William Horatio Bates (1860-1931) started it all with his book, Perfect Sight Without Glasses, first published in 1920. This book is no longer in print. It is available in a much shortened version under the title Better Eyesight Without Glasses which was published by his wife Emily, after Bates died. The abridged version is still in print today, and can be found in many bookstores.
The Alexander Technique, based on the discoveries by Frederick M. Alexander (1869-1955), is a method of securing a high standard of poise, muscular co-ordination, and breathing. With the aid of the Alexander Technique, lengthening out the spinal curves relieves pressure of internal organs and the discs between the vertebrae. The lengthening of the spine brings about a feeling of lightness, muscular ease and general increase in vitality. The Technique also increases our attention of our habits in movement and thinking. It can offer us constructive, common sense solutions to problems.
Links to other sites on the Web
Vision Discussion Board
Jacob Liberman's Universal Light
The Janet Goodrich Method
Peter Grunwald's Alexander Technique
International Alexander Technique Events
American Society for the Alexander Technique
Alexander Technique Instructors in the States
Center for Self Healing
PinHole Glasses, and Etc.
Dolphin Hill eMail Discussion List
International Society for Enhancement of Eyesight (ISEE)
The Bates Association
Association of Vision Educators
Tom Quackenbush's Natural Vision Center
Asheville & Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
North Carolina Educator's Reading List
David Kiesling's New Site
Natural Vision in Italy
Pinholes from Germany
Chuck Kelley's RADIX Newsletter 16 Spring/Summer 1998
the Quantum Holographic Paradigm by John Cody
Mind and Sight by Paul Anderson
Anatomy of the Human Eye and other Goodies from Ted Montgomery
Charlse Walter Home Page
Visions of Joy Home Page with great links
Roberto Kaplan--Power Behind Your Eyes
Central Fixation
Let the neck be free, to let the head go forward and up, to let the back lengthen and widen, to let the shoulder spread out sideways to continue the extension to the elbow and on into the wrists and down to the tips of the fingers.
Saccades...Saccades are fast, usually conjugate, movements of the eyes. In humans the eyes reach peak velocities of up to 800�/s in large saccades. Saccades serve to bring the retinal image of an object of interest to lie on the fovea. They might simply be thought of therefore, as a consequence of the need to exploit foveal vision. Saccadic eye movements are completed quickly. The duration of a 10� saccade might typically be 45msec (one millisecond is one-thousandth, 0.001, of a second). Saccades are also typically very accurate, bringing the eyes to within a fraction of a degree of the desired position.
Charles R. Kelley
American student of Wilhelm Reich, trained with Bates teacher, Margaret Corbett, and in turn trained Janet Goodrich. His dissertation . Psychological Factors in Myopia. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, New School for Social Research, New York, 1958. Chuck Kelley, developped a neo-Reichian body-mind therapy called RADIX.
Excerpt from a history of F.M. Alexander, by by Marian Goldberg
.....Basically, Alexander had evolved a method for learning how to consciously change maladaptive habits of coordination. (Coordination includes movement, posture, breathing, and tension patterns.) He had come to the understanding that the mind and body function as an integrated entity, a rather unusual realization for that time. Alexander found that habits, whether "physical" habits or "mental" habits, are all psychophysical in nature. He observed that how we think about our activities determines how we coordinate ourselves to do those activities, and, equally, how long-held habits of excessive tension and inefficient coordination affect how we feel and think. In a relatively short period of time, Alexander evolved his technique from a method of vocal training into a method of breathing reeducation and then into a comprehensive technique of psychophysical reeducation. His technique deals with the psychophysical coordination of the whole person, or what he termed more concisely as "the use of the self."......
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