The Power Vision Program for Better Eyesight: Clinically Proven Natural Method to See More Clearly in 30 Days or Less

STEVEN M. BERESFORD, PH.D. is a research scientist who was instrumental in forming the team of optometrists that carried out research into vision therapy eye exercises, resulting in the techniques used in the Power Vision Program. He has carried out seminal research into the biomechanics of the eyes including enhanced image formation and cataract reversal. He is the author of Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses.

The author lives & works in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

MERILL J. ALLEN, PH.D. is former Head of the Optometry School at Indiana University. During his distinguished career, he educated thousands of optometrists and published 231 research papers. Throughout his teaching and research career, Dr. Allen was recognized by academia, government, and private industry as a world expert in vision-related standards. He received 21 professional honors including the American Optometric Association’s prestigious Apollo Award and the British Optical 
Association’s Research Medal.. He is the author of Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses.

FRANCIS A. YOUNG, PH.D. is former Head of Washington State University’s Primate Research Center. During the course of his career, he carried out seminal research into the cause of myopia, ranging from vision studies of astronauts to the occurrence of myopia in Eskimo (Inuit) children who were being absorbed into the American school system, and the occurrence of myopia in twins and nonhuman primates. He published 95 research papers and received 11 honors including the American Optometric Association’s Apollo Award for his myopia research.  He is the author of Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses.

Excerpt from THE POWER VISION PROGRAM FOR BETTER EYESIGHT: CLINICALLY PROVEN NATURAL METHOD TO SEE MORE CLEARLY IN 30 DAYS OR LESS by Dr. Steven M. Beresford 

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER 

Improving your vision is easy if you follow these principles:

• ONE: If you wear glasses, use a weaker prescription, and remove them when you don’t really need them. 
• TWO: Diligently cultivate your New Visual Habits. 
• THREE: Do the Power Exercise Module every day. 

The only problem you’re likely to encounter is motivation. Basically, your task is to replace negative old habits with positive new ones. In particular, you must develop the habit of doing the Power Exercise Module on a regular basis so it becomes part of your lifestyle. 

If possible, do the exercises with a friend or coworker so you motivate and encourage each other. 

It will take about a month to firmly establish your new habits. During this period, you’ll probably experience resistance from your subconscious mind in the form of negative thoughts and emotions, such as: “This isn’t going to work” or “I can’t be bothered to exercise today” or “This is a waste of time”. 

If you experience this type of resistance, you must resolutely make yourself do the exercises! Don’t let negativity or a bad attitude defeat you! 

What will happen is that the exercises will quickly energize you. The negativity will evaporate, usually within a couple of minutes, leaving you feeling positive and self-confident!

The Power Vision Program can open the doors to a better life so don’t just read it and put it away. Now you have the key to better vision so use it with confidence, knowing that you will soon see positive results. Resolutely exercise your eyes on a regular basis and you too will enjoy a lifetime of stronger, healthier eyes and naturally improved vision!

PRESCRIBING GUIDE 

The Power Vision Program is a course of acuity improving exercises that helps patients with incipient visual problems avoid or delay the need for corrective lenses. Patients who already wear corrective lenses can usually adapt to a series of progressively weaker prescriptions.

Prescribe corrective lenses that give 20/40 binocular acuity according to the following guidelines. 

When the patient achieves 20/25 acuity or better through the weaker lenses, which should take a few weeks, prescribe another undercorrection. Continue to periodically reduce the strength of 

the lenses until the patient obtains the maximum improvement. If the patient uses disposable contact lenses, prescribe a series of lenses with 0.25D decrements. 

• MYOPIA: Prescribe weaker lenses that give 20/40 binocular acuity for distance vision. Myopes who 
• do a lot of reading or computer work should get a separate prescription that gives 20/40 acuity at 20”.
• PRESBYOPIA & HYPEROPIA: Prescribe weaker lenses that give 20/40 binocular acuity at 20”. If bifocals are worn, undercorrect both segments.
• ASTIGMATISM: Ignore astigmatism up to 1.00D. Undercorrect larger amounts by one-third.

The Power Vision Program emphasizes acuity improvement with little or no attempt to develop other visual skills. This significantly reduces the time needed to get results, and most patients feel positive changes in their eyes and see an improvement in acuity within a week or two. 

This means that patients should return every few weeks for an acuity check and a new undercorrection. To maintain motivation and maximize results, we recommend forming a support group that meets every week to do the exercises together and review progress.

The treatment of myopia deserves special consideration. Our research with identical twins, illiterate Inuits, and captive monkeys clearly shows that myopia is usually the result of sustained focusing on near objects. This increases the IOP and causes the eyeball to elongate. Progressive myopia is usually caused by doing close work through distance lenses.

As a general rule, we advise against correcting incipient myopia. Instead, encourage the patient to use eye exercises. If these fail to improve the problem, undercorrect the refractive error. Low plus lenses for close work may be helpful for incipient myopia.

PATIENT DEMOGRAPHICS 

There is a substantial population of health-conscious patients who are open to improving their vision naturally. The Power Vision Program provides you with a professionally designed method of helping these patients. Most important, it enables them to play an active role in their eye care in harmony with their health and fitness objectives.

The Power Vision Program does not promise a return to emmetropia. Although this happens in some cases, patients with large refractive errors must usually do the exercises for several months before they achieve a major improvement, and they usually deem this to be a worthwhile investment in their health-oriented lifestyle. 

ACUITY IMPROVEMENT MECHANISMS 

The techniques used in the Power Vision Program can reduce refractive error, but not enough to account for observed improvements in acuity. We therefore propose the following acuity improvement mechanisms: 

1. HYPERACUITY: Even in emmetropia, lenticular and corneal spherical and chromatic aberrations together with diffraction and scattering of light on the retina prevent the formation of a point image. These factors limit the minimum angle of resolution to about 30”. In order to distinguish two point objects, three bits of information are required: the light from each point object and the absence of light between them. Hence the neural threshold at the fovea requires three cones. The first point object stimulates the first cone, the second cone remains unstimulated, and the second point object stimulates the third cone. For this reason, the neural threshold equals the cone spacing at the fovea, which is about 30”. However, the visual system can resolve differences that are an order of magnitude smaller than the minimum angle of resolution on the retina. For example, it is usually possible to detect a 6” difference in the separation of two lines, a 2” to 4” vernier displacement, and a 2” to 4” separation of lines in a stereoacuity task. This phenomenon is known as hyperacuity. The general principle is that the edge of an object is made to partially overlap cone apertures and hence partially stimulate the cones. If the partial stimulation is sufficient to make the cones fire, the resulting signal can distinguish the position of the object. We have concluded that ocular microtremor and very small saccades provide the switching mechanism for cone activation. The result is an increase in the signal-to-noise ratio of the retinal data available for image processing by the visual cortex. This mechanism provides a simple explanation of improvements in acuity resulting from edge discrimination training.
2. PERCEPTUAL ENHANCEMENT: This is a cerebral acuity improvement mechanism and involves a learning process whereby the edges and textures of blurred objects are enhanced by means of averaging or interpolating the visual data to increase the signal-to-noise ratio, which achieves greater contrast. Perceptual enhancement seems to be an act of selective attention, the visual equivalent of isolating a particular person’s voice from the background noise in a room full of chatter. 
3. CILIARY MUSCLE TONICITY: Ciliary muscle tonicity determines the resting state of the lens in the absence of visual stimulation. It follows that exercising the ciliary muscle will probably modify its tonicity, thereby changing the resting state of the lens. This is an adaptive change that will probably also extend the nearpoint and the farpoint and change the refractive status of the lens.
4. EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE TONICITY: It is often observed that astigmatism spontaneously changes its magnitude and direction. In most cases, this phenomenon seems to be caused by imbalances in the forces exerted by the extraocular muscles on the eyeball, causing it to change shape. It follows that correcting the imbalances will modify extraocular muscle tonicity and may change the shape and refractive status of the eyeball. 
5. ACCOMMODATIVE AMPLITUDE: With normal use, the ciliary muscle does not expand or contract to its maximum limits. This is especially true of city dwellers, who typically live and work in a confined visual space. It follows that exercising the ciliary muscle will increase the accommodative amplitude, extend the nearpoint and farpoint, and change the refractive status of the lens.
6. LENTICULAR FLEXIBILITY: It is well established that presbyopia is due to lenticular sclerosis. In view of the fact that physical exercises increase the flexibility of the joints, it follows that eye exercises will increase the flexibility of the lens, thereby modifying its refractive status. 
7. FIXATION DISPARITY: A blurred binocular image cannot be precisely fixated and can lead to convergence errors and diplopia. Since reflex accommodation is largely determined by convergence, fixation disparity may also cause additional loss of focus and acuity. It follows that improving extraocular muscle coordination will refine convergence, reduce fixation disparity, and enable the eyes to focus more accurately with better acuity.
8. TEAR FLUID CONTACT LENS: Clinical observations show that the stimulation of blinking can cover the cornea with a copious amount of tear fluid, which may form a transient contact lens due to the meniscus curvature at the eyelids, thereby changing the refractive power of the cornea.
9. INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE: Many myopes and some presbyopes have elevated IOP that seems to be caused by the lens bulging against the iris, which restricts the flow of liquid into the anterior chamber and in some cases impeding drainage through Schlemm’s canal. Underlying factors may include chronic nearpoint accommodation in myopes, lenticular growth in presbyopes, and excess sugar consumption. 

Our research suggests that excessive IOP can elongate the eyeball and increase myopia. It follows that reducing nearpoint stress and correcting dietary imbalances may reduce the IOP and modify the shape and refractive power of the lens and eyeball.