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Thread: Introduction & some questions
Post: Introduction & some questions

Hi all, I've been lurking this forum for a while now, and I think I have a good enough handle on the culture to enter into the discussion without treading on any toes. I hope you will excuse the len...

Mordant

Bates Method

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10-17-2009, 05:05 AM

Thread: A skeptic asks...
Post: A skeptic asks...

I have a few other questions regarding vision improvement, but after some consideration I thought i'd better ask them here as they are more from a skeptical perspective. (Let me just preface all of t...

Mordant

Bates Method

16,096

10-17-2009, 05:59 AM

Thread: Introduction & some questions
Post: Re: Introduction & some questions

Nancy Wrote:Do the chart from as close as is comfortable: straining is not helping you. Notice everything you do that causes strain & see if you can release it. Thanks, that's very helpful!

Mordant

Bates Method

11,755

10-20-2009, 05:00 AM

Thread: Introduction & some questions
Post: Re: Introduction & some questions

isee Wrote:I was very excited when I heard about natural eye improvement. So was I! Not having to deal with awkward spectacles--always getting broken, lost, grimy or scratched (to say nothing of not ...

Mordant

Bates Method

11,755

10-20-2009, 05:08 AM

Thread: woman on youtube improves eyesight by using lower prescripti
Post: Re: woman on youtube improves eyesight by using lo...

You can order eyeglasses quite cheaply online, specifying your own prescription. This might be a way of circumventing the problem of convincing a puzzled and bewildered optician to humour you.

Mordant

Bates Method

13,407

10-20-2009, 05:13 AM

Thread: A skeptic asks...
Post: Re: A skeptic asks...

Thanks for the encouraging words. I'm pretty good at politely asking my skepticism to take a back seat while I try something outside what is accepted by the mainstream. I will allow myself to be con...

Mordant

Bates Method

16,096

10-20-2009, 05:43 AM

Thread: Some questions regarding palming, sunning and relaxation
Post: Re: Some questions regarding palming, sunning and ...

This was one of the things that initially deterred me from pursuing the Bates method. I took some people's descriptions of sunning as telling the reader to look directly into the sun. This made me m...

Mordant

Bates Method

8,178

10-20-2009, 05:57 AM

Thread: Some questions regarding palming, sunning and relaxation
Post: Re: Some questions regarding palming, sunning and ...

As to palming: I encountered the problem of being drawn into the colours and images I see with my eyes shut. (Especially since I already practice several kinds of closed eye excercises that involve ...

Mordant

Bates Method

8,178

10-20-2009, 06:09 AM

Thread: Progress...
Post: Progress...

This didn't seem quite right for either the Bates Method or the Success Stories sub-fora, so I thought I'd put it here. After a little more than a week, I honestly feel like I'm starting to get some ...

Mordant

Complementary Methods

12,036

10-20-2009, 06:43 AM

Thread: Introduction & some questions
Post: Re: Introduction & some questions

clarknight Wrote:I can help you with this. <a href="mailto:mclearsight@aol.com">mclearsight@aol.com</a> cleareyesight.info Thanks for the link, I've found t...

Mordant

Bates Method

11,755

10-20-2009, 06:45 AM

Thread: eye floaters anyone?
Post: Re: eye floaters anyone?

I've always had scads of floaters--since infancy, I'm sure, and certainly since 4 or 5. They've never troubled me. Everyone I know has them to some degree or another.

Mordant

Bates Method

36,012

10-20-2009, 07:15 AM

Thread: A skeptic asks...
Post: Re: A skeptic asks...

I could not tell you how strong my glasses are, as I don't have my prescription handy. Very strong, I would say. I can't read the largest letter on the optician's eyechart unaided, though I am just ...

Mordant

Bates Method

16,096

10-24-2009, 12:45 PM

Thread: Help please, scared out of my mind :[
Post: Re: Help please, scared out of my mind :[

I'm not an eye specialist, nor am I an old hand at the Bates method, but for what it's worth I have some experience of a wandering eye. My right eye has significantly worse sight than my left, and so...

Mordant

Bates Method

9,338

10-24-2009, 09:33 PM

Thread: A skeptic asks...
Post: Re: A skeptic asks...

JMartinC4 Wrote:If you havenât experienced it, you have every reason to doubt the veracity of the Bates or any other natural vision-improvement methods. I think this personal experience element real...

Mordant

Bates Method

16,096

10-28-2009, 02:23 PM

Thread: Three cups Accommodation exercise
Post: Re: Three cups Accommodation exercise

This is actually quite an interesting excercise. I was able to do it pretty much from the word go; it's similar to certain visual practices I've used for trancework & meditation in the past. Int...

Mordant

Bates Method

48,422

10-28-2009, 02:28 PM

Thread: Thoughts and eye focus
Post: Re: Thoughts and eye focus

I've been aware for many years now that when I'm trying study while desperately stressed, my eyes will swing out of focus. It's quite rare and I have to be particularly overloaded, but when it does h...

Mordant

Bates Method

6,152

10-28-2009, 02:36 PM

Thread: Progress...
Post: Re: Progress...

This past week, things went back a bit. No more clear flashes, and for the first time I got lost without my glasses. I was walking up and down my friends' street trying to find their building for ag...

Mordant

Complementary Methods

12,036

10-28-2009, 04:25 PM

Thread: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?
Post: Re: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?

Judyb Wrote:It is not safe and sungazing does burn your retina. A few seconds of staring at the sun will destroy a small part of the retina and cause permanent reduction of vision. It is called sol...

Mordant

Bates Method

29,309

11-07-2009, 10:21 AM

Thread: Progress...
Post: Re: Progress...

catsup Wrote:In time, Mordant, you'll feel more confident doing things. And don't beat yourself up if you feel you need to wear them again from time to time. It really took about 3 years before I felt...

Mordant

Complementary Methods

12,036

11-07-2009, 10:30 AM

Thread: Duplicated blur patterns in lights
Post: Duplicated blur patterns in lights

I've made this observation several times in the past, but was reminded of it again recently when riding in a car on the motorway at night. Obviously, with my degree of myopia, I see individual lights...

Mordant

Complementary Methods

4,645

11-07-2009, 11:04 AM

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