There is a great reward in persisting in your practice of the new techniques as it will enable you in the long run to read without strain, headache, fatigue, or that blurring and watering of the eyes which is so annoying.

Abuse of the eyes is nowhere as prevalent as it is in reading, and this abuse frequently starts in childhood, and becomes fixed long before the child has grown up. People are apt to be unconscious of their reading habits, though they are not unconscious of the uncomfortable results, even when they fail to recognize the inexorable law of cause and effect.

You do not exercise a tired heart, or encourage a tubercular patient to play tennis, or put a hearty meal into an upset stomach. But you feel that the eyes can always be used, regardless of the circumstances. The eyes respond immediately to any physical ailment, yet the person who takes to his bed because he has a cold or a fever or an illness of some kind, plans to while away the time by reading. 
While he is resting his body to cure his ailment, he is continuing to tax his eyes, although they too are ill.

If you have a cold, your eyes are tired and inflamed. Whatever your illness, the eyes reflect it. Give them the same consideration you give the rest of your body.

This recommendation applies with equal force to your regular reading. Even when you are in good health, it is foolish to read when the eyes are tired. The first rule, then, for vision improvement is to rest tired eyes before reading. If they are completely relaxed, you will see better and read longer without strain or tiring.

Watch your posture. The way you sit and stand and hold your head has a great deal to do with the way you see. When you curl up in a chair with your spine out of alignment, the neck muscles pulled and strained, your chin on your chest, peering down at the book on your lap, you are inducing a severe strain on your eyes and distorting the focus.

Sit erect. Poor posture impedes circulation of blood in the spine and head, and circulation of air through the nostrils, thus making your breathing shallow-for proper breathing is an important factor in vision and eye sight improvement.

For normal eyes the book should be held twelve to fourteen inches distant, with the printed page tilted outward and slightly below the level of the eyes so the head is up, not bent forward.

Many people find an inclined reading table aids in adjusting books or magazines to the correct height and angle and enables the body to relax completely.

The far-sighted person or the one suffering from presbyopia (middle-age sight) has a tendency to hold his book at a considerable distance from the eyes. If that is your trouble, make it a matter of habit to hold your book a little closer to you than is actually comfortable. If you make a constant practice of this-not trying it now and then, but in doing all reading-you can retain your reading sight indefinitely.

Follow these simple suggestions and eye care methods and vision improvement will result.

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Improve Your Vision – Without Glasses

CENTRAL FIXATION

The retina is a sensitive film on which the picture falls. But there is one point on the retina where the vision is perfect; that is the Macula Lutae, a point only one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter in the very center of the retina. When we focus at this point we have what is known as central fixation and our vision is perfect.

If you have lost the capacity of central fixation you are seeing with Eccentric fixation which often causes headaches, fatigue, pain or discomfort of some kind, such as twitching of the eyelids or the eyeballs. This twitching, by the way, can be stopped by pressing the sides of the base of the nose as high as the inner canthus with the forefingers of both hands, avoiding any pressure on the eyeballs. 
Continue the pressure for several minutes, with the eyes closed, and you will obtain relief.

One way of checking on whether you are seeing by central or eccentric fixation is to look at a word on this page. Do you see it most sharply where you are looking or do you see it better when you look a little away from it? When you look at the top of a printed letter do you see the bottom of the letter more clearly than the top? If so, you have lost central fixation.

If you are to see, you must bring your mind to bear on what you see. Because the eye can focus sharply and is at its maximum power only on a very small area at a time, an attempt to see a larger area results in a blurring of physical vision and a lack of mental focus. Teach yourself to look at what you see, to watch one tiny area at a time. For when the central fixation is perfect, the eye sees perfectly.

THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE

For significant eye sight improvement, give the object you are looking at your mental as well as your visual attention. The more clearly it registers on your mind, the more clearly it will register on the eye.

Test this out for yourself. In the room where you are sitting there are probably a dozen objects which you no longer “see” because you are so accustomed to their presence that you are no longer aware of them. Look at each one in turn, not staring, but with quick, easy glances, thinking about what you are regarding. That doorknob-could you have described it before? Now you know its approximate size, contour, the material of which it is made, its relative position on the door, because your mind and not alone your eyes observed it.

Even such a familiar phenomenon as a moving picture gives us what we believe we see rather than what we actually see. A series of still pictures provides us with an illusion of movement.

SEE A SMALL AREA AT A TIME

Instead of staring, trying to take in a whole picture at one time and thus defeating the object of central fixation, look at one small part of the picture, shift your gaze to another small part, and another, blinking naturally all the time. The smaller the area, the more clearly you will see it.

People who have acquired bad seeing habits always try to increase their area of vision by staring, which defeats its own purpose. Staring not only causes muscular tension but a lowering of vision. You can test this for yourself by staring fixedly at an object or a word on this page. After a few moments of this effort the letters lose their sharp clarity and become blurred.

Eyesight improvement can be achieved with consistent time, effort and proper eye health care!

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