When I was 8 years old, my parents took me to the optometrist and he determined my eyes were weak and needed correction. To improve eyesight naturally was not an option in those days. What the optometrist did is the conventional thinking even today.

The visual crutch, in the form of eyeglasses, was established and one year later I was back again, not seeing clearly. A stronger pair of lenses was just what I needed and off I went for another year. A year later, you guessed it, blurry vision and bad eyesight resulted in another set of yet stronger lenses. See the pattern.

My natural vision deteriorated as my dependence on glasses grew. This is such a common pattern that is repeated with so many of our children. Bad eyesight and vision problems do not just happen.

Most of us are born with excellent vision, but the demands of a modern society tend to make our eyes weak and lazy. Heredity can play a part as well for declining vision. The hidden secret they don’t want you to know is that vision improvement can be achieved through natural vision improvement.

Reading books, watching television, working on computers, reading comics, phone texting, all can contribute to bad eyesight. You see, compared to years ago, our society has become a close up society. No longer are we mainly doing activities that use our distant vision most of the time. We now use our eyes at close range and this contributes to strain and tension in the eyes.

I accepted my fate with glasses till I started getting involved with sports. Skiing and playing tennis were particularly cumbersome with wearing glasses. Even when I started wearing contacts, this was a vast improvement, but then you have the problems of getting something in your eye, comfort level, your eyes drying up, and the care involved.

I considered LASIK surgery because it could improve my vision quickly. I knew there was some risk involved, but I was prepared to take that risk, at least I was until a good friend of mine had it done. His night vision was ruined as he would see star burst patterns around lights at night. He also now had astigmatism where before the surgery, he had none. His corrected vision now was not crisp and clear like it was prior to the surgery. It scared me enough to stay away.

I started looking for alternatives to surgery. In the next post, I will show you how I decided to improve eyesight naturally without undergoing surgery and gradually shed all corrective lenses and got back to my natural state of vision.