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9
March 2009
Visions of Joy News!
Contents of this
issue:
- Welcome
- Radio interview on 10 March
- 2nd British Natural Eyesight Conference
- New pages on the Visions of Joy Website
- Visions of Joy now on Facebook and Twitter
- Distance of the Eye-Chart, by Dr. Bates
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WELCOME to those who
receive Visions of Joy News for the first time!
I hope you enjoy this somewhat irregular newsletter about natural eyesight
improvement and that you will find it helpful on your personal path to
clarity.
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RADIO
INTERVIEW
'Solutions
to Aging' host Stuart Spangenberg will be interviewing Esther on Highway
to Health Radio tomorrow (Wednesday 10 March 2010). Listen
in at 3pm Pacific Time, 6pm Eastern Time.
To
call in to the show, dial (321) 354-6946, and use 578782 as the ID.
The archive of the show will be available to listen to online
sometime within the next week or so, and will be posted here.
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2nd
BRITISH NATURAL EYESIGHT CONFERENCE
Just an advance notice so you can make plans to attend this vision event
if you like. The dates for the
2nd
British Natural Eyesight Conference
are 29 – 31 October 2010. The
main focus will be 'Bates and Children', yet it will be an interesting and
valuable conference for children of all ages!
Esther will be speaking at this conference, as well as giving a
workshop, and more information will follow in the next newsletter.
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NEW
PAGES ADDED TO VISIONS OF JOY
Useful 'vision
aids' to help you on your path to clarity have been added to the website
recently, as well as a page that peruses the interesting history about Dr.
Bates' book Perfect
Sight Without Glasses.
Enjoy, and feel free to send feedback!
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DISTANCE
OF THE EYE-CHART
by William H. Bates MD
The
distance of the eye-chart from the patient is a matter of considerable
importance. Some patients
improve more rapidly when the chart is placed fifteen or twenty feet away
while others fail to get any benefit with the chart at this distance.
In
some cases the best results are obtained when the chart is as close as one
foot. I recall a patient with
very poor sight who made no progress whatever, when the chart was placed
at ten feet or further, but became able to improve the vision very
materially with the chart at about six inches.
After the vision was improved at six inches the patient became able
to improve the chart at a greater distance until normal sight was obtained
at twenty feet. Some cases
with poor vision may not improve when the chart is placed at ten feet or
further, or at one foot or less but do much better when the chart is
placed at a middle distance, at about eight or ten feet.
Other individuals may not improve their vision at all at ten feet,
but are able to improve their sight at twenty feet or at one foot.
I recall one patient with 20 diopters of myopia whose vision at ten
feet was peculiar. The letters
at twenty feet and at one foot were apparently all the same normal size,
but at ten feet they appeared to be one-fifth of the normal size.
Practicing with the chart at twenty feet or at one foot helped him
greatly, more than practicing with the chart at about ten feet.
While some patients are benefited by practicing with the chart
daily always at the same distance, there are others who seem to be
benefited when the distance of the chart is changed daily.
(Better
Eyesight
magazine, April 1924)
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If
only we could give up, let go, let the thing be done for us,
of how much strain would we rid ourselves!
What a difference between trying to do a thing and doing it;
between trying to see and seeing!
L.M.
Stanton, MD
(Better Eyesight magazine,
January 1927)
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Thank you for reading Visions of Joy News; please share it with your friends!
Enjoy your path to clarity.
Love,
Esther
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Esther Joy van der Werf
www.VisionsOfJoy.org
Natural Eyesight Improvement &
Optimal Breathing Development
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