Deteriorating eyesight and the need for glasses is a common experience these days. It used to just affect older people, but now loss of clear vision can affect even young children and teenagers. It doesnt have to be this way.

Our eyesight is arguably the most critical of the senses and potentially the most problematic to lose. Eyesight is crucial to our enjoyment of life. And the truth is, there is no need to suffer any degradation in our vision. But you have to look outside the Matrix and think outside the box to find the answers.

The Conventional view of deteriorating eyesight

Reach for glasses or use expensive ‘Lazik’ laser surgery. Keep increasing the prescription (going for stronger and stronger lenses). Go to your optician and follow the conventional advice. Don’t ask any further questions. Just get used to your degenerating vision and accept it. There is nothing you can do, its just the ageing process.

The conventional view of accommodation

Within the Matrix your ophalmologist will tell you that the ciliary muscle around the lens contracts and squeezes the lens to make it more convex. This allegedly increases the amount that light entering the eye is refracted, enabling objects at a closer range to be focused onto the retina. i.e. greater convexity of the lens only for near vision. This is at best only part of the picture. The ciliary muscle play a relatively small role in accomodation.

The conventional view also claims that age related loss of clear vision (called presbyopia) in the near field is irreversible and caused by the lens loosing its flexibility, and thus being unable to increase its convexity upon constriction of the ciliary muscle. This is supposedly why we loose the ability to see up close as we get older.

This presbyopia usually occurs beginning at around age 40, when people experience blurred vision while reading, sewing or working at the computer. You can’t escape it (your optician will tell you), even if you’ve never had a vision problem before. The lens allegedly becomes rigid preventing near field focus ability.

There are a number of problems with this conventional view of how the eye focuses, and the reason for failure of nearfiled focus. Here are just a few:

* In experiments where ophthalmologists put something called atropine solution into an eye to paralyse the ciliary muscle, the eye has been shown to retain its ability to focus.

* In rare circumstances where the lens is removed from the eye, individuals have learned to focus once again – without a lens!

* Age related loss of clarity is frequently reversed using the Bates Method, and some people seem to avoid this phenomena altogether well into their 80’s and 90’s.

* Loss of clarity of vision in the near field (called Hypermetropia) occurs at all ages, even for teenagers.

Herman Helmholz, William Bates and all mainstream ophthalmologists all agree on some things, namely that…

* A Hypermetropic eyeball is foreshortened (squashed flatter front to back)– near objects are not clear.

* A myopic eyeball is elongated – near objects are clear, far ones are not.

* The normal at rest eyeball is round in shape – far objects are clear, near ones are not.

However, the conventional view cannot explain why an eyeball becomes elongated or foreshortened. Aparently its genetic or they just become that way – somehow? William Bates proposed a far more satisfactory and credible explanation, one that had been around since the 1600’s.

Maintaining our eyesight – the view outside the Matrix

Loss of clear vision or eyesight degradation is not irreversible. I agree with Dr Sam Berne there is much that we can do to reverse macula degeneration. I have reversed my own loss of clarity in the near field over the past 5 years using my knowledge of how the eye works and some of the techniques offered by Dr Willia...