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Improving Close Vision -- Read Without Glasses at Any Age
Overview: How to Improve Your Reading and Close Vision
Welcome and Contact Info
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If you don't use it, you lose it (2:22)
Review: How the Eyes Focus (3:25)
Dr. Bates Questions and Answers
Warmup: Get Your Eyes Shifting Again
Shifter: Learn how to get your eyes shifting again (1:54)
Shifting With a Page of Print on Its Side: Head Swing (2:11)
10 Tips for Reading: Tip #1
Tip #1 Bring the Print Closer (4:42)
Troubleshooting Session on Tip #1: Bring the Print Closer (4:22)
First Daily Challenge: Look Closer (3:22)
Tip #2 Move your head to read
Tip #2 Move Your Head to Read (1:56)
Daily Challenge #2: Shift With Letters (4:02)
Daily Challenge: Shift and Zig-Zag on Letters (1:36)
Tip #3 Make no effort to clear up the blur
Tip #3 Make No Effort to Clear Up the Blur (6:45)
See from the Back of the Head (3:37)
What Gave Harvey Perfect Sight (1:29)
Daily Challenge: Clear the Morning Blur
Tip #4 Read the white, not the black
Tip #4 Read the white, not the black (1:47)
Are white letters or black letters easier to read? (0:41)
Seeing Halos and the Thin White Line (2:37)
How Lillian Learned to See the Thin White Line (1:13)
Tip #5 Imagine the white to be whiter than it really is
Tip #5 Imagine the White to be Whiter (3:15)
John's Story: How the Imagination of White Helps
Other Ways to Use Memory and Imagination to Improve Vision (1:55)
Daily Challenge: Imagine Smaller Detail (2:19)
Tip #6 Use a pointer
Tip #6 Use a pointer (3:32)
Using a Pointer When on a Computer (1:56)
Demo: How to Break the Stare When Reading -- Using a Card to Guide the Eyes and Mind (2:58)
Daily Challenge: Use a Pointer (2:10)
Tip #7 Close your eyes frequently to rest them
Tip #7 Close your eyes frequently to rest them (2:09)
How to Rest Your Eyes (2:44)
Troubleshooting Session -- How to Rest the Eyes When Reading (6:12)
Daily Challenge: Rest Your Eyes Frequently (1:51)
Daily Challenge: Palm Five Minutes Every Hour (4:12)
Tip #8 Blink often
Tip #8 Blink often (2:18)
Daily Challenge: Blink Lightly (2:10)
Tip #9 Read smaller-size type
Tip #9 Read smaller-size type (3:54)
How to Read Micro-Print (21:10)
Daily Challenge: Read Smaller Size Type (3:21)
Tip #10 Practice in dim light
Tip #10 Practice in dim light (2:11)
Daily Practice: Seeing in Dim Light
Putting it All Together: What Exactly To Do -- Physically and Mentally
The Mechanics for Reading Fine Print (12:11)
The Mind: How to Focus Your Attention to Read Fine Print (9:15)
Bonus Techniques
Alternate Technique: See the Periphery Worse (5:33)
Gloria's Favorite: Jiggling the Page (1:32)
Andy's Favorite: Thumb Shifting & Motion (19:09)
Debra's Favorite: Breathing (0:45)
Bonus Technique: Remember clarity (1:36)
ADVANCED Technique: Short Swing / Optical Swing (6:03)
ADVANCED Technique: Universal Swing (4:17)
What to Practice
How to Keep Good Vision for Life (2:51)
A Simple 5-Minute Daily Practice to Maintain Your Sight (1:02)
Thank you
Questions & Answers
What Is Presbyopia? (2:58)
When Letters Clear Up, Why Do They Look Bigger? (2:14)
How Can You Get Out of Glasses When You Need Them to Read? (6:53)
How to Thread a Needle Without Glasses (1:07)
Tip #3 Make No Effort to Clear Up the Blur
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