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...
Category: Vision Improvement
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...
Waking Dream: Everything Is Dark!
My dream teacher Robert Moss has taught us to look for signs and messages in the world around us, to use as daily guidance. This series of events seemed like just that for me.
Last week I was adjusting the … more...
Recognizing When I’m Not Relaxed
Several decades ago, after I had just joined a large computer company, I briefly dated a guy about 10 years older who was on the fast track to upper management. He was skinny and “wired”, so full of nervous energy … more...
Eyeglasses As Protection, Eyeglasses As Barrier
Every once in a while, when my male partner is clowning around and I swat in his direction, he fake-complains, “You can’t hit a man with glasses on!”. (His are about -7 and he never takes them off except to … more...
Hurry Up! Do More!
I guess you could say I’ve always been an over-achiever, believing from the time I was a child that the more I accomplished, the more I’d be appreciated. Actually, this was probably as much about avoiding punishment as from any … more...
Meditation and Binaural Beats
I started exploring meditation a little bit recently. Or should I say, exploring it again. I did it in the past, off and on, but I never really had a clear idea of what I wanted to accomplish with it.… more...
If It’s Easy, I Must Not Be Doing Enough!
Lately I’ve been examining my limiting beliefs, what Dr. Bates would call “wrong thoughts”, which might be getting in the way of improving my vision further. The title phrase is one of these. I was trained from a young age … more...
Noticing How Often I Don’t Look
A few months ago my male partner gave me a light-blue microfiber cloth for cleaning my computer screen. It was also excellent for cleaning fingerprint smudges off the face of my phone, and I used it for that at least … more...
Seeing 3D
The richness of the visual depth experience is often a surprise for people who have worn eyeglasses for a long time, then start going without them. Glasses flatten depth. This means those who wear them need to compensate by using … more...
Yes, But I Have Astigmatism!
Quite a few people have listened to me introduce the topic of natural vision improvement, then interrupted me to proclaim (sometimes almost proudly) that since they have astigmatism, this would never work for them. This tells me 2 things: they … more...
Focusing On Seeing Color
Many people pursuing vision improvement concentrate on seeing details more and more clearly, in order to know they’re progressing. Is that line on the eye chart clearer than it was yesterday? Is my eyesight really getting better? Healthy vision includes … more...
Understanding Dry Eye
When people first started coming to me complaining of Dry Eye, it felt to me like one of those fabricated diseases doctors invent to sell prescriptions or operations. You might as well say you have Cut Finger, or Bruised Knee, … more...