• Hi Friend,
  
  I found this article and was so impressed with it I had to
  pass it on. It's the story of a young man's dreams taking
  flight after being told he would never achieve them. If
  you have bad eyesight or know anyone that does, you have
  to read this.
  
  Everything Old Is New Again: Rebuilding Your Vision
  
  Glasses, contacts, or surgery. These are the usual choices
  offered to those of us with bad vision. Orlin Sorensen, though,
  needed an alternative. A commercial airline pilot who found himself
  in jeopardy of being downsized after the 9/11 tragedies, Sorensen
  decided to go for broke and pursue his lifelong dream of becoming
  a Navy fighter pilot. The only catch was that Navy fighter
  candidates were required to have near-perfect, uncorrected
  vision -- no surgery allowed.
  
  As for so many who seek different medical options, it was
  word of mouth that led Sorensen down a different path: a
  fellow pilot suggested eye exercises to naturally correct
  vision. Turns out, the exercises weren't so much the "road
  not taken" as the "road not taken in a while." Sorensen's
  research revealed that natural vision training, in fact,
  had been around for almost a century.
  
  Natural vision correction involves performing eye exercises
  and relaxation techniques daily to increase optical muscle
  strength and coordination. With a 30-minute daily routine,
  after just a month Sorensen improved his vision from 20/85
  to 20/20; he went on to pass the Navy's visual acuity test.
  In 2001, he founded a company, Rebuild Your Vision, to share
  his knowledge with the general public and to challenge the
  widespread belief that surgery is the only method of
  correcting vision. As more and more people turn to alternative
  medicine -- one in three people in the U.S., according to the
  New England Journal of Medicine -- Sorensen's company has
  proven to be visionary in more ways than one.
  
  A wholistic orientation to health
  
  Studying, watching TV, computer use, reliance on optical correction
  from glasses and contacts, as well as the normal aging process,
  all contribute to weak and distorted vision. Integral components
  of the eye are not stimulated but instead suffer from a narrow
  range of use, in the same way that repetitive mousing and typing
  tasks on the computer can lead to tendonitis in the arm and,
  eventually, carpal tunnel. Just as you exercise your body at
  the gym or practice yoga in order to improve muscle tone,
  agility, range of motion, and flexibility, so too do the eyes
  benefit from daily exercise. Designed to reverse the stresses
  placed upon the optical system, the vision-rebuilding process
  fortifies your eyes in ways that would never be achieved through
  normal daily activities.
  
  Sorensen's Rebuild Your Vision program provides multilevel goals
  and strengthening tools that challenge and stimulate different
  parts of the visual system. Customized training programs are
  available for those suffering from nearsightedness, astigmatism,
  and aging vision (presbyopia). The program's simple drills and
  exercises can be done at home, in the office, or on the road,
  thus enabling the practitioner to integrate them as part of an
  overall healthy lifestyle. It's no accident that Sorensen is
  from Seattle, a city surrounded by natural beauty whose residents
  are perennially voted as some of America's fittest.
  
  An idea takes flight
  
  Not only has Rebuild Your Vision become a success -- according
  to surveys from customers worldwide, the program boasts over a
  90% success rate in improving vision problems -- but the medical
  establishment has also done research supporting the theories that
  the program is based upon, as in this excerpt from the Journal of
  the American Optometric Association describing the results of
  subjects who underwent natural vision training: "Subjects often
  stated that they had experienced the ability to make eye contact
  (without correction) with people across a room or street; they
  could see buildings and windows clearly without glasses many
  miles across San Francisco Bay, or in the case of high-diopter
  myopes (> -4.0 diopters) they were able to read books easily
  at arm's length."
  
  Unlike eye surgery, natural vision correction is noninvasive
  and risk-free. And unlike glasses or contacts, it an active
  process rather than a palliative measure. So it's no wonder
  vision rebuilding seems to strike a chord with health-conscious
  people today, who are increasingly choosing organic foods over
  fast foods, meditation over confrontation, and lifestyle changes
  over potentially harmful quick fixes. Ironic, but sometimes we
  need to take the long view to really appreciate what we're seeing.
  
  To learn more about the Rebuild Your Vision program please visit
  their website at http://www.rebuildyourvision.com/cmd.php?af=717090
  
  Until next time,
  
  Have a nice day.
  
  Dr Alimari, OSCEhome.

  June 27th, 2008 at 1:26 am

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