What kind of vision goals do we want to set?  We know that overall improvement is the desired outcome, but what about the short term goals that help to get us there and maintain our motivation for the regular commitment? We want to notice changes in order to feel inspired to devote time to vision games.  What kinds of changes might these be?

How vision improves will vary for different people of course, and depending on what and how much they are doing for their vision activities.  However one of the obstacles to inspiration can be not giving awareness to the slow, incremental change that is not as noticeable on a day to day basis as a dramatic shift.  However, this is often the type of change that gives us our best long term permanent improvement. more…

This month while Carina is out giving presentations at our local libraries, we thought we would share with you some office and eye care recommendations from the US Office of Research Services (Division of Occupational Health and Safety) at the USA National Institute of Health.

So many of us are working long hours in offices and/or at computers and noticing the effects on our bodies and eyes.  It’s important to give attention to the placement of your keyboard, monitor and chair to maintain body comfort and spinal health in the long term.  In addition to this, giving your eyes balancing activities and relaxation at regular intervals is vital for visual health and comfort.

As you will see when you visit the ORS website link below, to this end they now recommend blinking, palming, yawning,  natural light for the eyes and other vision supporting practices in the workplace…. more…

Below is a letter written by Patricia Carrington Ph.D. of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Piscataway, NJ. It lays out some interesting concepts about the way we have been taught to think about our eyes and eyesight.

In a book written many years ago, the then Director of the General Electric Company’s Lighting Research Laboratory, Dr. Matthew Luckiesh, asked his readers to imagine what would happen if “crippled” eyes “could be transformed into crippled legs.” His comments were: “If this (transformation) happened, what a heartrending parade we would witness on a busy street! Nearly every other person would go limping by. Many would be on crutches and some in wheelchairs.” He was at that time referring to the widespread use of eyeglasses (now we would add to this the even more widespread use of contact lenses) on a PERMANENT basis, as usually being the sole treatment for eyesight problems. Many years later, that is still, regrettably, the case. more…

Vision improvement works well in group settings as the questions that other students ask are often important to all of us, even if we didn’t think to ask them ourselves.  Also knowing the changes and improvements that others are experiencing can really help to put our own experience into perspective.  Being able to teach vision improvement via home kit and the internet is wonderful of course, but we still need that element of support and encouragement from the experiences of others.  I hope to bring you this kind of group feeling and inspiration with articles such as this one. more…

For the month of July 2011 we’ll send you a complimentary copy of the new eyesight training book with any shipped order over $100!

That’s right, a copy of The Practical Guide to Natural Vision Improvement with any order over $100. Plus we’ll cover the additional shipping cost for the book.

The book usually sells for $35 plus shipping ($14-$17) – you get all this for no extra cost with your order of $100 or more for this month only.

All you need to do is put through your order between now and the 31st of July 2011 and we’ll include a copy of the book with your shipped order. more…

This blog post will start a small series of discussion on the topic of common issues that arise for students in the process of improving their vision.  We begin with some points that came up on a phone call with a Personal Eyesight Training Kit student, and move on to discuss some of the topics that arose in our Support Conference calls with further PET students.  It’s interesting to note that these students have had marked improvement in their eyesight since starting the Kit, and yet even once these changes start to occur our ability to ‘get in our own way’ still remains. It’s a fascinating thing we humans do! more…