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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Materials for Getting Started | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Healing Myself of Blindness | |
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| Discovering the Bates Method | |
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| Seeing the Light | |
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| Ten Steps to Better Vision | |
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| The Long Swing | |
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| How to Do the Long Swing | |
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| Looking into the Distance | |
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| Looking into the Distance Can Help Prevent Cataracts! | |
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| Exploring the Periphery | |
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| Look at the Distance | |
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| The Small Pieces of Paper | |
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| Sunning and Skying | |
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| Sunning | |
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| Skying | |
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| Night Walking | |
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| Palming | |
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| Preparing to Palm | |
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| How to Palm | |
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| How Long Should You Palm? | |
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| Visualization While Palming | |
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| Breathing While Palming | |
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| Relaxing the Ears | |
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| Benefits of Palming | |
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| Combining Palming with Other Exercises | |
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| Shifting | |
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| Practicing Shifting | |
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| Look at More Details | |
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| Read the Fine Print | |
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| The Ink is Black and the Page is White | |
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| Comprehension Problems with the Weaker Eye | |
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| Blocking the Strong Eye | |
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| Cheap Sunglasses | |
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| Look at Details One More Time | |
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| Blink | |
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| Vision and Body | |
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| Walking Correctly | |
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| Rest Your Eyes | |
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| The Power of Breath | |
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| Loosen Your Neck | |
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| Stretch Your Eye Muscles | |
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| Enjoy the View | |
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| Don't Squint | |
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| Ready to Move On | |
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| Computer Use and Relieving Built-Up Fatigue | |
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| Improving and Correcting Errors of Refraction | |
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| Suggestions for Using This Part of the Book | |
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| Where Do Corrective Lenses Fit into These Exercises? | |
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| Correcting Myopia and Hyperopia | |
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| Myopia | |
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| Exercise Program for Myopia | |
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| An Additional Note about Myopia | |
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| Hyperopia | |
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| Exercise Program for Hyperopia: 90 Minutes a Day | |
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| Correcting Presbyopia | |
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| Exercise Program for Presbyopia: 60-90 Minutes a Day | |
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| Extra Exercises for Presbyopia | |
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| Blinking One Eye | |
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| Reading in Dim Light | |
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| Look Near/Look Far | |
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| Headlines and Large and Small Print | |
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| Creating Controlled Stress on the Ciliary Muscle for Strength | |
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| Unfreezing | |
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| Correcting Astigmatism | |
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| Note for Astigmatic Readers | |
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| Exercise Program for Astigmatism | |
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| Extra Exercises for Astigmatism | |
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| Headlines | |
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| Glow in the Dark | |
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| Overcoming Cross-Sightedness and Lazy Eye | |
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| Correcting Cross-Sightedness | |
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| Exercise Program for Cross-Sightedness: At Least 90 Minutes a Day | |
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| Extra Exercises for Cross-Sightedness | |
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| Rotate the Eyes; Look into the Darkness | |
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| Mirror Images | |
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| The Melissa Exercise | |
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| Beads on a String | |
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| Holding Double | |
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| Two-Color Exercise (Beak Glasses) | |
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| Red and Green Glasses | |
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| Object and Line | |
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| Card Game | |
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| Pathology Conditions | |
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| Correcting Cataracts | |
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| Exercise Program for Cataracts | |
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| A Note about Cataract Surgery | |
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| Extra Exercise for Cataracts: Bounce and Catch | |
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| Correcting Diabetes | |
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| Exercise Program for Diabetes: 40 Minutes Daily | |
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| Extra Exercises for Diabetes | |
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| Tapping | |
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| Waving | |
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| Patch the Strong Eye | |
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| A Note about Laser Treatments | |
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| Cataracts and Diabetes | |
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| Correcting Glaucoma | |
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| Exercise Program for Glaucoma | |
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| Physical Exercises for Glaucoma | |
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| Special Instructions for Palming with Glaucoma | |
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| Exercises for Glaucoma | |
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| Correcting Optic Neuritis | |
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| Correcting Detached Retinas and Retinal Tears | |
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| Exercise Program for Retinal Detachment | |
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| Extra Exercise for Retinal Detachment: Darkness and Light | |
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| Correcting Vitreous Detachment | |
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| Correcting Macular Puckers and Holes | |
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| Exercise Program for Macular Puckers and Holes: 80 Minutes a Day | |
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| Extra Exercise for Macular Puckers and Holes: Pinhole Glasses | |
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| Correcting Retinitis Pigmentosa | |
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| Exercise Program for Retinitis Pigmentosa | |
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| Extra Exercises for Retinitis Pigmentosa | |
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| The Mask of Zorro | |
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| Waving Lights in the Dark | |
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| A Final Note about Peripheral Exercises | |
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| The Blind Spots of Conventional Wisdom | |
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| The Hidden Danger of Sunglasses | |
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| The Dangers of Corrective Lenses | |
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| Conclusion: The Real Cost of Vision Problems | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |