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!
Recognizing Clear Focus Triggers
Exercising the eye is much like exercising any other part of your body - a single activity creates a stimulus with far reaching consequences. If you run on a treadmill or lift some weights, you are just doing one thing: Moving muscles. This is exactly what you are actively doing, when working on your eyesight (affecting the ciliary muscle actively, vs. passively letting glasses do the work for you). When you do lift weights or run on the treadmill though, [...]
Unduly Neglected: The Importance of Using Distance Vision
There was a recent thread in the forum, discussing the lack of improvement on part of a few program participants. While of course I prefer to highlight the positives of the program, and build trust and a positive attitude (which helps you improve your eyesight as well), we can't ignore the lessons from some of the setbacks. Here is the thread in question, if you would like to read the first hand account: http://www.frauenfeldclinic.com/myopia-forums/topic/active-focus-focus-pushing-and-pulling/ If you spend enough time in [...]
The Significant Power of Habits for Vision Improvement
We talk a lot about habits, here in the blog, and in the Vision Improvement Courses. We discuss the specifics of habits that will enhance your eyesight, but I never really expanded on the nature of habit itself. Habits. It is a subject outside of the scope of this site, and yet it is key to the whole premise of the #endmyopia Method. This is not an exercise program - this is a program designed to help you identify habits [...]
Bates Method, No Glasses vs. Glasses, the Blur Horizon
There is a bit of a repeating theme of common questions regarding Bates Method and not wearing glasses, both in my e-mail box and the forum. Some of this is covered in the FAQ, but it bears repeating (and extending upon), once in a while. Here are the key points to remember: Myopia is a symptom of close-up strain. High myopia is close-up strain + wearing a full minus prescription while focused up-close. Not wearing any glasses, living in [...]
How To: Finding Active Focus
A key aspect to improving your eyesight is active focus. There are a number of posts dedicated to this topic, since it is quite important - and yet elusive until you find how it works, for you. Words don't translate the connection between brain and muscle control, it is a bit of a process to find that connection. I compare it often to figuring out how to wiggle your nose, or wink. Many of us discovered this and other obscure [...]
Active Focus Games For Your Children
There was a time, many years past, when our limited imagination at the #endmyopia project didn't make childrens' lives so easy. We did the exact same program as we do for adult myopia rehab, with kids. But we learned how to help children more effectively. The addition of a child psychologist helped things a lot. That and the intervening years of experience, and creativity of clients, made our child programs really come alive. Our eyesight improvement programs for the young [...]