Eyesight Improvement Forum

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10-11-2012, 05:31 AM

Thread: Not giving up but progressing in a different direction
Post: Re: Not giving up but progressing in a different d...

I am actually just writing a letter to my friend in prison with pen and paper, something I have not done in a long time right now in the dark at 5-6 am. In our house the lights are crappy and poor. Bu...

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10-11-2012, 04:09 AM

Thread: Not giving up but progressing in a different direction
Post: Re: Not giving up but progressing in a different d...

You don't need glasses to go to school if you can get there without them by bicycling, the bus or public transit. You only need glasses to see the board. However, teachers almost always speak out what...

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10-11-2012, 01:38 AM

Thread: Qlue's Journal
Post: Re: Qlue's Journal

Now you have gone beyond insulting our intelligence, Clark Night. This forum is the top in results for "bates method forum" on search engines. Again like I pointed there is Success Stories subsection....

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10-10-2012, 09:45 PM

Thread: Qlue's Journal
Post: Re: Qlue's Journal

@David: You are wrong, Rishi is very kind, kinder than most modern Bates teachers, who won't do anything without money. What he has no tolerance for is charlatan Bates teachers and people who make up ...

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10-09-2012, 10:04 PM

Thread: Qlue's Journal
Post: Re: Qlue's Journal

Oh man, this is too painful to read. Qlue Wrote:So far I've worn the glasses without taking them off for 3 full days straight. I am trying to consciously remind myself to do Centralization all the t...

27,122

10-09-2012, 02:30 AM

Thread: THE BEST SNELLEN CHART -- Runge snellen card
Post: THE BEST SNELLEN CHART -- Runge snellen card

My brother works at a Retina Specialist and one day he brought home for me a plastic Runge near point Snellen card. Unlike the typical Snellen chart which has rows of letters of the same size, this ha...

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10-09-2012, 02:03 AM

Thread: Constant, involuntary, unprodcutive blinking - Blepharospasm
Post: Re: Constant, involuntary, unprodcutive blinking -...

Rishi on his group told me to do sun treatment for this problem. I definitely notice something in the muscles and soft tissue of my top eyelid when I do sun treatment for long enough. I feel a stickin...

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10-09-2012, 01:26 AM

Thread: Contact lenses
Post: Re: Contact lenses

Oh, it is definitely the modern excuses for Bates teachers that started this nonsense. For perspective I found out about Bates in 2002, but from Quackenbush. So what happened? I never really tried, ex...

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10-06-2012, 10:16 PM

Thread: Contact lenses
Post: Re: Contact lenses

Since I have came back, I have noticed this forum has really gone downhill. At least half the topics are about glasses or making excuses to use them for totally unnecessary activities. Bates said that...

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10-06-2012, 09:36 PM

Thread: Way to meetup with other Bates practitioners -- Northern NJ
Post: Way to meetup with other Bates practitioners -- No...

I would like a way to find other Bates method practitioners. I need someone to use the burning glass on me and return the favor by using it on them. I am in Northern NJ, about an hour from NYC in Dove...

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10-04-2012, 03:08 AM

Thread: Computer use, with or without glasses?
Post: Re: Computer use, with or without glasses?

First off, there should be no debate on this glasses nonsense all the time. Here is what the admin of this site said about this: David Wrote:<a class="postlink-local" href="http://w...

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10-04-2012, 02:45 AM

Thread: How do I change my perscription for reduced vision glasses?
Post: Re: How do I change my perscription for reduced vi...

Yes, it is important! Quackenbush, has been a Bates teacher since 1983 according to his books! So in all these decades he must have had lots of success... Nope! He had to lower the pole vault height b...

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09-26-2012, 03:44 PM

Thread: How do I change my perscription for reduced vision glasses?
Post: Re: How do I change my perscription for reduced vi...

A good example of the low standard of contemporary Bates teachers: In Quackenbush's book and his extreme editing and butchering of the Perfect Eyesight Magazines by Bates, he has in the back of those ...

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09-26-2012, 02:31 PM

Thread: How do I change my perscription for reduced vision glasses?
Post: Re: How do I change my perscription for reduced vi...

Yeah the recommendation is don't read books by or pay to see crap eyesight teachers, natural vision educators or "Bates teachers". They want to cast a wide net for customers -- or revenue maximization...

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09-24-2012, 08:12 PM

Thread: Constant, involuntary, unprodcutive blinking - Blepharospasm
Post: Constant, involuntary, unprodcutive blinking - Ble...

I constantly, unconsciously half-blink with my eyelids never fully closing -- but it is a never productive, full blink that would provide visual relief. I surmise this habit started while I was in thi...

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09-23-2012, 05:14 PM

Thread: Motivated to the Bates method
Post: Re: Motivated to the Bates method

It is better to bring the fine print really close to you and to bring your head very close to the monitor and to discard your glasses. You have to accept the limitations of your imperfect eyesight a...

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06-03-2008, 09:41 AM

Thread: Imperfect Sight Is Mostly an Illusion
Post: Re: Imperfect Sight Is Mostly an Illusion

Your mind and eye both see, it is not one seeing to the exclusion of the other, they are a totality which cannot be seperated. To be more correct your eyes send sensory data to the brain and the bra...

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05-27-2008, 08:07 AM

Thread: My Bates failure
Post: Re: My Bates failure

Lately I have been reading The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness by Yongey Rinpoche Mingyur and have been practicing Buddhist meditation as outlined by the author. The autho...

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05-27-2008, 06:11 AM

Thread: Would you say that...
Post: Re: Would you say that...

According to the great Ivan Illich underlining all of modern medicine is the assumption that health is an institution that the general public must consume. We cannot contribute to our own health, we m...