Sublime

He also trained lay people, after he discovered that most vision problems are not medical problems, but functional problems in how the eyes are being used.

His method centered on the idea that refractive errors are due to mental strain rather than physical eye problems, emphasizes relaxation and mental habits of seeing for vision improvement.

This chapter describes three revolutionary discoveries made by Bates: 1) Vision is primarily mental; 2) Perfect sight can be reverse-engineered through the Seven Truths of Normal Sight; and 3) Improvement comes from relaxation obtained through central fixation.

A person with normal sight unconsciously practices certain mental habits of seeing that a person with imperfect sight fails to practice. When these habits are re-established, normal sight returns.

Use your moments of clarity to get familiar with the feeling in the body and mind that is present when sight is better, so you can duplicate the experience consistently—at first in favorable conditions and later in unfavorable ones.

the eyeball could change in an instant, from any degree of refractive error to perfect sight when the attention is focused without effort.

What Bates discovered is that when this woman looked at a blank surface, she stopped trying to see—which produced perfect sight.