition and is it relevant to your heart’s desire. Resolving to learn Latin is not relevant to most people’s lives and passions whereas learning Spanish might be more relevant and more heartfelt.Of course you might be a fan of Dante and want to read his classic works in their original language.

In this question of the week the boys talk about how the “See Clearly Method” differs from the programs and exercises on the Envision website.

ESH #45 | 5 Steps to a Successful New Year’s Resolution: Is It Attainable?

Envision — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:35:26 +0000

This week Will relates a “Lost in Translation” story about blueberries and Richard talks about getting a new trainer at the gym.

In this week’s podcast Will and Richard talk about the third step in creating a successful New’s Year’s resolution: Is it attainable? Is your goal for vision improvement in one year within reach?

This step also involves looking at your resources, attitude and skills that you need for reaching this goal. Are these accessible to you?

In the question of the week this week they discuss the best exercises for helping optic atrophy.

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ESH #44 | 5 Steps to a Successful New Year’s Resolution: Make it Measurable

Envision — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:32:41 +0000

In part 2 of a 5 part series on setting a successful New Year’s Resolution Will and Richard discuss the need to make your goal measurable.

Instead of improving your eyesight by some amount someday soon come up with a measurable goal like reading one more line on the eye chart by year’s end.

In the question of the week they address a very common question: “Can I get my vision back to 20/20?”

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ESH #43 | 5 Steps to a Successful New Year’s Resolution: Be Specific

Envision — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:16:39 +0000

A New Year brings new beginnings. However, for new beginnings to take place we need to make them happen. This involves an individual making an active decision on something that they want to improve upon from the previous year. Once they have made that active decision, they can then figure out a way to achieve that improvement.

Of course this can be many things, but generally it involves getting rid of something or gaining something. This year we want you to make a New Year’s resolution to gain better eyesight.

There is a good reason that people joke about making resolutions, because many of us break our resolution within a few days, weeks or months. However this is not necessarily the fault of the individual. The resolution itself could have a lot to answer for. There is a way to create a New Year’s resolution which would give you a much better chance of being successful and in the case of a vision improvement give you a much better chance of improving your eyesight.

In this podcast Will and Richard discuss the principles behind the SMART method of creating goals. In particular they focus on S; which stands for SPECIFIC. Being specific helps you to find out exactly what it is you want to improve in your vision. Being specific will help you achieve your vision goal and lead you towards getting the best possible results from your eye exercises.

In the second half of the podcast they answer a question from the Envision Facebook Fan Page regarding blurry vision during physical exercises.

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ESH #42 | Overcoming Barriers to Natural Vision Improvement: Part 3

Envision — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:44:05 +0000

In this final episode of a three part series Will and Richard target “lack of understanding” and the “quick fix mentality” as two key barriers to natural vision improvement.

Do eye exercises work? Just try one for 10 minutes and see if you notice any improvement. Although improvements can be subtle, most people notice improvements almost instantly.

This shows that the eye exercises work. However, to get the most out of vision improvement we need to perform the eye exercises on a long term basis so that better vision becomes our normal vision.

If we can learn to overcome our barriers to natural vision improvement we allow ourselves to perform the eye exercises over the period of time that our eyes need to see long term improvements.

In the question of the week this week they respond to a You Tube viewer asking if spending long hours at the computer can effect vision?

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ESH #41 | Overcoming Barriers to Natural Vision Improvement: Part 2

Envision — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:56:20 +0000

When doing eye exercises we see that they work and our vision improves. The trick is doing vision improvement exercises on a regular basis.

In this episode Will and Richard discuss how to overcome two big barriers to natural vision improvement.

They first focus on how “perfectionism” can prevent you from seeing the true benefits that eye exercises have to offer.

The Second barrier to people getting clearer vision is “procrastination”. Everyone at some point has experienced this. Will and Richard give some top tips on how to overcome these barriers and get you one step closer to improved eyesight.

In the question of the week they discuss if you can improve a Astigmatism located in the lens with the Astigmatism Eye Exercise.

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ESH #40 | Overcoming Barriers to Natural Vision Improvement: Part 1

Envision — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:39:31 +0000

In this week’s podcast Richard talks about his visit to the ophthalmologist to investigate stem cell treatments for Optic Atrophy and his genetics while Will talks about another vision improvement “bucket list” encounter with golf.

In the topic of the week is overcoming barriers to natural vision improvement. They discuss why overcoming barriers are essential in improving your eyesight and encourage making a list of your own barriers to doing eye exercises. They then go into detail on two prominent barriers: doubt and time.

In the question of the week they respond to a Facebook post asking about testing vision when it changes from blurry vision to clear vision.

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ESH #39 | Leaving No Question Unanswered

Envision — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:04:57 +0000

In this podcast Will talks about seeing new clear areas in his periphery, areas where the static has cleared. Richard talks about inventing a new eye exercise that combines head rotations with eye rotations.

They also talk about the importance of getting all your questions answered about eye exercises. Unanswered questions lead to doubt and procrastination; they take away your motivation. On the other hand if you can get your questions answered, you will be confident in knowing how and why you are improving your eyesight.

They then talk about their new Q & A phone sessions that they will be starting up and how they will launch them as a free bonus to the updated Eye Exercise Express.

In the question of the week Will and Richard answer the question of whether farsightedness is now less common than in previous generations.

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ESH #38 | Teaching Old Teachers New Tricks

Envision — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:56:39 +0000

In this podcast Richard talks about his week using Skype to create an eye exercise support group. Will talks about going to Napa Valley for his second successful bike ride.

Together they tell the story of how they were led by their hard-of-hearing audience to create an updated video and subtitled version of the Eye Exercise Express, proving that even old eye exercise teachers can learn new tricks.

In the question of the week they answer a query about blurriness at night after LASIK surgery.

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ESH #37 | Three Successful Strategies for Learning Eye Exercises Part 3: Understanding

Envision — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:43:05 +0000

In this week’s podcast Will and Richard talk about their week finding socks and playing golf. They also talk about the role of understanding in learning eye exercises. In the second half of the podcast they answer the question: “Will eye exercises still help me if I have already had Lasik surgery?”

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ESH #36 Three Successful Strategies for Learning Eye Exercises Part Two: Reinforcement

Envision — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:24:01 +0000

In this week’s podcast Will and Richard talk about the importance of reinforcement in learning eye exercises. Reinforcement starts with trying to do the exercise the way it was demonstrated for you.

The next stage is having your form corrected by a vision improvement coach or by watching a video or listening to an audio over and over to correct any bad habits you might be developing. Once you have the form correct it is only a matter of repeating the exercise enough times to move your knowledge of the exercise from short to long term memory.

Of course after all that hard work you need some positive reinforcement to help you appreciate what you have accomplished and to help you appreciate how the exercise has improved your vision.

In this question of the week they address a general question about vision loss from a young You Tube viewer.

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ESH #35 | Three Successful Strategies for Learning Eye Exercises Part One: Demonstration

Envision — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:47:43 +0000

In this week’s podcast Will and Richard talk about the ways we learn: visual, auditory and kinesthetic and how we can use all of these approaches to learn eye exercises. The first step in this learning process is demonstration or seeing and hearing how to do the eye exercises.

In the question of the week they answer a question that asks whether one can use an electric light as a substitute for the sun in the Sunning Eye Exercise.

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ESH #34 | Understanding a Holistic Approach to Natural Vision Improvement: Part 6: Nutrition

Envision — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:21:44 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about the important role of nutrition in a holistic approach to Natural Vision Improvement.

In this approach carrots play an equal role to eye exercises. Its as simple as a good diet leading to better blood flow and better blood chemistry leading to improved eyesight.

In the question of the week the guys answer a question from a mother whose young child has been prescribed weak glasses for myopia.

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ESH #33 | Understanding a Holistic Approach to Natural Vision Improvement: Part 5: Blood Flow

Envision — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:50:59 +0000

In this week’s podcast Will and Richard talk about the importance of good blood flow as part of a holistic approach to Natural Vision Improvement.

It is accepted that poor blood flow can lead to vision conditions such as Macular Degeneration and Optic Atrophy. Why wouldn’t good flow help prevent or even improve these degenerative conditions?

In the question of the week Will and Richard go into further detail on how to use pinhole glasses.

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ESH #32 | Understanding A Holistic Approach To Vision Improvement Part 4 : Muscle Tension

Envision — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:57:44 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about the importance of paying attention to your body when you are trying to improve your eyesight.

Keeping a good posture, developing cardiovascular fitness and having a relaxed musculature can all greatly help your eye exercise program.

Paying attention to your body is essential to a holistic approach to vision improvement and it will speed up your progress toward clear vision.

The question of the week asks: “I have just begun to do eye exercise. Now what is the next step?”

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ESH #31 | Understanding a Holistic Approach to Natural Vision Improvement Part 3: The Mind

Envision — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:17:19 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about the role of the mind in a holistic approach to natural vision improvement. They cover the need for strong motivation and the emotions that arise when we take on an eye exercise program. They also discuses the importance of breaking old habits and establishing positive new ones. In the question of the week they explain how they use pinhole glasses in their vision improvement programs.

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ESH #30 | Understanding a Holistic Approach to Natural Vision Improvement: Part 2 The Brain

Envision — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:30:44 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about the role of the brain in vision and vision improvement. Since 90% of vision comes from the brain we cannot ignore it. The brain can step in and turn off parts of our vision that are compromised due to some disease or condition. This makes our vision even worse. On the other hand, if we deliberately engage our brain in the weaker parts of our visual system we can restore function much like a stroke patient can restore function after a stroke. In the question of the week they answer the proverbial question: “Do I really have to do all those exercises?”

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The Importance of Discovering Eyestrain

Will — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:10:06 +0000

Do you suffer from eyestrain!? No? Are you sure!? Its amazing how the body can tune out from any constant strain that the body is under.

Even if you did notice the strain… what is your first response? Most people would reach for pills, and not just pain killers, but anti anti inflammatory, muscle relaxants or anything that we think will keep away the pain.

Of course we are not getting rid of the pain, rather we are masking it, allowing the pain and the cause of the pain to remain. Over time, if we do not address the pain and its cause, then the body tries its best to tell us something is not right and needs addressing.

One of the most dangerous types of strain is the one you cannot feel and this is certainly true when it comes to eyestrain. Most of us do not even realize that we can strain our eyes. However, more and more people are becoming aware of what eyestrain feels like after spending long periods of time on the computer.

The importance of discovering and acknowledging the eyestrain is that once we start feeling it, we can figure out what is causing it. The cause might not simply be using the computer. Other factors such as unbalance in the eyes, overuse of central vision, making the eyes work hard under poor lighting, wearing glasses, not blinking, etc., can contribute to eyestrain

The good news is… once we know what is causing it, we can start to apply the eye exercise and start to change our visual habits so that we can avoid the eyestrain to begin with.

So your homework this week is to try and feel for any eyestrain, especially at the end of long day, and make notes of your observations. That’s it!

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ESH #29 | Understanding a Holistic Approach to Natural Vision Improvement

Envision — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:22:44 +0000

This week Will and Richard begin a series of podcasts on a holistic approach to Natural Vision Improvement. If we involve the whole body and mind to improve eyesight we can get a quicker and longer lasting improvement in our vision. In the question of the week they give their opinions on Plus Lens Therapy, the practice of wearing plus reading glasses to get rid of nearsightedness.

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ESH #28 | Deciding to Go Organic

Envision — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:42:13 +0000

What are the benefits of eating organic? Does it really make a difference? Is an organic carrot really that much more nutritious than a conventional carrot? In this week’s podcast Will and Richard talk about all the reasons you want to go organic: better nutrition for your eyes, better health for your whole body and better tasting meals to name just a few.

The question of the week this week comes from a law student asking how they can overcome dry eyes?

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ESH #27 | Choosing the Juicer or Blender That’s Right for Your Eye Nutrition Program

Envision — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 03:42:05 +0000

Your eyes are just like any other part of your body; they need nutrition too. Juices and smoothies are a way of giving your nutrition and your eye nutrition a real boost. So which juicer or blender is right for you? In this podcast Will and Richard talk about their own choices in juicers and blenders and about the field of products out there.

The question of the week this week is “Should i wear prescription contact lens or glasses?”.

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ESH #26 | Using Juicing and Smoothies as an Eye Exercise

Will Fuller — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:17:31 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about using juicing and smoothies as an eye exercise, as a way of improving eyesight. They talk about getting more betacarotene and lutein through diet and how juicing can help you get higher doses of these vision improvement nutrients naturally. They also address the question of doing eye exercises while wearing glasses.

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ESH #25 | Eating Your Way to Better Vision

Envision — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:30:38 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about “Eating Your Way To Better Vision.” Specifically they refer to sources of Betacarotene and Lutein both of which are essential components of the process of seeing. This week was an amazing week for Will and his eyes. He made a major breakthrough in his effort to increase his peripheral vision by using his brain differently and by shifting his attention. The question of the week asks why we see better with our periphery at night.

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ESH #24 | Using Nutrition To Improve Your Eyesight

Envision — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:56:12 +0000

In this podcast Will talks about his trip to England and France while Richard talks about remodeling his new house and how their vision conditions played into these two experiences. They both saw how the image of themselves as having vision problems slanted their view of what they were capable of doing. The topic of the week is the first in a series of podcasts to cover nutrition and in the question of the week Will and Richard give solutions to a listener with TMJ syndrome.

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ESH #23 | Making Positive Observations Of Your Vision Improvement

Envision — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:34:47 +0000

In this weeks podcast Richard discuss how he is making the most of his time off by spending more time doing his eye exercises. Will notices that his jet lag and fatigue is making it more difficult to see in his periphery. The topic of the week is making positive observations of your vision improvement. Here, Will and Richard discuss the importance of paying attention to those small vision improvements that occur. This will help motivate you more towards improving your eyesight.

The question of the week this week is there anyway i can improve my vision faster?

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ESH #22 | Observing Your Vision Improvement Progress

Envision — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:44:51 +0000

We can learn to carefully observe how our vision changes under stress and after doing eye exercises. We can also become aware of different ways of evaluating our vision other than acuity like the physical feel of our eyes or light sensitivity. In this podcast we give you our experience in how to observe these kinds of changes in vision. In the second half we answer a question about watching TV and the Distance Looking exercise.

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ESH #21 | Eye Exercise Express A Quick Start Guide to Improving Your Eyesight Part 2

Envision — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:28:30 +0000

In this weeks podcast William and Richard answer some of those burning questions you have about eye exercises. They relate these questions to the new Eye Exercise Express – A Quick Start Guide to Improving Eyesight. Such questions include How long will it take to improve my eyesight? and Do the eye exercises really work?

In the second part of the podcast they read some exciting success emails that they have been receiving from their audience.

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The Art of Fighting Without Fighting – A Succesful Mind Set for Improving Eyesight

Will — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:59:08 +0000

Its a simple fact that if we don’t enjoy doing an activity, then we don’t want to do it. If we find an activity to be positive and is something we enjoy doing then we are more likely to do it.

Some people try to force themselves to do the eye exercises even though they would much rather be doing something else. The eye exercises become a chore and an inconvenience. The attitude of forcing yourself to do the eye exercise may last for a few months, but it won’t be long until you will simply say, “These eye exercises don’t work,” and then give up on natural vision improvement completely.

Performing the eye exercise under stress and limiting yourself to a predetermined time of achieving maximum results is a sure fire way of not getting the best out of vision improvement.

Instead we want to find a way to make the eye exercises something we enjoy doing and want to do. This is why Richard and I have been working hard to create a quick start guide for vision improvement called the Eye Exercise Express that would allow people to do the exercise pretty much anytime and anywhere. This way they can fit the eye exercise into their daily lives and not feel pressured into having to fit all the exercise into one big chunk of their day.

Once people start to realize that they can perform the eye exercises anywhere, at anytime, the chore becomes a pleasure. It has got to a point now where I simply never have a moment of boredom because if I am in a situation of killing time, I simply press play on my mp3 player, listen to an eye exercise and start doing it.

We have recorded each exercise to exactly 10 minutes so you don’t have to worry about running over time. We also guide you step-by-step as if you were here in San Francisco so you can get maximum benefits from those 10 minutes and make sure you are doing it right.

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ESH #20 | Eye Exercise Express – A Quick Start Guide to Improving Your Eyesight

Envision — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:35:58 +0000

In this podcast we tell the story of how we came up with our brand new eye exercise audio guide, the “Eye Exercise Express: A Quick Start Guide To Improving Your Eyesight.” We give you our reasons for developing features like timing the exercises to exactly ten minutes and the quick start reference chart that tells you which four exercises to do for your particular vision condition. Basically, we are very excited by our new creation and want to share that excitement with you!

Instead of question of the week this week we will be sharing some great success stories from our audience who have improved their eyesight naturally using the eye exercises.

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Turn Your IPhone or IPad Into An Eye Exercise Machine!

Richard — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:21:55 +0000

Modern technology is causing many vision problems. I could tell you to give up your smart phone, tablet and computer for the sake of your eyes, but that is a losing proposition. Even I would reject that solution. Instead lets use that technology to help our eyes.

Will and I have spent the last couple of months recording the essential eye exercises on digital audio tracks so you can simply press play to hear us guiding you through your eye exercises.

We have also created a simple chart that tells you which four exercises you should be doing for your particular condition. As an added bonus, we have recorded the sounds from the beach and park as a background to our voices. It’s our hope that this is the next best things to coming to San Francisco and receiving a personal session from us.

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Good Circulation Will Improve Your Eyesight

Richard — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:36:35 +0000

Increased blood circulation can help many kinds of eye conditions and help improve your eyesight, from glaucoma to optic atrophy to diabetic retinopathy. Many of these vision diseases may even be caused or at least triggered by poor blood circulation to the eyes.

So should we take our eyes to the gym for an eye exercise workout? Well, yes, but increased blood circulation to improve your eyesight is more complicated than that. You also need a relaxed body and mind. Tension of all kinds can restrict good circulation and blood flow. So if you want good circulation to improve your eyesight you will also need to stretch, massage your body and relax your mind.

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ESH #19 | Fitting Eye Exercises Into Your Life

Envision — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:00:22 +0000

In the topic of the week section of this podcast Will and Richard talk about how they fit eye exercises into the flow of their daily lives. Will talks about doing distance looking while waiting for a bus and Richard talks about doing sunning while waiting for his brother to join him on a trip. This week Richard tells the story of going to his family reunion and going to the UC Berkeley optometry clinic. Will talks about learning to juggle in his periphery. In the question of the week the guys address the question of how to get rid of floaters.

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Why is Vision Clearer in Sunlight?

Will — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:48:51 +0000

Has anyone else noticed that, when doing eye exercises, their vision clearer u sunlight than indoors? Well this is not a problem with your eyesight, rather, you are experiencing natural vision!

There is a very simple explanation to why vision us clearer in sunlight and the answer can be found in the anatomy of the eye. The back of the eye is made of of millions of cells that convert the light rays into electrical signals, which are then sent to the brain as images allowing us to see.

The cone cells are responsible for sending clear crisp colorful images. These cone cells desire maximum amount of light in order to function at its best and for you to see clearer.

We can explain this visual process by using solar panels as an analogy. As the light comes into contact with the solar panel, the light is converted into electricity which is then taken to a place to be stored or used immediately. If there is not much sunlight, then we get less energy and power.

There is another part of the eye that assists in helping us to see clearer and that is the pupil. As the pupil constricts to reduce the amount of light entering the eye it, focuses the image on the fovea, which is the located in the macula. This makes up only 1% of the retina and is responsible for seeing the most detail. This makes the image crisper and clearer for us to see!

Perhaps you can see now why we don’t love sunglasses!

Good Luck with your eye exercises this week and happy healing!

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ESH #18 | Getting Vision Improvement Back On Track

Envision — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:25:49 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about getting their vision improvement programs back on track after spending nearly 3 weeks out of their routines in Brazil. Will advocates the “get back on the horse right away” approach whereas Richard advises gradually building your routine back to where it was. They also answer a question about vision being less clear indoors than it is outdoors.

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Eye Exercises for a Busy Life: Part 5

Richard — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:38:00 +0000

Who has time for eye exercises? Aren’t our lives too full already? On the other hand don’t we all want better, healthier vision? In this fifth blog of a five-part series, Richard of Envision Self-Healing shows how he has created an eye exercise program for himself using the anatomy of his eyes as a framework. He also talks about how he works this program into his very busy life.

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Bringing Balance to the Eyes

Will — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:34:12 +0000

Very few people think about balance of the eye when it comes to improving eyesight. It’s understandable that most people want to cut straight to the chase and work on the eye exercises that will improve acuity and start reading further down the chart.

However, just like a learning to walk before we run reducing the strain that modern day lifestyle and eye conditions put on our visual systems is essential for natural vision improvement.

The first part of visual balance is between the dominant and non-dominant eye. You will also want to bring balance between the stronger and weaker eye as far as acuity is concerned. This prevents one eye working harder than the other, reducing eye strain.

The second part is to balance the peripheral vision with the central vision. You can think of it like antagonistic muscles that work together to provide movement. If we use one one muscle more than the other then we create an imbalance leading to strain.

Finally for those with more challenging visual conditions you will want to work with the areas of your eyesight that are not as strong as the other parts of the visual system. For example with Retinitis Pigmentosa you want to work in the periphery. If you have something like optic atrophy you will want to work in the areas of your vision that are less strong.

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ESH #17 | Tackling Fears of Vision Improvement

Envision — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:54:02 +0000

Will and Richard tackle how to deal with the fears related to vision improvement: Will the eye exercises work? Are these guys taking me for a ride? How am I supposed to live with this blur?

They also talk about their week in Brazil at an advanced vision improvement course and answer a question about color perception in the periphery.

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Eye Exercises for a Busy Life: Part Four

Richard — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:30:57 +0000

Who has time for eye exercises? Aren’t our lives too busy already? On the other hand don’t we all want better, healthier vision? In this fourth blog of a five-part series, Richard of Envision Self-Healing shows how he has created an eye exercise program for himself using the anatomy of his eyes as a framework. He also talks about how he works this program into his very busy life.

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The Art of NOT Seeing Part 3 – Underusing The Non-Dominant Eye

Will — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:05:05 +0000

In this third and final blog in my Art of NOT seeing trilogy, I will be looking at how our societal behaviors have lead us to have poorer vision than we need have. This is partly due to using our eyes in a different modern day world than they were once designed, poor visual habits and lack of knowledge on this topic.

In the first post, I discussed how we overuse our central vision and underused our peripheral vision. In the second post, I covered how the dilation and constriction of the pupil is not being fully utilized, leaving us with weak iris muscles.

In this post we will be looking at how overusing our dominant eye and underusing our non-dominant eye can be a reason for poorer vision, and, more importantly a way of improving eyesight.

Everyone has a dominant eye which was decided as an infant. This eye, just like a dominant hand, is more efficient than the other. This is a great advantage in the wild when hunting, gathering and sporting danger.

However, today we still have this dominant eye but we overuse it to the point of fatigue. Those of you who have ever gotten a headache, itchy eyes and eye strain will know what I am talking about.

Fortunately, there is a simply solution to help prevent and overcome eyestrain and to help us improve eyesight. The eye exercise that I am talking about is the Obstruction Eye Exercise.

By obstructing the dominant eye from time to time, you are resting it from all the hard work it is doing. The Obstruction Eye Exercise is also working the non-dominant eye, keeping it active and telling the brain it is still an important part of our lives!

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ESH #16 | The Importance of Understanding Your Condition

Envision — Tue, 29 May 2012 23:41:24 +0000

This podcast comes to you from Brazil where Will and Richard are studying eye anatomy with a group of experts in self healing and the science behind it. In this episode they talk about the Importance of understanding your vision condition.

When you know how the eye exercises help with the anatomy of your eyes you will be more motivated to do the exercises. It will help alleviate your doubts about whether the exercises will work and help you to fine tune the exercises to your exact condition.

The question of the week this week is “Do i really need to do four hours of eye exercises a day to see improvement in my vision?”.

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Eye Exercises for a Busy Life: Part 3

Richard — Mon, 28 May 2012 00:10:26 +0000

Who has time for eye exercises? Aren’t our lives too full already? On the other hand don’t we all want better, healthier vision? In this third blog of a five-part series, Richard of Envision Self-Healing shows how he has created an eye exercise program for himself using the anatomy of his eyes as a framework. He also talks about how he works this program into his very busy life.

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The Art of NOT Seeing Part 2 – Underusing The Pupil

Will — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:35:19 +0000

Last week I talked about how, as a society, we have developed an art of NOT seeing. By this, I mean that there are aspects of our vision that could help improve our eyesight, but we are not using them.

This is a result of poor visual habits, a shift in the importance of the different parts of the visual system related to survival and a lack of knowledge in regards to good visual habits.

This week I will be looking at how the pupil can be the key to clearer eyesight and better night vision.

The coloured iris at the front of the eye is made of two muscles. These muscles constrict and dilate the pupil to regulate the amount of light that enters the eye. When the light is bright, the pupil constricts and reduces the amount of light that enters the eye.

This prevents the central vision from being overwhelmed with light. The shrinking of the pupil also directs the light straight to the fovea, which is the part of the eye which sees best.

The opposite is also true when being in a dark environment. Here, the dilator muscle in the iris contracts and dilates the pupil. This allows more light to enter the eye, allowing us to see better in the dark.

However, few of us spend much active time in the dark anymore as we have all become accustomed to having lights on all the time. Because of this, the pupil rarely has the opportunity to be fully dilated, meaning the dilator muscle in the iris becomes unused.

The same can be said for the constrictor in bright light. Due to the modern day lifestyles, a vast majority of our time is spent indoors in poor lighting. This means the constrictor muscle is again underused. To make matters worse, the only time we do go outside in the sunshine, we wear sunglasses, which further prevent the constrictors muscle from doing its job.

As a consequence, the iris becomes weak and the days seems brighter and the nights seem darker. All of this causes a strain on our visual system.

A simple remedy is to spend more time in the aforementioned light and dark environments. Another option is to perform the Palming Eye Exercise to help fully dilate the pupil. To help constrict the pupil, you can perform the Sunning Eye Exercise, which is a great way to improve eyesight and help you get rid of your sunglasses!

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ESH #15 | The Keys to a Successful Eye Exercise Program Pt 3: Creating A Support Network

Envision — Wed, 23 May 2012 05:15:44 +0000

Support is an essential part of being successful in vision improvement. We find that those of you who have some form of support are more likely to improve their eyesight. Support for vision improvement can take many forms.

The first is to have a vision improvement coach to help guide you in the exercises and keep you on track.

The second is to have a friend, family member or others who also wants to improve their eyesight join you in the eye exercise.

The third is to create you own vision improvement community either online via social networking sites such as Facebook or getting a group of like-minded individuals together to talk about the eye exercises and your vision improvement success and obstacles.

In the second part of the podcast we answer a question about performing the eye exercise palming on just one eye while working with the other.

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Eye Exercises for a Busy Life: Part 2

Richard — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:01:24 +0000

Who has time for eye exercises? Aren’t our lives too full already? On the other hand don’t we all want better, healthier vision? In this second blog of a five-part series, Richard of Envision Self-Healing shows how he has created an eye exercise program for himself using the anatomy of his eyes as a framework. He also talks about how he works this program into his very busy life.

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The Art of NOT Seeing Part 1 – Underusing Peripheral Vision

Will — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:07:22 +0000

The Art of Seeing by Aldous Huxley is a great book for building better visual habits and for gaining a background into the subject of vision improvement.

Throughout a 3 part series, I will be looking at “The Art of NOT Seeing” and how, as a society, we have the capability of seeing but we not using it to its highest potential.

The first area of vision which we tend to ignore is our periphery. Our eyesight is designed to utilize our peripheral vision. The eye has 120 million rods cells, which are responsible for seeing peripheral vision, and only 6 million cones, which are used for colour and detail.

When thinking of our ancestors, it’s easy to see why this would be the case. Rod cells detect motion, so we would not have lasted long if we could not see the world around us. Whether it was hunting or being hunted, we needed a large field of vision to detect dinner or, if we were going to be dinner ourselves.

Rod cells also detect low levels of light, which without, we all would have been night blind. Again, it’s easy to see that without such an amazing capability, we would have been easy prey at night and would have found it very difficult to function in the dark.

In our modern day lives our need to survive has shifted to our central vision. This is easy to understand when such an emphasis is placed on reading and writing. Furthermore, with our leisure time being taken up with television, internet and more reading, we spend a large portion of our day working our central vision.

By tuning into our peripheral vision from time to time and performing such eye exercises as the Peripheral Vision Eye Exercise, we help overcome this unbalance in the eyes.

Good luck with your eye exercises this week and happy healing!

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ESH #14 | The Keys to a Successful Eye Exercise Program Pt 2 Time Management

Envision — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:41:31 +0000

We all know the benefits eye exercises have for improving our eyesight, but how do we fit them into such busy lifestyles!? In this podcast Will and Richard discus two of the best ways to fit eye exercises into your life.

The first is to make a daily set routine of your eye exercise every day. The second technique is to find 10 minutes periodically throughout the day and perform your eye exercise then.

The question of the week comes from Prague and asks: Can 3D pictures be used for eye exercises?

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Eye Exercises for a Busy Life: Part 1

Richard — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:09:45 +0000

Who has time for eye exercises? Aren’t our lives too full already? On the other hand don’t we all want better, healthier vision? In this first blog of a five part series, Richard of Envision Self-Healing shows how he has created an eye exercise program for himself using the anatomy of his eyes as a framework. He also talks about how he works this program into his very busy life.

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Vision Test Preparation

Will — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:22:13 +0000

Everybody sees an eye specialist at some point. Whether it’s at an opticians or seeing an ophthalmologist, getting our eyes regularly tested helps make sure they are healthy and can warn us of any conditions we may have, like diabetic retinopathy.

However, very few of us realize that we can help make sure the vision test results we get are as accurate as possible. It was Dr. William Bates who first shared with the medical field the discovery that the eye changes under different environments.

A good example of this is having poorer vision when we are stressed and anxious. If you think about it, many of us go into the eye exams worried about our vision deteriorating and whether or not we have to buy a new pair of glasses. This anxiety increases as we age.

Therefore, we want to be in the best mental place as possible for best vision test results. This means trying to be relaxed when doing the eye exam vision test. Another way is to download the free eye chart we have in our resources section and practice at home.

Other ways of preparing for your vision test is to perform the Palming Eye Exercise before going to the vision test. This will help rest and relax the eyes and reduce any strain before getting the eye test done.

You can also perform the Distance Looking Eye Exercise before entering the building where you are going to have your vision tested. This will help relax the eyes and warm them up before the vision test.

Developing on the idea that you can warm up your eyes with pre-eye exam exercises, the Sunning Eye Exercise is also a great way to wake up your cone cells and constrict the pupils fully to allow for better acuity.

Good luck with your eye exercises this week and happy healing!

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ESH #13 | The Keys to a Successful Eye Exercise Program Pt 1: Correct Technique

Envision — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:32:43 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about the importance of following the exercise directions when you first start doing eye exercises. In the long run it’s great to improvise and integrate the eye exercises into your life. However, to get the most benefit you first need to practice them without skipping over steps or changing the approach. When you know the exercises well and can feel how they are working on your vision then its time to alter them to suit your particular life or needs. They also talk about their newest adventure riding Segways in Golden Gate Park.

The question of the week this week is from one of our clients who asks “How can i speed up my vision improvement progress?”.

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The Zen of Eye Exercises

Richard — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:09:30 +0000

Improving your eyesight is almost by definition a self-improvement program. However, some of us rebel against self-improvement. It feels like a burden we have to carry. Here is my solution: do your eye exercises “just for today” or just for this hour or for this minute. This Zen approach is in synch with the impermanence of our world. It is also in synch with the momentary nature of our vision. Our eyes only see one small area at a time with any degree of clarity. Everything outside of this central clear spot is actually unsharp. We are constantly moving that clear spot around so that our brains can string together this collection of clear moments into the illusion of a continuous clear world. Our visual acuity is also momentary. We see clearer one moment and not so clear the next depending on our stress and environment. Even vision improvement is slippery. Vision improvement comes in flashes of momentary clarity. So why not give in and design our eye exercise approach around the ever changing nature of reality. I will do my eye exercises “just for today.”

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Discovering Eye Exercises to Improve Eyesight

Will — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:48:26 +0000

Those vision improvement veterans among us will remember the first time they discovered eye exercises and how eyesight can be improved naturally. There are also many of you who are finding out about natural vision improvement for the first time. So what could you learn that would get you off to a good start?

In my personal experience and of coaching others in natural vision improvement the first response to finding out eyesight can be improved naturally is one of shock and disbelief. This is why it is important to research many others who have been work with eye exercises for some time.

In the resources section of our website you will find a list of books that both Richard and I recommend for you to read at your leisure. This will help you gain a greater understanding of eye exercises and how they can be suited to fit your needs. It will also help you find a particular method that suits you best.

However, it can be a slippery slope when researching and finding quick fix books. Natural vision improvement takes time as the eyes need to adapt to its new environment and the new way it is being used. The brain also takes time to adjust and respond to clearer eyesight. I am not saying someone cannot improve their eyesight in a short space of time.

However, being prepared that you will want to be spending at least the next 6 months dedicating time to a vision improvement program is a great mind set to help you in achievubg your goal of improving eyesight.

Secondly, search for testimonials of people who have helped improve their own vision which will help dispel the myth that eyesight cannot be improved naturally. This also helps create a support network that you will undoubtedly need to help you on your journey of vision improvement.

Thirdly, you want to start actually doing the eye exercises and on a regular basis. One of vision improvements biggest enemies is time. Many people start doing eye exercise, but as everyday life takes over the eye exercises get pushed to the bottom of their to do list. Not before long months will pass without doing the eye exercises and minimal if any improvements will have been seen.

Both Richard and i have tried to make this step as easy as possible for you by providing natural vision improvement programs depending on your condition. Simply go to the conditions tab and click on the condition you have. Experiment with the eye exercise program and see how you get on.

As always i would love to hear your feedback on this post by or any of my posts by posting a comment or sending me an email and let me know how your eye exercise are coming on!

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ESH #12 | Integrate Eye Exercises Into Your Daily Life

Envision — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:28:04 +0000

In this podcast Will and Richard talk about the final step in their 3 step approach to vision improvement: Learn, Create, Integrate. Most people have a hard time fitting hours and hours of eye exercises into their already jam-packed lives. So what is the answer? Take the eye exercise you need to do to heal your eyes and integrate them into your daily routines. Do distance looking while going for a jog or near and far looking while riding the bus. Integration of eye exercise into your life is an essential and realistic step to allow you to create positive visual habits. Will and Richard also answer a question posed by a friend: “Should I buy sunglasses for my baby girl?”

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Are Your Eyes Causing TMJ?

Richard — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:20:59 +0000

Could poor vision lead to TMJ? In this blog Richard Miller of Envision Self-Healing looks at the causes of his TMJ, including the possibility that his vision condition is contributing to his jaw tightness. He also looks at the body and mental components of his TMJ syndrome.

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Rainy Day Eye Exercises Part 3

Will — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:19:54 +0000

Over this 3 week series, I have been exploring how some eye exercises can be adapted to rainy days so that you can improve your eyesight come rain or shine. I have also shared with you how poor weather can be taken advantage of. In fact, it is an excuse to try certain beneficial eye exercises that, otherwise, you might avoid.

Last week I talked about you can take advantage of the rainy weather to experiment with the palming eye exercise and discover the great benefits it has. This week, I would like to share with you another eye exercise that does not get as much attention as it should, an unsung hero of eye exercise you could say!

Those of you who have been following my blogs will know how highly I rate the peripheral vision eye exercise. My reason for this is not only because it has been so key in my ability to improve my eye condition Retinitis Pigmentosa, but also because it can help so many people rest their overworked central vision.

If you think about how much you use your central vision in everyday life, it is no wonder that your eyes become tired and fatigued. Imagine training for a marathon and running everyday without a day or two to rest. It would not be long until you become over fatigued and would feel as though the running is detrimental to your fitness.

The same can be said with our central vision. Although you may have your eyes closed when sleeping at night, the person training for the marathon is not running in their sleep either. Yet we rest from running as it becomes too tiresome to run, but we do not rest our eyes.

The peripheral vision eye exercise gives your central vision some much needed rest from its daily activities. This allows your eyes to grab some time to rejuvenate and simply rest before being back in action again.

This eye exercise also allows the peripheral vision to start playing a more active role in seeing. This is important because we tend to switch off from our everyday periphery as it only serves as a distraction from the task in front of us. This creates an imbalance in our eyes and causes parts of the visual system to work harder than others. Restoring equilibrium back to vision reduces strain and helps improve eyesight.

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ESH #11 | Importance of Creating a Vision Improvement Program

Envision — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:44:16 +0000

In this podcast Richard and Will discuss how the second step in their 3 step approach to self healing plays an essential role for those wanting to improve their eyesight.

The second step “Create” allows the eye exercises to be structure in an easy to follow manner to help yield maximum results.

Having the eye exercises in this way will also make the program to be perform on a regular basics allowing the eye exercise to become habit, speeding up the vision improvement process.

The the second part of the podcast Richard and Will answer a question form one of their Youtube viewers on whether they have seen improvement in their own eyesight?

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Eye Obstruction Exercise for Optic Atrophy

Richard — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:06:07 +0000

Can you revive atrophied cells, bring them back to life, by simply using them again? How about doing this with the optic nerve? In this blog Richard Miller of Envision Self Healing talks about obstructing one eye as an exercise that will engage the brain to use the parts of his eye that are “blind”.

Optic Atrophy as well as many other serious vision conditions often create blind spots in some part of your visual field. Eye doctors say that these cells are dead and cannot get any better. Try this exercise to see if you can prove them wrong. Obstruct one eye and then try looking at things with your blind spots. You may have already “lost” it but perhaps now you can “unloose” it by using it again!

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Rainy Day Eye Exercises Part 2: Palming Eye Exercise

Will — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:14:31 +0000

Don’t let those rainy days keep you from doing your eye exercises. Keep your vision improvement program on track! In this second of three blog post series, I will be sharing with you a great eye exercise that can be performed when venturing outside is not an option.

This great eye exercise that will help improve your eyesight is called the “Palming Eye Exercise’. Palming is a cornerstone eye exercise for all those people wanting to improve eyesight, but it also seems to be the most difficult one for people to do. It could be linked with people wanting to be active and finding it difficult to sit and do nothing for an extended period of time.

This is why rainy miserable weather is a great time to work on palming and to experiment with different lengths of time. It will show you the great benefits palming has to offer and, you may also find, that your eyes feel much better after palming for longer periods of time.

Palming works best when the room is dark to allow the optic nerve to completely rest. Due to the dark grim weather that normally is associated with rain, you can take full advantage of this and Palm.

Palming is best done in the morning when you are fully rested and is best used to prevent strain, instead of overcoming it. However, I am not saying Palming should not be used when our eyes are tired, in fact, on the contrary, palming is a great eye exercise to use when we feel tired.

In a ideal situation, our eyes would be rested throughout the day with eye exercise breaks so that our eyes do not reach the point of fatigue. This means that the palming eye exercise would then be used for preventing strain, instead of simply helping lessen it.

Most of us have heard prevention is better than cure and palming is a great example of that. By palming in the mornings, we have consciously rested the eyes before another hard days work. It also allows us to be more in tune with our eyes throughout the day to make sure we are not straining.

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ESH #10 | The First Step In Improving Eyesight “Learn”

Envision — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:56:48 +0000

The topic of this weeks podcast is taking the first step in improving eyesight. This comes from our three step approach to self-healing of Learn, Create, Integrate. The first step “Learn” is designed to educate you on your condition so you can have a better understanding on how to improve it and why the exercises work for you.

In the second part of this podcast we will be answering a question from our Facebook Fanpage. The question relates to the distance looking eye exercise and whether this can improve your eyesight if you have myopia.

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Myopic Posture

Richard — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:33:03 +0000

How does your eyesight affect your posture? People who are nearsighted (myopic) or have low vision tend to lean their head forward in an effort to see. To compensate for this head leaning they then pull their chest back and round their shoulders. To compensate for this movement of the chest and shoulders these people tend to push their pelvis forward. To compensate for the pelvis pushing forward they then tighten their hamstrings and lock their knees. All of this adds up to what we call “myopic” posture. Now the vision problem is compounded by tension and pain caused by this posture. What can be done?

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Rainy Day Eye Exercises Part 1

Will — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:19:18 +0000

Everybody likes doing eye exercises when it is a beautiful sunny day and our eyes feel active, rejuvenated and are seeing clearer. However, what about those days when it’s miserable outside and as much as you want to improve your eyesight, the last thing you want to do is leave the house.

Unfortunately, not all of us are lucky enough to have continual sunny nice weather all year round. It is important to be able to adapt your eye exercises to your surroundings because consistency is key with an eye exercise program and wanting to improve your eyesight naturally.

In this first of three posts I will be sharing with you ways to adapt eye exercises so that they are better suited for poor weather. I will also show you which eye exercise that you can benefit from not being able to go outside.

The first eye exercise that can be done when the sun does not have his hat on is the ‘Skying Eye Exericse”. This can be done instead of sunning but still allows you to get all the great benefits that the sun has to offer.

What if you still do not want to leave the house? Well as a substitute, you can try full spectrum lights. These are designed to mimic the sun’s full spectrum of light. If you do not know what I am talking about, you can find them in our resources section.

The sun is around 10,000 watts, which would be difficult to replicate and even if you could, I do not think you would appreciate the electricity bill! So, it is important to keep in mind the light is not to replace the sun. However, on those rainy days or if you are limited to sun, it is better to adapt than not do the exercise at all.

Instead of performing the Sunning Eye Exercise outside with the sun, simply place the light in front of you as if it were the sun. close your eyes and turn your head from side to side. Although other benefits such as vitamin D are lost, you still get to work the constrictor muscles in the iris, which make the pupil small. When you turn the head again, the pupil dilates.

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ESH #9 | Your Eyes Can Improve Just Like Any Other Part of Your Body!

Envision — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:58:24 +0000

Can your eyesight improve? If your eyes are just like any other part of your body why can’t they improve? In this podcast Will and Richard challenge the unspoken medical assumption that our eyesight can only get worse and that our eyes are somehow different than our arms or our legs. They also talk about their week of eye exercises and how things are going in their vision improvement programs. In the question of the week they explain why presbyopia is called “old age farsightedness.”

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Understanding Your Glasses’ Prescription

Richard — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:22:33 +0000

Is your glasses prescription a mystery to you? Do you even know what it is? Do you know how well you see? 20/20? 20/80? In this blog Richard Miller of Envision Self Healing takes you through the numbers you will find on your glasses prescription and the numbers on the eye chart that tell you how well you are seeing. These numbers are important if you are undertaking an eye exercise program, because they give you a baseline to know how much your eyesight is improving. If you understand how to read your glasses prescription you can also then talk to your eye doctor about possibly reducing your prescription. Knowing these numbers can be an important step in the process of taking healing into your own hands!

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Top Tip for Eye Exercise Success

Will — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:14:25 +0000

Eye exercises are an essential part of vision improvement. So then, how can we make sure we are not making the big mistake that so many of those who start doing eye exercises make?

Whether it is taking up running, yoga or any new activity, it seems to be human nature to try and be the best and get the quickest results possible in the smallest amount of time. As a consequence, time and time again, people find themselves getting injured or becoming unmotivated to continue the activity the following week or month.

I am sure you have heard the phrase, ‘The best things come to those who wait’. Well, instead of waiting, simply try to take your time when doing something new, especially when performing eye exercises. Instead of rushing to improve your eyesight, try to be relaxed when you are performing them.

Our eyes are under so much hidden strain through daily overuse, performing the eye exercises under further strain will work them too hard and could be the opposite of beneficial.

Although, there are some eye exercises like palming, sunning and distance looking that are very relaxing in themselves, there are other eye exercises, like convergence, that are not.

The easiest way to be relaxed when trying to improve your eyesight with eye exercise is to have a relaxed mindset when performing them. Try to think of them as part of your daily routine and don’t expect any immediate results. Keep a vision journal and make notes of any negative emotions or frustrations you may be experiencing when performing the eye exercises.

The ideal end result from doing your eye exercises is a sense of visual relaxation. Your eyes should feel either more relaxed or more active in a positive way, rather than a sense of being overworked and strained.

As with most activities in the body, the activities function better when the body and mind are relaxed. It can be difficult and frustrating to learn, but performing the eye exercises in a relaxed way will help reduce eyestrain and improve eyesight quicker and better than under strain.

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ESH #8 | How to Create Your Vision Improvement Program

Envision — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:44:07 +0000

In this episode Will and Richard discuss the importance of creating and maintaining a vision improvement eye exercise program. You will also hear how Richard is discovering new technologies to help improve his Optic Atrophy and how Will found it difficult to maintain his healthy vision diet, but still saw his eyesight improve in a planetarium.

The question of the week this week was from our Youtube and Facebook followers asking which eye exercises should I do for Myopia?

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Stem Cell Treatment for Optic Atrophy: My Gut Reaction

Richard — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:04:11 +0000

In this more personal, from the gut blog I question whether stem cell treatment would be right for me. What are the risks? Why is this being done in China and not in the West? Is it simply politics or is the West being appropriately more careful? Part of the treatment is acupuncture and face massage, techniques similar to self healing that bring blood and energy to the optic nerve. Could I use self healing methods to create a really healthy environment for the stem cells to be implanted? Could it be that self healing is also growing new nerve cells? These are all open questions as far as I am concerned. In the end I guess I am open to the treatment but only after I have really pushed self healing as far as possible.

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The Hunger Games Eye Exercise

Will — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:22:40 +0000

Can the Hunger Games really improve eyesight!? Am I suggesting you volunteer to enter the hunger games competition and start killing fellow humans? No…thankfully there is a safer way to improve your eyesight, by doing an easy and simple eye exercise.

The eye exercise that will help improve your eyesight and in particular help reduce eye strain is related to eye dominance. To help explain this i will use the example of the main character in the Hunger Games movie Katniss Everdeen. Like all humans Katniss has a dominant eye that she relies on and uses more than the other. The dominant eye is developed from a young age when the develops a better brain eye connection and more nerve growth.

The dominant eye can fixate and react quicker than than the other. Just like having a dominant hand it allows us to function better with that one particular eye. A great example of this would be when Katniss is in the Hunger Games uses the bow and arrow to aim at targets. The eye that she is using to aim with would be her dominant eye as this is the eye that she favors and will allow most accurate results.

Another example in our everyday lives rather than hunter other humans, is when we use a camera. The next time you take a photo you will realise that you use one particular eye every time. This eye will tend to be your dominant eye.

There is a simple test for dominance which involves holding both hands up overlapping them creating a circle. Whilst looking at an object in the distance with both eyes open, close your left eye then your right. The eye which maintains the object is your dominant eye. For more details on finding your dominance you can follow this link.

The problem with our modern day use of dominance is that we heavily over use it in our daily lives reading and using computers etc. This in balance of both eyes creates excessive strain on the visual system and overuse of the dominant eye creating fatigue. Whereas, Katniss who, in the hunger games, is using her eyes how nature intended by hunting and gathering for food etc, and is not creating the same strain we do.

However, it would be unrealistic to ask everyone to take up hunting especially when it puts your life on the line! Instead you can perform the eye exercise of covering your dominant eye. This allows the dominant eye to rest and give the non dominant eye a chance to work.

This eye exercise can be done by using a small piece of paper stuck to the bridge of the nose covering the dominant eye. You can also wear a pair of sunglass’s with one lens removed with the remaining lens covered with tape.

Ideally you would be outside when performing this eye exercise covering, but you can also use it will doing house chores, reading a book, using the computer or watching TV. In particular performing this eye exercise while watching movies like The Hunger Games has particular benefit because there is plenty of fast action. This allows the eye to track quickly the action on the movie screen making the non dominant eye more active.

However, those of you who are not familiar in doing this eye exercise and working the non dominant eye should start by doing it in small intervals of 5 or 10 minutes. The last thing we want to do is create more strain the non dominant eye so take is slow to begin with.

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ESH #7 | Relax and Balance Your Eyes

Envision — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:21:50 +0000

In this podcast Richard and Will discuss the role of the optic nerve and our brains in seeing. They also talk about palming, an eye exercise designed to relax the optic nerve, and eye obstruction exercises designed to balance the use of our two eyes. Palming is a basic exercise for any vision improvement exercise program while the obstruction exercises are key exercises for dealing with suppression of one eye.

The question of the week this week is overcoming red sore and dry eyes

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Try This Eye Exercise for Optic Atrophy

Richard — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:33:38 +0000

This eye exercise helps stimulate dormant cells in my optic nerve. I use a simple flashing light and an eye patch in a darkened room to engage the blind spot in my left eye. Once the blind spot in that eye is active again, I see more clearly. Follow my journey back from legal blindness.

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Retinitis Pigmentosa Eye Exercise to Improve Eyesight

Will — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:47:54 +0000

This week’s blog was inspired by an email from one of our audience members who has Retinitis Pigmentosa and is working hard to improve his eyesight. However, he was unsure on some of the finer details in relation to the main eye exercise to help improve RP, which is the peripheral vision eye exercise.

Those of you who have not seen my blog The Eye Exercise That’s Saving My Eyesight and do not know the peripheral vision eye exercise, it is when you individually place three different sized papers between the eyes and wave an object or your hands in the periphery.

This allows the central vision to rest and prevents it from dominating your vision. Your brain then starts picking up the information from the periphery rather than your central vision. Over time, this strengthens the brain’s response to the periphery and the 120 million rods cells found in each eye.

It is common for people to want to know how to position their hands when performing the peripheral vision eye exercise and whether they should be seeing the hands or not.

For those of you who do not know, Retinitis Pigmentosa is where the rods cells found in the periphery start to lose their strength and in return, the periphery becomes more difficult to access.

Somebody without RP can typically wave their hands next to their ears and still see them, whereas many people with Retinitis Pigmentosa could be waving their hands next to their eyes and not notice. This is why the question of whether or not someone with RP should wave their hands where they can see them or not is such a good question.

The answer is… we want to work both places. In self healing, we always want to maintain and rest what is strong, but strengthen what is weak. This can be very difficult at times, especially as few of us like to work with what is weak within us. It can be very frustrating at times, but the benefits can be very rewarding.

Waving the hands where you can still see them is important as it maintains the strength of those cells and keeps them active. By working the areas that you cannot see, or as I like say not as clear as other areas, you are strengthening those weaker cells and helping to wake up those cells already dormant. This may seem pointless at first, as you wave your hands in the periphery without noticing much, however, over time you will start to notice an increased awareness of movement in the periphery.

You may also find waving colored paper in the periphery instead of just your hands may also help. In fact, anything that you may think would be easier for you to see can be used. We recommend people using flashing lights in the dark so that the weaker cells can pick up the light more easily and be strengthened more from there.

It would be an interesting self experiment to wave your hands in a particular area where you have difficulty seeing and then go to a dark room and flash a light in the same area to see if you notice it. Some places you may not notice it, which is where you have more work to do, but other places that you otherwise thought did not exist are in fact still active and waiting to be used. You can find out more about flashing lights in the periphery in my blog post A Free Festival Eye Exercise Tool.

Do not forget that when we say ‘exercise the periphery’, we also mean both upper and lower periphery. This may mean playing with some of the sizes of the paper so that you can wave around the areas that are not seeing as well as others.

As always, I would love to hear your feedback on this post or any of my posts. Please leave a comment below or send me an email and let me know how your eye exercise are coming on!

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ESH #6 | How Peripheral Vision and Blood Flow Improve Eyesight

Envision — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:20:27 +0000

In this podcast Richard Will discuss how stimulating your peripheral vision and increasing blood flow to your head and eyes can improve your eyesight. They also answer a question from a YouTube viewer who is having flashes of clear vision.

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Photography As An Eye Exercise

Richard — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:46:25 +0000

I use photography as an eye exercise. Photography engages my brain with what I am seeing. It gets me to look at rather than ignore the visual world around me. In this blog I talk about and demonstrate how I look at the world as a visually impaired photographer and how I use intentional looking as a way of improving my eyesight.

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Meditate and Do Eye Exercises at the Same Time

Richard — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:13:47 +0000

Can we meditate and do eye exercises at the same time? Richard Miller of Envision Self-Healing shows three ways he has integrated eye exercises into his meditation practice. He also discusses how the relaxation and concentration developed through meditation can help with vision improvement.

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ESH #5 | Flex Your Lens and Look At Details to Improve Your Eyesight

Envision — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:53:55 +0000

In our modern day lifestyle we are making two big mistakes with our vision to make it blurry. First, we spend all day long looking close. Looking close contracts the muscles around the lenses in our eyes. We believe that squeezing our lenses this way for many hours a day can lead to vision conditions such as presbyopia and cataracts. To help overcome this and improve eyesight we want to spend more time looking into the distance.

Second we ignore the fine details in the world around us. We are wasting the talents of our macula, the tiny spots at the back of our eyes that specialize in seeing fine detail and color. When we don’t use our macula we tend to lose our macula, potentially leading to macular degeneration. In order to improve our eyesight we can perform the eye exercise shifting and the eye exercise sunning.

In this podcast Will and Richard discuss these two important topics as well as answer a common question about the eye exercises palming from a Youtube viewer.

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Can Blood Flow Improve Eyesight?

Will — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:47:04 +0000

It’s something none of us can live without… but can having better blood flow help improve eyesight? To answer this question it helps to remember the blood’s basic functions, one of which is transporting oxygen and nutrients around the body.

Without this function, each system, such as the digestive or muscular systems, could not function properly. For example, the nutrients could not be taken away form the digestive system to the rest of the body and the muscles could not receive the energy it needs to work.

Every cell in our body needs oxygen and nutrients to survive and function properly. The more access our cells have to supplies, the better they can function. Think of a poor postal service as an example, if the deliveries don’t makes it on time and your lively hood relies on getting the mail, your business and life starts to suffer.

This makes it easy to understand how having good blood flow is a great advantage to the eyes and can help us see clearer. Those who want to improve their eyesight can see how better blood flow could also help improve their eyesight by helping the eye function to its best and get all the supplies it needs for good vision.

So why do we have poor blood flow?

I have identified three main areas that I feel contribute to this in today’s society. The first is exercise. More and more of us are experiencing sedentary lifestyles as office work replaces manual labor. Also, we are becoming less active in our leisure time, like watching TV and surfing the Internet, instead of going for walks.

Another cause of poor blood flow can be diet. Eating food high in saturated fat contributes to the arteries clogging and restricting the amount of blood that can pass through. Reducing foods high in fat, checking the labels on foods and understanding the nutrition value are all steps in the right direction when it comes to reducing fat in or diets.

Finally muscle tension is a big contributor to poor blood flow. If our muscles are tight, the amount of blood that can pass through the body freely is restricted. Furthermore, if the muscles are tight with a lot of tension, they are also receiving less blood. By loosening the muscles, we allow better blood flow throughout the whole body, but most importantly, we can target places to loosen. For example, we can loosen the muscles in the neck to allow more blood flow to the eyes.

Clearly the benefits of good blood flow are not restricted to the eye. However, when looking at the fundamental jobs that good blood flow provides, we can see that eyesight can be improved by focusing on this essential function.

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ESH #4 | How the Shape of Your Eyeball and the Strength of Your Pupil Makes Eyesight Clearer

Envision — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:42:26 +0000

In this podcast Richard and Will discuss how our eyeballs lose their natural spherical shape by looking close all the time (become nearsighted or myopic) and how we can correct for that by simply looking into the distance more often. They also explain how strong iris or pupil muscles can make vision sharper. In the question of the week, Richard and Will answer a seemingly paradoxical question about how we are both overusing and underusing our central vision.

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Are You Overusing or Underusing Your Macula?

Richard — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:18:58 +0000

This sure sounds like a meaningless question, right? It’s only important to a couple of eye geeks like Will and Richard, right? Actually the answer is very important to your eyesight. The way that you misuse your central vision and your macula in your modern lifestyle is leading to diseases like Macular Degeneration. In this blog Richard discusses this seemingly esoteric question and why it is important to how you use use your eyes.

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Does Stress and Anxiety Make Eyesight Worse?

Will — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:59:31 +0000

By now we all know that stress and anxiety have a negative effect on our bodies and mind, but what about our vision? I divided the effects into physical and psychological effects on our eyesight.

The first physical effect is the reduction in blinking when we are stressed. The average person should blink around 20 times a minute. However, the modern day person blinks half of this and, when in a stressful situation or working at the computer, this rate halves again.

Constant focus all day on documents or on the computer creates an accumulated stress on the eyes. I am sure all of you have experienced after a long days work that your eyesight is worse, otherwise known as eyestrain. You experience such symptoms as dry, itchy eyes and a sense of visual fatigue or tiredness. Unfortunately, instead of resting our eyes and working to improve our eyesight naturally, we tend to get glasses or increase our prescription.

The other side of visual stress is psychological stress. Again I am sure we have all noticed that in certain times of emotional stress, our eyesight is worse. This was first noticed by Dr William Bates in the 1800’s when using a retinoscope to evaluate clients eyes. He found that their sight was poorer when they were emotionally stressed or fatigued.

Although similar to the emotional stress, when I refer to anxiety, I mean when a person feels under pressure when having poor eyesight. Typically when someone has an eye condition, they are aware of it and, more often than not, have negative feelings about it. When placed in a environmentally stressful situation, such as a busy shopping centre, anxiety levels can rise and make the individual’s eyesight worse.

Time and time again I hear from my clients that their eyesight reduces significantly when this happens and they have to leave the area they are in. This creates further negative emotions about their vision and the next time they are in a stressful environment, the previous anxiety combines with the current and then the worsening of vision is more so.
It takes some time and patience to accept that the place you are in is visually stressful. Taking some time to tune into your surroundings and not allow the negative emotions to arise can prevent the deterioration from taking place and help motivate you to do your eye exercise, instead of shying away out of fear, frustration and/or embarrassment.

Keeping a vision journal is a great way to map your physical and psychological stress and anxiety, allowing you to follow any negative patterns that may be emerging.

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ESH #3 | The Importance of Blinking and Moving Your Eyes

Envision — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:55:58 +0000

In this week’s podcast we address two topics: blinking and eye movement.

We don’t blink enough anymore. The natural rate of blinking is 20 times per minute. However, in our modern day lives filled with digital information we reduce our rate of blinking down to 4 or 5 times per minute as we stare at our computer or smart phone. Not blinking helps concentration but it takes away the essential benefits of blinking. Blinking coats the eyeball with a tear film that protects the eye from infection. This tear film also creates a smooth surface on our corneas so that light rays entering the eye are straight. If we reduce our rate of blinking we create dry eyes, a greater risk of infection, eyestrain and blurred vision. Blinking eye exercises can return our eyes to a healthy condition and improve our vision.

Again, as an effort to concentrate on information, in our modern day we tend to look only straight ahead, moving our eyes very little. This is not natural either. Our eyes were meant to freely roam around. The extra ocular muscles that attach to the outside of the eyeball responsible for eye movement need to be strong, relaxed and flexible. Our modern lifestyle makes them tight and weak. We can take our eyes to the gym by doing Eye Rotations, returning the healthy tone to these important muscles.

This week’s question comes from a young student who wants to stop wearing his glasses, but he is worried about not seeing the blackboard.

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A Good Mindset for Getting Rid of Your Glasses

Richard — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:51:24 +0000

Getting rid of your glasses can be a shock at first. It can be tough to deal with all that blur. Richard Miller of Envision Self-Healing talks about two strategies for dealing with the blur so that you don’t give up on vision improvement. First, realize that glasses create an artificial way of seeing that you shouldn’t expect to reproduce with your natural seeing. Second, you need to embrace the blur and simply appreciate what you can see.

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ESH #2 | Putting Vision Improvement Into Practice

Envision — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:12:05 +0000

In this podcast Richard talks about his 10 day juice fast and Will talks about starting to see the ceiling and floor at the same time.

In the topic of the week Richard and Will share insights on how to put Vision Improvement into Practice in their daily lives.

They also tell the story of one client who is in Medical School but still wants to do eye exercises so her nearsightedness does not get worse.

Richard and Will relate how they developed an eye exercise program that integrated with this client’s 14 hour per day studying schedule.

Finally, they answer a question from Argentina about healing retina damage cause by looking directly at the sun.

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Convergence Eye Exercise That Improve Eyesight are Everywhere!

Will — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:45:50 +0000

In today’s blog I will be showing you how convergence eye exercises can be found everywhere. A great example is holding up your two index fingers and crossing your eyes. You will see that the two images converge into one another, creating a third clearer image.

When doing this, you are using one out of six extra ocular muscles known as the Medialis Rectus. This muscle, which is closest to your nose, turns your eyeball inwards. allowing you to focus on closer images.

Unfortunately for a lot of us, we spend most of our time looking from near, meaning these eye muscles are working for a large portion of the day. Over time, the muscles become weak and stiff making it hard to to focus and track a single object

As long as you have two simple objects, you can converge the eyes so that the two objects merge into a single identical image. For example, you can hold two pens side by side. Because the two images are the same and are next to one another, crossing your eyes allows the two images to merge into a third.

The same principle can be said for any two house hold objects, like tennis balls, money or even photographs. One benefit of using photographs is that they are less boring and can be changed frequently. You can also move from detail to detail on the picture just like the one shown below.

When converging the two images into one, the aim is to hold it for around 5-10minutes. In the mean time, you can shift (move the focus of the eye) from a particular detail in the photo to another. For example, you can shift from Richard’s left eye to right eye, then his chin and repeat the same on my face.

By placing several images side by side on a sheet of paper, you can move between the different images. A great example of this can be found in the Presbyopia chart located in our resources section.

You can see it takes some skill and practice before you become an expert at this and it will be harder for some than others, but it is important to take it easy at first. Only try a few minutes at a time and then build up to the longer periods of holding a single object.

You will also want to try our Eye Muscle Exercises as a way of preventing strain and helping keep balance of muscular eye strength.

Please use the comment box below or email me at will@envisionselfhealing.com to let me know how you get on with the eye exercises and if you find any interesting new ways of doing them

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Does Juice Fasting Improve Eyesight?

Richard — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:33:44 +0000

Does Juice Fasting improve eyesight? In my experience over the last 10 days I did notice an increase in clarity, a reversal of symptoms of my optic nerve atrophy. I’m not sure the exact cause though. I included a lot of beets in my juicing as a way of increasing blood flow to my optic nerve. This seemed to work. Every time I increase blood flow to my optic nerve I get a hit of clarity and the beet juice seems to be another way of accomplishing that. The concentrated nutrients in the other vegetables and fruits could have had an effect as well. I also lost 7 pounds by the way!

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How to Improve Your Eyesight with a FREE Ebook

Will — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:47:21 +0000

In this blog I will be telling you where to find a free ebook that will help improve your eyesight. The book is called A Modern Day Guide to Improving Eyesight and is based on the basic fundamentals of vision improvement.

Both Richard and I worked hard to develop a book that bridges the gap between a newbie to vision improvement and those who have been following eye exercise programs for some time.

We felt it was essential for people to understand the foundations of natural vision improvement so that they could advance their self healing program that much further.

We also felt that it was important to have an understanding of the human eye, how the eye works and how the eye exercises help improve eyesight. This would help the reader become more likely to continue with their self healing practice, as it would intellectually make sense, as opposed to performing the eye exercise and hoping for the best.

We divided the book into 10 easy to understand sections. Each section explains a particular part of the human anatomy. We started from the front of the eye and moved towards the back so that it would be easier to follow and also to allow individuals to learn about how the eye works in a logical and easy to understand way.

We explain how Caveman Dave, who is one of our main characters, would have been using his eyes when hunting and gathering. The book then uses another character, which I am sure a lot of us identify ourselves with, named Modern Day Mike. Mike is a type of person who spends many hours in front of the computer, giving little thought to eyestrain and his eyesight.

The book then shows you how it is possible for Caveman Dave’s positive visual habits and Modern Day Mike’s workload to co-inside and function together. The importance of this is that modern technology, such as computers and their usage, is not slowing down and we’re becoming more and more dependent on it. Therefore, we need to make adaptations in our lives in order for our eye structure, which was designed for the great outdoors, and our modern day life to co-exist.

You can find the ebook A Modern Day Guide to Improving Eyesight on our website www.envisionselfhealing.com. Download the book and away you go!

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Get Rid of Presbyopia with Eye Exercises!

Richard — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:57:33 +0000

What is presbyopia? Presbyopia is the condition in which your arms are no longer long enough for you to read without glasses. It is commonly referred to as “farsightedness” because the end result is that you cannot see close up in order to read. However, true farsightedness is caused by a shortening of the eyeball, early on in life.

Presbyopia, on the other hand, comes on at middle age and has very different causes. Presbyopia is caused by four factors. First is a stiffening of the lens; the lens becomes inflexible. Second, the ciliary muscle that bends the lens to see close up becomes weak. Third, the convergence muscles that cross and point the two eyes to fuse on a close object become weak. Finally, we at Envision Self-Healing add a fourth factor: the iris becomes underused and weak and cannot create a small enough pupil.

Can eye exercises get rid of presbyopia? Yes, eye exercises can address each anatomical cause of presbyopia. After all, these are muscles that can be strengthened just like any other part of the body. Even the stiff lens can regain at least some of its flexibility. People don’t get rid of presbyopia very often because they just don’t try. It’s all that simple!

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ESH #1 | Laying the Foundations for Improving Eyesight

Envision — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:55:04 +0000

How can we lay the foundations for improving eyesight? First, we need to look back to the purpose for which our eyes were designed: namely, hunting and gathering. Our eyes were not designed to spend hours and hours looking at a computer screen, cell phone or even a book. They were designed to look out over the plains or up into a tree for our next meal. In their new free ebook, “A Modern Day Guide for Improving Eyesight” Will and Richard introduce you to two characters, Caveman Dave and Modern Day Mike, as a way of illustrating an important point: how we can integrate the good visual habits of hunter/gatherers back into our modern day life.

Self Healing Question of the Week from Christie who asks, “You say to keep glasses/contacts off as much as possible to allow eyes to adjust naturally, however, I cannot see without them.” It does take time to adjust to the blur and to break the habit of wearing glasses so be patient with yourself. As an alternative to completely getting rid of your glasses right away get a cooperative optometrist to prescribe a second pair of glasses that are slightly weaker (half a diopter). Wear those weaker ones when you don’t need full correction, where you feel safe not seeing perfectly clear. Wear your full correction for driving or anything else where maximum acuity is critical. If you only need your glasses to drive, leave them in your car so you’re not tempted to put them on otherwise. Over time you will be able to reduce your prescription gradually and eventually get rid of your glasses completely.

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Free Festive Eye Exercise Tool to Improve Eyesight

Will — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:29:59 +0000

It’s that time of year when all the festive decorations get hidden away in the attic or cupboard for another year. However, this year there is one decoration you might want to keep out. Those of you who have been following my other blog posts have probably already guessed that it’s something to do with activating and improving peripheral vision whilst resting the central vision. You would be right in thinking so, and the decoration I am talking about are flashing lights.

Flashing lights in the periphery, whilst having the central vision blocked, works the rod cells, which are responsible for detecting movement and dim light. In our modern day life, we tend to overuse our central vision by using computers, reading books, watching TV etc. This means that we under-use our peripheral vision. I wish we could change this by spending our days paying more attention to our periphery, but its highly unlikely given that most of our livelihoods depend on the ability to spend most of our time focusing with our central vision. Unfortunately, this is not what nature intended. In fact, it was our periphery that kept us alive all those years in the jungle, by sensing when danger was coming and make us better hunters.

Think of someone working at their desk in a busy office. If they were paying attention to their periphery, they would find it very hard to fully concentrate on what they were doing and probably get no work done. For a lot of us, our survival now depends on our ability to work one foot in front of us instead of being out in the wild. This creates an imbalance between the central and peripheral vision, creating strain and making us overwork one and under-use the other. What the lights do for us is work the underused peripheral vision and rest the overused central vision.

Now, I am not expecting you to turn off all the lights in the office and put on flashing festive lights. This would probably only serve to create more strain as you would probably find a notice on your desk suggesting you find somewhere else to work. However, you can, from time to time, try to tune into your surroundings when at work. Then, when you get the chance, you would exercise your periphery in the dark with the lights. Of course not everyone works in an office and will find that they have more opportunities to perform this eye exercise.

One thing that I like about using festively flashing lights for eye exercises is their versatility, meaning they can suit many different eye conditions. For example, someone who simply feels eyestrain from overusing their central vision and wants to rest, can just take 10 minutes out of their day, sit in a dark room, turn the flashing lights on and put them in their peripheral field, blocking their central vision with a piece of black construction paper.

However, someone with a specific condition such as Retinitis Pigmentosa, Optic Atrophy or Glaucoma, can manipulate where the lights go so that the flashing occurs where the individual finds it difficult to see. This helps stimulate the cells in that area, helping to wake the cells back up. Also, depending on what kind of flashing lights you have, you can change what speed the flash goes at and what pattern it moves to. For example, flashing one at a time or all together.

You can find more details on how to perform the peripheral vision eye exercise at www.envisionselfhealing.com. Go to the ‘exercises’ tab at the top of our home page and here you will find the peripheral vision eye exercise, along with many others for you to try. Once you start getting in the mind set of the world around you being full of eye exercises, it’s amazing what you find can help.

Please share with us different ways you are exercising your eyes and how improving your eyesight is going. You can email me at will@envisionselfhealing.com or post a comment below.

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How Step by Step I am Improving My Vision in the Dark

Will — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:41:49 +0000

I found four main areas that i have been working with to achieve this improvement. They are allowing the eyes to adjust to dark, doing eye exercises in the dark to strengthen the rod cells, strengthening the pupil and better confidence.

A saying that fits well here is “If you don’t use it, you lose it”, if you don’t use the rod cells in the dark making them fully active how can we expect them to fully function when we need them to? This is relevant for everyone not just those with eye conditions that make it difficult to see in the dark, they just experience it on a larger scale. An example of how I am training my eyes to adapt to the dark is instead of turning on the lights immediately when I enter a room, say if I am looking for my keys, I leave the light off. Similarly as the sunsets I will wait as long as possible before turning on the lights. Another way is night walks, as my neighborhood is pretty safe I can go for walks when its dark allowing the rods to be as active as possible.

The second technique is strengthening the rods by performing eye exercises in the dark with flashing lights, which can be found on our website under peripheral vision exercises. Due to the rods responding to movement and dim light, by being in the dark and flashing lights in the periphery you are helping to activate those weaker cells even more. Those with Retinitis Pigmentosa or anyone who has difficulty seeing in the dark I suggest doing this exercise before going on a night walk or anywhere that is dark to help activate the rods before going out.

The third reason for my improved adaption to the dark is that the muscles that make the pupils felt strengthened. This means that I could dilate the pupil better and take in more light in my surroundings. I could actually feel the fight between the direct light trying to constrict my pupils, but the dark environment trying to dilate them causing a fight between the two. When removing the bright light my pupils could relax and do its job trying to dilate enough to bring in more light. This was achieved by again spending time in the dark and doing eye exercises, allowing the pupil to fully dilate. Doing the opposite to this by performing the sunning eye exercise to fully constrict the pupil also gives it a good workout.

Knowing how I improved my night vision by spending more time in the dark helps explain my forth reason for improvement which is finding more confidence in a dark environment. Although my visual system was physically adapting better, psychologically I felt more confident being the dark. Something that anyone with low light vision problems will tell you is one of the larger difficulties with the condition. This in itself was a great achievement and I look forward to developing on it more.

Overall, its easy to see that by not avoiding what is weak and in fact spending some time with it brings more strength. Although challenging and frustrating at times it can be very rewarding.

Good luck with your exercises and happy healing!

Is the IPhone Good or Bad for Our Eyes?

Will — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:22:49 +0000

The last two weeks I’ve been playing with my new iPhone and have spent some time to discover what it has to offer. In doing so I discovered some strains and pains that using the iPhone caused my eyes.. This got me thinking is the iPhone good or bad for eyesight? Was it how i was using the iPhone or was it the iPhone itself causing the strain? Maybe, just maybe it might help improve my eyesight and if not what eye exercises could i do to help!?

The main area that I felt the strain was the nasal side of both eyes. This meant i was over working and straining the medial rectus muscles. This muscle is one of six extraocular muscles, which are responsible for moving the eyeball in its full range..

I found that one of the best ways to overcome this was to hold the iphone a few more inches away from my eyes than i normally would to help use the eye muscles less. From time to time you can also look away from the screen then back again, just like in our ‘near and far’ eye exercise, which can be found in our library of exercises. Looking into the distance relax the muscles in the eye and the medial rectus muscles are not being used.. This also helps the cilliary muscles to relax allowing the lens to flatten.

The importance of allowing the lens to flatten is in our modern day lives we spend the majority of it looking close. this forces the focusing muscles (ciliary muscles) to be continuously contracted in order to keep the lens round so it can stay focused on what you are trying to see. This will eventually lead to a fatigued muscle and stiffen lens leading to such vision conditions as presbyopia and pseudo myopia.

I wondered if the small print on the screen could have also caused the eye strain. However, the new iPhone 4.S has a new retina screen display, making the image clearer as the pixels are closer together. This makes a difference because one reason why people say looking at a computer is bad for the eyesight is that the text is not straight lines, rather it is many small dots making the eye work harder to decipher the image.

Another cause of strain and one question clients always ask is whether using the iPhone or iPad in the dark is bad for eyesight? The answer to this is yes. One reason is because it cuts off the periphery. As with all electrical reading appliances or just reading, your focus is in the central vision and not what’s going on around you. To avoid this try to have lights on in the room so you can still take in the periphery. An eye exercise which could help with this is waving the hands to the side as you read.

The last aspect of the new iPhone I wanted to look at was the new speech to text feature Siri. Potentially this could be a great way to use our eyes less and save our eye sight, because in theory you spend less time being focused on the screen and more time looking into the distance and in the periphery. However, at the moment I tend to spend more time editing the words Siri gets wrong than if I had written it myself. But I have no doubt by the time Iphone 5 comes out Siri will be very advantageous for those wanting to help save and improve their eyesight.

In summary with any reading appliance or even with a book, there can be a strain on the eyes. It seemed to be more my habit of using the iPhone rather than the unit itself. In particular we need to be aware of where we’re holding it and for how long. Take as many eye breaks as possible and try to perform some eye exercise when possible, such as near and far. In particular try to notice if any strain is occurring and if you do, STOP and perform a resting eye exercise such as palming or distance looking.

Happy healing!

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The Eye Exercise that’s Saving My Eye Sight!!

Will — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:44:50 +0000

With any condition, physical or visual, you want to ask yourself the question, what is weak and what is strong? What is weak needs to be strengthened and what is strong needs to be rested. With my visual disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, it is the rod cells in my periphery which are weak and the cones in my central vision which are strong.

Therefore, to improve my eye sight I need to strengthen the rod cells and rest the cones as much as possible. Hopefully, this explanation will help you understand why this simple eye exercise of blocking the central vision and stimulating the periphery is so effective.

This eye exercise consists of using 3 different sized pieces of paper to block the central vision and progressively increase the amount of periphery you are using. Due to the nature of the rod cells responding to movement, by waving your hands to the side of your head with the central vision blocked, you’re stimulating these cells and waking up the periphery.

Start with the small piece of paper waving the hands to the side of the head for about a minute, then change to the medium, then large always waving the hands. Once you get to the large piece of paper, STOP and palm for 5 deep breaths. Then start to decrease the size going from large to medium back down to small always waving your hands to the side of the head. Try to see if the small piece of paper now looks smaller than it did before. This means that the periphery has woken up that little bit more and you may also find your central vision or your eyes in general now feel a lot more rested.

Although I have many other eye exercises that I perform to help my vision, this one in particular was my starting block and have been doing it the longest. For those with stronger peripheral vision the results can be quicker, for myself the improvements are slow, but they are improvements nevertheless, as opposed to a continuous deterioration. Give this exercise a try whether you have a peripheral condition or not its still great for the eyes!! If you want more detailed instructions for this exercise, please go to:

https://www.envisionselfhealing.com/exercises/peripheral-vision

Happy Healing

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Taking An Eye Exercise Break from the Computer to Avoid Eyestrain

Will — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:07:52 +0000

It’s important to take regular breaks from the computer and do any sort of exercise that makes you feel refreshed. One thing that’s a great exercise to do is sunning, this eye exercise helps constrict the pupil allowing you to focus clearer when you return to what ever it was you were doing.

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A Brief Introduction

Will — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:32:36 +0000

Hi everyone, I’m Will Fuller one of the co creators of envision self-healing. This video is a very brief introduction to me and my vision condition. I have a hereditary condition known as Retinitis Pigmentosa. I was diagnosed from a young age and told nothing can be done. For the last 5 years I have been working with natural vision improvement exercises with the guidance of Dr. Meir Schneider and showing some very positive results. I moved to San Francisco to work with Meir full time and learn how to treat and help others. The purpose of these blogs are to share my journey of self-healing with others and show how you can improve your own vision!

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First Posting

Richard — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:27:21 +0000

My name is Richard Miller and I was born with an atrophy of my optic nerve. Put very simply not enough visual information flows between my eyes and my brain. This results in overall blurred vision and in my particular case large blind spots. This is the first posting in my self-healing blog. I will blogging about doing eye exercises and how they are helping with my optic atrophy. My goal is to improve my vision from 20/160 to 20/100 or better and to learn to drive. Join me on this journey through this blog. You don’t have to be passenger in my car.

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The Beginning

Envision — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:12:51 +0000

Welcome to our first joint blog. We are Will Fuller and Richard Miller, co-creators of Envision Self Healing, a website devoted to helping people along their journey of self-healing. We were both born with incurable vision conditions, Will with Retinitis Pigmentosa and Richard with optic atrophy. This post is a brief introduction to our practice of natural vision improvement, and is the first of many posts covering our discoveries with eye and body exercises. We hope you enjoy.

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Physical Tension and Stress and its Effect on Retinitis Pigmentosa and Peripheral Vision Loss.

Two key things that will help with secondary symptoms of Retinitis Pigmentosa and peripheral vision loss:

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ESH #77 | Lazy Eye (Amblyopia)

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ESH #76 | Rod-Cone Dystrophy

What is Rod-Cone Dystrophy?

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ESH #75 | Get Rid of Your Glasses: Another Success Story!

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ESH # 74 | Does Juicing Improve Eyesight

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ESH 73 | Glasses vs Contacts

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ESH #72 | LASIK Eye Surgery Risks

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ESH #71 | Meir Schneider

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