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Thread: Tension around eyes
Post: Re: Tension around eyes

RoyFokker Wrote:The tension is very disconcerting it is hard to relax when you feel intense tension around your eye muscles, especially if it causes a headache and nausea. I'm not an expert but, base...

chris hansen

Bates Method

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05-02-2006, 09:57 AM

Thread: Tension around eyes
Post: Re: Tension around eyes

RoyFokker Wrote:Today when I woke up I felt alot of tension in the muscles around my eyes. Especially the right side. Is this aÃâÃÂ good sign, a sign that progress is being made? Does this mea...

chris hansen

Bates Method

11,568

05-01-2006, 10:06 AM

Thread: Strange thing
Post: Re: Strange thing

TheRainIsGone Wrote:Thanks for the responses. I've started doing some of the eye exercises and used the pinhole glasses for a bit the past few days.ÃâÃÂ Have had some excruciating stomach probl...

chris hansen

Bates Method

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05-01-2006, 09:58 AM

Thread: Strange thing
Post: Re: Strange thing

TheRainIsGone Wrote:Hi, I just joined the board and believe that my nearsightedness is due to some repression of emotions and/or memories.ÃâÃÂ ÃâÃÂ I found Chris Hansen's posts to be very in...

chris hansen

Bates Method

23,972

04-25-2006, 09:54 AM

Thread: Just a few questions
Post: Re: Just a few questions

dragon28 Wrote:What you've told about strain proves my point, you shouldn't start with this exercise untill you know how to relax your eyes perfectly. Doesn't it? Isn't the point of the exercise to b...

chris hansen

Bates Method

24,190

02-17-2006, 01:21 PM

Thread: Just a few questions
Post: Re: Just a few questions

dragon28 Wrote:When I am in the dark I don't see black even when I am relaxed. People with perfect sight can see in the dark and don't see black when they are relaxed. I think that was wrong. There a...

chris hansen

Bates Method

24,190

02-09-2006, 07:10 AM

Thread: Taking off glasses for only some minutes - useful or not?
Post: Re: Taking off glasses for only some minutes - use...

My glasses go on and off all the time and I haven't had any trouble. Walking without glasses is one of my favorite forms of vision training. I look around and see what I can see. That's just my experi...

chris hansen

Bates Method

15,892

02-08-2006, 01:28 PM

Thread: Just a few questions
Post: Re: Just a few questions

This is my understanding. A relaxed visual system will see black, if you don't see black it's a sign of tension. I see things like what you describe and it's about the same with my eyes open or closed...

chris hansen

Bates Method

24,190

02-08-2006, 01:15 PM

Thread: Aldous HuxLey
Post: Re: Aldous HuxLey

I can't help thinking: If his vision was that bad, how could he go through life convinced that he could see? It seems that either he was lying about the whole thing or maybe the stress of being in fro...

chris hansen

Bates Method

9,395

01-24-2006, 07:13 AM

Thread: eye exam
Post: Re: eye exam

dragon28 Wrote:However, there are optometrists that do understand Bates' method, but they are telling everybody that it's rubbish only because if people work with Bates' method, these optometrists wo...

chris hansen

Bates Method

9,886

01-23-2006, 07:29 AM

Thread: eye exam
Post: Re: eye exam

I think that most optomitrists want to help people but they tend to go with the things they are taught in their school and training. If they knew there was a better way that has been proven to their s...

chris hansen

Bates Method

9,886

01-22-2006, 05:28 PM

Thread: eye exam
Post: eye exam

I had an eye exam in December, after I've looked into the Bates material a little. When I explained what I was working on the doctor was very open about his skepticism and expressed his doubts. Then h...

chris hansen

Bates Method

9,886

01-18-2006, 07:17 AM

Thread: what's your favorite?
Post: Re: what's your favorite?

Bifocal Wrote:Since I am farsighted, and should wear plus lenses, my favorite relaxation technique is to wear weak minus lenses. After wearing them for a while , and then removing them, my vision is ...

chris hansen

Bates Method

12,699

01-13-2006, 03:27 PM

Thread: what's your favorite?
Post: Re: what's your favorite?

I've had quite dramatic results from swinging in a dark room. Dave K Wrote:So what's everyone's favorite method of resting your eyes that works for them? Mine, as my other posts suggset, is memory...

chris hansen

Bates Method

12,699

01-10-2006, 02:59 PM

Thread: Question on Astigmatism
Post: Re: Question on Astigmatism

Boho Wrote:Could someone explain to me what eyeglass prescription with 180ÃâÃÂ means, such as in -.50 -2.00 180? That is if you get 180 in the prescription is it the oblique orthe rectus muscle ...

chris hansen

Bates Method

8,886

01-10-2006, 02:57 PM

Thread: Eye cramps
Post: Eye cramps

After an especially productive day of eye exercises and walking and seeing things, I went to bed and could feel tension returning to my eyes. It came on so hard and fast it was painful! I shifted and ...

chris hansen

Bates Method

5,185

12-23-2005, 07:25 AM

Thread: Bates friendly eye doctor in Minnesota?
Post: Bates friendly eye doctor in Minnesota?

Does anyone know of a Bates friendly eye doctor in Minnesota? The ones I've talked to have shown a lot of resistance to the idea of improving vision and have not been willing to work with me. Thanks.

chris hansen

Bates Method

4,455

12-22-2005, 08:53 AM

Thread: Bates teacher near St. Paul Minnesota?
Post: Bates teacher near St. Paul Minnesota?

Does anyone know of a Bates teacher near St. Paul Minnesota? If not, who might be the closest? Thanks.

chris hansen

Find a Bates Teacher

6,529

12-22-2005, 08:44 AM

Thread: Strange thing
Post: Re: Strange thing

I'm starting to notice a pattern here. I was working with the eye chart today and felt tension building up mainly in my jaw and throat. I also started to feel nervousness or anxiety in my stomach. Th...

chris hansen

Bates Method

23,972

12-21-2005, 06:56 PM

Thread: Cross eyed?
Post: Re: Cross eyed?

The cross-eye feeling has been changing. At first, any improvement in vision was accompanied by a feeling of being cross-eyed. It changed until I could feel less tension than normal in the front of th...

chris hansen

Bates Method

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12-21-2005, 10:38 AM

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