Bates Method – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org Improve Your Eyesight and Ditch Your Glasses Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:04:56 +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 Bates Method – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org 32 32 Are You Noticing? https://www.iblindness.org/5917/are-you-noticing/ https://www.iblindness.org/5917/are-you-noticing/#comments Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:31:34 +0000 https://www.iblindness.org/?p=5917

When I first started to tentatively explore the world of natural vision improvement, hardly daring to hope that this would help with my strong myopia, I came face to face with the realization that I often didn’t want to look … more...

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Are you ready to believe you can see?

If not, that’s ok – Here’s what you can do next.

Plus, a little about having an instructor or coach help you.

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Dr. William Bates, who pioneered the natural vision improvement discipline over 100 years ago, wrote extensively about this concept. Based on his experience with thousands of patients, he realized that people see more clearly what pleases them, and less clearly … more...

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As I improved my vision, it took a while for my visual confidence to improve too. I was used to not being able to see, and not expecting to see well most of the time. When I dropped something small, … more...

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Dr. Bates, the natural vision improvement pioneer of the early 20th century, used to get this question a lot from his patients. He would reply that you have as much time to practice seeing with good relaxed healthy vision habits … more...

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The article which follows below, “Optometrist Cures Her Own Myopia,” was originally published in a Special Edition of New Dawn Magazine in 2016. The article is reprinted with permission from New Dawn.

The article was dedicated to the … 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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Section 3 of this article is a continuation from the previous blog post,
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment: Section 2.  Problems with the Excess Near Work Theory

A 1913 edition of an encyclopedia of education noted that recent … more...

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Section 2 of this article is a continuation from the previous blog post,
Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment: Section 1.  Introduction

As stated in Section 1, the nineteenth century consensus view held that children perhaps had a hereditary … more...

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Note: This blog post kicks off with Section 1 of an article discussing alternative myopia research and the proven success of Natural Vision Improvement (NVI). For those of you who’ve been led to believe that myopia is irreversible and
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Note: This blog post kicks off with Section 1 of an article discussing the depressing and befuddled state of conventional myopia research and the accepted orthodox “treatment” which the public faithfully accepts as the only option. The other three sections
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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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Beyond the great information below, there isn’t a whole lot available on the internet on alternative therapies to reverse a detached retina. You’ll find some suggestions online for herbs and nutrients, but I don’t think there’s any evidence to show … more...

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Is the Eye a Camera?

ccd sensor for camera

In some ways the eye is like a camera in how a lens is responsible for focusing light rays onto a medium that receives the light data. But there are important differences that have practical … more...

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The long swing is an exercise that Dr. Bates recommended to help relax your eyes. It also has an effect of relaxing other tense muscles, which will also help your vision, because patterns of chronic tension are connected throughout the … more...

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If you’re looking for a basic introduction to the Bates method, with a few exercises, you’ve come to the right page.

I’ll warn you now. This isn’t an unbiased overview of the Bates method. I won’t pretend like I’m … more...

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Who was Dr. Bates? How did he revolutionize eye care? How in the world did Bates come to his conclusions?

Dr. William Horatio Bates was a New York City ophthalmologist (medical doctor specializing in eye care) who pioneered a form … more...

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5-time World Darts Champion, Raymond van Bernevald, has credited the Bates Method for saving his eyesight.

At 48 years old, he’s right at the age where people who previously never suffered vision problems start to notice their vision slipping. However, … more...

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Palming is a basic Bates method exercise. There’s not much to it, as far as the basic instructions go. There doesn’t have to be anything mysterious about it.

Place your hands lightly over each eye, cupping your hands enough that … more...

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