Blind Luck Methods: The Bates Method

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Bates method
Ohhh, Dr. William Bates. His Bateness. Doing medicine, in the Batescave. 19th century style.

Knowing me from other online venues, you might understand how much I sometimes struggle, keeping a neutral tone.

Bates method review - I learned that it�s safer to not say some thing, should you don�t have anything positive to express. That slander and finger pointing doesn�t generally accomplish anything positive. So how to proceed, with the scores and piles of notes I've, on all of the vision improvement methods that don�t work?

I�m planning to post a fast one here, and let you function as the judge.

The biggest contingent of �eye exercise� kind of ebooks, Websites, and premises on the market all go as far back for the Nineteenth century. A time which was renowned for enlightenment in medicine, bringing us such things as children�s cough syrups with heroin, and ice picks to the brain to help with anxiety.

In fact, little remains in practice today, that Western medicine developed in the Nineteenth century.

And that ought to be true for William Bates, and the Bates method.

I�ve come up with a theory of why that whole premise persists, even though it doesn�t work (and it really does not). It�s the whole idea of �exercises�. Giving people something to accomplish, making it seem complex and inspired and filled with instructions. �Palm your face�. �Gaze into the sun�. All of these things, which range from pointless to dangerous, get remixed into new age fantasies, as well as pressure ebook sales.

First thing one must understand, is the place myopia actually happens (currently in the program, at some time hopefully expanded on elsewhere here on the website).

Myopia is a progressive focusing muscle strain, eventually causing axial elongation of the eyeball.

There�s no doubt about this. One from the tools with a serious ophthalmologist office actually serves to measure the degree of axial elongation with the eyeball. Can you shorten your eyeball by palming that person?

Probably not. Maybe if you use the double facepalm?

The situation with Bates method is, that folks find some variation of this theme, when looking for natural vision improvement online.

They struggle it, find out it�s bullshit, and shelve the complete vision improvement concept altogether.

And a lot than it isn�t even well packaged, like many of these guys:

http://www.seeing.org/techniques/

Sunning? Palming? The Sway?

Aggressively going after anyone who disagrees together too, some of them. I�ve encounter several smear campaigns from (some of) the cats at http://www.iblindness.org, a cultish outfit which doesn�t claim vision impairment as culprit for that state of the website design.

I tried Bates in the beginning during my eyesight improvement discovery. It could possibly do well to execute a detailed method breakdown, and why what doesn�t work - at the moment, the reality is that anything with �Bates method� in it should be avoided.

The reason?

Bates method doesn�t address the myopia symptom. With more hours we could enter the finer points like yes, it will. But simply for really low myopia, and simply with some blind (heh) luck. In Bates days, people didn�t wear -7 diopter prescriptions. And it is possible to fix a -1 diopter myopia case with only about anything, that isn�t staring at a screen for 10 hours.

So, yes. If you want steampunk and icepicks (and heroin child cough syrup), and you've got very low myopia, Bates method might help. Otherwise, if you only want to improve your eyesight, thumbs recorded on the Bates.

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In various other inspiring and non facepalm-exercise-ebook news, science lets us know interesting stories (in kind of actual studies by actual non-chakra-weaving-scientists):

quotesIt is currently generally accepted that the quality of the retinal image can influence axial eye growth. Several different experimental paradigms, applied to a selection of different species have illustrated that altering retinal image quality can result in consistent and predictable changes in eye growth.

That is amazing. The quality of the retinal image, influencing axial growth.

If you're one of the greatly fortunate participants within the program, you almost certainly already heard anything or three concerning this. The extra cool thing here's, note how it�s not about axial elongation (the bad stuff), but growth. Change the quality of the retinal image, experience axial reduction, reduce your prescription dependency. If it wasn�t so science, I�d must refer to it as magical.

Cheers!