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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...

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Bates Method

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10-17-2009, 05:05 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!

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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 ...

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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.

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Bates Method

13,407

10-20-2009, 05:13 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...

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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.

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Bates Method

36,012

10-20-2009, 07:15 AM

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...

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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...

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Bates Method

6,152

10-28-2009, 02:36 PM

Thread: Bates Methods Proven by Research
Post: Re: Bates Methods Proven by Research

(Archive bingeing! Hope no-one minds me bumping this older thread.) Otis, you wouldn't happen to know where one could come by Michael McClay's research papers, would you? I've been hunting around o...

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Bates Method

18,830

11-09-2009, 05:19 AM

Thread: palm wearing gloves
Post: Re: palm wearing gloves

Won't you get bits of wool in your eyes?

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Bates Method

5,281

11-10-2009, 03:41 PM

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...

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Bates Method

16,096

10-17-2009, 05:59 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...

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Bates Method

8,178

10-20-2009, 05:57 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...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Bates Method

8,178

10-20-2009, 06:09 AM

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...

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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...

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Bates Method

16,096

10-28-2009, 02:23 PM

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 ...

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Bates Method

16,096

10-24-2009, 12:45 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...

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Bates Method

29,309

11-07-2009, 10:21 AM

Thread: Going without glasses is dangerous
Post: Re: Going without glasses is dangerous

I am experiencing a similar kind of frustration, but was rather expecting it so it hasn't hit me as hard. I'm driven to speculate that the reason Bates saw bad outcomes in people who continued to use...

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Bates Method

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11-07-2009, 11:13 AM

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

Thanks, David! Once again, very illuminating (no pun intended). So, as I understand it, we're basically talking about a matter of degree; ie that some (careful, controlled, limited) exposure to the ...

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Bates Method

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11-07-2009, 02:59 PM

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