One’s eyeballs do not operate in seclusion. They are like a small number of pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the eyes being a few pieces and the entire puzzle being your visual being as a whole having profound influences on the body, mind and soul.

All pieces of the visual system the muscles that control the eyes and the eyes themselves, the neural system that lead to the brain and the visual centre within the brain; all perform in unison and require rather a lot of precision, coordination and versatility to operate optimally. Given that it operates in this way it is quite easily thrown out of equilibrium and its performance affected by outwardly unimportant factors like exhaustion and tension, no matter where it comes from. The visual system is also very sensitive to any nutritional deficiencies and imbalances that might be present in the body.

Three components are involved in any holistic approach to visual therapy.

1. Physical vision
2. Inner seeing
3. Emotional seeing

1. Physical eyesight involves more than just 20/20 vision. Physically seeing something requires 3 different skills.

First, your mind selects what it wants to see from its total field of vision. Skill 1: Peripheral VS Central Balance

Following this first step, your eyes carry out the process of visual focus, where you are able to see one particular object with precision and clarity. (SKILL TWO: Convergence/Binocularity)

The third skill involves the action of the ciliary muscle in the eye itself to bring something into focus. Skill 3 - The act of focusing itself

In addition, the muscles in and around the eyes must be relaxed, toned and flexible.

Imperfect vision arises from an inability to focus. Not merely because your eyes’ lenses are not working from overusage, but rather from stress, tension and fatigue, which affect the musculature in and around your eyes and the signaling from your brain. It can also lead to other difficulties.. Some of the more common such difficulties are: headaches, eye strain, nausea and generally feeling unwell.

2. Inner vision has a multitude of different attributes: creativity, visualization, visual memory and dreams. Not only will using a holistic approach to improve vision improve your eyesight, but by developing your mind’s eye, you will also find yourself with a better imagination, more creativity and the ability to remember things visually - better than you were able to do so before. You will be able to take control of the images in your mind in a positive way that gives you positive results in the real world. You will replace limiting images of yourself with a clearer and more positive sense of who you are.

3. Emotional seeing. This may seem a little wishy-washy, but it is all about how we use our eyes to express our feelings and who we are. The eyes are so often called “the windows of the soul”; Better Vision is a way to heal, clarify and open these windows, giving you the ability to ‘speak’ with your eyes, with your eyes being in perfect synchrony with your feelings and your body language.

Two important factors that are involved in poor vision include stress/tension and the acquiring of harmful visual habits over time. As a result of eye strain and poor eye habits, you can develop different eye conditions, a few of which include eye twitching, eye strain, ocular migraine, nearsightedness and more.

Optical lenses are an excellent non-curative way to enable you to see. They sort of act like an aid - a sort of crutch that you come to rely on. They don’t however, play any role in improving your eyesight by taking away the poor visual habits and stress & strain that caused your vision to fade in the first place. Instead, over time you find yourself becoming more and more accustomed to wearing glasses.

Since glasses are not the solution and surgery is expensive and unsafe, your best best, is to re-learn good visual habits and discover how to relax your eyes in a way that allows them to function as well as when you were a baby. To learn more, click the link to visit Perfect Vision.