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Thread: Thinking one thing best.
Post: Thinking one thing best.

Hello everybody. I am new to this forum but not new to the Bates Method. I have years of experience of getting it wrong. I have read from this site a few times and have found the posts helpful and in...

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02-02-2013, 04:14 PM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
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Thank you for your comment, Nini. Very helpful and it lines up with my own thoughts on the matter. I still tend to tire my mind out with making too much of an effort to centrally fixate my mind. I kno...

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02-03-2013, 06:02 AM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
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Thank you. So many times in the past I have given myself an awful migraine headache by trying too hard. Lately I have not experienced much discomfort in my eyes since I have been more aware of my mind...

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02-03-2013, 07:05 AM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
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Hello Eaglevision, It is a frustrating business isn't it? But I always concluded that that these different occaisons must have had at least one thing in common, and that being mental focus. It seems ...

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02-03-2013, 02:30 PM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
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I am still new to practising the mental focus, but I find in order to regain it I make myself aware of the here-and-now. I make myself more aware of what is happening around me more than anything else...

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02-04-2013, 12:55 AM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
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I know what you mean by watching TV and it is a good way to lose yourself in something interesting. I like your balanced approach as well in that you know when to manipulate the eye muscles and when n...

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02-04-2013, 05:51 AM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
Post: Re: Thinking one thing best.

Hello lou_deg, Yes I do have a degree of astigmatism. I don't have my full prescription handy but I get a lot of double images, especially with small LED lights. I could not pin point the particular...

jimboaxeman

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02-04-2013, 12:38 PM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
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Lol. I think we are always close to perfect sight, but in the same way as getting lost somewhere until you realised you passed your destination several times! It really does seem to be a wrong thoug...

jimboaxeman

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02-05-2013, 10:39 AM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
Post: Re: Thinking one thing best.

Thankyou, Tsukiomi. Your comment is encouraging. Hearing from other people with the same conclusions is good. I could have written your comment myself. My latest thoughts are that it seems like, for...

jimboaxeman

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02-05-2013, 01:43 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
Post: Jimbo's Journal

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT OFFICIAL NOTICE OF NEW MANAGEMENT OF VISION FACILITIES EASYVISION CO. are now managing this facility after the liquidation of STRAIN & SONS LTD. Here follows EASYVISION CO'...

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02-05-2013, 02:57 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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060213 This morning I found it difficult to mentally focus. My own long journey with the Bates Method has been a catalogue of replacing one kind is strain with another, and periods of obsession with ...

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02-06-2013, 11:49 AM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
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Aldous Huxley's Art of Seeing was the first book I read on the Bates Method. I tried the exercises he recommended and found they worked and then I was hooked. But I was only interested in the mechanic...

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02-06-2013, 12:01 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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060213 Intensity. This is not helpful. Or at least the kind of intensity I am about to describe: I have to lean into my laptop to read and I sometimes sit back and try to induce the ability to read t...

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02-06-2013, 01:58 PM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
Post: Re: Thinking one thing best.

Interesting comment. I used to be quite uncomfortable in low light conditions. I just decided one day to relax about the low light. Since then my eyesight in low light conditions permanently improved....

jimboaxeman

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02-07-2013, 04:31 AM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
Post: Re: Thinking one thing best.

Top marks for attitude, lou_deg. Only I think there are plenty of low light opportunities already without having to go quite that far. Don't bump into anything and hurt yourself! :D

jimboaxeman

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02-07-2013, 08:56 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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070213 Have been a bit ill today. Developing a flu. On days such as this I don't tax myself too much. Decided to just let my vision processes have some free flow. A few times I gently and briefly did...

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02-07-2013, 01:43 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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080213 Feeling rough again today because of flu. Another opportunity to find the easiest way to apply mental focus. Basically, whatever I do I have a propensity to strain. Even thoughts can be a stra...

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02-08-2013, 12:58 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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080213 Tried another experiment/exercise tonight. It started by just deciding to relax as i looked at something (text on the screen again) and to see what happens. Wait for the point where the relax...

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02-08-2013, 03:08 PM

Thread: Experiment (need replys)
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Hello, I am definitely non confrontational. Still myopic though I believe I am making progress. I was a prison officer for four and a half years and really struggled because I am too soft. :-\

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02-09-2013, 06:48 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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The easiest way to see. Have been quite ill with flu last few days. I have not felt up to making any kind of effort with my eyesight. This tells me something: My approach to the Bates Method is one o...

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02-10-2013, 03:23 PM

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