The first vision therapy I want to introduce you to is called “palming”. What it does is reduces stress on your whole body – including your eyes. Stress, as Dr Bates theorizes, is responsible for vision deterioration. He called it “strain”.

The latest brain research showed that the state of your mind do affect your physical body. For example, as you’re under stress, you tend to get frustrated, you tensed up your muscles, your heart beats faster and your blood pressure rise. Some researchers have even found that if you visualize doing exercises… wait for it… you can physically grow bigger muscles!

That’s why this first “vision exercise” I’m going to introduce to you has more to do with your brain than your eyes. It’s called palming and its objective is to relieve your mind of the chronic stress you’re under. Here’s how to palm:

Close your eyes, relax and breathe deeply. Place your palm on top your eye lid but don’t press on your eyes. As long as there’s no light reaching your retina, then you’re all set. Imagine a scenery that’s most relaxing to you. Note that this would be difficult at first simply because most people have lost their ability to imagine (this is more common than you think it is ). If you could relax every day, I believe your eyesight would quickly recover, Unfortunately, most of us simply do not have that luxury, so this is the next best thing.

Palm 3 times a day, 10 minutes every time and you’ll soon its effect. Even if you don’t see any vision improvement, you’ll no doubt notice that this “vision therapy” has a relaxing effect on your whole body and you’ll feel refreshed and re-energized once you’re done.

The second vision exercise I want to introduce you also has more to do with your mind than your eyes. Again, close your eyes and palm. This time, imagine you’re holding a really long rope. You’re holding one end of the rope and the other end is tied to a palm tree across the ocean on the next island.

Focus your attention on your end of the rope, breathe deeply and when you let go of your breath, simultaneously shift your focus along the rope onto the other end. Repeat for ten minutes.

I recommend you get a timer when doing these two vision exercise. Because if when you’re doing them, you’re also worrying about the time, it would drastically reduce the effectiveness of the vision therapy.