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This compilation contains 24 articles by Dr. Bates, published in medical journals and other periodicals between 1886 and 1923. He is the … more...
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A Natural Alternative Treatment for Glaucoma
Conventional therapies for glaucoma consist of several different types of medications and surgeries revolving around different ways of relieving the pressure inside the eye, a characteristic symptom of glaucoma. Below are various articles from Better Eyesight Magazine that suggest glaucoma … more...
Natural Treatment for Cataract Without Surgery
Feeding Your Imagination
I was lying down on a bench, looking up at some tree branches, and I slipped into an altered state of mind, near sleep. I saw the leaves and branches pretty clearly, but at the same time I had no … more...
The Power of Imagination
I first created “Imagination Blindness”/iblindness.org years ago with the belief that vision heavily depends on imagination, and bad vision is due to a person neglecting and losing the power of their imagination. Visualization, or “seeing” in your mind’s eye, is … more...
You think that’s air you’re breathing?
First of all, I’m not splitting hairs here for fun. I do have a point that I feel is of practical importance.
Remember the Morpheus-Neo dojo fight scene from the Matrix? Morpheus defeated Neo, and as Neo sat panting, Morpheus … more...
Visualizing and Seeing
As kind of a follow up to my previous post, here’s another thing to try. The great comments on the forum to my last post got me thinking.
The gist of it is: Switch back and forth between visualizing and … more...
Blur doesn’t matter
In previous posts I’ve written about looking at pieces of the blur, in order to identify where you’re looking at and to keep stimulating your central vision to get it to wake up. But is that really what’s going on? … more...
Widened Attention
Some teachers of vision improvement have suggested widening your attention as part of a method to improve your vision. At first it might seem like that idea is in direct contradiction with what Bates wrote or what I’ve been writing … more...
Stop Yourself
When you catch yourself doing something wrong, doing something with your eyes that you know you shouldn’t, stop and pause for a moment. Close your eyes and ask yourself why you did it. Sometimes you’ll be able to answer yourself. … more...
You Are A Placebo
The below video explores how patients undergoing fake knee surgeries, where the doctors went through the motions of opening up the knee and pretending to operate, but not actually doing anything, resulted in an improvement in all cases.
It shouldn’t … more...
Relaxed Eyes Move Easily
You can tell how relaxed your eyes are by how easily you can move your gaze around and how little sensation you get from your eyes while doing it. If each movement of your eye is a small but noticeable … more...
Your Concentration of Attention
I’ve written before about how you need to pay attention to each spot you look at so that your mind is fully engaged in seeing details. Here’s another way of thinking about how and why you need to look at … more...
Focus your mind, not your eyes
The Bates method is said to be about relaxing your eyes and mind. I’ve tried to describe how I understand the method, which is a little hard because I’m not sure what to think. There are so many confusing variables.… more...
Can the right food improve your vision?
If diet can affect innumerable factors in the body such as energy levels, brain and nervous system functioning and blood flow, it makes sense that diet could affect eyesight. But as far as what diet is best, take your pick. … more...
Why positive thinking works
You don’t have to believe in magic or be that goofy guy on SNL that looks into the mirror and praises himself with positive thoughts. Thinking positively is just another term for thinking about your goals.
When you get stuck … more...
The eureka effect
Here are a couple things that happened years ago.
- When lying down and resting my eyes, I opened them to find that they were straight. I had exotropia at times, where my eyes wouldn’t point the same direction, and it
Moving indirectly
Today I want to again bring up the complex subject of how you move your eyes. It’s a major part of the method of vision improvement I promote.
Bates called it shifting. A shift, if you’re unclear, is just an … more...
Finally!
I finally put up a revised version of my modified Bates method. I collected concepts from my blog posts, forum posts and added more thoughts until I ran out of things to say. I hope to add more pictures and … more...
Your sanction
How many times have people helplessly asked whether vision improvement is really possible? Of course it is, but it doesn’t matter what I or anyone else knows. If it isn’t possible, you’ll make it possible.
If you look at anyone … more...