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8. lazy reading

19. Lazy reading exercise

The purpose of this exercise is to develop flexibility in focusing between the near point and far point, as well as sharpening your focusing powers. This exercise also develops the ability to read smoothly without regressing.

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Read again without glasses

1. Find a book or a magazine which has plenty of white

space between the lines and a typeface that appears

slightly blurred when you hold the page out in front of

you.

2. Turn the page upside down so that you cannot read the

text.

3. Run your eyes gently and slowly around the margins a

few times, looking as if from the back of your head.

4. Now choose two points at the top corners of the page,

and another point, such as a box of tissues, at a distance within the room.

5. Shift your eyes from the page to the box then back and forth.

6. Next, scan the white spaces between the lines, scanning down the page as if you were reading. By the time you are

halfway down, everything may seem clearer, but do not

strive for clarity – keep on going.

7. When you reach the bottom, turn the book or magazine

right side up, and look along the white space below the

first line of type.

8. Close your eyes now, and from memory paint imaginary

white in the space below the first line of type, then look back and forth between the text and the white space.

9. Open your eyes and scan the spaces beneath the first few lines, imagining them as being bright as snow in brilliant 64

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sunlight. Repeat this several times, alternately closing

and opening your eyes.

10. Now, float your eyes back and forth over the lines without reading.

11. Look away, then return to the page. The black of the type will seem blacker, and the white of the spaces will seem

whiter than you have ever seen them. The words will

stand out sharply.

Devote 15 minutes a day to this exercise. In the weeks that follow, gradually reduce the size of type you practice with until you are able to easily read small print.

The lazy reading exercise involves many activities and is therefore a great stimulus for both mind and visual system. Like the small print reading exercise (see Chapter 16), lazy reading also relies on the foreground/background principle. For example, if you look at wallpaper with a flower pattern you can pick one flower and bring that into the foreground, whilst the overall design remains in the background.

When we read, we naturally see the black text in the fore-

ground, since this is what we are focusing on. Switching the two around frees up the mind to do other work and we experience a relaxation of the visual system. This gives us the ability to see the text much more clearly.

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