Sometimes I see questions and comments about the #endmyopia Method when discussing myopia cures, on other sites and forums. As the idea of plus lens therapy in particular has a niche following, my method tends to get put in the same category. Likewise, sometimes clients like to ‘pick and choose’ parts of the #endmyopia Method, and seek eyesight improvements using a partial strategy.
Certainly, in some cases we do use plus lenses to help improve your eyesight. The #endmyopia Method is not about plus lenses, however. The two posts maybe best summarizing the method are the Four Pillars and Blur Horizon.
Of course, a partial use of the method may well show some improvement. Even the Bates Method works as myopia cure, within some rather limited parameters. Beyond that though, arbitrarily referring to some type of lens as a ‘myopia cure’ – such as the plus lens therapy concept, is removing the big picture, and just picking out a single aspect of it.
If you already made it as far as this site, you might as well use the whole method, and draw the full benefit. Making the case, Alex G.:
My very first breakthrough was also with distance focus pulling. I didn’t post it at the time, but believe it or not, it was with my original (horrible) distance prescription. Those were the only distance glasses I had at a friend’s house where I was helping out. During breaks, I’d look out on the patio and into the distance. I started with the shrubbery and the close trees, then the distant trees, then the far, far trees. I was just exerting a slight bit of effort to see the individual details of the foliage — leaves, branches, etc. and it wasn’t too hard. I wasn’t expecting any great changes and in fact was a bit apprehensive since this was my original, bad prescription.
Yet the next day, I experienced my first major jump in eyesight! It brought home to me two things: First, distance focus pulling is extremely important.
Take a moment and read the whole forum thread, discussing some interesting aspects.
There are quite a few related topics in the blog, including this one about Unduly Neglected Distance Vision, and a whole host of outdoor and focus pulling related exercises in my Vision Improvement Courses.
For those of you who read the blog and also participate in the courses, this all likely makes sense already. Pushing focus (the close-up eyesight stimulus) is a tool we use to leverage your work and lifestyle requirements for using close-up. You have to spend hours in front of the computer, let’s put that to good use. That is all that pushing focus is, however: one piece of the myopia cure puzzle. When looking at discussions and approaches to any myopia cure, always consider the fundamental question:
Does the proposed myopia cure address the cause of myopia? How does it address eliminating said cause?
What Alex G. discovered, makes sense on a very basic level: our eyes are designed for distance viewing. Taking into account some of the refinements that come from my method, what brings Alex the most notable improvements, is using his eyes for what they are primarily designed – focusing on distant objects.
Of course here we get a bit into managing eyeglass prescriptions, dealing with close-up requirements, and the all important subject of stimulus – the key to any rehabilitative effort.
In an ideal scenario we would rely 70% on distance work (pulling focus), and 30% on close up work (pushing focus). In reality, for most clients, the reverse is the case, at best. And still, as Alex G. points out, just a bit of that distance time can make a dramatic difference in your efforts to cure your myopia.
For those who prefer the easier alternative, see my myopia miracle cure pill (irony clearly being part of Google’s search algorithm, that one post, lacking actual substance, ranks on the first search results page).
Enjoy!
