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Thread: Discouraging parents & my progress
Post: Re: Discouraging parents & my progress

Hi Kayla, I know a lot about the negative effects of discouragement. I still get down by it, too and only recently I began to work on dealing with it. I think us, myopes, are especially hungry for ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

38,857

05-07-2010, 04:53 AM

Thread: Tense muscles all the time
Post: Re: Tense muscles all the time

Hi Mihai, I feel some strong odd pains sometimes, too. Bates wrote something like this: All errors of refraction cause pain and tension. The pain and discomfort may be absent, however, in the chron...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

20,466

05-07-2010, 05:13 AM

Thread: my myopic and depression
Post: Re: my myopic and depression

I used to be very depressed and it is a terrible illness. I don't trust that you can really get help from traditional medicine for your depression, the same way as they don't know how to cure your ey...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

8,441

05-07-2010, 06:14 AM

Thread: Discouraging parents & my progress
Post: Re: Discouraging parents & my progress

And don't forget, the only thing they learned in school was how to prescribe glasses. If they admitted to anything wrong with that practice it would mean throwing their education and experience out t...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

38,857

05-12-2010, 11:41 AM

Thread: newbie
Post: Re: newbie

To JMartinC4: I think you are a bit too pushy about your silver nitrate theory. I am a grass-root bates believer. He clearly stated that the epidemic of myopia begins in civilizations when the clas...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

14,640

05-14-2010, 08:43 PM

Thread: Emotional Struggles
Post: Re: Emotional Struggles

Awesome stuff, everyone! I cannot read your words fast enough. It is so nice to know that I am not alone with the crazy realizations on this Earth that the Bates method brings me. I am using it to ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

35,493

05-14-2010, 09:45 PM

Thread: What does your blur look like?
Post: What does your blur look like?

My myopia is approximately -5.25 and -5.75, astigmatism extra. As far as I can remember, the blur that I see at the distance has never been that nice uniform blur that they have in the textbooks, etc...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

5,399

05-14-2010, 11:05 PM

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

This is interesting. I actually welcome my floaters! I guess my eyesight/visual habits were so bad that I wasn't even able to notice them before. The other day I had a clear flash and on top of the...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

36,012

05-18-2010, 11:14 AM

Thread: CentralFixation/ClearFlashStimulatingBiofeedbackDevice
Post: Re: CentralFixation/ClearFlashStimulatingBiofeedba...

Actually, Dr Bates writes that all infants' vision changes very much from one day to the next. According to his observations, one day may be myopic then hypermetropic the next, and so on.

Andrea Major

Success Stories

18,427

06-08-2010, 12:20 PM

Thread: Using plus lenses to cure myopia ?
Post: Re: Using plus lenses to cure myopia ?

Bad. Doesn't address the psychological aspects, minus or plus lenses both lower focal variations of the eye, natural eye movements and central fixation. Besides, if it was this easy, don't you think...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

12,633

06-19-2010, 07:35 PM

Thread: how to help a friend with 20/400 myopia
Post: Re: how to help a friend with 20/400 myopia

There is no such thing as organic myopia. Dr Bates has carefully reached the conclusion that all errors of refractions are of functional in nature before he wrote his book. Therefore your friend nee...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

11,933

06-19-2010, 07:58 PM

Thread: Help
Post: Re: Help

Also, try investing into a good comfortable eye patch. Cover your good eye for a long time, like a whole entire weekend if possible and try to do things around the house that way. Think of it as a f...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

5,860

06-22-2010, 11:36 AM

Thread: New member, new story
Post: Re: New member, new story

Wow! You should be a poet! ;D Jokes aside, it looks like you have really done your homework and that's the right step in the right direction! I wish you good luck (and determination) with the Bates ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

4,111

07-01-2010, 09:00 AM

Thread: Emotional Struggles
Post: Re: Emotional Struggles

Hi Jennifer, :-) I am doing great, thanks for asking! I looked at your previous posts, see who this person is showing an interest in my well-being?! :-) Looks like you and I may have some stuff in ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

35,493

07-01-2010, 10:10 AM

Thread: New 2 Bates
Post: Re: New 2 Bates

David started calling Palming "palming meditation", that was an awesome eye-opener! Now I would go further and call everything meditation in the Bates method. Even the swinging. If you look into th...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

9,061

07-05-2010, 01:17 PM

Thread: Can you see faces?
Post: Re: Can you see faces?

Appearing silly, crazy or rude is part of the Bates Method. It is simply (probably) the biggest reason why most people finally give up, give in and stick those glasses/contacts back on/in. It is imp...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

11,453

07-14-2010, 06:21 AM

Thread: Can you see faces?
Post: Re: Can you see faces?

Face recognition is a curious thing and is so subjective that I believe it very much supports Bates's theory on the close relationship between mind, memory and vision. It is well known that when we b...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

11,453

07-21-2010, 08:42 AM

Thread: I strain when trying to do Bates.
Post: Re: I strain when trying to do Bates.

"The pain and discomfort may be absent in the chronic cases and it is an encouraging sign when the patient begins to experience them" by W. H. Bates...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

16,259

07-26-2010, 09:56 AM

Thread: Lower strength glasses
Post: Re: Lower strength glasses

The Bates method doesn't work this way. The way your vision went down from one prescription to the next is not the same way it is going to go back up. There is no secret formula to getting reduced pr...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

21,425

07-26-2010, 10:13 AM

Thread: Lower strength glasses
Post: Re: Lower strength glasses

... OK, but here is an idea. If you do want lower stuff to drive, etc. Find someone (some people) with lower prescription or old prescription glasses that they kept and ask if you could borrow them....

Andrea Major

Bates Method

21,425

07-26-2010, 10:22 AM

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