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6 Weeks to Better Eyesight Live Group Zoom Course Sept-Nov 2023
ALL LESSON VIDEOS:
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Lesson 1 Material | Lesson 2 Material | Lesson 3 Material | Lesson 4 Material | Lesson 5 Material
PRE-COURSE HANDOUTS (also sent by email 19-09-23)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PRE-COURSE VISION TEST
Just a note to say that the best distance to test your reading vision is at approx 40cm/16 inches. Approximately is sufficient. You can measure this with a tape measure orby putting your closed fist under your chin and placing your elbow on the page. If this doesn’t work well for you in order to be able to read one paragraph almost clearly, with some paragraphs below that are still blurry, try a distance that feels easier.
Measure your vision from the distance chart at 20ft, or at whichever distance you can see a line either clearly or better than the others, with lines below that are still blurry.
The key thing for both charts is to note the distance down, so that it provides a measurable starting point and you can repeat it when you wish.
Even if you don’t struggle at one or either of the distances, it’s still useful to do both tests, as your vision may well improve further during the course.
In this picture, you can see how palming supports are used during Palming:
LESSON 1 Intro & How Vision Works Fundamentals
6 Weeks to Better Eyesight -Content and Structure
6 Weeks to Better Eyesight – Course AIMS
6 Weeks to Better Vision Course – Vision Test & Practice Sheet
Peter Mansfield Making Sense of Experience
Peter Mansfield The Process of Poor Vision
Peter Mansfield The Process of Good Vision
Peter Mansfield The Eyes as Children
PALMING pdf
Palming Positions Aug 2022
Vision Diary pdf
Splashing and Compresses
LESSON 2 More Fundamentals
Preparing your Chart pdf
Pinhole Glasses 2021 pdf
DISTANCE – How to look into the Distance
SIDE VISION Part 1 pdf *
SIDE VISION PART 2 pdf *
Counting Objects and Pairs pdf
Bates Method trained optometrist for vision improvement clients pdf
Reduced READING Glasses 2022 pdf
ENJOYING the journey pdf
* these handouts contain some totally optional, but useful exercises
- an object you really like to look at, which has texture and colour, about fist size, eg a pretty rock, a pine cone, a squeeze ball etc – needed for Lesson 3.
- two brightly coloured (constrasting colours) post-it notes – for Lesson 3
- a tennis ball and a strip of white paper, approx 2×6 inches in size, and some sellotape – for lesson 4 onwards.
- save two paper towel rolls (empty) for a future lesson, as well as a few inches of string and some scissors – ditto lesson 4
- ca 1.5 metres of string, and some small beads, about the size of a pea or slightly larger- ditto Lesson 4 onwards.
Here are photos of the only props that need to be put together. If you can make the Tubes and Nose Card in advance of Lesson 4, that would be very helpful as we’ll be using them in the lesson. We will wait until Less0n 5 to use the string. For Lesson 4 you’ll also need the the third prop in the list above.
Info on the Lamp is below.
LESSON 3 Screen Use for Better Vision
MINDFULNESS & Personal Growth
Better Screen Use information
The SWAY
SUNNING
Optional extra Sunning demonstration video
Sunning LAMP
Looking for a COLOUR technique
Using a FUN OBJECT
Optional Activity for in between Lessons 3 and 4
It has been scientifically shown that spending just 5 minutes each day in a state of Awe, has fantastic benefits for our mental and physical health. Being in awe means being in a state of deep appreciation of and connection with the beauty, complexity, brilliance, majesty etc., of something that you are looking at or experiencing. When we experience awe, we are naturally and effortlessly in the present moment. Spending time in Nature has also been shown to be very healing for us, so I would suggest choosing natural objects or environments for this most of the time.
It has also been said that in our modern lives, we seldom spend much time just looking anymore. Just relaxing and taking the time to just look at something or a scene in front of us. Yet this kind of slow, relaxed interest in details around us is integral to clear, relaxed vision. Relaxed, slow, simply looking, is a habit that we have lost as a culture. Let’s start to reclaim it for ourselves, for the benefit of our health and vision.
- If you can, daily or at least regularly, until Lesson 4 next week, take time out to look at an attractive object you like, and follow the instructions on the sheet below. You may feel a sense of awe in some way. If not, alternate with objects or environments that do give you a sense of awe, using the instructions on the handout below.
- Then share your experience with the other participants, by posting on the Whatsapp group feed. This will be for the group to share and experience, I will read everything but the input will be your own.
Instructions: Looking at pleasant object with TOUCH in the Near Distance pdf.
And here is a poem to inspire you hopefully!
Enjoy 🙂
CHARTS
it’s helpful to have different types of charts to look at when improving your eyesight. We’ll start some chart work techniques in the next lesson. The chart you already have is perfectly adequate for this, and I’ll send a few more by email, (like the ones below), after the next lesson.
However if you wish to purchase any of these charts, printed on quality gloss paper, cut to size, which will be useful in the next course as well, and will last for many years, I have some available to buy, in the photo below. All of these printed charts are scored in half, so that they fold easily and fit into an envelope – like the black one in the photo below. The printed charts cost £10 each, and for 2 or more, £8 each. There will soon be a second version of the white letters on black available, which is like the central white chart in the photo.
LESSON 4 Myopia/Short-Sight
Facial Massage & Easy Chinese Acupressure
Acupressure Points for Myopia
MELISSA exercise by Meir Schneider pdf
Releasing strain & trauma in the body through Body Therapies
A4 Eye Charts
Working with a Chart Part 1
A Question to reflect on – the sub-conscious mind
See with the eyes of a child pdf
LESSON 5 Reading Vision (Presbyiopia) & Long Sight
NEW Workshop to replace the Revision Workshop:
Instead of the Revision Workshop, I’ll be taking a short break and then offering a Clear Vision Essentials Workshop, covering lots of fundamental techniques, for Beginners or those wishing to get more practice and revise.
All handouts and charts emailed to you. DATE: Wed 29th Nov, TIME: 6.30-8.45pm – £30.
For more info: Clear Vision Essentials Workshop
Downloads
Olden days appreciation of the written word PDF
Corbett Bates The Art of Reading techniques for Reading Vision
Very fine microscopic print – improving Central Fixation – reading vision – myopia PDF
Ammended version of Graduated Print Reading Practice – It was Mid-October pdf
Esther van der Werf – Love the Fine Print
Graduated print from Dr Bates – Thin White Line Technique – Better Eyesight Magazine pdf
SMALL Snellen Charts
MINI Snellen Charts
More Small Print Charts
Graduated print page of Quotations
Facial Massage/Acupressure for Long-sighedness and Reading vision
SHIFTERS
Using a shifter will help your eyes to relax, improving clarity at all distances. Releasing unconscious habits of staring and strain which are intrinsic to most visual difficulties, a Shifter encourages the eyes to relax, and helps facilitate better, more relaxed and natural habits of seeing to return. With regular use, you’ll find your eyes feel freer, more rested, and that you are seeing more clearly. This is a fast way to relax the eyes and improve your visual habits, with increased saccadic shifts and relaxation.
It’s fine to make your own, and it can be a fun project, but the slots need to be quite FINE. Big slots aren’t as effective.
The shifters stick together with the tape that is already in position on the tabs.
They also preferably need to be able to be softly bent in an arc around the face, the ends are held in each hand in front of the face.
Slotted shifters are £13.50 each including postage
Picket Fence (black and white shifters – two sided) are £13.50 each
Or purchase online at the non-discounted price: Purchase Shifter
