Myopia Is Mental 👁️

------by Mark Warren ©️

◾ How Do You Know That It Is Possible To Fix Myopia?

Well, first off because I did it and so have many others. I figured out how to fix my own eyes
by research, logical thinking, changing the way I looked at the world, and most importantly,
learning how to relax.

You would probably think I was crazy if I said it’s possible that you could take off your
glasses and see perfectly clear, no matter how high your prescription may be. If you’re that
skeptical and think it’s not possible you can stop reading now and I won’t waste any more of
your time. However, if you’re as curious about learning to listening to your body and learning
to heal yourself, continue on.

The name of this website is Myopia Is Mental and I say this because the first time I got a
clear flash of vision, I realized that I was doing something mentally to block my ability to see
this way all the time. The clear flash was a glimpse of the future and only lasted a few
seconds. I needed to teach myself how to see this way all the time and that is the journey!

I was told many things about my vision that I believed but here I was breaking all the rules of
what should have been.

⚫You have myopia because of axial elongation.

⚫You vision is bad because of too much close-up.
⚫You can only see one thing at a time.
⚫Your eyes just get worse over time.
⚫Myopia is hereditary.
Some of these sound familiar? As I learned more each day, I found all of these statements
weren’t true. I believed them and the challenge was learning how to un-believe them and let
my brain control my vision naturally vs me, “trying to see.” Yes, there are physical issues
that occur in the eyes that keep you from seeing clearly but the reality is the brain controls
all of these functions. When you learn to re-program your brain, seeing clearly becomes
easy, but it does take time.

Imagine that one day you get a charley horse in your leg, which is nothing more than
a muscle spasm. If you’ve never had one, a direct blow or sudden stretch of the muscle can
cause it, but most of the time they’re caused by strain or fatigue during exercise. A charley
horse can occur anywhere, but they most commonly occur in the leg. It can hurt so much
trying to straighten your leg when you have a charley horse but once you relax, after a while
the spasm goes away and you can walk again.

Now instead of relaxing the muscle, what if a doctor said, “Well since you have this spasm and
can’t walk, here are some crutches and since you can’t use your leg, you have to use them
forever!” The crutches allow you to walk but it never addressed the problem of the charley
horse which is nothing more than a spasm that needs to be worked out.
Guess what? If you’re nearsighted or have myopia, it’s the same thing as a charley horse
except instead of it being in your leg, the spasm is in the muscles of your eyes! We’ll go over
these muscles later but when the eye muscle spasms, it locks up and won’t release causing
your vision to get stuck seeing close but won’t relax to see far.

If you go to an eye doctor, they give you a pair of crutches called glasses or contacts to help
you but it doesn’t address or fix the root problem which is the muscle spasm. The longer you
wear glasses or contacts, the more you become dependent on them and your muscle spasm
gets stronger. Your prescription also gets stronger overtime.

This alone should get you thinking about your vision and should start the wheels turning in
your mind that if it’s possible to relax and flex the locked up muscles that spasm in your eyes,
it’s possible to see clearly once it’s released.

◾Anatomy of eyes
I will give you a very basic understanding of how the eyes work. Light goes through the
cornea, and behind the cornea is the lens that focuses on what we see. We call the muscle
responsible for the flexing and shaping of the lens the ciliary. After the ciliary focuses the
lens, the light goes to the retina (mirror on the back of the eye). The optic nerve picks up the
information from the retina and sends it to the brain, which translates the light to images and
this is how we see.
 We also have extraocular muscles that control the movement of the eyeball itself.
These movements are up, down, left, right, etc. It is believed that if one or more of these
muscles has too much tension, it can re-shape the eyeball shape as well as the cornea.
This leads to myopia and astigmatism.

Astigmatism is a condition that causes more blur and double vision because light is not
directed to the center of the retina. It occurs when the cornea (the clear front cover of
the eye) is irregularly shaped like a football, or sometimes because of the curvature of
the lens inside the eye.

The ciliary muscles are the key to how the lenses focus, but the internal muscles have to
work with the extra-ocular muscles for everything to work properly together. Relaxation
is the key for the whole eye system to work properly.
◾The Ciliary Muscle

The ciliary muscle contracts and releases to focus the lens and when it locks up or
spasms, it doesn’t move the lens. When it is contracted or tight, the lens in your eyes
becomes rounded or bubbled, and this allows you to focus on things sharply close up. When
the ciliary is relaxed the lens flattens and you can see sharply for things that are far away.
When it gets stuck contracted, it only allows us to see near but won’t relax to see far.

To understand what a ciliary lock is, make a tight fist with one of your hands and hold it
tight for 5-10 minutes, or basically as long as you can. When you can no longer hold it as tight
as you can, try to open your hand. You’ll find that it is hard to open your hand all the way at
first. It will be tight and hurt. You may even have to flex open and close a few times before
you can open it all the way with ease. After a while, the muscles in your hand will be relaxed
and you can then open your hand all the way with no issues.

This is essentially the same thing that happens in a ciliary lock. Now imagine this muscle
being locked for however long you’ve worn glasses; 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or more? In my
case, it was over 35 years of having a tight fist or rather ciliary muscle.
◾The True Cause Of Myopia: Part 1
There is a misconception that has been spread around saying that myopia is caused by
looking at too much stuff close-up, but that’s not entirely true. Too much close-up can cause
a ciliary lockup, but that’s not the cause of myopia.

I learned much of the problem comes down to tunnel vision! When you only try to see the
thing that you are looking at you put a lot of strain on the central part of your ocular system.
We need to give the brain as much information in our visual field so it can focus sharply on
the thing we are looking at in our central vision. It’s peripheral vision awareness and seeing
movement as you move that keeps the ciliary and extraocular muscles relaxed.

Look at the image below, for example. I’m only showing you a piece of the center of the image.
The rest of it has been blacked out.

Looking at this centerpiece of the image, I’m sure you are straining really hard to try to
figure out what the picture is. You don’t have enough information to determine what you’re
looking at and if you do figure out what it is, you’ve probably taken a long time to do it. Right?
◾The True Cause Of Myopia: Part 2
Now you can see the surrounding peripheral and I have blacked the center out.

Even with the center blacked out, your brain can fill in the pieces to figure out what
you’re looking at. You have enough surrounding information that allows the brain to figure out
and fill in the scene.

It’s this same simple principle that allowed me to start seeing clearly without glasses. When
we give our brain enough information using our surroundings, it can automatically figure out
how to engage the ciliary muscle to focus the lens on the thing that we are looking at in our
central vision.

The true cause of why we become myopic is due to strain of the ocular system. By ignoring
our peripheral vision, aka tunnel visioning, and not letting the central vision relax, we create
so much strain that muscles in and around the eyes cannot work properly.
Wait… how do you know it’s truly caused by tunnel vision and not close up. Ok, think about
this…How many people do you know that do just as much or more close-up activities than
you but don’t wear glasses? You may have some of these people in your own family or they
may be close friends. Are you really trying to tell me that their eyes are just better than
yours? I don’t think so. It was this realization that led me to believe that people with perfect
vision are seeing and doing something that we who have myopia are not. My brother and
sister-in-law do not wear glasses and they spend more time in front of a computer than me.
After asking them questions about vision, they confirmed that they see a lot more in their
peripheral than what I was!

Your homework is to ask your friends and family that don’t wear glasses to describe
everything they see and what they see when they’re looking at an object in the center of their
visual field..

◾Four Parts To Fixing Your Vision

There are four things that I figured out that corrected vision
naturally.
1. Ciliary Release

2. Peripheral Awareness

3. Spacial Movement Between Objects

4. Relaxation Of The Entire Visual Fieldु

I needed all of these things to restore my vision. Each part is influenced by the other in
a never-ending circle. Once I got all parts down, my vision naturally restored itself. What
started as clear flashes became more permanent clarity until it started to become permanent
all the time!

There are four main techniques that I have taught myself that allow all four of these things to
happen at the same time.

◾ Automatic Focus
 If you have come from some other vision restoration methods, you have probably
heard the term Active Focus and if you haven’t don’t worry about it. There were many people
who tried to “find,” active focus, but the problem was that there were no specific directions
to tell you how to achieve it. You just had to “get it,” over time. This was something that I had
a problem with when I was in the beginning stages of my vision restoration journey because
you just didn’t know exactly what you were supposed to be looking for or doing to get it.

It is only when I started to become aware of my peripheral and peripheral movement that my
eyes automatically focused.

Thinking about it and comparing it to your heartbeat, we can’t control the rhythm of our
heartbeat. We don’t exactly understand why it beats or what keeps it beating, but we know
there is some control function in the brain. We can however stimulate the heart to beat faster
by exercise or slower by rest or meditation.
I believe that the ciliary muscle’s ability to focus the lenses in our eyes is nothing that we can
control. The ability to focus the lens is automatically controlled by the brain just like the
heartbeat. We can stimulate the ciliary muscle by noticing our peripheral and peripheral
movement between objects. When you give the brain all the information it needs, it will
automatically focus the lenses in our eyes. I am no longer using the term active focus. I’m now
using the term Automatic Focus because when conditions were right, I didn’t have to do
anything to make my eyes work, they just did!

◾Blur Challenge

In order for my eyes to work properly I had to give them something to work on so I needed
constant blur challenge. The more blur I saw and the better I got at turning the techniques
into good visual habits, the faster my eyes worked to correct themselves.

BLUR ADAPTATION

If you’re coming into this from some other vision restoration method, you may have heard the
term that people become blur adapted when they don’t wear their glasses for long periods of
time. However, I’ve gone without my glasses and while there were many times where my
vision was blurred or double-visioned, if I kept doing the techniques, the blur or double vision
would clear up to perfect clarity. This blur/double-vision would go back and forth for months
until it started to become more permanently clear.

I learned to embrace the blur, but I was constantly working to make the techniques habits to
keep the blur at bay. I don’t believe in blur adaptation as defined from other methods
because if you are working properly, blur will resolve itself. It just takes time!

This process is not about seeing details, it’s about noticing peripheral and seeing movement
between objects. By doing this, the details and clarity came to me automatically.

I want to be clear and re-iterate again, this entire process is about re-wiring or reprogramming
the brain to see things differently. I know one of the hardest things to do is teach someone
something when they’ve already formed bad habits in how they thought it should be. I have
fallen in to this trap many times in other areas of my life. I had to empty my mind and tell
myself I’ve been doing this wrong for so many years so it’s time to do something different!

◾The Techniques Are Not Exercises…They Are Visual

Habits
Path To 20/20 Basic Journey
 The techniques I used to restore my vision are not eye exercises! They are not things that I
do for a few moments out of each day. The techniques that I used for my vision restoration
were done in combination with each other all day, every single day from the time I woke up
until I went to sleep.

I had to turn the techniques into good visual habits. I had to teach myself to see this way all
the time throughout my daily activity. At first it took constant reminders to use the
techniques. After a while I no longer had to remind myself to do the techniques because they
had become habits. I was starting to see this way all the time, naturally.

This is what you will need to do if you truly want to fix your vision! You will need to change the
way you look at things and how you see things.

Each technique I learned took anywhere from 4 to 8 weeks to get used to and start turning
into habits. It also took 4 to 8 weeks to learn to use the techniques in combination with each
other. I didn’t get any of these consistently overnight. As I said before, I had to remind myself
constantly to do them.

Once again my vision restoration process was all about re-wiring or re-programming the
brain. This isn’t just a matter of achieving 20/20. It is about creating good vision habits. For
years I’ve been using my eyes the wrong way. I was putting strain on my eyes and I had to
undo all the years of bad habits. It’s not an easy process, but I was persistent and this is what
allowed me to restore my vision. So Remember: Habits, Not Exercises!

◾How Long Will This Take?

Please realize that my results are not going to be your results. One cannot put a time frame
on how long it will take to restore vision. Restoring vision requires constant work fixing bad
habits, releasing the ciliary spasm, strengthening weak eye muscles and learning to relax. The
faster you recognize when you start to do the bad habits and you correct for them
immediately, the faster vision will improve. It took me over a year to get through the process.
You also have to factor in your current prescription and your dedication to commit to this
process as it will consume your every thought for however long it takes. Higher myopia may
take more time to improve, but if you’re putting in the work, you will see steady progress. I
don’t believe that it should take over 3 years to fix your vision, but again it depends on your
commitment to the process.

◾Rocking My Way To The First Ciliary Release

 My first ciliary release happened, after I stimulated the ciliary with motion. When it
happened, it felt like a stinging sensation in my eyes and my eyes started to tear up. It was
very intense. It feels like the sensation when you’re cutting onions, or if there is smoke or salt
water in your eyes. I tried to keep my eyes open as long as possible, without blinking, and this
allowed the ciliary muscle to loosen up. If I had to blink, I would half blink and not fully close
my eyes. The muscle has been tight and locked up for years and it’s no different from trying
to get a charley horse to release.

When the ciliary releases it’s not fully released, but each time it happened I got closer to
completely unlocking the muscle. This release will have to happen hundreds or thousands of
times before it is completely relaxed! Just releasing it one time doesn’t mean that you
unlocked the muscle permanently. It won’t be completely released until it permanently stops
with the stinging sensation!

Sometimes I couldn’t get the ciliary to release but just stick with the techniques. The muscle
will release when it’s ready and relaxed. Even if you think nothing is happening, you’re still
working the muscles if you just keep at it.
Note: After sometime, the ciliary will release but you will rarely produce tears. This confirms
that this is not a contact lens effect that causes clarity, and it’s also not from dry eyes. After
months of doing this, I got the point where I could get the ciliary release just by doing some
motion techniques for a 10-20 seconds and then get the ciliary to release without tears. Again
this confirmed to me that it wasn’t caused by dry eyes or a contact lens effect.

Moments of Clarity

Moments of clarity or increased sharpness were brief in the beginning, but the more the
ciliary released the longer the clarity started lasting. It’s a long process but again the more it
released the longer clarity lasted and at the same time, I strengthened the weak ciliary
muscle as well.

Note that a tight muscle is not necessarily a strong muscle. While noticing motion gets the
ciliary to relax and release, the ciliary is very weak because it hasn’t been used properly in
years. Noticing motion not only gets the ciliary to release, but it also strengthens it at the
same time.

The purpose

Rocking helps you to notice movement between objects as you move and also opens up
your peripheral vision and field of view, meaning you start to see more objects at the same
time. It’s also very relaxing for the eyes.

The Rocking technique

Now, the first time I got my ciliary to release, I was outside looking at a license plate on a
fence across the yard. It was about 30 – 40 feet away from where I was standing but at the
time I was rocking ever so slightly and the longer I did this the more my eyes relaxed. I don’t
know why, but I didn’t have the urge to blink very much. I just kept staring. When I finally
decided to close my eyes for a few seconds to give them a rest, I opened them and that’s
when the stinging started. It was really intense, but I tried not to blink, I just went with it and
tears started rolling down my face. When I finally did take one hard blink everything popped
in to focus. It took anywhere from 35 to 45 minutes for it to happen the first time. Understand
that it will not be anything that is instant because the eyes and brain need to learn how to
relax and see movement between objects.

Rocking is actually a variation of the mobile movement technique. I mostly did it in a small
confined space but got it to work on text at a long distance away. I’ll go over the mobile
movement technique in further detail later, but this helped me get releases the most often
when I was working in close quarters.

The rocking technique is nothing more than rocking from side to side from the waist if you’re
sitting or from shifting your weight from one foot to the other if you’re standing. When you’re
rocking, you should be moving your whole body side to side. The great thing about rocking is
you can do it anywhere, at anytime. I often rock subtly while working in front of my computer,
and this keeps my vision engaged.

But what if people notice that I’m rocking?

My answer to this question was it’s my health and my vision restoration journey. I didn’t care
what other people thought, or if they thought I was weird. Most of the time it was so subtle
many never knew I was doing it.

The Setup

I first learned to rock, starting with two objects. The first was an eye chart on a desk or wall
and the second was an object about a foot in front of the eye chart. It doesn’t have to be an
eye chart, it could be some text on a paper. The foreground object can be anything. Most of
the time I used a water bottle. The eye chart or text should be above your eye level and the
object should be slightly below your eye level. You need to be far enough away from the text
that is blurry.

Now just rock left to right, left to right and keep repeating this for 3-5 minutes. Try not to blink
while you’re rocking..

What was I looking for when rocking?

The text needs to be far enough away that it is blurry. It doesn’t matter how blurry the text is
or far away it is. It didn’t matter if I could see anything clearly. Seeing clear was not the point!
The point of the technique was to get my eyes to relax, notice motion and get the ciliary to
release.

What I learned to look for when I was rocking was noticing the movement between the object
in the foreground and the text in the background. As I was rocking, I noticed the movement
and the changing space and distance between the objects as I rocked from side to side.

Noticing this wavelike motion as I moved from side to side started to engage my foreground
peripheral vision. It allows me to break out of the tunnel vision state that I was usually in
because now I was noticing more than one object at a time.

After 3-5 minutes of rocking. I stopped, closed my eyes tor 5-10 seconds and took a deep
breath. Then I continued the rocking from side to side for another 3-5 minutes without
blinking. After that I stopped, again closed my eyes tor 5 to 10 seconds, and I took another
deep breath.

After a few rounds of this my eyes would start to tear up and sting and this was my sign that
my ciliary was releasing and my extra-ocular muscles were relaxing. Eventually the text would
become perfectly clear and I could read no matter what the distance was.

I did this without glasses and was surprised how much I could see perfectly clear. Now the
clarity didn’t last permanently but the fact that I could see an eye chart perfectly clear when
there was no way I should have been able to, told me my vision works perfectly but I need to
learn to make it stay relaxed all the time. This was the journey! Not 20/20, not diopter
reductions, not distance to blur, but learning to stay relaxed all the time! This is how I
concluded myopia is mental!

Technique Variation
I found you can do this same technique instead of rocking side to side, rock forwards to
backwards or in a small circle.

As you get better at rocking, add more objects to the scene and notice them in your
foreground, peripheral vision. Place new objects to the left and right of the central object and
try to notice all the objects moving against the background object as you rock.

How far do the objects have to be away, and what objects do I use?
It doesn’t matter! The key is noticing objects in your peripheral and be at the blur. As far as
what you use, I don’t care. How far? Up to you! I often challenged myself to be at extreme
blur, and that pushed my eyes to work faster!

Technique 1: Stationary Movement

I found this to be the most important movement I should be noticing. This is the movement I
saw if I wasn’t physically moving my body. This is the spacial motion seen between two or
more objects when I turned my head and eyes together or when I would look at one object
but move my head around. This is also known as parallax.

Setup

You need some text like an eye chart or a book that is propped up or on a wall. It could
also be a computer screen with a document. You’ll also need an object in front of the text,
such as a water bottle. Place the water bottle so that it is centered in a line of text. Be sure
you are centered behind the water bottle. The water bottle should be closer to you than the
text you are looking at.

Purpose

For learning this technique it doesn’t matter if you can read the text clearly or not
because that’s not the point. The point is to see movement when you’re stationary and
can only move your eyes and head.
Technique

I would look to the leftmost character on the line of text. I was sure to turn my eyes and
head together so that my eyes remain centered. I was careful not to move the eyes only.
I was sure to move both my eyes and head at the same time!

When I looked to the leftmost character, it appeared as if the water bottle in your
foreground moves to the right.

I slowly moved my head and eyes together, scan across the line of text to the right. When I
looked to the rightmost character, it will appear as if the water bottle in the foreground
moved to the left
I would slowly move my head and eyes together, scanning the line of text from left to right
and watch for the movement of the foreground object. I did this for several minutes. As I did
this, I would notice the line of text starting to clear up on its own. This happens because the
eyes start to relax from seeing movement.

This parallax movement is the movement we should be noticing between multiple objects
anytime we move our head and eyes together.

I highly recommend taking time to get used to moving your head and eyes together as it
creates less strain for the extra-ocular muscles. This will create less tension for the entire
visual system.

Another reason to move the head and eyes together is to keep alignment of the eyes in your
eye socket. This helps correct astigmatism because you’re putting little to no strain on the
extra-ocular muscles.

These are examples of close up, but it works just the same for things further away. For
example, if I stand and look out my window and see a tree, when I turn my head to look left I
see the grass behind the tree move left just a hair faster than the tree. As I turn my head right,
the tree also moves to my right peripheral vision. It’s movement like this that we need to get
into the habit of seeing all the time!

Keep in mind with all of these techniques the purpose is to reprogram or re-wire your brain to
see things differently. Somewhere along life’s path we forgot or never looked at things like
this and seeing movement between objects is one of the keys to fixing your vision, whether
sitting still or moving around.

Technique 2: Mobile Movement

Mobile movement is the technique that I use whenever I am physically moving

around. This could be from walking, running, riding a bike, riding in a car, etc. with this
technique you’re going to notice objects in your central vision and peripheral converging or
diverging. You need to get in the habit of using mobile movement any time you move. I use
this indoors as soon as I wake-up and walk out of my bedroom to walk down the hall. Your
central vision should always be fixed on a specific object and you should notice converging or
diverging of other objects in your peripheral as you walk. The more I got into the habit of
doing this from the time I got up, the more I opened up my peripheral vision.

Walking outside, for example:

I look at the tree trunk in the background with my central vision. It appears the two trees are
almost stacked on top of each other.

As I walk the tree in the foreground moves more and more to my left peripheral view.
I’m still using my central vision to see the tree in the background. The tree in the foreground
keeps separating more and more until it is completely at the side of my left peripheral view.
While I never directly look at the foreground tree, I see its shape and notice that the distance
between the two trees has grown greater. They diverge or separate apart.

Once the tree in the foreground is out of view, the tree that was in the background became
the foreground object and I picked a new background object. It’s important to work both the
left and right side when doing this.

When I first started to do this, I was only able to track two objects at once. That would be the
one in my central vision and the one that was moving in my peripheral vision. After some time
when I got used to doing this, I could track many objects at the same time! I could not see the
objects in my peripheral crystal clear, but I was able to recognize the shape, color, and size.
Once your peripheral vision is sharpened you will even be able to read some large text that
has enough contrast without looking directly at it.
After my peripheral vision became wide, while driving, I could notice cars in my left side
mirror, rear-view mirror, in the oncoming lane, as well as telephone poles and trees, all while
keeping my eyes fixed on the car that was directly in front of me. Many people think this may
be impossible, but we are capable of seeing all things at the same time. The central vision will
be the sharpest, but you will be surprised how much you can clearly recognize in your
peripheral vision once you become more aware of it!

Technique 3: Object Movement

Noticing other objects that are moving when either you are stationary or you are
moving is important, but the first two techniques are the most important. That’s not to say
that object movement should be ignored but realize that the first two techniques will give you
the most benefit.

When other objects are moving, I still noticed the movement or converging and diverging
distance between the moving object and a stationary object or the moving object against
another moving object. By noticing objects moving against stationary objects or other
moving objects, it again helped keep my ciliary muscle to stay stimulated.

I will not go into too much detail on this particular technique as it really is an extended
version of the mobile movement technique but just be aware to track objects that are already
moving.

Technique 4 : Peripheral triangulation

Peripheral triangulation was the technique that first made me aware that it improves
vision.

I’m sure many of you have heard and seen that we can track a cell phone’s location. This is
done by using 3 cell phone towers to pinpoint the location of the phone in an area or zone.
Look at this image.
 I’ve found that our eyes work the same way as cell phone triangulation. We look at stuff
with our central vision, which is the sharpest, but we also have to use our peripheral vision to
triangulate.

I discovered this before I put the connection together, that watching movement between
objects improves vision even more. That being said peripheral triangulation was still very
important to use when I was not moving at all. I mostly use this technique when staring at
something directly. Now technically staring is a bad habit that can lead to tunnel visioning but
if you are proactively scanning using your peripheral while staring with your central vision, it
doesn’t lockup the ciliary muscle.
 It works like this: If I want to focus on the center object with my central vision; I have
to use my external peripheral vision to make the center sharp and clear. I use my external
peripheral vision to say to my brain Object 1 on the right is closer to me than the center.
Object 2 on the left is almost out of my field of view but still closer than the center. Object 3
in the background is slightly right of the center but way further away. By noticing the external
peripheral objects in my field of view but not looking at them directly, our brain calculates
exactly how far away the center object is and how to focus the lenses of the eyes to make
that object sharp and in focus. It’s really that simple. I discovered this because the more I
noticed objects in my peripheral vision without looking at them directly, the faster my eyes
started to focus correctly and sharpen on what I was looking at!

You can learn to triangulate by finding a center object and then placing objects to the left,
right and behind that object. Look at the central object and then use your peripheral vision to
see the surrounding objects. Do not look at them directly and keep staring at the central
object. Use your peripheral vision to note the size, shape, color and distance of the object to
your left. Then use your peripheral vision to do the same with the right image. Then switch
and do the same with the object behind the central object. Keep looking at the objects with
your peripheral vision going left, right, and behind.

This gets the ciliary muscle to start stretching the muscles outside your central vision and the
more you switch, the more your eyes will start to relax. This also starts to make your
peripheral vision wider. At first you may not notice objects in the extreme left and right of
your peripheral, but over time you will be able to see objects that are at 0 and 180 degrees of
your central vision.

Now starting off with 3 objects is great, but that’s not the end goal. Overtime and using the
other techniques, you will see many objects in your field of view and you will see them all at
the same time! The central will be the sharpest, but the longer you do this, the more objects
you will be able to see simultaneously. You will be able to clearly recognize many of these
objects without looking at them directly.

◾Double Vision/Blurry Vision

Throughout this process, I experienced double vision. This is completely normal as your eyes
are in constant adjustment. Some days it was worse than others. It can be very annoying
seeing double vision, but over time I got used to it. The more aware I became of my
peripheral, the easier it was to clear up. Using the mobile movement technique as often as
possible really helped clear up the double vision. In addition, using the stationary movement
technique and moving your head in a circular or figure 8 pattern also helps as well.

I will say that resolving the double vision permanently was probably the hardest part of the
entire journey, but again I was persistent and patient, and it resolved itself over time. My eyes
and brain eventually started working together to figure out how to make images permanently
clear. I just kept doing the techniques!

I embraced the blur and embraced the double vision because my eyes and brain eventually
figured it out!

◾Motion Sickness Or Dizzyness

When you first become aware of your peripheral, it can be very disorienting because of
taking in so much information that you’re not used to. I have heard of some people becoming
motion sick or dizzy from the experience. Be very persistent and keep up with noticing the
peripheral and this will go away.

After I graduated from high school, I started competitive rollerskating. When I first learned
how to do spins, I was constantly dizzy. Within two weeks, the dizziness went away, and I had
no issues after that. At some point in my skating career I had about a 15-year break. When I
came back to skating and started doing spins again, I got dizzy again like I had just started.
However, this time it only took me about a few days to get over the dizziness.
The moral of the story is the longer you do something, the more you will get used to it, and
then it will have no effect on you. I used to get carsick whenever I would read or use
mysmartphonee in a vehicle. Now that is no longer an issue for me because I’m aware of the
movement and motion in my peripheral!

◾Bad Habits
There are many bad habits that I realized that were contributing to my vision issues, so
I’ve listed them here as a reminder to myself to avoid them as much as I can.

Reading without moving your head and eyes together.

This was a hard habit to break. In the past I would sit with my hand on my jaw, elbow on a
desk, and read just by moving my eyes. This creates a lot of tension in the extraocular eye
muscles and can lead to astigmatism. When you learn to move your head and eyes together,
your extraocular muscles relax so there’s no tension.

Reading in the dark.

Reading in the dark is a terrible habit. When you’re in a pitch black room, you’re not able to
see your peripheral and this can lead to tunnel visioning on a screen. There should always be
some ambient light in the background when you’re reading a screen or a book.

Not looking at any object in particular.

When you zone out and don’t look at any object in particular, this makes your eyes lazy
because they’re not actively engaging on any particular object.

I will note that I have learned that there is a way to stare that still engages and stimulates the
eyes, and I will talk about this more in the Advanced Guide.
Not getting enough daylight.

I’ve learned that it is very important to get plenty of daylight. Our eyes work best in good
light, and sunlight is the best for them. The more time I spent in the sun, I was also less
sensitive to bright light.

Doubting that you can improve your vision.

This is one of the biggest challenges that you need to get over. The more you doubt that you
can’t improve your vision, the less successful you will be at it. I had to tell myself constantly
that my vision is getting better, and the more I believed it, the better my vision got. Again, this
all starts in the brain and you have to get your mental mindset first before you can physically
improve your vision.

◾ Turning The Techniques Into Good Habits

Not only did I have to get in the habit of doing the techniques, but I also had to get into
the habit of doing them all the time during my daily life. I will give you a few examples of how I
use them throughout my day to make them habit.

In my office

I would have my monitors 20 inches away from the back wall so I can see separation. I also
have my Snellen chart on the wall and it is lit by a lamp that stays on most of the day. This
created contrast on the back wall and it makes it easy to see stationary movement when I’m
reading my screens. I also keep a water bottle on my desk in front of me so I can also see it
move when using stationary movement or rocking.

Walking throughout my house

I use mobile moment when I walk from room to room. I got myself in the habit of looking at
certain objects and notice the peripheral objects and movement as I walk. For instance, in my
hallway I always look at the door handle on a closet at the end of the hall and watch pictures,
doorways and the floor converge/diverge as I walk down the hall. Once I get to the living
room, I have other specific objects that I lock onto as I round the corner to the kitchen. Once I
see over the bar to the kitchen, I look at appliances by the sink and notice my peripheral I
continue to the window.

Walking around my neighborhood.

As often as I could I would walk around my neighborhood. During my walks I would use mobile
movement but when I would stop at a corner. I would use stationary movement to check the
intersection before I would cross a street. This is the mentality that you have to get yourself
into when working on your vision. I often thought to myself which technique should I be using
when I was doing a task? I had to constantly remind myself I should do one of the 4
techniques.

So again, from the time I get up until I go to bed, I’m using the techniques in conjunction with
each other, turning them into good habits.

◾Bad days
Usually after a really good day I’ve found it was sometimes followed up by not so much a bad
day but a day that I just couldn’t repeat as well as the day before. It was important to not get
discouraged. I realized on the really good days my eyes were working super hard and it was
hard to maintain that concentration day after day at first.

On my bad days I couldn’t seem to get clarity or resolve a double vision issue, then I did
nothing for an hour or so. I just relaxed and went on with life as usual. There were times when
I had a bad day that I would even put my reduced glasses back on for an hour or so and then
try again later to work on my vision. Sometimes this was the reset that I needed to get going
again.

Other times I realized that I may not have had enough sleep and that can affect your vision as
well. After taking a nap and then trying again, things were better.
Bad days will come around here and there, but I had to remember I was in this for the long
game! The good days will far outweigh the bad ones and I know for a fact that I saw constant
progress. At no time did I ever see periods of stalling progress.

◾TCP
Remember this entire process is mental, and it takes time to re-program/re-wire your brain to
see differently. I had to constantly remind myself this process requires TCP:

Time

You will need to put in the time to fix your vision every day, all day.

Consistency

You have to be consistent with the techniques.

Patience

You have to have patience because your vision didn’t get this way overnight and it won’t fix
itself overnight either.

Once I realized this and committed to everything, the process was easier. I didn’t expect
overnight results, but over time I saw small improvements in clarity and focus each day. This
is a long game that will require the utmost dedication!

◾Eating for eyes

I’ve been eating meats and vegetables since 2015 as my diet. I don’t eat a lot of carbs,
processed food or sugar. I was technically doing a keto-like diet without even knowing it
before keto was the new thing. The biggest thing that made me feel better was cutting carbs
and sugar. That’s not to say that I don’t splurge every once in a while, but I feel better for it. I
will not tell you how to diet, but I did a few things extra when I was five months into restoring
my vision.

Drink even more water every day

Eat blueberries.

▪️Indian alternative jamun or amla

It should be a no-brainer about the importance of drinking water. Water is lubrication for
your joints and muscles and you can’t produce tears without it.

As for the blueberries, they are super food for your eyes! They are high in antioxidants! They
help reduce inflammation in the eyes. They contain vitamins A and C, which is great for
helping with Dry Eye. I don’t have dry eye issues anymore because of this. Blueberries can be
expensive, but how important is your eye health? I usually have a handful of blueberries a few
times a day. I will say after I started eating blueberries, I started feeling less pressure in my
eyes. My eyes felt like they were floating on air.

Later on I increased my magnesium intake. I didn’t take any supplements, I just simply started
to eat a few crystals of Celtic Sea Salt several times a day. You can’t use regular table salt
because it’s not the same! Celtic Sea Salt is a natural salt and contains over 80 essential trace
minerals that the body needs, one of which is magnesium.

Magnesium is a water hungry mineral and if I just simple ate a few crystals of salt and a few
minutes later drank water shortly afterwards I would get a little burst of energy. Why? Well,
because magnesium is a water hungry mineral, it pulls water into cells. If you take the salt
directly by mouth, it gets in to your cells and blood stream faster and because it is a water
hungry mineral; it pulls water into your cells. This keeps your cells hydrated. Magnesium is
also good for stiff muscles and joints (and the locked up ciliary muscles perhaps)पाThe Celtic
Sea Salt also contains potassium which is another important mineral so this for me was
essential in my daily routine. I’m not say you need to do all of this but I know it was helpful for
me to have good, healthy dietary habits.

◾Beware of alcohol

Alcohol will affect your vision so beware! If I consumed too much, I reverted to bad habits so
be very cautious in how much you drink if you are the legal drinking age.

First off, drink responsibly and do not drive when doing so! Whenever I indulged, I was always
in the confines in my home. My wife and I occasionally would do a vertical vintage flight of 3
bottles of wine. This was 3 bottles of wine over the period of 8-12 hours. Usually by the third
bottle is when I would start to feel it and when I really started to go back to my old tunnel
vision habits.
I was instantly aware when it happened and could literally feel the peripheral walls were
closing in. Typically, this would be followed up by a bad day. Just be warned that it can take a
half to a full day before your vision will start working right again after a night of too much
alcohol!

I later came across a study that confirmed exactly what I just said above. Here is the abstract
from the study:

The effect of alcohol intoxication on central and peripheral attention was examined as a test
of Alcohol Myopia Theory (AMT). Previous research has supported AMT in the context of
visual attention, but few studies have examined the effects of alcohol intoxication on central
and peripheral attention. The study followed a 2 (alcohol treatment) × 2 (array size) × 2 (task
type) mixed design. Forty-one participants (placebo or intoxicated) viewed an array of four or
six colored circles, while simultaneously counting the flashes of a centrally presented fixation
cross. Participants were instructed to prioritize flash counting accuracy. The subsequently
presented colored probe matched the cued peripheral stimulus on 50% of trials. Flash
counting and probe identification accuracy were recorded. There was a significant main effect
of alcohol treatment on accuracy scores, as well as an alcohol treatment by task type
interaction. Accuracy scores for the central flash counting task did not differ between
treatment groups, but scores for peripheral probe identification were lower in the alcohol
group. As predicted by AMT, alcohol impairment was greater for peripheral probe detection
than for the central and prioritized flash counting task. The findings support the notion that
alcohol intoxication narrows attentional focus to the central aspects of a task.

You can read this study for yourself at the following link:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0301006616672221

⚫ End of the Basics

You’ve reached the end of finding out about my basic journey. I used these techniques every day, all
day, for over six months and saw dramatic improvement. They were the foundation for everything that
I did for my vision restoration and I still use them to this day!

The Advanced Journey Guide

If you think you’ve mastered the basics and are ready for the next level, I encourage you to think
about my Advanced Journey program. It is an extension of the basics and contains all the things that
really helped speed up my progress after I was in the habit of doing the basics.

If you have not understood and/or mastered the basics, I do not want you to even consider the
advanced program because it will be of no help to you.

The Advanced Journey Guide helped with consistency and I learned better relaxation of the basic
techniques and this helped me keep the clarity permanent.