It may come as a disappointment to you, but I stand by my words and my opinions.
Make no mistake if I wanted somone who would reliably recommend stronger glasses I would go to you. To a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail.
I've been in this profession for seventeen years and believe that I have acquired at least some experience. If I habitually would let prejudice be my Northern Star of eye exams, fewer patients would have been satisfied. Of course it is not routinely about prescribing stronger glasses. Just as often it's weaker glasses that are the correct prescription. Sometimes I advise my patient to permanently stop using their spectacles.
A comparison to using binoculars is inevitable here - when the object is in focus, it's sharp and your eyes are relaxed.
When you're out of focus, it's more or less blurred regardless of if you have focused them too close or too far away.
-You stopped using the word rubbish
Hopefully it's clear what I think although I don't wish to overuse the r-word.
-You are no longer associating a harmless web page of eye harmless exercises with cooking your eye ball with a magnifying glass and staring at the sun.
The Wikipedia page has a quite good overview of Mr. Bates ideas. While the sunning may have been extinct, it is a clear expression of the lack of understanding of the human physiology. Some ideas eradicate themselves, just like celibacy cults.
-You are no longer associating eye exercises as withholding medic treatment for children.
I still find it utterly inappropriate to have a child as the illustration, for the reasons I already mentioned. There's people for everything, and if somebody is a passionate eye exerciser, I'd expect them to foist their ideas upon their children as well.
-You are no longer assuming somone who would choose top do eye exercises would refuse to wear glasses and get a head ache.
You may believe this or not, but I regularly meet elderly drivers with large refractive errors who refuse to drive with spectacles. It's all a matter of pride and denial, and the power of imagination is one of the strongest powers in human decision-making.
"Alternate Nostril Breathing" is another example of what the power of imagination can do to ignorant victims of New Age marketing.
The statement – “if it worked no one would wear glasses” – close minded all or nothing thinking. Nothing in between good enough eh?
One thing is for sure: the vision is not only about sharpness, it is even more about psychology, in particular what visual stimuli we choose to ignore.
Most people say: I believe it when I see it, but the truth is that we only see what we believe or expect. That's how magicians can spellbind their audience.
I guess you are waiting for some trade association to tell you resting our eys is OK or you need scientific proof.
Your mentioning of trade associations is probably more revealing than you'd like it to be.
It tells me that you're harbouring a conspiracy theory saying that anyone who offers a professional and knowledgeable treatment must have a hidden agenda.
They are in fact members of a rigorous cult. Science is merely an opinion, scientists are conspirators who wish to enslave the humanity with their boring truth.
Came across this link, by the way:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html?_r=0
You wanted some assent, didn't you? Frankly, I think the massage section of the site might be of some use for dry, sore eyes since the massage should have some benefit to the lipid glands and the mucus glands of the eyelids.
//L