Bates Method

              Doctor William Horatio Bates, an eye-care physcian, researched and founded the Bates Better Method for Eyesight in the early 1900's. The Bates Method is an alternative therapy which attributes most sight problems to habitual strain of the eyes. Bates believed that glasses were harmful and that the need for them could be reversed by relaxation. After discovering the method, he refused to write prescriptions for corrective eye glasses for any of his patients.

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Doctor Bates self published a book, titled  Perfect Sight Without Glasses, and a magazine detailing an approach to helping people improve their sight through techniques that helped to relieve "strain". His main physilogical argument was that the eyeball changes shape to maintain focus, and that conditions, such as nearsightedness, were caused by muscular tension around the eyeball preventing it from properly taking shape.

There were a total of four techniques that Doctor Bates taught his patients so that they might avoid wearing correctlive lenses.

The first was an exercise called visualization, whereby the patient visualized black letters and marks (such as those on an eye chart), which was said to relax the eye.

The second was movement, in which the patient's eyes shifted back and forth over a particular object to get an illusion that it was swinging in the opposite direction.

Palming is the third technique, and involved the patient closing their eyes and covering them gently with their palms, without putting pressure on the eyeball itself. He claimed that this could deepen the relaxation, thereby helping to improve one's sight.

The last excercise was sunning, whereby the patient's eyes were exposed to sunlight. Bates believed that people with normal sight should have no trouble at all looking directly at the sun or intense artificial light without sustaining injury or damage to the eye.

Bates Method proponents often claim experiencing "flashes" of clear vision, wherein their eyesight becomes increasingly sharp for a moment, before reverting back to its normal state. Supporters claim that the "flashes" become longer in duration and higher in quality with practice.

After Dr. Bates' death in 1931, his widow and other associates continued his efforts. Most did not share his belief of how the focuses mechnically, but did maintain that relieving a continuous "strain" was the secret to improving eyesight. The Bates Method is now taught all over the globe.

There are currently several variants on the Bates Method. The "Natural Vision Correction" Method and the "See Clearly" Method are both modern day variants of the original. In the 1992 book, The Bates Method, A Complete Guide to Improving Eyesight-Naturally, the author criticized eye care professionals for prescribing corrective lenses and hightlighted the original Bates Method techniques, with the exception of sunning.

Today, supporters of the Bates Method claim to have improved depth perception, blurry vision is reduced, headaches and migraines diminish, reduced light sensitivity and neck tension, and colors are seen more vividly. For those looking for more natural and alternative ways to improve eyesight, the Bates Method becomes an obvious choice.