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Thread: The Biggest Dilemma of the Bates Method
Post: Re: The Biggest Dilemma of the Bates Method

It's good to read that right now. I'm at a point right now, after 6 months with the Bates Method, where I feel I've hit the wall. Finally got to doing palming in a relaxing way and getting past starin...

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Bates Method

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02-11-2008, 11:01 AM

Thread: being less
Post: Re: being less

People here might not like the direction you're taking here with meditation and mindfullness, but I see that it is so. The Bates techniques are only at their most useful when the mind is really seren...

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Bates Method

34,849

02-17-2008, 02:10 AM

Thread: being less
Post: Re: being less

While working with you eyes, rather than allowing oneself to be compulsively analytical or worrisome, there is a special attitude that can be taken. This attitude can be adopted after increasing awar...

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Bates Method

34,849

02-20-2008, 03:09 AM

Thread: Palming Help
Post: Re: Palming Help

Quote:I'd say whatever is the most relaxing. The point of palming is to relax, so just do whatever relaxes you most. I'd agree with Bryan. I didn't have any benefits from palming until I just relaxed...

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Bates Method

6,739

02-22-2008, 01:30 PM

Thread: Palming Help
Post: Re: Palming Help

Onamission, Well, I'm just saying what seems to be working for me. Yes, I just sit there, relax(for me following my breath helps) and try to mentally encourage any image that seems to arise. All the...

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Bates Method

6,739

02-22-2008, 06:01 PM

Thread: Left-brained or Right-brained
Post: Re: Left-brained or Right-brained

Judyb, I can't question the science of what your saying. Sight being such a complex process uses many parts of the brain. I think when Petal refers to vision being right brained, she is addressing th...

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Complementary Methods

5,908

02-22-2008, 07:33 PM

Thread: More to glasses than meets the eye
Post: Re: More to glasses than meets the eye

mid15cowboy, I share your sentiment that we need to be active and work to change the accepted optometry practices. I have often thought about volunteering at a elementary school and teaching preventa...

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Complementary Methods

6,883

03-01-2008, 06:42 PM

Thread: centering your gaze
Post: Re: centering your gaze

All I can say, is that I like this idea quite a lot and that it's daunting the amount of habitual neck rigidity and stillness that I have. Playing around with centering the gaze makes this undeniabl...

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Bates Method

26,793

03-02-2008, 01:20 AM

Thread: Tibetan Eye Chart
Post: Re: Tibetan Eye Chart

Not long ago, I was thinking that the Tibetan Eye Chart was nothing I would want to mess with because of the apparent contradiction to Bates. Then I watched this: <a class="postlin...

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Complementary Methods

25,457

03-17-2008, 09:09 PM

Thread: Tibetan Eye Chart
Post: Re: Tibetan Eye Chart

I'm more prone to strain when looking to the left, especially upper left. Maybe has to do with the way we read in the West: left to right and down; and going opposite that is uncomfortable. (?) Just...

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Complementary Methods

25,457

03-17-2008, 11:30 PM

Thread: helpful video on the long swing
Post: Re: helpful video on the long swing

The Perfect Sight book is where it's at. Until you have proven to yourself that you know what your doing and improvement is continuous, I wouldn't stray too far from Bates' and Emily's writings. Eve...

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Bates Method

25,254

03-25-2008, 06:32 PM

Thread: centering your gaze
Post: Re: centering your gaze

I've been using this and it seems to help-less strain in general moving my eyes. Also, when shifting or moving my gaze, I like to have the feeling of moving into an emptiness or void. I hollow out t...

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Bates Method

26,793

03-26-2008, 06:16 PM

Thread: Swinging before snellen chart
Post: Re: Swinging before snellen chart

I have no idea. You'll have lots of strange unexpected, inexplicable stuff when you learn to start using your eyes correctly. A lot of what is noticed is illusions of the mind. Not to get caught up...

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Bates Method

6,812

03-26-2008, 06:22 PM

Thread: "Remembering a period"
Post: Re: "Remembering a period"

Kristen, I am still "working" on seeing the black period, but this is how I have had my best success: I look at a black period on a white page right before sitting or lying down to palm. Immediately,...

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Bates Method

6,346

03-28-2008, 04:21 PM

Thread: Relaxing Anxiety
Post: Re: Relaxing Anxiety

Hi Cheerio, I think I have had the same thing. More in the past than now. I would be quieting my mind and at some point I would get this itchy of ticklish sensation in the center of my belly out to m...

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Bates Method

3,654

04-01-2008, 08:51 PM

Thread: helpful video on the long swing
Post: Re: helpful video on the long swing

I don't feel dogmatically about the no glasses thing but I agree with the consensus that the less time with glasses the better. Just as encouragement for the objective, I'd like to share that I went ...

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Bates Method

25,254

04-02-2008, 05:18 PM

Thread: Overall Aim
Post: Re: Overall Aim

Well Mike, That seems like a pretty succinct, straight forward description of what we're trying to do. rolfey Wrote:When this is achieved on a regular basis the eyes are able to return to there norma...

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Bates Method

4,456

04-03-2008, 01:33 AM

Thread: My progress
Post: Re: My progress

It is great to check your progress and is a big motivator for me as well. "I absolutely love sunning, and notice that when you start sunning the colour you observe coming through your eyelids starts ...

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Bates Method

17,158

04-03-2008, 09:24 AM

Thread: Blinking
Post: Re: Blinking

No worries, Dick. Maybe a lot of the dryness and discomfort you're experiencing while doing bates activities is actually just you becoming more aware of the strain and strain related problems with you...

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Bates Method

27,547

04-04-2008, 10:37 PM

Thread: Reverse breathing + Bates
Post: Re: Reverse breathing + Bates

I tend to do abdominal breathing when I start being mindful of my breath(maybe because of having studied Qi Gung) but I can't remember it affecting my sight profoundly, but generally alleviating strai...

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Bates Method

9,960

04-12-2008, 05:08 PM

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