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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, 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: Critique of modern medicine by Ivan Illich
Post: Critique of modern medicine by Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich Wrote:"Physicians are taught today to consider themselves responsible for lives from the moment the egg is fertilized through the time of organ harvest. They have become the socially respo...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

4,621

05-08-2008, 02:16 PM

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: 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, 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: 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: 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: 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: FairTax
Post: Re: FairTax

This is naive. The so called "democratic process" is a mask for what really happens and how our society really works. Money is power in our society not voting. Who wins elections is mostly who has t...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

7,036

05-08-2008, 02:46 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

14,900

05-27-2008, 06:11 AM

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

I think the text below explains in great detail in part why I feel frustrated. I have a malignant hatred to the society, social order and Nation State forced onto me by birth which also fuels my power...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

14,900

10-10-2007, 12:36 AM

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

This excerpt describes the power process: Quote:The power process has four elements. The three most clear-cut of these we call goal, effort and attainment of goal. (Everyone needs to have goals whos...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

14,900

10-10-2007, 01:02 PM

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