Solution

The need for glasses can be reduced or eliminated when certain strategies are followed.

There is nothing you can do to directly change your vision. There is, however, quite a bit you can do to change your levels of mental and physical tension which leads to a change in your body which leads to a change in your eyeball shape. And again, when your eyeball shape changes, then so does your vision.

Improving vision is much like improving a golf swing. If you've golfed for any length of time, chances are you've had at least a few good shots mixed in with some bad ones. All it takes is three or four really good shots to keep a Saturday hacker like myself wanting more.

There's nothing like hitting a golf ball right in the sweet spot of the club face. The swing begins, then you hear the ping! of the club hitting the ball. The solid feel of such a connection is unmistakable. Then you follow through, and you look up to find the ball sailing straight and true toward the flag. You think for a moment that it couldn't have been more accurate had it been laser-guided. And what happens next? You remember the shot and everything surrounding it -- the course, the hole number, the club number, the layout of the hole, the lie of the ball, whether you were teeing off or not, who you were the with, the weather conditions, the time of day, etc.all imprinted instantly on your brain for future reference and instant replay simply because you made an excellent golf shot.

Then what happens? You try to duplicate that same successful swing on your next shot. You're positive that you'll be doing the same exact things -- same approach, same pullback, same downswing, same follow through. Things are different, however. The familiar ping! has been replaced by a sickening and hollow THUD! The club's sweet spot has somehow mysteriously been replaced by a huge sour spot. Then you look up, only to watch helplessly as the ball slice off to your right at a 45 degree angle. Hope you brought some Kleenex.

There are lots of small components to a successful golf swing. Strangely, you have very little control over exactly how well the club face hits the ball because it happens so fast. You do, however, have control over all the individual components which lead up to a successful golf swing. For example, check your stance and the alignment of your feet and body relative to the ball and hole. Check your grip -- not too loose and not too tight -- about as hard as you would need to squeeze a tube of toothpaste for it to come out. Check your arms and elbows -- left arm straight, right arm bent. The left arm leads and the right arm is along for the ride. Look just a bit behind the ball. Pull back slowly, twisting at the hips just a bit. Start your swing with a pre-defined trigger for consistency. Left arm leads. Twist just a bit. Keep your head down. Follow through with a high arc, etc., etc. As we said, there are lots of individual components to the swing, and when you take care of the things you have control over, the familiar ping! will take care of itself.

The same things happens with vision. The shape and position of your eyeball is governed primarily by the facial muscles, specifically the orbicularis oculi muscle which surrounds the eye. Tension levels in the mind and body are sweeping and extensive; tension in the mind leads to tension in the body. Also, tension in the body has a tendency to spread itself out.

The key to vision improvement is tuning in the specific tension spots, both physically and emotionally. A physical tension spot might be in your shoulders. Perhaps you know that after a long day at work, your shoulders normally feel tight and tensed up. The first step to releasing tension is to find it. It all begins with awareness. Once you find the tension spot, then you can address it, release it, and rub it out. An emotional tension spot might be a particular fear or worry about something. Simply by becoming more aware of these tension spots will begin to give you power over them. Whatever you do, don't make the same mistake that I made early on by fooling myself into thinking that somehow I was different.

When I used to read about tension causing myopia, I thought that somehow I was the exception. "Well, I've got to keep searching because this doesn't apply to me," I'd think. After all, I was the most relaxed person I knew. Or so I thought. When I started looking, I was surprised at what I found, both physically and emotionally. Don't shy away from it. The scripture says, "seek and ye shall find". When it comes to tuning into tension, once you find it, it can no longer hide from you.

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