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Use Your Own Eyes”, the Book You Are About to Read, Explains the Method Quite Well Natural Eyesight Improvement Thank you for your interest in improving eyesight the natural way; without glasses, contact lenses, drugs or laser surgery. The Bates Method of vision improvement has been around since the early 1900s, and has proven to relieve many vision problems. “Use Your Own Eyes”, the book you are about to read, explains the method quite well. Its guidance can be used to overcome your own vision challenges or to help others overcome theirs. I appreciate your desire to regain clear vision naturally. To achieve the highest levels of vision acuity it is often useful to take lessons from an experienced Bates Method teacher. A good teacher will guide you through the process, making it effortless, and can point out your specific challenges and help you get past obstacles that might otherwise slow down your progress. Visions of Joy provides lessons in person and can also guide you by phone or email. Please check the website for the current schedule of classes . I am glad to be of assistance and look forward to receiving reports of your progress. If the information provided by Visions of Joy has helped you regain clear vision, please consider giving something back in return. Your donation helps to keep this work available! Enjoy your path to clarity. Love, Esther ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Esther ‘Joy’ van der Werf www.VisionsOfJoy.org Natural Eyesight Improvement & Optimal Breathing ® Development USE YOUR OWN EYES by W.B. MacCracken, M.D. "This book is dedicated to the memory of W.H. Bates, M.D. It was his discovery, and his lifework, that founded and established the system which can prevent the impending degeneration of the eyes of civilized humans. His genius and his fine courage made it possible for him to bequeath this magnificent gift to the race." INDEX: Introduction 1 - The problem 2 - The background 3 - The cause 4 - The psychology of spectacles 5 - To be or not to be 6 - The psychology of the Eye 7 - The eye itself 8 - Accommodation 9 - Eyestrain 10 - The mechanism of vision 11 - The warrant for the work 12 - Some cases that illustrate 13 - First principles of cure 14 - The case for the children 15 - The sun and the eye 16 - Palming 17 - Central fixation 18 - Shifting the central fixation 19 - Swinging to relax 20 - How memory helps vision 21 - How imagination helps vision 22 – The Snellen test card 23 - Relaxation 24 - Illusions of vision 25 - Techniques 26 - Astigmatism 27 - Presbyopia 28 - Myopia and hyperopia 29 - Strabismus 30 - Cataract 31 - Some other conditions 32 - Conclusion INTRODUCTION The mighty silence of the great open spaces, the soft warm calm under the palms out on the sands, the cold stillness of the silent frozen worlds, the majestic grandeur of the sunset in the West, the weird influence of the soft light of the moon, the story of the ages in the cold gleaming of the star worlds in the sky, the lure of the lonely vastness of the sea, the soothing cadence of the melody of music in the cars, the silent touch of tender memories, the thrill of a soul in the presence of love -- these and kindred of the great primal forces are the real influences guiding the motives and powers of human life. Our lives are modified, more than we know, by these constant, active influences. Not only are our minds molded, obeying unconsciously these silent orders; but our bodies and organs. There are serious chronic nervous diseases which have no found cause in any change of tissue structure, and which are modified or cured by emotions and impulses. Emotions and impulses are actually only automatic reactions to impressions which are often not even possible to discover. It is established that emotions cause specific changes in many of the body functions: the action of the heart and lungs, the tension of the blood vessels, the conduct of muscles and even tendons. In normal healthy bodies muscular tremors have been demonstrated by laboratory instruments, produced by arousing mental conditions such as curiosity, or fear, or anger. And it is common to find tendon reflexes modified by similar emotions, or even by ordinary excitement. And just such mental conditions are present as the cause of many abnormal physical conditions such as constant eyestrain, indigestion, insomnia, and even distinct diseases with muscle spasms and mental disturbances. And above all, the brain itself with all its nerves, is dominated by the same impressions from the world it lives in, and is molded like the softest clay. Suppressions, conscious or unconscious, increase these abnormal conditions of tension, and we are constantly suppressing. And worst of all, we are thoughtlessly allowing abnormal and harmful influences to suppress the natural normal functions of our subconscious mind, and mislead us into complexes that are the causes of many diseased conditions. It is possible to relieve these abnormal conditions by the simple expedient of securing a state of relaxation of the muscles of the body. Without muscular relaxation there never is mental relaxation. And when the muscles are relaxed mental relaxation is always present. There are different methods and varieties of technique by which this muscular relaxation may be secured. But they all must depend upon the same laws of psychology and physiology. It is necessary to enlist the cooperation of the subconscious mind. This can be accomplished by occupying the conscious mind so completely with some carefully chosen impression that the subconscious mind is also fully occupied with the same thought and purpose for a period of time. This method has been proved. It is scientific and successful. It requires, however, that the patient be receptive, earnest, and confident. The story in this book is founded on these truths. Vision is the most precious of the senses which feed the life and the happiness of the human. That vision should be allowed to degenerate into a crippled dependent upon a mechanical device is an ominous threat to the future of the race. If the mind can be roused into a consciousness of its loss, the recovery of the natural power of the eye will be the smallest of the glorious achievements that will come with the new life. It has been interesting to try to imagine the mighty spirits of the past contemplating the modern hosts that are helpless without their pieces of glass. How could those independent souls understand this new habit? How long will it be before the minds of children, who are beginning their lives, will be taught to use their own eyes, with the freedom and the power which belongs to them, and which will give them a new fullness of life? W.B.M. Berkeley, California February 1937 CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM When the human eye begins to falter, whether in adults or in the youngest children, the conventional method of treatment is to call in the assistance of compensating lenses. The claim that is made for these lenses is that they neutralize the effects or symptoms of the conditions which are present as the cause of the failing function. If it is necessary for men, women, and children who are wearing glasses to continue to wear them, let us hope they will all secure the best possible fit. But if it is possible to correct the fault that is interfering with normal vision, why do we not relieve the abnormal condition, instead of ignoring the eye, and using glass lenses instead? During hundreds of thousands of years the human eye developed into the most marvelous and the most necessary of the sense organs. Upon what grounds has it come to be an accepted belief that there is no possible way to cure an abnormal function in the mechanism of vision, even though abnormal functions and diseased conditions are being cured in every other part of the body? There is a prevalent impression in the public mind that when any difficulty in seeing becomes apparent, there is no other help available but wearing of artificial lenses. This vague consciousness might be spoken of as a belief. But it is not a belief that is founded on any knowledge of the subject. The public mind knows very little of the factors or the mechanism of vision; it asks no questions, and it does not even consider the plain facts which are generally known. Just a little consideration of the many simple, established, obvious aspects of this most vital question arouses an astonishing reaction to a situation which is of national importance. Whence comes this vast ignorance about the impending calamity to the power of vision? Why is the United States fast becoming a nation helpless in its daily life unless it has a pair of artificial lenses attached to its eyes? Why have the people come to believe this anomalous mis-information, as though it were the very truth? Where there is a great cloud of smoke one knows there is a fire. This habit of wearing glasses, in this country of ours, out of all proportion greater and worse than in any other country, is growing like the size of a large ball of snow rolling down a hill. There are many factors at work in this strange development. But the chief factor is the activity of a vast modern sales organization, which is rising all the devices of psychological salesmanship to persuade the population of the country that the only relief they can hope for, when their eyes begin to falter, is the life-long dependence upon artificial lenses. This propaganda even goes beyond that and warns now that those whose eyes are showing no signs of failure, should hurry and put on glasses anyhow -- even though it is well known that eyes always grow more dependent after glasses are imposed on them, and they rarely ever relinquish them once they are attached.
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