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Orientation and mobility, or O&M, is the ultimate blindness skill, the ability to safely find one’s way through an environment that can feel hostile or bewildering to the untrained blind person.
Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
A person with normal sight unconsciously practices certain mental habits of seeing that a person with imperfect sight fails to practice. When these habits are re-established, normal sight returns.
Natural Vision Educators • A New World of Seeing: Practice and Perspectives of Natural Vision Improvement
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.
Natural Vision Educators • A New World of Seeing: Practice and Perspectives of Natural Vision Improvement
This chapter describes three revolutionary discoveries made by Bates: 1) Vision is primarily mental; 2) Perfect sight can be reverse-engineered through the Seven Truths of Normal Sight; and 3) Improvement comes from relaxation obtained through central fixation.
Natural Vision Educators • A New World of Seeing: Practice and Perspectives of Natural Vision Improvement
