How My Life Changed After Taking A Natural Vision Improvement Workshop (Paid Subscriber Bonus)
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I got glasses for distance when I was in 4th grade, and my vision has been worsening since.
I heard natural vision teacher Meir Schneider speak on a podcast/YouTube recently and he has an incredible story. Meir was born with cataracts, had 1% vision, and was reading braille. When he was 17 he started working on his vision through various exercises, over the years got it to 70% , and can now drive.
I googled him, discovered he was in San Francisco and having a 2.5 day natural vision improvement workshop over Labor Day Weekend, so I registered, paid and showed up.
On the first day, Meir’s assistants introduced themselves. One was a legally blind photographer who with Meir’s help got rid of his glasses, improved his optic nerve atrophy, can now see and is teaching Meir’s methods.
The other was from Canada, needed eye surgery, tried everything from acupuncture to meditation, but nothing worked. She worked with Meir, ended up not needing surgery, learned his methods and now teaches natural vision healing in Canada.
The third was from Mexico, took some of Meir’s courses, and is now apprenticing with Meir on a student visa.
Before I get into specifics of what happened during and after the workshop, I want to share some caveats. If you google anything about “natural vision healing” and the “Bates Method” online, you’ll see that the medical establishment thinks it does not work, is “quackery”, and that not wearing glasses will cause eyestrain and further damage your eyes.
However, I want to ask this question: who would fund studies to see if the Bates Method works and our body can heal itself? Our body heals itself in so many other ways - cuts, bruises, broken bones… why not the eyes which use muscles that can be strengthened? If myopia was purely caused by genetics, as all of my eye doctors told me while I was growing up, what percent of the world population wore glasses 200 years ago versus now?
Drug and medical device companies are normally the ones who fund research, because they can profit immensely from it. The optical industry is worth $65.6 billion. Studies are very expensive to run and no one benefits financially (besides a few vision teachers) if we can improve our vision naturally.
Myopia is a major problem — in the US it affects over 40% of the population and is increasing rapidly in school-aged children. The World Health Organization predicts that 50% of the world’s population will be myopic by 2050.
As the adage goes, desperate times call for desperate measures. Lots of natural vision improvement information is available in books, online and YouTube, so the basic principles are free to try.
Anyways, back to the workshop.
The program was a combination of lecture, visual exercises and physical exercises.
Much of it is probably laid out in Meir’s books, which I have purchased but not read yet. He also gives talks on various podcasts and YouTube, and has a DVD demonstrating his work — but nothing is the same as going in person.