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This might be a long post but I wrote it because I really hope it helps anybody who feels as stuck as I have and has forgotten about just enjoying the process.
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Today, while working on resolving double images, I had kind of an epiphany.

Before knowing anything about Endmyopia, which was then under Alex Frauenfeld, I had read a book titled “The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent or Reverse Nearsightedness” by David de Angelis (I don’t recommend it btw). Although the premise in the book somewhat works around the “blur horizon” and “plus lenses” concepts, it was all made kinda complicated for me to know how to apply any of the ideas. 

However, there’s something in the book that really stuck to me. 

The author said that after working on your eyes with his exercises, wearing the plus and whatnot, you should ‘forget about them’ and just focus on ‘seeing.’ He said that otherwise, if you concentrated too much on the exercises, it would hinder your progress.

Since the moment I read what he said, I kept wondering how would I be able to forget about my eyes if I use them every day, ALL day? I can’t just “forget” about them, I thought. And he didn’t explain further on this idea for me to know any better.

But today, I think I found the reason that idea stuck with me: HE IS RIGHT. 

Out of all the days I’ve been working on improving my eyesight, today I FINALLY, finally… enjoyed my vision because
I understood the premise: instead of focusing on my eyes, I should focus on the –experience– of seeing and my eyes will adapt to what I use them for.

You see, all this time I had been focusing only on my eyes, how to get them to be round again, how to incorporate every habit/exercise mentioned in the installments, just hoping… hoping that one day I would just find they had improved and I would enjoy clear vision. 

I just have to figure out the perfect way, I said. Maybe more plus lenses? Or maybe less? More time outdoors with normalized glasses will do. Or is the trick in the peripheral vision? Aha, it’s the sunsets. This. That. Bla bla bla. But after all that, I was not enjoying just seeing. Even when I went on “no glasses Sundays” that didn’t help because I was not using those days to just appreciate my vision but to do more exercises just without my glasses.
Today though, I followed De Angelis advice which, I know, Jake has actually said and repeated a zillion times… avoid the paralysis by analysis and focus on SEEING. 

I went out and just stopped caring about what was happening inside my eyes and I just cared about seeing and appreciating my surroundings. I was very present to reality, being aware of how everything looked. And I think that’s the awareness that, somewhere in the programs says, could make years of difference. 

Besides having enjoyed my vision and every moment of the day after I was being aware of how everything looked, it became easier to ‘see’ what was blurred, what was clear and what was “double vision.” After looking at things that were blurred or double images, I then WANTED to see them better. I wanted get more information or details out of them. And then I realized I was actually practicing ‘active focus’ and resolving doubles by staring. All without even thinking that I was doing it. 

So go and enjoy the life around you, appreciate that you can see (because “your eyes aren’t broken”) and whether blurred or not if you want to see better your eyes will follow!

Just a little reminder, in case were ready for a reminder to experience your eyesight.
 
Side note, I admit one of the most terrifying things I used to do to students, in Christian’s forum thread.  If you want to read about some death defying, and psychedelic substance involved ideas (that definitely, definitely nobody should ever try), head over to the thread.
 
Cheers,
 
-Jake