We talk a whole lot about taking breaks both in BackTo20/20 and here in the blog.
There is no benefit whatsoever in messing with prescription lenses or any other activities, until you have a solid habit of taking breaks. Once you know the 20 minute, 45 minute, 3 hour ways for best breaks, you’re well on your way to better habits.
Getting those habits is something most people struggle with.
The trick to getting a good close-up habit?
Rewire your sense of strain awareness.
If you’re new to eyesight health, this is ways up the tall mountain. But if you’ve been putting up with my ways for a while, you already know how key it is to rebuild your internal sense of eye strain.
I can’t work in front of a screen for more than three hours, without a strong urge to get outside.
Wasn’t always that way.
Before I learned about eyesight health, I could go all day. 10 hours, 12 hours, you name it. And odds are, if you haven’t taken my strain awareness sessions, so can you. Blame the glasses. They slowly and over time sucked out your connection to how your eyes feel.
In BackTo20/20 I talk a lot about how to rebuild that awareness.
And not just that, I show you some really great tricks to get strain awareness back, which you lost over years and years, in a matter of weeks.
Pretty neat stuff.
Once you are properly strain aware, your likelihood of involuntarily hurting your eyes reduces dramatically.
I meant to cut together a quick video explainer of this concept today.
Maybe because it’s Sunday though, all that came out is this …
– Jake
