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Rebuild Your Vision By Sketching
“Sketching” is one of the most beneficial habit you can pick up to improve your sight.
Natural vision teachers call it different names. Bates called it “shifting” and here’s what it is according to him in his Better Eyesight Magazine 1927,
“Shift your glance constantly from one point to another, seeing the part regarded the best and other parts not so clearly. That is, when you look at a chair, do not try to see the whole object at once; look first at the back of it, seeing that part best and other parts worse… This is centralizing… Your head and eyes are moving all day long.”
I was totally stumped by this when I first discovered it. Being myopic since I was 8, I forgot how I use to look at the world. I’ve always thought to everything clearly is the way nature meant it.
But as you can see from that quote, that’s the case. It’s important to note that “sketching” is a habit, not an exercise. Practice it often enough and you’ll find it seeps into you like water to sponge.
People with perfect eyesight don’t even realize they are doing it.
To help you “sketch” – and therefore rebuild your vision – it’s useful to imagine that there’s brush attached to the front of your nose and as you look something, you are “sketching” the picture.
The point of the brush is to remind you to move your head as you sketch, not just your eyes.
This is the natural way to see and it puts the least strain on your eyes.
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