09-01-2009, 04:09 AM
Here we are at the first day of my one year natural vision improvement experiment using the Bates method. During the next year, I will try to update once a week a blog (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://youngblueeyes.blogspot.com">http://youngblueeyes.blogspot.com</a><!-- m -->) with progression reports and an overview of my vision improvement strategy. Why one year? Just a motivation target.
One of my big goals for publishing this blog is to motivate myself during this long period of time and to share tips and tricks on the Bates method with people having the same goal: improving our vision in a natural way. During the last couple of weeks I searched the Internet on valuable information and I was excited finding heaps of it in personal blogs and vision community pages. Especially the personal insight of a lot of bloggers (see my motivation links) gave me a lot of hope for a possible improvement of my vision.
The naked facts:
Belgian male living in Spain, 38 years old (maybe MiddleAgedBlueEyes should have been a better nickname;-). Watching a computer screen for almost 8 hours a day without having natural light in the room (I am working ... in the underground, literally).
My last optometrist prescription is:
R: -19,5 SPH ; -2,5 CYL ; Axis: 65
L: -20 SPH ; -3 CYL ; Axis: 110
At the moment, I wear glasses with the following prescription:
R: -18 SPH ; -2,5 CYL ; Axis: 65
L: -18 SPH ; -3 CYL ; Axis: 110
Yesterday I made a first Snellen Chart test (after a session of sunning, palming, central fixation and long swinging):
With glasses: R: 20/40 ; L: 20/60
Without glasses: I could read the 24m line at a distance of 30cm with both eyes, which should be more or less 20/1400 ...
So, a lot of progress is possible here;-) I am aware that these raw data could have been a shock to you, so take a deep breath, and please do read on.
Two facts in my life "opened my eyes" and showed me the "alternative (natural) path":
- my oftalmologist told me that the only thing left for me to do was praying. Lucky me, I am too nearsighted so that he could not practise surgery on me, at least one mental strain less I have to cope with.
- visiting India some time ago I passed by the "School for Perfect Eyesight" in Pondicherry. The school is part of the Aurobindo ashram and the late Dr. R.S. Agarwal introduced the Bates' method for correct usage of the eye and supplemented it with other yoga techniques. Seeing all these children adopting natural vision improvement techniques really made me angry about some of our Western medical practises.
I didn´t find much information (blogs, communities) on the Web of people with very high myopia experimenting with the Bates method (although I admit that for some people having -10 diopters is already very high myopia, but as in my case I am doubling these figures, I don´t want to talk about "very very high myopia"). ¿Somebody has some experience with it?
I am in the process of searching a way to measure my vision progress with the Snellen Chart, but as you can see in the above figures, without glasses I have to be as close as up to 30 cm to see the 24m line. ¿Is it ok to measure the progress with and without glasses? ¿Or is there a better way to keep using the Snellen Chart without glasses?
As I am feeling my eyes getting strained writng these, I will go and do some palming. The experiment has started. Thanks for joining my journey.
One of my big goals for publishing this blog is to motivate myself during this long period of time and to share tips and tricks on the Bates method with people having the same goal: improving our vision in a natural way. During the last couple of weeks I searched the Internet on valuable information and I was excited finding heaps of it in personal blogs and vision community pages. Especially the personal insight of a lot of bloggers (see my motivation links) gave me a lot of hope for a possible improvement of my vision.
The naked facts:
Belgian male living in Spain, 38 years old (maybe MiddleAgedBlueEyes should have been a better nickname;-). Watching a computer screen for almost 8 hours a day without having natural light in the room (I am working ... in the underground, literally).
My last optometrist prescription is:
R: -19,5 SPH ; -2,5 CYL ; Axis: 65
L: -20 SPH ; -3 CYL ; Axis: 110
At the moment, I wear glasses with the following prescription:
R: -18 SPH ; -2,5 CYL ; Axis: 65
L: -18 SPH ; -3 CYL ; Axis: 110
Yesterday I made a first Snellen Chart test (after a session of sunning, palming, central fixation and long swinging):
With glasses: R: 20/40 ; L: 20/60
Without glasses: I could read the 24m line at a distance of 30cm with both eyes, which should be more or less 20/1400 ...
So, a lot of progress is possible here;-) I am aware that these raw data could have been a shock to you, so take a deep breath, and please do read on.
Two facts in my life "opened my eyes" and showed me the "alternative (natural) path":
- my oftalmologist told me that the only thing left for me to do was praying. Lucky me, I am too nearsighted so that he could not practise surgery on me, at least one mental strain less I have to cope with.
- visiting India some time ago I passed by the "School for Perfect Eyesight" in Pondicherry. The school is part of the Aurobindo ashram and the late Dr. R.S. Agarwal introduced the Bates' method for correct usage of the eye and supplemented it with other yoga techniques. Seeing all these children adopting natural vision improvement techniques really made me angry about some of our Western medical practises.
I didn´t find much information (blogs, communities) on the Web of people with very high myopia experimenting with the Bates method (although I admit that for some people having -10 diopters is already very high myopia, but as in my case I am doubling these figures, I don´t want to talk about "very very high myopia"). ¿Somebody has some experience with it?
I am in the process of searching a way to measure my vision progress with the Snellen Chart, but as you can see in the above figures, without glasses I have to be as close as up to 30 cm to see the 24m line. ¿Is it ok to measure the progress with and without glasses? ¿Or is there a better way to keep using the Snellen Chart without glasses?
As I am feeling my eyes getting strained writng these, I will go and do some palming. The experiment has started. Thanks for joining my journey.