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Thread: Constant, involuntary, half blinking
Post: Constant, involuntary, half blinking

I constantly half-blink and it is hampering my progress with the Bates method. Kind of like how women are supposed to do when they meet a man they like, which I was made fun of in school alot for sin...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

6,098

04-13-2006, 10:00 PM

Thread: Constant, involuntary, half blinking
Post: Re: Constant, involuntary, half blinking

I made an obvious breakthrough. I read the thread: The most important habit IS sketching I was almost always practicing blinking by itself which produced a stare, but when I combine it with sketchi...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

6,098

04-13-2006, 10:21 PM

Thread: Tension around eyes
Post: Tension around eyes

Today when I woke up I felt alot of tension in the muscles around my eyes. Especially the right side. Is this a good sign, a sign that progress is being made? Does this mean tension is being releas...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

11,568

04-30-2006, 03:15 AM

Thread: Strange thing
Post: Re: Strange thing

I read a case history on seeing.org that also highlighted the emotional effects of using the Bates method: ... Quote:Awareness and acceptance brought about big emotional swings; I felt I was standing...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

23,972

04-30-2006, 06:08 AM

Thread: Tension around eyes
Post: Re: Tension around eyes

When I go many days without wearing my glasses and then I wear them for a work day, I notice alot of tension around my eye muscles when I take off the glasses(usually accompanied by a tension headache...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

11,568

05-02-2006, 05:07 AM

Thread: pinhole glasses
Post: Re: pinhole glasses

I have had pinhole glasses since sometime in mid 2005. They do not increase strain as Daniel said. I use them to be able to do certain activities mainly watching television without needing to use glas...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

6,834

05-02-2006, 08:40 AM

Thread: Tension around eyes
Post: Re: Tension around eyes

For some reason last night I feel asleep on my right side with much of weight on my right eye socket. When I woke up there was intense pain in the muscles around my right eye socket, so intense I coul...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

11,568

05-06-2006, 11:24 AM

Thread: Getting a reduced RX
Post: Re: Getting a reduced RX

I just started wearing a pair of extra glasses my brother used to wear as his backup that I noticed were a weaker prescription than the current ones I was using. Before that I mostly wasted my time by...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

20,332

05-12-2006, 05:06 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...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

14,185

06-03-2008, 09:41 AM

Thread: Different types of snellens
Post: Re: Different types of snellens

Mike82 Wrote:I also noticed, on the other end of things.. that 2 weeks ago I went through something extremely stressful and difficult. Everything turned out fine but while I was going through it, I wa...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

4,680

04-28-2008, 11:22 PM

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...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

12,265

05-27-2008, 08:07 AM

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...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

4,790

09-23-2012, 05:14 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...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

16,073

09-24-2012, 08:12 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 ...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

16,073

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...

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...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

16,073

09-26-2012, 03:44 PM

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...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

21,293

10-04-2012, 02:45 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...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

4,790

10-09-2012, 01:26 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...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

6,478

10-09-2012, 02:03 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...

RoyFokker

Complementary Methods

10,128

05-25-2008, 08:38 AM

Thread: Trigger Point for tension in muscles around the eyes
Post: Trigger Point for tension in muscles around the ey...

Bates often said that tension of the eye muscles contributes to poor eyesight, especially for those who have worn glasses for years. Skeletal muscle are contractile fibers that are anchored to the bon...

RoyFokker

Complementary Methods

6,602

04-28-2008, 11:05 PM

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