Better Eyesight

SURVEY QUESTIONS

Here are 60 basic questions for myopes (nearsighted, or 'closed eye' in ancient Greek) to answer.  Any myope who answers them may develop improved eyesight if they only wear their prescription lenses when safety is an issue: 

1) What decade were you born in?

2) Where were you born (city, state, country)? 

3) Were you born in a hospital (from birth certificate or anecdote)? 

4) Time of birth (from birth certificate or anecdote):

5)…

I imagine that we all know the huge benefits to the eyes and body in following a fresh food diet.  I've just been reminded, in re-reading Harry Benjamin's excellent book, "Better Sight Without Glasses, of the benefits of fasting.  Benjamin was a trained Naturopath and Vision Educator, and in his words, " The increased elimination induced by the fast has the effect of unlocking the accumulated stores of waste products which have been clogging the muscles and blood-vessels surrounding the…

I wrote a guest blog for someone recently about improving eyesight, and later, received a very critical comment.  (This was a good thing, because these critics keep me on my toes!)  Anyway, in the article, I described how to palm the eyes, and mentioned that as a preliminary to palming, we should "rub the hands together until they are warm and full of energy".

The reader reacted to the word,…

 I was driving to work again this morning thinking again about the changes in the past century or more. I turned off the radio and slowed to a crawl. A trot really as it was what I thought would be a horses pace. The majority of society had been rural and agricultural not urban industrial.The tendency I think is to look across the field or down the road and a childs eyes would have gotten that daily exersize as they plodded along from point to point or worked in the field. In the city I…