William H. Bates

Dr. William H. Bates Life & The Bates Method History

Dr. W. H. Bates started his career as an orthodox ophthalmologist following the old, long time rules of the practice; prescribing eyeglasses... During his practice, working with different patients, eye conditions, he realized that unclear close, distant vision (farsight, presbyopia, myopia...), astigmatism and other conditions often cured itself, reversed back to clear vision, especially when his patients stopped wearing their eyeglasses and relaxed. He noticed that wearing glasses 'tensed' the eyes, eye muscles, mind, lowered the vision, resulted in stronger and stronger eyeglass lens prescriptions being needed in order to see clear through the glasses.

He began his own studies on the eye and its function. This led him to discover that many of the old ophthalmology, optometry 'supposed facts' about the eye, eye muscles, lens, their function and the cause of unclear vision... are incorrect. Dr. Bates began teaching his patients to stop wearing their glasses.

He taught them natural methods, relaxation, correct use of the eyes/vision, practice of normal, natural eye function (movement...) to improve the vision to 20/20 and beter. Dr. Bates cured his own eyesight, close vision, presbyopia. Distant vision also clear. He wrote an article in his book Perfect Sight Without Glasses and Better Eyesight magazine describing how he did it with Memory, Imagination, Relaxation. 'He controlled, changed the focus of light rays in his eyes with his mind.'

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Dr. Bates performed experiments on the eyes of animals, and observed the function of thousands of animal, patient's eyes under different conditions, situations, state of mind, body, thoughts and emotions. He used the retinoscope to see the refraction, focus of light rays in the eye under these various conditions. He proved that the refraction, clarity of vision changes often, and; when the eyes are left alone, eyeglasses avoided, the refraction, clarity returns to normal, clear vision. He proved that the state of the mind, thoughts change the refraction of the eye, clarity of vision. Example; when the mind, body is relaxed, positive, happy thoughts, emotions; the refraction is normal and vision is clear. When the mind, body is under stress, strain; the refraction is abnormal and vision is unclear. Dr. Bates discovered that the main cause of unclear vision and other eye problems is; Wearing Eyeglasses, Mental Strain, Mental/Visual Effort to See, Poor Vision Habits-incorrect use of the eyes; squinting, staring, not shifting-lack of normal, relaxed eye movements, lack of central-fixation, imperfect memory, imagination... Perfect Sight occurs only with Perfect Relaxation (deep or active/dynamic relaxation - See Aldous Huxley's book: The Art of Seeing). Relaxation occurs first and then the eyesight becomes clear. Practicing normal, relaxed eye/vision, mind/function, shifting, central fixation... produces relaxation of mind, eyes and clear vision.

Dr. Bates' experiments on the outer eye muscles proved that tension in these muscles (mainly caused by eyeglasses, contact lenses, stress, strain in the mind, incorrect use of the eyes/vision) disrupts their function, the eyes' movement, accommodation, convergence, un-accommodation, divergence. Causes pressure, tension, pulling on/in the eye, alters the eyes' shape, (and lens, retina...), impairs refraction, focus of light rays in the eye, on the retina and the clarity of vision. Blood, oxygen, fluid circulation, tear and oil gland production, nerve function in the eyes is also impaired.

Mental strain, stress, unhappy thoughts, emotions cause eye muscle tension, unclear vision. Neck muscle tension also causes eye muscle tension. Neck tension is caused by mental strain, negative thoughts, emotions, incorrect posture, injury; vertebrae out of alignment. Inner eye muscle tension also occurs ; ciliary/lens, iris, eyelids, tear gland... muscles. When the mind is strained, tense; the brain and retina do not communicate, function together at optimum level. Function of the retina is lowered.

Relaxing the mind, eyes, body, returning the eyes to normal movement, function; relaxes the outer, inner eye muscles, returns the eyes, lens, retina... to normal shape, function with normal eye pressure, circulation for healthy eyes, clear vision.

Dr. Bates proved that MENTAL STRAIN causes unclear vision. RELAXATION of the mind produces clear vision. Dr. Bates used his retinoscope to show that the refraction/focus of light rays in the eye are disrupted resulting in unclear vision when a person lies. Lying causes a bit of mental strain. When the person tells the truth-no strain occurs, the refraction is perfect and vision clear. Many things can cause mental strain. Avoid eyeglasses, remove the stress, strain; vision returns to clear. Practice of Natural Eyesight Improvement can uncover old, forgotten stressful experiences, resulting in strong emotions, feelings being remembered, activated. Once the memory, feelings are acknowledged, released and new positive thoughts, emotions placed into the brain, system; often the vision immediately returns to normal 20/20 and clearer. No other practice is needed. The eyes relax, move, 'shift'... correct on their own.

Dr. Bates published Medical Articles, Books describing his experiments on the eyes, eye muscles, the effect of memory on the eyes, vision and the effect of the clarity of vision on the memory; 1891 'A Study of Images Reflected from the Cornea, Iris, Lens, and Sclera' and 'Memory as an Aid to Vision'. These Articles and others are placed in his 1920 book; Perfect Sight Without Glasses-The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment without Glasses, Better Eyesight Magazine and his Medical Articles.

Dr. Bates created Natural Treatments, Activities to cure; reverse, correct and prevent unclear vision and other eye conditions based on his discoveries. This became known as 'The Bates Method'.

Dr. Bates' Book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, his Better Eyesight Magazine and Medical Articles in their Original Antique print from the 1800-1900's, unedited, entire magazine collection of 11 years, 132 monthly issues; July, 1919 to June, 1930, Vol. 1 and 2 are published in Paperback with additional training, pictures, eyecharts by William H. Bates, Emily C. Lierman, Clark Night, Amazon Createspace and KDP.