[...The First Thing to Start With

The first and foremost thing you need to do is to read and understand
the original Bates book, Perfect Sight without Glasses! This is so
important, that I'd begin each and every my blog post with this urgent
recommendation.

I can hear you thinking that you've already read it, and you may think
you've understood it, but believe me you haven't. I'd bet you read
another "Bates-like" book, and it was too much a while ago and most of
things you have forgotten or confused with other wrong ideas.

The original book by Dr. Bates is a masterpiece. It's not a usual book
that you give a cursory glance and move along. Although the text may
look quite dry and old-fashioned at first glance, it is unbelievably
carefully worded. There is no single word out of place, and each word
is there for a reason. If some pieces seem unclear or unfeasible to
you, or in reverse, you shrug shoulders why Dr. Bates writes about
such obvious things, this is because you aren't yet experienced enough
and haven't reached the state when you can understand it. Keep opening
the book now and then, and you will be surprised to find the answers
that you didn't previously realized were there. All missing pieces
marvelously fit into place.

Like all things of genius, the Bates method is very simple, and the
book by Dr. Bates sets forth the complete and pure essence of the
method, without any redundancy. Some people call themselves
"disciples" of Dr. Bates and write their own books, invent new
techniques etc., but what they actually do is at best misinterpret and
misplace the accents. I haven't seen not a single book that evolves
and adds value to the Bates method, but I've seen a lot of unnecessary
and wrong interpretations.

I like to quote one guy who is known to have his eyesight completely
cured:

"My recovery has been too long and too slow. I think there are simple
reasons for this. First and foremost, I initially had too little faith
in the great Dr. Bates. My faith in some of his statements didn't come
until I thoroughly had demonstrated the facts to myself, which in some
cases took a very long time. Secondly, my mind was for a long time
(and maybe still is) cluttered with ideas from Bates books written by
people with defective sight and wrong ideas. One of these ideas, I
think, is that the people that have the most success, are the people
that go on and invent a lot of their own techniques. This I did for a
long time. Actually I think I've made up enough of my own techniques
to fill up close to a thousand pages in a book. My biggest dream some
time ago, was to write all this down, and get my own book on the Bates
method published. The techniques I mostly thought were revolutionary
at the time I made them. Unfortunately, in the aftermath I've
discovered that they're not. What I've discovered is that all of them
were just complicated and inefficient ways of doing what the methods,
as Bates explains them, do a lot better. That's why I wrote this: "If
I hadn't taken all these precautions about posting (and if I weren't
so lazy), I would have posted a lot more f.ex. on the use of the
imagination, which I consider my strongest card. But I see that the
way I use my imagination is changing so much, that I am too afraid to
give people wrong ideas - which there is really WAY more than enough
of on the other vision lists. I consider the only safe route to
perfect vision is to follow the advice of those who have actually got
there. Of course, I read other opinions too, but then I'm very careful
to have the filters in my brain running." After this time, I've only
realized this more and more, and I'm glad that I hesitated in writing
up on some of my ideas, because I now know that they were not good
ideas. So I doubt that you'll see a book published by me in a long,
long time. Anyway, if I had to write down my own experience, I would
have to use the same words as Dr. Bates did."

It is unbelievable how many months I have wasted doing totally wrong
things while thinking I was practicing Bates. And when I finally got
over my laziness and opened the original book, I was amazed to
discover that I had never actually read THIS book! Don't repeat my
mistake! Now I've made my habit to open the book now and then and it
is always a tangible step forward...]

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