Questions & Answers. You have questions. And Jake has answers, especially if they haven’t been covered in one of the other sections of the blog / free guides.
Many of the topics here originate from your e-mails, or from Quora, or threads in our Facebook group, or even YouTube comments on occasion. Natural myopia control is a wide ranging and complex subject, and this might be the section to find answers to some of your questions. Browse and discover!
Christian: Why You Should Wear Glasses
Christian posts in the forum: TL:DR? If you are following this program, are building good eyesight habits and know that you should wear your minus that’s fine. But if you have tried other things and haven’t seen results, have not been wearing your minus, or think it will speed your recovery to just completely go without glasses: you could save MONTHS and YEARS of no improvement by taking some minutes to read this. —————————————————- You may have heard that idiom [...]
Video: Habits & Mindfulness
If you've been having an interesting experience making friends with your eyes, you might enjoy this new video.A few things of note:I'm not naturally the mindful-hippie-yoga-meditation type.If you're not either, rest assured that everything I bring up here, is first sent through a finely tuned hippie-BS filter. There's not fluff talk.Also somewhat ironic, the things I talk to you about in the video aren't things that finance-Jake would have even listened to.Over time the travels, different perspectives and experiences mellowed me [...]
Will: From -5.25 to -3.50 In One Month
Will posts his rather impressive first month progress report in the forum:I’m in month 2, measuring cm’s for the normalized prescription.Here’s what’s happened so far:Starting point: (contacts)R: -5.0L: -5.25Starting cm’s:R: 20L: 18.5Day 1, after understanding strain, I immediately put +2.5 readers over my contacts, and within a few days I could see 20/20 with +1 readers for distance.I ordered different strenght contacts starting at -4/-4.25 and moved all activities possible outdoors. Computer use is max 3 hrs/day at work. Frequent [...]
Audio & Video Sessions
As promised, audio and video sessions are starting to be available for the myopia rehab program.Anytime you see a headphone icon or a film reel icon, the session includes audio and / or video.Introduction: With video and audio options.I expect to have most sessions updated and covered in 2-3 months.If you are just starting out, this should be a perfect pace for your progress. You might do about three of the 20 minute sessions a week, which will be about [...]
Behind The Scenes: Jake On Video
Yikes! It's video time!Background: the goal is to bring audio guides and video to the sessions in my full myopia rehab program. Participants who prefer to watch or listen over reading, will soon have those options available for them.I've been a bit reticent about this whole project.There are only so many hours in the day. Lots of new skills to learn.My concern about the quality of the production.I'm self conscious about me on video, audio, and pictures.It's probably because my mother [...]
Behind The Scenes: The Front Row
I've been on a research-and-shopping spree lately.There's a new fancy DSLR camera which the Internet promises is great for .. video. Yes, the day of reckoning may be upon us, soon.There are a pile of cinema lighting things, microphones and dedicated voice recorders, tripods and high speed SD cards scattered all around my office. And software. There's lots of software and instructional videos running, most of which just serve to make me feel clueless and insignificant.Software for audio and video production. [...]