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Presbyopia
 I never had presbyopia in my life though I am 55 years old. You could attribute its reason to my past myopia. But that was past. This is present. I don't have myopia anymore. Why hasn't the old age sight caught me now, when myopia is no more there? As per the theory of the classical German ophthalmology, my lens shouldn't have allowed me to see at the near point at this age!  I see, and I see clear! I don't have any first hand experience of presbyopia, although I have learnt to turn myself presbyopic temporarily whenever I feel like doing so.  Dr. W.H.Bates had it. He was his own first patient whom he cured. So I'll be narrating his account of presbyopia in his own words that always sounded quite authentic to me: 'Presbyopia is believed to be a result of the decline of accommodative power with advancing years of age due to the hardening of the lens.' 'When the accommodative power has declined to the point at which reading and writing become difficult the patient is said to have "presbyopia," or, more popularly, "old sight"; and the condition is generally accepted, both by the popular and the scientific mind, as one of the unavoidable inconveniences of old age.' 'The decline of accommodative power with advancing years is commonly attributed to the hardening of the lens, an influence which is believed to be augmented, in later years, by a flattening of this body and a lowering of its refractive index, together with weakness or atrophy of the ciliary muscle; and so regular is the decline, in most cases, that tables have been compiled showing the near-point to be expected at various ages.'  'The truth about presbyopia is that it is not "a normal result of growing old," being both preventable and curable. It is not caused by hardening of the lens, but by a strain to see at the near-point. It has no necessary connection with age, since it occurs, in some cases, as early as ten years, while in others it never occurs at all, although the subject may live far into the so-called presbyopic age.' 'It is true that the lens does harden with advancing years, just as the bones harden and the structure of the skin changes; but since the lens is not a factor in accommodation, this fact is immaterial, and while in some cases the lens may become flatter, or lose some of its refractive power with advancing years, it has been observed to remain perfectly clear and unchanged in shape up to the age of ninety.' 'Since the ciliary muscle is also not a factor in accommodation, its weakness or atrophy can contribute nothing to the decline of accommodative power.' 'Presbyopia is, in fact, simply a form of hyperopia (hypermetropia) in which the vision for the near-point is chiefly affected, although the vision for the distance, contrary to what is generally believed, is always lowered also.'  'The difference between the two conditions is not always clear. A person with hypermetropia may or may not read fine print, and a person at the presbyopic age may read it without apparent inconvenience and yet have imperfect sight for the distance. In both conditions the sight at both points is lowered, although the patient may not be aware of it.' 'The first patient that I cured of presbyopia was myself.......' 'My progress after this was not what could be called rapid. It was six months before I could read the newspapers with any kind of comfort, and a year before I obtained my present accommodative range of fourteen inches, from four inches to eighteen; but the experience was extremely valuable, for I had in pronounced form every symptom subsequently observed in other presbyopic patients.' 'Fortunately for the patients, it has seldom taken me as long to cure other people as it did to cure myself. In some cases a complete and permanent cure was effected in a few minutes. Why, I do not know. I will never be satisfied till I find out.' I found it out! He would have been happy, had he come to know about vision therapy curing presbyopia instantly through opening third eye chakra that he never knew about. I invite you to subscribe to my weekly E-zine titled Third Eye-zine. This weekly E-zine publishes rare, revolutionary articles which are of real use in the day-to-day life of a common man, covering topics concerning the effect of third eye opening on health, diseases, personality, performance, efficiency, relationship, sex, mind, creativity, passion, business, management, and energy level of a person; apart from its effect on vision correction. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here:
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