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Thread: new terminology
Post: new terminology

We all, I hope, try to avoid the word "exercises" when talking about what we do with the Bates Method. But what do we say? "I finally found the Bates Method technique that works for me!" Awkward! So...

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Bates Method

19,518

09-02-2008, 06:40 PM

Thread: new terminology
Post: Re: new terminology

David Wrote:Alterative is a pretty rare word. I haven't heard it before. I think it would cause more confusion. David, that's why your posts are so understandable and pragmatic. :) I understand wha...

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Bates Method

19,518

09-03-2008, 01:07 AM

Thread: new terminology
Post: Re: new terminology

There is a precarious walk between finding more precise words and placing yourself further outside of the normal and respectable. (i.e.: doing strange, dubious health practices that are not accepted b...

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Bates Method

19,518

09-03-2008, 08:06 PM

Thread: new terminology
Post: Re: new terminology

Thanks for all the posts so far. This is fun! RAM, all your phrases were dead on!

otto

Bates Method

19,518

09-03-2008, 09:21 PM

Thread: Palming making me angry ??
Post: Re: Palming making me angry ??

That's not so unusual really. I bet it happens to most of us from time to time. >:( You may want to try putting your attention on your normal, unaltered breathing, following each breathing cyc...

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Bates Method

3,885

09-12-2008, 09:43 AM

Thread: Anyone near Tacoma, WA?
Post: Re: Anyone near Tacoma, WA?

Have you tried to contact Toshiyasu Abe? He's listed on the visionsofjoy.org site. Toshiyasu Abe, Seattle, WA. Tel: (206) 898-9988 I emailed him once but got no response. Let me know if you get a ho...

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Find a Bates Teacher

8,128

09-16-2008, 05:28 PM

Thread: Anyone near Tacoma, WA?
Post: Re: Anyone near Tacoma, WA?

Jason, I think you should hold out for someone completely cured or at least mostly cured. No harm in calling Mr. Abe to ask if he has regained full acuity. What were his sessions like? Otto

otto

Find a Bates Teacher

8,128

09-24-2008, 05:38 PM

Thread: check this website out
Post: Re: check this website out

harold08 Wrote:Lately, before i found this forum i used this webpages to advice me on how to improve my vision. It gives you SOOO MANY eye exercises, sun treatmemts, yoga and taoist workouts, massages...

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Complementary Methods

26,093

10-07-2008, 05:33 PM

Thread: Rishi's treatment
Post: Re: Rishi's treatment

Rishi has a yahoo group called PerfectSight. I have also heard he was cured, but so are a lot of people. If you join his group and are not strictly observant of the words of Dr. William Bates, prepar...

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Bates Method

3,471

10-07-2008, 05:50 PM

Thread: Any cool ideas?
Post: Re: Any cool ideas?

Have you been doing anything actively to let go of your eye straining habit? If so, what? If we don't know what you are doing, it's hard to give advice. In my opinion, it is better to be daily using...

otto

Bates Method

5,570

10-11-2008, 06:17 PM

Thread: new terminology
Post: Re: new terminology

deeptrip Wrote:Maybe learning a new seeing attitude?Yes, right! That's it, isn't it? "New" or old (pre-strain), we're learning a different attitude with which to experience sight.

otto

Bates Method

19,518

10-26-2008, 11:27 PM

Thread: Faith and Vision
Post: Faith and Vision

What are your thoughts on faith and how it can influence vision recovery? I'm not talking about a religious faith per say. I'm referring to an absolute certainty that one can develop pertaining to an...

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Bates Method

6,889

10-26-2008, 11:45 PM

Thread: Faith and Vision
Post: Re: Faith and Vision

I could just as easily use the word "trust" to describe what I have been experimenting with. At the bottom of it, it's fear that prevents relaxation and affixes patterns of strain in our mind. On th...

otto

Bates Method

6,889

10-27-2008, 11:40 PM

Thread: Faith and Vision
Post: Re: Faith and Vision

Of course, none of this is to imply that discipline and frequent practice aren't key to improving acuity. ;D

otto

Bates Method

6,889

10-28-2008, 07:07 AM

Thread: Faith and Vision
Post: Re: Faith and Vision

deeptrip Wrote:I think vision can't be improved without faith. Without faith you can not say: ok I make my daily routine practice and the rest is up to my body because my body and the true nature of m...

otto

Bates Method

6,889

10-28-2008, 07:54 PM

Thread: What is your main reason for improving vision?
Post: Re: What is your main reason for improving vision?

-because seeing with natural clarity feels more like ME. It feels like I am connected and engaged in my environment and seeing more clearly requires that I am comfortable and relaxed so it is a ende...

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Complementary Methods

5,089

11-08-2008, 12:51 AM

Thread: Method of the Month - Subconscious Visualization - March 2005
Post: Re: Method of the Month - Subconscious Visualizati...

David Wrote:In your mind. Dave I like this post/response. I think you should use it more often! :D

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Bates Method

8,558

11-14-2008, 01:33 AM

Thread: Parents finally accept Bates metod
Post: Re: Parents finally accept Bates metod

Congratulations! Thanks for posting this. It began as such a sad story, nice to see it's having a good turn. You do good work!

otto

Bates Method

8,293

11-21-2008, 06:24 PM

Thread: Parents finally accept Bates metod
Post: Re: Parents finally accept Bates metod

Sounds like a good plan. Both of those teachers seem like great choices. If there are others offering teacher training available in '09, I haven't heard of them. You seem like a gregarious, persua...

otto

Bates Method

8,293

11-22-2008, 05:00 PM

Thread: Parents finally accept Bates metod
Post: Re: Parents finally accept Bates metod

I have also wanted to create a Bates resource center/ clinic/ walk-in studio. In my version, things I have imagined include lots of skylights and halide lighting; Palming rooms with beautiful handcra...

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Bates Method

8,293

11-24-2008, 06:57 PM

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