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Thread: Seeing when sick
Post: Re: Seeing when sick

Just don't do chart when you are sick. Stop testing your eyesight, which lowers your sight. Practice dodging your vision. Just notice that things move and are small/contained/brighter/more contrast...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

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04-25-2011, 08:08 PM

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: 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: 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: 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

7,391

01-19-2011, 09:32 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: Progress Report at Year 1.5
Post: Re: Progress Report at Year 1.5

Hello Rewired and all who will have the patience to read this, Change in diopters should not be considered a way of measuring progress in the Bates Method. Some people's diopters do move down during...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

7,261

10-07-2011, 08:36 PM

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: New member, new story
Post: Re: New member, new story

Wow! You should be a poet! ;D Jokes aside, it looks like you have really done your homework and that's the right step in the right direction! I wish you good luck (and determination) with the Bates ...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

4,111

07-01-2010, 09:00 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

Thread: Reading with incoroporated Bates method
Post: Re: Reading with incoroporated Bates method

He-He! I am assuming, that you are able to read this way from a lot further than you should be according to your prescription, correct? No, you don't have to read this way all the time. Just do it as...

Andrea Major

Bates Method

4,072

01-22-2011, 08:42 PM

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