I’ve written before about how you need to pay attention to each spot you look at so that your mind is fully engaged in seeing details. Here’s another way of thinking about how and why you need to look at … more...
Category: Vision Improvement
Focus your mind, not your eyes
The Bates method is said to be about relaxing your eyes and mind. I’ve tried to describe how I understand the method, which is a little hard because I’m not sure what to think. There are so many confusing variables.… more...
Can the right food improve your vision?
If diet can affect innumerable factors in the body such as energy levels, brain and nervous system functioning and blood flow, it makes sense that diet could affect eyesight. But as far as what diet is best, take your pick. … more...
Why positive thinking works
You don’t have to believe in magic or be that goofy guy on SNL that looks into the mirror and praises himself with positive thoughts. Thinking positively is just another term for thinking about your goals.
When you get stuck … more...
The eureka effect
Here are a couple things that happened years ago.
- When lying down and resting my eyes, I opened them to find that they were straight. I had exotropia at times, where my eyes wouldn’t point the same direction, and it
Moving indirectly
Today I want to again bring up the complex subject of how you move your eyes. It’s a major part of the method of vision improvement I promote.
Bates called it shifting. A shift, if you’re unclear, is just an … more...
Finally!
I finally put up a revised version of my modified Bates method. I collected concepts from my blog posts, forum posts and added more thoughts until I ran out of things to say. I hope to add more pictures and … more...
Your sanction
How many times have people helplessly asked whether vision improvement is really possible? Of course it is, but it doesn’t matter what I or anyone else knows. If it isn’t possible, you’ll make it possible.
If you look at anyone … more...
What could be there?
One of the first things you might notice in this picture is the man painting. Your attention moves to him. It doesn’t matter whether your attention was “drawn” to him or you were just glancing around the picture to … more...
Who is your guru?
I want to make a point about following a method of vision improvement to the letter, and trusting that any one person, or even a group of people saying the same thing, have it right.
There’s this guy Hira Ratan … more...
Shifting in a Triangle
People with normal vision have moments when their vision fails. At that point if they are able to adjust how they look at things they will quickly get back on track.
People with blurry vision who pursue vision improvement often … more...
The path of abusing your eyes
It’s fascinating how the seeing process gets disrupted enough to come crashing down piece by piece, a whole series of mistakes. Here’s one way I think it happens.
One of the most basic ideas of blurry vision is the idea … more...
Moving on from looking at stuff
Continuing on the instructions of my last post, How to look at stuff.
When you look for the smallest detail in anything you’re looking at, you should only be looking at a detail you can already see. The important thing … more...
How to look at stuff
Be Here
Blurry vision is well-known to be associated with intellectualism. But the way I see it, it has to do with a preference towards abstract ideas instead of being physically present. By being physically present, I mean being aware … more...
Outside of your programming
I’m buried in paperwork for a tax deadline in a few days, but I don’t want a whole month to go by without a blog entry, so here we go.
My idea for a blog post usually comes from something … more...
Breathing and your mind
Have you sat down for half an hour and worked with the eye chart without much success in seeing better, and then decided to take a break and stand up, only to glance at the chart and see it clearer … more...
Better vision by perceiving what you see
Here’s another way of thinking about what I wrote about in my last entry, as far as how you think about what you’re looking at, and how your attention behaves in moving around.
There are two ways to think about … more...
The three steps of seeing
To break your bad habits that are causing blurry vision, you need to break up what you’re doing into separate tasks so that you can understand what you’re really doing and be conscious of it as you’re doing it. There … more...
Seeing a string of details
I want to clarify how to look at adjacent details better. I described this specific method in my last blog post about looking at adjacent details. The idea here is to learn to shift your attention the shortest distance … more...
Improving vision by looking at adjacent details
In my last blog post I suggested that I would talk more in detail about patterns of the right way to go about looking at things.
The idea of “staring” is a big no-no in literature about the Bates method. … more...