SIGHT
In the early years of the twentieth century ...
"dr. WH Bates, a New York ophthalmologist, was dissatisfied with the symptomatic treatment of normal eyes and eager to find a replacement lens, began looking for a method to re-educate the defective vision in bringing it back to normal. Experiences with a large number of patients led him to conclude that most of the artifacts was functional and was due to the bad habits acquired. These habits were invariably in the report, he found, with a state of stress and tension. And how be expected, given the integrated nature of the human body, this effort had both physical and mental consequences (...) When the patient learned to defuse tension and bought the correct visual habits, the vis naturae medicatrix was placed in a position to act, with the result that in many cases the improvement in physical function was followed by complete healing and the repurchase by the organic integrity of the eye sick. "
With these words of the great writer Aldous Huxley, who, eager to test all these years, in his book "The art of seeing" has the Bates Method, Bates I want too submit to those who do not yet have never heard speak.
To all those who have visual impairments to provide an advice manual Bates exercises as well as to consult the various websites dedicated to this topic. In particular, one that I found very good is the following, which I have summarized for you the main exercises that form the core of the method:
http://metodobates.altervista.org/
I think these exercises a valuable tool, though not for all becomes absolutely decisive. But this usually happens, for myopia and presbyopia, not an inherent limit to the method, but rather because it difficult to maintain consistency in the conduct of the exercises.
For other degenerative disorders or severe the method certainly does not promise miracles.
Before speaking exercises Bates I want to express terms down to earth with the concept that dispels the myth that wearing glasses is a habit healing.
wear glasses need to be able to see sharp and defined an image that would otherwise appear blurred. The most common are those lenses for myopia and presbyopia. A lens has been designed to optimally focus on an object at a distance. For example we need a lens for nearsightedness that allows us to see right away (such as for driving) and a lens for presbyopia that allows us to see well up close (such as for reading). Then there is the wide range of slow "corrective" of various kinds for various artifacts.
But in this way constantly bringing the glasses, the eye loses its ability to adapt. In fact, our focus is constantly changing depending on what you are looking at. A normal eye movements and adjustments to make millions per day, while during the time when the lens door, if it focuses on a different distance from that which is calibrated to the lens can not focus the image. Who wears short-sighted glasses certainly remember that first day, as had been warned by the ophthalmologist, the dizzy and felt a general discomfort. For example looking at the board we could see but if you mate bench called him, having to suddenly turn on his side, felt a sense of blurred and almost sick. Of course lasted a split second. Then he became accustomed to the discomfort is gone. This is because in a few days the eye is adapted to re-new condition.
However this is a rather restrictive condition resulting postural adaptation that takes the eye to make fewer accommodations, those that can tolerate so that the subject does not feel uncomfortable. Those uncomfortable simply ignores them.
fact the eye is only the nerve endings of the visual organ, but it is the brain that decides what to see and how to interpret what he sees.
In summary, Bates wears glasses and how to get crutches. It's a health to support a useful function injured, but harmful to replace a function not only injured but noisy.
If a healthy person would walk all day will be on crutches as the function of his legs? Certain muscles are not reinforced and not its general posture will improve.
central fixation
The setting is the central function is inhibited when they begin the first visually impaired.
But apart from these, it may be underactive when we are tired or if we temporary discomfort, such as a simple flu or indigestion, or some alcohol in an evening of debauchery, or just a local disturbance such as conjunctivitis.
In practice, the central fixation is that function according to which the normal eye sees and looks fine even if the eyes are turned to the right or left, up or down. makes it possible to better see where you are looking at that moment, irrespective of the position of the eyes.
Under conditions of stress, the higher the voltage, the more it suffers from central fixation, ruining other cause tension and so on.
EXERCISES
Palming Palming and
' the main technique to relax the mind and eyes.
Dr. Bates verify 'which normal-sighted people, keeping our eyes closed, perceive a field of view perfectly black, no sparkles, flashes of light or colored spots without words that vast collection of illusions that instead appear to people with imperfect sight . These changes are attributable to the effort to see that it 'originated from a mental tension, persistent even after the closure of the eye itself.
's performance combines the exclusion of light and the rest of the eye, the memory of the black, or whatever, as long as' recalled easily and perfectly. The palm is completely integrated with all other techniques Method: memory, imagination and movement, it is essential to the proper functioning of the eye. Should be practiced often, even for short periods or for periods of more 'long, but with lower frequency.
(1) Place the palms of your hands cupped, fingers crossed on the forehead, softly.
(2) Close your eyes and put their thumbs in order to exclude as much as' possible stray light.
(3) Rest your elbows on a table or on a cushion, while still seeking to relax the muscles of the head and neck.
(4) Once you reach a good physical balance, with a great location and making sure that no light filters, display a perfect black and uniform without straining in any way.
(5) To facilitate the spontaneity 'of objects you can remember this view blacks, among those that remember best.
(6) Black and 'absolutely the color more' easy to remember, every person and 'but' impeded or facilitated by different memories: one can remember much better than a ring, a flower, a face, a different color or a scene in motion. In these cases, follow their own inclinations and mnemonic 'preferred and not in any way affect the performance and success of your palm.
(7) When the palm reaches its goal, namely to 'relaxation, the field of view of the subject no longer' aberrations, making as opposed to a uniformly black, as should always occur due to the total exclusion of light.
NB: try to recall the black or other objects and 'wrong and harmful, as well as misleading. Make a palm so 'means to facilitate the emergence of a nervous breakdown. Black
visual field and 'an index of relaxation, not relaxation. In the palm we get the first relaxation and then will come 'the rest.
For our purpose, however, is useful as easy as possible the element to be used for enhancement of memory and sight, that usually is used preferably in black, which is not modifiable by light or other factors, besides being ALMOST found 'everywhere.
FLUCTUATIONS
In the words of Bates, 'and' only when the eye is 'able to move so' fast that the eye and mind are at rest, that the effectiveness of both and 'maximum'.
We must keep in mind that to see clearly in the picture, it is necessary for small bits at a time. In this continuous rebuilding the memory plays an important role but still underestimated.
Bates, in his chapter on the swing, suggests several ways to produce the sensation of swinging of the letters, what this and that 'to perceive the most useful. Among other things, this movement stimulates the central fixation, 'cause it gives true rest to the mind and the visual system. In practice, it is to realize the end of the movement which occurs when we perceive the letters and that this movement and 'always contrary to the direction in which we look. So, if we turn our attention to the right of the letter, we will notice a shift in the opposite direction of the letter, that 'to the left and vice versa. The same goes for the up-down directions.
Although it 's relatively easy to check that and' just so ', the short-sighted can not conceive of this movement, as' always tends to lock his gaze. Therefore notice 'of this movement and' very important, and 'the main purpose of the navigation exercises described below.
SWING LEFT-RIGHT
As mentioned in the introduction, as the more you try to look good so you can not, by induction we know what NOT to do, namely to continue to try to see well. That's why "looking at the center, centralize," is harmful because it perpetuates exactly what we must avoid. If you look bad, make an effort will only serve to amplify the error, this is the first step to avoid.
Assuming that you are looking at the word "race" and you want to peep at the letter "s", it is useless to try to get your eyes on the "s" paying attention to how it is perceived, in which case it will make a effort, better, much better, watch the "s" calmly and try to see the worst "to" next: in practice is if we looked like the "s" and with one eye looked so blurred the presence of "a". Thus, after a certain period of training, the letter "s" staglierà so clearly as to seem almost relieved by the rest of the paper. Now do the same after watching the "s" but with the corners of the "r". In this way we get a year of oscillation.
Feel the swaying of the letter always leads to its improvement, that's why 'is important to notice. Note that this swing and 'something slow and gentle, relaxing.
Since the wink is a very important phenomenon for maintaining good visual function, we can see with this exercise of oscillation we close the eyelids for a fraction of a second several times each time we move from looking at the wrong "to" look evil "r". So not only have we made clear our "s" without effort and with the movement, but we have the eye lubricated.
E 'has been shown that short-sighted person in the number of winks is less than normal. The
amiccamento we do, as well as gaze, especially every time we shift our gaze from one object to another.
SWING HIGH-LOW
see a letter to 1 or 2 second, notice the black and close your eyes. Bearing in mind the black, move from one part of this black and try to see as a result, the point previously looked less black than you are looking at that, at that moment, it will be perceived as more black.
If you can not, imagine his eyes move from one area to another black, even blacker.
This shift will lead to a shift in the image of the letter, try to realize it. If you look down, the letter will appear to move up and vice versa. This illusion is beneficial, the swing short of the letter. This movement is short, slow and very relaxing.
Try to keep in your mind as much as possible this letter and its black color, without exerting any effort. Take note that if the swing stops described above, the letter and the color will vanish from your mind and you must repeat the entire procedure.
RIGHT LEFT IN BRIEF; HIGH AND LOW skew. never mind ... oscillatory operation can be done in all directions.
summarize here the pattern to follow to take care of your sight. I recommend this practice to spend half an hour a day, preferably in the morning.
(1) palm
5 minutes (2) FLUCTUATIONS
you can 'do it this way:
1. Watching a letter on the test;
2. Move to a letter from the same line, seeing worse than the previous letter.
3. Return to the previous letter, seeing better and worse, seeing the previous letter.
4. Continue alternating, slipping from one side of the Snellen card.
Letters should, after a certain period, to improve both. If the operation fails immediately, stop and rest his eyes, closing them by running the palm
If you are unable to perceive the relative motion of the letter, so try ':
1. See a letter in which the distance is seen better. In myopia what 'will be approximately 30 cm from the face. Moved from summit 'at the bottom until you see the base or the summit' s worse, while the whole letter will seem 'more' first black and perceive 'the swing, slow and sweet.
2. Close your eyes and mentally moved from the top 'at the bottom of the letter, trying to recreate the swing in memory
3. Look at the blank wall with his eyes open and do the same. Compare the two ways of moving
4. Look at the letter now in the distance, always move from the top 'at the base. If successful, the letter will improve 'and it will be perceived' illusion of a swing.
Sometimes large letters on the table from seeing more black letters' small. To overcome this, 'do so':
1. Watch a large letter on the test
2. Guardane a small and very far from it. The large letter is seen worse.
3. Replay the first and see it better.
4. Repeat for half a dozen times.
There are other exercises to do with the letters, but I have reported here the main ones. It 'important to understand that this movement of which we speak is not' something that has to make efforts in some way the eyes, but only as a consequence of a movement of the eyes calm and relaxed and calm 'of the mind.
(3) over the various palming short facts during the oscillations, if necessary, to conclude with a palm to 10 minutes.
memory is strengthened if there is no interference of the conscious mind.
And now a word about the famous ...
SUNGLASSES GRID
this is a pinhole glasses: instead of lenses have screens on which blacks were made of small holes, according to a precise pattern. They are suitable for myopia, astigmatism, hyperopia and presbyopia.
round holes of these screens, with their particular distribution honeycomb, ensure that the image of the observed object falls automatically on the most sensitive spot of the retina without the need to focus. In this way, even those with sight problems can, through these screens, see better than the naked eye. E 'can do a test by removing the lenses, observing an object that you can not see well, and then cover it by wearing bio-glasses. The holes in these glasses leads the eye to look through them the light, fostering the continuous micro-movements that are an excellent eye passive exercise for rehabilitation and relaxation of muscles surrounding the eye, while the lenses tend these muscles to tighten and affect visual efficiency. With the use of these glasses saccadic oscillation is stimulated and rehabilitated, as recommended by Bates. In practice, bringing to 15 minutes a day you get the performance of a passive exercise of the exercises Bates. Obviously you can not bring when you ride!
GENERAL
if you are not severely "Cecati," I suggest to never wear glasses. For those who already take them for years do not say anything, but for those who must begin, I suggest you do not start at all and use them only in the few moments of the day when you need to see anything distinctly. In practice more than the glasses from his nose I would be in favor of restoring the glasses used in the nineteenth century as seen in the figure of the previous chapter.
course despite not starting to take them consistently, you will have them with him to use them when necessary, such as for driving. And this is what I did Fortunately, I discovered that short-sighted when we already know the Bates Method, and I have saved from the "eye crutches".
So for those who are like me and also for those who wear glasses:
if you find you have made progress, re-tested the view and go from time to time at slower than light!
For those interested in these glasses here is a useful address to be contacted: email =
0039/3393127165
caterina.polini @ libero.it
www.bio-occhiali.vpsite.it
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