Vision for Life

Conclusion

The Real Cost of Vision Problems

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: even 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 his eyesight, his entire life is affected, along with the lives of everyone he knows. It isn’t just one person’s problem; it is society’s problem. The reality is that by neglecting each other, we neglect ourselves; and, in the end, we all pay dearly.

I hope we all realize that the trend in developed and developing nations is not toward bigger budgets for vision care. On the contrary, very little money is currently spent by cities, states, and nations on the vision care of their citizenry, and even less will likely be spent in the future.

Sadly, there is no help coming from the medical profession to reinforce strength in the eyes. And most people harbor the false belief that their eyes cannot get better. Therefore, we need to start with new seeds of hope until most 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 our heart. With continuous work on the eyes, we can make a huge difference in our self-image and in resolving many other problems—personal, national, and international.

The 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 would need acute care, it would work just fine, and we would also rehabilitate quicker.

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. But we have several vital forces. We have the macula, which will start to be more active when linked with the mind. We have our minds, which can reinforce much better vision through imagery and memory. We have our lenses, which become much more flexible when we balance their use. We have our pupils, which become stronger if they contract much in the sun or daylight and expand much at nighttime. We can also have good circulation, with which we could improve and refresh the eyes and prevent most aging problems related to vision.

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. 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, especially in the United States, so many people in their forties, fifties, and sixties returning to school 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. This way you can help the world and yourself at the same time. It motivates you to invest in the time that 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 the latter 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 hometown, and it will make this a much better world than the one we live in. Unlike what most people believe, our world is not as developed as it could be. Our eyes, which are 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 have been 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, so that we never have 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.