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Nearly half the population in America wears some kind of unreal lens, glasses or contact lenses. Artificial lenses may assist improve your vision, but it is not a vision therapy, it is just a temporal fix. Glasses and lenses can never fix your eye problems. Artificial lenses can assist you see matters more clearly, but they are primarily for the symptoms of eye problems and do not cure the actual ailment.

The fundamental problem with artificial lenses is they teach you wrong habits and allow for your eyes to work falsely. You promptly become dependent on the lenses and keep your eyes from healing themselves. If you can teach your eyes to be more loosened, the call for glasses and lenses would go away totally.

The profound cause of most eye ailments is psychological strain and strain on the eyes. The key is to find out how to avoid strain to begin with. That is not always possible, so learning new habits to treat with strain is the next step.

Some of the greatest troubles with unreal lenses is incurring the perfect prescription. Your eyeballs are always changing. Numerous things bring a element in how good you can see. Weather, wellness, mood, misdirections, and outside stressors all play a share in your vision. When it’s sunny and bright out our moods are commonly more positive and so is our eyesight. For a ophtalmologist to discover the perfect prescription is unthinkable. You may go to the doctor when you are in a painful mood and its depressing and rainy out. Your prescription will reflect this making them not work at all when you are happy and it’s bright out.

Try getting going without your eyeglasses for a couple of weeks and experience what happens. You may be amazed at the results. Of course at the beginning matters may be fuzzy, but once your eyeballs begin to adapt to a life without fake lenses things will turn clearer. The trick is to make sure you are disengage of excessively much psychological strain. Try some relaxation techniques and rest your eyeballs when things starting to get out of focus.

Wearing artificial lenses can make our eyes drawn-out and teach us many negative habits. Start your vision therapy by focus on fixing the problem of psychological pains and don’t just cover up the problem.

Eyestrain is the main cause of vision defects. When you are stressed your eyesight is worse. Because eyestrain is cause of vision defects when you relax, your eyesight is better. Maybe you have noticed that when you close your eyes and than open them, your eyesight is better for a moment. It’s the simplest way of relaxing eyes and it’s completely natural, but when you only close your eyes some light may reach your eyes, deeper levels of relaxation can be reached only without any light. In this article I’ll show you how to perform palming and answer the most important questions about it.

If you want to perform palming you should find relatively quiet place where no-one will disturb you.

Step 1: Sit on a chair. Make sure it comfortable.
Step 2: Take deep breath and try to relax. Close your eyes.
Step 3: Rub your hands until they are warm.
Step 4: Cover your eyes with your palms. Avoid any pressure because it would cause

In early 2006, Dr. Lizotte informed me of an exciting new use of light therapy that he was directly involved with at the North East Institute in Holyoke, Massachusetts called NERI.

It is a special education school for adolescents who are so seriously disruptive that they cannot function in a regular classroom. The school’s first task is to try to discover the factor(s) that seem to cause these students to be disruptive.

Eye testing revealed that a substantial majority of these young people had functioning vision disabilities such as poor eye tracking which effectively prevented them from learning to read.

Dr. Lizotte decided to utilize tracking exercises and balancing, “physical therapy for the eyes,” using the Spectral Receptivity Trainer as the bedrock procedure for getting the students’ autonomic nervous systems in balance. The results as of early spring 2006 were impressive. After a range of twelve to twenty-four treatments, dependent on each student’s disability level, the treated student’s disruptive behavior declined to the point where they were able to be mainstreamed into a regular classroom and were able to learn to read.

The Institute hoped to build each student’s diagnosis and treatment into their individualized educational plan so that financial costs and human costs will be drastically reduced with a positive benefit to each adolescent and to society.

On January 29, 2007, the Principal of North East Institute sent Dr. Lizotte the following assessment of seven students who had been receiving the therapy we have just described. The names are fictionalized to preserve privacy.

Update for Dr. Lizotte
1/29/07

Jim: Jim is now more willing to participate in classroom activities. We have seen him become more productive with less acting out.

Brian: Brian has missed a lot of school so it is hard to judge right now.

Dan: We are thrilled with the progress Dan is making. He is relating to people more and
making more eye contact. When he first began vision therapy he never participated with the group but spent his time doing his “own thing” such as playing with cars. Now he comes to class and works with the group. He even initiated reading a book to the class. Up to this point we did not know for sure if he could even read!!! He tells everyone that “eye coordination with the doctor” is helping him. (Isn’t that cute???)

Carol: At this point I have not seen much change except for the fact that she is able to use the saccadic fixator now and has previously been unwilling or unable to do so.

Richard: At the beginning of the year Richard could not even tolerate being in class for the entire period. It is still difficult to get him to complete assignments but he is more willing to try to work on activities that address his weak reading and writing skills.

Tom: Tom is working hard on handwriting and written expression. He has become less difficult to redirect.

Zack: Zack seems more alert in school and participates more in class. We are seeing less of him going into total “shut down”.

Light therapy is a non-invasive technology unlike the commonest therapies of today, which involve powerful very invasive drugs with all kinds of undesirable side effects. At times it is a toss up as to which is worse the proposed cure or the disease! We are into the “light age.” If Liberman is accurate in his predictions, “scalpels will be replaced by lasers, chemotherapy by phototherapy, prescription drugs by prescription colors, acupuncture needles by needles of light, eye glasses by healthy eyes. Cancer will be a disease of the past.” 1

As noted previously, light therapy deals with the intimate relationship between body and mind (spirit). The affective (emotional) side of us is seen as foundational in terms of physical health. Present traditional analysis, counseling, and medication, often concentrate on simply erasing the pain rather than finding its cause and dealing with it. They will be replaced by light therapy that sees and treats the mind and body as mind-body, one intimately connected, functioning, whole, system. The focus of light therapy is upon the person – the whole person and not on the disease.

Liberman and I agree with two important statements with which he concludes his work and I conclude this article. These statements are “the study of light affirms the interconnectedness of all things” and “let the light in” (207)!

Endnote
1 Jacob Liberman, Light-Medicine of the Future (Santa Fe. New Mexico: Bear and Company, 1991), p. xv.

This and subsequent direct references from this work are reprinted by permission of Inner Traditions

International, Rochester, Vermont.

At one point or another, we have all probably heard the term vision therapy or vision correction therapy, but what do they mean and is there a way that I might be able to benefit from them?

I’ll first start by describing what vision correction therapy is not:

A “snake oil” treatment available for sale on the internet The taking of specialized vitamin treatments formulated specifically for the eyes The use of “pinhole” eyeglasses to see better The manipulation of the eye with techniques like palming, floating, yo-yo’ing, sunning, or any other kind of massage technique Exercises to relax the eye

If you have done any research on the internet regarding natural vision correction programs, you have no doubt seen one or all of these terms.

Vision correction therapy can be thought of in several ways, but perhaps most importantly it requires direct interaction with a licensed practitioner. There are many different kinds of eye doctors, most of which are licensed as optometrists with the symbol “O.D.” after their name. These are people who have completed a formal (and rigorous) course of study allowing them to detect eye diseases, measure refractive errors of all types, and prescribe lenses. Most optometrists are not specifically trained to treat blurry vision with methods other than prescribing lenses to see better, nor have most eye doctors received any specialized training in the specialized field of vision correction therapy.

There is another, smaller field of licensed optometrists who have completed further certifications in behavioral and natural therapeutic approaches to refractive eye problems such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and presbyopia (i.e., hardening of the crystalline lens of the eye which makes it difficult to see up-close as we age). These eye doctors are termed Behavioral Optometrists and practice vision therapy in their clinic. They see patients, diagnose visual disorders, and treat those disorders in their clinic using combinations of therapies, nutritional supplements, lenses (usually very different from your normal prescription), and various other tools which specifically target your particular visual disorder.

Vision correction therapy is not any one technique to improve visual performance, but rather a specific blending of therapies designed to synergistically target your vision problem.

This brings me to the other side of vision correction therapy…the different levels of involvement with an eye doctor. When you visit a behavioral optometrist, he or she will diagnose your visual problem(s) and consult with you to prescribe a set of alternative vision correction therapies. You really have no say in the diagnosis or prescription, although you can certainly choose not to follow it (or pay for it). However, do you really need the eye doctor to tell you that you are nearsighted? Yes and No. Knowing you are nearsighted and knowing how nearsighted you are can be two completely different questions. Of course, only a licensed optometrist can measure your degree of nearsightedness accurately. However, you can get a very close approximation simply by testing your vision with an eye chart and some level of knowledge about how to interpret your results.

Vision correction therapy under your own guidance is not possible, because true vision correction therapy requires the interaction with your behavioral optometrist. However, using a system of eye exercises on your own is called vision training, or vision correction training. In many cases, it can be incredibly helpful to your overall therapy by including vision correction training in-between your weekly or monthly sessions.

Semantics aside, is vision correction therapy and/or vision correction training worth pursuing? Well, if vision correction therapy did not work, how could there be so many successful licensed behavioral optometrists in the industry? And if the techniques that behavioral optometrists use work, how could you, as a person who knows how to use them, not be effective in your own vision correction training? The only difference is that you are the one diagnosing your vision problem (probably after finding out that you are nearsighted after your eye checkup), and you are the one who decides which training techniques to use.

There are many great companies on the internet who sell effective vision correction training programs with products that range the price spectrum. The one thing to keep in mind in this business is that price does not always equal quality!

When searching for a good vision training program:

Look for a company that has been in business for at least 5 years. If they have survived this long, their product is most likely legitimate Find a company that has the endorsement of a licensed optometrist They should have plenty of customer endorsements, both for their product and for their customer service satisfaction Be very cautious if they are not a credit card merchant and have no customer support information Look for a product guarantee or refund policy, a privacy policy, and disclaimer. A company that does not have a disclaimer for a training program that depends on your efforts should be a red flag.

The problem of poor vision seems to be quite endemic in this day and age. After all, a lot of people do not take good care of their eyes and also eyesight, which seems to be aggravating the problem. They just sit in front of the computer for hours or perhaps watch too much TV which may lead to problems as far as eyesight is concerned. People also lead very busy lives and as such may be careless about their diet or not have the time for proper eye exercises, leading to a condition where they may eventually need vision therapy.

The problem is not minor as it indeed affects so many people around the world and that too from early childhood. What is more aggravating and hard to fathom is that while the problem is so pronounced around the world, it is quite true that most people seem to be quite oblivious to it.

One of the popular methods of treating eyesight that may be less that acceptable is by the Bates Method. This method was popularize by Dr Bates in the earlier part of the previous century and is acclaimed by some as being an effective means of tackling the problem of impaired and poor eyesight. The method is centered around the technique of relaxing and straining the eye muscles so that ocular health may be improved. He also advocates the use of visualization and movement in order to improve vision substantially. There are a lot of people, over the years who have been benefited by this method and variations of this that have cropped up from time to time.

It is quite true that if your eyesight is poor, you need not lose hope and give up. In fact, it is possible to employ methods like the Bates Method to get some relief.

When an elderly family member starts losing their sight you can help. One of the first thoughts that may come to mind is that they will have to move in with you. If this is not possible, or is not wanted by your family member, there are low vision aids you can get that help seniors around the home. The first products you can get them are for their computer. Many seniors have really grasped the notion of the home computer, so not being able to use it can be devastating. There are screen magnifiers you can get to help them see the screen better. There also are key stickers that make the letters larger.

Other great low vision aids that help seniors do their everyday tasks around the home are hand held magnifiers. They can use this while they read the newspaper or even their favorite recipe book around dinner time. Using their phone also is something that seniors need to do on a daily basis. Whether it is for socializing or for an emergency, they need to be able to see the numbers on the phone. There are a variety of different phones that have low vision numbers on them that help seniors read the buttons better.

Another area of the home that seniors do not want to give up their freedom is in the kitchen. There are a variety of low vision aids that can be used in the kitchen so your loved ones can continue their cooking and baking. There is an extra large kitchen timer that is easier to set because it is not so small. In addition there are scales that talk, that way you do not have to strain your eyes trying to figure out how much something weighs. Not having this could screw up an entire recipe because the wrong measurement may go into a recipe.

If your loved one needs a pill organizer, there are low vision aids that can help as well. Instead of the small traditional pill organizers, you can get them larger versions. This way they can easily read what day they are on. You also can get them a talking calculator. That way they will not read the wrong number when they are balancing their checkbook or paying bills. Low vision should not hinder their everyday tasks around the home, especially with all of the great products available today.