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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: 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: 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: 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...

RoyFokker

Website Suggestions

5,624

10-04-2012, 03:08 AM

Thread: My Bates failure
Post: My Bates failure

Sometime 2002 I found Relearning to See by Quackenbush at a local library and took it out. Since that day I have been aware of the Bates method. Later at a library booksale I found the edited down ve...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

14,900

09-14-2007, 03:39 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...

RoyFokker

David's method

21,553

10-06-2012, 09:36 PM

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...

RoyFokker

David's method

21,553

10-06-2012, 10:16 PM

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: 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: 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...

RoyFokker

David's method

27,122

10-09-2012, 02:30 AM

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 ...

RoyFokker

David's method

27,122

10-09-2012, 10:04 PM

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: 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....

RoyFokker

David's method

27,122

10-10-2012, 09:45 PM

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