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The Simplest Technique For Killing Myopia - vst - 12-11-2013 The following is a post written some years ago on the I-see Yahoo group. I practiced the technique mentioned in it, and found it quite useful, so I thought I'd post it here for everyone to see. Dear Lisa: Six weeks ago, when I had my first success with the powerful techniques of Dr. Bates, I first succeeded with learning to remember a little piece of the color black. It had no particular shape. It was just a little piece of black, about the size of an aspirin tablet. Then I went on to easily remember a black period from a printed page. Then, when reading about central fixation, I came upon Dr. Bates discussing a mathematical point, a point which in mathematical theory had position or place, but no size at all. Just by accident, I thought of this concept, and found that I could effortlessly hold in my mind the idea of an invisible little point in space about thirty feet from me and that this worked to make my eyes focus very well, better than the other two techniques. This was completely effortless, just like throwing a switch in my mind. And I was not visualizing anything. I have been wondering whether this technique might not be the easiest one to master of all, simply because this point in space has no size is therefore invisible, and thus there is nothing to visualize. You do not have to visualize anything. All you have to do is think about this invisible point in space being out there and keep your mind on it. There is, in the BEM volume on page 504, this interesting question put to Dr. Bates and his reply: "When we remember an object, do we have to visualize it?" Dr. Bates's reply was: "It is best when you remember an object to visualize it with the help of the imagination, but it is not always necessary to visualize it." Dr. Bates makes similarly provocative statements in his book, forgive me if I don't hunt them down. Next I started thinking about the new science of lie detection which involves learning the facial expressions that people who are lying assume briefly. You can learn to spot these expressions. They come from the unconscious mind, cannot be controlled by the person who is lying and are an accurate way to determine if someone is lying. Have you read about this? Anyway, what I have been thinking about is a statement by one of the scientists working on this new science. He and his partner had been learning all the different expressions that the human face is capable of assuming and found that assuming a happy expression actually made them feel happy, assuming a sad expression made them seem sad, and so forth. When you succeed in holding a perfect little memory in your mind, what happens first is that your eyes open wide involuntarily. You may think that you have had your eyes open normally all your life, but if your vision is defective, you have not. You have been squinting all your life. Believe me, this is a very striking thing that happens to you when you learn to remember perfectly a black dot. Your eyes open wide involuntarily and you become aware of a ton of tension leaving your face. I started wondering if voluntarily opening your eyes widely might help you to get into that altered state of consciousness in which you see perfectly, the state which Bates considered a state of perfect relaxation but which I consider just an altered state in which you become completely cut off and distracted from the process of seeing. In this technique you don't have to visualize anything. You just have to think about this tiny invisible point out in the distance about thirty feet away from you and keep your mind on it. If you were walking down the street at night in a dangerous part of town and you heard footsteps behind you, and you glanced behind you to see a very mean looking man following you with an evil expression on his face, you would not have any difficulty, I am sure, in keeping your mind on the man following you. That's all you do in this technique. If you were in a room and somebody rolled a live hand grenade into it, you would not have any problem in keeping your mind on that hand grenade even if you were not looking at it. You just have to keep your mind on a tiny invisible point out in space about thirty feet from you. You don't have to see it or visualize it. You just have to think about it. In this technique we are going to combine two ideas: (1) the idea that just thinking about a point in space without having to visualize it may be easier than having to perfectly visualize an image and (2) by opening your eyes widely, thus imitating or mimicking the state you wish to get into, you may actually thus help yourself get into that state. So here is what you do: (1) If you are standing up, learn forward and put both of your hands on to a table top and look down at the floor. (2) If you are sitting down, lean forward also and put both of your hands on to a table top or desk top and look down at the floor. (3) Open your eyes as widely as you can. Really get them as wide open as you can. (4) Think about that little invisible point which is out there in space about twenty or thirty feet away from you. Think about it being there. You can't see it, but you know it is there. Think about it's being there. (5) When you have it clearly in your mind, then slowly, slowly, raise your head and look in front of you while thinking about that point in space. If you can keep your mind on that little invisible mathematical point out in front of you and keep your eyes wide open, your eyes ought to focus as they do when you are using the other techniques. That's all there is to it. I hope it works for you. Tom PS Even if it doesn't work, it is good to practice opening your eyes widely. I have a book on Traditional Chinese Medicine and one of the exercises for the eyes is simply looking up as far as you can, then slowly moving your gaze down as far as you can. Then you look as far to the left as you can and then slowly move your gaze to right as far as you can. Then you use diagonal angles. This is a surprisingly effective technique for relaxing your eyes, and I think the reason it is effective is not because you are gently stretching your eye muscles, as stated in the book: I think it is effective because the result of this exercise is to make you open your eyes widely. RE: The Simplest Technique For Killing Myopia - yodosoBates - 12-13-2013 Thanks for reposting this, I'll give it a try! |