It isn’t absolutely necessary, but an eye chart, also called an eye test card, will be very useful for practicing the method with.
The traditional use of an eye chart is to measure vision in an eye doctor’s office from a fixed … more...
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Thoughts On Trauma And Eyesight
Lately I’ve been considering how we can shut ourselves down when the situation is too much for us to handle. We’ve all heard of the 2 responses to danger of Fight or Flight, yet we often forget the Freeze response. … more...
How Do I Get Rid Of My Floaters?
Floaters are small moving specks, squiggles, or shapes which drift across one’s vision. It’s like looking through glass which has a few tiny creatures sliding around inside it and is not perfectly clear. These can be minor and almost unnoticeable, … more...
Remembering The Pain Of Contacts
Today in NY it’s cloudy with blustery wind, which is whipping up all the dust and grit from months of the local highway department sanding our roads to melt this Winter’s snow. Since it was above 40 degrees, with occasional … more...
Observing A Master Vision Teacher
Last night I listened into a webinar with well-known Bates vision teacher Greg Marsh. Several people had written in questions beforehand, about whether they could do these practices having had Lasik, or if it would help with glaucoma, or … more...
Expecting To See
This incident reminded me once again that my attitude is central to how well I can see. I dropped a small earring, which skittered across the floor, clicked as it bumped into a wooden chair leg, then “disappeared”. My energy … more...
Emotional Healing Related To My Vision
Many of you know I got strong glasses at age 5, which got stronger once or twice a year until I was wearing a -10 prescription at age 16. For more than 30 years I wore those thick lenses, until … more...
Without My Glasses, I Felt Free
The title of this post is a quote from a vision improvement student I’ve been working with for a couple of months. He’s worn strong glasses from the time he was a small child, so learning to use his eyes … more...
Improve Your Eyesight with EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques: A Review
First and foremost, this is my review and the opinions are only mine.
So during the time when I stopped gaining any progress with Leo Angart’s eye exercises, I decided to try something else. So I searched around the … more...
Glasses And Being Pushed To Perform
As I move toward my certification as an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique or “tapping”) Abundance Coach from Carol Look, I’ve been holding sessions with many different kinds of clients on their various problems. These could be financial or physical … more...
Driving As Vision Practice
Where I live in NY’s Hudson Valley, the weather can vary from a blinding snowstorm to torrential rain, from so dim and gray in midday that the street lights come on, to fierce glaring sun or deep foggy gloom. This … more...
Vision Improves With Energy Work
A fellow student in Deborah’s King‘s energy medicine program asked me about several of the people she’s worked on, who are seeing positive changes in vision. This makes perfect sense to me, and I’ve seen it with myself and … more...
How Do I Practice Central Fixation?
This morning someone sent me this question. Like many folks who’ve started to explore the Bates Method, he’s experimented with leaving his glasses off, and maybe even read a vision improvement book or two, yet he was confused about this … more...
Have I Been A Control Freak?
People have called me “over-organized” or “detail-oriented” or “fussy” or “particular” at various times in my life, and it did not usually feel like a compliment! I’ve long been aware that a busy environment, with bustling people chattering, or loud … more...
Eye Chart Games
Years ago when I first started vision improvement, I avoided the eye chart. It felt like a test I couldn’t possibly pass. Without my strong glasses, at 20 feet I couldn’t even see where the chart was! My vision was … more...
The Long Swing And Me
One of the foundational vision improvement exercises Dr. Bates taught is the Long Swing. This is a simple slow twisting of the body to the right, torso and head and shoulders all moving together while the view slides by (or … more...
Working with Time Lag
People get stuck sometimes, like they try to follow instructions but it doesn’t seem to work instantly. Don’t change your plan in the middle of testing it, or you’ll never find out what really helped you. It can take some … more...
Improvement
I have finally started to realize improvements in my vision, and it’s great. I think it really does come down to facing your fears. You cone to a point where you are relaxed enough to really see when your avoiding … more...
Thinking About Vision Practice Vs. Actually Doing It
My energy medicine teacher Deborah King often talks about the benefits of meditation, especially that it leads to a calmer, more centered state. On her weekly radio show, I’ve heard her ask a nervous caller many times if she meditates, … more...
I Can See So Much Without My Glasses!
Last night I held a vision coaching session with a new student. We’ve had one previous lesson where we discussed him using his glasses instead of his contacts, so he can easily take them off, and explore seeing naturally. His … more...