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- From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)
- Subject: Re: Bates method (natural vision improvement)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.172940.6419@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:29:40 GMT
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- In <BSIMON.92Dec28071326@elvis.stsci.edu> bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon) writes:
-
- >Thanks for the posting. This is the kind of thing I would like to see
- >more of on this group. Either actual experience of improvement with
- >some alternative treatment or clinical results.
-
- I agree, though I would add that I'd like to hear about *lack* of
- improvement as well.
-
- As for the Bates method, his book never quite jelled for me somehow,
- although it was quite inspiring for me to read parts of it and realize
- that eyesight *is* dynamic, not the static-or-worse thing I'd been
- taught growing up.
-
- The book that I did enjoy finding was "Natural Vision Improvement" by
- Janet Goodrich, published by Greenhouse Publications in Australia
- (ISBN 0 909104 90 5), and Celestial Arts in the US (ISBN 0-89087-471-9).
-
- Lots of practical advice in making the transition back to clarity,
- lots of different sorts of approaches, all presented clearly and with
- a lot of joy.
-
- I've been concentrating on other parts of my life, and I haven't really
- been following the book much, but the last time I went in for glasses
- I followed the advice in the book to get weaker ones, to correct only
- to 20/40. After a couple of weeks, my eyes got used to them, and I've
- enjoyed having glasses that aren't so strong.
-
- Without glasses I used to be able to see clearly only to about 10 cms
- away from my eyes -- recently I've noticed that's increased to about 17
- or 18, which made me quite happy. (One of the side benefits is that I
- can focus both eyes on something without my glasses now -- it used to be
- that I had to hold things so close I'd only use one eye at a time.) My
- glasses now seem too strong at times, and I'm looking forward to going
- in to get new ones.
-
- Ms. Goodrich has an interesting chapter on myopia and personality, and
- how myopes tend to have myopic personalities -- engages in near sector
- activities, is easily hurt emotionally, and lives with unconcious
- apprehension. Myopia is a defense mechnanism -- a way of shutting off
- a world that's getting too close.
-
- I've been working on changing those sorts of traits in my life anyway,
- and that's what I feel has really changed my vision. I'm more
- comfortable living (and seeing!) within a broader part world, instead of
- of just 10 cms from my face. :)
-
- Pete
-