Natural Vision Improvement V1.1

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                     This work is dedicated to
       His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso The Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
May whatever merit there is  in  presenting   this   material  on
natural vision  serve to  benefit  each  and every sentient being
                        throughout space.
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version 1.1 (Apr 18 1995)
Compiled by:    Vic Cinc (vic@cia.com.au)
With help from: Alex Eulenberg, Rene Malingre, Karen deWeeger  
                Marco Terry, Richard Kucera	
Comments, suggestions, reports of errors, request for inclusions,
ideas:  please email to vic@cia.com.au
This FAQ is availlable at http://www.cia.com.au/vic/faq.html
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The FAQ will be posted occasionally to sci.med, sci.med.vision
and alt.self-help.
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[0.0] TABLE OF CONTENTS

[1.0] INTRODUCTION
[1.1] Can vision be improved?
[1.2] Can defective vision be improved?
[1.3] Does vision therapy take up much time?
[1.4] How much does vision therapy cost?

[2.0] CORRECTED VISION
[2.1] What do glasses do to they eye?
[2.2] But don't glasses give me perfect vision already?
[2.3] Are compensating lenses addictive?


[3.0] THE BEGINING
[3.1] How do I start?
[3.2] How quickly will I make progress?

[4.0] TEXTBOOK DEFINITIONS
[4.1] What is an optometrist?
[4.2] What is an ophthalmologist?
[4.3] What is a behavioral optometrist?
[4.4] What is an optician?
[4.5] What is the difference between sight and vision?
[4.6] What are vision problems?
[4.7] What are errors of refraction?
[4.8] What is accommodation?
[4.9] What is the far point?
[4.10] What is the near point?
[4.11] What is excessive accommodation?
[4.12] What is spasm of accommodation?
[4.13] What is insufficient accommodation?
[4.14] What is ill-sustained accommodation?
[4.15] What is inertia of accommodation?
[4.16] What is paralysis of accommodation?
[4.17] What is vergence (convergence & divergence)?
[4.18] What is insufficency of convergence?
[4.19] What is excess of convergence?
[4.20] What is a diopter?
[4.21] What is the cornea?
[4.22] What is the crytaline lens?
[4.23] What is the pupil?
[4.24] What is the retina?

[5.0] THE PROBLEMS
[5.1] What is myopia?
[5.2] What is astigmatism?
[5.2.1] What is the notation for astigmatism?
[5.3] What is hypermetropia?
[5.4] What is presbyopia?
[5.5] What is emmetropia?
[5.6] What is strabismus?
[5.7] What is amblyopia?
[5.8] How accurate are visual measurements?
[5.9] How do I measure my own accuity?
[5.10] What is average daily vision?
[5.11] What is peak daily vision?
[5.12] Should  I keep track of peak and average daily  vision  in  a diary?

[6.0] LETS GO!

[7.0] MASSAGE
[7.1] What are the signs of tension and strain?
[7.2] How do I relax strain in the body?
[7.3] How do I massage my face?
[7.4] How do I massage my neck?
[7.5] How often should I massage my neck and face?
[7.6] How do I stretch the muscles of the eye?
[7.7] How often should  I stretch the muscles of the eye?

[8.0] PASSIVE VISION
[8.1] What is passive vision?
[8.2] Does sleep help reduce strain?
[8.3] What do I do if my sight is worse in the mornings?
[8.4] How often should I wear glasses or contacts?
[8.5] Should I go cold turkey and stop wearing glasses altogether?
[8.6] What are functional or fitness glasses?
[8.7] How long before I become accustomed to not wearing glasses?
[8.8] What is palming?
[8.9] How often should I palm?
[8.10] Can I do too much palming?
[8.11] What is sunning?
[8.12] What is skying?
[8.13] How much sunning should I do?
[8.14] Is sunning safe?
[8.15] Should I stop wearing sunglasses?
[8.16] How much blinking should I be doing?
[8.17] Should I be yawning?
[8.18] How should I be breathing?
[8.19] What are some breathing exercesise?
[8.20] What am I seeing?


[9.0] ACTIVE VISION
[9.1] What is orphoptics?
[9.2] What is active vision?
[9.3] What is central fixation?
[9.4] How do I restore central fixation?
[9.5] what is shifting?
[9.6] what are saccadic movements?
[9.7] what is swinging?
[9.8] How do I exercise shifting or saccadic motion?
[9.9] What is  peripheral vision?
[9.10] How can I test my binocular vision?
[9.11] How do I exercise peripheral vision?
[9.12] How do I exercise accomodation?
[9.13] Can accommodation be brought under conscious control?
[9.14] What is fusion?
[9.15] How do I exercise fusion and convergence?
[9.16] Can convergence be brought under conscious control?
[9.17] Can I invent my own exercises?
[9.18] How often should I do active eye work?
[9.19] What is a clear flash?
[9.20] Should I be concerned about adverse lighting conditions?
[9.21] What is the astigmatic mirror?
[9.22] How do I use the astigmatic mirror to reduce astigmatism?


[10] MENTAL VISION
[10.1] What is the role of memory and imagination in vision?
[10.2] How can I exercise my perception?
[10.3] Can hypnosis be used to cure visual problems?
[10.4] How is NLP used to cure visual problems?
[10.5] How is the de Silva method used to cure visual problems?

[11.0] BEHAVIORAL OPTOMETRY
[11.1] What is behavioral optometry?
[11.12] What is patching?
[11.13] What are pinhole glasses?
[11.14] What are anaglyph glasses?
[11.15] What are polaroid glasses?
[11.16] What are prism glasses?
[11.17] What is the Accommotrac Vision Trainer?

[12.0] EMOTIONS AND VISION
[12.1] What is the emotional nature of myopia?
[12.2] What is the emotional nature of hypermetropia?
[12.4] What is the emotional nature of presbiopya?
[12.5] What is the emotional nature of Macular degeneration?
[12.6] What is the emotional nature of Amblyopia?
[12.7] What is the emotional nature of Strabismus?
[12.8] What is the emotional nature of Glaucoma?
[12.9] What is the emotional nature of Cataracts?
[12.10] What is the emotional nature of Retinis Pigmentosa?
[12.11] What is the emotional nature of Retinal Detachment?

[13.0] EASTERN APROACH
[13.1] What are accupressure points for the eyes?
[13.2] Can accupuncture be used to relieve eye strain?
[13.3] How do I meditate?
[13.4] What eastern herbs are availlable?

[14.0] MOVEMENT & POSTURE
[14.1] Should I be more aware of my poture?
[14.2] How can I tell if my head is tilted?
[14.3] Do I lean my head forward/back too much?
[14.4] How do I sit up straight?
[14.5] What are Feldenkrais lessons, Alexander technique, Rolfing
[14.6] What is Craniosacral therapy?

[15.0] DIET & LIGHT
[15.1] What nutrients are essential?
[15.2] Should I be using full-spectrum lighting?
[15.3] Should I avoid tints in glasses and lenses?
[15.4] What is the relationship between light and mood?
[15.5] What is syntonics?
[15.6] Is there a Homeopathic remedy?
[15.7] What is eyebright?
[15.8] What is bilbery?
[15.9] What other herbs are of benefit?
[15.10] What are drugs that may adversly affect visual accuity?
[15.11] What are drugs that may adversly affect pupilary response?
[15.12] What are drugs that may adversly affect eye movement?
[15.13] What are drugs that may adversly affect eye pressure?
[15.14] What are drugs that may adversly affect the conjuntiva, cornea, and lens?
[15.15] What are drugs that may adversly affect the retina and optic nerve?



[16.0] CONCERNS
[16.1] I do a lot of reading what should I do?
[16.2] I spend a lot of time in front of a computer  what  should  I
[16.3] One eye is weaker than the other what should I do?
[16.4] My eyes are dry and iritated what should I do?
[16.5] I already have 20/20 vision how do I get super normal vision.
[16.6] What is an example program for myopia?
[16.7] What is an example program for astigmatism?
[16.8] What is an example program for hyperopia?
[16.9] What is an example program for presbyopia?
[16.10] What is an example program for cataracts?
[16.11] What is an example program for macular degeneration?
[16.12] What is an example program for gluacoma?

[17.0] EMERGENCIES
[17.1] What should I do in the case of an eye wound?
[17.2] What should I do in case of chemical burns to the eye?
[17.3] What should I do in the case of foreign bodies in the eye?

[18.0] RESOURCES
[18.1] What resources are availlable to help me?
[18.2] How do I locate a behavioral optometrist?