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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...

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02-05-2013, 10:39 AM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
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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...

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02-05-2013, 01:43 PM

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....

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05-04-2013, 01:22 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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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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011013 Thoughts about the condition of your vision can cut right across your normal thought patterns and rather than reduce the strain which these thoughts are reacting to, they increase the strain. ...

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10-01-2013, 06:46 AM

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...

jimboaxeman

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02-06-2013, 01:58 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: 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...

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07-14-2013, 12:42 PM

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...

jimboaxeman

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02-07-2013, 01:43 PM

Thread: Thinking one thing best.
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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: Jimbo's Journal
Post: Re: Jimbo's Journal

I just want to add that as a great believer in the infallibility of Dr Bates' perhaps God given discoveries in vision, I view any conclusions I make as getting closer to what he actually meant in his ...

jimboaxeman

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07-14-2013, 12:50 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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150313 I have so far learned that relearning to see means simply noticing/ paying enough attention to detail in the things you see. You should not try to see more detail than you already do, but you ...

jimboaxeman

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03-15-2013, 03:48 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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191113 Don't look at anything for more than a split second. Long enough to see it. If you attention is dispersed, this will feel odd as you will be making big shifts from one large area to another. L...

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11-19-2013, 03:33 AM

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...

jimboaxeman

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02-08-2013, 03:08 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...

jimboaxeman

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02-08-2013, 12:58 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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I would like to expand upon my last post, because I think it is important. I said that the object we are looking at must be more important to us than our ability to see it clearly. Or, in other words...

jimboaxeman

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03-18-2013, 03:10 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...

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07-20-2013, 12:56 PM

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