I want to share with you my journey to better eyesight...that is if, it actually does improve it, for my efforts. So far my eyesight has improved. I am using my glasses less. I have been doing it for almost a week.

The first four days, I really went at it, and noticed great gains in the first three days. I found that my gains would backslide during th those nights, but come back as I worked at it again. The way to do yoga, is with a level of complex subtleness that rarely gets talked about, and most likely doesn't with yoga eye exercises in particular, either, but that level of subtlety is what is very important. Ok, so here is my journey.

I like to start off by crossing my eyes. Why? Because that quickly gives you sharper eyesight...while they are crossed, and it helps to strengthen the muscles in the eyes too, of course. Then, while the eyes are crossed, look keenly at something like a letter, or the detail of perhaps a rough piece of wood. This part is very important, and yet it isn't discussed usually. What I mean is that when you move your eyes in any direction, enjoy the journey, and be present so you see how your eyesight is reacting to the eye movement, by looking at what you see, with calm intensity.

So first of all, you can look at something straight ahead, and then slowly bring your eyes down. As you do this, continue to really look at what your eye sees, even if it is blurry. Look at the fussy image of your nose, as well. Then slowly bring your view upward, with your eyes still crossed...if it doesn't feel strained. The thing is, don't go too hard with this, because your muscles will get fatigued, and you don't want to harm your eyes. You might if you don't be careful, like you might develop scar tissue like in any other muscle. That is why you need to be very relaxed while doing this, and enjoy the journey by taking little breaks while you take a relaxing breath.

When your eyes are looking up, you will see your eyebrow. See if there is anything else you can fixate on for as long as you feel it would be important to do so...without hurting yourself.

If what you are looking at is quite blurry, just find something that stands out from the other parts. It might be a fuzzy line in the letter B. You might not be able to see the two bumps on the line yet. Stare at it as long as you can. If you have objects in front of you at different distances, focus in at each different distance, and remember to rest your eyes when your better knowing, tells you to rest them.

I charged into this experience, obsessively. I would practise the exercises all day long, with whatever I was doing. I over did it, and had to take an advil on the fourth night, because rubbing my hands together, and placing them over my eyes didn't help. They were quite strained...and I was scared. Then I wasn't able to do the exercises as much for a couple of days.

By doing these subtle nuances, while doing the exercises, it makes it much more interesting, and I believe that it improves the results...greatly. When you fixate on a point, you are getting your eyes to adjust to what you are viewing. That is very important.

I am not sure at this point, but I think that one of the problems in using glasses, is that the muscles of the eye, don't get a chance to work as much, so they weaken, which leads to further decay. I believe that by reading too much...even though it is so much fun, it can ultimately damage the eyes because if we don't use our capacity to look sharply at things at different distances, we lose it. They are now offering glasses with a fuller range of side view. I didn't know that they didn't before. I wonder how that effects the deterioration of the eye.

The thing is, is that when you do these exercises at a more subtle level, like what I am talking about, not only is it way more intelligently interesting, like you bring yourself more fully along the way, you are getting into the practise of really looking at something. In that regard, it is like the difference of keeping your mind sharp as opposed to becoming dull. If you don't use your mind, that is what can happen...right? I can see where I might have begun the process of my mind shutting down in my forties, had I not made a great effort to become more mentally aware and sharp. As we go along in life, we get a bit careless in certain ways, sometimes. We have seen things so many times that we don't feel the need to look very closely. We see street lights coming up, and we see the colour, whether it is green amber or red, and we don't really look closely to look at the edges of the metal on the sign. We don't look at the rim of metal around the light. We don't look closely at the pole, or the needles on the trees in the background. If we have lived in the same place for a long time, we barely are conscious of the street sign, where we are supposed to turn at. So we stop using our eyes.

I remember the first friend to talk about improving eyesight. He showed me a book on it, and improved his eyesight quickly. I wondered why he would look like he was analysing the way I looked with a keen eye. Now I know. He got into the habit of doing eye exercises, by clearly looking at everything in front of him. He brought his awareness of sight, to the next level. That is how you keep the improvement of your eyes up. If you don't, that is why your eyesight fades again. If you do incorporate this level of awareness into your everyday life, exercising your eyes just becomes as natural as really looking at what you see. Pretty easy wouldn't you say!

So if you stay at the stage where the exercises are separate from...just plain ole using your eyes more consciously, after a while, you will get tired of taking time out to do the exercises so much. Actually, eye exercises will become second nature, just like yoga for other parts of your body. You won't even notice that you are doing it...well...you will still maintain a sense of decorum like you won't start rolling your eyes around and crossing them while looking at someone you are having a conversation with.

Ok, the next step. By the way, this is why you cross your eyes while doing the lions pose. That pose, is the facial exercise where you stick your tongue out, cross your eyes, and have your mouth stretched open like a roaring lion. You might as well, get your eyes stretched at the same time right!. Then you move your eyes over to the side; pick a side. As you are moving your eyes to do this, look at what you see, where you are very much taking an interest. If something captures your interest because perhaps it is a fun challenge that you think you can anchor in on, to focus; do it. When you get to a place at the side, that is not straining you, focus. It is, therefore not just about the eye movement, but the focus. This is next level. Seems like a simple theory but it is very hard for most people, I would presume. Prove me wrong!

My eyeglass wearing friend, who was able to throw away his glasses, emphasized focusing in on a point in the distance for long periods of time. I remembered that, and I am very grateful I did, because it is not just about rolling the eyes from side to side, it is about this. When you focus, even if the object you are looking at is blurry, in short time, it will sharpen-up like magic. You may at first become frustrated, and think that this is all nonsense...but keep going. When you think that you might as well give-up, keep going. I am sure you have heard that before, but surprisingly, but then, not so surprisingly, when work is required, many give-up with the scientific conclusion from their efforts that it is all a bunch of hog eyewash. You can then join the consensus group that agrees with you. You become assured in smugness that eye exercises don't work.

It only required heightened awareness though.

We talk the talk about heightened awareness, but our conditioning from where we come from, makes us believe, at the same time; subconsciously; that such words are poppycock, and therefore are to be dismissed really, when it comes down to it. Mind control programs have done well with us haven't they. We talk the talk, because it might momentarily give us a wounded ego boast, or be a little illusional candy rush, but the understanding of what we are saying...is just not there. The reason for us turning off before we get results is because we make the moves through concepts in the physical mind, rather than being fully present. It is called, not being all there. We, therefore, don't get a chance to go to that next level because we don't relate it to the times that we do, but don't define what that significant factor was. That ability to create those neural attachments for taking in prompts from a higher place, is missing too if we don't use that way of heightened awareness. That is why they say that to get to the third level is 'a leap'. This is why Sophia, the famous rogot said that humans are very much like robots. This is how we don't have a connection to god, in a real sense. We can only blindly believe in it. Sad isn't it.

The next step, is to roll your eyes, but once again, do it with awareness, by looking at each thing that grabs your interest. See how clearly we can see each thing along the way. That is all that needs to be said, and of course, stay calm. If you look at something with a calm intensity, you can actually see better.

Now the thing is, you don't have to wait, for when people aren't around, to do these exercises, you can do them before you go to sleep at night. Or, anytime, like while you are in the bathroom, or on a break. It doesn't take long before you get good results. To maintain the results though, you need to incorporate, really looking at things as much as possible. Like for instance, I drove 10 hours while doing them. The way I did it was not rolling my eyes around or going cross-eyed. I would concentrate on the road for sure, but I would take an interest in trying to read license plates, or road signs, as I was zooming by. I would look clearly at the road signs, always striving to see them clearly. I would look at the body of the car in front of me, and try to see the definitions of it as sharply as I could. I would be constantly assessing my progress as I did this. When I would stop for gas, I would look at the person at the till with sharpened focus. I would look at the money I pulled out of my purse, with clarity, trying to bring into sharper focus the letters and numbers and other things of note about it. As I would be reaching for the nozzle at the pump, I would really look at what everything looked like, so I was constantly doing eye exercises.

You can even do the exercises with your eyes closed because there are things to see that way too.

There is one other thing you can do. Place your thumb in front of your eye, at different distances. Focus on it, crossing the eyes, as well as uncrossed eyes. You can also focus on it, as you move it very slowly to the sides as far as you can go without straining. Just enjoy the ride. Take an interest in it as you meander along.

Also, gently massage your eyes, with them closed of course, when you can or need. Get hands on!

Do eye exercises work? Well, you get slowed down in the beginning when your eyesight isn't quite up to where it is comfortable to read what you need to, so you put your glasses on, and that can cause a strain to the eyes because of the adjustment it causes. So you go up, and then you go down in progress. The thing is, you don't need to use your glasses as much. Keep them off when you don't need them. it would actually be good, to have a month long clinic where people can get this done, to get them going.

So, all-in-all, do the exercises with expanded awareness, so that you can incorporate them into your daily life. I really believe that I have a strong chance to improve my eyes to perfect. They have gotten so much better. I will keep you all updated on my progress. Thanks for reading.