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Exercising Close Vision Accommodation

Poster: “Letter Size” Exercise 1

• Cover your right eye with one hand. Don’t apply pressure. During the exercise, continue blinking the eye that is covered. Hold the page with the text vertically in front of you with the other hand.
• Focus with your left eye on a word in the first paragraph. Now, with or without glasses or contact lenses, move the text close to the eye until the word becomes blurred. Move the text away from your eye and then move it so close to your eye that the word disappears completely. Read the rest of this entry »

Visualization uses the power of your imagination to evoke changes in your mind or body. When you create a mental image of what you would like to manifest, your mind and body respond to the picture as though it were a real experience. Visualization can improve your health and can help you to replace negative habits with positive, life-affirming ones. Every action you take begins with a thought and an image in your mind. Read the rest of this entry »

Poster: “Color Fusion”

• Hold one finger midway between the tip of your nose and the picture. Look at the finger with both eyes, not the picture. Do you see four images in the background two blue and two red?
• If not, in quick succession close one eye and then t other while still looking at your finger. Do the two dots in the background jump to the left and then to t right? Read the rest of this entry »

Poster: “Landscape“

This exercise trains your eyes to provide a quick, accurate, and detailed comprehension of pictorial information. The two exercises will increase your short-term visual memory.

Exercise 1

• Take your time, relax, and look at the photo.
• Close your eyes and try to imagine the picture with your inner eye. Let your imagination color the photo like a picture in a child’s coloring book. Read the rest of this entry »

Exercise 1

Look to the left and inhale. Hold the tension in the muscles of your eyes and count to three. Exhale. Look straight ahead again. Take a deep breath and relax.

Exercise 2

Look to your right and inhale. Hold the tension in your eye muscles and count to three. Exhale. Look straight ahead again. Take a deep breath and relax.

Exercise 3

Look at the ceiling and inhale. Hold the tension in your eye muscles and count to three. Exhale. Look straight ahead again. Take a deep breath and relax. Read the rest of this entry »

Many exercise programs fail because they take up too much time. Our short exercise program tries to avoid this pitfall. Although you’ll only need a little time, two or three minutes for the whole program, it is extremely effective, particularly when you do it several times during the day.

The program consists of twenty exercises that you do consecutively. The individual steps are easy to learn, and most of them you already know from the five lessons. Read the rest of this entry »