Happy New Year!

I decided to put a little personal note to my readers and wish to everyone who stopped by a wonderful New Year 2009. I wish you all the best, especially success with your vision improvement project.

Dr. R. S. Agarwal

I previously mentioned that Bates teachers are usually just fans of the method who more often than not do not quite understand the concept of the Bates method themselves and talk about “exercises” and what not. But there is one exception. There was a doctor who not only fully understood the principles of Dr. Bates but also integrated them into his practice. Like Bates himself and unlike Bates teachers he happened to be a Doctor of Ophthalmology. He also happened to be a follower of a famous yogi Sri Aurobindo. The name of this remarkable man was Dr. R. S. Agarwal.

Dr. Agarwal founded The School of Perfect Eyesight as part of Pondicherry Ashram in India and he had a phenomenal rate of success. He cured many seemingly hopeless cases that traditional doctors gave up on. Oh yes, and he did not charge for the treatment.

I did some research on Dr. Agarwal on internet and was surprised to find out that there was no information about him. You’ll find a few of his book for sale and that’s about it. Not even an entrance in Wikipedia.

I read Yoga of Perfect Sight and I think this book comes pretty close to Bates. It is actually a collection of essays on vision, kind of like the book of Dr. Bates is a collection of essays from Better Eyesight Magazine, that are put together in a book. Even the style is somewhat similar: lots of case histories and cases of remarkable cure. As a bonus there are also letters of Sri Aurobindo (nothing really to do with vision improvement, but a curious read anyway). This book is very different from "traditional" Bates teachers.

Vision and Swimming

Can you swim? If so, do you remember the process how exactly did you learn to swim? Has it ever occurred to you that the ability to swim is mental? Think about it. What is the difference between a person who would sink if thrown in a deep waters and the one who would float? The difference is mental control. People who can swim realized that they can float on water without sinking. It is the same with vision. If we could realize that we can see perfectly or we can relax our extraocular muscles we would have good vision. Notice that the ability to swim does not go away even after years of inactivity, so it’s enough to realize it once that you can have good vision and then you will have it.

This swimming metaphor might not be the best but it is the closest one that describes what I have in mind since most people know how to swim. It is sudden realization that you can control your body in a certain situation. In a way that was a science of yoga is all about.

Vision is Mental

Vision is not only the physical ability to perceive external objects, something like registering a picture on a camera, vision is also the process of interpreting these sensory impressions by the brain. The process of interpretation is cultural in a way how we interpret the image on retina.

There are cases of split personality when people picked up different pair of glasses or took them off altogether depending on which personality “rules” at the moment. Evidently there can be two personalities and one might be nearsighted while another might have perfect vision.

It is a vast field for study. Bates realized that mental interpretation is important but his accent was on mental relaxation and mental control of the muscles. Indeed, if we knew how to control these extraocular muscles we would be able to relax them and thus would acquire good vision.

Mission accomplished

Hello!

A personal message to the readers of my blog. I had a personal mission to write 10 articles on the Bates method and publish them in EzineArticles directory. Well, I am happy to report that

Mission accomplished.

And, as an additional bonus my account is upgraded to the Platinum status. That means more quality articles are coming in the future from your truly.

Time for champagne. Cheers!

Vision Changes All the Time

One of the main concepts of the Bates theory is that he discovered that vision changes all the time. Nobody has perfect eyesight all the time. There are periods when our vision gets better and other periods when it gets worse. This applies to everyone with no exception. Periods of improved vision are usually experienced when a person is happy, relaxed and in familiar environment. If the person is tired, fatigues, stressed, in unfamiliar environment his eyesight is often worse than usual.

The difference is usually not extreme for people with normal vision but it may be drastic for people with bad eyesight. Probably all of us noticed a tremendous improvement during days of bright sunshine.

This, according to Dr. Bates, proves that vision is not static but dynamic. Muscles contract and relax all the time. If it is possible to relax the muscles surrounding the eyeball for a second, it should be possible to relax them for longer periods of time as well, until the eyesight becomes perfect…

Bates was a Yogi

That was an idea that suddenly struck me one day. If his main principle is relaxation of the mind and variability of refraction, why that is exactly what is yoga philosophy is all about: control your mind by calming it first. According to some yogi tales you can do amazing things if you just learn to control your mind. Unfortunately most of us has not the slightest idea what controlling the mind is all about, we are so conditioned to have this inner monologue going on that we have not idea that other states of mind are even possible.

What was really amazing to me was that Bates started out as typical American doctor with standard medical education. He became interested in finding out why things were the way they were. He stumbled upon one of the most powerful concept of yoga philosophy. He arrived to it independently. I think it’s very impressive. Bear in mind it was long before Eastern philosophy, Hindu teachers, Zen, Buddhism and similar stuff got into the West, certainly long before it became mainstream.

Why Doesn’t Bates Method Work?

Strange title? What I mean is that not everyone who has tried Bates method succeeded in restoring their eyesight back to normal. In this post I’d like to explore some possible reasons.

If you have read the Bates book you were probably surprised at the high success rate that this doctor had. And they were all achieved by the masterful suggestion to a patient. No doubt Dr. Bates had a powerful though probably not an overwhelming personality. And he knew exactly what suggestion a particular patient would be most responsive to. In a way, that is the ideal doctor: he realizes that the patient cures himself and his role is just to help them, to nudge them in the right direction.

The problem with modern people is simply an information overload. We hear so much stuff and try to learn so many different things at once. Most of these things are useless and have mo particular value but sometimes we have to sift though junk in order to find gold.

Another reason is that there are too many scams. I can’t even tell you how many rip-off of Bates method are out there on internet with their fake testimonials and etc. People become skeptical.

And another reason connected to the first one is the wrong mental attitude. We “try” so many things. Well, people who try lots of thing usually end up mastering nothing.

When Bates were doing his work the only alternative to correct vision were glasses. Even contact lenses were not around. Now we have laser correction that is so appealing (instant fix, never mind the terrible risk factor associated with it), all this new-age stuff (chanting mantra, affirmation like “my vision is getting better and better”, visualizing yourself seeing everything clearly), pinhole glasses (they don’t work by the way), contacts that you wear while you sleep (it reshapes the cornea of your eyeball but it only lasts a day), convex (“plus”) glasses method (some people reported success with this method), pranic healing. These are just from the top of my head, there are probably more techniques out there.

None of them is perfect.

Bates method was a true revelation to his patients. His book might be a revelation to a few other people though like I said due to information overload I don’t think so. But some success stories are due to Bates method.

Unfortunately due to official medicine rejection of this method it’s hard to track a progress of real people who reported success. I personally know one person to whom, I am happy to say, I introduced Bates method and he removed his restriction on his driver’s license. Granted, his prescription was low, but I still consider it a great success. He never realized that it could be done.

A Curious Site (R.I.P)

A while ago when I was searching for any kind of information to improve myopia I came across a site that became recently defunct (no longer exists). It advertized the new method of curing the eye defects, especially myopia and astigmatism. The improvement would be quite noticeable. The effect is supposed to be cumulative. The author who called his outfit King Kelly Publishing never came to actually putting his book for sale but in his Frequently Asked Questions he put this curious information:

I believe that Bates was right in his conclusions, but his Method to achieve good eyesight is not, as far as my experience goes, the most effective. The system I developed appears to be much more powerful. It consists mainly of a pattern that you run and after running the pattern for a little bit of time, you look around and notice that your vision has improved. This happens each and every time and the improvements add up quickly. Without effort, the pattern causes the eyes to see better.

So quick sun-up: we have this mysterious “pattern”. His method also involves some object “that can be found in any house” but it is not really necessary and you don’t have to have it. His method involves no effort: that is good and in accordance with Bates. It takes only two minutes to perform, you notice the improvement immediately and the effect is cumulative. The more you do it, the quicker is the improvement. If you already have good vision, according to his claims you can develop super vision (how about seeing the moons of Jupiter?)

I was thinking that it might have been near-far swing: you need a pen or pencil but you can just use your finger. It is the only method I am aware of that produces some noticeable improvement immediately but unfortunately the effect is not cumulative. So it must not be it.

Well, it would be great to find out what it is but I suppose he took his secret to his grave, I mean disappeared from the face of the internet. As far as everything goes it might have been a scam but he was fairly modest and said things like “it seems to work for everyone”, etc, he never said that his method guaranteed a perfect vision. His so-called pattern takes two minutes to perform. His ambition was to put doctors and glasses salesmen out of business. A worthy endeavour, no doubt, but a little overambitious. It takes more than one person to shatter this kind of bureaucracy.

On the other hand… he has disappeared. And now his site has disappeared too. Hmm…

Donald S. Rehm The Myopia Myth

Here is a totally different method claiming to prevent and reverse mild myopia. It’s none other than the (in)famous “plus” glasses method. Why “infamous”? Well, first of all, these people think that they got the answer. According to them we are back to Leibniz theory of nearsightedness, according to which visual defects like myopia are caused by the changing in the shape of the lens.

I wonder how they explain the reason for hyperopia? The lens can become too round during accommodation but what makes it flatter than it is? Explain that!

Back to the review. I read Rehm’s book. The idea is that you should wear plus glasses (with convex lenses) for close work in order to prevent lens accommodation. But here’s right from the horse’s mouth:

He actually admitted that his vision went slightly worse even when he wore “plus” glasses working at some tense job. While he was on vacation his vision improved. He thought it was due to his glasses but we can see that he was just relaxed and that was the real reason.

He flatly denies that Bates method has any foundation behind it though he does admit that lots of people were helped. He can’t come up with better explanation than they hypnotized themselves into that or something like that.

He came up with some apparatus that he called myopter. Same thing: it supposed to eliminate near-point accommodation and help with fusion.

I wonder if the proponents of this theory see that you basically just exchange “minus” glasses for “plus”? Somehow, I don’t think so.

In my opinion he just missed the whole point. He would be far better off developing good visual habits than coming up with a weird mechanical contraption. But when he admitted that his vision became worse that for me personally, has clinched his case. So I do not recommend his book. It’s far better to apply the Bates method straight from the master himself.


If you want to try the convex lenses method to improve myopia, check out books The Secret of Perfect Vision and How I Cured My Myopia by David de Angelis. He claims that he discovered some kind of ocular gymnastic and his system helps to reverse myopia. I personally have not read any of his books, his site does not give any information what his system is all about so I can’t say anything about it or really recommend it. If you tried it, your feedback is surely welcome! Total absence of any reviews about his system looks suspicious.

What Are Correct Visual Habits?

The Bates method is about relaxation, mental and physical. It is all about how to use your eyes the way nature intended them for us to use. Seeing is like hearing or smelling. You do not try to taste something, right? And also unless you are going deaf, you are not trying to hear something that is said to you. At least you should not. By the way it seems that widespread deafness and loss of hearing that we see around nowadays has exactly the same causes as the bad eyesight. People lose the ability to use their sense organs effortlessly, the way they were designed to be used.

Saying that the Bates method does not involve any exercises. No doubt you know the type I mean. Look all the way up, then down, right and left. While they probably won’t do any harm, you won’t get any benefits from them either. It seems like a different groups of muscles are involved in accommodation.

In any case, if there were any mechanistic approach that worked for sure, we don’t know about it yet. No method has 100% success rate.

Bates method is mental. His idea is you have to relax mind first and that will automatically relax your tight muscles. It’s all in the mind. Yet he also came up with very definite techniques how to achieve mental relaxation. Will they work for everyone? No such luck. But they are beneficial and will cause no harm.

Meir Schneider

No list of Bates teachers would be complete (not that mine is) without mentioning the name of Meir Schneider. He was born with cataracts and other serious vision problems, had operation on one eye that left him almost blind. He became desperate and started looking for measures to restore his eyesight. He found about Bates method and started practicing with utmost diligence. In about 2 year he was able to read fine print. After a while he could drive without glasses. His vision is not perfect due to scars but around 20/80 which is still fairly decent.

On a site about him there are two great pictures:

Meir Schneider was issued a blindness certificate in 1970 in Tel Aviv which is marked “Valid Permanently”. Right next to it is his current California driver’s license which has “No Restriction”. He admits though that he has been palming for hours right before he went to pass his visual test. How about that for proof that Bates method can work?

After that he founded School for Self-Healing in San Francisco, read numerous lectures and seminars, wrote a few books. His approach helps to implement Bates method as he offers a guided relaxation scripts along with actual techniques. That makes it easier for some people.

Mirzakarim Norbekov

A very interesting character. Norbekov is a Russian who specializes in alternative medicine and “mind-stuff”. He believes that a patient cures himself. He wrote a book in Russian that can be translated like One Fool’s Experience or the Way to Vision. It’s a curious read, lots of motivationl talk. He is a big believer in visualization, affirmations and other so-called new age techniques. He is also adamant that an empty form like a physical exercise is useless without a mental focus. Which is all true and good. But here’s the rub:

He likes eye exercises of roll up and down type, left and right. While there might be something to them, usually the response is negative: they are useless as far as vision improvement goes.

Norbekov also came up with his own version of palming and sunning but he never credits Bates. Not even once. I would be cautious in accepting his word. Everyone even superficially acquainted with Bates method knows that he is the one who came up with palming and sunning and invented the terms. No doubt techniques existed before but Bates introduced them to the general public. I don’t think it’s wise for Norbekov to take credit for that.

One more thing. His approach “mental attitude is the primary factor” implies that you can bully your eyes into good vision. I am sorry to say that it’s not so. If it were that easy we would all have excellent eyesight. He is a charismatic person and he probably helped lots of people who conversed with him personally. His method of improving eyesight is very similar to Bates’. While Bates’ focus was on complete relaxation, Norbekov’s is on positive mental attitude.

His book is worth reading though, there are some good ideas there. He does go over the top sometimes with this positive attitude but he also tells amusing stories.

Leo Angart

In my opinion, Leo Angart is one of the best modern Bates teachers. I read his book and I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of information presented. He explains the usual techniques for Bates method but he also introduced something completely different. I’m sure it’ll be new to most readers.

It is pranic healing. The idea is that our bodies are comprised of energy and every part of the body that suffers from some kind of disease or anomaly has some kind of energy misbalance, most commonly the lack of prana or energy in that particular organ.

The idea of pranic healing was introduced by Choa Kok Sui. He wrote several books on the subject and he gives a good intro into pranic healing.

So the thing to do is to perform special exercises with your hands in order to fill your eyes with energy. I know, we are getting here into advanced mind stuff but Leo Angart reports that one of his pupils was able to improve her myopia by 3 diopters in 3 days only by doing these exercises. They are easy to perform but they do require mental focus or concentration. You also have to visualize certain coloured flows of energy.

What's more, Leo himself credits his restored vision to these energy "exercises" (let's call them that for the lack of better word). While he likes Bates and his method he considers that pranic healing is one of the primary factors in restoring good eyesight.

Leo wrote a book Improve Your Eyesight Naturally that you can check out on Amazon.

He is not big on motivational staff, which is a good thing, too much of that already. His book is packed with techniques that you can start applying right away. There are also funny cartoons on every page. In a way, he is the man to go to for Bates method simplified concept.

Janet Goodrich

While we are on the subject of Bates teachers I’d like to introduce to you one more Bates teacher: Janet Goodrich. her book is called Natural Vision Improvement. It is much shorter and her style is lighter and easier to read than Quackenbush’s but her work suffers from the same two flaws mentioned above: she likes sketching (again, nothing wrong with it but remember that it is not Bates) and too much psychological mish-mash. However, her book is full of cartoons, tips and techniques, especially for vision defects other than myopia.

On the side: Myopia, in my opinion, is the most difficult anomaly of refraction to get rid of, if you can do that… well, you are the one.

There is no ground breaking information there. But overall, it is a good book and I recommend it.

Thomas Quackenbush

Thomas Quackenbush is another famous Bates teacher. He wrote a book with somewhat presumptuous title “Relearning to See”. If you haven’t read it yet it’s available on Amazon.

Well, while the book is solid and well-written and presents Bates method fairly well I have some problems with it. First, the book is far too long and wordy. He quotes Bates and then repeats the same stuff over and over in his own words. Too much fluff.

Second, I hate the way he changed Bates term central fixation into centralization. I don’t like it. He also changed shifting into sketching: the idea is that instead of the pendulum-like swings that your eyes do automatically he suggests that you follow the outlines of the object with you glance. You can do it by imagining your nose as a feather or pen. I heard it worked for some people but be aware that it is not shifting: you might actually lock your eyes by trying to sketch! Third, he tends to go into psychological nonsense like “you are myopic because you are afraid to look at the word”. While I agree that there is a mental aspect to vision (more about it in later posts) I don’t buy this simplified explanation.

Anyway, since the Bates book is much shorter I don’t see the point in getting Quackenbush’s book unless you like the stuff really chewed up for you.

The verdict: not recommended. I ended up donating it to the library.

Margaret D. Corbett

The first book I read on Bates method was a double book which included “Perfect Sight Without Glasses” by W. H. Bates and “Help Yourself to Better Sight” by Margaret Darst Corbett. While the style of writing is totally different they both deserve a read.

The Bates book is all about theory and concepts behind the vision. The book by M. Corbett is more focused on practical approaches to help you develop correct visual habits. Margaret Corbett became interested in the Bates method when her husband lost his eyesight, found out about Bates and decided to practice his principles. That started her off to helping people. She ran “School of Eye Education” in Los Angeles teaching the Bates method. Of course the grand medical establishment could not allow it: how come? You got real results? Close them down. They filed a complaint against her for practicing without a license. She won because she had many witnesses who testified on her behalf and also for the fact that she did not represent herself as a doctor but rather as an instructor in good eye habits.

Among her pupils was the famous Aldous Huxley who wrote “The Art of Seeing”, another book that gives lots of tips on developing good visual habits and also touches on mental side of vision.

Bates Teachers

Let me say a brief word about so-called Bates teachers.

First of all, the disclaimer is in order. I am NOT a Bates teacher. I am not a vision improvement teacher. This just happens to be a topic of extreme interest to me. Yet, I see so many attempts on internet to scam unsuspecting customers to part with their money—it just gets to me. My advice is not to buy any of the vision improvement programs, especially the ones that “guarantee the results”. Nothing in this life is guaranteed.

Saying that I can promise that if you are unfamiliar with the Bates method you will learn more from this blog for free than from these overhyped and overpriced products. I might even design an email course but only if the need arises. I will not try to sell you any vision improvement products. I might recommend some books and provide links to Amazon.com but that’s all.

Saying that, the only book you need to find about the Bates method is the book by Dr. Bates himself. In lots of cases it can be checked out from your local library and thus won’t cost you a penny. Yes, there are some good authors like Margaret D. Corbett, mostly direct disciples of Dr. Bates, whose books are worth reading but all the modern stuff is just a half-digested rehash of Bates and other half-baked ideas. What Bates offers is a very clear system. The modern books just don’t cut through. They will tell you the usual BS like if you are myopic it is because you do not want to see the world around you. Total baloney. Stay away from those.

Some people do learn better under the guidance of the competent teacher but it’s up to you to find one if you decide to go this way. I personally think you do not need any teacher, what you need is the right knowledge and how to apply it.

Near-point Stress

To be fair, the theory of near-point stress seems to have some valid points too. This theory explains that myopia develops due to the constant stress on ciliary muscle. Using the eyes for close work for prolonged period of time makes the lens in the eye to accommodate, forcing it to change the shape. Wearing glasses not only locks this tensed muscle condition but actually becomes worse and worse as no doubt everyone with myopia experienced. After a while the change becomes permanent. The proponents of these theory claim that if you never wear glasses and keep good posture while doing close work your eyesight should never become worse than -3D which is bearable.

Either way we have locking of the muscle due to stress and glasses. Only in the Bates theory the strain is produced by straining to see in the distance while in near-point stress theory the main culprit is doing the close work.

Who is right? To be honest, I don’t know. According to Bates, it follows logically that reading the small print decreases myopia. According to the other theory just looking in the distance decreases myopia.

So here’s the tip for you to implement in your daily work: whenever you perform any close work every 15 minutes or so glance in the distance, preferably through the window, if that is not possible, around the room. Close your eyes and imagine yourself looking at some scenery with distant objects like trees.

The Bates Method Overview

OK, it’s time to finally divulge what this Bates method is all about. There is lots of misinformation on the internet about this method, some people claim to be Bates teacher who did not grasped the concept.

In fact Bates method is very simple but also very complicated. I mean it’s easy to understand but not easy to actually master it, to really apply it.

Why is that? Because the main concept behind the Bates method is relaxation. As long as our extraocular muscles (the ones that surround the eyeball) are relaxed, we’ll have perfect vision. Well, maybe not perfect but pretty good anyway.

So what happens? In case of myopia certain extraocular muscles get tensed and change the shape of the eyeball to an elongated one. In case of hypermetropia another set of muscles tense and the eyeball becomes squeezed. Little strain leads to greater strain. When we start wearing glasses that state eventually becomes fixed and the dreadful condition of myopia or other ones appear.

Here’s a quote from Perfect Sight Without Glasses that sums up the point:

It has also been demonstrated that for every error of refraction there is a different kind of strain. The study of images reflected from various parts of the eyeball confirmed what had previously been observed, namely, that myopia (or a lessening of hypermetropia) is always associated with a strain to see at the distance, while hypermetropia (or/ a lessening of myopia) is always associated with a strain to see at the nearpoint; and the fact can be verified in a: few minutes by anyone who knows how to use a retinoscope, provided only that the instrument is not brought nearer to the subject than six feet.

So myopia is produced not by excessive near work like we’ve been led to believe but by an effort to see distant objects!

Retinoscope

Retinoscope was Dr. Bates favourite tool that he used to measure the anomaly of refraction. he used it not only on humans but also on animals. He used it under various conditions on different subjects and documented all the results. Then he formed the theory of the anomalies of refraction based on these accumulated data. His idea was that if the theory was right every single fact should fit it! No exception. It seems that he came up with the beautiful theory but the mainstream medicine never accepted it. It also gave no convincing evidence against it, just plain rejection.

So what about the schoolchildren?

In my post yesterday I mentioned the method that Bates used in some schools to maintain and improve children's eyesight. The method is so simple and genuine that it’s wonder it’s not used anymore. It costs almost nothing to implement yet the results were beyond belief. Do you want to know what it was?

Well, it’s very simple. He suggested that every teacher put up a Snellen chart on the wall and instruct children to read it daily. The idea behind the method is that the human eye relaxes when it views familiar objects. In this case the chart was not used to test their eyesight but to look at the familiar object. Some children are reported to have had a significant improvement.

By the way the method won’t work if your eyesight is already wrecked (from my personal experience). Hence the idea: if you or somebody in your house has vision that just started deteriorating or still is good just put the eyechart on the wall and look at it daily. That’ it. Don’t try to see how many lines you can distinguish as this involves strain (more about this later). Just look at it and read a few lines.

Who on a heck is Dr. Bates?

According to Wikipedia, here’s a few biographical facts:

Bates graduated A.B. from Cornell University in 1881 and received his medical degree at the college of physicians and surgeons in 1885. He formulated a theory about vision health, and published the book Perfect Sight Without Glasses in 1920. Parts of Bates' approach to correcting vision disorders were based on psychological principles, which was contrary to many of the medical theories of the time and remain so. The Bates Method still enjoys some limited acceptance as a modality of alternative medicine.
Bates treated many patients, who claimed to have been cured of vision defects, especially myopia. This brought him into conflict with his peers. He defended himself by claiming that other physicians were in thrall to the establishment.

Not much of a biography there. But it does not really matter. As you can see Wikipedia and medical establishment in general do not like Bates much. His main work “The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses” (later edited into “Perfect Sight Without Glasses”) is a result of years of research and study of the human eyes in various conditions. He and his clinical staff also published “Better Eyesight” magazine (from 1919-1930) of which his book is condensed version. It has a nice section of theory on common eyes disorders which he called anomalies of reflection and those include conditions like myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism. He also touches on problems of squint and cataract. The book is full of case histories. And the main part is devoted to techniques of relaxation.

Bates (1860-1931) has never been popular with a medical establishment even during his own lifetime though he is the one that got positive and definite results. Just to give you an idea he found the way to keep schoolchildren’s eyesight in good condition, his method was used with tremendous success. Then for some reason it’s been dropped. Well, I think we all can guess the real reason behind it.

Bates was a pioneer in the science of ophthalmology and hit upon a wonderful way to preserve the eyesight. If the eye doctors gave their patients a copy of the Bates’ book instead of the first pair of glasses we would not have this pandemics of eye anomalies.

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog on the Bates method of natural vision improvement. This method is based on relaxation, both physical and mental. My aim in creating this blog is, first, to introduce people to the Bates method as I have not seen similar material on the net, second, to promote methods of natural vision improvement.

In this blog I am going to introduce to you tips and techniques that allow your eyes to relax and see better, sometimes in minutes.

I have been studying the Bates method for years and I have not seen anything similar to the concept that I have in mind and I am going to introduce on this blog. I am going to publish articles on the Bates method, recommend certain books and give you my own ideas about the methods and techniques involved.

Of course the techniques will not be limited exclusevely to Bates but he is the founder of the feast. We'll deal with anything that relates to natural vision improvement.

So if you came to this blog looking for the ways to improve your vision and are not familiar with the Bates method, than welcome aboard. I am going to take you for the ride that will leave a lasting impression.