Natural Vision Improvement

Keeping Your Child in Clear Eyesight
By Carina Goodrich
Article Printed in Daisy Chain Magazine
Volume 15, Winter 2004

Whether your child is in glasses now, may need them in the future or is exhibiting unexplained difficulties with school work, knowing how the visual system works and how lifestyle and mental and emotional stress as well as physical factors affect it are invaluable tools to preventing and reversing vision problems.

When educators in the past began to tell us that ‘the eye is like a camera’, they contributed to our misunderstanding about the causes of visual blur. By likening the eyes to a mechanical object, separate and unaffected by the body, the brain that processes the input and the mind that reacts to the end result, they kept us from a total understanding of how the eyes work. It is important to know how vision can change, and the crucial factors in our life that affect eyesight on a daily basis. (more…)

WHY USE THE PINHOLE SPECS AS TRANSITION GLASSES?

THE ADVANTAGES:

1. Pinhole spectacles encourage rapid saccadic eye movements, as opposed to staring through prescription glasses.
2. Pinhole spectacles allow infinite room for improvement in sight, whereas eyes will always try to adjust to prescription glasses, even when the lenses are too strong.
3. There is no need to keep stepping down the prescription.
4. They are less costly than optically prescribed glasses.
5. Pinholes can be used as healthy sunglasses as they let through some essential natural light while cutting down the glare.
6. Anyone of any age can use them to compensate for blur at a distance or up close.
7. After regular use your brain will adjust to the honeycomb effect and will no longer register it.

POSSIBLE DISADVANTAGES:

1. Pinholes function best in good light.
2. It takes some time to get used to them, usually a few days.
3. You may need to get permission to use them in the some places (like in the classroom, for students).
4. Everyone else will want your pair!

HOW DO THEY WORK?
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Article for “IN TOUCH” Magazine April 2004
‘(Journal of the Australian Kinesiologists Association)’
By Carina Goodrich

I would always chuckle to myself when my Mother called for volunteers to help her demonstrate muscle testing, and the biggest, burliest guy in the seminar would stand up.  It was both amusing and educational to see this tiny five foot tall woman reach up and bring down an arm like a tree trunk with a swish of her hand down the central meridian and two fingers pressure on his forearm.  It would give the audience a stir and bring quite an abashed look to the big man’s face.  (Of course he was always greatly reassured when she ran her hand up the meridian and he could hold his arm up again!)

Growing up the daughter of Dr. Janet Goodrich (1942 – 1999), watching her teach people how to improve their eyesight and see clearly without glasses or surgery, has been a thread of inspiration in my life and is now my career as well. Kinesiology has been an important part of Janet’s eyesight improvement method since the 1970’s. Janet was an acquaintance of Dr. John Thie in Pasadena, California when he first wrote ‘Touch For Health’.  During that same period, Janet had expanded her studies of the Bates Method of eyesight exercises into a whole person approach to refractive error. She found muscle testing and Touch for Health to be invaluable tools in her practice. (more…)