It’s probably the thing I find myself saying most, in my day-to-day life: “Your prescription is too strong.” My name could be Alex, your-prescription-is-too-strong, #endmyopia.
This post applies not only to new or casual visitors, but also to participants in the Web Program(s). Installment #56, from where we borrow the headline image, discusses this for program participants. If you are one, but haven’t made it to #56, it’s something to look forward to. We discuss how our bodies tend to hold back, selling us that the 70% we are getting, is actually 100%. If you have ever done something physically strenuous, you know what I’m talking about. You can actually do more, than you think you can. It is that, our body, ‘sandbagging’ some reserves.
If you don’t know yet what edge-of-blur is, then you haven’t started with a Vision Improvement Course (but, you should). Edge-of-blur is an exercise to work with active focus. Active focus, which is the very core principle of improving your eyesight.
Imagine having just had the cast removed from your previously broken leg. If you spend all the time now in a wheel chair, your leg will never improve (passive focus, ie. regular full prescription minus lenses in your glasses). On other hand, if you get crutches, you have the opportunity to put a little pressure on your leg, but moderate the degree using the crutches. You are easing your leg back into active duty (just like active focus, where we use a specific combination of reduced prescription lenses and exercise).
We want active focus. We need active focus, lest we end up with the equivalent of a useless, atrophied leg – or in the eye-case, an eye with significant axial elongation, a big minus prescription, being blind without glasses.
#56 discusses how we get past the body sandbagging reserves, and how the edge-of-blur is a soft target. It’s an important installment, and a fun practice to push your eyesight abilities just a little further.
For those of you not in a program, here is an easy way to tell if you prescription is too strong, if your eyes are sitting in a wheelchair:
If you can see 20/20 with your glasses day and night, they are too strong.
Nothing good will come of this. You should be going outside in the evening, after a day at the office, squinting. And if you are doing this, without fully understanding what, and why, you still want to sign up for a month or two of the Vision Improvement Program, and get a handle on your eyesight health. It’s too simple not to learn about, and protect your vision.
There is of course the centimeter calculator as well, a link to which you can find on the top of every page. If you haven’t played with it yet, you ought to. It’s another quick and simple way to check your actual full prescription vs. what you are wearing. You might well be riding along in an old, squeaky wheelchair.
And if you are in the Web Program, enjoy #56!
