What is passive vision?
Passive vision is the act of seeing without strain as displayed by the emmotropic eye. To develop passive vision a series of non-exercises have been developed to reduce strain and sensitivity. Dr. William Bates found that mypoia is in fact always associated with a strain to see distant objects, and that hypermetropia is always associated with a strain to see at the near point. Primarily the strain to see is a strain of the mind. By straining to see at near or far objects the eye can pass through various stages from emmetropia, in which the eye is spherical, to hypermetropia, in which it is flattened, and if these changes take place unsymmetrically, astigamatism. Bates found that myopia could be induced in dogs by forcing them to strain to to see a distant object. Bates’s remedy is not to avoid either near work or distant vision but to get rid of the mental strain which underlies the imperfect functioning of the eye at both points. The ways in which people strain are infinite, and the m
