Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses

by Steven M. Beresford, David W. Muris, Merril J. Allen

For the millions of Americans who suffer some type of vision problem, this complete course in vision therapy helps increase focusing power, decrease eyestrain, and prevent further deterioration of vision.

Genres: Health, Self Help, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 1996

Reviews

[Li Or · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting book about optimising eye health.

The take-home message from this book:
Don't keep your glasses on just because it's more convenient than repeatedly removing them and putting them on. Leaving them on during times when you could see perfectly well without them (eg for very up close things) literally ruins your eyes and causes progressively higher and higher prescriptions.

According to this book, it's possible to:
- reduce high prescriptions,
- eliminate low prescriptions,
- prevent children from needing glasses as long as they keep healthy-eye-techniques
- and it's even possible to heal things like astigmatism with something as simple as watching how you tilt your head.

Really wish I had known all this book's information when I first got glasses when I was 13.

Looking forward to putting into practice the techniques in this book!

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There are two reasons I give this book 4/5 rather than 5/5:
1.) The Layout: I thought the layout could have been better organised and more application-friendly. The exercises are in one chapter and the bit that explains what the exercises are for is in another part of the book for example, which seemed disjointed. I strongly recommend reading the book cover-to-cover before starting the exercises rather than just dipping in and out because there are some important tips about which exercises are best for your specific eye problems, which you may gloss over if you don't read the whole book cover to cover.

2.) Lack of in-depth scientific explanations: I guess this was kept to a minimum to keep the book a manageable length and to keep it more readable to laypeople, but I personally would have liked to have seen some more explanations for what each eye-exercise does. I'm afraid some of the exercises will seem a little unscientific to scientifically minded people (eg light therapy for example) since an explanation for how it works was not given.

I strongly recommend supplementing this book with other resources online such as:
- endmyopia.org (formerly frauenfeldclinic.com) - especially the articles by Alex Frauenfeld, founder of the Frauenfeld Clinic
- gettingstronger.org
- This youtube video by Todd Becker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Efg...
- myopiafree.com
- myopiacure.blogspot.com

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Still, those two points-for-improvement aside, I feel like there's a lot of useful information in this book and it most definitely opened my eyes to a lot of things that I could easily do differently to improve my eyesight. Fingers crossed it works once I start applying the tips and give the exercises a try. If I remember, I'll update this review after giving this technique a good go.

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Update: 2 years on - did it work?
I used this book's techniques alongside tips from the internet, and successfully managed to get both my eyes to use the same prescription (they were different initially), removed the small amount of astigmatism that was there, and reduced my prescription from -5.0 which I was using for everything, to seeing pretty much perfectly with -3.50. I don't use the -3.5s though coz the technique is to challenge your eyes and have a tiny bit of blur there so you can work to clear it up and improve your eyes all the time. I get along in the world (with about 90% good vision / "the edge of blur"), reading street signs, shop signs, adverts etc comfortably with -2.50. For tv watching I only need -1.75s and for computer work I only need -1.25s. I feel like it's possible to improve even more, but to be honest, it requires quite a lot of work and dedication and I'm currently on a break from it. Actively having things blurry and working to clear up the blur can get annoying, and after 2 years of living at the edge of blur I just wanted to live in clear vision again without having to work so hard to attain clarity all the time - so at the moment I'm not working on clearing up the last few diopters, and the improved prescription numbers are staying stable.

[Parin Stormlaughter Stormlaughter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book for the near-sighted (or short-sighted) or far-sighted. I've made some permanent changes to how I use my eyes and have been quite pleased. I still don't need reading glasses (I'm 50) and hope to never need them now.

I'm also quite pleased with the exercises for reducing eye strain. They seem to help the head pain I get so some of it must be from eye strain.

My biggest vision problem is astigmatism and this book has no ideas for that.

Otherwise, well worth checking out of the library. I did that first before I purchased the book.

[Li Sen · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a lie.See The See Clearly Method& Other programs:Do Eye Exercise Improve Vision @ http://www.allaboutvision.com/buysmar...

[Zahrah · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read most of the comments where the people says things like: oh such an interesting book..
Ok..for me I didn't read this book to come here and say hmmmm it's interesting.. I read it because I wanted to have my eyesight back normal.. like seriously!!
So if you wonder whether you should give it a try or not..
Honestly, NO. (Unless you're bored or have that much of time to spend. I guess you don't xd)

Go to Endmyopia website I found it more rational and practical. There's a lot to learn but it's totally worth it. You can immediately tell he really worked on the real thing.. I just found it recently and still reading slowly, so please don't ask me if it worked.
Good luck!

[Negin · Rating 5 out of 5]

The older I get, the more concerned I am about my vision. This book has lots of helpful info and exercises. I just need to do them on a consistent basis. I don’t for a moment believe that I’ll get to the point of not needing glasses anymore, but at the very least, I hope to prevent, or at least delay, problems further on down the line. One word of caution: the exercises need to be built up slowly. I would not recommend jumping into them all at once.

[Osamah Alsanosi · Rating 5 out of 5]

The knowledge here in this book is hidden from the public and the doctors as well to keep the laser surgeries and the lenses industry continuous!

[Marcella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful! If you practice what this book teaches, it will change your life.

[Wass Demarco · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this book you will learn some of the practices of the Optometry industry. Doctors who read it won’t be happy because it hides a truth: that you can improve your vision without glasses or contact lenses.

The book introduces the concepts of “blur zone” and “clear zone”. With training, you will be able to reduce the former and increase the latter.
Read my full review about the book here: http://eyeexercisesforcomputerusers.com

[Jer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice to hear alternatives. There is hope! Creates a very convincing argument regarding the standard methods for improving eyesight. Wait, "corrective lens" don't really correct anything, do they? It's interesting and it's a quick read.

[MissAnnThrope · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting ideas on how to improve your vision. Not sure of the validity, but worth a shot to try the simple exercises.

[Sally]

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