Comments on: Seeing is believing http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/seeing-is-believing.htm Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:34:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: KirstenMortensen.com » Blog Archive » Five alt health trends predictions http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/seeing-is-believing.htm/comment-page-1#comment-30019 KirstenMortensen.com » Blog Archive » Five alt health trends predictions Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:55:29 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=784#comment-30019 [...] 6. Natural vision therapy will address presbyopia. Natural vision therapy is a fairly mature subgenre within the alt health canon, but it’s failed so far to penetrate mainstream awareness the way, for example, vitamins have. Too bad, because our eyesight situation is a mess. Anyway. Today natural vision mostly deals with myopia (nearsightedness) and hyperopia (non age-related farsightedness). I predict that the aging boomers are, even now, working on applying vision therapy to presbyopia — the difficulty with near vision associated with aging — and in the very near future we’ll start seeing self-help books on the subject begin to crop up. (I blogged here about my experience with using vision therapy for myopia.) [...] [...] 6. Natural vision therapy will address presbyopia. Natural vision therapy is a fairly mature subgenre within the alt health canon, but it’s failed so far to penetrate mainstream awareness the way, for example, vitamins have. Too bad, because our eyesight situation is a mess. Anyway. Today natural vision mostly deals with myopia (nearsightedness) and hyperopia (non age-related farsightedness). I predict that the aging boomers are, even now, working on applying vision therapy to presbyopia — the difficulty with near vision associated with aging — and in the very near future we’ll start seeing self-help books on the subject begin to crop up. (I blogged here about my experience with using vision therapy for myopia.) [...]

]]> By: Kirsten http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/seeing-is-believing.htm/comment-page-1#comment-25335 Kirsten Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:20:49 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=784#comment-25335 Deb, the purists say that presbyopia is also a habit that can be unlearned. There's less literature on that however -- most of the stuff written so far has dealt with myopia or hypermetropia (farsightedness not associated with aging). But wait a few years -- as the boomers get their arms around the problem, I'm sure we'll see more written about it ;-) (Dontcha love being a trailing edger?) Deb, the purists say that presbyopia is also a habit that can be unlearned. There’s less literature on that however — most of the stuff written so far has dealt with myopia or hypermetropia (farsightedness not associated with aging). But wait a few years — as the boomers get their arms around the problem, I’m sure we’ll see more written about it ;-)

(Dontcha love being a trailing edger?)

]]> By: Kirsten http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/seeing-is-believing.htm/comment-page-1#comment-25332 Kirsten Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:15:53 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=784#comment-25332 Yes, Bernita, it seems like a stretch, doesn't it. But here's the thing: we're talking about tiny little muscles that control the shape and orientation of the eyeball. And to use engineering parlance, the tolerances associated with seeing clearly are very tight -- e.g. the portion of the retina that is able to capture an image with crystal clarity is tiny, so even a slight misalignment of the eyeball will result in less-than-clear vision (by causing visual data to fall on the wrong part of the retina) . . . so strictly speaking its not psychosomatic, but more that tension, which can be a result of mental or emotional habits, can affect those little muscles, with the result being a degradation of vision. Yes, Bernita, it seems like a stretch, doesn’t it. But here’s the thing: we’re talking about tiny little muscles that control the shape and orientation of the eyeball. And to use engineering parlance, the tolerances associated with seeing clearly are very tight — e.g. the portion of the retina that is able to capture an image with crystal clarity is tiny, so even a slight misalignment of the eyeball will result in less-than-clear vision (by causing visual data to fall on the wrong part of the retina) . . . so strictly speaking its not psychosomatic, but more that tension, which can be a result of mental or emotional habits, can affect those little muscles, with the result being a degradation of vision.

]]> By: Deb http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/seeing-is-believing.htm/comment-page-1#comment-25205 Deb Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:51:59 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=784#comment-25205 What about farsightedness that occurs with aging? What about farsightedness that occurs with aging?

]]> By: Bernita http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/seeing-is-believing.htm/comment-page-1#comment-25178 Bernita Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:15:08 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=784#comment-25178 I do have a little trouble accepting that myopia is entirely psychosomatic. I do have a little trouble accepting that myopia is entirely psychosomatic.

]]> By: Kirsten http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/seeing-is-believing.htm/comment-page-1#comment-21421 Kirsten Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:43:33 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=784#comment-21421 LOL LOL

]]> By: Dad http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/seeing-is-believing.htm/comment-page-1#comment-20286 Dad Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:11:04 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=784#comment-20286 Geeze why didn't you start this sooner, think of all the $$ it would have saved your mother and me. :-) Geeze why didn’t you start this sooner, think of all the $$ it would have saved your mother and me. :-)

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