| Far sightedness is another common visual ailment. | | | | Dr. William Bates was far sighted and told that his |
| This particular ailment affects vision and seeing | | | | case was incurable because his lens were as hard |
| distant objects more clearly then near ones. Far | | | | as stone. But he continued to train his oblique |
| sightedness usually occurs in people over the age | | | | muscles to adjust to any distance and improved |
| of 40. The cause is either from a flattening of the | | | | his eyesight naturally. |
| eyeballs or the hardening of the lenses. | | | | This ailment often can be connected to other |
| Usually after people reach a certain age and can't | | | | unpleasant circumstances such as the fact that |
| see as well, they take the first step and go get | | | | some people just find reading unpleasant, they |
| some type of artificial lens. Once you have taken | | | | aren't interested in learning any longer once they |
| that step and acquired some type of artificial lens, | | | | reach a certain age, they only tend to live in the |
| your eyes now become lazy and start decreasing | | | | future and not the present, they refuse to |
| rapidly. Within just a few weeks, you can no | | | | acknowledge close up problems and choose to |
| longer see without your glasses. From that point | | | | sweep irritating details under the rug, etc. |
| on, it's only a matter of time before each visit to | | | | Some of the things you can do to start improving |
| the eye doctor will be followed by a stronger | | | | your far sightedness today is do the swinging |
| prescription. Because you aren't solving the | | | | exercise daily, practice with the play chart, read |
| problem that causes poor eyesight in the first | | | | small print in dim lighting for a few minutes when |
| place, the strain can later cause even more | | | | you are relaxed, when you read let your eyes |
| diseases like glaucoma, cataracts or macular | | | | wander around the letters, and read by slowly |
| degeneration. It's a never ending cycle. | | | | moving a pencil underneath the letters. Always |
| Whether you have flattening of the eyeballs or | | | | remember that you are as young as you feel and |
| hardening of the lenses, the muscles around the | | | | poor vision does not have to be a result of just |
| eyes can still be trained to force the eyes to | | | | growing old. |
| contract. | | | | |