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Improve Your Eyesight : Vision Therapy Eye Exercises--Updates Bates Method (1 Hour & 30 Minute Video and Eye Chart Included)

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I am very happy I bought this book and video. My vision had been getting steadily worse. Every few years, I had to get stronger and stronger glasses. I was really beginning to worry about my ability to get around in my old age. This book has changed all that.

The book gives a clear and simple explanation of vision therapy, also known as the Bates Method. The video has sixteen different exercises, each of which is explained in detail in the book. I have seen other books on the subject, but nothing else has the graphics and exercises that this video contains. I think the price is fair, since I got a book and video.

There are several different training programs. There are also instructions for designing your own personalized training program. I did the six week program.

The results were incredible. I started seeing improvements in just three weeks. Now that I've finished the six week program, I'm seeing at about 20/30. I started out at about 20/200. I'm now designing my own training program, so I can get all the way to 20/20.

I think the book is well organized, and it was easy to understand. The book and video are bound together, so I never worried about misplacing them. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever worried about their eyesight.

I was a little perplexed by the following two reviews. I do not understand how Mr. Hwang claims the video contains only 3 exercises. There are 16 different exercises on the video tape, some are demonstrated and others are animated graphics which are watched. Maybe Mr. Hwang received a defective video tape, in which case I would request that he return it for a replacement. I assume he didn't watch only the first 5 minutes of the 90 minute video to make his evalution.

To the Optometrist who admits he "never read the book", I would suggest he read the information published by the American Optometric Association. The article titled "The Efficacy of Optometric Vision Therapy" (Journal of American Optometric Association, V 59, No. 2) references over 100 research studies supporting vision therapy. The article "Position statement on vision therapy" (Journal of American Optometric Association, V 56, No. 10) supports the use of vision therapy.

Vision therapy is not a cure-all for all vision problems. It will not cure eye diseases. But I have received many many letters from people who have been helped by this vision therapy program. James Bellevue, author, Improve Your Eyesight

Who would have thought this existed? This book was a quick, easy read. I bought it on a Friday and was already using it by Monday. The exercises take very little time and I'm already seeing results just a few weeks later. I would definitely give this book two thumbs up.

I purchased this book and tape ten years ago and have not yet had to purchase new glasses. The book is very easy to understand and the video is easy to follow with very simple and clear to understand directions. I highly recommend this book to anyone for eye vision improvement.

Accompanied by an eye chart and a video tape, James Bellevue's Improve Your Eyesight is specifically intended for the non-specialist general reader seeking to use his or her eyes more efficiently and effectively for the simple purpose of seeing better. Bellevue points out that almost all seeing is self-taught, and as with any other motor skill, can be trained and developed to an optimal peak of performance. Improvement can actually be great enough to make contact lenses and vision defect corrective eyeglasses unnecessary. Through suggested skill building techniques, often dramatic improvements can be made for such conditions as nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, decreasing vision associated with advancing age, and more. Improve Your Eyesight basically updates the classic "Bates Method" with applications drawn from the latest and most up to date optical research. Four complete vision therapy programs are provided, plus guidelines to customizing a program for the individual reader's needs. The text is enhanced with on-screen exercises provided by the accompanying video tape. Improve Your Eyesight is a very welcome and uniquely original contribution to alternative health and medicine reference and resource materials.

I was doing the 10 week program. After 9 weeks of doing the program, I gave up.. I have not seen any improvement. I would notice something because I can't see anything clear past 7 inches from my face. So forgive me for not doing the 10th week but I don't believe the 10 week is the magical number where everything changes suddenly.

In the video, you will find just 3 exercises.

1) Rotating eyeball
2) Rotating neck
3) Tracking an object with your eyes

You can do the exercises (1) and (2) without watching the video. You just rotate your eyeball and neck. That's it.

The video is also useless for the exercise (3). It just displays a small dot moving on the TV screen and you track it with your eyes. Nothing more. Moreover, since it is a video on TV screen, the displays are very flickering so the exercise (3) will only give you eye strain.

For what it's worth, I'm an optometrist and the optics in the eye can't be altered by muscles (unless we're talking about accommodation). If my camera is out of focus it's the optics. That's why glasses and contact lenses are used...to correct the optics. I'd be leery of anyone who rates this book at five stars. They probably have a vested interest or they are into mind games because the laws of light are not altered by muscles.

Now, if a person who removes their correction (glasses/contacts) they may be able to squint and see better. That is done by limiting off axis rays and only allowing a narrow band of light to enter through the pupil. Again, muscles in the eye didn't affect the optics, only the beam of light was limited. Please....educate yourself on science if you want to know the truth.