How Far Can You See?
By Kathlene R. Amerine
Did you know that you can “exercise your eyes” into a state of being able to not depend on your glasses? Did you know that there are actual exercises printed in black and white that teach you how to have better vision in 30 days?
The functions of an eye are a suberbly intricate joining of more than a billion parts working together They act simultaneously to provide your brain with hundreds upon thousands of visual images that you focus on daily.
Twenty-twenty vision is the description when a person with normal vision can see at a distance of 20 feet.
If you have a 20/40 vision, you must be 20 feet away to read what you should be able to read at 40 feet; with 20/85 vision, you must be 20 feet away to read what you should be able to read at 85 feet, etc., etc., etc.
Your “ciliary muscle” is a band of muscle surrounding the lens in your eye. The natural state of the lens and ciliary muscle is focused at a distance of about 7 feet. When you focus at objects close to your eye, your ciliary muscle must “push on the lens”, thereby forcing it into a more convex form, like the base of a bowl.
When the eye tries to focus on an object in the distance, the “ciliary muscle” must “pull on the lens”, making it take on a flatter shape.
The resting place for the “ciliary muscle” is therefore a distance of approximately 7 feet. This changing of shape in the “ciliary muscle” is known as “accommodation.”
Your eye also has six “extraocular muscles” surrounding the eye. These muscles are extrememly powerful, up to 200 times stronger than would be required to simply turn the eyeball either right or left. These strong muscles allow for rapid acceleration and exact accuracy in eye movement.
Can you see why your eyes must be exercised to keep these muscles running in tip-top condition? Listed below are several exercises you can do to strengthen these muscles.
You are now “exercising” those “ciliary and ocular muscles”! Along with the ability to remove your glasses whenever you can, you will start to notice a better vision field! Work on these exercises for a month. Now “How far can you see?”
Exercises from “Vision For Life” by Orlin G. Sorensen