There is a group of sea gypsies off the Burmese archipelago. They live half of their lives on boats and they often dive into the sea for food and pearls.

The interesting thing about these people is that they often dive up to 75 feet deep without any diving equipment. This feat would be impossible for most us. For one, light rays are augmented so deep in water, such that they don’t land of the right place in the retina.

But these sea gypsies were able to see so deep in water. How did they do it? They subconsciously constrict their pupils. Now, for normal people like us, our pupils expand in deep water (just as in dark places)… and it has long been assumed by scientists that this reaction is reflexive and cannot be changed.

But just by diving repeatedly, these sea gypsies were able to change how their brain control their eyes.

Does the story of the sea gypsies sound familiar? Can you change the wirings of you brain to see clearly again? If so, would continuous practice achieve that outcome? I believe so. Much of the process involved in “seeing” goes on in your brain, not in your eyes.

And if your brain can send the signal to your eyes to relax their muscles, instead of to tense, then perhaps you’ll not have a problem with myopia. This is why “eye exercises” that claims to “strengthen” eye muscles is pure bull. Eye exercises are meant to allow your brain to learn the right way to see. Their purpose is to train your brain the way the sea gypsies trained theirs.

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