Eventual loss of clear vision is considered a normal and inevitable part of growing old, and wearing eyeglasses or expensive Lasik eye surgery are seen as the means of addressing the issue and rectifying the problem. This is another widely accepted untruth that happens to support a huge industry while undermining the best interests of ordinary people like you and me. Some years ago working as an airline pilot, I noticed my own eyesight beginning to blur at close range. When I found out that donning glasses merely accelerates the process I decided that they were no solution for me and I began researching deeper into the subject. I found the Bates method and it helped me reverse my own blurring vision at close range. I no longer need reading glasses, or to hold the book at arms length!

People are questioning the allopathic model of mainstream medicine as well as the use of mercury amalgam fillings in teeth. The commonly accepted approach of using glasses or surgery to deal with blurring vision is similarly worth investigating. As with all these issues, the further beneath the surface we are prepared to scratch, the more we see that there are underlying assumptions that although widely accepted as true are just plain wrong. The Bates method is a rational approach that questions these assumptions, and consequently gets to the truth.

“Not only is keen eyesight a great convenience, but it reflects a condition of mind that reacts favourably upon all the other senses, upon the general health and upon the mental faculties” Dr. William H Bates, ‘Better eyesight magazine’ July 1920.

I invite you to step outside of your conditioning to see the real cause of blurring vision and the real solution. Embrace a whole new opportunity for clarity of sight well into your old age by embracing the bates method for naturally clear vision.

The conventional view of how the eye focuses

Ophthalmologists study the branch of medicine that deals with the anatomy, physiology and diseases of the eye. Optician, Ophthalmologist and Oculist are interchangeable terms. Accommodation is the term they use to refer to the method of adjusting light rays entering the eye so that they form a clear image on the retina at the back of the eye – that is, focusing.

The widely accepted conventional view of how the eye focuses and also of why we experience a loss of clarity in our vision as we age is riddled with inconsistencies and contradictions. It is based on the work of a German physician called Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894). However the theory fails to explain or ignores many of the observable facts. More than a century ago pioneering ophthalmologist William H Bates decided that this wasn’t satisfactory and he kept on digging until he uncovered the truth. He was shunned and ridiculed by the establishment as a result, and his successful treatment, which became known as ‘The Bates Method’, that helped thousands recover clear vision was even outlawed in New York! Welcome to the Matrix.

The conventional view of accommodation is 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. 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.