04-18-2007, 01:08 PM
Someone once said this:
When people were in a hurry to get to perfect
sight, [Bates] would keep them in his office all day
long.
I thought carefully about this statement. Bates is not the type of person who would do something without a particularly good reason even if it seems impractical. This is very important and may be the big difference between most/all people of today's society and most people of a society 100 years ago. This may be why some of his patients were permanently cured in a hour.
When Bates kept people in his office all day long, it appears that he is trying to teach people the one virtue they lack that's very crucial for vision improvement: patience.
What's the difference between his time period and ours? Our society is now filled to the brim with impatient people compared to 100 years ago.
Take palming. Many people get impatient while palming. You cannot successfully get results from meditating while palming unless you have patience. Palming is very useful because it teaches you how to let go of any worries, distractions, and the concept of time itself. When you learn to let go of all of them, you are temporarily freed of mental strain for however long the effect lasts. It then becomes easier to think clearly enough to imagine anything perfectly.
If you can eliminate worrying, distractions, and the concept of time itself while palming/visualizing, then your mind will pick up something that will "slow down time" for you: relativity. It is important to understand that time is a man-made concept. Time itself is not a real thing... what is real is relativity.
What is relativity? You know how for young children it seems to them as if summer is forever, while summer goes by too fast for adults. That's relativity. There have been studies that prove the adult brain goes back into alpha, theta, and even delta state while meditating and retains its effects even while the psychic workouts are not in session.
The lower the brain wavelength, the slower time seems. Since time has "slowed down" for you, you have "more time" to learn; and you process more information in that span of time. No wonder children learn faster than adults!
So with palming you get those effects if it's done correct: (1) by learning to be patient, you empty your mind of worries, distractions, and the concept of time [removal of mental strain], (2) with mental strain gone, it is easier to imagine something perfectly, (3) in a relaxed state, you also enter lower brain wavelength and relativity takes place in which time seems longer and you have "more time" to learn, thanks to relativity.
Bates could cure mental retardation- is it any wonder, really?
Two months ago before doing my research, I had been palming/sunning alternately 3-5 minutes each and one day I decided to do it for a total of 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes. The more minutes that elapsed while doing this activity, the more I found that the images in my head became so real that I could almost see them as real as if my eyes were open. I would imagine my grandfather who passed away 15 years ago, and remember how he always used only one specific brand of pencil, those mechanical yellow pencils where you spin the top in order to get the "lead" (in reality, it's graphite) to come out so you can write with it. In my mental world, I observed my grandpa working in his office, writing on a piece of paper. In 10 minutes, the pencil seemed to spring to life even just for a fraction of a second in my mind, and the longer I did it, the more constantly I could hold the realistic image of the pencil. It was actually kind of fun to do.
Then I opened my eyes and looked around and the world was crystal-clear. The effect lasted even while my eyes were open. Not long after this had happened, I was able to easily measure 20/13+ on the chart and could even read one or two letters on the 10 line.
When people were in a hurry to get to perfect
sight, [Bates] would keep them in his office all day
long.
I thought carefully about this statement. Bates is not the type of person who would do something without a particularly good reason even if it seems impractical. This is very important and may be the big difference between most/all people of today's society and most people of a society 100 years ago. This may be why some of his patients were permanently cured in a hour.
When Bates kept people in his office all day long, it appears that he is trying to teach people the one virtue they lack that's very crucial for vision improvement: patience.
What's the difference between his time period and ours? Our society is now filled to the brim with impatient people compared to 100 years ago.
Take palming. Many people get impatient while palming. You cannot successfully get results from meditating while palming unless you have patience. Palming is very useful because it teaches you how to let go of any worries, distractions, and the concept of time itself. When you learn to let go of all of them, you are temporarily freed of mental strain for however long the effect lasts. It then becomes easier to think clearly enough to imagine anything perfectly.
If you can eliminate worrying, distractions, and the concept of time itself while palming/visualizing, then your mind will pick up something that will "slow down time" for you: relativity. It is important to understand that time is a man-made concept. Time itself is not a real thing... what is real is relativity.
What is relativity? You know how for young children it seems to them as if summer is forever, while summer goes by too fast for adults. That's relativity. There have been studies that prove the adult brain goes back into alpha, theta, and even delta state while meditating and retains its effects even while the psychic workouts are not in session.
The lower the brain wavelength, the slower time seems. Since time has "slowed down" for you, you have "more time" to learn; and you process more information in that span of time. No wonder children learn faster than adults!
So with palming you get those effects if it's done correct: (1) by learning to be patient, you empty your mind of worries, distractions, and the concept of time [removal of mental strain], (2) with mental strain gone, it is easier to imagine something perfectly, (3) in a relaxed state, you also enter lower brain wavelength and relativity takes place in which time seems longer and you have "more time" to learn, thanks to relativity.
Bates could cure mental retardation- is it any wonder, really?
Two months ago before doing my research, I had been palming/sunning alternately 3-5 minutes each and one day I decided to do it for a total of 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes. The more minutes that elapsed while doing this activity, the more I found that the images in my head became so real that I could almost see them as real as if my eyes were open. I would imagine my grandfather who passed away 15 years ago, and remember how he always used only one specific brand of pencil, those mechanical yellow pencils where you spin the top in order to get the "lead" (in reality, it's graphite) to come out so you can write with it. In my mental world, I observed my grandpa working in his office, writing on a piece of paper. In 10 minutes, the pencil seemed to spring to life even just for a fraction of a second in my mind, and the longer I did it, the more constantly I could hold the realistic image of the pencil. It was actually kind of fun to do.
Then I opened my eyes and looked around and the world was crystal-clear. The effect lasted even while my eyes were open. Not long after this had happened, I was able to easily measure 20/13+ on the chart and could even read one or two letters on the 10 line.
