Janet Goodrich

How to Improve Your Child's Eyesight Naturally: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a staple reference book for parents who wish to preserve and improve their childs eyesight. Filled with practical and imaginative exercises, this comprehensive resource includes detailed instructions for reversing eyesight blur, tips for adjusting living environments to support healthy vision, and hints for dealing proactively with doctors. The 90 scientifically based vision games and songs are fun, age-appropriate, and reinforce good vision habits.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Revised, New of
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 204mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780892811304
• ISBN-10: 0892811307
• Artikelnr.: 22292916

Autorenporträt

Janet Goodrich, Ph.D., (1942-1999) was also the author of Natural Vision Improvement and taught seminars worldwide on improving vision. Vision therapists in at least nine countries use her techniques. Her work continues in practice at the Janet Goodrich Centre in Queensland, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Why I Wrote This Book
Social and Optical Pressures
A New Attitude
How to Use This Book
Who Can Benefit from Using This Book?
Guidelines to Keep in Mind
How This Book Is Organized
No More Glasses
PART 1: A Fresh View of Children's Vision
1 People and Glasses
A Brief History of Glasses
Children in Glasses
The Beginning of the Janet Goodrich Method
Those Who Wanted Children Out of Glasses
Honored Voices Ignored
A Natural Way to Healing
2 Causes of Imperfect Eyesight
What Is Eyesight?
Who Says It's Faulty?
Testing Vision Creates Blur
Vision Fluctuates
Theories Proposed and Rejected
Don't Discuss Feelings
The World at Large
The Real Cause of Faulty Vision
3 The Optical Industry and Natural Vision Improvement
Professional Offerings
Ophthalmologists Are Medical Doctors
Optometrists Are Everywhere
Natural Vision Improvement Method Teachers
How to Help Your Eye Doctor Give You What You Want
The Office Visit
Researching Surgery
Obtaining and Using Transition Glasses
Prescription Guidelines
4 Parent Power and Home Science
Two Views of Parents
Healing the Parent
Home Science As the New Authority
Keeping a Vision Journal
Your Own History
This Wonderful Child
Doctors' Reports and Prescriptions
5 A Child Grows Vision
What Is a Child?
Is Childhood Special?
The Self-Regulated Child
Babies Are the Real Experts
Stages of Growth
PART 2: Keen Eyesight for Every Child
6 Your Child's Electric Body
Use Reflex Points to Help Vision
Preverbal Language
What About "Born with It"?
Point Holding
The Peace Point
Loving Support Points
Angel Wing Points
Ouch Points
Blindness Points
The Ugly Duckling Point
Tickle Zones
Massage Muscles Related to Eyesight
A Whole Baby/Child Massage
Massage for the Trapezius
Massage for Neck Flexors
Timetable for Massage and Point Holding
7 Vision is Alive and Well in the Brain
Eyes Are Ruled by the Brain
Dueling Hemispheres
More Compassion Please
Playing in the Hemispheres
Short- and Long-Term Memory Games
Put Your Brains Together
Cross-Crawl Dancing
Timetable for Cross-Crawl
The Question of Dominance
8 Eyes Must Move to See
Eyes Grasp the World with Saccadic Motion
Babies Don't Stare
Rock-a-Bye My Baby
Rocking, Rolling, Bouncing
Dance of the Eaglet Swing
Faces
Make a Mobile
Muscles behind the Movement
How We Create Blurred Vision
The Magic Nose Pencil
The Magic Nose Paintbrush
Painting Pictures Game
Bird Swing
The Near-Far Swing
Ball Games Galore
The Rainbow Ribbon Wand
Blinking
Breathing and Yawning
Swing It, Sing It, Dance It
Timetable for Movement
Nuclear Vision
A Trip to Fovea Centralis
Intensify the Blur
The Nuclear Junk Box
Counting Games
Hidden Pictures
Nuclear Vision on Eye Charts
Timetable for Nuclear Vision Games
9 Mad about Sunlight
Are Eyeglasses Good for Kids?
Light Food for Thought
Why Eyes Need Sunlight
Sunning Games
Color Therapy
Blue Lagoon
Prebirth Sunning
Timetable for Sunning
Scared of the Dark
10 Children Relax with Imagination and Color
Are Children Relaxed?
Home Again in the Self
Imagining with Palming
Autosuggestion Training
Bedtime Story
The Ugly Duckling Story
Color All Your Life
Emotional Healing for Imagining
Scary Stories
What Happens Next?
Sculpting Monsters
Timetable for Colors and Imagining
11 Feelings and Eyesight
What Do You Feel?
Seven Emotions
Eyes Talk
Playacting
Melting Beach Balls
Take a Deep Breath
Yawning with the Lions
Huff-Puff
Joyful Seeing and Singing
Timetable for Emotional Expression
12 Winning Eye Tests without Glasses
The Unspoken Obligation in Eye Tests
Make Your Own Eye Charts
The Great White Glow
A White Thing
The Magic Nose Paintbrush Paints White
Fishing and Finding
What Is Reading?
Paint White
Emotions and Reading
PART 3: Specific Programs for Specific Problems
13 Myopia
What Is Myopia?
When Does Myopia Start?
Transition Glasses for Young Myopes
Think Twice about Surgery
What Myopia Feels Like Inside
Emotional Healing for Myopia
The Myopia/Hyperopia Connection
Reversing Myopia with NVI
The Fishing Rod Story
Timetable for Myopia Games
14 Hyperopia
What Is Hyperopia?
Many Children Outgrow Hyperopia
What Hyperopia Feels Like Inside
Emotional Healing for Hyperopia
Reversing Hyperopia with NVI
Shifting Images
The Ant Queen
The Swinging Ball
Timetable for Hyperopia Games
15 Astigmatism
What Is Astigmatism?
The Cause of Astigmatism
How Correction Is Determined
It Appears and Disappears
An Astigmatism Prescription
Erase Astigmatism with NVI
Zoo Train
Birds on a Wire
What Astigmatism Feels Like Inside
Emotional Healing for Astigmatism
Other Therapies
16 Strabismus and Lazy Eyes
What Is Strabismus?
Why Eyes Turn
The Medical Response
Behavioral Optometrists Train Turned Eyes
Cranial Adjustment
Your Options
Straighten Turned Eyes with NVI
Games for Babies with Turned Eyes
Directional Tromboning
"Photographing" the Light
Phoria Ball Games
Timetable for Phoria Ball Games
Who's That in the Mirror?
The Windmill Swing
Pirate Patching
Emotional Healing for Strabismus
Timetable for Strabismus
Heading for Fusion
17 Fusion
What Is Fusion?
The Physical Side of Fusion
Reasons for Not Fusing
Why Is Fusion Important?
When to Do Fusion Games
Fusion Level One: The Gate
Fusion Level Two: The Bug and Bead Game
Fusion Level Three: Fish in a Bowl
Fusion Level Four: Magic Eyes
Angel Halos
Alternating Vision
The Butterfly Mask
Candles in the Dark
Feeling Fusion
Emotional Healing for Fusion
Timetable for Fusion
PART 4: Home and School Environments
18 Sugar and Sore Eyes
Bodies Are Made of Food
Sugar Blues
Sugar Hit Parade
Why People Want Sugar
What You Can Do
A Good Start
Emotional Healing for Sugar Freaks
19 Your Child's Room
Lighting, Computers, Homework
Design a Vision Nest for Eaglets
Outdoor Play Areas
20 The Hazardous Classroom
History of Western Schooling
New Hazards for Old
Posture and Seeing
Emotional Healing for Going to School
A Great Day for Eyes at School
Children in the Fast Lane
Parents Make It Happen
Assets and Support
Glossary
References
Recommended Reading
Resources
Index