Change your eyesight naturally. No lasik or glasses.

[Guest]

The longer I'm alive on this Earth, the more I realize everything is not what it seems. And that sometimes the impossible really is possible.

About 3 weeks ago I was fed up with my glasses. I have worn glasses/contacts for probably 10 years now.

I can't afford lasik, nor do I really want to get that...so I just started googling.

Low and behold I came across the book, Take Off Your Glasses and See. I read the testimonials on Amazon and thought I'd give it a try. Actually, I was able to read probably 20-30 pages for free just online, using the online feature...

I picked up some info and started sorta working on my awareness and open focus right away. I haven't worn my glasses since that day. I was travelling through Cali and driving on the roads. I could drive, and even see street signs from far away. My vision was fluctuating though. But a week later I actually drove 6 hours without my glasses, and could see pretty dang good.

Its almost been 2 weeks since I've worn my glasses. This is a far cry from wearing them all the time for everything pretty much. My vision isn't perfect, but I'm getting more and more moments where my vision comes back... its so crisp. Way different than the vision you get from contacts/glasses. Its like my world is so vivid and alive.

The author talks about how eyesight is actually just one part of 'vision'. And how changing awareness and other things can bring more vitality and clarity to your vision, and even bring your vision to 20/20.

He also talks about how optometry only measures your central vision. And then you end up using that one part of your vision all day long. You end up using the same focus for everything.

The reason your vision deteriorates is a mind/body problem. Unresolved feeling, etc. Its really interesting and makes sense. Wearing glasses or contacts actually keeps you from feeling what you need to feel...so your eyes stay bad or many times get worse.

Aside from all that, I'm actually getting real results, which...at first... was just crazy. Now I'm getting used to it. I think I should be getting even better results in a month. We'll see.

Its really quite a miracle.

If anyone doesn't want to wear eyeglasses or contacts anymore, check this book out.

I made a post a few weeks ago asking how many people here wear glasses/contacts, and many people did. That is when I started reading this book.

Hope this helps anyone. I'll try to answer any questions as best as I can from what I understand. I'm just starting to get more into the book but I do understand thing.

 

[KharmaGirl]

It would be nice to not wear glasses but, considering I can't see 3 feet in front of me without em, if I just stopped wearing em I don't think that would bring back my eyesight. I'm sure it's possible for some with not-so-poor vision to strengthen their eyes but to make a blanket statement that it's possible to just re train everyones eyes is misleading.

 

[Guest]

Hi Kharma girl - Normally I can't really look at my laptop without glasses. Things are blurry in my world unless they are pretty close to me. Its not horrible vision I guess, but I 'needed' glasses to read the board, signs, see things. In fact I needed glasses for everything, so that should say something about my vision.

This book is not about eye exercises. This guy is actually an opthamalogist (sp). He actually worked with/talked to the Bates guy, who sorta invented all those eye exercises if you will.

Bates knew that, some people, reguardless of if they did the exercises, had improvements. So he knew it was something else.

I haven't done any eye exercises really. Mainly I just try to practice open focus. And I just don't wear my glasses anymore, since that will keep my eyes constricted.

I'm seriously not kidding around here...its totally insane, but its working.

 

[Guest]

Very interesting. Great thread.

I'll look into that book.

But, I'm a student (only 2 more weeks left of the 2nd semester) and I need to be able to see the board. I know for a fact I wont be able to see it without my contacts/glasses. Same with driving..it would really be dangerous.

One interesting thing that I found was that when I did my debate the other day for one of my classes, I noticed it was much either to public speak without my glasses on because you couldn't really see the peoples faces. For the most part just a big blur, making it really easy to public speak heh

 

[Guest]

I'm interested. I'm so blind, I can't find my glasses without glasses. My vision is so horrid and continuing in it's deteriation, I've actually had to come to the mental terms of eventually being "legally blind" if not totally blind.

I know of the eye exercises you mention. I did them for years with no progress. They mostly gave me migraines, so I wasn't very disciplined in doing them as I was suppose to.

The name of the book is, "Take Off Your Glasses and See?" It's worth a shot - what can it hurt?

 

[Guest]

I got astigmatisms(spelling) in both eyes I cant see that working on me.

 

[Guest]

I found an excerpt from the book at http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0517886049

Hehehe, he says, copy the eye chart and put it on the wall. Remove your glasses and measure off ten feet. Turn and read aloud the chart.

.....what happens when you're too blind to see a single letter on the chart?

Yeah HazeToker, I have the same problem. We're probably screwed.

 

[Guest]

I have astigmatism in one eye. He talks about that. The book isn't really so much about doing eye exercises. Its more of a mind-body issue... I'm not too versed yet in the book, still reading it. Its not like my vision is perfect. But I have more and more moments where it is.

Its a bit complicated. A bit mysterious. Its not like there is a set way of doing it. But I know something is working. Like yesterday, I had large chunks of time where my vision was sparkling clear. Its hard to explain. Its like, the more I open my eyes up to the world...the more I can see. And because of the psychological reasons (theoretically) I have chosen to push the world away from me, its going to take me awhile to be able to open myself back up.

The interesting point is that vision with contacts or glasses, and hell maybe even lasik, is not the best vision possible. Real vision has more vitality and clarity. The world looks brighter and more real.

Its up to me to keep reading the book, and keep practicing Open Focus. Which is actually a meditate technique of opening your eyes and seeing in a certain way.

Here is one idea from the book.

Most people can trace from 1-2 years before their vision started deteriorating, an event that was somewhat of a big deal emotionally. But because you didn't know how to handle that event emotionally, you pushed it out of your awareness. This pushing away, leads to different vision problems.

Nearsighted - Something that caused a lot of fear happened to you. You didn't want to feel the fear, so you subconsciously chose to push the world away from you. Thats why you can see up close, but anything else is blurry and far away. Basically, your energy field became contracted and closer to you... Interestingly, when you put on glasses, it makes the world seem further away and smaller(which is true)... which is okay with you psychologically so you can see and your comfortable with that. Interesting take huh?

But it doesn't really correct the root of the problem.

Farsightedness - your blocking rage. You don't want to see the details of your life, because you know you have a lot of rage there and you don't want to face it. So you push your energy field away from you. Also, by being able to see far in the distance, you can prepare yourself for the next threat.

This is a basic explanation... But he compares these two responses as "fight or flight". The flight response is the nearsightedness. You are pulling your energy field inward, and pushing away the world. The fight response is farsightedness. You are prepared to see the world out there, to be able to prepare yourself to fight them.

But both responses change your energy field, which affects how your 'vision' comes out. Vision is a mind/body issue.

Why do patients with multiple personalities have personalities that have glasses, and other personalities that don't?

Your 'vision' becomes different in different conditions, moods, etc. Its always changing. Its not supposed to be completely static, like when your wearing glasses..

Anyways, I find that the more I go without my glasses, the more I'm out in the world, I feel some sense of vulnerability...when I open my eyes and try to let the world in. When I put myself in open focus... and I feel fear... its so weird. I can feel what he is talking about. The more I let this fear wash over me, it seems like my 'vision' is clearing up. Its all so far a big experiment, but I think it could lead to my vision actually becoming 20/20 or better...as I am seeing results already.

I've always been interesting in mind/body stuff. But this is just completely fascinating... because it really shows how vision is not just located in your eyeball.

 

[DogBoy]

Wasn't it Monet, the famous artist who painted the same landscape picture every 10 years and was the first person to show macular degeneration over time. It might be worth reading the excerpts on his experiments. I remember reading about it a few years ago and there were some interesting facts in there which may help some of you. If nothing else it's cool to see how a famous artist's eyes can deteriorate, quite worrying when you consider that's what his reputation is based on and the troubles he had in later life.

 

[Guest]

still practicing open focus... practicing being aware of my emotions and feelings... and my vision is getting better, and more totally clear moments..sometimes its so vivid that i feel like i'm seeing more of the world than i have before...

here is a review of the book i'm reading, that i found on the web:

Take off Your Glasses and See:
A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight
by Dr. Jacob Liberman

Book Description
Dr Jacob Liberman was a practicing Optometrist in the mid-1970s, when he realized that conventional beliefs were keeping millions of people locked into limited eyesight and limited self-awareness. He began to realize that the conventional vision care that he had been taught was designed not to treat or heal vision problems, but simply to mask their symptoms. He realized that these symptoms were not just random.

They were urgent signals that something in the body/mind was out of balance and required attention. In 1976, he experienced a dramatic improvement in his own vision, which laid the foundation for him to assist thousands of others.

Jacob Liberman is considered a pioneer in the therapeutic use of light and color and their relationship to human consciousness and personal transformation. After healing his own vision from a lens-dependent 20/200 to normal, he realized that the eyes are merely a holographic focal point within an infinitely large receptive field. After thirty years of experience with thousands of people, he has demonstrated that eyesight improvement is within the reach of virtually everyone.

Take Off Your Glasses and See shares an expanded view of vision and guides the reader on a journey towards discovering what it truly means to see. Have you ever wondered why so many people wear glasses? Have you been told you have to wear glasses forever and that there is no natural way to improve your vision?

Dr Liberman’s book addresses the most important issues about vision and seeing. Questions like: What is vision? How do we see? What is the relationship between sunlight, the eyes and the brain? What is the energy from the sun that we call light and how does it relate to our life force?

Dr Liberman feels that the most significant factor in natural vision improvement lies in understanding the workings of the mind, not the eyes. The way we think actually determines the way we see. Something as simple as a shift in awareness is capable of instantaneously transforming our vision.

Dr Liberman has helped thousands of individuals reclaim their visual birthright and feels that poor eyesight is often related to emotions, beliefs and the stresses of everyday life.

Eye doctors tell us that 90% of the population will have to wear glasses at some point in their lives. What’s more amazing is that many people with 20/20 eyesight unknowingly suffer from visual problems that significantly affect their lives, but are not picked up by the conventional eye examination.

In part 2 of his book, Jacob Liberman shares vision exercises that strengthen the eyes, expand awareness and gently allows us to reduce our dependency on eyeglasses. By training the eyes, we can begin to expand how we see and in the process discover who we truly are.

Dr Liberman discusses the theories and concepts of how vision works and its connection to the rest of the body, whilst also discussing in detail the concept of ‘Open Focus’ in which one breathes and relaxes and just allows the visual experience to be felt.

The glasses we are prescribed and told will correct our vision in most cases only mimic our own energy field contraction. Glasses prescribed for near-sightedness make the world smaller and closer, bringing it in to where our energy field has already contracted. This only causes us to contract further which translates into more nearsightedness.

Jacob feels that as we expand, every aspect of our perception will also expand. Eventually, we will see that our physical senses may in fact be the smallest aspect of an infinite receptive field we live in. Awareness that we are often communicating with each other on non-verbal levels will soon become commonplace.

The main problems with our educational system is that it is based on cramming information into the mind rather than learning things by heart, which allows us to experience the aspect of ourselves that knows everything.

Jacob feels that vision is not primarily a receptive process, but a projective one where creating your own reality literally means that you project from the mind’s eye your ideas about life. Jacob has actually measured the light coming out from people’s eyes, and has found that each person’s light emanation is unique.

To Jacob, addiction is everything we do to avoid feeling what we are feeling. The major addiction for humans is habitually escaping into the mind to avoid being present. Healing vision requires presence. A simple idea that is almost impossible, because we have been so conditioned. When we experience true presence, problems often cease to exist, allowing us to really see. This book is a roadmap for that journey.

 

[talos4]

I've been into astronomy since I was a kid, and any astronomer knows, if you look just slightly away from an object in a telescope instead of staring directly at it you see it better. It's because the most sensitive part of your vision is just off your retina a little. I imagine you can do the same tricks all day if you work at it.

 

[Tarkus]

So wait, you took off your glasses and proceeded to drive, and your vision was fluctuating??? I am sorry, but that does not really sound too smart to me. I would rather wear glasses than have a fluctuation in my vision and pile into a oncoming car.

 

[Guest]

talos - its not that i'm trying to do special tricks. its that i'm actually seeing more clearly.

tarkus - fluctuating over time...like the stock market going up over a 6 month period but is going up and down as it does that.

i'm not making this up fellas!!!!!!!!!! lol....

i guess some people would rather not open their minds to some things...even when is beneficial to them!!!!!! wow

 

[Tarkus]

Oh ok, I thought you meant as you drive. I was thinking "Man, this dude is gonna mow over a kid and be screwed because he was not wearing his glasses."
Alright, I getcha now. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

[razer]

Ok I'm hooked, I'm into all that self healling stuff, I'll def check this out


Thanks man for this post as I'm tryin to find myself, I also "need" glasses but I stoped using them for about 9 yrs, I refused to think that I had to use glasses for rest of my life, I still squint and try to stop doin that, if u say u see results then it can't hurt to try.


Thanks again

 

[Truth]

Your eyes just may not be that far gone. there is plenty of people that wear glasses but don't really need to, and if you wear glasses when you shouldn't or don't really need to, you will hurt your vision. But if your eyes are damaged, and you can't see properly, no amount of hoping and wishing will change this. There is more than one reason why a persons eye sight might be diminished. don't forget, optometry is one of the highest paying jobs. just like doctors, they love to write prescriptions and attract business as much as possible. I should be wearing glasses, or so the doctor said years ago. I haven't had a problem with my eyes at all. I'm thinking your vision was better than you thought, and you were wearing glasses for so long that you hadn't realized it. Optometrists do make mistakes. one smear on their lenses and you are legally blind. Some people like to feel that they are in complete control of their lives and everything else, which is not the case. that by simply changing the way they think or feel will change whatever they desire. While this can work, it is very limited. the whole point of changing your thinking and how you feel is to get your mind off of worrying. thinking positive can have positive effects, since body chemical interactions caused by stress can really cause some nasty health side effects in the long run. But in no way can it heal physical defects in the eye. Cannabis does relieve pressure in the eyes.

 

[Guest]

Truth - I don't think you know all the truth. I can understand where your coming from, but your defending the medical establishment...just because you can't possibly think this could work.

Jacob Lieberman, the guy who wrote the book (could have messed up his last name), IS an OD. He practiced, and maybe still does practice, optometry. I know he wrote this book in 95, but the discoveries came to him while he was practicing optometry. Probably goes back 20-25-30 years.

He is not the first person to get into this stuff. There are other people out there. Like Bates for instance. But what Jacob did, is realized that 'some' people can have vision improvements with just a change in awareness. He realized the mind/body connection with vision. So he writes alot about this. And this has been what I've been working on. I don't do any so called vision "exercises" really. Although I have sorta done a few...

Let me put it this way. He went through all these changes, where his vision improved. He knew he was seeing better, so he would go into his office to test out his vision using his equipment, but he'd get the same results. So he knew something was wrong with the equipment... they couldn't possibly be measureing all the changes he was noticing.

He talks about how the instruments OD's use only measures ONE aspect of eyesight...that is central vision. But vision entails more than the instruments we have made up to measure them, can even measure!

Think about that! How do WE know, exactly how to measure the full functioning usage of the eye? The eye has 1 billion parts. Its a ridiculous work of art.

So doctors will take a patient, shove him in a really dark room, throw this huge peice of metal over his face... so now you are only looking through these weird holes. Is that how we normally SEE????

Real vision is not in a room like that.

I think he mentions that later as his eyesight was continually improving, that the typical instruments did pick up some of this change in his eyesight. And now I guess he sees 20/15. This is one thing I'm going to re-read and post about if I need to clarify more. The idea that even the conventional instruments/methods did notice the change in his eyesight.

But he has helped thousands of thousands of people improve their eyesight naturally.

I have worn, and NEEDED glass/contacts for at least 10 years now. People say, "well you must not really need them"... YES I REALLY DO! Or DID. And I'll be honest, there are still situations where they could be helpful. Like seeing road signs at night. Or in the classroom far away to see the board if its dim. But my vision has improved significantly...where I haven't worn my glasses in 2 months. So now I can drive without even flinching. I can play basketball and have no problems seeing the basket, the list goes on...

Its only been 2 months so I know that since I've made great progress now, I am excited about the future. Especially since its taking me awhile to really understand how the process works. Because this mind/body stuff, this emotional processing, isn't cake...and sorta requires a focused relaxation...which is not something you learn about growing up in western society!

I'll tell you where I'm at now. Like I said, my vision seems to be improving slowly, like a stock market. Up and down but going up continuously. My 'central vision' has improved. That I know of. Another great thing I've noticed is my peripheral vision is getting awesome. Just last night I was on the basketball court, and made this crazy fake pass to someone. I was in the paint, and quickly turned my head/body to the left (to fake)...meanwhile in the very far right corner of my vision I noticed my teammate doing a little weave inside, and in that spur of the moment I was able to see him and give him a pass...even though my entire body and head was spinning to the left.

I couldn't have done this while wearing glasses or contacts.

In the past I have tried playing basketball without my glasses or contacts...but it was hard to see the rim! But now, its not a problem. I mean...I don't even think about it now. So I know 'something' is working for me. I have ZERO problems... and I play better. This is how vision is supposed to be.

I think whats really remarkable, is what I have talked about before. When my visual field will literally become crystal clear. Kinda like when I was wearing glasses, but better. Its not when I'm squinting, or 'trying' in any way. It just will come about. Sometimes for longish periods of time. And it just happens more and more. Its because I'm learning to relax with my visual field. Well, that would take time to explain.

But this clear vision is better than glasses. With glasses, and even contact lenses, the lenses are designed to shrink your worldview... to fit in with your shrunken energy field. So it not really how the world ACTUALLY looks. Glasses this is easier to understand then with contacts. Its more alive and vibrant. Its how my eyes were supposed to see. It feels really natural. So this is the type of vision I believe I am heading towards. He talks about this in the book.

Anyways folks. I'm just in the process. I suppose anything can happen now. But its exciting and I wanted to talk about it. The book is amazing though, and offers lots of neat insights even if you dont think your vision could ever change...

 

[Guest]

Truth by the way, who says vision is REALLY a physical defect in the eye.

How come people with multiple personality disorders have 'personalities' that require DIFFERENT prescriptions?? There are many anomalies, that just don't 'fit in' with the current medical paradigm.

 

[Guest]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Im legally blind without glasses

this shit isnt going to work for me

I doubt it works period

 

[stizzle]

This really sounds like BS. My doctor doesn't just test one aspect of your vision. He tests eye pressure, focus, color, moisture, peripheral vision, etc. So I'm farsighted because I pushed the whole world away? Ummm ok... What about dogs that have vision problems... is it because they are having emotional breakdowns or what?