I’m starting to wonder if this isn’t more a test of positive thinking and paradigm shifts.

Riding my bike 30 minutes to work, about 10 minutes in I’m starting to hate everything being slightly blurry again, and questioning my own good judgement for doing this stupid experiment in the first place.

Then, I relax. Change my mind. Imagine as vividly as possible that my eyes could instantly see everything clearly and crisply, and, as I relax, my vision does improve. Slightly, but noticeably. My jaw also relaxes and starts to feel sore (I’ve been chewing a pack of gum this week).

I wonder that if I could just accept a new paradigm -that my eyes are perfectly healthy and capable of perfect sight, if I could trick my brain into using another section or new wiring schematic or something to help me see better.

When I imagine that my eyes work perfectly, I can actually feel them trying to work perfectly. I have to physically relax the eye muscles to give them breaks when they strain, but they are working. I wonder just how much stock there can be in the fact of exercising just the 3 pairs of eye muscles to improve eyesight. I wonder if those eye muscles are at all responsible for the overall shape of the eye, therefore causing distortion if one of the pairs is not optimally functioning.

I notice that the eye exercise that bothers/strains my eyes the most is “drawing” lines from the floor up to the ceiling in the far left and right sides of each eye. Second to that one I suppose is “drawing” circles on the ceiling, looking up.

So there are 2 things going on that I can observe. My eyes themselves seem to strain/bulge to see distant objects, especially if I focus on staying relaxed in the face and the mind. This feels like exercise, and exercise tells the brain that it needs to change, so this makes me feel a little more optimistic.

Secondly, I am doing many eye exercises that do not involve focus, just controlled movement of the eyes. The only way I could imagine this improving vision is by slightly changing the tension on the eyeball itself, AND by bringing circulation to worked parts of the eye at the attachment sites.

I went to the big Safeway grocery store in Potrero tonight and just for fun tried to look for organic wheat pasta (unsuccessfully, haha). That was an excellent eye exercise in focusing on the overhead isle labels and then individual items. I may just start doing that daily or every other day for the practice! It was quite challenging.

To science, and positive thinking…

It’s terrifying going out at night with blurry vision. It reminds me of the time I had traveled to Pakistan in planes, got out of the airport in Karachi, and was blinded for a good 45 minutes. I couldn’t see due to the light level change. No fun stepping foot onto foreign soil without your vision.

Today my eyesight adapted some after walking outside for a few minutes at night. People’s faces still totally unreadable, went to fashion showing and out dancing at club. Did 2×100 near/far today plus normal routine.

Not feeling less blind. There must be a more scientific way to do the near/far exercises so that improvement can be monitored.

Whether or not my vision is improving, it seems not wearing glasses/contacts is making my romantic life exponentially better day by day. Ironic that I attract even better-looking men when I can’t actually see them clearly. Pause for your joke. Ok. Possible my blurry vision boosts my self-confidence and deactivates my give-a-damn. N-E-way…

Having said that, I did do 2×100 near/far eye exercises today in addition to the other 13 exercises, vast improvement over yesterday. As housemate R said, “Even God took one day out of seven off!”. Love ego-pumping enablers in my life. Me and God, on the same page.

One online test I took said my vision was 20/20 in my left eye and 20/100 in my right, which would be great if it were true, seeing as I’ve started at 20/50 (L) and 20/300 (R), respectively. Kinda doubt the validity of that test, however.

I will hold fast and keep on until end of the month.

Fought the urge to immediately put my glasses on this morning. It is not fun waking up with blurry vision, and this experiment is already getting old after just 5 days.

I have slumped from doing my eye exercises first thing in the morning to doing them late at night. I feel like my eye control is improving, my vision not-so-much. I still really like the idea of removing the crutches to see how well you can walk on the injured foot. My eyes are definitely still “working” without the glasses on, especially when I make an effort to ready blurry things in the distance, like road signs, as I approach them.

Again, I wore my glasses for about 3 hours tonight. Not sure how this will impact my experiment. I guess I really didn’t have to wear them for most of that 3 hours, but I was just really getting tired of my blurry vision, and when I had to put them on to drive, I couldn’t peel them off my face.

Ug.

Maybe I will start up tomorrow morning with more vigor and do my exercises first thing in the morning. I still have 3 weeks of this experiment to go. I feel like I ought to be doing more than the 100 repetitions of near/far exercises throughout the day if I am really to improve the vision. Maybe I’ll bump that up to 3×100 reps per day starting tomorrow, and try to space them throughout the day.

I’d really like to see some improvement when I go to have my eyes tested again in September! 20/20 improvement of course ;-)

5/7 of a week down. Haven’t been doing my solarization exercises faithfully since the sun has been hiding in the mornings the past coupla days.

But all other exercises seem to be slightly starting to get easier. Still not sure how much vision, if any, I’ve recaptured. I have noticed, however, just how hard the body fights the change and creates tension near the eyes. I actually begin to see somewhat clearer when I relax this tension, remembering the admonition to always be comfortable and happy doing the exercises and/or being without glasses.

I’m trying to get my body to adapt to a correction-free way of being, and I think acceptance and not fighting against the body, rather relaxing and giving into that tension may very well be a ticket to the kind of miraculous health change the authors promised and I expect.

Since I am not seeing any obvious visual improvements, I’ve been working on giving my mind permission to see clearly without corrective lenses. I don’t allow it to strain and just keep attempting to focus on blurry objects without discomfort of any kind.

Onto Day 6!