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!
NLP?! Optometry Times Advocates Sketchy Sales Tactics To Sell Glasses
Oh boy. What if there was an optician training video out there, advocating the use of subconscious tricks to hard-sell you glasses? An entirely dodgy 1970's concept to "program" your subconscious brain, used today by optician sales trainers to get you to buy things? Is that ethical? Or is that just straight up make-belief comedy? Yikes-town, here we come. Somebody may have to dig out the camera and make a video edit on this topic. It's hard to even pick a [...]
How To Get Independent (Optometrist) Verification Of Improving Eyesight
If you're here reading, you probably wear glasses, and have myopia. Who got you into this mess? Hopefully if you are here reading, you've already experienced some success in reducing your myopia. You hopefully already have measurable 20/20 gains and are using the awesomeness of this bloglet to keep you motivated and keep learning more tricks. The questions is still here, though. Who got you into higher and higher myopia? You know exactly who we're talking about. (*cough-optometrists*) So do [...]
Child Developing Myopia – Uncooperative With Prevention?
There has been quite a lot of discussion in the Facebook group lately, about child myopia. Likewise, endmyopia e-mails have a lot of child questions. So let's talk about child myopia, and child cooperation today. Important Note: Before you start playing around with endmyopia concepts, it's really important to realize that children's eyes are still developing. You can play around quite a bit with focal planes as an adult, and not go too far wrong - at least compared to [...]
Bates Method: PALMING (And Better Ideas)
Have you been up all night, searching for the ultimate guide on Bates Method palming exercises? Are wondering just how to best put your hands on your face? Then this guide is for you! Warning: If you have an irrational and possibly highly emotional belief that Bates Method is amazing, you maybe won't like this post completely. Because as usual, we'll be mixing a bit of truth and education in with some gratuitous sarcasm. First, realize that Bates Method as [...]
The Deep End: Optometrist Mutiny!
Welcome back, kitteh. It's been a minute! Let's have an interesting bit of eyeball story time. ;) If you ever have the dubious fortune of meeting your darling eye guru, you may notice some level of dissonance. Chill and relaxed maybe on the surface, but there's some less-calm energy just under all that. Restless bits. In this cat's head there's an ongoing struggle not to flip out, or run off for an adventure, or have a heated debate, or dive into some [...]
OH F*CK NO: Eyezen Glasses Review
Hey. You. Yes, you. Would you like to know if Eyezen glasses are awesome? Worth the extra money? Better for your eyes? Well, pull up a chair, darling kitteh. This review is exactly what you've been looking for. Trigger Warning: This post contains a disproportionate volume of inconvenient truths. Skim contents quickly if prone to being triggered. Skip reading past the first question if you find yourself in category labeled as option 1). So, before you read this whole long [...]