Review by Deborah Rose, hypnotherapist and Senior Lecturer

Having been freely playing with shorted sightedness since taking A’ levels, I turned to Leo Angart book, ‘Improve your eye sight naturally’, to conceive another way at looking at this way of seeing myopia.

Angart, helped me dream up another vision. He assumes that the reader comes from a foundation of personal creation. One of reinvention. The functional source of the gifted eye. The way he writes provokes you to so imagine you really believe about eyesight. He encourages you to check it out. It’s not the absolute truth. He tempts you explore it.

What is your external vision like, and how it marries with what your internal vision. So, taking all of that into account, Angart, expands and wakes up the traditional approach to vision. So alternative questions are opened up, like what does my eyesight mean? Or, if this is in front of me, why am I having I? How am I a part of this?

He honours the eyes, yet his is not all woo woo. His writing is ruthlessly connected to all that is fun and scientific. He got me to check out the science around laser treatment as I played around with the ideas around my eyesight.

What if ‘I’ were better eyesight? Seems to be what Angart opened me up to. He plays with gestalt, and asks you to consider what is happening outside, externally, because it reflects what is happening inside of one’s inner vision. Great, easy to appreciate visuals used to express these ideas too.

Angart ask you to break free from identifying with your current vision and instead step back and ask,’ if I were to take sight as a message, what would I see, or why am I creating this form of eyesight.

Angart, takes good care of us. A great history section, as it gave me an understanding of what sight really is and the ways that the eyes have been treated throughout recent history. Again, I was really unfamiliar with the technology behind laser treatment and Angart projects a really easy to understand picture of why some countries use it or avoid it.

So Angart, gives us lots of interesting metaphors. Full of insights, he nudges you into thinking about eyesight and how to increase a brighter vision we want in our lives, using our imaginations. He gets you to see yourself as the authority figure in your own life. He encourages you to bring in lots of positive energy around your own responsibility of one’s own clear vision and fully grasping that.

So in summary, in my eyes, this book gave me two points. Where I was and where I wanted to go to. Using lots of NLP and energy chi exercises. It gave me lots of easy to follow drills.

The good news is that I have stopped relying on wearing glasses for the entire day. Follow his instructions I have built up time in the day where instead I take them off, warm up my eyes with the chi energy exercise and generally feel more empowered. I am not 20:20 yet, on target. I love the clear picture. For me, it’s a happy empowerment book, light yet technical, playful yet serious. Yes, the book is a gift of visual independence.