Matthew posts in the forum:
For me, and for many us, myopia recovery is about much more than eyesight.
It began for me as a kid, when I absolutely did NOT want to get glasses. Eventually I accepted them because I didn’t know that I had a choice. The thought occurred to me every year for a while, when the eye doc told me that I need a stronger prescription, that there might be some connection between the stronger prescription and the eyesight getting worse. I didn’t have the tools to do anything about it back then, so I just went along with the glasses and assumed that if I had been born 100 years earlier, I would have been helpless because of my poor eyesight.
Then I discovered myopia rehab, Frauenfeld, and later endmyopia. I knew it was right from the start because I had seen other places in my life the doctors did not give me all the information I needed. I suffered from some chronic fatigue issues as a teenager and into early adulthood. I could sleep 9 or 10 hours, feel tired all day, and need a nap. Never once did a doctor suggest I investigate nutrition. When I did, I found that I could feel good on seven hours of sleep and not need a nap. Same with eyesight – I knew something wasn’t right, I just didn’t know what or how to fix it.
Now, I’m 1 – 2 years away from being out of glasses. What else have I found along the way? No headaches from staring at a screen all day. Better posture from looking up and into the distance instead of constantly looking down at a book or a screen. With better posture, back pain is almost completely eliminated. From engaging my peripheral vision more often, I have an enhanced calmness and relaxed attitude in my life (I haven’t researched this well enough to make a defensible claim, but I believe that peripheral vision engages more alpha brain waves, which are produced in deep meditation). Because I seek more outdoor time, I get the benefits of good amounts of natural light. Most of all, my conviction that we don’t have to be stuck with our life as it is just because someone else says so (in this case, “you have to wear glasses the rest of your life and there’s nothing you can do about it”).
Back to where we started. You’re eyes aren’t broken, and neither are you. Just take the time to learn what makes you healthy, and watch the beauty unfold.
If you read this and think that you don’t mind glasses, it’s well possible that you internalized the “I’m broken” story early in childhood.
You bunch of dirty hippies.
You might discover fascinating things about yourself, if you start weening off the false focal plane created by glasses, and the whole fake illness of myopia. Posture, like Matthew mentions, is an almost universal change in those who significantly reduce high myopia. You also see a different world, without having all the light filter through curved pieces of plastic first.
Side note: If you have forum access, notice how here and there the signatures are starting to show centimeter changes? Super fun to see data starting to percolate through the system!
Like this:
Soon hopefully we’ll have that left column show net diopter improvements instead of the prescription data, which in turn will be moved to the “full history” link.
My main goal is to have lots and lots of data from many different participants over time, with diopters for close-up and distance, with centimeter recordings, and Snellen results. It should be fascinating to be able to zoom out and see how the human eye changes, reverses myopia, with a structured approach that’s the same for a large group of participants.
Things like the signature, bonus benefits. You’ll be able to read updates and questions from students, scroll down and get an immediate bit of perspective of where they’re at with their eyesight at this moment in time.
That’s it for you, for today. Also, I accidentally locked invites this month (oops), so if you were itching for one and are currently sadly moping at your screen, send me an e-mail. I’ve got a few yet, before I freak out again about having to answer more than a few forum questions a day. ;)
Cheers!
-Jake
