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Thread: Words of Wisdom from 20/20
Post: Re: Words of Wisdom from 20/20

Wow, seetheleaves! You make me laugh! But also, your stuff is worthy of the Better Eyesight Magazines. I know Bates would approve! :-)

Andrea Major

Bates Method

17,133

02-23-2011, 07:28 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: 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: 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: 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: +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: 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: 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: 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: Reading strain
Post: Re: Reading strain

I am having the exact same problem. But I look at it this way: it is not that I just got the reading strain or it has increased despite of the Bates Method. The truth is that I have become more awa...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

10,082

09-07-2010, 06:48 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: 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: 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: 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: how much have you improved in a month
Post: Re: how much have you improved in a month

OK, so I have been quiet (too busy with my life and improving my eyesight at the same time) and will go away again after this post. I have been discovering one very important factor about the Bates ME...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

8,987

02-21-2011, 02:17 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

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: 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: 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

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