As I have pointed out, the medical establishment has few answers for most of our common eye disorders. Even so, it is important to ask: if reliable and safe treatments did exist, who would pay for them?
It is my opinion that the time has come for all of us to ask what the real cost of vision problems is, not just in terms of money, but also in terms of productivity, quality of life, and morale. When someone loses their eyesight, their entire life is affected, along with the lives of everyone they know. It isn’t just their problem, it is society’s problem. The reality of it is that by neglecting each other, we neglect ourselves—and, in the end, we all pay dearly.
I hope we all realize that the expense for vision care is exponential and continues to grow; it is very hard to meet it with the money we currently have, and it will cost even more in the future. While we try to cover costs with local, state, and federal budgets, the study of extensive ophthalmology—with all the specialized equipment it involves—is more costly than any level of government can handle. To concentrate on any one particular area in this field involves that much more time and money.
Sadly, there is no help coming from the medical profession to reinforce strength in the eyes. We need to find natural ways to strengthen the eyes so we can see better, and depend less on ophthalmology so that it will be less costly to the community. Most people harbor the false belief that their eyes cannot get better. Therefore, we need to start with new seeds of hope until more people in the world are willing to work on their eyes. In fact, we need a silent but continuous revolution. This goes beyond countries or flags. To believe in ourselves and in our eyes is to open a window to the heart. With continuous work on the eyes, we can make a huge difference in our self-image and in resolving many other problems, personal or impersonal, national or international.
Positive reinforcement comes with positive results. Think about it: we relinquished our power to acute care, which is a false promise for the health of our eyes; when you do so for one problem, the next one often appears rather quickly. The truth is that if we ourselves took good care of our eyes, the few times that we needed acute care would work just fine and we would also rehabilitate more quickly.
Because physicians think that nothing can be fixed in the eye except by the mechanical acute care of which they’re capable, they are not researching the vital forces of the eyes; however, we have several vital forces. We have the macula that, when linked properly with the brain through our shifting exercises, will start to be more active while keeping its vigilance, vitality, and strength. We have our minds that, through imagery and memory, can reinforce much better vision. We have our lenses that, when we balance their use, become much more flexible. We have our pupils that, if they contract much in the daylight and expand much at nighttime, become stronger. We can also have good circulation with which we can improve our eyes, refresh them, and prevent most vision-related problems from happening with age.
The truth of the matter is that it’s very important to create great internal changes. Sometimes this requires that you change or widen your whole being. You can acquire new skills that you didn’t have before, ones that are exciting and useful to you. These may be skills of any kind. There are more than 87,000 professions on earth. In the near future, there could be over 100,000 professions. Even if you don’t change your profession, you could learn new ways of operating and functioning. If you change your profession, do it with grace and ease. Another important thing is that many people are already at the end of their careers. They have accomplished their goals at work by the age of forty-five or fifty. It is wonderful to see so many of these people, who are in their forties, fifties, and sixties, returning to schools all over the world to acquire new knowledge and skills.
It is important on an emotional level that you have something to look forward to in life, that you feel your life is meaningful, and that every moment of your life is creative. This emotional advancement is the background of healing. It’s hard to heal if you resent your own life. It is easier to heal if you feel that you have something to look forward to. In this way you can help others and yourself at the same time. It motivates you to invest in the time it takes to improve your vision. It gives you the vigilance to maintain your improvement as time goes on. It gives you the impetus to feel well enough within yourself to change for the better.
Your happiness is precious. It comes with self-acceptance, and there is no better time than in your forties, fifties, and sixties to work on self-acceptance. When we have self-acceptance, we place less importance on adding extra weight or on the wrinkles that come with age. This is a time when we like all we’ve done, all we are currently doing, and all we will be doing. Believe me, our beauty will reflect itself. A straight face with no wrinkles does not match a wrinkled face with great happiness. A thin and fit Hollywood body is not nearly as attractive as an energetic body, even if it appears to be imperfect. At this particular time in life, working on a sense of inner happiness and working on a particular part of our body are parallel goals. Working on our flexibility and devoting ourselves to expanding our thoughts are comparable to each other. Slowly but surely, your vision will get better and better. If you keep shifting and looking at details, you will maintain the vigilance of thought and the emotional openness required. This kind of maturity is our next step in life.
So, what we need is to inform ourselves, to work with ourselves, to convince others, to suggest support groups, and to suggest change in the world, bringing it to the consciousness of everyone we meet. Explain to them that it’s time for us to be aware of our powers. Who knows—maybe as a result of what you do, new research will spring up in your home town and it will make this a much better world than the one we currently live in. Because, unlike what most people believe, our world is not as developed as it could be. Our eyes, so precious to us, could see so much better along with those of every human being on earth. I’m the one to tell you that. I could be blind right now, but I can read this book. And why? Simply because I worked on myself.
This is why it is more important than ever to spread the word that it is possible for us to take care of our own vision. It can be done in such a way that we never develop devastating eye problems in the first place, thus never having to rely on the inadequate and antiquated approaches of our governments or of the corporate medical establishment.
The way to solve the crisis of low- or no-budget vision care is to heal our eyes ourselves. Learn the basic exercises in Vision for Life. Become aware of the erosive habits you may be developing from staring at a computer screen all day and a television screen all night. Learn to blink. Learn to breathe correctly. Learn to relax. Learn to give massages so you and your loved ones can help each other maintain good blood flow along with a relaxed, confident, and radiant state of being.
This is the path to a sustainable future for our eyes. This is my vision for life.