From The Course: Another Way To Gauge Close-Up Strain
For those of you who have already have a solid grasp on improving your eyesight, here is another strategy you can leverage to gauge your close up strain. This one assumes that you have a differential prescription, and ideally already have experience with the double vision distance for close-up.As we know, your cumulative maximum improvement potential comes from two things:1. Limiting close-up strain and ideally not have any ciliary muscle spasm at all.For the most part I suggest breaks in relatively short intervals in the [...]
How To Choose a Differential Glasses Prescription If You Have High Astigmatism
There's a recent thread in the forum where I spent quite a bit of time answering some questions that tend to come up a lot. It's relevant for just about anyone starting out with healthier prescription management, and a good primer if you need some pointers. I really do need to get a good FAQ for this aspect. The blog format isn't entirely ideal to keep key topics from disappearing into the archives! Brandon asks in the forum: I just started the web program and [...]
A Doctor’s Job: Gather Symptoms, Identify Illness, Match With Prescription or Procedure
This article, a bit off-topic, is to provide a bit of perspective on what a doctor (most doctors, certainly not all) does for you. Not intended as a judgment, I merely mean this to help you identify the potential flaws of the current treatment paradigm. Any time you can not find a solution to what ails you, looking at the bigger picture of the whole process may help with alternate solutions.Earlier today I received an e-mail, which is just like countless others I get from [...]
The Two Eyesight Improvement Mistakes: Beginners And Advanced Participants
When you first start out with eyesight improvement, you are likely to be skeptical or excited, or ready to experiment - in any case, emotions run high. This is when you have the most questions, tend to want to try a lot of things, and feel challenged by active focus, and prescription management. Active Focus now has one page that gathers all of this in one place: what Active Focus is and how to find it. At this stage the most common mistake is pacing:Nothing [...]
Your Eyesight Is Far Better Than You Might Know: Let’s Talk Double Vision
Every few weeks I get somebody asking to get the whole course all at once. And every time, it's a request I refuse. After 40 years of doing this, I have witnessed some aspects of human nature. If you take the course and read it as a book, you will nod gravely in the end, and consider it an excellent guide. Then you might take some concepts as you remember them, make up a few other things, and call it an eyesight improvement quest. Once [...]
How Optometrists And Poor Prescriptions Choices Can Hurt Your Eyesight
The eye is a dynamic construct. It is designed to see in bright light and in near darkness. Up-close and at great distances. It has an incredibly complex focusing mechanism, and billions of receptor sites to read the image received by your retinas. Glasses on the other hand, are a very primitive solution. Invented 600 years ago, when we knew hardly anything about the human eye or myopia, they are still a poor stand-in for our modern lifestyle induced eyesight problems.Illustrating some of the issues, [...]
