Since I grew up wearing thick glasses and was about 2/200 when I started vision improvement, my current visual range of 20/40 to 20/50 seems pretty good to me. (For those unfamiliar with measuring visual acuity, 2/200 means I needed … more...
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Do You NEED Your Glasses?
Quite a few people have told me “I’m blind without my glasses!”, which makes me cringe. It’s clearly not true, and what kind of message is this sending to your hard-working eyes? You’re telling them they’re defective! Take your glasses … more...
Are You Trying Or Allowing?
When I first started stumbling along the vision improvement path, I learned strain was the big enemy. “Look without straining” the books and teachers said. I did not know how to do this! What’s worse is that I wasn’t even … more...
Looking At Details
Today is a bright sunny Winter day, so it’s easy to see details from inside the window, the truck pulling out of a nearby driveway, the dog tracks and human tracks in the snow on the yard next door, the … more...
Myopia as an Adaptation, by Robert Lichtman
Robert Lichtman taught the Bates method in New York and ran effortlessvision.com. He wrote “Myopia as an Adaptation” and put it online as a PDF in 2010. Sadly, he passed away in 2015 from cancer. The rest of his site … more...
Look A Little Bit Longer
If you’re old enough to remember the rock band Jay and the Americans, this title might remind you of their hit song “Come a Little Bit Closer”. Actually, that’s what myopic folks often want to do to see more clearly, … more...
A Response to Quackwatch’s Fallacies of the Bates System
The Bates method is not widely accepted by conventional eye doctors as a legitimate approach to improving vision. Some have come around, but the large majority of them continue to prescribe glasses and tell their patients that nothing can be … more...
Right Eye, Left Eye
Here’s something to think about if there’s a big difference in the vision between your 2 eyes. In Chinese medicine, the right eye is the Father Eye, representing the male part of you (yes, women have this too), the yang … more...
Lessons From A Knee Injury About Strain
This past week I hurt my knee, from working out without being sufficiently warmed up. Since I am usually flexible, energetic, and easily able to move and bend, having to make my way around more slowly than I’m used to … more...
Seeing Outside My Frames
Having worn strong eyeglasses for all of my childhood and half of my teenage years until I got contact lenses, that weight on my face was just part of my life. The bridge of my nose had a constant red … more...
Rewrite of David’s Method
I just put online a complete rewrite of the David’s Method articles.
I originally wanted to make the guide as short and simple as possible to avoid overwhelming the reader, and to give a pretty narrow approach so the reader … more...
Seeing Size And Distance Accurately
I grew up before computers, with nothing like PhotoShop for doctoring pictures to look different than was possible in Reality. I liked the mind-bending drawings of M.C. Escher, mobius strips defying dimensionality, or stairs that seemed to go up and … more...
Simple Healthy Vision Habits
Lately I’ve been pleased to notice some small but definite improvements in my vision. Among these are more stable clarity, better sight than usual in dim light, and a heightened awareness of my periphery. (Wearing a strong prescription for most … more...
Looking For What I Can See, Now
The vibrant autumn colors are fading in NY state, yet there is still plenty of Nature to delight the eye. Branches are becoming bare instead of covered with and obscured by leaves, so I can see the tracery of even … more...
Dream: Wires On His Glasses
I’m at the home of a teen boy with an unusual vision problem, a few miles away from where I live. I looked up his address on an on-line map site so I could visit him to offer my help. … more...
Mirrors Into Windows: Healing My Myopic Mindset
In the ongoing personal work to lessen my high anxiety, and in looking at my habitual patterns of thinking and emotion, I’ve realized I was largely in Survival Mode for most of my life. I’ve always lived way under my … more...
Results Don’t Matter – A Lesson from Poker
What a stupid thing to say! After all, you want results, right? The whole reason you’re working at vision improvement is to get the results and be able to see, right? Sure, we can say how “it’s the journey that … more...
Getting Stuck On The Details, Losing The Big Picture
This morning I clearly saw a dynamic between my steady tech-y partner and me, which taught me more about myself and the sometimes over-focused manner in which I can approach tasks. I can often get upset and think I’m “failing” … more...
Are Your Eyes Sensitive to Sunlight?
Sunlight sensitivity, called photophobia, often can be dealt with in a natural way. You may just need to learn how to use your eyes better and learn how to take in sunlight without having such a bad reaction to it.… more...
How Long Will It Take?
When I hear this question about vision improvement, I am reminded of a young child going on a long car trip to visit relatives, in the days before there were video games to play or movies to watch on the … more...