Can you really improve bad eyesight naturally without surgery or glasses?

[RanaSanga]

There are some people claiming that it could be cured naturally, while ophthalmologist deny it completely.

If there's anyone here who has seen improvement in their eyesight, kindly share your experience.

[Anonymous]

Endmyopia. org

I did nearly a decade ago go from not being able to read papers on the desk in front of me to reading the projector text on the wall while leaning my back against the opposite wall, in less than a year. The site i linked was less of a business and easier to navigate back then but at least it still exists and probably still useful.

In short. Keep your books and screens as far away from your eyes as possible while still being able to read.

If you can read it beyond arm's reach, then reduce your prescription until it just gets slightly blurry.

If you can read but cannot drive without glasses, then use reading glasses for reading and the weakest prescription possible that still let's you pass driving tests.

See, our eyes adapt to the environment. Progressive myopia means your eyeballs are flexible and still adapt.

Which means you can make it adapt to distance vision too. How? Slowly. Research what is popularly called "pseudomyopia". Everyone knows it can be reversed. Well, real myopia can too, just slower.

Pseudo myopia is your eye actively flexing to look closer and closer. Just like biceps actively flexing to look bigger. Real myopia is like having a huge pair of biceps, grown big without needing to flex anymore. So does the eye adapt to close vision by changing its shape permanently so you don't have to actively flex.

It's simply an adaptation. Your goal is to do the same thing as reversing pseudomyopia just longer, in the biceps analogy it would be to quit flexing, and to reverse true myopia it would be like making the biceps atrophy --- stop flexing it, do not flex it at all at any point during the day.

What the eye does, to do the equivalent of flexing biceps, is change focal distance to be closer. Say, you are capable of reading a road sign at 50 meters using your powerful glasses, but you wear them and read the sign only 5 meters away --- that is a flex, you just made your eye focus closer than it is capable of, you are signaling the eye to permanently make the eye adapt to seeing it at 5 meters even with those glasses.

To prevent this, avoid looking at things closer than your maximum ability to see clearly. Of course, driving is an exception, do not risk anyone's lives at any circumstances.

Always look at things that are only the "blur horizon", right at the edge between being too blurry and still clear.

But take it slowly. One of the worst things you can do is become "blur adapted" where your eyes want to see blur.

You cannot make your eyes understand "punch the focus" if you look at a total blurry mess. But if you look just a centimeter beyond what is comfortable then they will get the signal.

And then there is astigmatism which tormented me before myopia. One way you develop astigmatism is when your myopia progresses, the eyeballs changed shape to accommodate to close-up focus, and the cornea or whatever the surface lens is called, got warped, mechanically as a side effect of the eyeballs changing shape. The lens being warped makes astigmatism. And it will go away when myopia goes away.

Unless, you have it like me. It did not fully go away after losing myopia because mine started from my whole face being warped. I think there have been many causes and most people do not have this, but I always had couple molars on one side crowded. Which made my mandible rest on the other side, for better chewing. I chew ok, but the uneven jaw placement resulted in a long chain of adaptations that ultimately turns the sphenoid to the side. In other words, my teeth made me look a bit like his "before" photo:

Exaggerated example of me

Obviously, the tension it puts on the eyes warped the eye shape and gave me astigmatism. But the teeth alone usually aren't enough, there are many people with messed up teeth whose faces don't warp. The other necessary ingredient is repressed emotions. Normally, people with repressed emotions just get stuck with regular stuff we all know of. For example, inability to fully exhale. But they still function.

That is what I had on top of the tooth issue which made me exhale on one side and inhale on the other side, made a whole body twist, and no amount of physical therapy worked until I started feeling sorrow. And it makes sense considering:

With repressed sadness i spent years trying to exhale and crush my ribs but the diaphragm held onto air. I never really got sad or depressed since the last time I remember being at age 5. I was basically taught that day that being sad is not ok.

I thought many times after "what to do with my life" but it never accompanied real sadness. I never allowed myself to be sad hence I was so full of air with a huge chest, literally people joked about my huge chest everywhere. But I do not recommend wallowing in sadness either, i only do something along the lines of Tibetan "Tonglen" and Orthodox "Charmolypi", this kind of sorrow about objectively lowly states of humanity, how animalistic we all are. The cosmic or "godly" sorrow that calms you without pumping out prolactin.

But do what works for you, I have no reasons to assume that you have anything with your posture. Though repressed emotions affect basically everyone in the world whether we know it or not. It's sort of the whole point of meditating and stuff.

And even this man in the before-and-after picture above, here he talks about his processing emotional repression suddenly making a change, while his original torsion he believes was caused mechanically:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/GawsJplVfE4

And check out his channel overall if you have postural issues.

[RanaSanga]

Oh wow, thanks for explaining it in so much detail. I really appreciate your effort.

[Opinion Owner]

Y. w.
I was reading about psychologists such as gendlin yesterday and a thought about mom yelling came to me, accompanied by unspeakable anguish that made me want to die in a dozen different ways.
Instead of repressing the fear which resulted in perpetuating torment and fear, i questioned the anguish.
Then my face started contorting unexpectedly. Distgust, anger, fear, screaming like a baby, but I was silent. Simply my face contorted for a few minutes. No memories or ideas. Doing that which i wasn't allowed to do as an infant.
In real life i fake smiled every minute of every interaction and i couldn't stop till yesterday. It was my way of holding back emotions. Now I have an easier time breathing.
I put my hands on my chest and instinctively mentally silently talked to myself: "What is going on?" "I am scared..." and face contorts "i am disgusted..". "I am here, that piece of shit will never come near you again..." (implying father).
I did "self parenting", i am an infant in my mind but i am also a big man holding myself throughout and complaining to myself and instantly knowing i am safe. Imagined myself providing to myself all warmth children get but i didn't.
Just like my face unlocked and relaxed, my diaphragm too. My stuff is severe, i was the last child in a big family, born after the forever-divorce talk started. And my mom's dad divorced when she was little so it doubled how she treated me like an adult since the start, my warmer mother figure was sister (whom dad abused and was reported for to police too), but she left the country when i was 5 and more problems added up.
I now no longer urgently need to study karma and reincarnation, i no longer need to be toxically positive all the time. It's quite literally exorcism. i studied this as a teen but nothing worked. They were right, a "trigger" is necessary. Recently i got triggered - a woman resembled my sister when i was 5, in 10 different ways, she used same words on me, it unlocked emotional expression.

[Opinion Owner]

Do you think, until we admit "i was a junkie" and face horrors, everyone has anxiety disorders but only severely traumatized people can get diagnosed? ↗

[bear34]

You need to be careful; you shouldn't try every method that is claimed to be natural. Centuries ago, there were no medicines, meaning people treated every illness using natural methods. While successful treatments may have been discovered back then, we are far removed from that era now. There are conflicting opinions everywhere, and misinformation is rampant. You could end up making your condition worse while trying to get treated. In this day and age, going to the hospital is the right choice.

[jennifer_bloom]

There are supplements on Amazon that claim to improve eyesight without surgery, that are rated 4.9 out of 5, and cost $64 a month for prime members, if they did not work, they would not receive such a high rating at $2-3 a day. And Amazon screens for fake reviews, not like other businesses that will suppress low ratings to artificially boost their satisfaction ratings.

[Nikki1989]

You can improve eye health, reduce eye strain, and slow age‑related decline, but you cannot naturally correct refractive errors.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Maybe to a certain point, from what I heard the surgery is very effective but I don't know

[Alex-Snow]

I have never hear of any alternatives

[Iron_Man]

Eat carrots

[RanaSanga]

Did you improve your eyesight by this?

[Iron_Man]

I didn’t eat that much for the true test I should

[DryGermanGuy]

That's more for improving an existing night blindness.