Read Again Without Glasses E-Book

Leo Angart

• Herausgeber: Crown House Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Seitenzahl: 102

Beschreibung

Leo Angart is a business consultant, author and trainer. Having worn glasses for more than 25 years he writes from personal experience. It has now been more than 19 years since he threw away his glasses. In this follow up to Improve Your Eyesight Naturally, Leo concentrates on curing presbyopia, the inability to focus on near objects. He explains what presbyopia is and how you can tone your eye muscles, release tension and build up energy in order to regain your natural eyesight. Vision Training is based on the presupposition that clear vision is a natural state and you can achieve natural clear vision via simple exercises. If your device does not recognise the videos in this title, they are available for separate download.

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Praise forRead again without glasses

“The stuff the optician won’t tell you! Leo Angart is an inspirational author and teacher and after 30 years my prescription is being reduced rather than increased. Leo has inspired me to appreciate and exercise my eyes daily and the results are amazing. Just as I’ve always thought – there really is a natural solution to everything!”

Janey Lee Grace, author of Imperfectly Natural Woman

“This book really does offer the opportunity to read again without glasses. At first I thought this was a fanciful idea but the book clearly and eloquently gives evidence to back up the claim. It debunks many of the myths around eyesight which, unfortunately, most people see as true. Having the book and DVD together is great as it offers the next best thing to going to an actual workshop. Even though the exercises are easy to follow they are still very effective. The book and DVD leave you more informed about your specific vision condition, with practical steps as to how to improve it.

b“If you are prepared to do the exercises in a non-judgemental way (i.e. by asking how can my eyes improve without laser surgery?) you will definitely reap the benefits.

“I highly recommend this book to anyone.”

Anthony Barrett, Co Developer of Sleepora

“Vision training is a vast topic and competence area, mastered by few people. There is powerful scientific material supporting vision training. At the same time our society suffers more than ever from poor vision.

“Leo Angart does important and excellent work throughout the world spreading knowledge of vision training and physiotherapy for the eyes. There is so much every one of us can do in order to see better. This knowledge is indeed precious.

“In this book he shares exactly how you can restore eyesight back to normal, even if you are in your forties and in need of reading glasses. With supportive videos coming with the book, you get all the clarity and inspiration you need. This book itself is a great achievement for mankind and highly recommended.”

Ann-Marie Näslund, Founder and CEO of Naturlig Syn, Sweden

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Thank you

First and foremost I want to thank William H. Bates, M.D., who in 1912 discovered the possibility of restoring normal reading ability. Dr. Bates is the grandfather of Vision Training as well as the developer of the Bates Method. I also want to thank Arthur Skeffington, one of the founders of Behavioral Optometry, who concluded that the function influences the structure, a basic concept in Vision Training

I would like to recognize the many learning experiences provided by the participants in my workshops around the world. It is a very special feeling when individuals discover that the exercises work and begin to imagine what it would be like to read small print again without glasses.

I also want to thank my collaborators who have made it possible for you to hold this book in your hands: Eva Spitzer, who offered many important suggestions as well as made sure that everything was correct, and Wolfgang Gillesen for always being supportive and making his great experience in this field available. Also a big thank you to Katrina Patterson for organizing more than 40 workshops in London. The pictures and video are the work of the award-winning photographer Lity Sy. A special thank you to Candice Temple for making the book read iibetter by refining my English and to Göchen Eke for his cartoon illustrations that light up the pages. And, finally, thank you to the editors and production staff at Crown House Publishing for publishing this book.

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Contents

Title PageThank you1. Introduction2. A Vision Training pioneer – William H. Bates, M.D.3. The road to the discovery of a cure for presbyopia4. Presbyopia – what is it?5. What reading glasses do to your eyes6. Computer work and reading glasses7. Bi-focal glasses8. Get your eyes tested9. Visiting the optometrist10. Understanding your prescription11. Can exercises help you to see?12. Relax and see13. Vision Training and presbyopia14. What kind of presbyopia do I have?iv15. Measure your amplitude of accommodation16. Reading small print exercise17. Using reading glasses as a tool18. If you can’t see anything without glasses19. Lazy reading exercise20. When there is a large difference between each eye21. How to check your near point for reading22. Eye coordination and reading23. Knot exercise24. Convergence and reading25. Circle exercise26. Combining convergence and visual acuity27. What is the best light for reading?28. What is color temperature?29. Chinese acupressure for the eyes30. Relieving tired eyes31. What about dry eye?32. In conclusionInterviewGlossaryBibliographyAbout the AuthorCopyright List of Video1 read again without glasses (2:58)2 vision training (1:37)3 test your reading vision (0:51)4 understand your prescription (1:02)5 reading small print exercise (2:30)6 exercise using reading glasses (0:53)7 can’t see anything without glasses (1:06)8 lazy reading (1:58)9 eye coordination (1:43)10 knot exercise (0:31)11 circle exercise (1:08)12 convergence exercise (1:23)13 getting energy to flow (2:28)14 great success (1:13)15 interview (9:17)

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1. Introduction

You have probably picked up this book because you are wearing reading glasses or have been told that you need them.

I wore glasses for 26 years – both glasses for reading and near-sight glasses. This was not because I had presbyopia but because I had -5.5 diopters of near-sight. That is, I could only see clearly to a distance of about 18 cm without glasses. So, I needed one pair of glasses for reading to bring my vision out to a normal reading range of 35 cm and another pair of glasses for distances.

In 1991, I found out how to get rid of my glasses for good. It took me three months to get from the top of the eye-chart to the 20/20 line. My eyesight has been perfect ever since. So I am speaking from personal experience.

Since 1996, I have taught Vision Training classes all over the world. During the last few years, I have developed effective methods for improving even presbyopia that is so severe that everything looks blurry without glasses.

This book is my attempt to shine some light on the subject of presbyopia. There are so many misconceptions about it. I have included some of the recent research and, once and for 2all, exposed some of the myths. The most important myth to debunk is it’s not about age.

There are videos included in this book for use in chapters 1, 4, 8, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, 29 and 32. If your device does not recognise these videos they are available for download from https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/featured-read-again. Please note that due to the restrictions of various devices the font size for some exercises may not appear as in the printed book.

If you are not sure what your vision status is, then it may be better for you to find a time to come to one of my workshops. The advantage is that you will obtain a true picture of the state of your eyesight and, more importantly, what you can do about it. And, of course, you can ask me questions face to face.

I hope that by the time you get through all the exercises in this book, you will once more be able to read without glasses.

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2. A Vision Training pioneer

William H. Bates, M.D., the grandfather of Vision Training, was himself severely presbyopic. He cured himself and then went on to develop his own methods of Vision Training. In his book, The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment without Glasses, he says:

The truth about presbyopia is that it is not “a normal result of growing old,” being both preventable and curable. It is not caused by hardening of the lens, but by straining to see at the near point. It has no necessary connection with age, since it occurs, in some cases, as early as teen years, while in others it never occurs at all. (1919: 214–215)

Dr. Bates’ main point is that vision problems mainly occur due to mental strain. So, his approach is to relax the eyes by the exercise of “palming.” This involves rubbing your hands to warm them, and then using them to cover your 4closed eyes for a period of time. He also suggested energizing the eyes by allowing the sun to shine on them through closed lids.

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3. The road to the discovery of a cure for presbyopia

William H. Bates, M.D., includes an interesting story about how he discovered the cure for presbyopia in an article printed in the magazine, Better Eyesight. Dr. Bates writes about an incident that happened around 1912 when a friend asked him to read a letter. To his embarrassment, Bates had to spend some time searching for his reading glasses.

Being a friend he could say things no other person would say. Among the disagreeable things he said was, and the tone was very empathetic, sarcastic, disagreeable, “You claim to cure people without glasses; why don’t you cure yourself?” I shall never forget those words. They stimulated me to do something. I tried all manner of means, by concentration, strain, effort, hard work, to enable myself to become able to read the newspaper at the near point. …

I consulted specialists in hypnotism, electricity experts, neurologists of all kinds and many others. One I called on, a physician who was an authority in psychoanalysis, was kind enough to listen to my problem. With as few words as 6possible I explained to him the simple method by which we diagnose near-sightedness with the retinoscope.

As I looked off into the distance, he examined my eyes, and said that they were normal, but when I made an effort to see at a distance he said that my eyes were focused for the reading distance, i.e. nearsighted. Then when I looked at fine print at the reading distance and tried to read it, he said that my eyes were focused for a distance of twenty feet or farther, and the harder I tried to read, the farther away I pushed my focus. He was convinced of the facts, namely: a strain to see at the distance produced near-sightedness, while a strain to see near produced a far-sighted eye …

Stumbling on the truth

The man who finally helped me to succeed, or rather the only man who would do anything to encourage me, was an Episcopal minister living in Brooklyn. After my evening office hours I had to travel for about two hours to reach his residence. With the aid of the retinoscope, while I was making all kinds of efforts to focus my eyes at the near point, he would tell me how well I was succeeding. After some weeks or months I had made no progress.

But one night I was looking at a picture on the wall, which had black spots in different parts of it. They were conspicuously black. While observing them my mind imagined they were dark caves and that there were people moving around in them. My friend told me my eyes were now focused at the 7near point. When I tried to read my eyes were now focused for the distance.