How To Guides. There’s BackTo20/20, the exclusive lair of Jake’s personal students working on their eyesight. And then there are the free guides, available to all readers, right here on @endmyopia. So whether you prefer DIY, or don’t want to enable Jake by funding his debaucherous lifestyle, or are just dabbling, this section is for you.
A decade of eye guru experience, in hundreds of individual guide posts, many with student examples, all here in this section. Dive right in!
Ryan’s Breakthrough Moment
Ryan posts in the forum: I had a bit of a breakthrough late last week with what I believe to be fully relaxing my ciliary. Some background first. I’ve been using a sign about 30 or 40 feet away from my desk at work as a static test to gauge how my eyes are doing every day. It’s a red rectangle with the words “Fire Extinguisher” in white text on it. For the longest time I’ve had to squint to [...]
What’s First? Equalize Or Reduce Spherical
Pro topic. Best used after some BackTo20/20 or otherwise advanced experience. There is a question that will be floating around this sphere, perhaps many years from now, after the whole idea of holistic myopia control becomes more mainstream. That question will be, whether to equalize or reduce your spherical correction first, when you start on the road to improving your eyesight using lenses to create positive stimulus. You can't do everything at once, you have to either reduce spherical, or [...]
Pro Tip: 1.5 Diopter Improved Night Time Vision
Winter is coming. It's going to be dark early and cold to go outside (unless you wisely live in the tropics), and you won't be making nearly as much progress you might the rest of the year. But where progress appears to be temporarily slowed, you can still do a lot to get a head start on spring, now. In BackTo20/20 we talk a lot about individual strategies to get stimulus and improve your focus. Here's one of the strategies [...]
IKEA For Free & Accurate Eye Exams?
I'm cheating today. It's almost 11PM and my very first chance to get in front of any sort of computer. The Internet is painfully slow. I just managed to get through forum questions and e-mails, and I'm exhausted. So here's the short post today, since it's "daily blog" and all. If you're part of the Twitter army, you maybe already saw this one. Originally mentioned by a student, there's a very easy and useful way to get your hands on [...]
Blurred Eyesight: Did You Lock Up Your Ciliary Muscle?
The #1 cause of slow or no improvements is unchecked ciliary lockup. Or maybe #1 is not enough stimulus. Either way, these are the two high level main issues to troubleshoot if you're not making expected progress. It's almost always either not enough (or the right sort of) stimulus, or you're locking up your focusing muscle with close-up. It's very easy to check the latter, and you should always be doing this (I still do it, every day, myself). In [...]
My Own Experience With Low Myopia
A quick post today, for those among us who are battling low myopia. As you know, I used to wear a -4.00 prescription, with quite a bit of astigmatism correction, and was told that I really needed to think about a -5.00. It wasn't smooth sailing getting that down to -1.50 territory, no astigmatism correction, but once I figured out the system, it was fairly predictable. Except that last diopter. That wasn't easy at all. We talked about all this [...]