When people first started coming to me complaining of Dry Eye, it felt to me like one of those fabricated diseases doctors invent to sell prescriptions or operations. You might as well say you have Cut Finger, or Bruised Knee, … more...
Category: Vision Improvement
Can Cataracts Be Healed Naturally?
Several people have asked me about their cataracts recently, and whether my work as a natural vision teacher could help them. A cataract is a clouding of the crystalline lens of the eye. The lens is formed of many fine … more...
Loving The Light
Since we’ve changed to Standard Time here in NY and are moving closer to the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year for us, everyone seems to be complaining about how early it gets dark now. A neighbor told … more...
Do I Really Want To Reach Out?
A few years ago I took a week-long workshop with Peter Grunwald, the developer of the Eyebody Method of vision improvement. He made the point repeatedly that folks with a near-sighted pattern often don’t let their visual energy extend all … more...
What Don’t I Want To See?
The Problem with Glasses
Timeline of William Horatio Bates, founder of the Bates Method of Vision Improvement
I put this together years ago (2005? earlier?), based off the sources further below.
| 1860 | Born on December 27th in Newark, New Jersey, as the son of Charles and Amelia Bates. (Biography; Obituary; Quackenbush, 656) |
| 1881 | Graduated with a B.S. |
Cristiano Ronaldo’s eyes tracked
Skywalker, a forum member, posted a link to this video in 2012 of a pro soccer (or football, for non-Americans) player’s eye movements being tracked by a device. Look at how his movements differ from the man named Andy, who, … more...
Collection of Articles on Vision Improvement, 1887-1962
This compilation contains 44 articles about Dr. Bates, the Bates method of vision improvement,
and vision improvement in general, collected from newspapers, medical journals, and popular magazines.
The articles comprising this compilation were originally published between 1887 and 1962.
While … more...
Collection of Articles by William H. Bates, M.D.
I sold downloads of this collection in the past, but now you get to have it for free!
This compilation contains 24 articles by Dr. Bates, published in medical journals and other periodicals between 1886 and 1923. He is the … more...
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...