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.