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Optimal Eyesight: How to Restore and Retain Great Vision
Optimal Eyesight offers a simple method that eliminates eyestrain and positively affects your overall well-being, as well as your sight. Read this book if you’re fed up with glasses, tired of contact lenses, feel your eyes are “weak,” are “practically blind” without lenses, or if laser surgery scares you or cannot do anything for you. In short, you want a better solution.
This book helps you discover and remove the root cause of blurry vision so you can enjoy maximum clarity, vivid color perception, increase depth perception, and look younger and more relaxed. There are no negative side-effects, you don’t need expensive equipment or risky surgery, and the method can be used at any age. You’ll be happily surprised by how soon you see results and how easily you can regain your optimal eyesight!
Praise for OPTIMAL EYESIGHT
With the advice Esther provides in Optimal Eyesight, I was able to throw away my glasses. I improved from -3 diopters of myopia to clear vision and no longer need glasses for anything! I love the easy techniques that made it possible.
– Giovannella Pattavina, M.D.
Optimal Eyesight is inspired and practical – kind, caring, creative and generous. And it’s thorough – a treasure of information and support. Esther is a leading resource for organizing and expressing Dr. Bates’ insights and practices.
– Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D.
This is a must-read if you want to improve your vision naturally. Esther is a dedicated and gifted teacher of the Bates Method. This book will become a true classic in the field of vision improvement. I highly recommend it.
– Marc Grossman O.D., L.Ac., author of Natural Eye Care, Magic Eye Beyond 3D and Greater Vision
This version of Optimal Eyesight (ISBN 978-1-935894-17-9) has gray-scale illustrations. Visit the Optimal Eyesight website for color-illustrated versions of this book.
This book helps you discover and remove the root cause of blurry vision so you can enjoy maximum clarity, vivid color perception, increase depth perception, and look younger and more relaxed. There are no negative side-effects, you don’t need expensive equipment or risky surgery, and the method can be used at any age. You’ll be happily surprised by how soon you see results and how easily you can regain your optimal eyesight!
Praise for OPTIMAL EYESIGHT
With the advice Esther provides in Optimal Eyesight, I was able to throw away my glasses. I improved from -3 diopters of myopia to clear vision and no longer need glasses for anything! I love the easy techniques that made it possible.
– Giovannella Pattavina, M.D.
Optimal Eyesight is inspired and practical – kind, caring, creative and generous. And it’s thorough – a treasure of information and support. Esther is a leading resource for organizing and expressing Dr. Bates’ insights and practices.
– Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D.
This is a must-read if you want to improve your vision naturally. Esther is a dedicated and gifted teacher of the Bates Method. This book will become a true classic in the field of vision improvement. I highly recommend it.
– Marc Grossman O.D., L.Ac., author of Natural Eye Care, Magic Eye Beyond 3D and Greater Vision
This version of Optimal Eyesight (ISBN 978-1-935894-17-9) has gray-scale illustrations. Visit the Optimal Eyesight website for color-illustrated versions of this book.
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322 pages, paperback
Published September 4, 2019
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About the author
Esther Joy Van der Werf
4 books4 followersEsther Joy van der Werf was born with an adventurous spirit in the rainy Netherlands where her thirst for warm sunshine was never quite quenched. So she moved to Ojai, California, a quaint little sun-drenched artist-town nestled between mountains, where she has felt at home for more than a decade.
After overcoming sixteen years of blurry vision in just two weeks, Esther became passionate about teaching others how to do the same. From then on she dedicated her life to learning all she could about how to improve eyesight naturally. Some methods worked well, others disappointed. She loves to teach people their best options for overcoming eyestrain and achieving visual clarity. You can learn from her in many ways - through her website, books, classes, courses, conference talks and workshops world-wide.
AVAILABLE NOW! - Esther's long-awaited new book: Optimal Eyesight - How to Restore and Retain Great Vision. A highly practical book filled with common-sense advice on how to improve your eyesight naturally and enjoy your life with beautiful clear vision. This book is for anyone with blurry vision at distance, which is knows as nearsightedness or myopia. The book also covers a variety of other visual challenges, such as: astigmatism, dry eyes, computer eye syndrome, light sensitivity, night blindness, amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus (cross eye).
Esther's previous book - Read Without Glasses at Any Age - is for anyone with blurry vision up close, also known as farsightedness, hyperopia or presbyopia, which means anyone who uses glasses to read, or anyone who has trouble reading with ease.
After overcoming sixteen years of blurry vision in just two weeks, Esther became passionate about teaching others how to do the same. From then on she dedicated her life to learning all she could about how to improve eyesight naturally. Some methods worked well, others disappointed. She loves to teach people their best options for overcoming eyestrain and achieving visual clarity. You can learn from her in many ways - through her website, books, classes, courses, conference talks and workshops world-wide.
AVAILABLE NOW! - Esther's long-awaited new book: Optimal Eyesight - How to Restore and Retain Great Vision. A highly practical book filled with common-sense advice on how to improve your eyesight naturally and enjoy your life with beautiful clear vision. This book is for anyone with blurry vision at distance, which is knows as nearsightedness or myopia. The book also covers a variety of other visual challenges, such as: astigmatism, dry eyes, computer eye syndrome, light sensitivity, night blindness, amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus (cross eye).
Esther's previous book - Read Without Glasses at Any Age - is for anyone with blurry vision up close, also known as farsightedness, hyperopia or presbyopia, which means anyone who uses glasses to read, or anyone who has trouble reading with ease.
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January 29, 2021
I have worn glasses for distant vision since my teenage years. More recently, I found that as I get older, I have started having to take off my glasses to read small print. This constant on/off of my glasses finally led me to see if there was any way of improving your vision without wearing glasses. I have now done a series of classes and have a definite improvement in my eyesight.
If you are interested in possible ways to improve your vision, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It explains the reason for vision problems, the reason we tend to end up getting stronger and stronger glasses over the years and looks at many aspects of improving vision. The emphasis is on finding the best path for each individual, so many different 'exercises' are described but the reader is encouraged to choose what is best for your individual case.
The book includes eye charts, specific information about screen use, chapters on night vision and driving and a section about helping children to improve their vision. It is a treasury of information.
My one word of caution is that the focus of this book is for people with myopia. If you see better in the distance than close up the author recommends the book Read Without Glasses at Any Age.
If you are interested in possible ways to improve your vision, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It explains the reason for vision problems, the reason we tend to end up getting stronger and stronger glasses over the years and looks at many aspects of improving vision. The emphasis is on finding the best path for each individual, so many different 'exercises' are described but the reader is encouraged to choose what is best for your individual case.
The book includes eye charts, specific information about screen use, chapters on night vision and driving and a section about helping children to improve their vision. It is a treasury of information.
My one word of caution is that the focus of this book is for people with myopia. If you see better in the distance than close up the author recommends the book Read Without Glasses at Any Age.
August 22, 2020
After practising the bates methodology for nearly 15 years with little or no success, I stumbled across this book while searching the net for more help. Surprisingly there were many apps offering the bates methodology, however this book is a pure jem for any person suffering from myopia.
I was encouraged to buy this book as the author Ms Esther Joy itself is a ex myopic. Indeed the book is intuitively relatable. As the name of the book suggest the content is Optimal with every practise explained in a proper chronological manner as to why are we doing it and what are we trying to achieve with it. Moreover it gives you option on how each practice can be dealt with.
Besides the book the author Ms Esther is readily available to clear any doubts and has a very approachable pleasant personality, that really differentiates from other books whereby you cannot reach out to the author in most cases.
It's been nearly a month since I am using the practises and have gained 4 ft to my clarity.
With this review I strongly urge fellow myopic to stop your search right here and not waste any valuable time to your path to clarity.
I was encouraged to buy this book as the author Ms Esther Joy itself is a ex myopic. Indeed the book is intuitively relatable. As the name of the book suggest the content is Optimal with every practise explained in a proper chronological manner as to why are we doing it and what are we trying to achieve with it. Moreover it gives you option on how each practice can be dealt with.
Besides the book the author Ms Esther is readily available to clear any doubts and has a very approachable pleasant personality, that really differentiates from other books whereby you cannot reach out to the author in most cases.
It's been nearly a month since I am using the practises and have gained 4 ft to my clarity.
With this review I strongly urge fellow myopic to stop your search right here and not waste any valuable time to your path to clarity.
December 13, 2019
This is the BEST book on the Bates method of vision improvement ever written. (As a former Bates teacher myself, I've seen many of them). This book is outstanding for content, for clarity of instructions, for technical information and practical techniques, and it is the most motivating book I've ever encountered. Esther sticks true to the original principles set out by Dr. Bates, but her book is contemporary and fresh.
May 30, 2021
Nice book to regain vision
March 1, 2022
Really helpful book in explaining the Bates method and how to bring it into practice. Easy to understand. Esther is a good teacher.
December 31, 2022
Eye opening! Can't wait to put the Bates method into practice!
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