1. Place the Snellen chart at a distance where the largest letter is slightly blurry. Looking at the top of the largest letter on the chart, its lower part should be less visible than the top. With vision problems, patients very rarely manage to notice such an observation.
2. Look around the letter and find a point of view from which you can see the top of the largest letter the sharpest. Some people achieve this by looking in one place and simultaneously turning their head. Some find that their central fixation point is several feet away from the chart when placed at a considerable distance!
3. After locating the point of greatest sharpness, smoothly move your gaze up and down the letter to the best seen spot.
4. Perform this exercise six times and apply palming for a minute. Repeat this cycle as long as it is not tiring for you.

For this exercise, you will need a "dotted letter" chart. The advantage of this exercise is that the letters are drawn in dots, allowing you to improve your reading skills dot by dot, thus strengthening central fixation.

1. Begin the exercise with large font, scanning the first letter dot by dot with your eyes.
2. Then, look at the top of the letter while trying to see the bottom of the letter worse. Now, look at the bottom of the letter, seeing the top worse. You should observe an apparent movement of the letter opposite to the direction of your gaze. Repeat this 6 times.
3. Now, look at the right side of the letter, seeing the left side worse. And vice versa, look at the left side of the letter, seeing the right side worse. You should observe an apparent movement of the letter opposite to the direction of your gaze. Repeat this 6 times.

This exercise requires a domino chart.

1. Place the chart in front of you in such a distance so that the cubes of a domino are visible not having to strain the sight.
2. Move your eyes through the consecutive rows of cubes of a domino, from left to right, and then again to the left but a row below. Continue the practice until you reach the bottom row.
3. Now, move your eyes through the vertical columns until you reach the last one.
4. Then, practice oblique eye movement through vertical columns until you reach the last one.
5. Now, practice oblique movement across a cube upwards and a cube downwards.
6. You can modify the eye movement across the domino cubes as you like. This exercise is aimed to make the eyes move in as many different ways as possible. Do not try to see the domino dots but focus on the smooth eye movement.

The desire to see and notice something we care about causes both psychological tension and tension in the visual system, which significantly impairs the vision process. An analogy can be seen to the process of remembering facts or events. As long as we strain our minds and make an effort to remember something, our efforts are fruitless. However, when the effort of our minds is dispersed and we don't strain ourselves, we suddenly recall the seemingly impossible thing after such "letting go".

The same is true for vision.

Techniques designed to convince exercisers of the apparent motion of external world objects, as well as the sensation of the eye's immobility, were named by Dr. Bates as "swaying". They help to understand the essence of movement, which increases the relaxation of the body and eyes. In this way, we allow our psyche to breathe and relax the mind, allowing the eyes to look but not see.

Without movement, there is no vision. A state of immobility of the eye muscles and the visual organ results in a "staring" gaze, blurred and cloudy vision, and an inability to see correctly. The process of proper vision consists of minimal and continuous eye movements. People with normal vision, when carefully observing an object, keep their eyes in a position where they move continuously, minimally, and unconsciously from one point of the object to another.

The analytical looking exercise described here aims to teach you such minimal and continuous eye movements. At first, these will be conscious actions, but over time, your vision will learn to do this automatically and unconsciously.

1. Looking at a building, for example, try to first outline the external contour of the building, along the gutters, roof, and ground.
2. Then direct your gaze sequentially to its windows, doors, railings, and roof tiles. Try to "outline" with your eyes the external edges of these elements. Choose shapes that are abundant or, for example, symmetrical so that your vision does not get bored. Jump from one element to another, selecting different types and directions of eye movement. Do not try to see these parts of the building sharply.
3. Blink freely to keep your eyes properly moisturized and give them a moment of relaxation.

Imagination work can have an extraordinary impact on our mind and body. Each visualization technique involves the work of the visual system, including changing the accommodation of the eyes. These techniques will not only help us increase eye relaxation but also strengthen the power and sharpness of our vision. These exercises are best done during palming when our eyes are in the process of dynamic relaxation.

Below are several examples of visualizations that you can use or create your own based on them.

1. Sit comfortably in a chair, relax, and close your eyes.
2. Imagine that you are standing on the quay of a harbor, opposite a moored large passenger ship.

   On several decks, you see chatting passengers, running children, and tables set up in the bar. Some are looking at the land, while others walk around the decks. The huge ship slowly moves away from the shore. As it moves away, you see fewer details on the decks. Windows and people's figures become smaller. More space is occupied by the sea around the ship. The sun is shining. The ship gradually moves further away, becoming smaller, and fewer details are visible. Finally, the ship is so far away that it becomes a tiny speck on the horizon.

3. Now try to reverse the direction of events and let the ship slowly sail towards you from afar, becoming larger. You gradually begin to see more details on the decks, recognize people, and various elements of the ship. Gradually increase the ship's approach until it reaches the port where you are standing.
4. Repeat the process of the ship moving away and approaching several times in your mind. Gradually speed up this process. Each time the ship must reach the horizon line and become barely visible, a tiny speck.
5. Without interrupting the imagery of the receding and approaching ship, try to observe how this visualization affects your eyes and their movement. This exercise, although taking place with closed eyes, has an excellent effect on the muscles and refraction of the eyeball. It also provides excellent relaxation.

1. Sit comfortably in a chair, relax, close your eyes.
2. Imagine that you are standing at the start of a race on a large elliptical track.

   Several runners are lining up for the race, and you will be observing them at the start/finish line. Try to look closely at them and see as many details as possible in their outfits and behavior. Now imagine that the race begins, and you watch as the runners run farther away, moving away from you and moving along the track in an ellipse. You see fewer and fewer details as the runners get further away, until they become just tiny dots in the farthest place from you.

3. Now the runners, running along the track, gradually approach the finish line and you. You notice more and more details among the runners, their outfits, expressions, and behavior. They gradually get closer and closer until they reach the finish line where you stand.
4. Repeat in your mind the runners moving away and approaching several times. Gradually speed up this process. You can vary this visualization, for example by adding a hurdle race.

This exercise allows us to experience how strong and continuous muscle movements are during the visualization cycle of an object's movements. Although the eyes are closed and "do not see," all the muscles responsible for refraction and accommodation work and work properly, in a state of dynamic relaxation.

1. Imagine that you are holding a flexible rubber disc that can be bent so that it easily takes the shape of an ellipse when compressed, but immediately returns to its original circular shape as soon as the pressure is released.
2. Visualize that you press your index finger and thumb on the sides of the disc, forming a vertically arranged ellipse. Look at this ellipse for a moment, then relax your hand and let the disc return to its previous shape. Repeat 5-10 times.
3. Now move your thumb and index finger from the sides of the disc to its top and bottom. Imagine squeezing the disc, which changes its shape into a horizontally arranged ellipse. Repeat 5-10 times.
4. Each time, imagine your hand pressing on the disc (this is very important during the exercise).

Excellent results come from drawing different shapes (preferably mandalas) with your nose in your imagination. These can be shapes like a treble clef, infinity sign, or spiral. You can also use the shapes of letters, words, or your own signature. During the exercise, you can make gentle head movements, trying to imagine your nose as if it were a large pen with which you draw the chosen shapes.

Although this exercise may seem funny and childish, it is, contrary to appearances, extremely effective in the method of vision re-education.