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Thread: straining without glasses
Post: Re: straining without glasses

Also, Pikachu, You can do computer work without glasses. For a desktop, you just pull the monitor to the edge of your desk and place the keyboard in your lap. With a laptop, it is easy to get close...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

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01-19-2011, 09:32 PM

Thread: How do i know if an exercise works for me???
Post: Re: How do i know if an exercise works for me???

If an exercise was useful, there is always improvement in the sight. Judge your success by your ability to imagine something perfectly either with your eyes closed or with your eyes open. If this sou...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

7,739

02-23-2011, 07:21 AM

Thread: Progress Report at Year 1.5
Post: Re: Progress Report at Year 1.5

Thanks guys for your encouragements! Oh it is not a success story yet, but I hope I will have the courage to go on like this and make it to 20/20 or better one day. I can now see that it must be pos...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

7,261

10-03-2011, 06:23 PM

Thread: Palming versus peripheral vision
Post: Re: Palming versus peripheral vision

Thanks for sharing this stuff with us, hammer! I liked it so much I ended up walking around for 2 days doing it, because I loved the clarity it gave me. Then my eyes started hurting, like they were ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

8,706

09-24-2010, 06:56 PM

Thread: straining without glasses
Post: Re: straining without glasses

Try not to wear glasses at all, at least in the house. Bates says, it is better to strain and put up with the discomfort caused by not wearing glasses, than to wear any sort of glasses. To ease the ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

7,391

01-19-2011, 09:28 PM

Thread: Weaker glasses - astigmatism undercorrection
Post: Re: Weaker glasses - astigmatism undercorrection

Just forget about the astigmatism for now. The trouble is with your imagination, not the undercorrection. It is normal to see distorted/multiplied, etc as your eyesight improves. But you will notic...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

10,023

04-11-2011, 12:33 PM

Thread: Progress Report at Year 1.5
Post: Progress Report at Year 1.5

Hi, I decided to provide a progress report on my one year anniversary. But I didnât do it, I kept âprocrastinatingâ . The truth is I tried to learn from othersâ mistakes and live by an advic...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

7,261

09-29-2011, 07:21 PM

Thread: Walking with Bates
Post: Re: Walking with Bates

At my stage of improvement, I find it relaxing to follow moving lines as I walk such as the edge where the sidewalk meets the road or the grass and only occasionally look away from it when the strain ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

6,727

08-13-2010, 08:10 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: 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: Central fixation versus movement
Post: Re: Central fixation versus movement

Well said, Hammer! At a young age, I was very interested in stones and I am beginning to re-awaken this hobby to feel better and improve my relaxation/imagination/palming skills. But I think many my...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

4,957

09-19-2010, 06:29 PM

Thread: why does it feel like my eyes are straing when i do sunning?
Post: Re: why does it feel like my eyes are straing when...

How do you exactly do your sunning exercise? 10 minutes sounds a bit too long to me. I mean I usually tell people to not be afraid of the sun, but there are some specific rules. For example, the he...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

5,144

01-22-2011, 09:02 PM

Thread: Where To Find Diamond Type?
Post: Re: Where To Find Diamond Type?

You just type something in MS Word and change to font size 4, 3 or 2. Or have a paragraph of each. Then you print it with a good quality laser printer. Or use the ingredients list on a travel-size ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

7,711

02-23-2011, 07:37 AM

Thread: My Experience so Far
Post: Re: My Experience so Far

Hi 11oceans! Let me answer your questions here. I went down officially 1 and 1.25 diopters after reading/practicing the bates method during the initial 6 months. I am now past my one year mark and ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

4,694

04-15-2011, 09:07 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: Why Optometrist test won't reveal partial progress
Post: Why Optometrist test won't reveal partial progress

This is why the Optometrist test won't reveal progress with the Bates Method... I see people getting discouraged all the time when their prescription strength does not seem to decrease after practici...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

5,934

08-30-2010, 11:47 AM

Thread: Bates for kerataconus?
Post: Re: Bates for kerataconus?

Absolutely, Bates said conical cornea has also been cured they the "perfect imagination". Start reading his book and articles if you can as soon as possible...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

4,872

10-08-2010, 06:25 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: 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: 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

4,084

01-18-2011, 07:52 PM

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