"How To Improve Your Vision Naturally With Eye Exercises"

From: Orlin Sorensen, Commercial Airline Pilot

Date: Wednesday, 10:43 a.m.

Place: Seattle, Washington



I'd always dreamed of flying faster than the speed of sound.

From the days I used to sit on my grandfather's lap, listening to the stories of his life as pilot, I wanted nothing more then to be like him.

He told me stories of flying B-52’s across the Atlantic. And how he'd shuttled the rich and famous around the world in their Leer jets. From those early days as a young boy I'd paved my path in life to become a United States Navy fighter pilot.

I played sports, was involved in student council, and volunteered for extra-curricular activities whenever I could. I went to college, got good grades and stayed in shape. I even got my pilots license.

I did everything I was told it took to achieve my dream of becoming a United States fighter pilot.

But there was one stubborn, “thorn-in-my-side” roadblock that stopped me dead in my tracks - perfect eyesight.

The Navy required that their pilot candidates have perfect 20/20 vision in order to qualify - and I wasn't even close. By this time in my life I'd been wearing glasses for a long time and my vision was pretty much horrible.

Lasik surgery wasn’t an option either. The Navy invests millions of dollars into training their pilots and with the side-effects people are having after getting Lasik surgery like dry, burning eyes, poor night vision, halo’s around bright objects and deteriorating vision, they don’t want to risk their investment.

And frankly, although I would have done just about anything, there’s still something about a laser cutting and burning my eyes that I wasn't all that excited about.

As you can imagine, I was heartbroken...
The one thing I had no control over - bad vision - was the only thing holding me back from achieving my dreams.

I ended up hating my glasses even more. Not only were they keeping me from my dreams, they were just a downright pain.

I'm sure you can relate... If you aren't losing them or scratching them, you're dropping them and bending them all out of shape. The headaches they cause and how they can just make your eyes feel downright tired sometimes.

And while glasses look good on some people, I wasn’t one of them. I’m one of those not-so-lucky guys that started losing his hair in his 20’s, and the glasses weren’t exactly making me look any younger!

I tried contacts but they were even worse. They stung, itched, scratched and every morning it’s like you have to pop your eyeballs into your head.

Even back then glasses and contacts weren’t cheap. I was dropping $200 - $400 a year on one pair of glasses, and I know those prices have almost doubled or tripled since. That was almost an entire paycheck for me!
So after months of agony, I reluctantly decided I'd be better off working toward a career as a commercial airline pilot.

The vision requirements aren't as strict to qualify as a commercial airline pilot (you only need 20/20 vision with your glasses on), so I knew I hopefully wouldn't have anymore setbacks.

I worked my way up through the ranks, flying little rickety old cargo planes by myself, across the country, in the middle of the night (that’s a whole different story in itself). I flew tours of the erupting volcano in Hawaii (crazy huh?). I even taught other aspiring pilots how to fly.

I flew as much as I could until I finally logged enough flight time and experience to land my first job as a commercial airline pilot.

Man was I excited! Life was good. I had a great job and fell in love with the girl of my dreams. The rough parts of my life were smoothing out and I saw a future that looked pretty darn good.
And then… September 11th, 2001.

As I’m sure you remember, it was a terrible time for the airlines. Just about every airline in the country was struggling just to stay afloat. And mine was no different.

I knew we were in trouble when rumors of “cutbacks” started bouncing around the company, and it didn’t take long for the lay-off notices began. The first wave of pilots were let go. Then the second wave was notified. Finally, the third was notified, and my name was in the hat.

I was devastated.

I felt sorry for myself, whined, and was seriously considering life as a bartender somewhere in the Caribbean!

But little did I know that my misfortune would soon lead me to my dreams…

After a few months of pathetic whining and complaining, I was ready to wipe away the tears and get on with my life. But I still had no idea what I was going to do. That was until the day I was flying one of my last flights before my final layoff date…

I was flying with an old, grey-haired ex-Navy pilot. He had probably logged more flight time in an airplane then he had spent with his feet on the ground. He was the type of pilot that gives passengers that warm, fuzzy feeling when they see him in the cockpit.

As we were flying along at 25,000 feet I mentioned to him how I’d always dreamed of flying fighter jets for the United States Navy but couldn’t qualify because of my eyes.
That was the moment my life changed forever.

He looked right at me and in an old, gruff, matter-of-fact voice he said “well, you ever done eye exercises?” He told me that they'd been around for years and were used by pilots and professional atheletes around the world to improve and sharpen their vision.

Now, I was skeptical to say the least. After all, if eye exercises really worked to improve your vision then why hadn’t I heard about them before? And why weren’t other people I knew using them to improve their vision?

But curiosity got the best of me, so I began to investigate eye exercises and natural vision improvement. After all, I had nothing to lose.

And I couldn’t believe what I found… Medical journals containing over 75 years of research attesting to eye exercises and their effectiveness. Scientific studies like these:
"They could see buildings and windows clealy without glasses many miles across San Francisco Bay..."

"Subjects often stated that they had experienced the ability to make eye contact (without correction) with people across a room or street; they could see buildings and windows clearly without glasses many miles across San Francisco Bay, or in the case of high diopter myopes (> -4.0 diopters) they were able to read books easily at arms length."

—Balliet, PHD, et al. The training of visual acuity in myopia.
Journal of the American Optometric Association.

"As a result of visual training, most successfully passed the visual requirements of the service..."

"Thousands of young men applying for admission to the various branches of the armed forces discovered that they could not meet the visual requirements. As a result of visual training, most successfully passed the visual requirements of the service that had previously rejected them. The evidence is conclusive that optometric methods of visual training improve the acuity of most myopes."

—Ewalt, The Baltimore Myopia Control Project.
Journal of the American Optometric Association.

"Visual acuity can be improved by visual training..."

"There is acceptable evidence that in motivated subjects, even myopes with greater than two diopters refractive error, visual acuity can be improved by visual training."

—Sells, et al. Evaluation of Research on Effects of Visual Training.
American Journal of Ophthalmology.

It all made sense. My eyesight kept getting worse, while the rest of my body was getting stronger and healthier through exercise and healthy living.

So after wearing glasses and contacts for a good portion of my life, I began doing these eye exercises for a short time every day. They were really easy, and actually kind of fun to do.
And after 30 days I couldn’t believe what I could see. . .

The TV channels, road signs, mountain peaks, and even the leaves on the trees were all crystal clear - without my glasses or contacts.

Now by this point, I was no young buck, but I decided to apply for the Navy again anyway and try one last time to fulfill my childhood dreams of flying United States fighter jets.

I passed all the basic tests with flying colors, but there was still my arch nemesis...

The pilot eye exam.

When the doctor walked into that dark, sterile exam room it was like the grim reaper had just entered a horror movie.

My heart rate was pounding as I rattled off what I saw. “A, F, Q, T, R, red, green, blue…’
I swear that eye exam seemed like it took two and a half days!

Now before I go any further, have you ever had that empowering feeling of overcoming an incredible obstacle? Something that everyone told you would never be possible? Well…

The Navy medical examiner tested my eyes at 20/25 - almost perfect vision.

After wearing glasses for so many years, I'd officially passed the visual acuity test given to United States Navy fighter pilots!

Here’s my before and after test results:



By doing these simple eye exercises, the one stubborn, agonizing, heart-breaking roadblock that had left my dreams of becoming a United States fighter pilot empty and unfulfilled had been overcome.

A few weeks later my vision was tested at 20/20 without glasses and the restriction that the FAA had mandated on my medical certificate that I was “required to wear glasses while flying” was removed.

And after wearing them for a good portion of my life, I didn’t need my glasses for anything. Not even for flying an airplane full of passengers across the country!

As you can imagine, people couldn’t believe it. Friends, family, fellow pilots. Everyone I knew wanted to know why I wasn't wearing my glasses anymore.
Even Men’s Health Magazine® caught word of my story and featured it in their February, 2003 issue!

It was titled “New Answers – Bad Eyesight – How He Beat It.”

And that’s how the Rebuild Your Vision Program came to be. It’s the extraordinary eye exercise program that I used to improve my vision to 20/20, and it’s the same program that tens-of-thousands of others have used to improve their vision and free themselves from the hassles, frustrations, and pains of wearing glasses and contacts.

	Stress put on your eyes from the computer and reading. That exhausted feeling in your eyes after a long day of reading or working on the computer. (You may even be feeling it right now).
	Using glasses and contacts. You’ve probably noticed your vision getting worse almost every year since you started wearing them?
	The natural aging process. Ain’t life cruel? Pretty soon you can’t hold things far enough away from you face to read them!

These things cause your eyes to become weak and distorted, causing blurred vision and bad eyesight.

Within just a few weeks, or even days of doing the eye exercises, you'll start to notice things are much sharper and crisper without your glasses then they were before. Your vision improves and you start to see clearly and naturally, the way your eyes were meant to see.

Your eyes will feel stronger. And you won’t need your glasses and contacts to do things that you have always needed them for.

This is the “meat and potatoes” of the Rebuild Your Vision Program. Inside this training manual you’ll learn everything you need to know to improve you vision naturally. The Rebuild Your Vision Training Manual easily guides you through:

• The 8 step-by-step vision improvement eye exercises. When these 8 eye exercises are performed together, they can start to dramatically improve your vision in less than 48 hours. (page 41)
  
  
• The 7 Essential Keys To Vision Improvement Success. Just one or two of these keys could prevent stronger prescriptions ever again. (page 31)
  
  
• The 3 customized Vision Improvement Training Routines. This is like having your own personal trainer ensuring that your time isn’t wasted on exercises that don’t apply to your vision problems. (page 71)
  
  
• How Natural Vision Improvement works so you can better understand how to improve your vision naturally for years to come. (page 21)
  
  
• What's causing your vision problems so you can prevent further vision loss. (page 14)
  
  
• And much, much more!

The Rebuild Your Vision charts and tools are the “weights and treadmill” of the program. They include:

• 5 special low-gloss laminated eye exercise charts. The low-gloss laminate ensures there is no glare off of the charts while you perform the eye exercises and it protects them for years of rugged use so you can take them anywhere.
  
  
• A custom eye patch so you can train each eye individually. If you have one eye that is weaker then the other, you can cover the stronger eye and exercise the weaker eye more frequently to help catch it up.
  
  
• A “string-bead” so you can strengthen how your eyes work together (Exercise #6, page 62).
  
  
• A heavy duty carrying case to carry your Rebuild Your Vision Program so you can pop it in your bag, briefcase, or car and perform the program when it’s convenient for you.