Does low self-esteem lead to myophia?

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--- , " roydca8000 " <roydca8000> wrote:

> Louise Hay in one of her books (I think it was You Can Heal Your

Life,

> but I'm not sure) suggests that the fear of future can be the

> psychological cause of myopia. There are other authors that say

that

> myopia can be caused by the " fear of looking at myself. " In

general,

> the fear of future is commonly recognized as the cause of myopia in

> so-called self-help books (and I have read a lot of them). And,

from

> my personal experience (having worn glasses since I was fourteen) I

> think there's a lot of truth in this assumption.

 

Well, there is much research about other reasons many people eyes

get shortened vision.

 

I mean, besides a low self-esteem. But if a low self-esteem, or low

self-acceptance is one of the causes, it's an easy thing to fix.

 

Let me talk about other reasons for short-sightness now.

 

Intensive study is one of those reasons.

 

At West Point, where you need 20/20 vision to get in, after 4 years

of intensive college study, about 45% of them now are myophic and

are wearing glasses or contact lenses.

 

After leaving West Point, many of them no longer study that

intensively and their eyes adapt back to 20/20, especially if they

do the simple Bates Eye drills.

 

So, it seems thatin many cases, myophia is a case of lack of certain

eye drills and is not a case of poor self-exceptance.

 

Because of not enough distance seeing the eyeball adapts to a short

fovial focus.

 

The Japanese have studied this indepth, and have their factory

workers do distance eye drills to bring their worker's vision back

to normal after doing close-up work.

 

> Does the other shortsighted people on this list experience the same

> kind of fears? (Well, they can be really subtle.) Or are your

>hidden reasons behind myopia different?

 

My brother is short-sighted, but he's been reading 3-5 books a week

since he was 9 years old. He needed glasses for myophia when he was

10. He's now 27.

 

So his sight adapted to the distance of a book infront of him years

ago.

 

When he goes camping and focuses on distance images, his vision

suddenly gets much better and those glasses are way too strong.

 

Sam