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!
Defined: Flashes of Clear Vision
If you have been working on improving your vision for some time, you likely have experienced clear flashes: Moments where your vision suddenly clears up, and everything appears unusually sharp and crisp. You will find references to this phenomenon frequently in forum posts, and some of the progress reports also mention their experience of clear flashes. These moments of clarity begin to happen once strain is reduced, prescriptions are adjusted, and you have been working on active focus for a [...]
My Favorite Articles of 2013
It has been a long and productive year 2013, in the world of online myopia rehab. The second year of my 'retirement', and we managed to get the Website to function almost acceptably - in no small part with a lot of patience, feedback, hands-on help, and suggestions from all of you! Here are some of my favorite articles of the year: Jeff, with a lifestyle involving lots of computer screen time, improves from -4.00 to -2.50 in six months: [...]
Get Perspective on Your Vision Improvement
You did the Vision Improvement Program. Your eyesight has been improving. You got that first diopter or two of your vision back. But it has been some time, and motivation is waning. How do you keep from getting complacent? So much of ongoing eyesight improvement depends on motivation. Sure, it is fairly easy to stop progressive myopia, by following just the basics of the #endmyopia Method. Limiting close-up, getting breaks, not using a full prescription while focused up-close, it is [...]
Adjustable Focus Lenses – A Good Idea?
A question about adjustable focus lenses came up again in the forum, today. The idea here is that you can buy a pair of glasses, that are not a fixed focus, but instead can be adjusted. So depending on how much correction you want, you can increase or decrease the strength of your glasses. A number of companies make them, like SuperFocus, EyeJusters, or Ad Lens. Superfocus - Adjustable Focus Lenses Great idea, at [...]
Controversial: Alcohol and Pushing Focus
Since we are still in the Christmas spirit, and soon will be in the New Years spirit, here is a somewhat questionable way to look at focus pushing: I am not recommending this. This is merely a "what if" scenario. Use at your own discretion. You push focus. You have done the Vision Improvement Course for a while. You know all the terms (close-up focus pushing, differential prescription, etc.) And now you are in the holiday spirit, you are having [...]
4 Rules To Reduce Eye Strain While Using Your Tablet
I keep hearing about tablets as Christmas presents. Everybody is getting them, everybody wants them, they are everywhere!A few tips to keep your eyes from suffering from tablet use:Don't wear your glasses while on the tablet. Odds are that you will be holding it closer than you should anyway, and using glasses meant for distance vision will make the resulting strain significantly worse.If you are using the Vision Improvement Course and are at less than -2.00 diopters for your normalized (distance) prescription, [...]