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!
Pushing Focus: Positive vs. Negative Direction
Pushing focus is the key stimulus we use to improve eyesight. Considering the 4 Pillars for Healthy Eyesight we need stimulus, along with reduced close-up strain to reduce myopia. As long as you don't wear full prescription glasses for close-up work and follow these practices, your eyesight will improve. For the basic practice of pushing focus, we simply move back from the page or screen, until the image just barely begins to blur. This is our blur horizon, which we can [...]
Bates Method, No Glasses vs. Glasses, the Blur Horizon
There is a bit of a repeating theme of common questions regarding Bates Method and not wearing glasses, both in my e-mail box and the forum. Some of this is covered in the FAQ, but it bears repeating (and extending upon), once in a while. Here are the key points to remember: Myopia is a symptom of close-up strain. High myopia is close-up strain + wearing a full minus prescription while focused up-close. Not wearing any glasses, living in [...]
Eliminating Bad Eyesight Habits: How Quickly Your Eyes Can Recover
If you follow this blog, you will undoubtedly have noticed the frequent repetition of the very simple concepts of reducing eye strain. This is so fundamental, so easy to follow, and even without any kind of eye exercise (beyond pushing focus) you may notice significant improvements, quite quickly. If you add to this some careful prescription management, and define permanent habits, your eyesight improvements will become permanent - and can continue to improve, with just a bit of effort. A [...]
The Visual Cortex: Your Brains Significant Role in Healthy Vision
Most important, for most sufferers of myopia, is to fix the problem of too much close-up time and using the wrong prescription, while reading or working in front of computer screens. Once you have made it to one, two, or more diopters of improvement, we need to start looking beyond just the eyeball - the big picture happens in your brain. If you have done the core installments and decided not to do any of the advanced installments, feel free [...]
(Reader Mail): How My Job Helped To Fix (And Hurt) My Eyesight
The following is an e-mail from a client, his experiences improving his eyesight, and also a good cautionary tale for just how easily you can damage your eyesight. *** I came to Alex in the late summer of 2002. My eyes had been stable at -6.50 (left) and -7.25(right) for a good ten years. The previous year though, the eye exam results showed an increase in astigmatism, and a bit worse vision in my right eye. I was 43, and [...]
Sara: Child Myopia Recovery – A Success Story
Helping your child to improve his/her eyesight can be a challenging project. Short attention spans, general parenting challenges, the many temptations of hours of close-up time - it's not always so easy, being a parent.Especially with the rapid proliferation of smartphone games over the past number of years, we are seeing more children being prescribed minus lenses. The ages too are getting alarmingly younger. A child's eye adopts more rapidly than an adults in most cases, and of course myopia [...]