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Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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070413 Continuing to develop and increase my understanding of the Bates Method through practical experience and intuition. I sometimes think that I am doing really well, but all I am really doing is ...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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04-07-2013, 01:58 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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160413 I want to talk about mental strain. I want to talk about it in the least most rambling way possible. Poor eyesight is merely a symptom of mental strain. It is not the only symptom, but it is ...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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04-16-2013, 08:14 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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230413 Thank you for comments. It is encouraging to find people who are at the same place in the quest for mental ease and who are drawing the same conclusions. This tells me I am not deluded or nuts...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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04-23-2013, 03:21 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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040513 Having been on holiday to the same place I went last year I noticed how much my eyesight has improved. Or should I say that I have noticed how more effectively I have learned to relax my mind....

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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05-04-2013, 01:22 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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100613 A few things happening lately. Firstly I find that it is becoming more frequent that I have clear flashes when I am not thinking about my sight at all. Secondly, I am resorting to thinking les...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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06-10-2013, 08:29 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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200613 Just a thought today. When I have a clear flash, I tend to ask the question "What is it that I am doing for this to be happening?" It is very difficult to answer that question as it seems that...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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06-20-2013, 11:58 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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230613 No matter how advanced you think you are in your understanding and practice of BM, sometimes you have to go back to basics. Just for a bit. Today I could see just how static I was making the w...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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06-23-2013, 01:46 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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010713 I have been approaching my vision improvement from various directions over the past week. I have read David's Method from which there are some good points to take on board. It is quite a simpl...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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07-01-2013, 12:24 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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140713 We can learn a lot about seeing properly from the times when we are actually seeing properly. I noticed that when I am seeing in a more relaxed way it seems that the things I am looking at ar...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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07-14-2013, 12:42 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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020713 Thank you for the feedback, Shocker. I am glad to have helped. I think we make the mistake of trying to see too small a point in order to centrally fixate. I think you need to notice the small...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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07-02-2013, 12:15 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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300713 There is sense in which I have gone full circle with my approach to vision improvement. Lately I have been doing something I used to do before I appreciated the mental side of eyesight, and th...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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07-30-2013, 01:27 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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200713 I think we make too big a thing about our poor eyesight. Though I could just be speaking for myself. I am starting to think that blurred vision needs to be treated in the same way as, for exam...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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07-20-2013, 12:56 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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040813 Having read David's most recent post to date a few days ago I have been practising the idea of feeding my imagination with the data from my eyes. I did previously make the mistakes which David...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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08-04-2013, 01:01 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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110813 Frustration is one of the biggest problems with BM. If this were not true then this forum would not exist. This isn't because there is something wrong with BM, it is because there is something...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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08-11-2013, 03:31 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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110913 The last thing I tried didn't last very long. Maybe I just lost the knack or the relaxation with it. Since then I have been doing something which feels far simpler. I have just been picking ou...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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09-11-2013, 01:30 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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070913 It has been nearly a month since my last post and although I could have made a couple of entries I did not think what I had to say was quite complete. I have had one of those periods where con...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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09-07-2013, 02:03 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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220913 Deliberately placing my attention on the details I could see did turn into a strain again. Maybe I was ready not to deliberately direct my attention in this way and I overdid it? Not sure. But...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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09-22-2013, 02:01 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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280913 It often feels like my eyes are physically trying to reach out and stretch themselves outward to try and see or physically contact things in the distance. I have been countering this by allowi...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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09-28-2013, 02:13 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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121013 Eyesight is all about the mind. Stress is the source of strain which adversely affects eyesight. As a myope who struggles to find that elusive permenant cure whilst practising BM, stress comes...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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10-12-2013, 09:11 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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131013 Thank you, Nancy. Always encouraging to get a bit of feedback. My thought today: The harder you work at trying to see, the less progress you make. This is the nature of the beast. When the t...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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10-13-2013, 09:44 AM

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