There is a lot of discussion going on whether or not a person can improve one’s eyesight naturally. It turns out that this is possible. There are a number of ways on how eye vision can be corrected and can be improved dramatically without the use corrective eye wear or even contact lenses.

A lot of people are discovering the importance of eye exercises to improve eyesight. They key purpose of eye exercises is to actually relax your eyes from the strain of our everyday activities. Eye exercises do not strengthen eye muscles but they can only help be relieved of strain and stress.

The Bates theory is a popular concept that gives people an effective method and technique on how to improve eyesight. It has been used for a couple of years now and a lot of people have improve eyesight naturally be following the Bate theory on how to get better vision in a natural way.

Bates theory studied about the causes and possible natural treatment for blurred eyesight. These include eye issues such as astigmatism, myopia and hyperopia. Dr. Bates concluded that the common cause of eye problems is tensed muscles. Tensed eye muscles that tend to elongate the eye can cause nearsightedness while tensed eye muscles that tend to flatten the eye can cause farsightedness. Given this fact, there are a number of eye exercises that are made in the objective of keeping the eye muscles relaxed and thus keep in its natural spherical shape.

One of the major causes of eye problems is staring. This can cause eye strain. You can relax your eye muscles by “sweeping out” your vision. You can stand with your feet apart and let your arms fall at your side. Relax your jaw, muscles and facial area and have your eyes look straight ahead. Begin twisting your upper body to the left and your head/ eyes turning to the left. You can lift your heel as you twist and then have your eyes smoothly sweep to the left. Rotate your body to the center and then to the right. Then have your eyes sweep smoothly from left to right. Do this rotation and eye sweeping for 50 cycles.

This is just one eye exercise that you can use. There are a lot of other eye exercises that you can use to improve eyesight naturally. You can get more exercises recommended by Dr. Bates on the Internet.