Natural Vision Improvement

Vision Improvement Question and Answers

Janet Goodrich Method Student Question & Answers

Welcome to the Q & A page. Below you will find a number of common questions that students of vision improvement often ask.

To protect the privacy of our students we have changed the names in all correspondence.

Hi, my name is Bill (other personal information withheld) I ordered your NVI kit and have started to use it and have a few questions.  I have reading glasses only with +1,25 and +2.00 magnifications.  The right eye can basically read without any correction (slight blurriness only) and the left eye (the +2.00 eye) can't read very well.  The right eye (the +1.25 eye) is not so great in the distance while the left eye (the +2.00 eye) see almost perfectly in the distance.  My question is when tromboning with the left eye only, I feel some eye strain after I am finished.  I suspect this is to be expected and means that something is working,  I have only been at this for 2 weeks and haven't seen any results with the left eye which is my main concern (the left eye is the concern, not the fact that there is no improvement at this early stage).  I know it will probably take much longer for the left eye to improve for reading. Is the eye strain to be expected?  Any special recommendations for having one eye that sees relatively clearly for reading but not for distance and the other eye the opposite. Thanks in advance for your help. Bill Hi Bill, We do often feel some sensation in the eye muscles after doing tromboning.  If you feel it as a 'strain' rather than 'active' or 'relaxed' sensation then do your tromboning more slowly.  Really make sure you are breathing deeply and keeping your body relaxed.  Ensure you are doing the activity with your eyes closed and visualising the movement of the object, also while staying relaxed!  It sounds like your brain may have chosen to use mostly the right eye for reading and the left eye for distance...this can lead to further deterioration in the vision in each eye in its respective blur zone, and loss or reduction in fusion (the ability of the two eyes to work together), if allowed to continue and intensify.  The goal now is to bring the acuity of the two eyes into balance in all distances, and to bring the two eyes working together with the brain. Sooo... ususally I would say do more tromboning with the eye that has more blur up close.  However we want this to be comfortable for that eye.  Do as much as is comfortable as above, then do some palming immediately.  If the eye feels up to it, do a bit more tromboning followed again by palming.  See if you can increase over time so that you are doing almost twice as much tromboning with the left eye as with the right. Extend this principles to the other important reading activities such as the White Glow.   Then monitor with the reading card and decrease again into balance as the vision in the left eye catches up with the right for up close.  In the meantime I would suggest doing near far swing with both eyes together and with the right eye alone.  You also need lots of fusion activity.  First ensure you have fusion with the gate, then do as much as you can stand on the fusion chart.  When you are finding this really easy (or before) find some 'Magic Eye' pictures to practice on.  Do fusion activities daily if possible, for a few minutes here and there, and especially right after the activities where you are doing different times with each eye.  Remember your eyes are 'tight' not 'weak'.  To bring improvement we need to nurture them into relaxing and moving easily and comfortably.  So again you may feel a feeling of having 'worked' the eye after tromboning but get back to me if you are experiencing discomfort or what you would really identify as stress or strain. I hope this has been helpful, best regards, Carina Goodrich

 

Dear Carina, thank you so much for all the materials for improving my eyesight. Now I have to put all the knowledge in an action I would like to ask you 2 more questions.. Is it possible to wear contacts (of course as little as possible) and still work successfully on natural vision improvement?  What is your opinion on using hydrotherapy as part of NVI? Particularly cold water eye baths or contrast (hot-cold) water compresses over the eyes?  God bless you and your family! You must be very happy woman because you give other people such a great chance of real happiness!  I admire your profession, and I admire you!  Betty Hi Betty, I hope you are well. In regards to your questions. Contacts are not recommended when improving eyesight for a couple of reasons; Because they are a more difficult to remove you tend to wear them even when you don’t really need to - with glasses you can wear them just for a task, them remove them immediately. The less time you are behind a prescription the more room your eyes have to improve. Depending on the type, contacts can also deprive the front of the eye of oxygen (less with modern contacts), and cause irritation. The eyes are sensitive and although they do become accustomed to having a foreign object constantly on their surface it may interfere with their ability to completely relax. I don't know a lot about hydrotherapy but it sounds good.  Any complementary practices that increase the health of the eye and brain will benefit the eyesight. Thanks for your patience in awaiting a reply.  I wish you all the best! Regards, Carina

 

Hi Carina, I have worked with two vision teachers and have certainly made progress. However, my vision prescription is -10 plus astigmatism. Do you really think there is hope with this kind of prescription? I have put a lot of time, energy and money into this journey and just want a good sense of what is realistic for me. Warm wishes Sandra Hi Sandra, Thanks for your email. Yes, I do believe there is hope for your situation. And yes, that it is a long journey with many parts. Janet completely got rid of her visual blur, and though she started at about -5.50, it could be looked at that your situation is equally changable, just a matter of the degree. Remember that emotional resolution will play a major role in such high refractive error. Along with your management of transition glasses and daily stress. I wish you all the best and look forward to hearing from you if there is some way we can assist. Best Regards, Carina Thanks for this. Please could you let me know how would you help with the emotional resolution aspect? Transition glasses I have always found to be my stumbling block. I currently have ones which are 20/40 by having reduced the myopic correction but maintained the astigmatism correction. However, although I go about my daily life without glasses (including cycling around town, much to people's amazement!) and experience short and extended flashes of clarity, when it comes to wearing glasses for driving or computer use or running workshops etc, I have no improvement in my vision WITH the glasses. A year on, they are still 20/40, when I had hoped I would shift to seeing 20/20 through them and then reduce again etc. It therefore feels like I'm not making progress. Can you shed any light on this? I'm getting married in a few weeks and have put some sessions with you on my 'possibilities for September' list :) Your responses will hopefully turn this into a 'probability' ! With thanks Sandra Hi Sandra, You have an interesting situation.  It's fantastic that you are having so much success with going without glasses and with flashes of clarity.  Perhaps your visual system is seperating out it's areas of improvement; that it puts it's energy into clarity when you go without glasses, as you are able to do it so much, and when you put your glasses on it conforms to that status quo, rather than putting energy into creating improvement despite the stress of having to work through the prescription. I hope this makes sense.   How are you determining that you have no change with your T-glasses? Are you doing self-assessment or going to an OD?   I do a form of emotional healing work in person, which includes deep relaxation, potentially memory regression, what I call 'inner world' therapy, changing the structures of your emotional makeup and releasing old stresses, creating new pathways for positive emotions to flow and a variety of other methods depending on what is called for.    My very best wishes for your wedding and married life.   Best Regards, Carina

 

 

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