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Thread: Emotional Struggles
Post: Re: Emotional Struggles

I just want to say that qi gong sounds excellent! I know a lady who has been practicing it after getting treatment for cancer and to her optometrist's amazement, her presbyopia has disappeared! She ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

35,493

09-26-2010, 04:26 PM

Thread: how many times do i exercise my eyes per day
Post: Re: how many times do i exercise my eyes per day

Hey Pikachu, Your reply has shocked me! (Pleasantly) I expected receiving an "attitude" back for giving my own "attitude", but instead you broke the cycle! Good for you! And I apologize for my ton...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

27,212

01-20-2011, 01:38 PM

Thread: how many times do i exercise my eyes per day
Post: Re: how many times do i exercise my eyes per day

Pikachu Wrote:If you think that just doing exercises X number of times a day for Y days will get you to 20/20 vision, you have much to understand. If it was that easy, why are we all still here on the...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

27,212

01-18-2011, 08:29 PM

Thread: how many times do i exercise my eyes per day
Post: Re: how many times do i exercise my eyes per day

I have an issue with people emphasizing that the habits need to be changed. To me they have taken things out of context from the original Bates materials. It is true that it is the habits that will ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

27,212

01-22-2011, 09:37 PM

Thread: Most terrifying thing
Post: Re: Most terrifying thing

Don't worry, you are not anysomyopic. It would have to be a lot more difference between the two eyes. This kind of variance is quite usual. You can perhaps convince your mom eventually, if you beco...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

25,585

09-01-2010, 07:41 PM

Thread: 6 months later,nothing has changed
Post: Re: 6 months later,nothing has changed

Hi DaniFixe, Please see the new Topic under the Bates Method: "Why Optometrist test won't reveal progress". Please let me know if that makes sense and please stay glasses free and continue on... ;-...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

25,569

08-30-2010, 11:52 AM

Thread: Lots of Questions - Palming, Improvement, etc.
Post: Re: Lots of Questions - Palming, Improvement, etc.

If you can easily, effortlessly imagine something moving (swinging from side to side) a small area or a letter, that's best. But you may not be able to as that is an indication of relaxation already ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

24,637

09-03-2010, 06:26 PM

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

Fuoco, I have similar issues with my neck and back aching, bad tension. I have had it always and when wearing contact lenses, I used to come home from work with terrible stiffness/tension in my uppe...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

19,887

08-26-2010, 05:54 AM

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

Hey Nancy, Thanks for the encouraging words! I always like to read your posts, there is always something in it for me! In fact, without people like you and this Forum, I wouldn't have gotten so far....

Andrea Major

Bates Method

19,887

08-27-2010, 08:25 PM

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

Nancy, I am especially interested in how you deal with the fact that so few people know about the mind-vision connection. There are meditation teachers out there (I am going to sign up for one in th...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

19,887

09-03-2010, 09:18 AM

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

Hi Nancy, I like your line: my energy is better focused on myself. I have had that thought, but I am torn sometimes if it is too selfish. However, with a clear head, I know that I can preach nothin...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

19,887

09-07-2010, 11:30 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: Night Vision
Post: Re: Night Vision

Hi Jwlboyce, I am very curious, How did you arrive at these numbers? (-.5 vs -3 at night) Did an optometrist check or did you somehow do your own measurement? Can you give us details as I am very i...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

17,952

09-07-2010, 06:33 PM

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