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Email/Phone Policy
NVC receives thousands of email/calls from people asking for personal advice and for explanations of material contained in Relearning to See or Better Eyesight and other natural eyesight sources. NVC does not answer these type of inquiries (except after a person has registered for a class.) NVC might be able to provide a referral to a NVC certified natural vision improvement teacher who may be located in your area.
Phone Consultation for Reduced Prescriptions
Phone consultations are no longer available.
Nutrition and Health Seminar
(Under construction)
Iridology/Sclera Photos
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WARNING: No Corneal Eye Surgeries
Do you really want have your current prescription etched permanently into the corneas of your eyeballs? Did you know there are many potential harmful results that are not required to be revealed regarding these surgeries? Will you risk blindness for the rest of your life. Don't interfere with the natural meridians through your eyes, (as stated by an ophthalmologist!)! Would you risk interfering with natural secretions from your cornea? If your vision has been getting worse over time, would't you expect it continue to get worse after an artificial corneal surgery?! Do you want more eye surgeries later, trying to correct the damage caused by the first one? These are crucial questions one needs to ask him'herself before doing something as radical as having your corneas vaporized—permanently. "Investigate before you invest!"
Read why individuals have decided to not have corneal refractive surgeries and have decided to enroll in Natural Eyesight Improvement classes instead—after reading Relearning to See.
Buena Vista: "New scientific research from Germany shows that seven out of ten patients are left with defective vision after laser surgery."
LasikDisaster: "I receive a lot of e-mail thanking me for having the guts to share this story and opening eyes to the dangers of laser eye surgery."
Surgical Eyes: An "organization [about] people who have had unsuccessful LASIK, PRK, RK, AK, ALK or other elective refractive surgeries that resulted in debilitating complications...we are compelled to call attention to the hard-earned larger truths that we, the casualties of refractive surgery, have learned and will have to live with for the rest of our lives."
Why risk ruining your vision forever when there is a way to improve your eyesight with no risk at all?!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Having corneal refractive surgery may disqualify you from enrolling into Natural Eyesight Improvement classes. Why? Let's take an example of someone who has myopia (close objects clear and far objects blurred.) In myopia the eyeball is too long (from front to back, for at least for 99+% of those who have myopia.) The reason the eyeball is too long in myopia is because the two oblique muscles, which wrap around the top and bottom of the eye like a belt, are too tense. In most, if not all, corneal refractive surgeries for myopia, the cornea is artificially flattened to focus light rays from far objects onto the retina. ***We note that some laser websites show a spherical eyeball for people with myopia; this only true for less than 1% of myopes. But if one is led to believe that the reason one's eye is myopic is because the cornea has too much curvature, as these websites advertise, then they would obviously attract more customers to have their corneas flattened!*** In the natural eyesight improvement process, if a person has myopia and has had corneal refractive surgery, then what would happen if this person relearned natural relaxed vision habits again all day long and the chronically tense oblique muscles relax? Now the eye can return to its normal spherical shape. But then this person would be visually farsighted (close objects blurred and far objects clear.) In addition, we now have a still, "technically myopic" person (the eyeball is still elongated) who is very likely left-brain dominant (some exceptions), but who now has farsightedness (visually). But usually only right-brain dominant people who have strained vision habits are farsighted. Oops! For more to consider read Relearning to See.
Notes on Accommodation and Presbyopia
While seeing clearly in the distance (20 feet or more) the lens inside the normal human eye has a relatively flat curvature. The ciliary muscle that controls the shape of the lens is expanded, pulling on the edges of the lens, maintaining this relatively flat curvature. When the eye is seeing clearly in the distance, it is said to be "at rest", i.e., not accommodating.
The orthodox teaching on how the eye accommodates to see clearly up close is simple: the ciliary muscle contracts, releasing its pull around the lens, and the lens then increases its curvature. With more curvature in the lens, the eye is able to see clearly up close. When the ciliary muscle expands again, the lens regains its flatter curvature and the eye sees clearly in the distance again. The credit for the lens being the mechanism of accommodation is mostly attributed to the great ophthalmologist Dr. Helmholtz.
As a result of his research, Dr. Bates believed that the lens had nothing to do with accommodation. He felt he had proven that the lens does not change its curvature during accommodation and that Helmholtz was wrong mainly because of inadequate experimental equipment.
In the February 1929 "Better Eyesight" magazine, someone asked Bates about the role of the ciliary (lens) muscle:
Q—2. What is the function of the ciliary muscles?
A—2. I do not know.
Not a great answer from someone who wants to overturn the Helmholtz lens theory of accommodation.
Bates, as a result of his research and experiments on the two oblique, external eye muscles, believed that these muscles, which are wrapped around the eye somewhat like a belt, produced accommodation. More specifically, when the eyeball is "at rest" the two oblique muscles were relaxed, the eyeball was in a round shape and a person sees clearly in the distance. When the two oblique muscles contracted, the eyeball became elongated, and a person was then accommodating to see clearly up close. It is his opposition to Helmholtz' lens theory of accommodation that probably led many conventional eye doctors to reject much if not all of Bates' work. (Bates also believed that when the two oblique muscles are chronically tense, they elongated the eyeball to produce myopia, or nearsightedness: chronic accommodation!)
Modern research, using sophisticated equipment, has confirmed Helmholtz' theory that the lens increases its curvature during accommodation, proving that the lens plays a major, if not total role, in accommodation. Ironically, it appears that Bates' experimental procedures regarding the lens were inadequate.
Interestingly enough, research in Austria in 1998 has shown that the eyeball can elongate during accommodation for myopes and people with normal sight---but it elongates only a slight amount---not enough for a person to see clearly up close. "The detected eye elongation can be explained by the accommodation-induced contraction of the ciliary muscle, which results in forward and inward pulling of the choroid, thus decreasing the circumference of the sclera, and leads to an elongation of the axial eye length." [Source: Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Vol 39, 2140-2147, Copyright © 1998 by Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; ARTICLES AND REPORTS. "Eye elongation during accommodation in humans: differences between emmetropes and myopes"; W Drexler, O Findl, L Schmetterer, CK Hitzenberger and AF Fercher; Institute of Medical Physics, University of Vienna, Austria.] Is this elongation of the eyeball during accommodation that Bates observed?!
It should be pointed out here that the convention teaching is that in myopia, for example, the eyeball "grows" into an elongated shape, theoretically due to genetics, and that the elongation of the eyeball has nothing to do with the contraction of the two oblique muscles. The point here is that if one believes the two oblique muscles have nothing to do with myopia, they might also believe the oblique muscles have nothing to do with accommodation. In any case, modern research by eye doctors has shown conclusively that myopia is not genetic. Note in the Austrian research they state that the eye elongation "can be explained" by contraction of the ciliary muscle. It could also be explained by the contraction of the two oblique muscles.
Now for presbyopia:
The conventional opinion on presbyopia is that around age 40 everyone's lens begins to lose its ability to change its curvature (more), i.e, to accommodate. The reason given for this is that the lens is "hardening," and that this is due to aging. The harder lens, the less the accommodation. The lens supposedly hardens in its "at rest", relatively flat curvature. This would allow a person to still see clearly in the distance, but not up close, called presbyopia.
(Presbyopia is not the same as hyperopia. In both cases, close vision is more blurred that distance vision. Hyperopia is when the eyeball is too short. Conventional theory says it just grows this way, or is genetic. Bates proved hyperopia is caused by chronic contraction of the four recti muscles.)
There are a few problems with the presbyopia lens-hardening-with-age theory. The biggest one is that there are many people who have lived well over the age of 40 who never became presbyopic. Even people 99 years old with perfect eyesight have been examined by eye doctors. These "old" people see clearly both far and near naturally, without glasses, contact lenses, surgery, drugs, etc. Since old-age non-presbyopia is a fact observed by essentially all eye doctors of any experience, one might wonder if older people who never become presbyopic are doing something different than the older people who become presbyopic. (I have never know anyone to suggest that presbyopia is hereditary, or any other reason for that matter, except the lens hardening of course.)
While writing Relearning to See I contacted two eye doctors, an ophthalmologist and optometrist, to asked them what the mechanism of accommodation is for older people who have normal sight. Interestingly enough, both of them gave me the same answer. (These two eye doctors did not know each other.) Their answer was: "We don't know." What?! Before age 40, we are told that the lens/ciliary muscle is the mechanism of accommodation. After age 40, if a person has normal eyesight, we are told that the mechanism of accommodation is unknown! Of course I have thought about this strange situation a long time. (If anyone has an explanation from an eye doctor of how the eye accommodates in older people with normal eyesight, I would like to know.)
The eye doctors are in a real dilemma here. If they say that the lens is the mechanism of accommodation for older people without presbyopia, then obviously there is a way for the lens to still change its curvature in older people---it obvious hasn't hardened, or at least not enough to prevent normal accommodation. But this would contradict their conventional teachings, and many (if not most?) eye doctors would probably not be willing to risk taking that position. After all Bates was ejected from his post of teaching ophthalmology due to his beliefs and teachings. If they maintain their position that the lens is hard and cannot change its curvature for anyone older than age 40, then these older people are accommodating in some other way---in which case the lens' ability to change its curvature could be considered irrelevant since the eye is obviously able to accommodate in some other way! A curious problem to say the least.
When I was taking my Teacher Training Program in 1983 from the late Janet Goodrich, who I consider to be the world's greatest modern Bates teacher, I was surprised in the first class to hear her say, contrary to Bates' view, that the lens/ciliary muscle was the mechanism of accommodation. Her explanation of presbyopia was that the ciliary muscle is strained, preventing the lens from increasing its curvature to see clearly up close—and not that the lens had become harder. Since that time I have heard this former theory from a modern, holistic-oriented ophthalmologist, and also from an optometrist.
This is the theory I currently subscribe to. Bates eliminated his own "stone-hard" presbyopia. Many presbyopes have improved their reading vision or have completely eliminated their need for their "readers" by relearning natural vision habits all day long. [Bates used the terms "habits" and "all day long." Those are not my creations.] How can this be? If one takes the position that the lens hardens in presbyopia, then he/she might also take the position that the lens "unhardens" when he/she eliminates their presbyopia with the Bates Method. While possible, that does not seem very likely. If one takes the position that the ciliary muscle is too tense in presbyopia, one could more easily take the position that the ciliary muscle simply releases its chronic tension as the presbyopia is improved or eliminated with the Bates Method which, as you may know, is based on relaxation. This later theory makes more sense to me, especially after hearing so many presbyopes tell me how much stress was occurring in their lives when they became presbyopic. In any case, for the presbyopes who have improved or eliminated their presbyopia, the mechanism of accommodation does not seem to be very important to them. They just wanted to get their natural reading vision back.
Presbyopia can improve even when a student does not believe it can improve. One of my students came up to me after a few weeks in the Natural Eyesight Improvement course. She whispered to me that her presbyopia was improving. While wondering why she was whispering, I ask her, “Isn't that why you enrolled for the course?” Surprisingly her answer was “No. I never believed my presbyopia would improve by attend your course.” I asked, “Then why did you enroll for the course.” Her answer was, “So my presbyopia would not get worse. I have been practicing the good vision habits you have been teaching us only so my presbyopia would not get worse. My eye doctor had convinced me it is impossible to improve presbyopia.” Why the whispering? She was embarrassed to admit all this in front of the other students!
On a humorous note, I had a student who eliminated her presbyopia and returned to her eye doctor, an ophthalmologist, for a vision exam just to see the expression on his face when he saw that her vision was now normal. He said it was worth the $40.
Pinhole Glasses: Another Temporary Artificial Way to See Better
1. What are they? Pinhole glasses are an artificial way to see better due to the pinhole effect. The pinhole effect simply means that an image can be more sharply focused onto camera film or a light sensor or the retina if the diaphragm is tiny enough. In fact there are cameras that can take a picture by using only a tiny pinhole and without using any lense to focus the image. Squinting (which is a "unsightly" and harmful habit) by which a person sees better, is an example of the pinhole effect. By wearing glasses that have a black, opaque lense with lots of tiny pinholes in it a person can see better due to the pinhole effect. Basically it is a artificial "trick." A person (with blurred vision) usually sees much better in bright light and worse in darkness. This is due to the pupil's pinhole effect: a smaller pupil in the bright light = better vision.
2. Many people have reported improvement of eyesight by using pinhole glasses instead of using their regular full-power prescription glasses. However, the improvement might not be due to the pinhole glasses since many people have also reported improvement of their eyesight by simply not using their full-power prescription glasses. It is a very common, if not universal, experience that the wearing of typical, full-power prescription glasses makes eyesight worse. Many people have stated that after wearing of their full-power prescription glasses, even for just a few hours, their vision is noticeably worse when they take off the glasses. Since by simply not using full-power glasses people have reported their eyesight improving; so the use of pinhole glasses could be irrelevant to the fact that someone's eyesight has improved while using pinhole glasses!
3. Pinhole glasses are not legal for driving if a person is required to wear "prescription glasses" or "corrective lenses."
4. Pinhole glasses, like sunglasses, can block out a tremendous amount of light. This is not good. The eyes are organs of light. The pineal gland and other parts of our bodies are dependent upon light for regulating day and night rhythms. Pinholes glasses could interfere with these natural functions. One might also be concerned if the pupil dilates unnaturally larger during the daytime while wearing pinhole glasses or sunglasses. The pupil is only supposed to be large in the night (or other natural dark situations.)
5. The huge amount of black area blocking the visual field could be dangerous in some situations.
6. Some of the claims I have read those selling advertising pinhole glasses are ridiculous. In fact a number of marketers of pinhole glasses have had civil action taken against them for false advertising and unsubstantiated claims.
7. There are some serious eye problems, particularly some types of cataracts, where the use of pinhole glasses can result in a person seeing better in a way that cannot be had with regular glasses, or in any other way for that matter. This improved (artificial) sight might be due to the pinhole "tunnels" of light that can pass through the lens of the eyes without being scattered as much by the opacities of the cataract(s).
8. There are several companies marketing so-called"Bates Method" pinholes glasses. Dr. Bates never mentioned, much less used or sold, pinhole glasses.
9. What is a better and much practical alternative to pinhole glasses? Simply using reduced power glasses (Chapters 3-5 in Relearning to See.) That has been the best solution for most of our natural vision students. The money that might have been spent on pinhole glasses might be better spent on massage therapy to reduce the tension in your tight neck! There is a large connection between eyesight and the neck.
10. Bottom-line? If you want try them and find out if you derive benefit from them, particularly if you have cataracts, then fine. I would most likely buy them only if the seller has a money-back guarantee.
Remember: Relearning natural vision habits and principles all day long is the key to improving eyesight naturally. The main problem with pinhole glasses is that they do not teach anyone how to have correct vision habits and principles all day long—and that is the true "Bates Method" of natural eyesight improvement.
Resources
REDUCED GLASSES
See also chapters 3-5 in Relearning to See.
Order reduced glasses on the internet: www.lensway.nl; www.optical4less.com
HOMEOPATHY
Dr. rer. nat. Isolde Birk: Kleve-Donsbruggen, Germany; phone: 49(0)2821 8959431; http://www.praxis-birk.de/. Also may travel to your location.
Jan Scholten: http://www.janscholten.com/janscholten/Welcome.html; Utrecht.
MASSAGE THERAPY
Nienke Poiesz, Tweede Walstraat 85, Nijmegen, 024-7852205. www.homemas.nl; info@homemas-massage.nl
OSTEOPATHY
Hans van Vliet: DO-MRO, Berg en Dalseweg 101, 6522 BC Nijmegen 06-51941496; and Bugel 8, 6904 PL, Zevenaar, 0316-540261, www.vanvlietosteopathie.com, email: h.v.vliet@wxs.nl
FELDENKRAIS
Mascha Löschmann: Feldenkrais practitioner, Cesartherapist, NLP master, Sterrenlaan 24, Veldhoven (next to Eindhoven) 040-2540916, 06-42182624, www.cesarveldhoven.nl
NUTRITION/SUPPLEMENTS
Dr. Mosley BBC Fasting Report: http://leangainsguide.com/diet/igf-1-and-fasting/; spectacular report on a relatively quick, zero cost(!) way to radically improve health. One of the most important and valuable reports I have ever seen.
Biological/Organic Food from farmlands in Netherland, Biologische Tuinderij De Twee Linden; http://www.2linden.nl/
Enzymes International: Hwy 51, PO Box 157, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin 54545; (715) 543-8401; Tom's ID: 9022-9242; http://www.enzymesinternational.com/index.htm
* Food-N-Zymes: 2 V-Caps with raw meals; 4 with cooked meals; helps digestion and rebuild enzyme depletion due to eating cooked food; combine with minerals to form an alkaline detoxification agent. Note: Powder costs much less than V-caps.
* Papaya Enzymes: Break proteins down into amino acids in any pH in the stomach; especially important for people who do not produce sufficient stomach pepsin and HCl, which is virtually all people over age 30. Some say that have more benefit from powder.
* (Liquid) Co-Enzymes Minerals: Taste horrible for most people! Dilute in juice!! Gas and diarrhea are normal cleaning reactions. Have turned some people's teeth dark or black, apparently due to liquid minerals coming in contact with teeth; may have special energetic healing properties due to special processing; ~38 cents per oz., if a case of 4 bottles are purchased, as of 8/02; daily maintenance: ~4 oz. per day. Saturation before having points held: 1 oz. per 10 pounds of body weight per day, or more.
* (V-Caps) Co-Enzyme Minerals: No taste (don't bite!); significantly cheaper than taking the liquid minerals, ~20.3 cents per oz., if a case of 4 bottles are purchased, as of 8/02; apparently avoids turning teeth black because they do not contact teeth directly; may have special energetic healing properties due to special processing. One V-cap is equal to approximately 1.38 oz. of the liquid minerals.
* Outstanding cassettes by the late Dr. John Ray; Body Electronics/How We Heal; start with the Health and Human Mind series and the Healing Crisis series.
Grainfields/AGM Foods: Australia; [617] 3396 2866; http://www.agmfoods.com/ Just started selling products at wholesale prices; shipping to U.S. can be expensive. B.E. Wholegrain Liquid is one of the best probiotic foods in the world; Wholegrain Powder, with pre-digested nutrients, is also outstanding. Enthusiastically promoted by Douglas Morrison (How We Heal); used by many people in Body Electronics.
Silverado Nutritionals: 150 S. State St., Orem, Utah, 84058; (800) 887-4583. http://www.wholesale-supplements.biz/. Silverado Minerals: Liquid has virtually no taste; ~28.1 cents per oz.; gas and diarrhea are normal cleansing reactions; effect on teeth unknown; work excellent with B.E. pointholding. Quantity same as Co-Enzyme Minerals above.
Blue-green algae (BGA): One of the most complete foods on the planet; contains the highest amount of neural peptides; allows faster and deeper processing in B.E. pointholding sessions. Due to BGA's extremely high protein content, taking Enzymes International's Papaya papain enzymes (see above) with the BGA is recommended. E3Live (http://www.e3live.com) and CellTech (http://www.celltech.com) brands are very good.
Dom's Kefir In-Site: http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html. Lots of information on "real" kefir.
RealSalt; Redmond Minerals, Inc.: 6005 N. 100 W., Redmond, UT 84652, (800) 367-7258; http://www.realsalt.com. Excellent, natural mineral rock sea salt; no heat processing; no additives or preservatives; "full complement of beneficial trace minerals"; better than celtic sea salt.
Ming Mu Di (Ti) Huang Wan eye herbs: "Nourish the kidneys and liver, improve eyesight. Used for Yin-deficiency of liver and kidneys, dryness and uneasy feeling of eyes, photophobia (light sensitivity), amblyopia, lacrimation (tearing)" "8-10 three times per day." "Severe dizziness, blurred vision and dry eyes, deficiency of the liver-yin and kidney-yin, manifested as xenophthalmia, photophobia, epiphora induced by wind and night blindness, central retinitis, optic neuritis, vitreous opacity; Improves the eyes and vision, nourishes liver and kidneys, nourishes blood." In the beginning this amount may be too much for some people. NVC does not recommend amounts to take for any individual. You can consult with an herbalist or Chinese medicine practitioner for advice on dosages.
Available from:
—Chinese Herb.co.uk; good price; Tanglong brand: http://www.chineseherb.co.uk/
—Shenyi Center of Chinese Medicine; good price; minimum of 5; http://helpofchinesemedicine.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=17&products_id=66
—Chinaturel: Den Haag, Sint Jacobstraat 27, 2512 AN, Den Haag, Tel: 070-3647723, Fax: 070-3648432; and Zoetermeer, Parkdreef 58, 2724 EK, Zoetermeer, Tel: 079-5937333, Fax 079-5937468; make their own herbs; inexpensive; dokter@chinaturel.nl, http://www.chinaturel.nl/
—http://www.euroherbs.nl/bestelform.php; SG014; cost?
 "Actions and Indications: Nourish the kidneys and liver, improve eyesight. Used for Yin-deficiency of liver and kidneys, dryness and uneasy feeling of the eyes, photophobia, amblyopia, lacrimation."
The Raw Family: International Gourmet Raw educators. Raw Family & Victoria Boutenko, P.O.Box 172, Ashland, Oregon 97520; email: info@rawfamily.com; website: http://www.rawfamily.com. Victoria: (541) 488-8865; Sergei: (541) 840-7434; Books and workshops on food preparation. Excellent! Sergei's and Valya's Soup-N-Salad Buffet; raw and organic;1022 E. Main St., Ashland, Sundays, 5-7 p.m.; $5; reservations required; (541) 840-7434.
The Food Combining Guide: Wayne Pickering "The Ambassador for Health"; http://www.wayne-pickering.com/healthproducts/foodcombiningguide.html; best food combining guide I have found. Includes excellent acid/alkaline information for many foods. Also look at the other charts included in "The Perfect Diet MINI Program": http://www.wayne-pickering.com/mini/
RIGHT BRAIN/LEFT BRAIN
Educational Kinesiology/Brain Gym: Paul and Gail Dennison, Edu-Kinesthetics, Inc. P.O. Box 3395
Ventura, CA 93006 USA, Toll-free: (888)-388-9898; Local: (805)-650-3303; fax: (805)-650-1689. http://www.braingym.com/index.html; Books and classes on brain balancing and more. Excellent.
Closest to Nijmegen(?): Marion Hill, Koln, Germany, 49-22-3632-2113, marion.hill@koeln.de
Works in Holland and other countries also.
Jill Taylor: Exceptional experience with her two brains: Jill Taylor’s TED Talk.
BODY ELECTRONICS/HOW WE HEAL
Natural Vision Center: Iris/sclera photographs, but no analysis.
Douglas Morrison, ND: http://www.howweheal.com. doug@howweheal.com; How We Heal, the best popular book on Body Electronics. To get started on the basic nutrient program, see Doug's website. IMPORTANT NOTE: Doug says, "I am not currently available for private or group consultations."
Jeannine Herssens: Aalst, Belgium; Tel:0032 (0)53708736 - GSM: 0032 (0)476 277781; Email: jeannine@mindtoheart.com; www.mindtoheart.com/irisanalyse.asp; Jeannine is a Body Electronics/How We Heal practitioner; iridology/sclerolgy; nutrition.
Esther Hensen-Gwanmesia: Rotterdam 010-456-4892. Esther is a Body Electronics/How We Heal practitioner. http://www.mediablackberry.com/index.php?oid=10396
Peter Hinde: www.bodyelectronics.co.uk; United Kingdom, Body Electronics/How We Heal, Peter offers inexpensive iris/sclera analysis; Natural Vision Center can take your iris/sclera photos and then you can send them to Peter for analysis.
Canadian BE practitioners, contact Ken Walter at (403) 282-0242.
Thomas Chavez: Body Electronics practitioner; Portland, Oregon, (503) 650-4447. The book Body Electronics is available through Amazon.com, and North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA. Inexpensive electromagnetic protection water pendants. Teaches a "real", vegetarian kefir farming classes.
DENTAL
Jane and Ulf Kettenburg, HolisticDentistry; Centrum voor Holistic Tandheelkunde, Mühlenstrasse 2, 46354 Oeding, Germany, 0049 (0) 2862580310; outstanding, advanced approach to dentistry; Solo Dental Program. http://www.kettenburg.de
Solo Dental Stix and Swing Brush: http://www.solo-med.de/, http://www.solo-prophylaxe.de/, http://www.solo-med.de/index.php?l=de&set_country=chhttp://www.solo-med.de/index.php?l=de&set_country=ch
The Solo Stixs and Swing brushes are great: far better than a regular toothbrushes and dental floss. The gums might bleed a bit in the beginning, but that should stop after a while. There are many different sizes of the Stix. If one is too large, then of course it will not fit. If it is too small then it will not clean effectively. The idea is to determine which Stix size fits between each pair of teeth at the current time. When you have used the Stixs for a while, the gums can reduce their swelling, and this is a good thing. When the space between the gums reduce their swelling then you can switch to a larger Stix size. Note that you might not need all of the different sizes in the beginning. Only push and pull the Stixs. Do not twist or turn the Stixs. If you do they will most likely break quickly because the metal wire is not strong enough to twist or turn. If a Stix hurts your gums when first pushing them between the space between two teeth, then try bending the bristle wire into a slightly curved shape to help move the bristle and wire through the teeth space easier. When the plastic bristles on the Stixs wear out then do not use them. Don’t let the metal scrape against the teeth. I cut the wire on the white Stix shorter. I have found that the wire is too thin and therefore too weak with this white Stix. A long white wire bends too easily and makes it more difficult to push and pull between two teeth. (It depends on how tight the space is.) Anyway you can experiment with them. Also the white Stix can wear out very quickly. The main idea with the Solo Swing brush is to clean the teeth of course, but especially the areas close to the gums. The bristles should be fairly straight. When they begin to spread out a lot, then it is of less value, and time to replace it. The Solo Swing brush is moved in an inverted “U” pattern, to especially clean the tooth/gum junction. I find that using a mirror is very helpful for both the Stixs and Swing brushing. Buy their book!
Teeth Blotting Technique/Dr. J. E. Phillips; International Oral Health Society: P. O. Box 1968, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 54702. (715) 839-9103; (www.iohs.info ---- link not working on May 11, 2005). Dr. Phillips created a special "wicking" toothbrush and a special teeth and gums cleaning technique called blotting. Inexpensive and effective. Order the excellent Blotting Technique video and booklet so you can learn how to do blotting (and other procedures) correctly; the small instruction pamphlet that comes with the Blotting Toothbrush is not sufficient.
Sources: 1. Resources For Life Ltd, Graeme & Phylipa Delglyn, Eden Lodge, 1 Clydesdale Avenue, Chichester, West Sussex
PO19 7PW(Map), Tel: freephone 0800 074 4279, Email: enquiries@resourcesforlife.net, http://www.resourcesforlife.net/10226/contact.php; 2. Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=39&products_id=153&osCsid=d84508f62c5e4aa337aee99f6be074dd
Oramedics/Dr. Robert O. Nara, DDS: Dentist who claims many people have improved their teeth and gums naturally.
http://mizar5.com/rao.htm; Basically, the idea is to remove all acid-forming plaque by brushing, waterpik, etc., to allow teeth and jawbone to remineralize naturally. Proper diet emphasized. Enzymes International (above) sells a cassette by Dr. Nara called "Teeth Can Heal."
LIGHT
See also the Light chapter and Appendix D Light Comparison Table in Relearning to See for more information on light and lighting.
Androv-medical Bulbs: http://www.androv-medical.com/section/24/1; Excellent full-spectrum bulbs and fluorescent tubes.
Narva Bio vital: http://www.narva-bel.de/en/Worlds_of_Light/NARVA_BIO_vital_1284.html; Excellent full-spectrum light.
Natura Lite: GTrue-Lite; very good full-spectrum lights; excellent color matching: CRI 96%, CCT: 5500 K; http://www.naturalite.nl/
Lucas Verlichting: Excellent full-spectrum lights. Expensive. http://www.lucasverlichting.nl/DefaultLucas.htm
Philips Lighting: Service Lighting Products, Steve Hunt, P. O. Box 3880, Central Point, OR. 97502; (800) 722-7286; or special order at lighting/hardware stores. TL-950 fluorescent tubes: CRI (Color Rendering Index) 98! (Sunshine is CRI 100.) Best "full-spectrum" lighting I have found; (but does not contain essential UV.) Industrial version is Triten 50.
Ott-Lite True Color Lamp: Desk Lamp; fold-up design; model #OTL13TCGG; Excellent color matching CRI (Color Rendering Index) of 95% (Sunlight is 100%); CCT: 5300-5400 Kelvin;13-watts (equivalent to 75 watt incandescent bulb; 10,000 hours bulb life; radiation shield; http://www.lumenlight.com/truecolorlamp.html sells for around $60
OTHER OTHER!
WOPAA: The World Organisation of Patients, Associations and Affiliations is a not-for-profit organisation registered in UK and Wales; Company Number 05532117; Michael Pim, D.C. (student of NVC.); WOPAA, 29C Kendrick Road, Reading, RG1 5DU, UK, Tel: +44(0)118 9866500; Fax: +44(0)5600 761837; info@wopaa.org; http://www.wopaa.org/index_en.asp
Negaholics/MMS: Chérie Carter-Scott, http://www.negaholics.com/ Books and classes on personal improvement; Negaholics: How to Overcome Negativity and Turn Your Life Around; If Life is a Game, These are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human; If Love is a Game, These are the Rules: Ten Rules for Finding Love and Creating Long-Lasting, Authentic Relationships; and other excellent books. Excellent! My career since 1983 in Natural Eyesight Improvement is a direct result of my classes with MMS.
Clarus Products International: 1330 Lincoln Ave., Ste 210, San Rafael, CA 94901 (888) 387-5956 http://www.clarus.com/. Q-Link Clearwave: electromagnetic environmental protection. (See also Thomas Chavez's very inexpensive water pendants above.)
Age in Reverse: PO box 1667, Newport Beach, CA, USA, 92663 (888) 387-5956; http://www.ageeasy.com/. BodySlant, Newton model; excellent for most average height/weight people. Choose blue or other dark color to avoid stains showing.
My referral number is 1004; please give it to them if you place an order.
HealthandGoodness.com: http://www.healthandgoodness.com/index.htm; This site has lots of useful information on health, happiness, complementary therapies (alternative medicine), exercise, etc!
De Schakel: Second-hand clothing store; benefits 3rd world countries. Malden, Eendenpoelseweg 6b. Tel: 024-3585881; Thursday and Friday: 10–5 Saturday Noon–3
Het Goed: Second-hand store; lots! Nijmegen, Burchtstraat 110, Nijmegen, 024-6421160
Enanimals, Michele Raney: 3PO Box 1975, Port Townsend, Washington, 98368. (360) 344-3864. http://www.enanimals.com/. Call or write fohttp://www.solo-med.de/index.php?l=de&set_country=chcial engraving and enameling to make exquisite wearable art. Hand-carving and painting with fine grains of colored glass on precious metals; mostly nature images.
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