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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!

Guided Meditation For Close-Up Eye Strain Relief

Too much close-up is the root of all myopia troubles.  Unfortunately most of us need lots of close-up time for our daily lives.  Less eye strain alone won't fix myopia, but it will help prevent worsening eyesight (and help you get effective rehab results).We make lots of recommendations here to deal with close-up strain.#1 is to never wear your distance vision glasses while working up-close.  If you can't see your screen without glasses, a good differential prescription is going to help [...]

How To Get Started With Prescription Reductions

Glasses and contact lenses are prescription only for good reason - it can be less than ideal for your eyesight, general well being and even safety, to pick the wrong glasses!Of course the mainstream paradigm of giving you the maximum possible prescription is also no good for your eyes.  So you have no choice but to venture out and learn about how to get a healthy prescription.It's a bit of a learning experience, which we will look at here.Cindi writes in [...]

Can You Prevent Or Treat Presbyopia?

Presbyopia is another way our bodies like to rub it in that we don't stay young forever:Presbyopia is the irreversible loss of the accommodative ability of the eye that occurs due to aging. Accommodation refers to the ability of the eye to increase its refractive power of the crystalline lens in order to focus near objects on the retina.[1] The most significant decrease in accommodative power occurs in between the ages of 20 and 50. In the first two decades of [...]

Intermittent Fasting: A Tool To Fix Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) and Improve Eyesight?

Here, a quick visit into my journey of breaking through vision improvement plateaus.  If you get stuck and aren't getting the improvements you are looking for lately, this is the article for you.---If you spent most of your life behind glasses and contact lenses, discovering the vision improvement methods on this site can be a revelation.  You end up learning a lot, and rediscovering healthy eyesight in the process.In fact, myopia rehab can be quite pleasant with the right guide.This short [...]

Johnny: Working Out Double Vision & Astigmatism Reduction

Johnny writes in the forum, volunteering time to update us about his challenges with double vision, too much prescription reduction, and his astigmatism correction. If you have astigmatism, or double vision experiences, this is well worth the read: Hi everyone Time for an update! There’s been a lot going on so this might be a long post… Its been an interesting (and tough!) couple of months. I have again learnt a lot and I hope in sharing my experiences with [...]

Trouble Finding Active Focus? It Could Be Your Screen.

Hi everybody, Neha here.  Today is my first day officially keeping an eye on your questions in the forum.  There is a bit of a theme I noticed, so here is a quick tip if you too are having trouble with your first active focus experiences. --- First, as Alex mentions often, it can take time to find active focus.  Don't rush it, it will come to you as long as you make the effort with a good blur distance. [...]