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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: 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.

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Bates Method

19,518

10-26-2008, 11:27 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...

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Bates Method

5,570

10-11-2008, 06:17 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: 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: 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

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Find a Bates Teacher

8,128

09-24-2008, 05:38 PM

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: 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: new terminology
Post: Re: new terminology

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

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Bates Method

19,518

09-03-2008, 09:21 PM

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

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: 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: Central fixation + shifting = inseparable ??
Post: Re: Central fixation + shifting = inseparable ??

Quote:Anyway, My first question, Should I do central fixation while (subtle/obvious)shifting and vice versa? I tend to strain if I do fixed central fixation. In my experience, I did not have much succ...

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Bates Method

8,919

08-16-2008, 02:28 AM

Thread: Central Fixation & Sungazing Improvements
Post: Re: Central Fixation & Sungazing Improvements

I relate to your struggle with CF. It is kind of a zen koan for all folks relearning to see properly. Slowly, I'm getting it. Instead of trying to see a narrow spot clearly, I now am allowing mysel...

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Bates Method

6,404

07-17-2008, 11:04 PM

Thread: Films
Post: Re: Films

Blade Runner , Vertigo, M, El Topo, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Master of the Flying Guillotine, the 7 Samurai, Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back

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Off Topic

6,675

07-07-2008, 09:20 AM

Thread: Seeing an improvement.....HOORAY!!
Post: Re: Seeing an improvement.....HOORAY!!

Wow! You really earned your improvement. Sounds like a really rounded regimen that continues through out you day. I think it's smart how you stay focused on staying relaxed. I hope you don't mind me...

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Success Stories

23,226

06-28-2008, 11:54 AM

Thread: Seeing an improvement.....HOORAY!!
Post: Re: Seeing an improvement.....HOORAY!!

That's great! I wish I had a friend who improved his/her sight. I bet that was helpful. What techniques have you practicing? Do you have a regimen?

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Success Stories

23,226

06-27-2008, 11:06 PM

Thread: Palming
Post: Re: Palming

Mihai_alexandru, Quote:It seems that Bates mentions something about floaters in his book:http://www.iblindness.org/books/bates/ch23.html He says that they are illusions caused by strain. But are they ...

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Bates Method

58,282

06-26-2008, 07:59 PM

Thread: Palming
Post: Re: Palming

I would say, and I think others will agree with me, that "snow" is certainly not imagination as Bates describes it. You can see snow while straining, so that automatically rules it out as Bates' "ima...

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Bates Method

58,282

06-25-2008, 05:39 PM

Thread: Reading the Bates book
Post: Re: Reading the Bates book

I looked at that website and that is a lot of confusing and unnecessary crap. Look in Method of the Month in this forum. Swinging, shifting, blinking, palming, imagination and memory are the essenti...

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Bates Method

9,827

06-24-2008, 06:34 PM

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