Many people assume that it’s not possible to improve vision naturally. I don’t agree with them! You have to know that glasses only weaken your eyes and they are like a wheelchair for a person who has only weak legs. If you want to improve your vision you have to train and relax your eyes. Only half an hour a day can help you to achieve miracle effects.

You use your eyes almost all the time. Even when you sleep they don’t relax entirely. This strain is the main cause of your vision defect. What can you do to relax your eyes and let them rest at least for a moment ? You can try many relaxation techniques.

Your eyesight varies depend upon a number of factors such as eye strain, stress, or even diet. But, don’t worry, vision can be improved through a program of well-designed eye relaxation exercises and some changes in your everyday life. Below you can find some most important factors.

Blink regularly, blinking clean and lubricate the eyes. When there is no tension, your eyes blink 10 - 12 times every minute, or about once every 5 seconds. People who do not see clearly tend to unconsciously stare and hold their eyes open, which causes strain as well as the feeling of dry and tired eyes.

Palming is one of the most efficacious methods of relieving eyestrain. It works by calming the visual system. We can see by receiving light signals. If there was no light entering the eyes, one should expect to see nothing. Instead, in eyes with defective eyesight, there appears swirling patches of colours, creating pictures where there should be none. This is a symptom of the eyestrain causing defective vision. The act of palming makes people aware of the strain. The warmth from the hands helps to relax the eyeballs. Some people claim to be able to the “inner energy” or “chi” emanating from the palms.

How to perform palming ?

Step1: Find quiet place. Switch off all lights.

Step2: Sit on a chair. Warm up your palms by rubbing them.

Step3: Lean your elbows on a table. Cover your eyes with your palms.

Step4: Try to see perfect black color. It’s hard to do because your eyes are tired. After few sessions you should be able to see perfect blackness.

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Natural sunlight, natural sunlight is a nutrient for the body just like food and water. Spend at least 30 minutes outdoors, without glasses, letting your eyes receive sunlight.

Diet:

Increase the amount of green, leafy vegetables in your diet. Spinach, broccoli, collard greens, kale and other green, leafy vegetables are high in carotenoids, in particular lutein and zeaxanthin. These powerful nutrients can help prevent eye deterioration and the development of cataracts. Lutein and zeaxanthin are deposited in the eyes and act as antioxidants neutralising, the free radicals, which can cause cell damage.

Add eggs to your diet. Especially the yolks, will help to increase the amount of lutein and zeaxanthin in your body.

Eat avocados, they are similar to green and leafy vegetables in that they provide the body with lutein, which helps to fight eye disease.

Sit up straight, it may sound funny but your vision is affected by your upper part of body tension. When you sit straight your chest, shoulders, neck and face are relaxed.

Keep Your Eyes Moving, usually people who have vision defects seem to stare. The don’t blink and don’t move their eyes. Keep changing you focus and take your eyes from one thing to another.

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I myself use contact lenses and have not looked back since I first started wearing them early on in my teens. Contact lenses are so much better than glasses in that they don’t have edges to your vision that are sometimes optically warped, you never get pressure points and you can do activities like swimming and even surfing with them on if you are careful. Laser eye treatment is (I am told), no matter who praises it, still an unknown quantity with what are currently many thousands of guinea pigs, some moving into old age and potentially huge problems e.g. extremely dry eyes due to old age and a reduced cornea which can lead to ocular degeneration.

Bad points about contact lenses are that they lower the overall oxygen being absorbed into the eyeball therefore over time they increase the likelihood of arteries enlarging and growing over your retina in their quest to absorb more oxygen. This can in sever circumstances, typically in elderly people, result in reduced vision. Luckily it is a very slow process, that doesn’t adversely affect most people. When wearing contact lenses for many hours every day your eyes can feel slightly tired. Falling to sleep with non-24 hour contact lenses on your eyes can produce a very uncomfortable situation where the lenses have dried up a bit and stick to your eyes somewhat. In the long run contact lenses can be more expensive than glasses.

LASIK is not an uncommon term to us. You should have heard the way it can give us a perfect eyesight. The interesting is, very few of us have heard of this term Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK). PRK is also a pretty well-practiced vision correction sugery that has been achieve the same success as LASIK for at least 20 years.

So, we will compare PRK vs LASIK. What are the similiarities and the differences. Most importantly, you will have to know how to determine the best procedure for you. The article will equip you with the right enlightenment so that you can consult the eye surgeon .

The common traits of PRK and LASIK:
1) There is no pain midst the whole process
2) Both must apply medication for the eyes after the surgery
3) Both need some months to recover from the surgery
4) Both are used to treat myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism

The interesting thing is that two of them have almost the same outcome in achieving the perfect eyesight. A lot of people have experience success with both procedures.

However, The interesting thing is that both have different procedures, but the same outcome.

Let’s look at the differences:
1) Patients with certain corneal conditions or corneal scars have to undergo PRK, not LASIK
2) Lens “bandage” seems to be required after the sugery
3) LASIK has an additional step which is the creation of a flap
4) PRK does not need tocreate a flap, but accesses the cornea’s inner layers by removing the thin outer layer of the cornea
5) LASIK tends heal faster than PRK

As you can see, there are some differences but in general both processes are safe. If you want to know which procedure is more suitable for you, you have to consult a reputable eye surgeon who can examine your eyes to decide what is best for you. This article should equip you with some knowledge so that you are able to speak with an eye surgeon with more confident.

You need to be thinking about laser eye surgery risk if you’re contemplating laser procedure. While it’s considered one of the safest surgical procedures available too many people ignore the risks associated with it and this is something you need to be clear about.

It’s one of the most important discussion points when you have preliminary discussions with your surgeon. This is the time you need to be asking questions about the complications that could arise. While risk is minimal it exists nevertheless and that’s normal with any surgical procedure.

Pre-screening is performed to ascertain your risk levels and whether you are a candidate for laser eye surgery. Many people get advice from people they know who have undergone successful laser eye treatment however, you need to be aware that just because it was successful for someone else, it won’t guarantee you will undergo a risk-free treatment.

You may have certain issues which others don’t have and that’s one of the reasons the pre-screening phase is so important. In this article, we’ll look at four of the risks of laser eye surgery you need to know about.

Laser Eye Complications

- There is a chance that some vision may be lost. This could be a loss of lines of vision which cannot be corrected by using eye wear or surgery.

- Some patients run the risk of suffering from vision issues which include double vision. Others include halos or glare and the result of this will mostly affect a person’s night time vision. For example driving at night with these symptoms will make getting behind the wheel of a car somewhat risky.

- There are issues known as being under or over treated. How does this affect the patient? Simply, a certain number of patients will achieve full 20/20 vision without the need to use eye wear. Some patients may require further treatment or quite simple, despite treatment, eye wear will still need to be worn.

- Dry eye syndrome is another risk factor and is basically a lack of moisture in the eye. In other words, your eye may not be able to produce the desired amount of tears to keep the eye moist enough thus making it an uncomfortable experience for the patient.Blurring is an issue of dry eye and this situation could even become a permanent one.

These are just some of the risks of laser eye and this is one of the reasons pre-screening is very important. You need to be truthful with your surgeon during this time and avoid the temptation to hide any health issues you may have.