HOW TO CORRECT MYOPIA

"About seventy-five per cent of children are sufficiently stolid and well balanced to be able to go through school without visual mishap. The rest emerge from the educational ordeal with myopia or some other defect of vision." -ALDOUS HUXLEY

People with short sight are afraid of distance, afraid mentally even to look at something far away. This mental strain immediately tightens the eye muscles, the obliques, and prevents far vision. It is this .fear of the inability to see what the mind says ought to be seen that makes a blockage to the object before the eyes, therefore a blockage to interpretation by the mind.

A clear-thinking artist wrote recently that to accept vision of an object as it is, and to see it without preconceived ideas of what the object should be, is the basis of good vision. If a person places his gaze without fear, a mental condition, the object takes form and the mind has an opportunity to develop the image registered, which is eye and mind coordination. We must see with our minds, with a mental focus first, the visual focus following. In other words, regardless of the