I’d like to find a method that would help everyone to cure any degree of myopia. For that I propose that a group of volunteers will be sent to some island in the tropical climate (warm weather is good for sunning) and perform distant viewing. They will practice traditional Bates techniques. In addition to that they will have to spend 2 or 3 hours on top of the hill gazing at the distance. Reading will be allowed but all computer work will be eliminated. Needless to say, they will all have to discard glasses but other than that they can do pretty much what they want: swimming, laying on the beach, bicycling, yoga. The stress environment should be eliminates so they should not worry about the money.
And this is what I think will happen. My idea is that looking at the distance for hours will eventually eliminate the myopia. So there are 3 phases to that.
Phase 1. A person just looks at the distance consciously trying to relax while doing so. According to Bates myopia is caused by straining to look far so the point here is start looking at the distance without straining. In order to relax while looking at the distance one has to blink frequently and shift constantly.
Phase 2. After the habit of staring is broken, a person should start noticing considerable improvement in his/her vision. At first the flashes will be very brief and rare but eventually they will become prolonged flashed and their quality will be improved.
Phase 3. Once these flashes become normal, one can produce prolonged flashes of clear vision at will. When one flash ends just start another. Eventually your body will get what it is you want and your vision will become perfect or almost perfect. The improvement will be permanent. But just to keep it safe be aware of Bates techniques and keep practicing them. And don’t forget to keep your eyes relaxed.
Update. Perhaps one should also add pranic healing to the activities in this imaginary (as for now) retreat. Heck, why not, we should use any method that can help.
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Hello Alice, my name is Yan Tales and I live in Israel. I have a -4.5 myopia (both eyes). I have read Mr. Bates book even before running into your blog. I must say that your research sounds very interesting. I am 19 years old, and since the age of 10 (when the myopia started) I am anxious to get rid of the annoying glasses at the earliest age possible, but I couldn't get in the routine of exercising, due to my lifestyle, not to mention the privilege of getting the glasses off other than when I go to sleep. Therefore, it could be very interesting to take a part in such a project.
Please do contact me if you find my case relevant to your research:
yantales@gmail.com
Yan
Hello, Alice:
I am interested in your project too!
I very much like the idea of the mountaintop "retreat"m maybe in Hawaii or Catalina Island off the coast of southern California?
Please keep us informed if your dream proposal comes true!
Best wishes.
Hello, Yan
I'm afraid it's on the dream stage right now but I will certainly have you in mind. Thank you for your interest.
The exercises are just techniques of relaxation that might or might not help. Personally I think that Bates techniques as described in his books have lost its efficiency but the underlying principles still apply.
For you right now I can recommend checking the School of Perfect Eyesight in Pondicherry, India. It's been going a while ago but I don't know how the things are now.
Good luck!
Thomas!
Your eyesight is quite good but of course you are always welcome. We can certainly find something for you as well.
Alice, sounds nice but your plan will not work. Myopes should actually avoid looking at far distance, because it's the CAUSE of their strain, not the way to get rid of it. Instead, myopes should practice shifting, swinging, central fixation and memory of black at close distance, where they see best, because it's THE favorable condition for them. If you cannot do it in the favorable condition, you of course cannot do it in an unfavorable one, such as far distance. Sometimes indeed, when you look far away without strain for a half hour, you can get a clear flash, of the same origin as when you look at a blank surface where there is nothing particular to see. But then you realize you see the flash, it instantly goes away, and you are back to where you started. You can spend months and years in looking for flashes, to no avail, as I did. "Producing flashes" is nonsense. The flashes themselves are of no value, the sooner you understand that, the better. There are real values you should be looking for, namely memory of black, central fixation and short/universal swing. The eyesight will improve all by itself, and you'll even have to learn how to dodge your mind to "not notice" the improvement until you forget how you used to strain to make it disappear.
Also don't forget Dr. Bates saying: you've got as much time to use your eyes right, as you use them wrong. You don't have to escape to islands. I have tried several times to practice during my vacations, but it does not seem to work, because the boredom and the feeling of being obliged to do something, which are forms of mental strain, kill the entire endeavor too soon. Our mind just doesn't work that way. I know it's challenging, but it seems the only way to go is to change the way we use our eyes in our normal routine life.
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