Rebuilding Your Vision. Can You See The Possibilities?
Ever find yourself going out for a walk, with your dogs or kids,
on a hot day and you are maneuvering to try and keep your dogs
or kids from running where they shouldn't, and on top of it all,
your darn glasses keep sliding off your nose? Or, ever found
yourself going swimming, you take your glasses off and now you
can't see anything except water and blurry people? I could go on
and on.
Glasses, contacts, or surgery are usually the choices we have. I
for one hate glasses. For me it is not a cosmetic reason, it is
because they are forever slip sliding off my face. Orlin
Sorensen, though, had a very important reason for NOT needing
glasses. A commercial airline pilot who found himself in
jeopardy of being downsized after the 9/11 tragedies, Sorensen
decided to go for broke and chose to pursue his lifelong dream
of becoming a Navy fighter pilot. The only catch was that Navy
fighter candidates were required to have near-perfect,
uncorrected vision -- no surgery allowed.
Many people go with the "given", others like me go with ideas,
ideas that must sound reasonable though. It was word of mouth
that led Sorensen down a different path: a fellow pilot
suggested eye exercises to naturally correct vision. Turns out,
the exercises weren't so much the "road not taken" as the "road
not taken in a while." Sorensen's research revealed that natural
vision training, in fact, had been around for almost a century.
And true enough, I already heard about this method many years
ago myself. I became very interested in this method back then,
but lost track of the information. At that time there was no
"google search" for me to be able to find it again.
Natural vision correction involves performing eye exercises and
relaxation techniques daily to increase optical muscle strength
and coordination. With a 30-minute daily routine, after just a
month Sorensen improved his vision from 20/85 to 20/20; he went
on to pass the Navy's visual acuity test. In 2001, he founded a
company, Vision for Life, to share his knowledge with the
general public and to challenge the widespread belief that
surgery is the only method of correcting vision. As more and
more people turn to alternative medicine -- one in three people
in the U.S., according to the New England Journal of Medicine --
Sorensen's company has proven to be visionary in more ways than
one. I know many of my friends have become very open to
alternatives in their health care. As long as new ideas sound
reasonable, and as long as they can cause no harm.
A wholistic orientation to health
Watching TV, computer use, reliance on optical correction from
glasses and contacts, as well as the normal aging process, all
contribute to weak and distorted vision. Integral components of
the eye are not stimulated but instead suffer from a narrow
range of use, in the same way that repetitive mousing and typing
tasks on the computer can lead to tendonitis in the arm and,
eventually, carpal tunnel. Just as you exercise your body at the
gym or practice yoga in order to improve muscle tone, agility,
range of motion, and flexibility, so too do the eyes benefit
from daily exercise. Designed to reverse the stresses placed
upon the optical system, the vision-rebuilding process fortifies
your eyes in ways that would never be achieved through normal
daily activities.
Sorensen's Vision for Life program provides multilevel goals and
strengthening tools that challenge and stimulate different parts
of the visual system. Customized training programs are available
for those suffering from nearsightedness, astigmatism, and aging
vision (presbyopia). The program's simple drills and exercises
can be done at home, in the office, or on the road, thus
enabling the practitioner to integrate them as part of an
overall healthy lifestyle. It's no accident that Sorensen is
from Seattle, a city surrounded by natural beauty whose
residents are perennially voted as some of America's fittest.
An idea takes flight
Not only has Vision for Life become a success -- according to
surveys from customers worldwide, the program boasts over a 90%
success rate in improving vision problems -- but the medical
establishment has also done research supporting the theories
that the program is based upon, as in this excerpt from the
Journal of the American Optometric Association describing the
results of subjects who underwent natural vision training:
"Subjects often stated that they had experienced the ability to
make eye contact (without correction) with people across a room
or street; they could see buildings and windows clearly without
glasses many miles across San Francisco Bay, or in the case of
high-diopter myopes (> -4.0 diopters) they were able to read
books easily at arm's length."
Unlike eye surgery, which to me sounds terrifying, natural
vision correction is noninvasive and risk-free. And unlike
glasses or contacts, it is an active process rather than a
palliative measure. So it's no wonder vision rebuilding seems to
strike a chord with health-conscious people today, who are
increasingly choosing organic foods over fast foods, meditation
over confrontation, and lifestyle changes over potentially
harmful quick fixes. Ironic, but sometimes we need to take the
long view to really appreciate what we're seeing. It's funny,
because when I think about it, we do all kinds of things to
increase our health or maintain health in our bodies.
Very rarely do we do anything for our eyes though. As soon as a
doctor says we need glasses, we say. OK. Why do we not try and
improve our eyesight? Why not try to naturally improve one of
the most important organs in our body?
Check out this concept. Do your homework.
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information is not intended to substitute for informed medical
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