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Thread: Introduce yourself here!
Post: Re: Introduce yourself here!

Hello everyone, I've been wearing glasses most of my life and I hate them. I recently read the book by Tom Quakenbush and am also reading other material I found on the subject. I'm glad this forum is...

chris hansen

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12-14-2005, 07:21 PM

Thread: Question about palming
Post: Question about palming

Hello, When I try palming and I become more relaxed my eye lids always come open just a little bit. I try to keep them closed but it takes effort and I see more colors inside my eyes then. Should I t...

chris hansen

Bates Method

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12-14-2005, 07:23 PM

Thread: Just relaxing?
Post: Just relaxing?

Hello, As I understand it, all the exercises, activities and strategies people follow are supposed to relax the eyes. Would it be productive to simply sit, try to relax the eyes and focus on things?

chris hansen

Bates Method

5,320

12-15-2005, 07:44 AM

Thread: Reading: with or without my glasses?
Post: Reading: with or without my glasses?

Hello, I realize that the standard advice is to go without your glasses whenever you can. When I'm reading with my reduced prescription glasses I can read something at arms length, without glasses I ...

chris hansen

Bates Method

5,440

12-15-2005, 07:59 AM

Thread: Reading further away
Post: Reading further away

Hello, I have another question. Is it possible or desirable to focus on a specific area of better vision before moving on to the next goal? I can only read a few inches from my face without glasses ...

chris hansen

Bates Method

5,110

12-15-2005, 10:29 AM

Thread: Eye exercises with glasses?
Post: Eye exercises with glasses?

Hi again, The questions keep on coming, I hope you don't mind. I wish I could find a teacher in the St. Paul, Minnesota area. Considering that my vision is 20/400 (I was told that's being nice), wou...

chris hansen

Bates Method

8,343

12-16-2005, 06:51 AM

Thread: Cross eyed?
Post: Cross eyed?

Hello again, I noticed that, when I look into the distance and try to focus on things, I feel like I go a little cross eyed. I can actually see better during that time but I understand that there sho...

chris hansen

Bates Method

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12-16-2005, 06:56 AM

Thread: Eye exercises with glasses?
Post: Re: Eye exercises with glasses?

My eye chart was just delivered this morning, I won't have time to play with it until later though. I understand that improvement isn't really gradual and going without glasses makes sense to me, the ...

chris hansen

Bates Method

8,343

12-17-2005, 09:46 AM

Thread: Standing in the dark?
Post: Standing in the dark?

I read that, if you look at a blank wall, the eyes have nothing to focus on so they relax. I decided that the same should also be true in the dark. I tried standing in a dark room (the downstairs bath...

chris hansen

Bates Method

5,089

12-17-2005, 04:42 PM

Thread: The eyes during palming?
Post: The eyes during palming?

Should you do anything in particular with the eyes during palming? I know my eyes tend to turn out and, if I keep them both straight, my world is more 3-D but do I have to worry about that stuff durin...

chris hansen

Bates Method

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12-17-2005, 04:48 PM

Thread: blackspot disappears
Post: Re: blackspot disappears

Just in case you check the forum again, First, congratulations on resolving your eye problems!! I don't think you are out of place here, it sounds like you have experience and knowledge that might ...

chris hansen

Bates Method

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12-18-2005, 03:37 PM

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: 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: Strange thing
Post: Strange thing

Hello, The strangest thing happened today. I was working on an eye exercise I read about. You look at the eye chart and focus on the white part below one of the lines and keep blinking. The idea is ...

chris hansen

Bates Method

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12-18-2005, 03:46 PM

Thread: My eyes, my ears and my glasses
Post: My eyes, my ears and my glasses

Hello, Today at work I was in the hall without my glasses. I stopped to look out the window at the snow falling and I started to feel kind of a tug in my ears, sort of like they wanted to pop. I cont...

chris hansen

Bates Method

7,911

12-20-2005, 04:25 PM

Thread: Strange thing
Post: Re: Strange thing

It happened again. I was looking at the eye chart and I could feel a lot of tension build in my ears, sinuses and jaw. My jaw got so tight it was hard to move it. The tension started to move down to ...

chris hansen

Bates Method

23,972

12-20-2005, 08:21 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

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: 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

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01-10-2006, 02:59 PM

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

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01-13-2006, 03:27 PM

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