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Thread: Relaxation
Post: Re: Relaxation

Yes the vision cleared up and I started looking at the detail on the ground(which is normally a grey blur). Instead my eyes zipped(moved quickly) on their own from detail to detail. I could also see...

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Complementary Methods

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01-06-2009, 02:10 PM

Thread: Relaxation
Post: Re: Relaxation

Wow, that is amazing. I've read very little of Bates and didn't know he said anything about temperature and the body. But good to know! Either way, my experience was the greatest indicator of wha...

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Complementary Methods

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01-11-2009, 11:40 AM

Thread: Supplementing Bates
Post: Supplementing Bates

Hi all Hope everyone is doing well. Just wondered if anyone has had any luck supplementing the Bates Method with anything else? For instance diet, exercise, meditation, change in attitude/way of bei...

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Bates Method

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01-29-2009, 06:37 AM

Thread: Supplementing Bates
Post: Re: Supplementing Bates

Actually I think Redford might be a little old for the role. Anyway, just to offer my tip for what it's worth.. I think that apart from the Bates method(if you choose to take that approach)...a more...

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Bates Method

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01-31-2009, 01:46 AM

Thread: Supplementing Bates
Post: Re: Supplementing Bates

Recently I've gotten a lot better at this, just by going on how I feel. Just noticing how I feel has helped a lot. When there is strain and blurry vision I know I am holding on to too much tension -...

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Bates Method

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02-06-2009, 03:04 PM

Thread: Supplementing Bates
Post: Re: Supplementing Bates

Hi Sorrisi, I think that strain itself is a feeling of some discomfort, irritation, anxiousness and general dis-ease. And though we may not wish to acknowledge it a lot of people with myopia are con...

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Bates Method

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02-07-2009, 08:08 PM

Thread: Your Concentration of Attention
Post: Re: Your Concentration of Attention

Thanks Dave, Found this very useful.

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David's Old Blog Posts

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02-23-2013, 08:08 AM

Thread: Overlooked aspect behind Bates?
Post: Re: Overlooked aspect behind Bates?

It's interesting to hear that Sorrisi. I find that writing on here and even reading Bates, which I'm interested in, is relaxing for me. Good luck with whatever you decide to do after the PhD! I'm s...

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Bates Method

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05-23-2009, 01:56 PM

Thread: Overlooked aspect behind Bates?
Post: Overlooked aspect behind Bates?

I just read a chapter from Bates' Perfect Sight Without Glasses, on Central Fixation.com. I think aside from doing the exercises Bates gives an insightful account into the causes of bad vision. He e...

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Bates Method

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05-23-2009, 07:38 AM

Thread: Overlooked aspect behind Bates?
Post: Re: Overlooked aspect behind Bates?

Bates also mentions Montessori education as providing benefits to children's development..'Montessori has taught us that it is only when children are interested that they can learn. It is equally tru...

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Bates Method

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05-23-2009, 12:07 PM

Thread: How the body/mind learns?
Post: How the body/mind learns?

Hi everyone, I have been doing some body posture exercises over the past few months. Generally I have had varying success in feeling more relaxed and freeing up muscles...But today was a little diff...

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Complementary Methods

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05-27-2009, 07:51 AM

Thread: How the body/mind learns?
Post: Re: How the body/mind learns?

The posture exercises are from an ebook I got online...they aren't anything directly to do with the Alexander Technique. The point I was trying to make was when I started doing the exercises in a subt...

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Complementary Methods

7,502

05-27-2009, 02:27 PM

Thread: How the body/mind learns?
Post: Re: How the body/mind learns?

I've found lately that when doing anything, it's best to do it with little effort, and keep comfort in mind...regardless of whatever your vision is like! For instance, if you are at a computer you m...

footballman

Complementary Methods

7,502

06-18-2009, 08:00 PM

Thread: Releasing emotions.
Post: Releasing emotions.

Any techniques for releasing emotions? I have some pent-up feelings, which are towards someone, well towards how they treated me. Do you think that releasing these emotions is best done by confro...

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Complementary Methods

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08-17-2010, 12:42 AM

Thread: Releasing emotions.
Post: Re: Releasing emotions.

Thanks for the info guys, I've never really tried sunning, so might well give that a go. I'll be sure to do it in the evening. I think I will go ahead with the letter as well. I visited another s...

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Complementary Methods

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08-19-2010, 02:21 AM

Thread: Judging what you see
Post: Judging what you see

I'm just going to throw this out there and see what you think. As I have began to see better I find myself judging what I see. I have a feeling this might just be an intermittant stage, and that wit...

footballman

David's method

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03-15-2012, 08:13 PM

Thread: Judging what you see
Post: Re: Judging what you see

I didn't really mean judging what I see now to what I saw in the past, I meant judging something in a value sense, whether something is what I like or not. So you might have interpreted correctly Dav...

footballman

David's method

9,782

03-17-2012, 04:08 AM

Thread: Dark patches under the eyes
Post: Dark patches under the eyes

Hi, I have dark patches directly underneath my eyes. I remember reading about this in Bates' work(I can't remember where but I read it about a year ago). He said that people with normal vision do n...

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Bates Method

6,204

06-11-2009, 09:27 AM

Thread: Dark patches under the eyes
Post: Re: Dark patches under the eyes

My instincts are that this is simply a sign of strain..and the muscles in this region being overly tense..I think it's as simple as that. But yeah, diet could be something to look into.

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Bates Method

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06-11-2009, 02:03 PM

Thread: A few queries for you
Post: A few queries for you

I'm not quite convinced about close-work not being responsible for myopia. Could controlling eye movement be strain? But i've seen normal sighted people moving there eyes about from far side to side,...

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Complementary Methods

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07-09-2008, 01:43 PM

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