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Thread: Progress halted by blinking?
Post: Re: Progress halted by blinking?

It sounds to me like you've found the path back to normal eyesight. Unfortunately it will probably take a couple of years for your visual system to catch up with where your current physical, mental, a...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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10-17-2011, 07:27 AM

Thread: Supplementing Bates
Post: Re: Supplementing Bates

A year ago I decided I needed to start 'religiously' taking a daily multivitamin - I had been taking one 'with iron' 'regularly' for some years prior, since I've always been a little bit anemic. Well...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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05-27-2009, 01:45 PM

Thread: Am I fake-shortsightened?
Post: Re: Am I fake-shortsightened?

This could be nutritionally-based as well. Try a daily multivitamin with maximum Vitamin A / Beta Carotene. Decrease any excessive alcohol consumption. Also, keep your eyes from drying out - water,...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

18,186

05-28-2009, 12:23 PM

Thread: Am I fake-shortsightened?
Post: Re: Am I fake-shortsightened?

Here is another thing about computer workstations: They are almost never correctly adjusted for your height. I have put both my monitors on old books, raising them to a more normal viewing height fo...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

18,186

05-29-2009, 08:56 AM

Thread: Post what you find very relaxing on your eyes
Post: Re: Post what you find very relaxing on your eyes

Riding shotgun.

JMartinC4

Bates Method

6,788

05-29-2009, 09:06 AM

Thread: Help for a beginner
Post: Re: Help for a beginner

The first thing I did, even before learning of Bates, was follow the advice of my optical technician who recommended I do any book reading without wearing lenses. She said (this was way back in the l...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

5,858

07-25-2009, 08:31 PM

Thread: Looking over shoulders
Post: Re: Looking over shoulders

I just tried this exercise and it is excellent. Thanks! jmartin clarknight Wrote:I placed the picture on my iblindness blog. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.iblindness.org/...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

8,068

08-15-2009, 03:25 PM

Thread: What Causes the Mental Strain In Your Life?
Post: Re: What Causes the Mental Strain In Your Life?

Okay, but before I invest valuable time and energy reading and watching that stuff - have you cured your own bad vision using such 'happy thinking' techniques? 8)

JMartinC4

Bates Method

12,555

08-20-2009, 10:23 AM

Thread: The lens and accomodation
Post: Re: The lens and accomodation

Something that is not being properly accounted for is the changing nature of the ambient lighting in many if not most locations. The changes could be from not only the very subtle movements of the ea...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

27,551

06-01-2009, 07:45 AM

Thread: Life Style's Effect on Vision
Post: Re: Life Style's Effect on Vision

BlackEyes Wrote:Hello everyone, I've know Bates Method for a long time now. I've reached a level where I can induce very brief clear flashes but I still can't maintain them yet. What I notice through...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

6,351

06-22-2009, 09:00 AM

Thread: under the age of 21 (split from: suggestions needed)
Post: under the age of 21 (split from: suggestions neede...

I am now thinking that this method should not be promoted to anyone under the age of 21. The world has changed a lot since Dr. Bates's time. Siince the method is not by any means instantaneous - lik...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

10,980

09-16-2009, 02:00 PM

Thread: palimg doesnt help me
Post: Re: palimg doesnt help me

fuggles, I agree with nancy and blauw. It sounds like 30 minutes is waaayyyy too long for you to be palming - I'd keep it to sessions of 3 minutes or less. Or even just stop when it feels like enoug...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

6,968

06-26-2009, 10:48 AM

Thread: broken eyesight after looking at the sun
Post: Re: broken eyesight after looking at the sun

I believe looking directly at the sun is harmful to the retina. Closing the eyes and sunning them sounds okay. I've never tried it specifically, but I've done plenty of relaxing at the beach. Since...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

28,398

06-30-2009, 02:54 PM

Thread: under the age of 21 (split from: suggestions needed)
Post: Re: under the age of 21 (split from: suggestions n...

Flower! I didn't mean to sound mean. I sincerely feel friendly towards everyone who sincerely posts here. I enjoy reading your posts and your progress in this journey which I now feel is a unifying...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

10,980

09-25-2009, 04:25 PM

Thread: How do you guys make Eye Contact?
Post: Re: How do you guys make Eye Contact?

Let them know that you are myopic - especially if they have normal 20/20 vision. Put your glasses on once in a while. My theory is that there is an interaction between those who see clearly and thos...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

7,934

09-25-2009, 04:49 PM

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

When I was in Catholic middle school, the nuns used to tell us that original sin was like a little black spot on our souls. I think they were describing their own floaters. I was (mis?-)diagnosed as...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

36,012

09-25-2009, 05:02 PM

Thread: How many of caught a clear flash successfully, and kept it?
Post: Re: How many of caught a clear flash successfully,...

This past month of June and July I have successfully prolonged many of my flashes of clear vision. The duration lasted anywhere from many seconds to minutes. How did I do it? I'm still trying to co...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

7,183

07-07-2009, 02:54 PM

Thread: Question to me on contact lenses & Bates work
Post: Re: Question to me on contact lenses & Bates work

I wore contacts on occasion for a couple of years, from 2005-2007, and still practiced the Bates methods, but not when I had the contacts on. I loved them for showing me what it would be like to have...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

5,880

07-08-2009, 05:24 AM

Thread: I need help! again
Post: Re: I need help! again

Here's my side-take on this issue: Lately I like to think of my visual perceptual field as a Venn Diagram of four overlapping projected circles: Two small circles of clear vision, each centered insi...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

9,730

07-09-2009, 01:36 PM

Thread: I need help! again
Post: Re: I need help! again

Sounds like you're "on the right track"; but putting physical 'pressure' on your eyes is worrisome because you could slip and damage yourself. Don't do it. It''s not necessary and probably produces ...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

9,730

07-10-2009, 10:08 AM

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