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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

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03-26-2008, 06:16 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

4,938

02-11-2008, 11:01 AM

Thread: blind hallucination?
Post: blind hallucination?

Thought this was an interesting story about a blind man who imagines quite vividly. You can read or listen to it on NPR: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/sto...

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Complementary Methods

3,144

01-30-2008, 06:51 PM

Thread: Sway???
Post: Re: Sway???

ironheart Wrote:so is it okay that it moves in the same direction as me? Yes, it is not a problem or mark of vision strain. It is called parallax, I believe. You are seeing what is outside your win...

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Bates Method

5,863

01-30-2008, 06:43 PM

Thread: uneven flash
Post: uneven flash

Last night I was having a flash after about an hour shifting and swinging with the Snellen. After awhile I noticed that the totality of the flash was happening in my right eye. When I covered my rig...

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Bates Method

3,525

01-19-2008, 05:15 PM

Thread: Question?
Post: Re: Question?

Althougn the power of the prescription you have been wearing, the length of time you have worn them(e.g.: months, years, decades), and the amount of time spent wearing that prescription all can effect...

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Bates Method

9,302

01-19-2008, 02:04 PM

Thread: Emotional Struggles
Post: Re: Emotional Struggles

I'm reading an out of print book by a British Bates teacher named Peter Mansfield. I can highly recommend this little book. Here is some excepts from it that apply to the discussion: Quote:In homeo...

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Bates Method

35,493

12-22-2007, 11:04 PM

Thread: A method that worked for me
Post: Re: A method that worked for me

I was skeptical but gave this a try and it did work for me. Things got crisper and looked more alive. I think it allowed me to come out of my myopic/inward looking/blank staring ways momentarily. T...

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Bates Method

8,309

12-18-2007, 10:29 PM

Thread: Clearer Images On LCD
Post: Re: Clearer Images On LCD

Old post here, but I must concur. My LCD screen that I got two weeks ago from Costco has been a dream. At 22", it has reduced my eye strain considerably. Just before writing this I was looking at an ...

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Bates Method

5,794

10-28-2007, 08:15 PM

Thread: Night Blindness
Post: Re: Night Blindness

I would like to add a couple thoughts on this. On a recent walk at night I caught myself in the act of straining horribly to see objects in the distance. Funny, but my eyes fear the absence of th...

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Complementary Methods

9,484

10-06-2007, 09:20 AM

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