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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

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04-07-2013, 01:58 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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210213 Yesterday I began to find my practise of central fixation a strain. I think I was beginning to interfere with my eyes and expect clear vision. This kind of thing often happens and it could be ...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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02-21-2013, 04:03 PM

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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Thank you, David. It does seem to be getting simpler. All the theorising is helpful to a point, but it does, or should boil down to something anybody can understand and do. When I take my son for hi...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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02-22-2013, 10:45 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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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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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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270213 I had difficulty a few days ago with gaining clearer vision through my practise of central fixation. In the past I would have given up and assumed I got it wrong because it stopped working. Th...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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02-27-2013, 02:38 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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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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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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240413 Good and helpful replies. It is a difficult one, how to deal with negative thoughts. I certainly don't want to suppress stuff. There is something about being content to see everything else wo...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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04-24-2013, 05:00 AM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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050313 I have previously written about how we must allow our attention to shift between what we see and what we think and feel etc. This is a good thing to remember when it seems that we are trying t...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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03-05-2013, 02:34 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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121113 When I do eye exercises (which is not often) I have a tendency to strain to see while I am doing them. I don't think I am straining, but there is a sense in which I am trying to make the exerc...

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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11-12-2013, 04:23 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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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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080313 A simple thought today: Clarity of vision is not built on what the eyes see, but what the attention notices.

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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03-08-2013, 01:22 PM

Thread: Jimbo's Journal
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090313 Another thought: There is a difference between trying to see more detail, and noticing detail which you don't normally give enough attention to.

jimboaxeman

Bates Method

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03-09-2013, 01:28 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

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