Re: Cataract surgery

Hi Krupa,
I'm a natural vision educator, so I'm naturally biased to not having surgery for any eyesight problem. The blurry vision from extreme myopia can certainly be quickly reduced and possibly eliminated by replacing your lenses, but as with replacing the lens to eliminate cataracts, you then are left with a compromised eye that has scar tissue and increased chance of further damage to the lens capsule. I have worked with an eye surgeon and looked into the eye of a person who had already had cataract surgery, and returned because now the lens capsule had become opaque which interfered with vision. The surgeon used a laser to basically shoot a hole in the back of the lens capsule, large enough that the person could now see through that hole. Sure, clear vision followed instantly and even painlessly, but what about the long term effects on the eye? What about all the muscle strain that is still holding the eye in a chronic grip. That is still there! But now there no longer is the blurry vision to help you know when you are releasing that tension. You see, blurry vision is a correct message, it tells you that there is something that needs to change, in particular tension that needs to be released, both from the eyes as well as the mind. In the case of laser surgery, what we do is that we literally shoot the messenger and ignore the message. Sure, that's an option, and your individual right, but in my humble opinion it is not a true solution.
The real solution comes when we start paying attention to the message, and allow ourselves to relax into the blur, and learn how to not fight that blur. Because any fighting against blurry vision tends to make it worse. On the other hand, any relaxing into it will help it disappear. So learn how to relax into seeing, and slowly but surely let go of your glasses and return to seeing clearly with your own eyes.
There are a large number of websites that will give you guidance on the natural way to clear vision. One example is my own:
http://www.visionsofjoy.org.

Very best wishes,
Esther