John ST, describes his improvements, and in the process shares some interesting tips:

I have been following this program for 87 days and am happy to report that my prescription has gone down by about -1.00. My starting “full strength” prescription was -5.5 -0.5 right eye/-5.0 -0.5 left eye. In September, the checkup showed -4.75 -0.25 for right eye/-4.25 -0.5 for the left. Since then I have also found that this new prescription is beginning to feel “too strong”.

Dr Alex has emphasized that focus pushing (moving just slightly away from whatever one is looking at so as to have a slight blur, to encourage the eye to “reach out”) is an important part of the work, and small nudges during the day are the stimulus to encourage the eye to be less myopic.

I wanted to share my sense that focus pushing at a distance may be very effective, and perhaps easier than doing it at reading distance. This applies particularly to my level of myopia, where the blur begins at just over 10 inches (25 cm). At this range, to try to clear an additional 1/2 inch (slightly over 1 cm) of distance is equivalent to asking my eyes to improve by 0.2 diopters, a huge jump, relatively speaking.

However, if I am focus pushing by looking at signs, objects, etc. at a distance of 50 feet (16 meters) or more–with the right underprescribed differential glasses; this is very important–I am asking my eyes to work better by 0.06 diopters, a much smaller and a more “do-able” range. (The smaller diopter measurement is the result of the physics of the optics at distance.) The smaller increments mean less of workload for the visual system–the stimulus is there, but not enough to cause the visual system to be overloaded and “give up.” Plus, as this is done outdoors and maybe during a walk, you get the benefit of being outdoors and doing some exercise.

There is more to like in his full post, read about some more about his excellent suggestions right here.

Quick Note:  The initial focus of the Web Program is to get as much improvement as possible, for the most common lifestyle of most of us – which is a lot of close-up time, and not much outdoor / distance vision.  John is absolutely correct in his findings, however.  Getting outdoor and distance vision time, along with focus pulling, is key to maximizing ongoing improvement.

In other Website News:

You may have noticed the relatively longer times between new blog posts on my part.  I have been working on some more behind-the-scenes infrastructure improvements for the site, taking away some time from adding blog content.

I am also working on a free step by step vision improvement guide.  It will be a (significantly) scaled down version of the Web program, to allow anyone with minimal patience and time to take some of the key steps necessary to stop the progression of myopia (and hopefully experience a small degree of improvement as well).  

Hopefully the guide will help by simplifying the initial learning curve, and then provide the option to explore the full Web course for maximum improvement potential (or of course, get most everything from the blog and forum, for free).

I am planning to make it available as a small series of e-mail delivered installments, provided that the e-mailing program does not eat me alive, first.  The marketing implications of course are to help newcomers get over the initial reluctance (can my eyes really improve?), and for me to finally get over my total mental block of wanting to deal with any type of e-mail list.

Lastly, I am finally getting around to starting an interview series with interesting authors on related subjects, to add a bit more broad scope (and interesting reading suggestions), to the blog portion of the site.

As always, suggestions are much appreciated (e-mail or forum), and hopefully I will have more things for you to explore in the very nearest future.

Enjoy!