Visual and Mental Swinging

Shifting the focus often can help you to see better. You can shift from right to left, from near objects to far objects or up and down. You can loosen the tension around your vertebrae and along the spine by standing in front of a window and slowly turning your upper [...]

Swinging, Breathing, Laughing

If mental strain is the main cause of poor vision, then body tension is a symptom. The tension may be subconscious or subtle, around the eyes and face, in the neck and shoulders, around the chest and belly, and along the spine.
When you strain to see you tend to stretch the head [...]

Don’t Strain, Enjoy Each Moment

Dr. Bates kept reminding his patients that mental strain lowers the vision and brings on visual defects. Yet he hardly ever talked about the state of mind/body that we experience when we stop straining. He only mentioned in passing that some patients felt an incredible sense of [...]

Relaxing the Eye Muscles

Your eyes have internal and external muscles. The internal (ciliary) muscles change the shape of the lens for fine-tuning the focus. Each eyeball also has two pairs of external muscles that turn it up and down and sideways, and one pair of “oblique” muscles that change the shape [...]