He went from -3.50 to -0.50 (or mostly no glasses), after having a serious bit of challenge finding active focus. Here’s his active focus discovery clip:
Look at that. Straight to the point, not even some sort of guru-cliffhanger. 🧙🏼♂️
And yes, there is of course a full episode with more of Michael’s insights from his eyeball journey.
Full episode available soon in Pro Topic Videos section of BackTo20/20.
Cheers,
-Jake
Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site
Lots of individual experiences as well as quite a few solutions that may work for you.
I always recommend you start with our wiki for searches, then the forum – and if need be, the giant mountain of a resource that is this Website.
The full episode with Steve, the whole story of his 50% reduction in lens dependence so far, is available over in our forum (in audio only format) and the video is in the Pro Topic videos (available with BackTo20/20 or Le Rough Guide).
You can also find the first 50 full episodes for free here.
Side note on no-longer-free podcast:
I stopped doing full episodes for free to offer more to members who support these resources. For a little while we started putting some full episodes on Youtube again – though no longer the case again since I sometimes end up in conversations involving personal opinions (gasp!). And as NPC mainstream news adherents will certainly tell you, there is only one way to look at current events.
And that was that, for free podcast episodes. Since I don’t plan to self self for the lowest common denominator, most updated content is members only now.
Check out the full episode if you’re a member, it’s worth a listen. I have another episode already recorded as well – that one will be fun since it’s all the way down to 0.50 diopters. We love the “ditched glasses” updates!
A bientôt, kittehz.
– Jake
Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site
All contents on this site should be considered research material only. We are not offering medical advice or treatment or cures for any illnesses.Before considering taking steps to control your own myopia, you should definitely visit a qualified ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eyesight checkup. Specific diagnoses illnesses aside, most) myopia may be considered to not be an illness at all. Most myopia is likely just a matter of environmental strain, and excessive prescription use. You yourself may be able to control and reduce your own myopia by 1) managing eye strain, 2) conservative prescription lens use, and 3) targeted positive stimulus.We recommend finding a prevention minded optometrist to supplement your journey with professional advice and prescription management help. While not a requisite, a supportive optometrist may make your journey that much more enjoyable!Potential Side Effects: (1) You may experience astigmatism-like symptoms, especially if you reduce too fast or without paying attention to this (transient) symptom. Search our Youtube channel or Website for ‘transient astigmatism’. This can easily be prevented or managed. (2) Some people report an increase in eye floaters when practicing active focus. In general floaters are considered harmless but a sudden increase in floaters should be evaluated by a medical trained professional, as they could be a sign of retinal detachment or other serious medical condition. Generally taking it easy, not over straining, practicing gently and with patience should help. (3) Headaches. You’re taking on a very much unsanctioned self-experiment changing diopters. Anytime you overdo things or change too much or aren’t educating yourself first, you may expose yourself to strain symptoms. You should be experiencing no pain, headaches, or discomfort if you do things correctly!
Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site
Adults, I could sort of take it or leave it. Plenty of people are their own worst enemies, and we’re well capable of making our own choices, doing our own research, being responsible for our indulgences.
Kids though, they don’t know any better.
So when a small child is being given a phone or iPad as babysitter, an otherwise magnanimous beard isn’t very happy.
And we go from not very happy to directly pissed off, when some dime store retail optometrist lets unsuspecting visitors to his mall retail store believe that he’s some sort of medical doctor (he absolutely isn’t). He’ll call his retail lens sales ‘prescriptions’ (they’re just clear curved pieces of plastic), his customers ‘patients’ (no you aren’t sick, and a shopping mall isn’t a hospital), and worst of all – sells parents glasses for their little kids.
F*ck those guys. It’s where I draw the line.
Yes of course, there is far worse in the world, and plenty of the same level of bad. Anybody associated with Kraft Foods for example, or just industrial food in general, or most of what big pharma gets up to, or pick any politician or divorce lawyer or the American for-profit prison system, or whatever militaries get up to.
I know, kittehz. Glasses are a minor infraction in the scheme of things. Perhaps in the spirit of the lesser evil, I picked optometry to be the thing to rail against, educate about, and help you escape from. All those other evils that’s for somebody else, let Elon build the space ships.
Anyway, excuses for rants aside, here’s a quick clip from our recent live chat Q&A, talking about kid’s close-up time:
Here’s the thing. As a parent, you’re the one who is likely set examples the little ones are going to remember for the rest of their lives. And we live in incredibly strange and unprecedented times. How do you keep your kids from turning into TikTok zombies, when all their friends are already? Are you going to have to go full-native and escape all of default culture, risk them not getting socialized properly around their peers? Do you just go, well it’ll be fine, I have to go work now.
I don’t know either. My prior answer was to build an off-grid house in the jungle and at least delay all those questions for a good while. That didn’t work out either, so I’m not the one with the answer.
So I just offer the little picture: Phones are not good toys. If you have little ones, maybe this is a good time and reason to address your own phone addiction, so at least they don’t see their role models scrolling like a zombie. Just like you’re not getting drunk in front of them or chain smoking cigarettes, show them that there’s plenty more to life than letting billion dollar companies get your soul in exchange for mindless entertainment.
God Jake again with the rants, you’re thinking.
I know. But this is the fuel that provides the motivation to continue to also offer tools.
Go make some 20/20 gains.
– Jake
Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site
Lexi has made it down from -4.25 diopters to currently -2.00 diopters. Her journey includes a lot of emotions, from not wanting to wear glasses, living life in blur trying to negate the reality of her eyes continuing to get worse. Not finding help from the establishment professionals, being told that nothing could ever be done.
There is so much more to myopia than diopters and putting on glasses. The effect of being stuck behind corrective lenses, not knowing why our eyes are failing us, being told that we’ll be helpless and have to accept losing vision.
Lexi is at university currently, studying evolutionary biology. Her take on the experience is even more interested for somebody who already understands a great deal about biology and research.
Check out this quick two minute clip:
There’s so much more in the full episode!
I’ll have it up in the next few days. It will be available from the Le Meow forum, as well as in our BackTo20/20 member area – look for it in the Pro Topic video section (along with my 200+ pro topic videos).
There is also the 2023 edition of the full BackT020/20 course available now. It’s 84 sessions, plus 200 pro topic videos, and direct support from me whenever you run into questions. Skip the DIY digging around the site and get my full program, now in its ninth year of updates and improvements. And upgrade from the standard two years support to lifetime support, along with a 12% discount. Available with this coupon code: B78L8AWVS9
Above coupon only available this week and for the first 10 members.
Keep making those 20/20 gains.
Cheers,
-Jake
Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site
All contents on this site should be considered research material only. We are not offering medical advice or treatment or cures for any illnesses.Before considering taking steps to control your own myopia, you should definitely visit a qualified ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eyesight checkup. Specific diagnoses illnesses aside, most) myopia may be considered to not be an illness at all. Most myopia is likely just a matter of environmental strain, and excessive prescription use. You yourself may be able to control and reduce your own myopia by 1) managing eye strain, 2) conservative prescription lens use, and 3) targeted positive stimulus.We recommend finding a prevention minded optometrist to supplement your journey with professional advice and prescription management help. While not a requisite, a supportive optometrist may make your journey that much more enjoyable!Potential Side Effects: (1) You may experience astigmatism-like symptoms, especially if you reduce too fast or without paying attention to this (transient) symptom. Search our Youtube channel or Website for ‘transient astigmatism’. This can easily be prevented or managed. (2) Some people report an increase in eye floaters when practicing active focus. In general floaters are considered harmless but a sudden increase in floaters should be evaluated by a medical trained professional, as they could be a sign of retinal detachment or other serious medical condition. Generally taking it easy, not over straining, practicing gently and with patience should help. (3) Headaches. You’re taking on a very much unsanctioned self-experiment changing diopters. Anytime you overdo things or change too much or aren’t educating yourself first, you may expose yourself to strain symptoms. You should be experiencing no pain, headaches, or discomfort if you do things correctly!
Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site
Just reduce your close-up strain (no full minus), and then add a bit of strategic stimulus by slightly reducing your distance diopters. There, that’s really all there’s to it.
Except … the devil, bearded as he may be, is in the details.
And having been at this for going on 20 years now it turns out that these details are seemingly endless. At least judging by the questions and how my original plan a decade ago, to spend a week or two writing up how to fix myopia has turned out.
Oh well.
Here’s the latest clip from our recent Q&A chat:
I count eighteen more clips in the queue to be published.
There are also a hundred+ improvement updates I saved from my inbox that I still haven’t put up here. It’ll all happen somehow, eventually. We really should get some more minions to get some of this done.
Also go make some 20/20 gains.
Cheers,
– Jake
Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site
I recently did an hour long live chat video Q&A session for BackTo20/20 members.
Lots of eyeball questions were covered, good chat. I made clips of some of the questions and a quick Youtube playlist for you:
Free stuff, somebody else doing all the work. Isn’t Jakey just the nicest?
The question here is an important one, because kids.
I always hesitate to get into child-specific topics, I don’t have any paid courses just for children, that whole category is as important to me as I’m reticent to talk about it.
The thing with kids is, they’re developing. Lots is going on. You have to interpret their experiences through their evolving relationship with language, there is a lot of emotional and social and physical development going on – all things that benefit hugely from good eyesight.
Between the challenge of entertaining them (without using phones!) and making sure they see well, adding endmyopia in case of existing shortsightedness is absolutely a parenting challenge.
What I always says is: Prioritize them seeing well. From developing fine motor skills properly, to socializing naturally by being able to see facial expressions clearly, you really want to make sure that you’re not messing with diopters unless you’re really confident in what you’re doing. Again, a lot of development relies on good eyesight. Things I suggest for adults, may be too much of a compromise for a child. It’s up to you to make choices on that front.
No more glasses. That’s our favorite kind of story, and we’ve collected many of them over the past 20 years.
Here’s another success story for you:
Pretty cool?
Note that our editing minion spent hours and hours to whittle this one down to four minutes. For you.
You can find the full (audio) version of it on our Shortsighted Podcast page, or if you’re subscribed to our podcast, in your favorite podcast app. The full video version is available from the Pro Topic Video list, which you have access to if you bought BackTo20/20 (or alternatively Le Rough Guide with the video option).
Some days I can’t believe that I’m still doing this. So many years of the Sisyphus-ian futility of preaching sanity and beardly wisdoms unto fools and heathens, the disinterested and optometry brainwashed.
But so it goes. I’ll probably have to die before I can have the statue in the park, before people realize the immeasurably awesome insights collected in the cavernous depths of this Website and it’s 1,200+ posts of guides and improvement updates.
Yes you can reverse lens dependence. No you aren’t genetically broken. And definitely, this is the destination if you want just habit based gains, without the eye exercises and eye yoga and fruitless side quests and unnecessary supplements.
What would I do, in your shoes, if I was just getting started? I’d buy a course.
Honestly, and not even solely as a sales pitch. Money involved means somebody is more likely to be accountable for improving your experience. Free means nobody necessarily cares. There’s no incentive. I personally would definitely want the most concise, organized, support-provided option when it comes to experimenting on my eyeballs. Which of course and granted, sketchy to begin with. Only for those with some tolerance for experiments and challenges. Probably best to just trust the optometrist and get LASIK.
That’s it for this month’s update. I hope you enjoy these. I also have several more podcast episodes already recorded for you, some really interesting journeys coming. Stay tuned for the December update!
Cheers,
-Jake
Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site
I made a quick video explaining the potential importance / benefits of intermediate distance active focus.
The particular distance range at which you use active focus, may make a difference for improvement results. If you’re struggling with 20/20 gains, or just looking for more tweaks to maximize stimulus, this could be for you.
As always, entirely experimental. Take a look:
Audio version:
As a bit of an experiment, I also published this episode on our podcast channel. If you are subscribed to The Shortsighted Podcast on any popular podcast platform, you should be able to listen to it from there as well.
Also as explained in the video, this is an endmyopia pro topic. If you enjoy this type of content and want lots more, I have over 200 pro topic videos available in the member section of BackTo20/20. I continue to add to that library so if you buy membership once, you won’t ever have to pay again for new and updated lessons.
I hope you’re making lots of 20/20 gains!
Cheers,
-Jake
Learn more at http://curemydisorder.com/links/improve-eyesight-tedmaser-site
