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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

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07-26-2010, 09:56 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: 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

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: Difficulty with the Bates method
Post: Re: Difficulty with the Bates method

Thank you. It is still just the beginning for me. All I need now is more patience and an open mind to go on. I will succeed or die trying...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

19,887

09-10-2010, 07:51 PM

Thread: Why progress is slow, and most people are never truely cured
Post: Re: Why progress is slow, and most people are neve...

I disagree. We don't succeed because we don't listen very well. Then people get frustrated, create their own theories about the need for personality change and such, giving themselves and others a ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

38,632

09-10-2010, 08:08 PM

Thread: I want my vision back - started few days ago
Post: Re: I want my vision back - started few days ago

OMG I could not take it any more! Same old same old from JMartinC4... John, could you please read the Bates book finally before going any further with your theories?! I hope you didn't discourage an...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

75,280

09-30-2011, 06:58 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: 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: Dreams and hopes crushed..
Post: Re: Dreams and hopes crushed..

Eyeglasses/contacts/Lasik can work because the "Incorrect use of eyes" is only a correct statement at the far point in the case of simple myopia, where the patient is too nervous to see. I agree that...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

21,806

03-11-2011, 09:30 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: 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: 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: 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: Why progress is slow, and most people are never truely cured
Post: Re: Why progress is slow, and most people are neve...

I don't think anyone here agrees with JMartinC4. His logic of connecting the Neonatal Antibiotic Eyedrops to the Bates Method is very twisted in my opinion. Now that wouldn't be a problem, but the f...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

38,632

09-15-2010, 09:57 AM

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

Hi Armageddon, Simply put again, You are Wrong! You are confusing Reading/Learning To Read with the Educational System/Process. One has almost nothing to do with the other, other than the fact that...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

68,000

10-08-2010, 06:22 AM

Thread: Why progress is slow, and most people are never truely cured
Post: Re: Why progress is slow, and most people are neve...

Hi ho_from_vietnam! That's very good news! Good for you! Taking 2 years is not too long at all, considering how many of us have/will have suffered all their lives with their vision... maybe you wa...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

38,632

09-15-2010, 10:02 AM

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