can Bates method help?
Yes. Learning to use your eyes properly can only do good. Dr Bates found that it was improper use of the eyes that caused these problems in the first place. If you have eye diseases such as cataract, glaucoma or macular degeneration, you should of course seek proper medical advice. But you can also relieve the strain which might aggravate these conditions, by practising Bates techniques. What do you think of pinhole glasses? I think the claims made for them by some of the people who sell them do not stand up to questioning. They do not exercise your eyes, and even if they did, as was pointed out above, eye exercise is not what is needed. What pinholes do is to remove the need for the eye to focus. You get clear focus without having to do anything for it. This can be very relaxing and helpful if you need to see clearly and don’t want to put glasses on, but it also severely reduces your visual field and it only works in a constant strong light. If you practise the Long Swing using pinhol
