A New World of Seeing: Practice and Perspectives of Natural Vision Improvement

Visually, you cannot see a detail clearly unless you see it where it is in space. When you relax all strain and just allow the visual image to come to you, you see the entire field of vision, and the detail directly in front of you is seen with greatest clarity.

He also trained lay people, after he discovered that most vision problems are not medical problems, but functional problems in how the eyes are being used.

In the Ventral Vagal state, central and peripheral vision are in perfect, natural balance as vision was designed to be. This enables good vision, presence, adaptability and mobility in a relaxed manner.

His method centered on the idea that refractive errors are due to mental strain rather than physical eye problems, emphasizes relaxation and mental habits of seeing for vision improvement.

The eyeball is as passive as your fingernail. It has nothing in its makeup that allows it to make a decision about where to focus. The eyeball changes its focus in response to where the mind is focused—unconsciously

If the mind is preoccupied, the open eyes have no orientation. There’s no one at the steering wheel! This disconnection of mind and eyes can happen many times during a day with no lasting effect if there is reconnection. However, if there is a habit of constantly day-dreaming, fantasizing, worrying or ruminating about problems, the eyes will become

Use your moments of clarity to get familiar with the feeling in the body and mind that is present when sight is better, so you can duplicate the experience consistently—at first in favorable conditions and later in unfavorable ones.

The understanding of this concept is the single most important point about improving your vision. The problem is not in the eye, but in the mind and how you are focusing your attention. The slightest effort to see will produce a blur. To see perfectly, it is essential to learn how to focus your attention without effort.

What Bates discovered is that when this woman looked at a blank surface, she stopped trying to see—which produced perfect sight.