11-27-2011, 04:08 PM
I hope someone can benefit from this
My experience started appx. thirteen years ago, but I found out about dr. Bates about two and a half years ago. I got my first glasses when I was 16 years old(now I am 28) and I found them obstructive. I found the whole thing of having to wear some âcontraptionâ just to see somehow absurd even then, but I didn't know about the Bates method then and no doctor (though I am sure some know about it) never tells you about it. I found my prescription exaggerated, because I thought I didn't realy have such big problems regarding my eyesight. I just had trouble reading written text from the back row in the class, otherwise I didn't find it debilitating. I think my prescription was -1.25 left eye and -1,50 left eye. During all this years it got a bit worse but not by much, now I think my prescription is around -1.50 right eye and -1.75 left eye (I don't know exactly because I haven't had a checkup for about 10 years now), though I found I also have astigmatism on both eyes, astigmatism I found is stronger with my left eye and I think that mainly because of astigmatism, my estimation is about 0.50 higher then in reality.
By reading theory about the processes connected or that are the reason for degradation of my eyesight and also reading scientific articles regarding eyesight degradation and my own experience, I somehow connected the dots to why I think my eyesight got bad or worse. I mostly found this out by asking myself questions how I felt at the time my eyesight started degrading and what were my TRUE interests. My conclusion was and still is, and I will back this up any day, that I started to think âoutside the boxâ. The classes didn't really interest me (some did, some didn't) and I often found myself daydreaming, I started to live my âalternateâ life in my mind, hidden from the outside world.
Though I was never restless or problematic or conflictive with the teacher and maybe this was the psychological conflict in me that lead to degradation of my eyesight.
I was always regarded as âthe quiet oneâ (until recently
). Thoughts in my head were racing and before I found a topic in the conversation, I was having at the time, I really knew about, I remained quiet and mostly just listened. That is why I believe that eyesight degradation happens because of a psychological conflict between my thoughts in my head and my actions or the physical world. Those last few years found out that the human psyche is far more powerful in generating diseases than ANY outside source. ( if anyone has an interest in reading something additional connected with this statement, I suggest for him/her to look up German New Medicine in Google; it is a site and clinic dedicated to healing cancer by resolving psychological conflicts present in someone)
OK, now I am going to talk about the exercises themselves. So as I was saying, about two and a half years ago I found out about dr. Bates and his methods and I was amazed and anxious to try it out to see if it works for me. I red about the exercises on the Internet and afterwards I also bought a book by Christopher Markert: Better eyesight/vision without glasses.
I started doing many of the exercises and week by week I started getting âflashesâ of 20/20 vision that were getting longer and longer. This fueled my enthusiasm and I started reading more about the theory regarding why some exercises work. At about that time I found out about affirmations and incorporated them into my exercises.
At that time I was studying and was living in a dorm. My problem was that although I was and still am quite happy with what I was studying I still didn't have a clue to what I wanted to really do in my life. That is why when doing exercises you have to focus on the ones that really somehow work for you and only you. For me exercises regarding focusing and palming were the most effective. I found out that not only my eyesight got better but also my goals started to slowly âcrystallizeâ. In addition to doing exercises I also used affirmations. For me affirmation:â I accept divine guidance and I am always safeâ worked wonders and I didn't just use affirmations when doing exercises, but in my life in general. Whenever I got scared or âlostâ I used them and as I said, for me they worked wonders.
Regarding the method of palming.
Because my eyesight started to shift, my left eye got a bit better and my right eye got a bit worse, I started to think of reasons to why it is so. Here I found that old sayings are more true than you can ever imagine. I also used some common sense to figure out why this was happening. I don't know if you know about the saying that, if your left palm itches, you are supposed to receive money and, if your right hand itches, you are supposed to lose/spend money (I am talking about a male! Here, because I recently started reading about jing(jang and how this is reversed in females, but I am not 100% sure about this at the moment, I will update this post as soon as I will be sure). So gather energy with left hand âdepositâ it with your right hand. That is why I believe the transference/change in the eyes happens with this exercise. So I still have to test this by doing palming with only one hand or something like that, but that will probably take time before some results are accomplished. Maybe try it for yourself and post back your thoughts and conclusions.
If you have any questions regarding this post you can reach me with PM or at my e-mail address
I will try to answer your questions as soon as possible.
My experience started appx. thirteen years ago, but I found out about dr. Bates about two and a half years ago. I got my first glasses when I was 16 years old(now I am 28) and I found them obstructive. I found the whole thing of having to wear some âcontraptionâ just to see somehow absurd even then, but I didn't know about the Bates method then and no doctor (though I am sure some know about it) never tells you about it. I found my prescription exaggerated, because I thought I didn't realy have such big problems regarding my eyesight. I just had trouble reading written text from the back row in the class, otherwise I didn't find it debilitating. I think my prescription was -1.25 left eye and -1,50 left eye. During all this years it got a bit worse but not by much, now I think my prescription is around -1.50 right eye and -1.75 left eye (I don't know exactly because I haven't had a checkup for about 10 years now), though I found I also have astigmatism on both eyes, astigmatism I found is stronger with my left eye and I think that mainly because of astigmatism, my estimation is about 0.50 higher then in reality.
By reading theory about the processes connected or that are the reason for degradation of my eyesight and also reading scientific articles regarding eyesight degradation and my own experience, I somehow connected the dots to why I think my eyesight got bad or worse. I mostly found this out by asking myself questions how I felt at the time my eyesight started degrading and what were my TRUE interests. My conclusion was and still is, and I will back this up any day, that I started to think âoutside the boxâ. The classes didn't really interest me (some did, some didn't) and I often found myself daydreaming, I started to live my âalternateâ life in my mind, hidden from the outside world.
Though I was never restless or problematic or conflictive with the teacher and maybe this was the psychological conflict in me that lead to degradation of my eyesight.
I was always regarded as âthe quiet oneâ (until recently

OK, now I am going to talk about the exercises themselves. So as I was saying, about two and a half years ago I found out about dr. Bates and his methods and I was amazed and anxious to try it out to see if it works for me. I red about the exercises on the Internet and afterwards I also bought a book by Christopher Markert: Better eyesight/vision without glasses.
I started doing many of the exercises and week by week I started getting âflashesâ of 20/20 vision that were getting longer and longer. This fueled my enthusiasm and I started reading more about the theory regarding why some exercises work. At about that time I found out about affirmations and incorporated them into my exercises.
At that time I was studying and was living in a dorm. My problem was that although I was and still am quite happy with what I was studying I still didn't have a clue to what I wanted to really do in my life. That is why when doing exercises you have to focus on the ones that really somehow work for you and only you. For me exercises regarding focusing and palming were the most effective. I found out that not only my eyesight got better but also my goals started to slowly âcrystallizeâ. In addition to doing exercises I also used affirmations. For me affirmation:â I accept divine guidance and I am always safeâ worked wonders and I didn't just use affirmations when doing exercises, but in my life in general. Whenever I got scared or âlostâ I used them and as I said, for me they worked wonders.
Regarding the method of palming.
Because my eyesight started to shift, my left eye got a bit better and my right eye got a bit worse, I started to think of reasons to why it is so. Here I found that old sayings are more true than you can ever imagine. I also used some common sense to figure out why this was happening. I don't know if you know about the saying that, if your left palm itches, you are supposed to receive money and, if your right hand itches, you are supposed to lose/spend money (I am talking about a male! Here, because I recently started reading about jing(jang and how this is reversed in females, but I am not 100% sure about this at the moment, I will update this post as soon as I will be sure). So gather energy with left hand âdepositâ it with your right hand. That is why I believe the transference/change in the eyes happens with this exercise. So I still have to test this by doing palming with only one hand or something like that, but that will probably take time before some results are accomplished. Maybe try it for yourself and post back your thoughts and conclusions.
If you have any questions regarding this post you can reach me with PM or at my e-mail address
I will try to answer your questions as soon as possible.