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Title: Relearning to See: Improve Your Eyesight - Naturally! by Thomas R. Quackenbush ISBN: 1-55643-341-7 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: best modern presentation of the Bates Method
Comment: This large book is on the Bates Method, which Tom has been teaching for about fifteen years. Large portions of Bates's book and magazines are quoted, and while there is no substitute for reading Bates's book and all his magazines yourself, this book reviews what Bates taught more comprehensively than any other author. If it were not for this and Tom's other book, The Complete Magazines of William H. Bates, I might never have understood the Bates Method as it is meant to be understood.
Tom emphasizes relearning to use natural, relaxed vision habits all day long, habits which most people with imperfect sight had as children. Even those people such as me who have had eye problems all their lives, even as infants, unconsciously know how to use their eyes and mind in the right way.
He also goes over a number of modern issues that Bates was not aware of in his time, such as color therapy, left and right brain hemispheres, and healing crises.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect sight---your birthright!
Comment: "Relearning to See" is the largest and most comprehensive book ever written on the Bates Method of Natural Eyesight Improvement Re-Education. The author has taught Natural Eyesight Improvement and Teacher Training classes since 1983. He has recently relocated from San Francisco to the Natural Vision Center in Ashland, Oregon. RTS contains the pioneering work of ophthalmologist William H. Bates, MD. This educational program is *not* about eye exercises---a common misconception of the Bates Method. The most important contribution of RTS is that it concisely describes the 3 principles and 3 habits of natural vision. Yet each principle and habit is thoroughly explained, since all of them are necessary for normal, clear sight. RTS is a 521-page tome containing 60 color plates, over 150 illustrations and eye charts, (not a small booklet like most other books written on this topic), and contains information on how to improve nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, presbyopia, strabismus (e.g. crossed-eye), amblyopia (lazy-eye), and many other vision problems. Even many serious eye problems have improved with this educational program. RTS covers reading, driving, using a computer, in nighttime vision, flying, light tolerance, artificial lighting and many other topics. Glasses are an artificial crutch, and contact lenses are foreign objects. Both tend to reinforce strained vision habits and make your eyesight worse. RTS educates you about lenses and prescriptions so you can go to your eye doctor and get legal, safe, reduced-power glasses while you are improving your eyesight. One of the most interesting and valuable chapters is called "Brains and Vision," where the author presents a larger perspective on the Bates Method using the modern right brain/left brain model. Bates stated that vision is primarily mental. The sections on left-brain myopes versus right-brain farsights are quite revealing. There are many mental and vision quality benefits to improving eyesight naturally, including memory, concentration, imagination, creativity, color perception, depth perception, contrast and texture awareness. While Dr. Bates did make some errors, his *solutions* of re-establishing correct vision habits are flawless---because they are created by nature. Read Chapter 1, Chapters 2-4 if you have been wearing glasses or contacts; then jump to Chapters 9+ and get started with natural vision principles and habits. You can also read 50+ extraordinary feedbacks on this book (search for "NVCSF"). Then buy this book and begin Relearning to See---naturally and clearly! Also, check out his even larger, second work: "Better Eyesight: The Complete Magazines of William H. Bates," a 550,000+ word compilation of all 132 monthly magazines from 1919-1930.
Rating: 5
Summary: concise and detailed
Comment: I did not realize this was such a large book and technical at the same time. But it is concise and thorough and I skipped many of the technical explanations and derived the main geist of improving vision naturally.
Mainly the book conveys the importance of relearning correct habitual seeing at all times as opposed to exercises for the eyes. The book is emphatic and focused on this point.
Mainly the three habits of seeing is blinking, sketching, and breathing and the book goes to great lenghts to explain and convince in many different situations its relevance.
Outstanding reading. Just realizing your erred visual habits will improve your sight to an extent which varies widely but as the book says it will take more time and relearning to undo years or lifetime of incorrect habits that it becomes natural and subconcious as was what you were born.
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Title: The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses by William H. Bates ISBN: 0805002413 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 April, 1981 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Program for Better Vision: How to See Better in Minutes a Day Without Glasses or Contacts! by Martin Sussman ISBN: 1556432577 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses by Steven M. Beresford, David W. Muris, Merril J. Allen, Francis A. Young ISBN: 0684814382 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 07 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Better Eyesight: The Complete Magazines of William H. Bates by Thomas R. Quackenbush ISBN: 1556433514 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Improve Your Eyesight : Vision Therapy Eye Exercises--Updates Bates Method (1 Hour & 30 Minute Video and Eye Chart Included) by James Bellevue ISBN: 0970015003 Publisher: VWI Corporation Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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