Week 13: Improve Reading with these Tracking exercises

This week is simple on purpose. We are shifting from doing lots of different exercises to focusing on one skill that has a direct impact on your daily life: how your eyes track across a page.

You don’t need fancy equipment. You just need the Michigan Tracking worksheet. Download the PDF guide and the tracking handout. Print it or use an iPad with a pencil so you can physically interact with the page.

Why this matters: Most people who struggle with reading, scrolling, or near tasks don’t have a “motivation problem.” Their eyes literally cannot move across a line smoothly. They skip blocks of text, jump up and down paragraphs, reread sentences, or lose their place. Their brain works overtime to correct the mistakes their eyes create. That is where the headaches, dizziness, frustration, anxiety, and burnout show up.

Think about the last time you tried to read anything with fatigue. You weren’t in pain; you were irritated. You reread the same sentence three times. Your eyes and brain were fighting each other. The Michigan Tracking work is how we reconnect those systems.

Real life benefits patients notice:

• Reading stops feeling like a chore. Instead of pushing through discomfort, your eyes begin to flow from left to right automatically.

• Your brain relaxes. When the visual system is efficient, your shoulders drop, breathing slows, and you feel more grounded.

• You get less irritated when looking at screens. Phones, laptops, and tablets feel calmer because your eyes don’t panic on every line.

• You don’t lose your place. You stop guessing where you were and your eyes stay locked to the next letter, the next line, the next paragraph.

• Attention becomes easier. It’s not “ADHD brain fog.” It’s a visual system that finally isn’t failing you.
  

These improvements happen because you’re training the system that controls eye movement, not just staring at a chart. You are building better pathways between your eyes and brain. That is why athletes train repetition, musicians train scales, and we train tracking. Mastery comes from clarity, not chaos.

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