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 Improve Your Eyesight : Vision Therapy Eye Exercises--Updates Bates Method (1 Hour and 30 Minute Video and Eye Chart Included)
ASIN: 0970015003
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Drawn from the latest and most up to date optical research
Comments: Accompanied by an eye chart and a video tape, James Bellevue's Improve Your Eyesight is specifically intended for the non-specialist general reader seeking to use his or her eyes more efficiently and effectively for the simple purpose of seeing better. Bellevue points out that almost all seeing is self-taught, and as with any other motor skill, can be trained and developed to an optimal peak of performance. Improvement can actually be great enough to make contact lenses and vision defect corrective eyeglasses unnecessary. Through suggested skill building techniques, often dramatic improvements can be made for such conditions as nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, decreasing vision associated with advancing age, and more. Improve Your Eyesight basically updates the classic "Bates Method" with applications drawn from the latest and most up to date optical research. Four complete vision therapy programs are provided, plus guidelines to customizing a program for the individual reader's needs. The text is enhanced with on-screen exercises provided by the accompanying video tape. Improve Your Eyesight is a very welcome and uniquely original contribution to alternative health and medicine reference and resource materials.
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 The Power Behind Your Eyes: Improving Your Eyesight With Integrated Vision Therapy
ASIN: 0892815361
Customer's Rating: 2
Summary: overall a good philosophy, but poorly written
Comments: I'm returning to vision therapy fairly nearsighted with -7.5 diopters in both eyes, but with memory of past success in vision therapy programs as a youth. Kaplan takes a holistic approach to vision therapy, tying in emotional development and current life patterns to vision health. I too subscribe to a holistic approach, but I find myself unable to sit through the book's presentation for long: It's heavy on anecdotes, ruminations, reflections, imaginary stories, analogies and the like, but light on actual substantative advice. Ironically, I find this book on vision therapy surprisingly unfocused! Only about 30 of the 180 pages are devoted to explaining vision techniques to practice, and even some of these are hidden within the text undistinguished. This sparseness is evidenced by the the length of book's appendix "Essential Integrated Vision Therapy Program": it's only a short column long. I'd also like to have seen footnotes citing specific studies, rather than relying on anecdotes and the bibliography, especially in support of some of his more surprising claims, such as that iris texture reflects personality type (Rayid). While this book does take a holistic approach to vision therapy -- which I think useful to anyone with poor vision health -- I'd look elsewhere for a concise and substantive book that's also easy to digest and apply.
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 Visionetics: The Holistic Way to Better Eyesight
ASIN: 0385132794
Customer's Rating: 3
Summary: Not bad but not really my style...
Comments: I don't think that you'll ever find a more sincere author than Lisette Scholl. She provides a VAST array of vision improvement techniques from both the East and West. The core of it all seems to be based on the Bates method which is also available at amazon if you're curious. However I am not one of those people who is good at designing their own daily vision programs when faced with so very very very many vision exercises. It was all a bit overwhelming to me I guess. It wasn't for lack of trying though. I literally did ALL of the exercises in Visionetics back when the tape was available along with the book well over a year. But heh, maybe that's just me. My results? Except for tantalizingly brief moments of clear vision, I never achieved anything more. I admit that I may be more at fault than the book. You see it's only human nature that we have an affinity for some teachers and learn tons therefrom, and with others even though they may be very good we get much less educated. For me at least Visionetics gets a bit too much into the Western psychotherapeutic pent up emotional release stuff with which I feel no for affinity whatsoever. And if you're not into New Age stuff then you might not care for this book either. The latter doesn't bother me as long as its based on more than just "subjectivisms." Thankfully Lissette generally bases her assertions on credible existing theories or at least on her first-hand experiences. Pretty refreshing considering all the nutty new age books out there with assertions in print based on nothing at all. So personally I don't use Visionetics anymore. I prefer a bit more systematic methodology, so I finally just had to bite the bullet and lay down two C notes for the See Clearly Method with which I've had very gratifying results in only a few weeks. Like I said at the beginning of this review, I simply am one of those people who needs a VERY structured method so that I KNOW exactly what to do, when and for exactly how long. So I naturally gravitated towards the SCM. However, if you're more creative and free form, then perhaps with its open ended methodologies Visionetics is for you. The Bates method has had a strong following for many many years, and I tend to think that means something. The fact that Visionets is primarily based on the Bates Method should encourage those who are less systematic than myself to give Visionetic a try. It might just be what you've been searching for. Best of luck.
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Also See:
Bates Method
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