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Thread: Straining at the Near-Point?
Post: Re: Straining at the Near-Point?

There are two approaches to practicing with the fine print. If you are straining to see fine print from close enough (that means not being successful at reading it), this should decrease myopia and s...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

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01-18-2011, 07:52 PM

Thread: Eye exam today!
Post: Re: Eye exam today!

OK, I was reading your previous posts to "determine" ;) more about you. So, your better eye is -7D still? So that's about 14 cm from your eyes. (1/7=0.1429m = 14.3cm) Try getting a print of small...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

3,952

01-10-2011, 06:48 AM

Thread: Eye exam today!
Post: Re: Eye exam today!

Hello Determined, Please read one of my previous posts, "Why Optometrist test won't reveal partial progress" http://www.iblindness.org/community/view...f=1&t=1817 The fact that you haven't progre...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

3,952

01-10-2011, 06:07 AM

Thread: Is there any chance to improve my vision?
Post: Re: Is there any chance to improve my vision?

If you want to get serious and avoid going blind: Read the original book ONLY, "The Cure of Imperfect Sight without glasses"by William H. Bates, downloadable on this site. Print it out, read it slow...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

8,350

01-07-2011, 09:33 PM

Thread: pure Bates method
Post: Re: pure Bates method

There is a right way to summarize it and that has been done best by children in the BEM's. Like that school boy, with perfect vision who said, that if you cannot see something, you look away. That's...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

57,740

01-07-2011, 09:04 PM

Thread: Eye Doctors Suck.
Post: Re: Eye Doctors Suck.

Pin-hole effect isn't Bates, they can be perfectly explained by the law of optics. Unfortunately, some NVI people have been marketing them as such, or as something that would benefit the vision takin...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

9,474

12-08-2010, 09:07 PM

Thread: Paying Attention to the Peripheral
Post: Re: Paying Attention to the Peripheral

I still find peripheral vision very helpful, too. I wondered a lot about why it can work and only recently I realized that it really is quite simple. Paying attention to the periphery removes some o...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

13,135

12-05-2010, 08:30 PM

Thread: Help on Palming
Post: Re: Help on Palming

Yeah there can be a few problems with palming. One, as Nancy says, anticipating a test as soon as opening your eyes can destroy your attempts entirely or make your eyesight bad at the precise moment ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

8,425

12-03-2010, 09:13 PM

Thread: pure Bates method
Post: Re: pure Bates method

Hi Everyone, I feel like I owe it to everyone to come back and respond with greater detail, because there have been so many good points made and I guess I have started all this mess. I hate to be th...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

57,740

12-03-2010, 09:03 PM

Thread: pure Bates method
Post: Re: pure Bates method

OK, then what do you exactly believe in? So the argument is that some people have an issue with what Bates has said or how he said it. Is this correct? We really cannot argue with that unless peopl...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

57,740

11-30-2010, 08:51 AM

Thread: new article / site update
Post: Re: new article / site update

I consider myself "censored out" for having my response "split-out". Dave, you have asked for feedback... You didn't say only positive ones are welcome, next time make sure you do and I'll be sure to...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

40,713

11-22-2010, 10:27 AM

Thread: pure Bates method
Post: pure Bates method

I am shocked to find out that you don't agree with Bates's ideas or not fully. I fully agree with him. I have no reason not to. He has improved thousands of people's vision unless we believe he is ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

57,740

11-19-2010, 07:33 PM

Thread: +0.5 Diopter Improvement in 1 Week
Post: Re: +0.5 Diopter Improvement in 1 Week

You are on the wrong website if you believe you can exercise your ciliary muscles. Please read the Bates book. The ciliary muscles have nothing to do with the accomodation. Thanks, Andrea

Andrea Major

Success Stories

12,087

11-19-2010, 06:48 PM

Thread: new article / site update
Post: Re: new article / site update

Hi Dave, I think I preferred your welcome page the way it was before. Mysterious and encouraging people to read the original Bates material... Now, I guess I understand, you want to keep people int...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

40,713

11-05-2010, 05:35 PM

Thread: Imagination
Post: Re: Imagination

An Update! So here is an email conversation I had with my husband after I have copied him sean's imagination tale. I wanted to shock him with some aspects of the Method, but again, I failed. Proves ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

23,301

10-19-2010, 10:11 AM

Thread: Imagination
Post: Re: Imagination

Hi Sean, That's awesome stuff! Keep doing what you are doing! You gave me a good laugh, too, because I thought of how it would sound to an outsider! And yes, because I am experimenting with simila...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

23,301

10-19-2010, 09:06 AM

Thread: Musings on Vision
Post: Re: Musings on Vision

So let's recap what has been achieved here: 1. An admission that you don't fully understand the method 2. A slight shift in opinion, from the idea "reading causing loss of central fixation" to "readin...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

68,000

10-14-2010, 12:10 PM

Thread: cross-eyed swing
Post: Re: cross-eyed swing

Hi Napkinfeet, First off, congrats on your determination! Doing swing-a-thons shows that you are willing to put in the effort many would not...and this is exactly the type of person who will succeed ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

9,097

10-14-2010, 11:35 AM

Thread: Desperate to improve my eyesight
Post: Re: Desperate to improve my eyesight

Hi Bee123, I am about the same prescription as yours and yes, it is absolutely possible for you to go around without glasses. It took only a firm decision and a speech to my husband. I told him: lo...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

11,245

10-10-2010, 06:36 PM

Thread: huge amounts of anxiety
Post: Re: huge amounts of anxiety

Noneother, I think Bates has some hidden messages regarding all kinds of anxieties (not just visual as it is impossible to separate them and only improve on one without improving all the others.) He...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

8,838

10-08-2010, 06:59 AM

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