Creating and maintaining the right personal image for you and your company

Wearing glasses can be an image booster, especially for those who look young, and wish to gain an edge by appearing to be more mature than their actual age. Choosing a pair of glasses that is made of metallic frames, or solid colored plastic frames may give an edge to the wearer.

However, for those who are nearsighted, wearing glasses is not so much about fun and fashion, but function. I have worn glasses since I was 6. Presently I am very, very near sighted, and have to rely on contact lenses to escape from the fate of wearing terribly thick glasses. Since childhood all I hear from optomistrists and ophthalmologists was that nearsightedness cannot be cured. It will at best be the same, or at worst, gets progressively more nearsighted.

On top of this, people would say things like: you're so nearsighted that you'll be blind someday. Or: aren't you legally blind (I am NOT. Highschool girls can be so cruel by their careless comments).

Despite all the negativity I've been hearing all my life, there is a small seed of hope in me that perhaps there is a way to heal nearsightedness naturally. Without laser treatment (lasik improves eyesight, but it does not heal the eyes. Nearsighted people are still stuck with th elongated eyeballs even though they do not need glasses after lasik surgery).

It funny how when I hope for things so badly, eventually one day the solution appears. I came across Meir Schneider's "Yoga For the Eyes". Meir healed himself of some terrible eye problems he was born with. He was labelled "legally blind".

At the time Yoga For the Eyes include a small booklet that describes the function of the eyes and vision improvement exercises, a videotape that shows the viewer how to do the exercises, and a few tools such as a Snellen Chart (one that you'd see at an eye doctor's office) and a few black pieces of paper for some of the exercises. I learned the exercises but I did not for a time do them consistently. However, I can see how vision does change - it gets better at times, and worst at times. My vision is more stabilized after doing some exercises, and even my eye doctor said that I've cared for my eyes very well. And no, I did not tell him what I did. Conventional doctors do not believe in alternative healing methods.

Then I came across information about Dr. William Bates, an ophthalmologist who healed his patients of various eye problems, including nearsightedness. Meir actually studied Dr. Bates' methods and improved upon them. I read Dr. Bate's book, The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses , and was astonished to know the many reasons behind less than perfect vision, with many of them emotionally based. I now understand the cause of my own nearsightedness, and why it began at the age of 6 - because I dreaded going to school.

At this time my vision is not perfect, but at least now I have a more concrete answer to my quest of natural vision improvement.

Aside from identifying the reasons behind imperfect vision, and re-training the eyes through exercises, my family came upon this herb, cassia seed. From what I know, ancient Chinese used this herb to heal blurry vision. My aunt, who was diagnosed with high eye pressure, drank cassia seed tea (just cassia seed seeped in hot water) daily, and by the time she visited the optometrist again in a few month's time, the problem was gone! My family then followed suit and buy cassia seeds from herbal stores.

The explanation of how this herb restores vision is as follows: a weak liver causes many problems, including vision. By balancing the liver, organs that are influenced by the liver, including the eyes, are healed of problems. For those who do not believe this cause and effect, just think about why jaundiced people get yellow eyeballs.

Healing, I believe always come from the wholistic integration between the mind and body, not just temporary bandaid solutions offered by allopathic medicine.