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Monday, February 19, 2018

Symptoms Of Glaucoma v2

The symptoms of glaucoma really depend on the type of glaucoma you have. There are 2 main types, so read on to find out. Around 2.2 million Anerican are suffering from glaucoma and account for about 10 million visits to specialist. The numbers are staggering, and supposedly there is no cure. There is non officially,…

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Monday, February 27, 2017

Do Eye Exercises Really Work?

They work, but not as well as advertised on most websites. Most eye exercise programs on the Internet are simply the Bates Method repackaged. Positioning them as an alternative health approach for your eyesight is borderline false advertising. We will pick that up below. Also, most how to articles and how to instructions on YouTube are discussing the same thing. But it is a limited approach to improve your vision. So,

What Are Eye Exercises?

It's a way to exercise your eyes that is also known as vision therapy and eye training. Vision therapist rely on eye exercises when their patients need to improve their eye muscle control. For conditions such as convergence insufficiency, binocular vision, crossed eyes, and lazy eye. Also behavioral optometry and pediatric ophthalmologists apply them to improve the vision of children to delay the onset of vision problems. Behavioral optometrists use them to improve the visual perception and depth perception.

What Do Eyesight Exercises Help With?

Most online programs advertise to treat myopia or nearsightedness. That's because this eye condition is the biggest market share they can grab. The truth is that you need a more holistic approach to cure myopia naturally. Pure eyes exercises are best for farsightedness, amblyopia, lazy eye, and cross eyes. They work best for conditions when the eye muscles became too weak. But they are also effective with depth perception and visual perception.

How Do They Work?

The theory is that when an eye problem occurs, the eye muscles are not functioning correctly. The muscles are

too tense
too weak
out of balance

Eye strengthening exercises are best when eye muscles are too weak. For examples in the case of hyperopia, presbyopia, and farsightedness. Eye muscle stretching, palming, and relaxing works best when the muscles are too tense and can't relax. That's the case for myopia (nearsightedness). For astigmatism, lazy eye, amblyopia, and cross eyed a combination works best. In these cases the eye muscles are out of balance and the combination will rebalance them. Eye exercises work by strengthening and stretching all eye muscles, and then relax them. With that the eye regains the ability to focus in on close objects with stronger eye muscles. By relaxing and stretching them the eye regains the ability to loosen the muscles, which allows to see clearly into the distance. In reality, most eye exercise programs don't achieve that. The Bates Method only focuses on stretching and relaxing. It's not designed to strengthen the eye muscles properly. Since most eye exercise programs just copied the Bates Method, they are also missing that important element.

What Are The Benefits?

The most important benefit of eye therapy is eye strain relief. In today's world computer eye strain is a common problems. With hours of computer work per day, relieving eye strain is a great plus.

Eye Exercises Are Not Enough Because They Don't Balance Out The Entire Visual System. Your Eye Problems Have Underlying Root Causes In Your Mind, Your Emotions, Your Body, And Your Eyes. Read The Article And Click This Image To Discover Simple Ways To Improve Your Eyesigh.

Most programs claim benefits for every eye disease. They compare the exercises to yoga and call it "yoga for the eyes". The difference between a real yoga class with holistic yoga exercises is that with yoga you balance out your entire body and organ system. With eye exercises you only gain better eye muscle control. The exercises have no effect on your state of mind, your emotional state, your organ health, and the rest of your body. You have to take care of all aspects, which we'll discuss below. Another condition that can benefit from exercising your eyes is double vision because it is the starting point of eye problems. But the relieve doesn't last, if you don't take of the body-mind system. Also crossed eyes, lazy eye, and amblyopia can benefit. But a close look at the upper part of the neck is more important. That's the area where the nerves controlling the eye muscles exit the spine.

What Are Some Eye strengthening Exercises?

The most popular set of exercises is very simple:

keep you head facing straight ahead at all times, only move your eye throughout the exercises.
Slowly move your eyes on the horizontal plane to look over your left shoulder until you feel a comfortable stretch in your eye muscles. Hold there to a count of 5.
Slowly mover your eyes horizontally to look over your right shoulder until you feel a stretch. Hold for 5.
Do the same slow movement vertically to look over your head until you feel a stretch. Hold for 5.
Slowly move your eyes horizontally down to look at your feet while holding your head straight. Feel the stretch and hold to 5.
Keep you head straight, and slowly follow with your eyes an imaginary 8. Make sure the movement is smooth and even.
Still with your head facing forward, now slowly follow with your eyes an imaginary infinity symbol (∞). Again, nice and smooth.

The problem with most eye strengthening exercises is that they are only stretching, but not truly strengthening the eye muscles. So,

Are These Exercises Effective?

Truth to be told, eye exercises are the last element you need for natural vision correction. What most programs are missing is to address are underlying root causes for the vision problem. The stuff that is causing the eye muscles to perform incorrectly in the first place. These root causes appear in three areas of your life (listed in order of importance):

Your mental and emotional life
Your chemical life (nourishment and toxicity in your body)
Your body (that includes your physical body, and lastly your eyes)

This is what we coined the "Triangle of Sight". So to improve vision naturally and to have better vision for the rest of your life, you have to address each of these areas. To start with, you have to know what these root causes are for you specifically. To find out your personal root causes, I would strongly encourage you to take the free test here on our website. It is designed to analyze your specific case, and will give you a personalized report with suggestions.

Do Eye Exercises Really Work? is courtesy of Eyesight Matters Inc

Is Coffee Good For Your Eyes?

That's a great question. Because coffee is such an ingrained part of our daily lives by now... And the information around it is really confusing:

some say it's great for the metabolism
other say it's the devil himself in a liquid

So, what's true? Let's start with, what's bad about it? (Because we can turn some of these around...)

it's a highly addictive substance... but who cares, right? :-)
it depletes your kidney energies and dopamine
it's acidifying your blood PH
non-organic is bathed in chemicals

Let's tackle them one by one: 1. It's addictive... Uuuhhh, yeah, it is... have you ever tried to stop? If you are hooked on coffee and try to stop cold turkey, prepare for a week of headaches and feeling miserable... But for the pleasure it gives, most people are willing to keep their "coffee vice". And that's totally fine! 2. It Depletes Your Kidney Energies & Dopamine... That's a bit more important to pay attention to. Especially for your eyesight. How does this work? You see, the energy you get from the coffee, the boost, is not in the coffee... it's in your body... it's your own energy! The coffee just makes your own resources flow more freely through your system... The problem is, you use your own resources faster than you usually would. Leaving you with a deficit, if you don't top up... Imagine your region has a huge dam to store water for agriculture. It has a gate on the bottom to control the outflow of water... You have a drought period... the land needs water... so you open the floodgates very wide for quite some time... but you still don't get rain... what happens? You are lacking water resources now... until you top up! The same happens with your energies! The good news is, you can fix that. More on that in a moment... The problem for your eyesight is that your eyes need that kidney energy to see clearly. It's an integrated part of eyesight. Sure, your optometrist won't agree... but that's because they don't understand holistic health. Where all parts of the body work together to form a healthy, thriving whole... 3. It's Acidifying Your Blood PH: You know PH levels, right? From your soap... it has to be balanced for your skin to feel good... If your soap is too acidic, your skin will itch or burn... Your blood also needs to keep the PH balance. It needs to be at 7.36, so slightly alkaline. If your blood PH moves just a touch to too acid, your body will move the toxicity into fat cells or organ cells. It has to, otherwise, you'll fall over dead... No joke, the margins are very slim! So, coffee is very acidifying to the body. It makes your blood slow and sluggish. And your body has to remove all of that to keep you alive... Sounds pretty bad, right... first depleting your organs... now harming them... and clogging up your blood... But there is a solution for that, too... so stick with me! 4. Non-Organic Coffee Is Sprayed Like Crazy... That's a real issue! For your eyesight, your health, and our environment! Plus, conventional, commercial coffee often comes with human abuse, slavery, and child labor... sure, not a pretty topic to talk about... But true holistic health also considers your environment you live in... because it feeds your energy! So for your organs all the chemicals are really bad news... it affects your liver. Your liver has to remove the toxicity from your system... And when you liver is overworked, your kidneys need to jump in... then you are in real trouble... Then your eyes are missing the kidney AND the liver energy they need to see clearly... see how this all fits together holistically...? But here the solution is real simple: buy organic, fair-trade coffee! Have a cup less per day, if you have to. But the taste, the health benefits, and the benefits for the environment and humanity are worth a couple of dollars! And how do we fix the rest? The acidity is really easy to fix; simply get a food-grade, aluminum-free (this one is a must!!) baking soda, and add a quarter of a teaspoon to your cup... Problem solved! Your coffee is now alkaline! And the organ depletion? To fix the dopamine depletion, you'll need to add a herb that restores your dopamine to your coffee. You don't need much. But you need a good quality one! And for the kidney energies; you'll need to add kidney building herbs. They are excellent to fill up your tank, instead of depleting it... That's Where Coffee Is Great Coffee is a great delivery mechanism! Regardless of drinking coffee or not, if you have eye problems, your liver and kidneys are missing energy. And coffee is a great delivery mechanism for that... It allows your body to get more of the active "good" stuff into your system... And this is something we discuss and teach extensively in the Pure Vision Method™... so next time we open the doors, you know that this really goes way beyond just "exercising" your eyes... It's about your holistic eye health! So, in conclusion; enjoy your organic, free-trade coffee, but add baking soda and herbs... now you got a health tonic! :) So, how did you like this? Useful information? What else would you like me to write about? What are your most pressing questions about your eyesight? Show me you are alive... comment below! :)

Is Coffee Good For Your Eyes? was first published to https://www.purevisionmethod.com

What Truly Causes Myopia?

There are different ways to look at what causes myopia. The "experts view" and the higher levels of investigation. The difference lays in the amount of questions asked to establish the logic levels we are dealing with. Logic levels is a term used to describe how many times a question is asked to determine the most sophisticated level to look at a situation. When looking at myopia causes that would be a question like "what causes that?" or "why is this happening?". Unfortunately that process is cut short most of the time because we live a world of patching up symptoms, not treating the root causes of any physical issues. It pays better to sell recurring patches than to get rid of what's causing it.

With that said...

What Causes Myopia?

Let's start with the "experts view". By that I mean how your eye specialist would explain the problem, if they do at all. Often you just get a prescription or a pair of glasses, but let’s see how they explain myopia causes. Myopia Causes Explained In Picture

The cause for the myopic picture that you see is that light falls incorrectly onto the retina. The retina is the back part of your eye that contains the light and color receptors to perceive what you see. It sends the information to your mind, which assembles the picture you see. As you can see in the image above, the letters fall short within the eyeball. They don't stimulate the light receptors of the retina correctly. As you can see, when we extend the light rays fall onto the retina and recreate the letters, there are two points of focus, not a single one that you see for normal vision. Eye specialists explain myopia causes that your lens is too round, so the light entering your lens is redirected incorrectly. So the theory is to change the shape of the lens by either offsetting the shape with another lens, ie use glasses or contact lenses to achieve the result. Or they would suggest to alter the shape of the lens by taking off what they consider access in myopia surgery.

How Is Myopia Caused At A Higher Level?

Something this image shows nicely is that the eyeball is elongated. In reality this is what moves the focal plane. So the question remaining, and never asked nor answered by eye specialist, is what causes the prolonged eyeball in the first place?

Eye Muscles Explained in Relationship To Myopia Causes

To understand the higher logical levels of myopia, it's important to understand the eye muscles. It's all explained in the article.

As you can see on this image, there are 6 muscles attached to the eyeball. When they contract, your eyeball stretches out like a zoom on a camera, which then pushes out the lens. That causes the rounder shape, which the eye specialist pay all the attention to. That’s a healthy function of the eye. This is how we zoom in on things that we need to make out in the distance. This is how we can see objects far away clearly. But in case of myopia this happens chronically. There is chronic tension in the eye muscles that causes this process to occur all day every day. As a light zoom, and then stronger the longer you wear glasses.

The Multi Billion Dollar Question

The question the ophthalmic industry, your optometrist, optician, eye specialist, or however you call them avoid at all cost is, “What causes the chronic tension in the eye muscles that’s underlying the myopia causes?” Why multi billion dollar question? Because if they dealt with these underlying root causes and healed your eyesight, the industry would lose the $50+ billion dollars that it turns over each and every year – in the US alone. And optometrists would not earn the recurring income that makes up part of their above average career predictions. So let’s examine;

What causes chronic tension in other muscles in our body?

Simple answer: stress. All types of stress; physical stress, mental stress, financial stress, emotional stress, you name it. All of these create chronic muscle tension in some areas of your body. Some have it in the neck, some in the back, some in the arms, fingers, shoulder, and some in the eye. So what causes the stress in the eye muscles, rather than other parts of the body? Especially for high myopia. Great question!

What Are The Causes For Myopia In The Eyes Muscles?

First of, we have to get into the meta-physical world. That word has gotten a bad rep lately with the film The Secret and the Law of Attraction. But leave these out of the picture. Meta-physical simply means “beyond the physical”. So what causes myopia beyond your physical body. That leaves only one place: our mind. Your mind is the determining factor of where the stress accumulates. With vision it’s very easy. What you don’t want to see, you won’t.

The Black Out Phenomenon

Myopia manifests in the eyes when you have issues seeing yourself in the future. It used to be common that kids got myopia at the end of high school, or the end of university. Why? Because that’s when they had problems for to see themselves in the future. At these points in your life you have to make a few rather important decisions:

what you want to do for the rest of your life. You have to decide which job to apply for. If you don’t want to look at that, the tension of the stress manifests in your eyes, and viola, there you got it. You literally can’t see into the distance.
who to chose as your partner to spend the rest of your life with. Which mate would be best for your happiness, to exchange genes with (yes, we still unconsciously make that decision), and who would be best to take care of your when you are in old age. Again, if you can't see that person, you black out your vision into the distance.
how to make ends meet. This one is getting more important every day because the rates of children above 30 still living with their parents is at record highs right now.

All of these are important considerations and are now pushed onto teenagers and kids earlier than ever. It's an unprecedented time in history where youth have the most choice of professions to choose from, but very little jobs available.

“Selective Seeing”

If we want to black out something, we literally can do that. Since we see in the mind, not the eyes, we can black out. We only perceive the light in the eye, but our mind assembles the picture we see. Your mind is powerful, so powerful that it can decide where it sends your tension to achieve the result it needs. If you don’t want to look into the future because it’s scary, you won’t. The decision is made meta-physically, beyond the physical, but manifests on the physical plane. Myopia causes you to black out what you don’t want to look at.

The Underlying Root Causes For Myopia

Can glasses, contacts, or eye surgery get rid of what's causing myopia in your mind. Nope! That’s why you get stronger glasses after a while, and that’s why conditions return after eye surgery. If you don’t remove what’s causing the problem, it’s gonna come back. You wanted to black it out, so your mind continues to do that. Who asks shall receive. This is one example of an underlying root cause. There are others like tight shoulders, toxic liver, toxic kidneys, inflexible neck and back. All of these cause disruptions to proper functioning eyes. All of these cause myopia. That's what we call "The Triangle of Sight".

What Is The Triangle Of Sight?

The basic premise of the of the Triangle of Sight is that you eye problems have underlying root causes in three areas of your life:

Your Mental/Emotional Life
Your Chemical Life (Nourishment & Toxicity)
Your Physical Life (Your Body & Your Eyes)

So, if you don't know what the cause are in each of these areas you are basically shooting in the dark. Because glasses, contact lenses, and eye surgery are not dealing with any of these areas you are getting stronger and stronger prescriptions over time.

What Truly Causes Myopia? See more on: https://www.PureVisionMethod.com

Unique Correction For Myopia

Myopia correction exists for a lot longer than eye surgery. It was used by almost every native culture in the world. They had to have techniques, otherwise their existence would have been under threat.

What Is Myopia Correction?

Today most people only know about glasses, contact lenses, and eye surgery as ways to correct myopia, but that's not entirely true. Imagine this; one of our ancestors browsing through the fields. Hunting weapon in hand. The grass is moving 100 meters away, but he is shortsighted. He can’t make out what it is. Is it his hunting buddy, is it pray, or maybe a predator trying to hunt him down. He wouldn’t have a clue because he can’t make it out. Getting more and more scared, still being unable to make it out, the movement increases and comes closer. He launches his weapon, and boom, boom breaks his knife on a turtle’s back… Seriously, it could have been his brother or his dog, or some other buddy of his.

Ancient Techniques To Correct Myopia

Our ancestors knew how important their distance vision was and they had great motivation to maintain and fix it. Now they didn’t have glasses, let alone contacts or eye surgery. Glasses are only around since 1855, and eye surgery since 50 odd years. Today’s surgical methods exist only since 1998 and have never been tested properly. That aside, what did our ancestors do to cure myopia?

How To Correct Myopia Naturally?

Something totally “new age”, some voodoo techniques that only strange people on the Internet discuss: eye exercises. That’s right, this “new fad” on the net has been around for millennia as a way to improve myopia. Around the world, many cultures used the same techniques. So why don’t we, why do we wear annoying glasses?

How Do Eyeglasses Work?

It all started in 1855 when German physicist Herman Helmholtz studied optics and tried to understand our eyes. When he did so, research tools were rather primitive, and he decided that people get shortsighted when the lens is shaped too steeply. Being a physicist into optics he came up with the idea that you just put another lens in front of the eye to offset the distortion. That does work, but it doesn’t correct myopia. Does a crutch help you to walk when you have a twisted ankle? Of course it does, but crutches don’t correct the ankle. Same thing applies.

How Does Laser Eye Surgery Work?

The idea of eye surgery that you make the change in the lens permanent and scrape something off. Today a laser burns it off, but conceptually it’s the same. Does it work? For a while, but the root cause is still there, so it don’t last very often. Especially not for high myopia. 2 -5 years, and the conditions return. That’s why eye surgery is under scrutiny again since 2008. Fast forward 46 years from Helmholtz discovery, and the ophthalmic industry was thriving. They were selling a hoax correction for myopia and made a bunch of money with it. They were selling glasses and made a nice profit. The old paradigm of the west – just sell a patch, but don’t treat any condition.

How Do Eye Exercises Correct Myopia?

Along came an ophthalmologist, an eye doctor, Dr William Bates, and he observed what the Native American Indians did to improve their eyesight. He studied it, did a ton of research with a lot of people, and he discovered that the wrong shape of the lens comes from tension in the eye muscles that are attached to the eyeball. He had more sophisticated tools than Helmholtz, and he actually understood the eye. He studied it all his life. He then applied these techniques to improve myopia with his patients and recorded the results. He presented them to his peers, and got lobbied out! The ophthalmic industry did not want to know how to get rid of myopia because glasses were making to much money for them.

Why Are Eye Exercises Not Enough?

The reason eye exercises come across as “New Age” thingy is that lots of people copied and republished Dr Bates' eye exercises as eBook on the internet. Many people claim they don’t work, and in today’s society they are partly right. In today's world eye exercises only work when they are performed regularly. If you stop, the effects can easily diminish because the underlying root cause of what is causing your myopia in the first place is not address. When our ancestors lived, and even when Bates did his research at the beginning of the 20th century life was different. Food was different. Stress was different. People used their body and their eyes differently. People worked and travelled differently. All of that affects myopia as well.

Why Are Myopia Exercises Ineffective Today?

For example back when Bates was around doing his research, food was grown organically and without chemicals. Water was still clean, and there was no environment pollution from two world wars, many other wars, nuclear energy production, and many other factors around. Also our lifestyle has changed dramatically in the last 40 years, which is the exact reason why myopia has skyrocketed in that same period of time. We have to deal with lifestyle changes and environmental factors, Bates and our ancestors did not face. Today effective correction for myopia has to include the health of your liver, your colon, your physical body, your joints, our blood flow, and many other factors. Life has changed, so we have to adopt, too. To cure myopia we have to change course.

What's The Most Common Correction Method For Myopia?

Unfortunately it is glasses and contacts, followed by laser eye surgery. None of these methods truly correct myopia though. Otherwise the correction would be long-term. With glasses and contacts we know for sure that there is no improvement because you never get weaker glasses. If anything improved, your prescription would get weaker and weaker until it's gone. When was the last time that has happen to you? Exactly! With eye surgery the effectiveness is much harder to track. The official numbers of the FDA put the rate of patients that get glasses again at 50%. That's the numbers the FDA officially reports, so it's safe to assume the real numbers are higher than that.

What Is The Best Correction For Myopia?

One thing that remains constant is that you can improve your vision naturally, and that glasses, contacts, and eye surgery are NOT meant to get rid of myopia. They are meant to generate recurring revenue. So in order to start correcting your myopia naturally, fast, and long-term, the best way to get there is to get a personalized report about your eye conditions available on our website here. Click here to answer the few short questions about your specific case of eye problems, and we'll send you a personalized report about where you need to pay most attention to. Do that now, and enjoy the report!

The blog post Unique Correction For Myopia is republished from Pure Vision Method™

Why Does Your Prescription Change So Often?

Good question! If glasses improved your eyesight your prescription should get lower over time, right? Then it'd make sense. You'd just get weaker and weaker glasses until they are gone... but when did that ever happen to you..? Exactly! So, why do they get stronger over time? Because optometrists regularly overprescribe... meaning you get glasses that are too strong. That's why you get the headaches with new glasses for 2 or 3 days... Your eyes just get used to the too strong glasses... So, why do you get glasses that are too strong? What most people fail to realize is that your eyesight is dynamic. It changes constantly throughout the day! You may have -2 (or +2, or a certain IOP, whatever... it all comes down to the same thing) in the morning. Then mid-morning have a really strong coffee with a lot of sugar and milk... So for 30 minutes your eyesight will be great. It'll be sharp. You'll feel great. You'll see crystal clear... so it'd be around -1 (+1, etc...) Then the sugar crash sets in... the caffeine wears off... and slowly your eyesight gets worse again... Back to -2... and then the liver has to deal with the sugar and milk... meaning, your eyes get less energy than they should... and now you are down to -3! (The numbers are arbitrary examples to illustrate the point. The same fluctuation happens with plus-glasses, eye pressure, astigmatism, eyestrain, floaters, etc) So, if you come to your eye test after the sugar crash, you'd get way too strong glasses this time around! There are many factors that influence your test:

anxiety during the test (that you could get stronger glasses... the self-fulfilling prophecy)
what you ate
the eye drops making you nervous
you feel pressure to get the test right
a shitty night... lol
fight with your spouse /boss/friend/coworker
stress

... etc There are so many factors... I think you get the point! The Science A study was done with 20,000 school kids... they tested their eyesight multiple times throughout the day... and what they discovered is amazing:

all kids had perfect vision for some time throughout the day
NO child had perfect vision all day long!

But every child was different... because every person is different! You react to bread and bananas differently than I do... your digestive systems behaves differently than mine... depending on that, the test will change! You and I cope with stress differently... so both of us can get affected during the eye test depending on our make-up... It's not that you are right and I am wrong... or the other way around... but what IS wrong, is to judge the strength of your glasses on a momentary picture of your day... Coupled with a totally unnaturally scenario to test your eyes... Come one, you never drop stuff in your eyes to make the blurry... then look with one eye at a time into total darkness... to read letters of a font-size smaller than the smallest size available on your computer... You never use your eyes like that in real life! Ever... And that's why your prescription changes so often... The most accurate measurement would be to test your eyes with a 20/20 vision test in daylight throughout the day multiple times... take the average, and there you go! That would be the closest to an honest evaluation. But your prescription would stay pretty consistent... and you wouldn't buy as many glasses... so the test machines make really good money for the "experts"... The thing is... You Can Turn This Around! With the right system, you can reduce your strength and get weaker and weaker glasses... until your glasses are gone! It's not fantasy, it's what we help our clients do each and every day... it's the Pure Vision Method™... If you have an eye test anytime soon, do this:

eat very light and healthy (salads and light snacks) all day before the test
drink loads of high-quality spring water from a glass bottle
have a strong coffee just before the test starts ;)

=> that way they won't overprescribe you... :) Stay tuned for tomorrow's bag of tricks! How did you like today's lesson? Was it useful? Just leave a comment, give me feedback, and let me know what your questions are!

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