astigmatism – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org Improve Your Eyesight and Ditch Your Glasses Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:15:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.iblindness.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-icon-32x32.png astigmatism – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org 32 32 Thoughts On Over-Focusing https://www.iblindness.org/4548/thoughts-on-over-focusing/ https://www.iblindness.org/4548/thoughts-on-over-focusing/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:22:17 +0000 https://www.iblindness.org/?p=4548

When I first started studying vision improvement almost 20 years ago, firmly stuck behind my -10 hard contacts with a -1.75 astigmatism correction, I kept reading that I shouldn’t try to see. “What??!” I thought, completely puzzled. “How can I … more...

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A subscriber to my twice-a-month newsletter sent me this question yesterday. The extra-ocular muscles surround the eyeball (see the drawing). Extra-ocular literally means “outside the eye”. These are the muscles you’re using if you turn your eyes to look to … more...

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Section 5, the final part of this article, is a continuation from the previous blog post,
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment: Section 4.  A Radical Mind-Body Theory For The Cause Of Myopia

5.1          Reversing and Improving Myopia in

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Section 4 of this article is a continuation from the previous blog post,
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment: Section 3.  Problems with the Hereditary Theory

The broad advances made in the natural sciences during the nineteenth century inspired … more...

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As a child and teen, I had the strongest glasses of anyone I knew. I got gas permeable hard contacts at age 16, my parents hoping to stop the progression of my “galloping myopia”. Because these had an astigmatism correction … more...

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As a young child I had thick eyeglasses, when only one other girl in my elementary school class wore them. Hers were much thinner and weaker than mine. Yes, I was called “Four Eyes” because of my “coke-bottle glasses”, and … more...

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Dr. Bates, the father of natural vision improvement, was an eye doctor and a scientist. If something about a patient’s eyes didn’t make sense, he didn’t consult a dusty textbook, he started exploring to find out the reason. Why could … more...

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Originally published in 2003. Thank you to the author (bio at the bottom) for granting permission to republish it here… way back in 2004 I think? I skipped over it during one of the website redesigns, but here it is
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Thank you to the late Martin Brofman (see the bio at the end) for granting permission (way back in 2003 I think?) for me to republish the below article he wrote in 1990. I overlooked adding it back to the
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Have you noticed…

…you see better at certain times of the day?
…you see better when calm, comfortable and happy?
…you see worse after you have been squinting your eyes to see better?
…your eyes get tired quickly?
 

The … more...

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Conversion Chart

We love formulas, don’t we. We convert currencies, units of measurement, and we software to convert complex digital files from one format to another. Nowadays we can even rely on software to translate languages back and forth instantly … more...

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In all the vision improvement books I’ve read and teachers I’ve studied with, I encountered the idea more than once that “the most important thing in obtaining clearer vision is believing it’s possible”. Not how old you are, not whether … more...

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In his vision improvement classic “Take Off Your Glasses And See”, optometrist Jacob Liberman wrote about noticing what he called a “wobble” in his vision right after he took off his glasses. Momentarily, his natural clear sight was trying to … more...

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The Bates method is not widely accepted by conventional eye doctors as a legitimate approach to improving vision. Some have come around, but the large majority of them continue to prescribe glasses and tell their patients that nothing can be … more...

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Recently I was asked for my personal “energy healing story”, the struggles I had and how I overcame them to eventually be able to help others. At first I thought the overall theme would be my vision challenges, wearing those … more...

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A young woman at university in an Asian country contacted me recently about vision improvement. She wears a -10 prescription with an astigmatism correction as well, and got glasses at a very young age just like I did. She wants … more...

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Quite a few people have listened to me introduce the topic of natural vision improvement, then interrupted me to proclaim (sometimes almost proudly) that since they have astigmatism, this would never work for them. This tells me 2 things: they … more...

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Do you hate your glasses? Have trouble explaining why?

I’ll make it easy for you, First, the easy reasons.

Then we’ll explore the reasons they worsen your vision, and why you should consider ditching them and learning how to improve your … more...

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I put this together years ago (2005? earlier?), based off the sources further below.

1860Born on December 27th in Newark, New Jersey, as the son of Charles and Amelia Bates. (Biography; Obituary; Quackenbush, 656)
1881Graduated with a B.S.
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