Back Spasm
This morning I sat on the floor to put my socks on and had a back spasm (at least I think that’s the right term). If you haven’t had one, it’s a sudden pain in a muscle that … more...
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What could be there?
One of the first things you might notice in this picture is the man painting. Your attention moves to him. It doesn’t matter whether your attention was “drawn” to him or you were just glancing around the picture to … more...
Who is your guru?
I want to make a point about following a method of vision improvement to the letter, and trusting that any one person, or even a group of people saying the same thing, have it right.
There’s this guy Hira Ratan … more...
Shifting in a Triangle
People with normal vision have moments when their vision fails. At that point if they are able to adjust how they look at things they will quickly get back on track.
People with blurry vision who pursue vision improvement often … more...
The path of abusing your eyes
It’s fascinating how the seeing process gets disrupted enough to come crashing down piece by piece, a whole series of mistakes. Here’s one way I think it happens.
One of the most basic ideas of blurry vision is the idea … more...
Moving on from looking at stuff
Continuing on the instructions of my last post, How to look at stuff.
When you look for the smallest detail in anything you’re looking at, you should only be looking at a detail you can already see. The important thing … more...
How to look at stuff
Be Here
Blurry vision is well-known to be associated with intellectualism. But the way I see it, it has to do with a preference towards abstract ideas instead of being physically present. By being physically present, I mean being aware … more...
Outside of your programming
I’m buried in paperwork for a tax deadline in a few days, but I don’t want a whole month to go by without a blog entry, so here we go.
My idea for a blog post usually comes from something … more...
Breathing and your mind
Have you sat down for half an hour and worked with the eye chart without much success in seeing better, and then decided to take a break and stand up, only to glance at the chart and see it clearer … more...
Better vision by perceiving what you see
Here’s another way of thinking about what I wrote about in my last entry, as far as how you think about what you’re looking at, and how your attention behaves in moving around.
There are two ways to think about … more...
The three steps of seeing
To break your bad habits that are causing blurry vision, you need to break up what you’re doing into separate tasks so that you can understand what you’re really doing and be conscious of it as you’re doing it. There … more...
Seeing a string of details
I want to clarify how to look at adjacent details better. I described this specific method in my last blog post about looking at adjacent details. The idea here is to learn to shift your attention the shortest distance … more...
Improving vision by looking at adjacent details
In my last blog post I suggested that I would talk more in detail about patterns of the right way to go about looking at things.
The idea of “staring” is a big no-no in literature about the Bates method. … more...
Myopic Attention Disorder
I see myopia as a specific type of attention disorder. I feel like Bates and later writers on vision improvement have not given enough credit to the factor of attention in causing blurry vision and related disorders, or they haven’t … more...
Re-creating Your Programming
When you read Bates’s book, don’t put too much importance, for your own purposes, to his absolute statements about “perfect” vision and how such-and-such is true all the time.
When you think about perfect vision and compare it to what’s … more...
The right way to move
First, a tip.
“Hot potato” is a game where everyone quickly tosses a ball around, and when the music stops the person holding the ball is eliminated. It suggests an analogy for a way to practice seeing. Every point you … more...
Relaxing the eyes and avoiding the issue
I’m going to start stepping on some toes by making some posts about the convoluted stuff that has become kind of standard in the material on improving vision with the Bates method, as presented in various books or by various … more...
Baby steps: Giving up everything but one thing
Let me show you something. I haven’t drawn this out like this before, so let’s see how it goes. Take this in baby steps:
- Close your eyes. Think of the smallest point you can imagine, like the head of a
Speak with your actions
What are you supposed to be learning? Are you detaching from the process? How is it that you want to see details when the actions you’re taking in every moment say you don’t?
When you look at an object, notice … more...
What are you doing now? How will you begin?
In every moment you have a choice in what you do with your eyes. In every moment you can be aware of what you’re doing, and change it, or you can let yourself go on and do what you’ve always … more...