Ive heard about this teqnique to help you see better without glasses called palming- can someone explain it.?

Question

palming is when you put your hands over your eyes and close them. its so no light gets in. also its sopposed to stop strain, and slowly help your eyes heal if you do it for long periods of time. when i did it all study hall it worked a little bit. but wouldnt sleeping in a dark room do the same thing?

or is it temporary because your pupils widen in the dark and more light gets in your eyes

Answer 1

Palming is a self healing activity that promotes relaxation in our vision system. The palms of the hands go around the eyes and the eyeballs are not touched. The darkness in contrast to light and the warmth and energy from our hands can be very relaxing. Relaxation is a key to natural perfect eyesight. Effort, strain, and tension are what give us blurry eyesight. Some people can go back to clarity by palming but most also have to unlearn the incorrect vision habits and reintegrate the correct vision behaviors in order to get back to their perfect natural eyesight.

Dr. William H. Bates was an opthalmologist in the early 1900's. He discovered that we interfere with our perfect eyesight and that that interference gave us blurry vision. He helped many thousands of people return to perfect eyesight without artificial corrections. The Optometric Society did not like him interfering with their business so they kicked him out.

Because of his success many people tried to copy him. Because they did not ask him what he was doing the best they could come up with was eye exercises or eye pushups. Eye exercises like those taught by The See Clearly Method do not work. Most optomotrists today confuse Natural Eyesight Improvement or The Bates Method with Eye Exercises.

The author of the quackwatch articles tried what he knew of natural eyesight improvement and was unsuccessful. From the way he described his responses to the principles of natural eyesight, I believe his poor vision was quite chronic and I'm pretty sure he had health complication interferences as well. This is fairly rare and for most people the only things interfering with perfect eyesight are incorrect vision habits and artificial corrections.

Answer 2

its part of the "Bates Method", an 85-year old vision scam that keeps resurfacing.

palming basically involves pushing on your closed eye with your palm (while "concentrating on darkness", whatever that means).  it doesnt work.  bad science & quackery.  palming may even be BAD for you.  it certainly does not ever make anyone see any better.

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRela...

http://www.quackwatch.com/11Ind/bates.ht...

Answer 3

It's pushing on your closed eye with your palm. It doesn't work.

Answer 4

To correct the first two answers, palming does not involve "pushing" anything.  Dr. Bates specifically said that you should *not* put pressure on your eyes when you palm.  He also said that one who didn't strain at all while palming would see a "perfect black", (which according to the quackwatch article above is impossible), and that if you could *see* perfect black you could *remember* perfect black, and suggested thinking of black objects.  Read chapters 12 and 13 of Bates' book for more detail, or the whole book if you have time, available here: http://www.iblindness.org/books/bates/  If you want to read a good skeptical treatment of the method, this is the best I have found:   http://brain.berkeley.edu/pub/1952%20Apr...

In contrast, the quackwatch articles come across as rather unprofessional and barely attempt to address where the success stories come from.