A New York ophthalmologist called Dr William Bates, developed a series of eye exercises to improve eyesight without resorting to lenses or surgery. Dr Bates felt that many eye problems had their root causes in stress, tension and laziness of eye and he thought that because of these causes, eyes could be treated without correction such as lenses, spectacles or even surgery. Dr Bates' methods were first devised at beginning of 20th century, but many people still practice them today.

Dr Bates' theory revolved around notion that muscles of eye became fixed on a scene causing strain to eyes. Dr Bates felt that eyes could be re-trained to relax and improve link between optic nerves and brain.

Dr Bates' theories have been largely ignored by world of medicine. However, many people around world have claimed remarkable improvements in short sight, long sight, astigmatism, squints and lazy eyes using these methods. Even young children are able to practice exercises and people with normal vision may improve concentration, reading skills and co-ordination by following routines suggested by Dr Bates.

In essence, you can expect to perform some simple exercises for about half an hour a day. These can involve some of following:-

• 'Palming.' To rest and relax your eyes, sit comfortably in front of a table, resting your elbows on a stack of cushions high enough to bring your palms easily to your eyes without stooping forward or looking up. Close your eyes and cover them with your cupped palms to exclude light, avoiding pressure on sockets. Breathe slowly and evenly, relaxing and imagining deep blackness. Begin by doing this for 10 minutes, two or three times a day.

The Effects of Procrastination

Just what is procrastination? It is habit of putting things off until last possible minute. Procrastination in and of itself is not a problem - consequences of procrastination, however, can be devastating.

If you are a procrastinator, you have likely:

• Missed opportunities
• Worked late hours at work trying to get finished at last moment
• Felt completely stressed out
• Been overwhelmed
• Suffered feelings of guilt and resentment

Procrastination is a killer - a killer of dreams, ambitions, and achievement.

The Effects of Hypnosis

There is truly no need to continue on procrastination cycle of wait, wait, wait, stress out, and wait some more. You can overcome procrastination. How? Through power of hypnosis.

Hypnosis is not some hocus pocus form of psychotherapy - it is simply a natural occurring state of mind that bypasses conscious part of mind. When conscious is bypassed, we don't pass judgment on what is being suggested.

Believe it or not, we are in a hypnotic state quite often. For instance, here are some times when you have "turned off" judgment portion of your mind:

• When you see a commercial on TV that influences you to buy a product
• When an expert tells you something and you don't question validity of that statement
• Children do it when they are pretending.

By going around judgment portion of mind, suggestions can be put into your subconscious and get you to head towards a particular goal - just way advertisers propel you towards their product.

Your Conscious Mind Resists Overcoming Procrastination

Have you ever tried to stop procrastinating?

What happens? If you are like most people, you tell yourself something and your judgmental mind finds all kinds of reasons why it won't work!

For instance, one of main self-help suggestions for overcoming procrastination is to break overall task into smaller, more doable chunks. This sounds great.