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Do you wear glasses or contacts? Are you considering Lasik eye surgery?

Listen…

I am going to tell you how I improved my eyesight in only 3 days, without surgery or drugs!

I have had poor eyesight from a young age. I first started wearing glasses in the 7th grade, back in 1988. I would sit in the front row of the classroom and I still could not read the teacher’s writing on the blackboard.

I could only read the blackboard if I squinted my eyes real hard. I was squinting for weeks before I finally decided it was time to purchase glasses.

I tried out contacts for a few weeks but I could never get the hang of it. I had a hard time putting my finger in my eye! On top of that my contacts were always falling out.

I applied for my first drivers license at age 16 and failed. I had to retake the test with glasses to pass, and I was required to wear glasses when driving.

I thought about getting the popular Lasik eye surgery. The doctors said it is completely safe. But then I came across a website LasikDisaster.com that discusses the Lasik problems and says:

“LASIK surgeons fail to inform patients that the cornea is permanently weakened by LASIK. In April, 2007, researchers reported, “The LASIK flap once cut may contribute little to the mechanical stability of the cornea and probably never completely adheres to the underlying stromal bed…

…LASIK, the touted “15-minute miracle” may be the worst decision of a patient’s life, with disastrous consequences. Even patients with so-called “successful” outcomes may face devastating complications…

…Dry eye is the most common complication of LASIK. Corneal nerves that are responsible for tear production are severed when the flap is cut.”

I was disappointed and thought I would probably wear glasses for the rest of my life.

My life changed in many ways during the summer of 2001 at a Raw Foods Festival.

I walked past a vendor booth promoting ‘Natural Vision Improvement’. It caught my attention because there were all kinds of fun things to look at.

The owner of the booth was Thomas Quackenbush, author of “Relearning to See: Improve Your Eyesight- Naturally”

Thomas said he could teach me how to improve my eyesight in three days. I was excited about the possibility of throwing away my glasses and decided to attend his three day seminar.

Natural vision improvement is not a new concept. The guidelines were first taught back in 1919 by Dr. William H. Bates, a pioneer who wrote “The Bates Method for Better Eyesight without Glasses.”

His book has many successful case studies of people who were able to restore their eyesight back to 20/20 after following his methods.

Poor eyesight is not a permanent problem. It can be healed and improved no matter what your age.

Why don’t modern day eye doctors know about the Bates Method? Beets me! My guess is they get paid thousands of dollars to sell Lasik surgery. If they promoted the Bates method, they wouldn’t make any money!

The basic concept of the Bates Method is that poor eyesight is caused by bad habits such as staring, over-concentrating, and squinting / straining your eyes.

If you become aware of your bad habits, you can begin to correct them.

There is a great course that teaches the Bates Method called “Rebuild Your Vision”

Thomas taught me three basic principles of natural vision: movement, centralization and relaxation.

With the principle of movement, you want to move your head while keeping your eyes still.

If you watch people with poor eyesight, when they read a book or watch TV, you will notice that their head is completely still while their eyes move back and forth across the page. This is called staring.

Moving the eyes like this causes the eye muscles to strain and grow weak. Staring for long periods of time will cause blurry vision and gradually worsen your eyesight.

Another way to prevent the bad habit of staring is to practice the second principle of centralization. With this, you imagine there is a stick or feather pointing straight out from your nose. The feather reaches out to one small central point. You want to focus your eyesight onto this point.

While imagining that you have a feather stuck to your nose, you want to brush the feather across everything you see while focusing your sight onto the one central point that the feather touches. This encourages movement of the head and centralization of vision.

When you focus your vision onto the one point, everything becomes clear. This takes a little practice but it is well worth it.

A good way to practice this is to read a book. If you watch how small children read books, they put their finger onto the sentence and move their finger across the page. The childs head moves to follow their finger.

Using your finger or a pen, point to the first word on the page, and move your finger across the sentence. Don’t move your eyes, just move your head to follow your finger.

Before I did this, I was reading books by staring at them. I would keep my head still and move my eyes back and forth. After a half hour, I would have to stop reading because my eyes became heavy, blurry, and tired.

Now I practice movement and centralization, and I can read books all day long without getting tired.

The third principle is relaxation…

I mentioned earlier that I would always squint my eyes to see the chalkboard. This put a real strain on my eyes. You do not want to squint or strain your eyes. If you simply focus your eyesight onto one small central spot, and relax your eyes, suddenly the words become clear.

Another problem people have when staring is that they forget to blink. Thomas taught us that we should blink often, maybe once every second or two.

Once I became aware of this, I noticed that I was not blinking enough. I would go for maybe 10 seconds without blinking, and then blink a couple times. I had to raise my awareness and practice steady blinking every second. Blinking encourages relaxation of the eye muscles.

This is a pretty general overview of the seminar and book. I would like to encourage you to explore the Bates Method and experiment with it. You might be surprised at how quickly your eyesight improves!

The best way to learn these eyesight improvement habits is to attend a class or seminar in your town. You should be able to find a local certified Bates instructor using Google.

There is a great home study course available called “Rebuild Your Vision”. It teaches the whole Bates Method and shows you the exact steps needed for healing your vision.

To get similar results to the Bates Method, you will need to spend thousands of dollars for the Lasik surgery, and this is very risky because there is always a chance the doctor will cut your eye in the wrong spot.

Your other option is to visit an eye doctor and pick up a stronger prescription for a few hundred dollars, but this doesn’t correct the problem.

There is absolutely no risk to try out Rebuild Your Vision. You can try the program out for a week or two. If it’s not exactly what you’re looking for, you will receive a full refund with no questions asked. You can even request a refund a full year after purchase!

Click Here to visit “Rebuild Your Vision with the Bates Method.”

Give it a try and you’ll be throwing away your glasses in no time!

To your great health,

Mike Snyder
author, TheRawDiet.com newsletter
Portland, OR