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Title: Take Off Your Glasses And See : A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight by Jacob Liberman ISBN: 0-517-88604-9 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 14 November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A really mixed bag of tricks
Comment: This is a very interesting book. It shed some light on the limitation of optometry. But, it replaces with a lot of alternative advice that is inaccurate.
First, he comes up with a strange psychological theory that would explain why people's eyesight deteriorated by either becoming myopic or far-sighted. If you became myopic, it is because you became scared of the outside world through a life changing event that you did not cope well. Thus, you are refusing to look at the outside world, because you are afraid of it. If you became presbyopic, you did it because you became angry at the world through another life changing experience you did not digest well. So, you just had it with the world, and you refuse to look at any of its details close at hand. This is all bogus.
The author also did many experiment that I tried to duplicate myself, but never could. He takes a bunch of people who are really myopic and orders them to take off their glasses , and then measures their visual prescription twice within the next 24 hours. I did that, using the testing devise he offers to measure your improvement in vision. Mine did not budge, yours will not either.
In a nutshell, you can't just take off your glasses and see. This is giving you false hope. And, he should be sued for false advertisement.
So, why am I giving it a 3. Well, here are some positive valuable information I got out of it:
1) Be skeptical of your optometrist measurement of your own prescription. It is not as accurate as you think;
2) I have learned to live with "under prescribed" glasses. I now use a prescription that is weaker than one I had 11 years ago. And, I wear these 90% of the time I am wearing glasses;
3) I have learned to actually not wear any glasses when I don't need to. I probably do that 10% to 20%, when I am home eating a meal with my family.
By doing points 2) and 3) as described above, I maintain my vision at its current level, and control the speed at which myopia would accelerate for someone my age. I watch my colleagues at work rushing to get a new prescription every single year or so. And, that is nuts. If we all did that, we would end up with glasses as thick as wine bottle bottoms within 5 years. If you are doing that, stop it right now. This book will give you the confidence to stop this vicious cycle.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eye Opener - A Must for Everyone With Corrective Eyeware
Comment: I have been into behavioral optometry and natural vision therapy for the last 6 months or so and I have found this book to be excellent in explaining the causitive nature and subsequent corrective techniques for the various eye disorders. I am myopic and have been wearing glasses since I was 14. After 6 months of eye exercises and relaxation techniques I have reduced my prescription by 5 dioptors (from -4.50 to -3.25). I still have a ways to go but this is exhilerating because there is hope that I need not be a visual cripple the rest of my life. For those people that want to rid themselves of their eye crutches, this book is an excellent tool in helping achieve that goal.
Rating: 5
Summary: good, but not all there is
Comment: Liberman's an optometrist who realized the truths of vision and glasses that are obvious to anyone who takes the time to study the topic, and consequently he changed his ways of thinking about vision and about the entire being. The beginning sections of some vision improvement books can be like reviews for people who are already familiar with it, and this book is no exception, but as with other authors, he does offer valuable insights that other authors don't, and I recommend this book.
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Title: Light: Medicine of the Future by Jacob Liberman ISBN: 1879181010 Publisher: Bear & Co Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses by William H. Bates ISBN: 0805002413 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 April, 1981 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses by Steven M. Beresford, David W. Muris, Merril J. Allen, Francis A. Young ISBN: 0684814382 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 07 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Wisdom From An Empty Mind by Jacob Liberman, with Erik Liberman ISBN: 1882898109 Publisher: Empty Mind Publications Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Relearning to See: Improve Your Eyesight - Naturally! by Thomas R. Quackenbush ISBN: 1556433417 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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