Restoring Your Eyesight by Doug Marsh

Author:Doug Marsh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2011-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

HOW LONG?

Seeing successfully (clearly) again using Bates’s techniques requires continual awareness of the fundamentals noted earlier. Don’t expect your blurred sight to be dramatically and permanently eliminated, however. To reemphasize: educating your eyes to see clearly is an art form. How quickly a person responds to NVI is highly variable and unpredictable. Certain techniques I mentioned in this chapter have worked for me, and others haven’t. You have to find what works best for you.

There will also be relapses along the way. But according to Bates, those who have the best chance for fast and successful improvement are children and those who have worn weak prescriptions for a relatively short period:

The time required … varies greatly with different individuals… . It is often necessary to continue … for weeks and months… . Daily practice of the art of vision is also necessary to prevent those visual lapses to which every eye is liable, no matter how good its sight may ordinarily be. It is true that no system of training will provide an absolute safeguard against such lapses in all circumstances… . Generally persons who have never worn glasses are more easily cured than those who have… . Persons of all ages have been benefited by this treatment of errors of refraction by relaxation; but children usually, though not invariably, respond much more quickly than adults. If they are under twelve years of age, or even under sixteen, and have never worn glasses, they are usually cured in a few days, weeks, or months, and always within a year.39

The relapses are terribly frustrating, because the rational part of your mind says things like, “This isn’t working. This is crazy. Give it up. It’s taking too much time and taking too long!” You may have to struggle to rid yourself of such negative self-talk. I’ve had to many, many times. Patience is more than a virtue with NVI; it’s a must.

Bates improved his own presbyopia (also called old-age sight) by means of relaxation techniques, and he was frustrated at how long it took him: “My progress … was not what could be called rapid. It was six months before I could read the newspapers with any kind of comfort, and a year before I obtained my present accommodative range.”40 He found that about 10 percent of people with presbyopia could improve much more rapidly than he did. The other 90 percent tended to have slow progress too. He was puzzled as to why some cases reversed so quickly, and others did not. He hoped to find the answer, but never did.

David Kiesling has some excellent advice about stages of improvement on his Web site dedicated to the Bates Method:

Improvement isn’t linear. When improvement does come, it comes in flashes … [and] can happen at any time … whenever we let go of the strain to see, and it continues for as long as we don’t fall back into strain. One day you might suddenly have a flash of clear vision and not have another for weeks.

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