Describe the blur worked for me! I'm so amazed. I was reading a book, kept it at a distance where it got just blurry enough for me to struggle with the letters. Then I would slowly describe the blur per letter, and by the time I got to the end of the sentence, I would get a clear flash! And it lasts a while! Blinking for every half word helped a lot. Thank you!
01:08 Print Pushing 03:58 Touching with Your Sight 05:37 Detaching the Text 05:59 Appreciation 07:40 Look from the Back of Your Eye 09:45 Looking Beyond 12:36 Central Fixation 14:16 DO Blink 14:41 Passive Focus 15:24 Troubleshooting 23:27 Bloopers
A hundred years from now when Active Focus is fully understood and considered a basic skill like swimming or riding a bike, this video will be revered as a snapshot of a weird, primitive time.
I found AF because of your comment...focus from the back of the eye...couldnt be more amazing...it was more like a vibe and i can feel the peripheral cortex being active...it wasnt a action...it was like a gent flow that went to the eyes via brain...and image got clear...its real!!
So exciting! It's like the digital pictures that were new in the scene that had words hidden in them -you couldn't see the word at first but by staring and shifting the vision (sorry of like looking with the back of the eyes) the "hidden" words or designs suddenly popped out and became perfectly clear. Anyone remember those pictures?
Sometimes I get results from the opposite of the looking through method. If I can converge slightly so I’m looking in front of an object, I will see two copies of that object, one for each eye. The left eye’s image is on the left and the right eye’s is on the right. It takes a bit of practice to hold it there, but I can then blink a couple of times and it will start to clear up each image separately, then I will bring the two images together again and the relaxation that happens with divergence also stimulates the relaxing of the ciliary muscle and everything locks into place and is clear! Hope that makes sense! Great video! Congrats
Hi Gemily, Your great persistence - is a sign of genius. You may, or may not achieve your goal in life, but you will learn an incredible amount about the failure of, "medical science". That is why we all support your efforts.
Thanks you for "clearing up" what active focus is. 😄What actually helped me was the appreciation and the look from the back of your eye part. It's so weird!
Thank you thank you thank you i was able to do active focus thanks to your videos...when you said its a subtle calm experience it happened whilst when i was expecting to be extraordinary...it never did
As always, I am impressed by your efforts, Gem! Success must be in the intelligence and motivation of the person himself. I have supported Jake since 2015 when he started with successful prevention.
Wow. Just wow. As I’m watching this videos there’s this little button on UA-cam and I thought to physically describe the blue liek jake said. It slowly got clearer and in 5 seconds I could see it. I’m still a little skeptical but wow what a trick
Thanks for your mention :-) Your videos are always full of contents and useful, never miss one. My consideration about this video... improving our vision it's a pretty introspective long term process and anyone should try all the things you suggested (I did and still do) and never stop research and experimenting. It's not a boring process, it's so amazing. Different methods often overlaps, that's not a problem, all these techniques help us to get to better eyesight. Thanks for sharing this amazing video.
It is so amazing, isn't it? ❤️👁️ And I definitely agree with all you have said. It can indeed overlap, and it is long-term, and a continuous process of discovery. I love that I get to go on this journey to get to know my eyes and my brain in this way.
Nice summary! Thank you for this video! There are a few approaches I didn't know about.I found active focus when I was sitting in front of the computer with my first differential glasses and was a bit tired. I was not sitting so upright, so the distance to the monitor had changed slightly. I didn't think about it and rather by chance I noticed that I can focus the text without changing my sitting position. You mentioned it several times in the video, but from my point of view the right distance is the most important thing. You can't be too close and you can't be too far away either. Blinking also works very well for me, but focusing like this feels a little bit different than reading normally at the right distance without blinking. I was able to active focus initially only close up (while reading). It took me a while before I could use it at a distance as well.
Absolutely right! That blur horizon is key! I found AF at close up first too. So glad you have found it. It's an exciting thing to discover our eyes can do.
Hi Gem, You have a very persuasive voice. As always I wish great success for you. As you might know, two Ophthalmologists are now helping their three children with a life-time prevention routine. I am very impressed by both you and them. It is good you do some verification with your home Snellen. It is good you made this video, WITH GO GLASSES!
How does one know if one is actually doing active focus? Like Samantha just pointed out below, if there's just a tiny bit of blur, it's very difficult to notice any change. I often can't even tell where exactly the blur starts, because of some astigmatism and differences between both eyes. And then we all know that vision is not constant... So sure if you blink, sometimes the blur may get a bit less and another time it might get a bit worse, just depending on the quality of the tear film covering the eyes. So if active focus is only supposed to work with the tiniest bit of blur, then I think it's quite impossible to tell whether one is actually doing it. That's why I've mainly focused on the Bates method for trying to improve my vision naturally, instead of Jake Steiner's method. Most things Jake says sound quite plausible, and I certainly prefer his scientific approach to some of the more "fluffy" interpretations of the Bates method. But since his whole method is based on this incomprehensible concept of active focus, I doubt whether I could ever put it to any practical use.
Bates method is actually outdated according to Jake, It can improve your vision but only temporarily. Since our generation is surrounded with screen and gadgets, Bates method won't last long. I think it'll only work with someone from country side.
She is saying to use a small amount of blur to FIND active focus. Once you find it then you can add more blur to clear. Active focus can be mind bending at its best!!!!!
Spot on the divergence deficiency. I have a level 1 rated divergence, prizm needed. When my eyes get tired with glasses and usually up close. Or at the end of the day with glasses at distance. Today is day 1 hour 1 of trying EM techniques. Everyday duh techniques i'll call them to my self. As duh, you should take your glasses off from time to time. Duh you should walk around every few hours. Duh, get some sunlight. Stop just adding corrections to glasses, take it away little by little. Thanks
look at the white in or between letters. read text while flowing above and below the line, or flow on the line while focusing above and below the line.
@@GemilyMez I can imagine it was! Closest I came was starting to compile a list of student videos specifically for new members and answering those frequently asked questions. I figure I missed some still but I'll get to it. Already updated to add this one 😀
The Dave here, thanks for the shout-out, and for the different ways of doing active focus. Great job, I like adding looking from the back of the eye to my method. My vision has been getting blurry lately because of new medicine and this video reminded me of the Steiner method. Cheers.
Hello The Dave!! So nice that you stopped by ^_^ Yeah, looking from the back of the eye is one of my favourite approaches too. Often when I am walking around doing AF on things in the distance, I cycle through ways of thinking of it - and passive focus comes up in that cycle, so I think about your passive focus approach every day. :)
Thank you so much. Years of trying I couldnt get active focus or i thought i couldn't... thanks to you...now i know stinging, watery and double vision is fine.... i was worried i was making my eyes worse as my prescription has increased by 2 diopters. Gives me hope again 👀
So my prescription in left eye is -2 and no number in my right eye, how do i active focus if i can kinda see clearly with both the eyes? Or can i AF with only my left eye as it is the weak one
I think there's two types of active focus, one type is when you're staring at text and it's blurry you blink and it's clear, and the 2nd type is when you see a far away object that is blurry , but then you pull it into focus with your eyes, in jakes podcasts many of the guests described it as the 2nd type. The 2nd type one is easy to find but not the first one. Like a close up active focus and a distance vision active focus.
I also think if you have different prescriptionsit in each eye it will be hard to find active focus, specially if you also have astigmatism and you're doing it without the glasses, maybe try doing it one eye at the Time
@@sararedbride9728 so my prescription in my left eye is -2 and no number in the right eye. How do i active focus as i can kinda see clearly with both the eyes. Should i active focus with only the left eye as it is the weak one
To me it feels like when i strare it slowly clears up but not fully butwhen i blink its blurry again. Could this blur adapt? (If it is can using my full rx 30 mins a day help) or do some ppl never get actice focus. Any recommendations?😊
thank you so much for the video! My eyes are a little different, and whenever I try it feels like my stronger eye is compensating for the weaker one, so it seems like it's more clear but I don't think it's active focus? Should I do them separately?
I love the part, look at what you are looking at but I would like to add a lil more. What I found out about my vision is it was 100% casual vision. When I found active focus Iwas like, what is the difference, what the hell is going on, I feel a very small amount of strain/tension while active focusing (relaxed) similar to reading strain but much less. So what I figured out is casual vision is looking a lil past what you are looking at and taking it in. Active focus on the other hand is not looking past it and once you stop looking past, soon after you FEEL it Then it was so cool to go back an forth casual/active lol Since I have presbyopia too I feel the ciliary prolly way more than you guys.
Thank you so much for the videos. I am still looking for an active focus method for my six years old daughter and somebody suggested to practice candle gazing. Do you know anything about it? Can you please suggest something for children? Thank you so much. I really appreciate it 🙏
Hey Gem, do you have any advice for someone who hasn’t been able to find active focus after over a year of trying literally every method of finding it?
If you have any of these two conditions: - diopter gap between eyes - astigmatism. Try all those Gem 's tips, but with your head and pelvis turn a little bit to one side. If does not work, try turn to the other side, both Head and pelvis. Remember to keep breathing.
I use a method similar to the passive focus. Look at eg the eye chart and don't make any effort to see the letters, and don't let your breathing become shallow or even stop, make it deeper instead. The attention is to avoid tension in seeing and shallow breathing. Then I feel that my eyes themselves find the way how to focus and see the letters clearly. My consious effort to see does not allow them to do that. I found it by myself and before seeing the video did not know that it is a kind of what is called the active focus. Also, Sculte tables. If I can not find the number, I breathe in deeper and the number "appears". Always avoid direct effort to see clearly. I would also recommend "myopia is mental" youtube chanel.
@user-gw3gm8gj7h Yes, improved. It is not 100% by do not need that. These methods, "active/passive focus", "myopia is mental", really work. Improvement, no regression, I am satisfied and often forget to do the vision improvement. The exercises such as turn your eyes left, right etc train muscles of eyes but not the vision itself. I think that these exercises may even spoil your vision. They were not useful to me. As far as I understand, myopia does not necessarily mean weak eye muscles, but contraction of wrong muscles: so that to see distant objects clearly, axes of your eyes should be more parallel, more like =, but they are like >, ie as if you were looking at a near object, because wrong muscles are contracted. Eyes get used to look at only near things and cannot to focus rightly on distant ones anymore. The vision improvement would be the ability to get the right eye muscle contraction. That is (one of the things) what "active/passive focus" and " myopia is mental" do. Eyeglasses are not the right solution. With eye axes > one sees clearly distant objects. Seams like a perversion to me. The inventor of the glasses did not intend them for all day wearing. Do you practice any vision improvement methods, what is your thoughts and experience?
Hi thanks for the video...by the way , today my eyes was checked up and and the result is that i have a 75/75 eye grade...i am very worried that it will increase as time passes..please tell me if it is possible that it can be decreases or i can reverse it back to normla vision...im really very worried ☹️
@@GemilyMez I'm almost 8 months since I started. Sometimes I think I've got it but later on I'm back to forcing things to clear up haha. This video is just so awesome, and even though I haven't improved much for the past 8 months, I feel eager to try again after having watched this 😁
@@rahaagalin6826 I'm so glad you are feeling inspired. It could be that you get AF, but then do a bit too much close up (phone use??) and your ciliary cramps up and then it doesn't work so well and you feel like you are forcing it again. That sort of fluctuation can happen to all of us. Take it as a sign you eye needs a bit less screen time and just get on with forming better habits and it will probably help with AF - and even if it doesn't, it'll help with your improvement anyway.
@@GemilyMez I'm smiling here because you knew what exactly I find myself doing wrong hehe. I just recently got a laptop so I will be able to study without my phone. I will do my best this time to form better habits over time. And woaah I so appreciate getting an advise on this from you.
@@rahaagalin6826 that's great you got a laptop so you can use your phone less! It is so easy to think "a little bit of phone use is okay", but smart phones are designed to be addictive, and we lose sense of time while on them. Half an hour feels like 3 minutes. So bad for eyes, and we are not in control because they are so addictive. Keep to your laptop as much as possible, and try to stay on your blur horizon. If you can do this, it will help a lot. I had a couple of false starts with EndMyopia too before I was finally ready to commit. You've got this!
Hey does Active Focus work better with + lense reading glasses? I have tried using +1.5 diopter readers a few times when doing close up vision (like reading a book) and when I took them off my distance vision was NOTICEABLY better. So it might be working, although I want an opinion other than my own first before I begin to consider going all in.
Are you low myopic? Im considering plus lenses too but i think i need active focus first so i can clear up blur. Maybe im getting the concept wrong. Whats the science behind plus lens therapy in your opinion
É uma pena que aqui no Brasil a questão do foco ativo ainda não foi abordada. Ou seja, aqui o que se mostram são apenas vendedores de curso que usam do sistema Bates para ganhar dinheiro em cima de exercícios que, às vezes, não trarão resultado. Ademais, apesar de seu vídeo estar em inglês, consegui colocar legendas e absorvi a mensagem. Foi o vídeo mais esclarecedor sobre o foco ativo que vi até agora. Se aqui no Brasil houvesse mais materiais em português acerca disso, esses vendedores de curso não seriam monopolistas.
Não esperava encontrar um BR nesses vídeos, de fato, aqui no Brasil ninguém conhece essa técnica, mas ainda estou meio receoso. Você conseguiu algum progresso?
Not a bad idea. In the meantime, check out these: endmyopia.org/double-vision-awareness-practice/ and endmyopia.org/how-to-improve-night-vision-advanced-topic/ Jake has said that for clearing double vision, "it’s more about almost meditative, passive, just looking and waiting, as opposed to the “active” focus activities where you blink and try to ‘will’ things to clear up." (source: endmyopia.org/qa-too-many-focal-plane-changes-whats-this-double-vision/)
Look from back of the eye sounds very much alike the Daoism approach of seeing things -- to let things come into your eyes instead of gazing at things. I've heard similar experience in other videos in Chinese as well.
someone told me that using your peripheral vision all the time can remove the strain of using central vision all the time and sharpen vision, is that true? nc its the opposite of active focus as well what you said the opposite of active focus is its searching your peripheral vision for something dominant and anchoring to it while also using your central vision.. can it actually damage and bring an opposite result? by lessening the central focus?
Các cách để có Active Focus: C1: để 1 quyển sách trước mặt, ở vị trí mắt nhìn các chữ mờ nhẹ, mắt tập trung vào 1 chữ cái hoặc 1 phần của chữ cái đó, thư giãn mắt, thư giãn tâm trí để mắt có thể lấy nét nhìn rõ hơn. C2: tưởng tượng chúng ta hít vào và không khí đi đến mắt, đây là một cách giúp mắt thư giãn. C3: dùng mắt để vẽ theo các chữ cái. C4: nhìn vào cái gì đó, hãy chấp nhận sự mờ và chú ý tới nó, chú ý tới những gì mắt đang nhìn. C5: tưởng tượng rằng chúng ta nhìn mọi thứ từ đáy mắt. C6: chớp mắt một cách nhẹ nhàng. ...và một số cách nữa, nhưng mình thấy nó không rõ ràng lắm, hoặc tương tự những cách đã kể trên.
Hey Gemily, I'm Marut from India. I started at -4.25L and -4R, currently at -3.25L (can see 20/30) and -2.75R (can see 20/50). Despite all the walks and good habits, my centimetres are just stuck and no improvements since last 6 weeks. This is very discouraging and I've to study 6-7 hours daily because of my entrance exams. Please help! :(
Sometimes cms won't move for a while. Make sure you are working on the edge of blur while you study, take breaks, don't use screens as relaxation time while you have to be in close up so much for study, and be very honest with yourself about how much you are looking at your phone screen. Keep an eye on your Snellen if you have one - sometimes your vision will improve before it shows in the cm measurements. And worst comes to worst, just focus on keeping your cms stable until you have passed your entrance exams, and then keep moving after that. Sometimes things will come up that mean we can't get the distance time we need, but at least with EndMyopia we have learnt to understand what causes increasing myopia, so we can make sure we aren't making things any worse.
Hey can u tell me what u did and how long it took u to improve ur vision? I'm at the exact same prescription as u were. I finished my entrance exams last year btw.
@@rahuldev2785 Limiting the Closeup time (especially the screen time), getting a lot of distance vision, going out for morning walks, taking breaks while studying. (This might not happen perfectly everyday, so don't get anxious about it.)
just want to ask something what is a effective home check up if i have psuedomyopia or the eye is elongated i have not found anything after going through all the em stuff ... im -1.25 and probably have improved by half a diopter means im somewhere around .75 rn but i never wore the glassess for close up just for few hours in life time for seeing board nothing else,,
When my finger is close to my eyes and try to focus on this, I feel like I'm using the front side of eye muscle, especially between my eyes. And while I increase the distance between my finger and eyes, I feel like I'm using more deeper muscle in my eyes. I can feel the functioning eye muscle is getting back? deeper? So I memorize this feeling of using the deeper muscle, the tendency of linearly changing and do in this way. I don't know whether this is active focusing but I think it works. prerequisite is you have to focus on something hard enough to sense the muscle. Sorry for my bad english. Can you understand? :)
Hello I just started and I feel I have found active focus ( I clear my visor by blinking then squinting for a bit then by eyes become clear and I don’t Need to squint anymore) but every time I blink my eyes become blurry. Have I really found active focus or am or are my eyes supposed to get blurry after I blink and how do I maintain active focus for a long time?
Hello! I have currently -3.25 in both eyes, I am a Computer student, so I am mostly on my laptop, so because of my screen usage, do you have any idea how much time will it take to get rid of glasses? And also one thing more, Jake Steiner said buy glasses that have lower power than your prescribed one for active focus, so can you tell me what lens power should I buy as I have -3.25 ?
Hey there. The normal rate of improvement is 0.75 diopters a year. Your rate of improvement depends on a lot of different things. E.g. perhaps you are a computer student but sit a good distance from your lap top screen and have a good ergonomic set up, and hardly ever use your phone, and still manage to go for a walk outside every day, or play sport, or commute to school and can look out a bus window during the journey. If this is you, then you can probably manage a normal improvement rate. If you are a computer student who hunches over a laptop using awful posture, gets in close to the screen, uses a smart phone when you are not on the computer, and hardly ever gets outside, then your improvement is going to be very slow indeed. But if this is you, then you might want to ask yourself why you even want good distance vision. And yes, you want lower correction glasses - you need "differential" glasses for close up work so that you are not over corrected for close up (which makes myopia worse), and "normalised" for everything else to give your eyes stimulus to improve. Get differentials first and use them for all close up for about 6 weeks. Then measure your vision (because it may have improved already) and then you can work out what correction you need for normalised.
@@GemilyMez I guess I am the first one just sprinkled with the "using smartphone alot" thing, I am slowly decreasing it, so that's not a problem. Anyways, Thank you. - I have also heard of some eye exercises like Bates methods, Chinese methods. Should I do them along with Active focus too? -As I have -3.25D, the differential glasses you mean the glasses used for close-up, so a normal -1.75D should work? What do you think?
@@bruhkumar8407 Bates method can be helpful for relaxing the eyes / releasing the ciliary muscle, but it won't by itself reverse your myopia beyond reversing your pseudomyopia. You can use some Bates stuff if you want or if you feel it helps you. It is usually not necessary, but if you do a lot of screen work and it helps to relax the eyes it may be worth trying to include a bit if you want to. 🤷♀️ I don't know anything about the Chinese methods. Those differentials sound fine to me
Describe the blur worked for me! I'm so amazed. I was reading a book, kept it at a distance where it got just blurry enough for me to struggle with the letters. Then I would slowly describe the blur per letter, and by the time I got to the end of the sentence, I would get a clear flash! And it lasts a while! Blinking for every half word helped a lot.
Thank you!
Hows your progress
01:08 Print Pushing
03:58 Touching with Your Sight
05:37 Detaching the Text
05:59 Appreciation
07:40 Look from the Back of Your Eye
09:45 Looking Beyond
12:36 Central Fixation
14:16 DO Blink
14:41 Passive Focus
15:24 Troubleshooting
23:27 Bloopers
Put this in the description of the video and youtube should seperate the video into sections for you :)
@@NottNott Thank you.
@@NottNott Great tip!
I needed to also add 00:00 as the first time stamp to make it work. :)
Damn your eye is much beautiful with out glass
I've watched a LOT of video's on Active Focus....like a lot. And this is definitely my favorite so far! Well done Gemily!
Thank you so much, Charyl!
i agree
A hundred years from now when Active Focus is fully understood and considered a basic skill like swimming or riding a bike, this video will be revered as a snapshot of a weird, primitive time.
😂 it'll be like a tutorial on how to type using a keyboard.
@@GemilyMez those tutorials are probably needed with older people
I agree.
Went from 20/50, to 20/20.
It is never easy.
@@otiebrown9999 how long did it take
@@shahanshahpolonium to 20/40?
9 months.
To 20/20, about 18 months.
Not easy!!
Yes. Focus from the back of my eye. That's it.... Thanks Gem!
You're so welcome!
I found AF because of your comment...focus from the back of the eye...couldnt be more amazing...it was more like a vibe and i can feel the peripheral cortex being active...it wasnt a action...it was like a gent flow that went to the eyes via brain...and image got clear...its real!!
@@danielnurka4469 i felt it... Thank you
So exciting! It's like the digital pictures that were new in the scene that had words hidden in them -you couldn't see the word at first but by staring and shifting the vision (sorry of like looking with the back of the eyes) the "hidden" words or designs suddenly popped out and became perfectly clear. Anyone remember those pictures?
Sometimes I get results from the opposite of the looking through method. If I can converge slightly so I’m looking in front of an object, I will see two copies of that object, one for each eye. The left eye’s image is on the left and the right eye’s is on the right. It takes a bit of practice to hold it there, but I can then blink a couple of times and it will start to clear up each image separately, then I will bring the two images together again and the relaxation that happens with divergence also stimulates the relaxing of the ciliary muscle and everything locks into place and is clear! Hope that makes sense! Great video! Congrats
That's so interesting! I'll have to try that. Thanks for sharing this!
THANK U SO MUCH!!! the describe the blur method is helping me so much, I couldn't find a away to active focus work but you gave the solution thanks
YAYYYYY thanks for doing this. i haven't even watched it yet but i already like it
Thank you so much. ❤️
Hi Gemily,
Your great persistence - is a sign of genius.
You may, or may not achieve your goal in life, but you will learn an incredible amount about the failure of, "medical science".
That is why we all support your efforts.
Thanks, Otie!
Thanks you for "clearing up" what active focus is. 😄What actually helped me was the appreciation and the look from the back of your eye part. It's so weird!
Best of luck for your journey
I'm also starting
Great video. Thank you for this.
Started doing the active focus recently and I can feel the improvement,
Thank you thank you thank you i was able to do active focus thanks to your videos...when you said its a subtle calm experience it happened whilst when i was expecting to be extraordinary...it never did
Yay!! Congratulations!!! Yes, I got confused when I was starting out for the same reason.
As always, I am impressed by your efforts, Gem!
Success must be in the intelligence and motivation of the person himself.
I have supported Jake since 2015 when he started with successful prevention.
Wow. Just wow. As I’m watching this videos there’s this little button on UA-cam and I thought to physically describe the blue liek jake said. It slowly got clearer and in 5 seconds I could see it. I’m still a little skeptical but wow what a trick
That's excellent!!! You are doing it!
I use my eyes on my Snellen and eyes.
I improve from 20/60 to 20/20, by using them.
Took 2 years.
Correct!
You are fake, prove your claim with objective evidence.
Woow....you have actually covered everything Active Focus 😮
It's of a great help.....thank you ❤
Thanks for your mention :-)
Your videos are always full of contents and useful, never miss one.
My consideration about this video... improving our vision it's a pretty introspective long term process and anyone should try all the things you suggested (I did and still do) and never stop research and experimenting. It's not a boring process, it's so amazing. Different methods often overlaps, that's not a problem, all these techniques help us to get to better eyesight. Thanks for sharing this amazing video.
It is so amazing, isn't it? ❤️👁️ And I definitely agree with all you have said. It can indeed overlap, and it is long-term, and a continuous process of discovery. I love that I get to go on this journey to get to know my eyes and my brain in this way.
Penso o mesmo.
Hi Gem,
A great video.
We live on hope and wise help.
Jake is not perfect.
But HE IS A START.
I imagine success, coming off my Snellen, when at 20/50.
Gem,
You are keeping HOPE alive!
Gem,
It is always good to see your motivation helping people.
Nice summary! Thank you for this video! There are a few approaches I didn't know about.I found active focus when I was sitting in front of the computer with my first differential glasses and was a bit tired. I was not sitting so upright, so the distance to the monitor had changed slightly. I didn't think about it and rather by chance I noticed that I can focus the text without changing my sitting position. You mentioned it several times in the video, but from my point of view the right distance is the most important thing. You can't be too close and you can't be too far away either. Blinking also works very well for me, but focusing like this feels a little bit different than reading normally at the right distance without blinking. I was able to active focus initially only close up (while reading). It took me a while before I could use it at a distance as well.
Absolutely right! That blur horizon is key! I found AF at close up first too. So glad you have found it. It's an exciting thing to discover our eyes can do.
Hi Gem,
You have a very persuasive voice.
As always I wish great success for you.
As you might know, two Ophthalmologists are now helping their three children with a life-time prevention routine.
I am very impressed by both you and them.
It is good you do some verification with your home Snellen.
It is good you made this video, WITH GO GLASSES!
I love your videos so much, they're really helpful and I think this is the crown jewel!
As a 20 yr equestrian so neat to hear Sally Swift's soft eye concept incorporated with endmyopia.
Here before this video explodes because it's about active focus :O
HAhaha - indeed. Let the record show - NottNott was here!
@@GemilyMez 💯⬆️
Thankyou sister, for the whole lot of information i will try this out.. Thankyou
Thanks!!! Very helpful!!!
Thank you, Stephane!
Really well explained with amazing examples that supports the explanations, I will try it. Really appreciate it. Thanks
Very well explained..thank you ❤
Thk u! This is sooo helpful! 💝
Oh, I'm so glad! ^_^
you exlaping this better than anyone
How does one know if one is actually doing active focus? Like Samantha just pointed out below, if there's just a tiny bit of blur, it's very difficult to notice any change. I often can't even tell where exactly the blur starts, because of some astigmatism and differences between both eyes. And then we all know that vision is not constant... So sure if you blink, sometimes the blur may get a bit less and another time it might get a bit worse, just depending on the quality of the tear film covering the eyes. So if active focus is only supposed to work with the tiniest bit of blur, then I think it's quite impossible to tell whether one is actually doing it.
That's why I've mainly focused on the Bates method for trying to improve my vision naturally, instead of Jake Steiner's method. Most things Jake says sound quite plausible, and I certainly prefer his scientific approach to some of the more "fluffy" interpretations of the Bates method. But since his whole method is based on this incomprehensible concept of active focus, I doubt whether I could ever put it to any practical use.
Bates method is actually outdated according to Jake, It can improve your vision but only temporarily. Since our generation is surrounded with screen and gadgets, Bates method won't last long. I think it'll only work with someone from country side.
She is saying to use a small amount of blur to FIND active focus. Once you find it then you can add more blur to clear. Active focus can be mind bending at its best!!!!!
@@kkevinj1 Thanks. I found active focus eventually by looking at distant objects. I'm now well on my way to ending my myopia. 😁
@@michaelbassano Fantastic!!!!
@@michaelbassano Any improvements?
The way of the pilgrim!!
Thanks! I enjoy them. ^_^
Girl, you are AWESOME and super cool! Your explanations are amazing, thank you a million times!!!
Thanks Gemily, I found the video very helpful :)
I'm so glad. ❤️
Hi Gem,
I use active focus on my Snellen.
Yes, very slow.
From 20/60, to 20/40 in one year.
Then to 20/20, another year.
I am an EE.
can you explain what else you did to improve your eyesight
VERY GOOD JOB SOLDIER
@@Racer47 yes.
Large Snellen.
Test lenses.
Dial vision
Plus Lenses, all near work.
i love this video. I will go to the park and bring a book and try AF
Good luck, and enjoy!
thank you soooooooo much it changed my life！
this video still rocks, great stuff, thanks for sharing
The wall thing did it for me 👍
Thank you for the video.
You are welcome. Thank you for your comment. :)
Great video. Love the bloopers too!!
Wonderful video. You are truly a talented teacher, leader and videographer!!!
Spot on the divergence deficiency. I have a level 1 rated divergence, prizm needed. When my eyes get tired with glasses and usually up close. Or at the end of the day with glasses at distance. Today is day 1 hour 1 of trying EM techniques. Everyday duh techniques i'll call them to my self. As duh, you should take your glasses off from time to time. Duh you should walk around every few hours. Duh, get some sunlight. Stop just adding corrections to glasses, take it away little by little. Thanks
look at the white in or between letters.
read text while flowing above and below the line, or flow on the line while focusing above and below the line.
Good tip!
My whole body gets relaxed when I am doing this
Possibly your best video yet!
Thank you so much. 🥰
Good on ya, pulling all of this together in one video! And thanks for another mention :D
It was quite the undertaking - I have been wanting to do it for many months.
@@GemilyMez I can imagine it was! Closest I came was starting to compile a list of student videos specifically for new members and answering those frequently asked questions. I figure I missed some still but I'll get to it. Already updated to add this one 😀
@@Reannon5 Aww, yay!
Looking from the back of the eye works for me
The Dave here, thanks for the shout-out, and for the different ways of doing active focus. Great job, I like adding looking from the back of the eye to my method. My vision has been getting blurry lately because of new medicine and this video reminded me of the Steiner method. Cheers.
Hello The Dave!! So nice that you stopped by ^_^ Yeah, looking from the back of the eye is one of my favourite approaches too. Often when I am walking around doing AF on things in the distance, I cycle through ways of thinking of it - and passive focus comes up in that cycle, so I think about your passive focus approach every day. :)
Thanks! That’s clarified a lot to me!!!
Thank you so much. Years of trying I couldnt get active focus or i thought i couldn't... thanks to you...now i know stinging, watery and double vision is fine.... i was worried i was making my eyes worse as my prescription has increased by 2 diopters. Gives me hope again 👀
Bro your double vision reslove or not tell me iam facing double vision and holes seeing pls tell me any suggestion🙏🙏🙏
Terrific video, but could you please explain by example how you "describe the blur"?
Good video. Thankyou and I like your voice
Very informative video, thank you
You are very welcome. Thanks for commenting!
Great comprehensive video of techniques! Thank you!
And editing also. Keep it up!
So my prescription in left eye is -2 and no number in my right eye, how do i active focus if i can kinda see clearly with both the eyes? Or can i AF with only my left eye as it is the weak one
I use both eyes.
Success, so far.
@@otiebrown9999 omg can you can tell what and how are you doing it?
I think there's two types of active focus, one type is when you're staring at text and it's blurry you blink and it's clear, and the 2nd type is when you see a far away object that is blurry , but then you pull it into focus with your eyes, in jakes podcasts many of the guests described it as the 2nd type. The 2nd type one is easy to find but not the first one. Like a close up active focus and a distance vision active focus.
I also think if you have different prescriptionsit in each eye it will be hard to find active focus, specially if you also have astigmatism and you're doing it without the glasses, maybe try doing it one eye at the Time
@@sararedbride9728 so my prescription in my left eye is -2 and no number in the right eye. How do i active focus as i can kinda see clearly with both the eyes. Should i active focus with only the left eye as it is the weak one
To me it feels like when i strare it slowly clears up but not fully butwhen i blink its blurry again.
Could this blur adapt? (If it is can using my full rx 30 mins a day help) or do some ppl never get actice focus. Any recommendations?😊
Un saluto dall'Italia, brava!
I have -2 on my left eye +astigmatism and -4 on my right eye + astigmatism. Can I fix the astigmatism as well ?
Wonderful Explanation.
Thank you
好想认识这些有相同感受的朋友们。
无论多大年龄，无论多高度数，无论近视多久，只要锻炼就有效果，只要坚持就能提升，大家加油练吧，相信自己的感觉。
A great perspective! Now passing the DMV requirements.
Very helpful!
Lovely video, lovely content, and lovely Mez
Thanks girl
Great content and explanation
Great video 🤓
Thank you!
Hi Gemily, please could you explain better what is ‘pulling the eyelids back towards the eye’? Please, I need to understand what you mean…. Thank you.
thank you so much for the video! My eyes are a little different, and whenever I try it feels like my stronger eye is compensating for the weaker one, so it seems like it's more clear but I don't think it's active focus? Should I do them separately?
I love the part, look at what you are looking at but I would like to add a lil more. What I found out about my vision is it was 100% casual vision. When I found active focus Iwas like, what is the difference, what the hell is going on, I feel a very small amount of strain/tension while active focusing (relaxed) similar to reading strain but much less. So what I figured out is casual vision is looking a lil past what you are looking at and taking it in. Active focus on the other hand is not looking past it and once you stop looking past, soon after you FEEL it Then it was so cool to go back an forth casual/active lol Since I have presbyopia too I feel the ciliary prolly way more than you guys.
Thank you so much for the videos. I am still looking for an active focus method for my six years old daughter and somebody suggested to practice candle gazing. Do you know anything about it? Can you please suggest something for children? Thank you so much. I really appreciate it 🙏
Reannon has a great one just out today!
ua-cam.com/video/j3I6E5cv_vk/v-deo.html
@@GemilyMez thank you. I have checked her video 😊
thans for vid.
Is it ok to do AF indoors?
Thank you so much😊
Welcome. :)
@@GemilyMez 🙂
Thanks for the tips! Need to get some decreased lenses.
Hey Gem, do you have any advice for someone who hasn’t been able to find active focus after over a year of trying literally every method of finding it?
If you have any of these two conditions:
- diopter gap between eyes
- astigmatism.
Try all those Gem 's tips, but with your head and pelvis turn a little bit to one side.
If does not work, try turn to the other side, both Head and pelvis.
Remember to keep breathing.
I use a method similar to the passive focus. Look at eg the eye chart and don't make any effort to see the letters, and don't let your breathing become shallow or even stop, make it deeper instead. The attention is to avoid tension in seeing and shallow breathing. Then I feel that my eyes themselves find the way how to focus and see the letters clearly. My consious effort to see does not allow them to do that. I found it by myself and before seeing the video did not know that it is a kind of what is called the active focus. Also, Sculte tables. If I can not find the number, I breathe in deeper and the number "appears".
Always avoid direct effort to see clearly. I would also recommend "myopia is mental" youtube chanel.
How I got to 20/20 .
@user-gw3gm8gj7h Yes, improved. It is not 100% by do not need that. These methods, "active/passive focus", "myopia is mental", really work. Improvement, no regression, I am satisfied and often forget to do the vision improvement.
The exercises such as turn your eyes left, right etc train muscles of eyes but not the vision itself. I think that these exercises may even spoil your vision. They were not useful to me. As far as I understand, myopia does not necessarily mean weak eye muscles, but contraction of wrong muscles: so that to see distant objects clearly, axes of your eyes should be more parallel, more like =, but they are like >, ie as if you were looking at a near object, because wrong muscles are contracted. Eyes get used to look at only near things and cannot to focus rightly on distant ones anymore. The vision improvement would be the ability to get the right eye muscle contraction. That is (one of the things) what "active/passive focus" and " myopia is mental" do. Eyeglasses are not the right solution. With eye axes > one sees clearly distant objects. Seams like a perversion to me. The inventor of the glasses did not intend them for all day wearing.
Do you practice any vision improvement methods, what is your thoughts and experience?
Thank you. This is spot on!!
Nicely explained 👍
Thank you.
Hi thanks for the video...by the way , today my eyes was checked up and and the result is that i have a 75/75 eye grade...i am very worried that it will increase as time passes..please tell me if it is possible that it can be decreases or i can reverse it back to normla vision...im really very worried ☹️
This is a great video
I'm so glad. Thank you for leaving a comment. ❤️☺️
@@GemilyMez I'm almost 8 months since I started. Sometimes I think I've got it but later on I'm back to forcing things to clear up haha. This video is just so awesome, and even though I haven't improved much for the past 8 months, I feel eager to try again after having watched this 😁
@@rahaagalin6826 I'm so glad you are feeling inspired. It could be that you get AF, but then do a bit too much close up (phone use??) and your ciliary cramps up and then it doesn't work so well and you feel like you are forcing it again. That sort of fluctuation can happen to all of us. Take it as a sign you eye needs a bit less screen time and just get on with forming better habits and it will probably help with AF - and even if it doesn't, it'll help with your improvement anyway.
@@GemilyMez I'm smiling here because you knew what exactly I find myself doing wrong hehe. I just recently got a laptop so I will be able to study without my phone. I will do my best this time to form better habits over time. And woaah I so appreciate getting an advise on this from you.
@@rahaagalin6826 that's great you got a laptop so you can use your phone less! It is so easy to think "a little bit of phone use is okay", but smart phones are designed to be addictive, and we lose sense of time while on them. Half an hour feels like 3 minutes. So bad for eyes, and we are not in control because they are so addictive. Keep to your laptop as much as possible, and try to stay on your blur horizon. If you can do this, it will help a lot. I had a couple of false starts with EndMyopia too before I was finally ready to commit. You've got this!
Hey does Active Focus work better with + lense reading glasses? I have tried using +1.5 diopter readers a few times when doing close up vision (like reading a book) and when I took them off my distance vision was NOTICEABLY better. So it might be working, although I want an opinion other than my own first before I begin to consider going all in.
I use a plus myself.
This was to go from 20/60 to 20/40, to pass the required DMV DRIVER CHECK.
Are you low myopic? Im considering plus lenses too but i think i need active focus first so i can clear up blur. Maybe im getting the concept wrong. Whats the science behind plus lens therapy in your opinion
@@madozbeez7975 living outdoors, is the concept.
For me hard blinks can bring great vision for a moment, but then it goes away. Any thoughts?
Yes, i get 20/20 that way.
Then I am persistent in science.
@@otiebrown9999 are you sure it will work?I also blink hardly, then the text become clear for a moments,then its again blur.
É uma pena que aqui no Brasil a questão do foco ativo ainda não foi abordada. Ou seja, aqui o que se mostram são apenas vendedores de curso que usam do sistema Bates para ganhar dinheiro em cima de exercícios que, às vezes, não trarão resultado. Ademais, apesar de seu vídeo estar em inglês, consegui colocar legendas e absorvi a mensagem. Foi o vídeo mais esclarecedor sobre o foco ativo que vi até agora. Se aqui no Brasil houvesse mais materiais em português acerca disso, esses vendedores de curso não seriam monopolistas.
Yes you are correct.
Prevention is the second opinion.
Não esperava encontrar um BR nesses vídeos, de fato, aqui no Brasil ninguém conhece essa técnica, mas ainda estou meio receoso.
Você conseguiu algum progresso?
Need a video on how to clear double vision.
Not a bad idea. In the meantime, check out these: endmyopia.org/double-vision-awareness-practice/
and
endmyopia.org/how-to-improve-night-vision-advanced-topic/
Jake has said that for clearing double vision, "it’s more about almost meditative, passive, just looking and waiting, as opposed to the “active” focus activities where you blink and try to ‘will’ things to clear up." (source: endmyopia.org/qa-too-many-focal-plane-changes-whats-this-double-vision/)
Look from back of the eye sounds very much alike the Daoism approach of seeing things -- to let things come into your eyes instead of gazing at things. I've heard similar experience in other videos in Chinese as well.
someone told me that using your peripheral vision all the time can remove the strain of using central vision all the time and sharpen vision, is that true? nc its the opposite of active focus as well what you said the opposite of active focus is its searching your peripheral vision for something dominant and anchoring to it while also using your central vision.. can it actually damage and bring an opposite result? by lessening the central focus?
I have myopia of 0.50D how long will it take for me to get my 20/20 vision back??
Please reply
Took me 9 months.
Các cách để có Active Focus:
C1: để 1 quyển sách trước mặt, ở vị trí mắt nhìn các chữ mờ nhẹ, mắt tập trung vào 1 chữ cái hoặc 1 phần của chữ cái đó, thư giãn mắt, thư giãn tâm trí để mắt có thể lấy nét nhìn rõ hơn.
C2: tưởng tượng chúng ta hít vào và không khí đi đến mắt, đây là một cách giúp mắt thư giãn.
C3: dùng mắt để vẽ theo các chữ cái.
C4: nhìn vào cái gì đó, hãy chấp nhận sự mờ và chú ý tới nó, chú ý tới những gì mắt đang nhìn.
C5: tưởng tượng rằng chúng ta nhìn mọi thứ từ đáy mắt.
C6: chớp mắt một cách nhẹ nhàng.
...và một số cách nữa, nhưng mình thấy nó không rõ ràng lắm, hoặc tương tự những cách đã kể trên.
my child only 7 can i try this with him
Plz help me r -6 nd-1cyl nd left -5.50what should i do for reduction of glasses
Hey Gemily, I'm Marut from India.
I started at -4.25L and -4R, currently at -3.25L (can see 20/30) and -2.75R (can see 20/50).
Despite all the walks and good habits, my centimetres are just stuck and no improvements since last 6 weeks.
This is very discouraging and I've to study 6-7 hours daily because of my entrance exams.
Please help! :(
Sometimes cms won't move for a while. Make sure you are working on the edge of blur while you study, take breaks, don't use screens as relaxation time while you have to be in close up so much for study, and be very honest with yourself about how much you are looking at your phone screen. Keep an eye on your Snellen if you have one - sometimes your vision will improve before it shows in the cm measurements. And worst comes to worst, just focus on keeping your cms stable until you have passed your entrance exams, and then keep moving after that. Sometimes things will come up that mean we can't get the distance time we need, but at least with EndMyopia we have learnt to understand what causes increasing myopia, so we can make sure we aren't making things any worse.
Hey can u tell me what u did and how long it took u to improve ur vision? I'm at the exact same prescription as u were. I finished my entrance exams last year btw.
@@rahuldev2785 Limiting the Closeup time (especially the screen time), getting a lot of distance vision, going out for morning walks, taking breaks while studying. (This might not happen perfectly everyday, so don't get anxious about it.)
@@marutpandey2705 So u didn't do any active focus?
@@rahuldev2785 oh af, I thought it would be obvious, so didn't mention it.
great video
just want to ask something what is a effective home check up if i have psuedomyopia or the eye is elongated i have not found anything after going through all the em stuff ... im -1.25 and probably have improved by half a diopter means im somewhere around .75 rn but i never wore the glassess for close up just for few hours in life time for seeing board nothing else,,
When my finger is close to my eyes and try to focus on this, I feel like I'm using the front side of eye muscle, especially between my eyes. And while I increase the distance between my finger and eyes, I feel like I'm using more deeper muscle in my eyes. I can feel the functioning eye muscle is getting back? deeper? So I memorize this feeling of using the deeper muscle, the tendency of linearly changing and do in this way. I don't know whether this is active focusing but I think it works.
prerequisite is you have to focus on something hard enough to sense the muscle. Sorry for my bad english. Can you understand? :)
100 years from now.
Will life time prevention.
Become ACCEPTED?
Hello I just started and I feel I have found active focus ( I clear my visor by blinking then squinting for a bit then by eyes become clear and I don’t Need to squint anymore) but every time I blink my eyes become blurry. Have I really found active focus or am or are my eyes supposed to get blurry after I blink and how do I maintain active focus for a long time?
One person suggested focus on peripheral vision too
Thankyou !
My Left eye is -13
Right eye is-9
While having different Diaptors
How can I do Af
Please tell me
Hello! I have currently -3.25 in both eyes, I am a Computer student, so I am mostly on my laptop, so because of my screen usage, do you have any idea how much time will it take to get rid of glasses?
And also one thing more, Jake Steiner said buy glasses that have lower power than your prescribed one for active focus, so can you tell me what lens power should I buy as I have -3.25 ?
Hey there. The normal rate of improvement is 0.75 diopters a year. Your rate of improvement depends on a lot of different things. E.g. perhaps you are a computer student but sit a good distance from your lap top screen and have a good ergonomic set up, and hardly ever use your phone, and still manage to go for a walk outside every day, or play sport, or commute to school and can look out a bus window during the journey. If this is you, then you can probably manage a normal improvement rate.
If you are a computer student who hunches over a laptop using awful posture, gets in close to the screen, uses a smart phone when you are not on the computer, and hardly ever gets outside, then your improvement is going to be very slow indeed. But if this is you, then you might want to ask yourself why you even want good distance vision.
And yes, you want lower correction glasses - you need "differential" glasses for close up work so that you are not over corrected for close up (which makes myopia worse), and "normalised" for everything else to give your eyes stimulus to improve. Get differentials first and use them for all close up for about 6 weeks. Then measure your vision (because it may have improved already) and then you can work out what correction you need for normalised.
Check out the wiki - it will answer a lot of your questions. wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions/FFAQ
@@GemilyMez I guess I am the first one just sprinkled with the "using smartphone alot" thing, I am slowly decreasing it, so that's not a problem. Anyways, Thank you.
- I have also heard of some eye exercises like Bates methods, Chinese methods. Should I do them along with Active focus too?
-As I have -3.25D, the differential glasses you mean the glasses used for close-up, so a normal -1.75D should work? What do you think?
@@bruhkumar8407 Bates method can be helpful for relaxing the eyes / releasing the ciliary muscle, but it won't by itself reverse your myopia beyond reversing your pseudomyopia. You can use some Bates stuff if you want or if you feel it helps you. It is usually not necessary, but if you do a lot of screen work and it helps to relax the eyes it may be worth trying to include a bit if you want to. 🤷♀️ I don't know anything about the Chinese methods.
Those differentials sound fine to me
@@GemilyMez thank you for the information