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Thread: Snellen measure - not a good one
Post: Re: Snellen measure - not a good one

If you can't tell whether you're making improvements or not, you're holding the chart way too far away. It's hard to make much progress when you're looking at a Snellen that's so far away that you ca...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

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11-24-2012, 09:52 AM

Thread: Something to try when shifting fails
Post: Re: Something to try when shifting fails

TRY THIS: Here is a variation of David's method that incorporates the felt sense in other parts of the body. Adding awareness of physical sensations throughout the body makes David's method more eff...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

7,180

12-28-2011, 01:30 PM

Thread: Something to try when shifting fails
Post: Re: Something to try when shifting fails

Sorry, I haven't read the book you mentioned, so I don't know enough about "open focus" to say anything either for or against it. Sounds interesting, though.

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

7,180

12-28-2011, 02:54 PM

Thread: Something to try when shifting fails
Post: Re: Something to try when shifting fails

ANOTHER METHOD THAT WORKS REALLY WELL TO CAUSE A BIG RELEASE OF STRAIN: 1. For the following steps to work, your eyes must be as close to your "baseline" level of relaxation as you can get them: if y...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

7,180

12-28-2011, 04:42 PM

Thread: Sore eyes when looking into distance
Post: Re: Sore eyes when looking into distance

I think this would be a good time to remind new users that we don't dispense medical advice here. Bates is an educational approach, but for problems like red eyes or stinging, it sounds like you shou...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

17,580

12-29-2011, 10:20 AM

Thread: Squinting in bright sunlight
Post: Re: Squinting in bright sunlight

Use common sense: if a method sounds bizarre and like it's based on some innovative theory, it's probably useless at best. Instead go back to the principle of relaxation. You squint in bright sunlig...

Sean_Augensicht

David's method

33,432

09-08-2011, 02:53 PM

Thread: Squinting in bright sunlight
Post: Re: Squinting in bright sunlight

JMartinC4 Wrote:Yes - for instance, the Bates Theory is very bizarre sounding to most people.... That's why we're talking about the Bates METHOD, not Bates THEORY. It's about practicing and doing (or ...

Sean_Augensicht

David's method

33,432

09-08-2011, 05:08 PM

Thread: Sun-Gazing Experience
Post: Re: Sun-Gazing Experience

[Deleted post -- accidentally posted something in this thread instead of another one]

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

14,270

06-15-2012, 02:34 PM

Thread: The color blue
Post: Re: The color blue

Human eyes are naturally less sensitive to blue and purple light than to certain other wavelengths. I think they're most sensitive to yellow-green light. Could have something to do with it.

Sean_Augensicht

Off Topic

6,718

06-14-2012, 12:52 PM

Thread: The Limits of Language
Post: Re: The Limits of Language

Nice post, Pikachu. Perhaps the biggest problem is that different individuals go into this with different underlying (and mistaken assumptions) about what they "need" to do in order to do the variou...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

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10-01-2012, 09:02 PM

Thread: The Swing?
Post: Re: The Swing?

David, I respectfully disagree with you on the swing mostly being about depth perception. Perceiving the universal swing improves my vision even when looking at largely two-dimensional things such as ...

Sean_Augensicht

David's method

6,778

08-26-2012, 07:05 AM

Thread: tips on breathing, mental pictures, & "making vision worse"
Post: Re: tips on breathing, mental pictures, & "making ...

Sean, here are a few more tips to help you out. It does take a lot of repeated tries to figure out exactly what you're doing subconsciously, but once you have that "aha" moment, everything clicks int...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

13,437

06-12-2012, 01:46 PM

Thread: tips on breathing, mental pictures, & "making vision worse"
Post: Re: tips on breathing, mental pictures, & "making ...

Hi Jeff, Interesting observations. Thanks for adding to this conversation. It's easy to slip into effortfulness, or "breathing yourself," as you put it. Usually this occurs when we try too hard to...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

13,437

06-15-2012, 02:06 PM

Thread: tips on breathing, mental pictures, & "making vision worse"
Post: Re: tips on breathing, mental pictures, & "making ...

One more thought. As you inhale and exhale, see if you can feel a subtle movement in your eye muscles. This movement is a form of locked-in strain. It might take a while to notice this movement, but i...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

13,437

06-15-2012, 02:35 PM

Thread: tips on breathing, mental pictures, & "making vision worse"
Post: Re: tips on breathing, mental pictures, & "making ...

hammer Wrote:Hello there, In my case I actually think that there is a lack in the flow of oxygen and nutrition in my eyes and the eye muscles, that does not reach out enough to for instance the cili...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

13,437

06-17-2012, 07:09 PM

Thread: When watching football
Post: Re: When watching football

Very important: Don't intentionally try to converge near. When you imagine something without effort, the existing muscle strain in a myopic person may automatically cause her to converge for the near...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

12,673

10-02-2012, 08:51 AM

Thread: When watching football
Post: Re: When watching football

Another way to get an understanding of what it means to add strain, try "flashing": close your eyes or, better yet, do palming for a while, and then open them for a splitsecond, with the only goal be...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

12,673

10-02-2012, 09:15 AM

Thread: When watching football
Post: Re: When watching football

To Nancy: good to hear from you. I have found that allowing yourself to be in the "defocused" state that feels like you're focusing for too near or seeing double is a prerequisite for letting go of t...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

12,673

10-03-2012, 09:09 AM

Thread: Wikipedia and the Bates Method
Post: RE: Wikipedia and the Bates Method

In order to gain credibility, we have to keep the discussion to things that people can observe empirically. I don't know anything about energy--if people find that thinking about energy helps them, t...

Sean_Augensicht

Bates Method

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01-30-2014, 12:04 PM

Thread: Required reading before making new posts
Post: Required reading before making new posts

I've made some really useful discoveries recently about the importance of noticing areas of tension in other parts of the body besides the eyes while shifting, and promise to write a post on this topi...

Sean_Augensicht

Website Suggestions

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12-20-2011, 01:28 PM

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