blurred. There is a prismatic effect which blurs your vision, and your eyes respond to this distortion by always returning to the center and finally staying there permanently.

By coercing us to look straight ahead all the time, our glasses effectively train our eyes to stay in one single position. We are literally taught to look at reality from a single fixed point of view. But by looking straight ahead we can only analyze and discriminate. The more we wear glasses, the more we learn to judge our world instead of experiencing it, until slowly we lose our natural ability to perceive the world as a whole.

Chinese Eye Exercises
The Chinese claim to have discovered a simple tool to combat the growing number of people suffering from myopia. Since the government’s intervention in 1948, many Chinese students and factory workers carry out the visual exercises outlined on official posters for about ten minutes, twice a day.

General instructions:

1. Keep your eyes closed during these exercises.

2. Massage slowly and gently until the area surrounding your eyes becomes slightly tender.

3. Perform these exercises twice a day.

Exercise 1: Massage the insides of the eyebrows with your thumbs while resting your slightly curved fingers on your forehead (repeat 8 times).

Exercise 2: Massage the bridge of the nose using your thumb and index finger. Work down, then up (repeat 8 times).

Exercise 3: Place your thumbs on your lower jaw and place your index and middle fingers against the sides of your nose, where your nostrils are. Lower your middle fingers to massage your cheeks, keeping your index fingers in place (repeat 8 times).

Exercise 4: Curve your fingers inward and place your thumbs on the sides of your forehead. Make a rubbing motion with the side of your index fingers following the pattern 2-3-4-6-5 as outlined in the illustration (repeat 8 times).

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