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

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...

jimboaxeman

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02-06-2013, 12:01 PM

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

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02-07-2013, 08:56 AM

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...

jimboaxeman

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02-02-2013, 04:14 PM

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 ...

jimboaxeman

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02-03-2013, 02:30 PM

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

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...

jimboaxeman

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02-03-2013, 06:02 AM

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

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...

jimboaxeman

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02-03-2013, 07:05 AM

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

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...

jimboaxeman

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02-04-2013, 12:55 AM

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

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...

jimboaxeman

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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.
Post: Re: Thinking one thing best.

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: 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.

That is interesting, David. Maybe my attention is my consciousness. I have said that by being more aware of here and now helps to clear my vision. I have also realised that when I do practise this awa...

jimboaxeman

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02-21-2013, 04:25 PM

Thread: My progress and view on myopia
Post: Re: My progress and view on myopia

I googled Martin Brofman and read an excerpt from one of his books. He was saying how myopes tend to be more introspective and concerned only with what is inside their personal bubble. He could have b...

jimboaxeman

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06-16-2013, 02:30 PM

Thread: shocker's journey to 20/20 master race
Post: Re: shocker's journey to 20/20 master race

Yea, I have felt a lot of muscular activity when looking at small lights (whether it's a larger light source in the distance or a small light source closer up.) It happens if I fix my gaze upon them f...

jimboaxeman

David's method

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08-11-2013, 01:57 PM

Thread: shocker's journey to 20/20 master race
Post: Re: shocker's journey to 20/20 master race

Ah, I thought that was the effect of astigmatism where an LED for example forms into multiples. I get it all the time and the more I try to clear it up, the worse it gets. I think that seeing only one...

jimboaxeman

David's method

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08-09-2013, 10:10 AM

Thread: Question about central fixation & relaxation
Post: Re: Question about central fixation & relaxation

Letting go of your peripheral vision should actually make the centre of your vision clearer, but your peripheral vision won't suffer. If you have eccentric fixation you will find that things in your p...

jimboaxeman

Complementary Methods

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06-16-2013, 02:20 PM

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

I just want to add something else today. I have found that I have become more flexible and less rigid in my attitudes towards my finances, how I use my time, my perception of time, my interpersonal de...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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05-25-2013, 02:48 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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250513 Had a long period so far where there has not seemingly been much to report on. I say "seemingly" because I think that the automatic part of our brain is always working on a problem which is be...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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05-25-2013, 02:29 PM

Thread: Experiment (need replys)
Post: Re: Experiment (need replys)

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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Bates Method

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02-09-2013, 06:48 AM

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