the swing – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org Improve Your Eyesight and Ditch Your Glasses Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:15:52 +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 the swing – Inner Blindness https://www.iblindness.org 32 32 Beginner Morning and Evening Vision Improvement Routine https://www.iblindness.org/4757/beginner-morning-and-evening-vision-improvement-routine/ https://www.iblindness.org/4757/beginner-morning-and-evening-vision-improvement-routine/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:08:47 +0000 https://www.iblindness.org/?p=4757

The secret to achieving anything is to work at it consistently. That’s absolutely true when it comes to improving your vision.

You can make big mistakes with vision improvement that result in wasted time, and worse, you getting frustrated and … more...

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I’ve written before on how pushing myself, while a long-time habit, ultimately doesn’t get me where I want to be, especially in the area of improving my vision. It also doesn’t help me be happy. It makes me feel tense … more...

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When I discovered natural vision improvement nearly 20 years ago, and realized it was possible for me to improve and maybe eliminate my lifelong strong myopia, I was thrilled. Thick “coke-bottle” eyeglasses, then thick hard contact lenses, had been a … more...

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Dr. Bates, the pioneer of natural vision improvement, was asked over 100 years ago how much time was needed each day to practice healthy vision habits. (Think of the folks who want to know how long they have to work … more...

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When I first started improving my vision over 15 years ago, I read all the books I could find by other people who had done it, hoping to learn the secret tricks. I faithfully practiced the exercises I read about, … more...

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Let’s say you’ve had a long stressful day, and you’re working on your bills after dinner. Suddenly the numbers start to swim in front of your tired eyes, so you can’t see them clearly any longer. What do you make … more...

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If you’ve followed Dr. Bates’ teachings at all, you know he believed vision improvement is about relaxing the mind and the visual system, so it can function optimally. Straining is the enemy! And when you think of a gym workout, … more...

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Most of us can remember riding on a swing as a child, that easy enjoyable back-and-forth rhythmic movement. When Dr. Bates wrote about the illusions of normal healthy sight, he included “the swing”. This is the gentle regular apparent movement … more...

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With the sun higher in the sky now, and noticeably more daylight even when it’s rainy, this seems like the ideal time to continue improving my vision, to nudge it forward from “good enough” to GREAT! With this in mind, … more...

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People new to vision improvement may approach it looking for a quick fix. “Just tell me which exercise to do, so I can get rid of this eyesight problem and go on with my life”, they’ll say. Their problem may … more...

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When I started studying vision improvement, hoping desperately to improve my strong near-sightedness, I kept reading that trying to see was the enemy. Instead, I should allow myself to see. Trying is strain! OK, I sort of get this, I … more...

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Originally presented at the 17th International Conference for Holistic Vision, Paris, France, October 2002. Thank you to the author (bio at the bottom) for granting permission to republish it here, back in 2004 maybe? I skipped over it during one
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Lately I seem to be running into a lot of folks who say they’ve tried vision exercises in the past, or their young child has tried “vision therapy”, and this didn’t seem to help. It led to frustration and discouragement, … more...

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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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You may have noticed that some people seem to stare without blinking for long periods, or you find that you do so yourself. Or on the other end of the spectrum you might find that you or others blink a … 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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In 2013, a university in Saudi Arabia conducted a myopia control study with Saudi teenage girls. The myopia epidemic has been going on there too, but from what I understand it isn’t as bad as in the US and especially … more...

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Last week I was listening to a webinar healing session on letting go of resentment. I didn’t think this was my own problem, but maybe I would hear something I could adapt for my clients. As the speaker guided us … more...

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If some part of our body other than our eyes starts misbehaving, say our knee feels sore when we climb stairs, we might ignore it or try to “shake it off” and keep going. Or we might remember the hard … more...

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