Welcome back! I have already downloaded your basic course and is presently trying to be mindful of the techniques you have taught. It is a big challenge for me to be aware of my peripheral vision constantly but I keep reminding myself and fingers crossed I'll get into the habit soon, thank you for teaching this amazing skill!!
May 25th 2021 - I had my yearly eye test after being "short-sighted" for 14 years and my eyesight worsened. As it did every year. Shortly after, I found your channel and did the exercises. I didn't do them as consistently as I should have, though. June 10th 2022 - I had my yearly eye test and guess what? My eyesight didn't get any worse! My prescription stayed the same! I want to thank you so much for what you have shared with us! I know eventually I will get to a point where I no longer need glasses! This works guys!
Mark, I am glad that you find a way to improve your vision and vision of others that you helped, and most of your suggestion and explanations make sense for me except one, although I don't doubt in the efficacy that you had with it - and that is related to trying not to blink for 2 mins or so while doing movement/rocking exercises. I thought that Bates and most of other natural eyesight improvement techniques made comments how people with bad eyesight do not blink frequently enough, and how blinking itself is very good relaxation action for eyes, whereas here during exercises we try not to blink for these short periods of time. Moreover, you mention that stinging and watering of eyes is result of relaxation, whereas it comes to my mind that it should be normal reaction of eyes to prolonged periods of not blinking, right?
I believe the reason why my distance eyesight is worse at night than during the day(besides the fact that there isn't any sunlight) is because at night it is much more easier to ignore the peripheral vision and movement. I'm getting into the habit of looking far away from my window to relax my eyes and get used to see far away, good to see you back Mark
Improving at night is harder because we constantly look for bright objects during daytime. However at night you have to learn to teach yourself to look for dark objects and shadows. I'm working on a video on that will explain this more!
Your instructions are very useful and have helped me to understand what to do. I keep coming back to watch your videos to be on the right way and don't miss a thing. Thank you for sharing and God bless you 🙏 😊
Excellent! That was very well said and makes perfect sense. For me, I became aware that my eyesight could be better, when I experienced "Clear Flashes", even though I didn't know the term...until I heard it here on your channel. Thank you so much!
Today as I was walking I lowered my head completely to see my right foot move to walk. To the right of my foot was the road that flowed effortlessly. I said to myself "try looking at a pebble on the road" and the road stopped flowing. I played on this phenomenon for about 500 meters. I blocked the road and then let it flow again while i was walking. This got me thinking, the movement can also be seen with effort that's why maybe the stinging doesn't happen immediately. Telling ourselves "watch the movement" may be wrong because it involves a mental effort for doing it. I tell myself this instead: sit comfortably on the back of my head and receive the movement and the eyes become moist in the lower part, the vision remains clear even blinking and i receive the image.
Hey mark I've been doing this for about 2 months now and my eyes have been going back and forth with getting clearer to going back to worse than they were before, back to a lot clearer and so on. Until I found my own truth. Which is that I need: 1. peripheral noticing through out the day especially when moving 2. Releases from rocking I try to get at least 10 ciliary releases from rocking a day to build the habit of peripheral awareness 3. triangulation, also trying to get 10 ciliary releases from this method. I found rocking and peripheral awareness did not last long if I did not do triangulation consistently. So I need to incorporate movement, awareness, rocking and triangulation allll at the same time in order to find consistent success. Doing 10 releases from rocks and 10 releases from triangulations plus noticing my peripheral majority of the day has been taking my eyes to a new longer lasting clarity and its only been two to three days.last thing is I've also quit video games and using my laptop too much because I haven't built a habit strong enough habit yet to notice peripheral all the time while having to focus on the tasks on screen. Which I found has helped a lot. mainly wanted to share this to save others 2 months of going back and forth and ill be journaling progress week to week week 1: after getting like 15-20 releases per day for a week i found that after intense stinging i get super clear vision for about 2 minutes. my eyes arent as bad as mark's in the first place where im just starting to need glasses becasue of zoom so ill keep updating. after today this calrity is so intense it feels weird and uncomfortable.
This is similar to me, i have mild myopia around -0.75 to -1.00 due to lockdown last year and I think if we are strict with these methods our vision will be fixed in a couple months. Being consistent is key. It took some time for our vision to get worse, so to restore it will take some time too.
@@ivangutierrez738 it’s been on and off but my eyes def got better, I can see the board clearer in class from the back of the room. Still working on it but it’s a struggle to stay consistent for sure. I also found it’s important to do these excursuses but the effects don’t last long unless you really put in the effort to have 100% peripheral awareness all day and that’s a skill to train. Not just noticing objects and depths but also colors and movements. This is really hard tho, I can’t even do it right now trying to concentrate let alone make it a habit. But I’m getting there and it’s working for sure.
Oh and by the way I’m not doing all these exercises as frequent because I feel it’s quality over quantity. Just a couple rocks throughout the day and before bed. It’s mostly about what you do throughout the day which is peripheral awareness that’s important. Cause In the end you should think of it not as developing your eye sight and improving it, but instead building healthy habits and that as a by product just so happens to improve your eye sight. That way your more process focused than result focused. Cause I found once I got clearer vision I got complacent and lost progress over and over again so it’s finding that way to constantly be able to stay consistent and motivate your self to keep at it.
I did swinging for one week at a TV and walking on streets, my eyesight sharper now but when i am trying to play computer games or reading or watching something my eyes are getting tired and hurting after 10 minets inspite of i am swinging all that time... At least i can watch TV without tiredness. My eyesight was -6 and now, i think it's about -5.5 coz i literally see the difference.
Wow, I have small myopia (-2,5) but I don't feel comfortable using my phone without glasses, because the screen gets slightly blurry, but I took off my eyeglasses, stretched and yawned a few times just like you said, and the vision is slightly but noticeably better :o
I can see way better on a sunny day. When it's sunny I have clear flashes throughout the day. I've been doing this since Aug, 14, 2022. (On cloudy days or at night it's much more rare, so far.)
I used to be the same way. I would see great in the sun and the minute something changed so did my vision. I realized that it was a trick of the brain. Just because a cloud rolls in or you go from bright sun to a not so bright room, nothing has really changed and you have to keep telling yourself this. Same goes for seeing at night. The peripheral never goes away and neither does movement. Light change conditions make you think it does! I'll be doing a video about night soon.
Mark, I'm a little late to the game here but wanted to tell you how proud I am of you & all you're doing! I've been busy slowly improving because that's my life for now but I'm excited to get back on task, thanks to you!
Hi Mark! Glad to see you’re active again! I’ve been holding off on vision improvement for almost two years now and want to finally get to work - hope you are going to keep uploading! :)
2 things that I've become more aware of: 1) I've been wearing plastic sunglasses over my eyeballs too much. So I've been taking them off more to let the natural, unpolarized light in. 2) I spend so much time looking at screens in my hand I realized it's fun to do the opposite and look as far down the road as I can while driving.
You may already know this but.... What you are explaining is the activation of the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex...Its often called the 6th sense...People who are dyslexic often suffer from an over-activation of the Vestibular System which can cause disorientation and or vertigo... There is an entire branch of physical therapy for people with hyper active VOR issues. Its the exact opposite condition as astigmatism in many cases... The exercises consist of focusing your eyes on one point in space while you move you head left to right...This reduces the VOR... What you explain increases the VOR, by moving the eyes and head together... My guess is that the medical people either arent smart enough to understand that myopia is caused by an under use of the Vestibular sense or that it is intentionally withheld from the public so as to keep the "Eyeglass" scam going which is a 100 Billion dollar industry....It took me 20 years to learn this information..Im glad you are speaking on it because there is solid nueroscience backing your conclusions....
I'm very much aware of all of this. In the past few years I've taken courses on brain development, posture, reflexes and more. All of it has helped improve not only my eyesight but so much more. What I learned is somewhat hard to explain and people can get lost in details, which is why I think about things for a long time to explain things in a simple way without the complexities. Before I had even taken the course I was discovering much of it on my own. Now I just have the science or rather neuroscience to back it up. I've learned doctors (optometrist included) only try to fix symptoms but they don't work to fix the root cause. It's like putting duct tape on a cracked board versus repairing the board!
@@MyopiaIsMental Yea its really a proprioreceptive awareness of the vestibular sense of either one's head or inner imagery moving through space...But since we only learn that we have 5 senses instead of 7, people get locked into a limited thought structure concerning whats happening in the body...That includes the doctors...You've done a brilliant job at relating your experiences...I can tell that you've thought about this deeply in order to express you thoughts clearly so that a wide audience can understand...I Salute your efforts!
And all these reflexes stretch and contract the eyeballs and of course the cornea tissue in real time. Unfortunately, there is no protocol doable to teach people this. Only Bates method, but is too outdated or even fragmented in various different scholar teachings.
I tried your method for more than 2 months, my eyes only get more tired ! I'll advise everyone better to spend more time looking distance and limit your screen usage !
Mark I had a question that in astigmatism what should we do :- 1) Should we move our eyes and head in perfectly sync ? 2)Or we should let the attention (where to look) lead and let eyes and head move as they want after that ?
Try to make an effort to let your head and neck do the heavy lifting as opposed to your eyes. Take a break from things like reading, texting, watching TV, or playing video games (anything that requires very little head movement and a lot of eye movement). The goal is to minimize your overall eye fatigue. Think of it like exercising. If you do heavy workouts every single day, eventually you're going to damage your muscles. The eyes are no different. They need rest and care just like the rest of the body. This is an extremely valuable mindset when thinking about any other part of your body too! Knowing yourself is the best way you can help yourself. If you're ever short on ideas or just want to learn more, you can always find something useful online. *This goes without saying but;* Always try to do things naturally to start, you don't want to get hooked on someone's product to "help" your body. Those are almost always scams. Remembering your roots is the best way to grow!
Hey, Mr. Warren! My big question is that, after a good day's active focus/peripheral awareness, I feel like it's counter productive to wear my normalized glasses again after sunset. I feel like that will worsen the gains that I just made that day. I've tried active focus for quite a few days before giving up on it, because I couldn't active focus to clear the blur out. I then wore my normalized glasses for several months before I came across your videos. After I watched your video about active focus and Bates' method being the same thing essentially, I was able to get clear flashes, albeit only for a split second or a couple of seconds. The huge thing for me is that I tried your method without glasses, I used to attempt active focus with my normalized glasses on. I feel like I'm making progress when I'm doing these drills outdoors during the daytime and when I go back home or it's night time, I don't feel like wearing my normalized glasses. What do you suggest? Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I had the same problem of getting great gains without glasses and then lose all the progress when I put them back on. That's when I realized we're all capable of seeing just fine without glasses once we learn how to relax. It really has nothing to do with the eyes at all. Vision is more a problem in the brain and it is affected when stressed. That's when I stopped wearing my glasses unless absolutely necessary, like when driving. Eventually I got to the point when I didn't need my glasses at all. I believe when you keep putting your glasses back on you're convincing your brain that you need them to see. The brain has a hard time letting go of the habit of wearing glasses. The more you mentally and physically tell yourself you don't need them, the easier and faster it is to create the new habit of seeing clearly.
Hey Mark! I discovered your channel about a year ago. I occasionally practice the techniques that you've told but nothing seems to work. Now I think I got the answer. But I have a question to you. How to read a book and still concentrate on the peripheral vision? I mean how to be 'aware' of the surrounding when you have to 'focus' on the single object? Thank you in advance!
You do not have to obsess over the periphery hold the book far away so that you can't still read it but It gets slightly blurry. really just do it and fully commit and you will see progress
With my experience, he is refering to the periphery just like you were thinking. The more you can read while keeping the periphery in your conscious focus, the better your eyes might become! It has worked amazing for me especially watching movies!
A lot of people say the peripheral isn't important but I'm going to tell you why many have trouble seeing the full field of view while looking at something with their central vision. . If you spend a lot of times indoors in rooms, you're surrounded by stationary objects that don't move. This isn't natural! The only way for them to move is for "you" to move! If you think about being outside in nature, nothing is ever perfectly still! The wind blows ever so slightly and it will cause trees, plants and flowers to sway. Also you don't sit in square, confined boxes in nature (which is why it's easier to improve vision outdoors vs indoors). To improve your ability to see movement indoors try reading with a TV running in the background to your left or right. Turn the sound off so you're not distracted by it, but as you read notice the movement on the TV as you read. I'm actually doing this while I type this reply! There are a lot more things that I cover in the Advanced Journey Guides on my website but I think you'll get the idea.
I could barely read the 2 line on the eyes chart without glasses, now I'm almost reading the 20/30 line, about 6 weeks without glasses and vision improve so much and I'm not doing anything else, look to me the one tip to improve is to stop using the fucking glasses.
Mark you should post more often to promote encouragement and awareness. Been doing your basic for a month and a half. So far results are amazing. I am about to get the Advanced.
I don't think about it like doing techniques. I think about it like seeing correctly. (I used to do tunnel vision all the time. Now I notice it and pay attention to the periphery.)
Waiting for you too! Thank you for posting. There's nothing like the power of consciousness and adding peeling through these epiphany onion peels of life. The cures are innumerable to the individual and society!
I haven't worn glasses in about 2 years! So yes, I'm free of my glasses. Sometimes my vision gets softer when stressed but as soon as I make myself aware of how tense I'm getting, I can sharpen my vision instantly.
Hello Mark, I have genuinely improved my eyesight. I do oxidization THROUGH THE CENTER but I don't overdo it. I notice more (center) periphery, depth. I have my eyes more often in a neutral position within the eye socket. My vision went from -3 to -1.5 in half a year. I do not obsess over any of these things.
I had Lasik in 1996 on my left eye and now I can't read with just that eye. Is it possible to do exercises to improve an eye that's had this procedure? I never got the right eye done, if I did it would be even worse.
By being aware of your peripheral vision, you exist your fight or flight or freeze, and, by doing this, you allow your body to normalize. I think you will be (or you are already) aware of many more changes in your body regarding not only to your eyes. :) Behind this discussion, there is much more than improving your eyesight...
100%!! I started this journey just trying to fix my eyes and learned I was teaching myself to fix so much more! My overall health and mobility has improved by focusing on the body as a whole!
@Myopia Is Mental You can add another technique to review - David Webber's 'Seeing Clearly'. David has a really powerful story behind him. Threaten by blindness, harmed by modern medicine, he manage to restore his eyesight.
The rocking drills are meant to open your vision to movement between objects once he understood that he began seeing that movement more than before and now he sees it all of the time. It about making a good habit of his techniques that will improve your vision
I don't have to do the rocking drills anymore because aware of micro movements in my visual field. I can see/create these movements just by breathing and I see them all day. It's become more of a habit so it's not something I think about all the time.
I must write a review so far for all the people who are wondering how it progresses. I'll do this in bite-size chunks to get it all out without overdoing it. 1. I am -1.25 in my right eye and -1.5 in my left eye (the difference feels large to me when I use one eye at a time) and I'm 17 years old as of now. I first stumbled upon the 'Learning with Mark Warren' youtube channel precisely a year ago, marking how long into this journey I am. 2. My first clear flash happened near the end of last summer, after a game of football in which I was purposefully noticing my peripheral when moving around my mates and objects. The flash happened when I was cycling back home (the flashes tend to happen to me after the 'constant noticing' when I start to loosen up a bit). It triggered when I looked up quite suddenly, I happened to see a person's face far away very clearly for the first time in about 4 years (the person was around 20 meters away). 3. Despite the realisation that reversing myopia was truly do-able (especially after my second flash - it was in a grocery shop and every sign was visible, so it felt quite surreal) my streaks ended too often, where I found myself back to my normal lack of peripheral concentration. 4. After a few tries, each come-back feels easier and I was at a point where I was doing it every time I cycled back from my college. One afternoon doing so, I was using license plates as my central vision and I triggered a clear flash that lasted after a blink (I was still locking onto the license plate after each blink) and I thought I'd finally cracked it. Once again my motivation disappeared silently, and naturally. 5. Now to date. I received a heap of motivation since my summer is halfway through and I want to improve my vision before I go back to college. Yesterday I was very comfortable noticing my peripheral frequently, since now I have a lot of experience after my many tries and fails. I had a major clear flash yesterday - meaning, if you did happen to leave your routine for months, it still comes back as strong. However, today when I was cycling back from the gym (yesterday's clear flash occurred when I was leaving the same gym) I had many clear flashes and I know it's getting easier each day I do these habits. 6. In conclusion, do not give up. I have many times but I always come back. It gets easier with time and you must be patient. I understand I don't have high myopia, but i know ill never have to wear glasses in my life with Mark's information he has blessed us with. No one can take the information away, I'm sure ill remember this in years to come. I strongly believe when I'm older I will still retain this habit. 7. I haven't seen permanent improvement in my eyesight yet but I have seen improvement in my progress and flashes. Good luck everyone. I'll happily answer questions to the best ability.
Without, however I am low myopic (-1.25). I have heard if you're higher myopic (-2 or higher) it helps having a reduced prescription with long-range blur still present. This is because the ciliary muscles improve when they get released, but they only release to the extent that your vision is clear again. @@kamalpandey1047
The thing is to learn notice and perform tiny movements with your head and neck, very tiny and notice your sides move together. When you master this, you are done.
Hey mark Warren I have seen many of your videos and they are so useful I am student with severe sighted mark I want to contact you and solve my doubts😭😭😭please reply
Hey Mark, I am learning a lot of my own life, like an anthropologist. Learning about mirror neurons, about facial micro and macro expressions, about how even thoughts or even if we are reading something can trigger expressions over the whole face. How enviroment impacts our mood, nerves, muscles and eyesight, mirror neurons are always ready to mimic someone good/bad pattern. I start to think myopic people are stuck in a disconnection with their mirror neurons, maybe because they feel different wearing something no natural in front their faces(?), it has been said that lack of mirror neurons is common in autistic children. Maybe does glasses induces people live in their own inner world? Maybe smartphone are creating a new generation of people lacking mirror neurons? Mirror neurons are our inner feeling of compassion and also envy. I was very interested in something called "voice locus", in my own observation I noted that my voice tone and "position" feels different when I am relaxed. In "Cold read" people can figure out some people state of mind by seeing their facial macro and micro expression also by listening people voice tone. For example Ernest Rossi who worked with Milton Erickson said that hands, lips and tongue have a huge brain connection. Something weird that I never wrote before about this journey is: I notice my fingers getting smaller when I am relaxed and seeing clearly lol, maybe something relate to skin? Here is a great debate about mirror neurons, how it can change our lives. A neuroscientist, a dancer, an actor, a voice actor, a psychologist, a practioneer of Alexander Technique. m.ruclips.net/video/loB-Lg0X1qo/видео.html
Some people need to adjust their bite, correct their nose breathe. Over our face we can only move three and some rare cases four muscles; they are nostrils, eyebrows, ears and lips. I can esily notice when my face muscles are distorting my field of view, mainly my left side there I use to have a bad bite connection. And, it gets easier to connect internal cheek walls to molars and front lips to front teeth. I guess lips help eyeballs to move!!
Can you tell me more about this. I have an overbite and I swear whenever I extend my lower jaw my eyes get better vision. Is this related? Can you tell me your experience?
you said in your free course in the topic myopia is mental not medical that your eyes are prescribed for -5D but still you saw clearly, so I want to ask that is the clarity is for few time in which you are concentrating yourself and it is 100% all the time . (I am talking about the phase in which you have recovered myopia as you said before) .
Great question! Before I even started working on my vision, I changed my diet. In 2015, I started eating less processed foods. We mostly eat vegetables that we cook ourselves, and meat. I mostly eat fresh produce and meat from the perimeter of the grocery store and stay away from the inner aisles, where you'll find more processed foods. We have a year-round farmer's market near us, and we get seasonally produce as much as we can. I later learned that we were somewhat eating keto, but we don't 100% stick to it. I drink mostly water, sometimes with lemon, but have wine with dinner a few times per week. I've drastically cut sugar and carbs and don't really miss them. I feel the difference immediately whenever I splurge.
When im aware of the peripheral, it engages active focus. When I look at what im looking at, it engages active focus, blur is cleared both ways, maybe your way is faster because you include everything not just central.
Awareness of the peripheral and awareness of movement while looking at something centrally was key in improving my vision faster. If you want to make it even faster, become aware of how the muscles in your eyes and body are moving while you are using your peripheral and central vision!
Notice when you put on your distance glasses, the glasses is emulating two things: 1 - an wide open eye (see people with good vision, their eyes are wide open, rarely do you see a layer of skin covering it) which allows you to receive the full length of light. 2 - spreading light to the side of the sclera (the concave lens also spreads light over the edges of the eyeball). What many nearsighted people suffer from a permanent tired eyelid, due to lack of adequate rest, nutrient deficit or excessive exposure to lights that burn the eyes (which forces the eye to defend itself which in the long term will cause sensitivity to sunlight) The semi-closed eyelid prevents the eyes from being adequately nourished by light. Thus, some parts, such as the external sclera, are forced and atrophy causing anomaly in the formation of the cornea. If you see Bates' Long Swing it basically tries to re-establish that part of the eye that's missing. Perception of the periphery also stimulates this tissue, as does print pushing (the surrounding environment moving along with the book) Look ar people who reversed their myopia; Mark Warren, Nathan Oxenfeld, David De Angelis.. All of them have more sclera, mainly lateral external sclera size. For example, De Angelis advocates rotation of the head with open eyed while fixating the gaze at a specific target, I think is an exercise to stimulate sclera shape. The myopic challenge is, when blinking, to keep the eye active, open, interested, excited while breathing normally. That's why factors such as inadequate sleep, a body lacking nutrients (food, parasites, lack of water) or lack of hope can make a person lose focus. Another thing that myopia do a lot is keep their vision focused towards near (convergence) even when they are in a very open environment. They think they are going to produce central fixation by effort and end up kidnapping the eyes and inventing ways to force vision with eyelids, eyebrows, foreheads, cheeks and everything that will force the eyes. Basically the central fixation is the result of the images that the two eyes receive when they are aligned and receptive. I know, Bates teachers always advocate relaxation, but sometimes we need some activation 🙏
Keeping eyes open reminds me of the tratak tecnique. Did you ever try it it?. I did some time back to help me with my focus, but at that time i did not do any test to see if it was helping me. Thanks for the information.
Hi Mark I've noticed that everytime I do triangulation the object that where I'm focusing my eyes gets blurry. Is it normal??? Thank you for your response 🥰
Hello Mark, I have a question, my problem is regular headaches. Which significantly hinder everyday functioning. A month ago I found out that I have a visual impairment, myopia and astigmatism (right eye -0.5 and cylinder -0.5, left -0.75). Could you give me some advice? What can I do to reduce the pain? I will be very grateful.
@Marcin, When people start wearing glasses, they often get headaches. When people get higher prescriptions, they often get headaches. When people who have worn glasses for a long time and take them off, they often get headaches. I believe it for two reasons in all of these cases: One glasses and contacts change the natural perspective of how we see and the brain doesn't like it. Sudden changes in the visual field lead to tension in the muscles in head and neck, i.e. you get a headache. I have had all of these cases eventually you get used to the changes and the headache goes away but it does take time. Learning to relax and breath will help and also be aware of where you feel most tense!
@@MyopiaIsMental The headaches started even before I bought my glasses. It's better now since I have them, but I try to avoid them. My vision defect is small. Is it okay to wear glasses as little as possible? Relaxation is a valuable tip. I will follow this advice
Think about what happened in your life when you started getting the headaches and noticing that your vision changed. Were you stressed, reading a lot more, etc. Think about how less stressed you may have been before your vision started to fail. More than likely you'll remember some specific moment when it all started to happen or a series of events when it started to happen. As far as wearing as little as possible. I can't tell you what to do but if it were me, I wouldn't wear a prescription that low unless I absolutely needed them. Also if you have an astigmatism correction, it will only get worse because glasses and contacts lock your eye into there angle of error.
@@MyopiaIsMental I remember perfectly well when it started. The headaches came from my new job, which was very stressful for me. Several other stressful events also emerged during this period. So it was a series of events as you say. I think my case can be viewed as proof that "myopia is mental". What you say gave me a lot to think about. I took your "20/20 Basic Journey" course and I am starting my own adventure in improving my eyesight. Thank you very much
But ive talked to people who have 20/20 vision and they dont say that they see movements and when they do close up they dont notice other objects but if someone is passing or something they are aware of it
I've talked to many people about this, and here's what I've found. People with perfect vision don't always notice movement because their brain has always processed that information correctly! They don't have to think about it or observe because it's always worked correctly for them. As you said, they are more aware if someone is passing or a moving object comes within their field of view. I believe if there was a time when you didn't wear glasses, most people's brains processed this information correctly. However, something traumatic may have occurred that changed the way the brain interprets this peripheral and movement information. The key to rebuilding these neural connections that recognize movement automatically is being consciously aware of it until the automation takes over. Once it becomes a habit, you won't have to think about it!
Mark, JUST discovered you today. Is this information for presbyopia as well? I am 56 and need readers, and also for computers. For long distance, like driving, or when I'm walking in the world, I can get away without glasses. I HATE my glasses.
While I've personally only had experience with myopia, I believe this can work for most vision problems. In fact people who have been farsighted said what I talk about has worked for them. I'm almost 46 and for years, I've been told vision gets worse as you age but I don't think that's the case at all. I think when you stop exercising the muscles of your eyes they get worse as you age. Use it or lose it. It's like you're putting your eyes in a coma and the muscles become atrophied. However it's easy to correct once you become aware of what you're supposed to be doing and do it all the time. My vision, in theory, should be getting worse but it's still improving week by week!
Hi Mark, Does mulitfocal contact lens help in training my eye? Multifocal lens always come with Lo, med, and Hi power for reading. Should I use Hi Power in order to relief the eyes the strain of working on computer?
I personally don't care for multifocal contacts, glasses, or multiple pairs of glasses. Why, because you keep changing the perspective of how you see and the brain does not like these quick changes! It also makes it extremely hard to improve. You may start seeing well without glasses and then you put your glasses or contacts back on and lose all your progress. It's happened to me far too many times and that's when I started wearing my glasses as little as possible. When you change it's like you're telling your brain, I don't trust that I can see, so the brain never fully releases the tension or struggles doing so.
Focus on something directly in front of you and notice the background movement of objects around you. Notice the movement and the objects without taking your eyes off of what you're focusing on in your central vision!
Focus is not the same as put force into this. It's more about what Mark just says in this video. It's an awareness, completely awareness. Bates mentioned about imagination or memory as awareness. When you are focusing with your imagination, building scenarios, mental worlds or when you recall a mental memory, you are taking excessive energy from your muscles, you are using your nervous system in a different way. Nervous system is connected to muscles. The weird thing is; living here and now is similar to living in a dream state, in a memory state. Its more a philosophical thing. Because we use our mind to build our reality, the whole time. You can play with this; imagine you are seeing the room from a different angle, a different point of view. Every time you build possibilities in your mind about your enviroment, its the time you are alive. Of course, people with myopia tend to build scenarios of things far from them, and total unecessary, most of these scenarios trigger anxiety.
I believe both. Tension is the enemy in both cases. Too much tension in the ciliary body makes the muscle stiff so now the lens can't move/focus. The lens can become hardened over time from lack of movement. Think about an engine that sits for a long period of time. It can eventually deadlock. As for eye elongation. I don't think the eyes grow long or rather grow at all. I believe the tension caused my the extraocular muscles squish the eyeball to make it long. Think about a round balloon and you use your hand to smash it down. It becomes long. Learn to relieve the tension in both the ciliary and extraocular muscles and you fix both!
So I need to be consciously aware of my peripheral vision and notice movement between objects. After a while it will become a habit and it will improve my vision?
Hey nice to see you again you have been like an angel for me in improving my eye site mark it's all blur when I started 2 years back form -3 D some in both eye and now I can clear almost everything being conscious but I have stuck at a point which I share you many times in mail but didn't reply and that is I can't continue with clear vision I have to think it consciously which I am tired off please help me if you can.. I will be thankfull of you till my last breath of what you have given me in those 3-4 vedios thanks ❤🙏🌹 mark I really appreciate your work man.. Love form 🇮🇳🇮🇳 india
Reprogramming a bad habit takes a lot more effort than learning something new the first time. Think about how babies develop. Around 6-8 months old a baby can learn to roll over, sit up, crawl, start to eat solid food and grasp objects. By 8-14 months they can start to learn to talk, walk, run, fully eat solid food and more. They learn a lot of "new" things in a short period of time and most of this is done by observing how we as adults move. The younger kids are, the easier it is for them to learn multiple language but as we age it's harder because we have the habit of speaking the way we do with our mother tongue. Retraining your brain to learn a new way to see is no different than learning a new language. You have to make yourself consciously aware of how the new language works because you're so set they way your existing language works. It's not easy at first but the more you do it the more it becomes habit. As long as you keep at you'll continue to improve and one day it will all... click!
For sure astigmatism. As for hypermetropia, I have no personal experience with it. That being said... I have had people who have contacted me and said they tried what I do, and it worked for them as well. I believe it all comes down to tension. Some can't relax to see far, some can't relax to see close. In theory, it should all be fixed the same.
Hey mark just wanna say thank you for all your doing. Secondly, I wanna ask if you would mind touching base on the subject of eye floaters. I currently suffer from them and I’m noticing a lot more people say they do as well especially the younger generation. Would love to hear your perspective on them and if you know of any remedies to help them. The subject is hardly talked about at all. Thank you!
At some point I plan to do a video on this, but a few things about floaters which I use to have: As your vision improves so will your floaters. If you change your diet, you can greatly improve your floaters! Go 1 month cutting sugar and carbs and you will notice a big difference in your floaters. I'm not saying go full on keto but, by just eating meat and vegetables while cutting things like bread, pasta and processed food, you'll notice a difference in the floaters. Finally eat within a window (intermittent fasting). For example I mostly eat all my meals between the hours of 12:00pm and 6:30pm. In the morning I only drink tea and water. After the eating window, I mostly drink water. Doing this gets your body to recycle (autophagy) old and damaged proteins which is what floaters are. Dr. Eric Berg on RUclips has several good videos about this. Hope this helps!
I'd like to draw a tech comparison here. This is a video I just watched comparing the cameras of the latest two generations of base-line iPhones: ruclips.net/video/IRnya4qcjOQ/видео.html Interesting thing is, the sensor ("the eye") hasn't changed at all, the only thing that has changed is the chip hence the processing of the raw signal ("the brain"). In the latest generation and with the better chip, pictures come out significantly sharper and with more detail. This is quite similar what we are doing here. We're not changing the sensor alias the eye and its physics. We are working on how the brain processes this signal. Now, a question to me that is still unanswered is this: Are we correcting an imperfect signal coming from the eye (the theory that the eyeballs of myopiatic persons is too long) while processing of a less-than-ideal signal, or are we just teaching our brain to use its full processing capabilities, which for some reason it has failed to develop when we were growing up, just pulling it to the same level where non-myopiatic persons are. We all know how powerful our brains are. Examples of persons with sensory abilities, where in turn their other senses seem to be becoming so much better, shows this most vividly.
Very good and accurate comparison, hence why I say myopia is mental. I've done a lot of neuroscience research and the simple explanation is we must have a sensory input to get muscle output. If the input is not working correctly for whatever reason the muscle output doesn't work. When we bring awareness back to the the sensors involved in the process, the muscles start to reactivate the way they should be. When a person loses a sensory input, the others aren't necessarily getting better, they're compensating for the loss. Many people are moving about today in compensatory muscle patterns and don't even know it!
In the beginning I was doing lens reduction, but I soon realized that I could see just fine without my glasses when I relaxed. That told me it's not an issue of my eyes, it's an issue of my mental state and stress levels. I also found that every time I would wear my glasses I would lose the progress I made when I had them off. That's when I stopped wearing my glasses unless I absolutely needed them. I believe everyone is capable of seeing perfectly clearly, within a matter of minutes, no matter what the prescription once they learn how to relax!
You Put this in its full picture.Things are connected to other things.
Exactly! 💯
Welcome back! I have already downloaded your basic course and is presently trying to be mindful of the techniques you have taught. It is a big challenge for me to be aware of my peripheral vision constantly but I keep reminding myself and fingers crossed I'll get into the habit soon, thank you for teaching this amazing skill!!
Can u also help me hoe to do peripheral vision
May 25th 2021 - I had my yearly eye test after being "short-sighted" for 14 years and my eyesight worsened. As it did every year. Shortly after, I found your channel and did the exercises. I didn't do them as consistently as I should have, though.
June 10th 2022 - I had my yearly eye test and guess what? My eyesight didn't get any worse! My prescription stayed the same!
I want to thank you so much for what you have shared with us! I know eventually I will get to a point where I no longer need glasses!
This works guys!
Mark, I am glad that you find a way to improve your vision and vision of others that you helped, and most of your suggestion and explanations make sense for me except one, although I don't doubt in the efficacy that you had with it - and that is related to trying not to blink for 2 mins or so while doing movement/rocking exercises. I thought that Bates and most of other natural eyesight improvement techniques made comments how people with bad eyesight do not blink frequently enough, and how blinking itself is very good relaxation action for eyes, whereas here during exercises we try not to blink for these short periods of time. Moreover, you mention that stinging and watering of eyes is result of relaxation, whereas it comes to my mind that it should be normal reaction of eyes to prolonged periods of not blinking, right?
I believe the reason why my distance eyesight is worse at night than during the day(besides the fact that there isn't any sunlight) is because at night it is much more easier to ignore the peripheral vision and movement. I'm getting into the habit of looking far away from my window to relax my eyes and get used to see far away, good to see you back Mark
Improving at night is harder because we constantly look for bright objects during daytime. However at night you have to learn to teach yourself to look for dark objects and shadows. I'm working on a video on that will explain this more!
@@MyopiaIsMental that's great I'm looking forward to it, night vision is a subject rarely spoken about in vision improvement videos
@@MyopiaIsMental I am so excited to watch
EVERYONES eyesight is worse at night, even my lasik that is about perfect, ur not alone
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It seems everything in life comeback to awareness. I guess that's the importance of mindfulness. Great video, thank you.
Your instructions are very useful and have helped me to understand what to do. I keep coming back to watch your videos to be on the right way and don't miss a thing. Thank you for sharing and God bless you 🙏 😊
Thank you so much and you're quite welcome!
Excellent! That was very well said and makes perfect sense. For me, I became aware that my eyesight could be better, when I experienced "Clear Flashes", even though I didn't know the term...until I heard it here on your channel. Thank you so much!
You're quite welcome!
Warren,
I always appreciate your goal and assistance!
The techniques you have taught here has helped me.
Awesome! Keep it up!
Today as I was walking I lowered my head completely to see my right foot move to walk. To the right of my foot was the road that flowed effortlessly. I said to myself "try looking at a pebble on the road" and the road stopped flowing. I played on this phenomenon for about 500 meters. I blocked the road and then let it flow again while i was walking. This got me thinking, the movement can also be seen with effort that's why maybe the stinging doesn't happen immediately. Telling ourselves "watch the movement" may be wrong because it involves a mental effort for doing it. I tell myself this instead: sit comfortably on the back of my head and receive the movement and the eyes become moist in the lower part, the vision remains clear even blinking and i receive the image.
Will you post more regularly? I love your work
Hey mark I've been doing this for about 2 months now and my eyes have been going back and forth with getting clearer to going back to worse than they were before, back to a lot clearer and so on. Until I found my own truth. Which is that I need:
1. peripheral noticing through out the day especially when moving
2. Releases from rocking I try to get at least 10 ciliary releases from rocking a day to build the habit of peripheral awareness
3. triangulation, also trying to get 10 ciliary releases from this method. I found rocking and peripheral awareness did not last long if I did not do triangulation consistently. So I need to incorporate movement, awareness, rocking and triangulation allll at the same time in order to find consistent success.
Doing 10 releases from rocks and 10 releases from triangulations plus noticing my peripheral majority of the day has been taking my eyes to a new longer lasting clarity and its only been two to three days.last thing is I've also quit video games and using my laptop too much because I haven't built a habit strong enough habit yet to notice peripheral all the time while having to focus on the tasks on screen. Which I found has helped a lot.
mainly wanted to share this to save others 2 months of going back and forth and ill be journaling progress week to week
week 1: after getting like 15-20 releases per day for a week i found that after intense stinging i get super clear vision for about 2 minutes. my eyes arent as bad as mark's in the first place where im just starting to need glasses becasue of zoom so ill keep updating. after today this calrity is so intense it feels weird and uncomfortable.
This is similar to me, i have mild myopia around -0.75 to -1.00 due to lockdown last year and I think if we are strict with these methods our vision will be fixed in a couple months. Being consistent is key. It took some time for our vision to get worse, so to restore it will take some time too.
@@charzinc3492 yup my eyes are something between 1.00 to 2.00 maybe a little worse after online learning but it’s been getting better consistently
@@Tongacongabonga Its been 3 months how has ur vision improved now?
@@ivangutierrez738 it’s been on and off but my eyes def got better, I can see the board clearer in class from the back of the room. Still working on it but it’s a struggle to stay consistent for sure. I also found it’s important to do these excursuses but the effects don’t last long unless you really put in the effort to have 100% peripheral awareness all day and that’s a skill to train. Not just noticing objects and depths but also colors and movements. This is really hard tho, I can’t even do it right now trying to concentrate let alone make it a habit. But I’m getting there and it’s working for sure.
Oh and by the way I’m not doing all these exercises as frequent because I feel it’s quality over quantity. Just a couple rocks throughout the day and before bed. It’s mostly about what you do throughout the day which is peripheral awareness that’s important. Cause In the end you should think of it not as developing your eye sight and improving it, but instead building healthy habits and that as a by product just so happens to improve your eye sight. That way your more process focused than result focused. Cause I found once I got clearer vision I got complacent and lost progress over and over again so it’s finding that way to constantly be able to stay consistent and motivate your self to keep at it.
Greetings from Poland. You helped me a lot.
Hej, opowiesz z jaką wadą się zmagasz?
@@marcin4523 3,0 i 2,5. Poprawa 0,75 w kilka mcy, ale nie pracuję nad zmianą nawyków zbyt intensywnie.
I did swinging for one week at a TV and walking on streets, my eyesight sharper now but when i am trying to play computer games or reading or watching something my eyes are getting tired and hurting after 10 minets inspite of i am swinging all that time... At least i can watch TV without tiredness. My eyesight was -6 and now, i think it's about -5.5 coz i literally see the difference.
Thanks for creating such videos.
Wow, I have small myopia (-2,5) but I don't feel comfortable using my phone without glasses, because the screen gets slightly blurry, but I took off my eyeglasses, stretched and yawned a few times just like you said, and the vision is slightly but noticeably better :o
I can see way better on a sunny day. When it's sunny I have clear flashes throughout the day. I've been doing this since Aug, 14, 2022. (On cloudy days or at night it's much more rare, so far.)
I used to be the same way. I would see great in the sun and the minute something changed so did my vision. I realized that it was a trick of the brain. Just because a cloud rolls in or you go from bright sun to a not so bright room, nothing has really changed and you have to keep telling yourself this. Same goes for seeing at night. The peripheral never goes away and neither does movement. Light change conditions make you think it does! I'll be doing a video about night soon.
@@MyopiaIsMental Thanks Warren. You're work has changed my life.
Thank you, your video really helped.
Now I need to put your words into action.
Mark, I'm a little late to the game here but wanted to tell you how proud I am of you & all you're doing! I've been busy slowly improving because that's my life for now but I'm excited to get back on task, thanks to you!
Hi Mark! Glad to see you’re active again! I’ve been holding off on vision improvement for almost two years now and want to finally get to work - hope you are going to keep uploading! :)
2 things that I've become more aware of:
1) I've been wearing plastic sunglasses over my eyeballs too much. So I've been taking them off more to let the natural, unpolarized light in.
2) I spend so much time looking at screens in my hand I realized it's fun to do the opposite and look as far down the road as I can while driving.
Yes,
Get a Snellen, and confirm your success!
No better way.
By any method.
You may already know this but....
What you are explaining is the activation of the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex...Its often called the 6th sense...People who are dyslexic often suffer from an over-activation of the Vestibular System which can cause disorientation and or vertigo...
There is an entire branch of physical therapy for people with hyper active VOR issues. Its the exact opposite condition as astigmatism in many cases...
The exercises consist of focusing your eyes on one point in space while you move you head left to right...This reduces the VOR... What you explain increases the VOR, by moving the eyes and head together...
My guess is that the medical people either arent smart enough to understand that myopia is caused by an under use of the Vestibular sense or that it is intentionally withheld from the public so as to keep the "Eyeglass" scam going which is a 100 Billion dollar industry....It took me 20 years to learn this information..Im glad you are speaking on it because there is solid nueroscience backing your conclusions....
I'm very much aware of all of this. In the past few years I've taken courses on brain development, posture, reflexes and more. All of it has helped improve not only my eyesight but so much more. What I learned is somewhat hard to explain and people can get lost in details, which is why I think about things for a long time to explain things in a simple way without the complexities. Before I had even taken the course I was discovering much of it on my own. Now I just have the science or rather neuroscience to back it up. I've learned doctors (optometrist included) only try to fix symptoms but they don't work to fix the root cause. It's like putting duct tape on a cracked board versus repairing the board!
@@MyopiaIsMental Yea its really a proprioreceptive awareness of the vestibular sense of either one's head or inner imagery moving through space...But since we only learn that we have 5 senses instead of 7, people get locked into a limited thought structure concerning whats happening in the body...That includes the doctors...You've done a brilliant job at relating your experiences...I can tell that you've thought about this deeply in order to express you thoughts clearly so that a wide audience can understand...I Salute your efforts!
Can you explain more about vor, should i increase it to fix my myopia and astigmatisme?
And all these reflexes stretch and contract the eyeballs and of course the cornea tissue in real time.
Unfortunately, there is no protocol doable to teach people this. Only Bates method, but is too outdated or even fragmented in various different scholar teachings.
I tried your method for more than 2 months, my eyes only get more tired ! I'll advise everyone better to spend more time looking distance and limit your screen usage !
Yes. That works.
Mark I had a question that in astigmatism what should we do :-
1) Should we move our eyes and head in perfectly sync ?
2)Or we should let the attention (where to look) lead and let eyes and head move as they want after that ?
Try to make an effort to let your head and neck do the heavy lifting as opposed to your eyes. Take a break from things like reading, texting, watching TV, or playing video games (anything that requires very little head movement and a lot of eye movement). The goal is to minimize your overall eye fatigue.
Think of it like exercising. If you do heavy workouts every single day, eventually you're going to damage your muscles. The eyes are no different. They need rest and care just like the rest of the body.
This is an extremely valuable mindset when thinking about any other part of your body too! Knowing yourself is the best way you can help yourself. If you're ever short on ideas or just want to learn more, you can always find something useful online.
*This goes without saying but;*
Always try to do things naturally to start, you don't want to get hooked on someone's product to "help" your body. Those are almost always scams. Remembering your roots is the best way to grow!
Hey, Mr. Warren!
My big question is that, after a good day's active focus/peripheral awareness, I feel like it's counter productive to wear my normalized glasses again after sunset. I feel like that will worsen the gains that I just made that day.
I've tried active focus for quite a few days before giving up on it, because I couldn't active focus to clear the blur out. I then wore my normalized glasses for several months before I came across your videos. After I watched your video about active focus and Bates' method being the same thing essentially, I was able to get clear flashes, albeit only for a split second or a couple of seconds. The huge thing for me is that I tried your method without glasses, I used to attempt active focus with my normalized glasses on. I feel like I'm making progress when I'm doing these drills outdoors during the daytime and when I go back home or it's night time, I don't feel like wearing my normalized glasses. What do you suggest?
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I had the same problem of getting great gains without glasses and then lose all the progress when I put them back on. That's when I realized we're all capable of seeing just fine without glasses once we learn how to relax. It really has nothing to do with the eyes at all. Vision is more a problem in the brain and it is affected when stressed. That's when I stopped wearing my glasses unless absolutely necessary, like when driving. Eventually I got to the point when I didn't need my glasses at all. I believe when you keep putting your glasses back on you're convincing your brain that you need them to see. The brain has a hard time letting go of the habit of wearing glasses. The more you mentally and physically tell yourself you don't need them, the easier and faster it is to create the new habit of seeing clearly.
Hey Mark! I discovered your channel about a year ago. I occasionally practice the techniques that you've told but nothing seems to work. Now I think I got the answer.
But I have a question to you.
How to read a book and still concentrate on the peripheral vision? I mean how to be 'aware' of the surrounding when you have to 'focus' on the single object?
Thank you in advance!
You do not have to obsess over the periphery hold the book far away so that you can't still read it but It gets slightly blurry. really just do it and fully commit and you will see progress
With my experience, he is refering to the periphery just like you were thinking. The more you can read while keeping the periphery in your conscious focus, the better your eyes might become! It has worked amazing for me especially watching movies!
A lot of people say the peripheral isn't important but I'm going to tell you why many have trouble seeing the full field of view while looking at something with their central vision. . If you spend a lot of times indoors in rooms, you're surrounded by stationary objects that don't move. This isn't natural! The only way for them to move is for "you" to move! If you think about being outside in nature, nothing is ever perfectly still! The wind blows ever so slightly and it will cause trees, plants and flowers to sway. Also you don't sit in square, confined boxes in nature (which is why it's easier to improve vision outdoors vs indoors). To improve your ability to see movement indoors try reading with a TV running in the background to your left or right. Turn the sound off so you're not distracted by it, but as you read notice the movement on the TV as you read. I'm actually doing this while I type this reply! There are a lot more things that I cover in the Advanced Journey Guides on my website but I think you'll get the idea.
What was the answer you think you got?
The awareness described in the video or something else?
What were the 15 things ?
I could barely read the 2 line on the eyes chart without glasses, now I'm almost reading the 20/30 line, about 6 weeks without glasses and vision improve so much and I'm not doing anything else, look to me the one tip to improve is to stop using the fucking glasses.
Mark you should post more often to promote encouragement and awareness. Been doing your basic for a month and a half. So far results are amazing.
I am about to get the Advanced.
😀 I hope to post more soon!
Also how about using pinhole glasses rather low dioptre specs ??? Please give views.
4:19 what are the 15 things that cause your vision to become blurry?
I don't think about it like doing techniques. I think about it like seeing correctly. (I used to do tunnel vision all the time. Now I notice it and pay attention to the periphery.)
Aye you are back
Waiting for you too! Thank you for posting. There's nothing like the power of consciousness and adding peeling through these epiphany onion peels of life. The cures are innumerable to the individual and society!
Thank u.. M appplying it on my son having -10 d
its long since the last video, Mark.
Hope you doin well? Are you complete free off your glasses now?
best regards,
Eric
I haven't worn glasses in about 2 years! So yes, I'm free of my glasses. Sometimes my vision gets softer when stressed but as soon as I make myself aware of how tense I'm getting, I can sharpen my vision instantly.
@@MyopiaIsMental glad you found your way! Great job, Mark.
Finally the God is back😍
Hello Mark, I have genuinely improved my eyesight. I do oxidization THROUGH THE CENTER but I don't overdo it. I notice more (center) periphery, depth. I have my eyes more often in a neutral position within the eye socket. My vision went from -3 to -1.5 in half a year.
I do not obsess over any of these things.
Amazing progress, it's nice to read
What is oxidization through the center?
@@jspirale4862 fully breathe in in a non tense way through the centre of your body.
@@ChoskarChulian Thank you so much Oskar! Can you suggest a web site or video where this is explained?
@@jspirale4862 I literally just do what I said in the comment try what I say and nothing else and don't do any other stuff for those 2 days
I had Lasik in 1996 on my left eye and now I can't read with just that eye. Is it possible to do exercises to improve an eye that's had this procedure? I never got the right eye done, if I did it would be even worse.
By being aware of your peripheral vision, you exist your fight or flight or freeze, and, by doing this, you allow your body to normalize.
I think you will be (or you are already) aware of many more changes in your body regarding not only to your eyes. :)
Behind this discussion, there is much more than improving your eyesight...
100%!! I started this journey just trying to fix my eyes and learned I was teaching myself to fix so much more! My overall health and mobility has improved by focusing on the body as a whole!
@Myopia Is Mental You can add another technique to review - David Webber's 'Seeing Clearly'. David has a really powerful story behind him. Threaten by blindness, harmed by modern medicine, he manage to restore his eyesight.
@@mynameismyname4881 hello. Is it a book ??
Apart from the constant awareness of peripheral vision, do you still do rocking drills and stuff like that, at a particular time in a day?
The rocking drills are meant to open your vision to movement between objects once he understood that he began seeing that movement more than before and now he sees it all of the time. It about making a good habit of his techniques that will improve your vision
I don't have to do the rocking drills anymore because aware of micro movements in my visual field. I can see/create these movements just by breathing and I see them all day. It's become more of a habit so it's not something I think about all the time.
I must write a review so far for all the people who are wondering how it progresses. I'll do this in bite-size chunks to get it all out without overdoing it.
1. I am -1.25 in my right eye and -1.5 in my left eye (the difference feels large to me when I use one eye at a time) and I'm 17 years old as of now. I first stumbled upon the 'Learning with Mark Warren' youtube channel precisely a year ago, marking how long into this journey I am.
2. My first clear flash happened near the end of last summer, after a game of football in which I was purposefully noticing my peripheral when moving around my mates and objects. The flash happened when I was cycling back home (the flashes tend to happen to me after the 'constant noticing' when I start to loosen up a bit). It triggered when I looked up quite suddenly, I happened to see a person's face far away very clearly for the first time in about 4 years (the person was around 20 meters away).
3. Despite the realisation that reversing myopia was truly do-able (especially after my second flash - it was in a grocery shop and every sign was visible, so it felt quite surreal) my streaks ended too often, where I found myself back to my normal lack of peripheral concentration.
4. After a few tries, each come-back feels easier and I was at a point where I was doing it every time I cycled back from my college. One afternoon doing so, I was using license plates as my central vision and I triggered a clear flash that lasted after a blink (I was still locking onto the license plate after each blink) and I thought I'd finally cracked it. Once again my motivation disappeared silently, and naturally.
5. Now to date. I received a heap of motivation since my summer is halfway through and I want to improve my vision before I go back to college. Yesterday I was very comfortable noticing my peripheral frequently, since now I have a lot of experience after my many tries and fails. I had a major clear flash yesterday - meaning, if you did happen to leave your routine for months, it still comes back as strong. However, today when I was cycling back from the gym (yesterday's clear flash occurred when I was leaving the same gym) I had many clear flashes and I know it's getting easier each day I do these habits.
6. In conclusion, do not give up. I have many times but I always come back. It gets easier with time and you must be patient. I understand I don't have high myopia, but i know ill never have to wear glasses in my life with Mark's information he has blessed us with. No one can take the information away, I'm sure ill remember this in years to come. I strongly believe when I'm older I will still retain this habit.
7. I haven't seen permanent improvement in my eyesight yet but I have seen improvement in my progress and flashes.
Good luck everyone. I'll happily answer questions to the best ability.
Do we have do this with or without specks on
??
Without, however I am low myopic (-1.25). I have heard if you're higher myopic (-2 or higher) it helps having a reduced prescription with long-range blur still present. This is because the ciliary muscles improve when they get released, but they only release to the extent that your vision is clear again. @@kamalpandey1047
The thing is to learn notice and perform tiny movements with your head and neck, very tiny and notice your sides move together.
When you master this, you are done.
Hi! How often did you wear your glasses throughout this and do you practice this as much as possible throughout the day or is that overdoing it?
Hey mark Warren I have seen many of your videos and they are so useful I am student with severe sighted mark I want to contact you and solve my doubts😭😭😭please reply
You can book a 1 on 1 call with me on my website myopiaismental.com
Hey Mark, I am learning a lot of my own life, like an anthropologist. Learning about mirror neurons, about facial micro and macro expressions, about how even thoughts or even if we are reading something can trigger expressions over the whole face. How enviroment impacts our mood, nerves, muscles and eyesight, mirror neurons are always ready to mimic someone good/bad pattern. I start to think myopic people are stuck in a disconnection with their mirror neurons, maybe because they feel different wearing something no natural in front their faces(?), it has been said that lack of mirror neurons is common in autistic children. Maybe does glasses induces people live in their own inner world? Maybe smartphone are creating a new generation of people lacking mirror neurons? Mirror neurons are our inner feeling of compassion and also envy.
I was very interested in something called "voice locus", in my own observation I noted that my voice tone and "position" feels different when I am relaxed. In "Cold read" people can figure out some people state of mind by seeing their facial macro and micro expression also by listening people voice tone. For example Ernest Rossi who worked with Milton Erickson said that hands, lips and tongue have a huge brain connection.
Something weird that I never wrote before about this journey is: I notice my fingers getting smaller when I am relaxed and seeing clearly lol, maybe something relate to skin?
Here is a great debate about mirror neurons, how it can change our lives. A neuroscientist, a dancer, an actor, a voice actor, a psychologist, a practioneer of Alexander Technique.
m.ruclips.net/video/loB-Lg0X1qo/видео.html
Ultimately you must work with your own Snellen and Test lenses!
From 20/50 to 20/20.
It is LONG TERM.
Some people need to adjust their bite, correct their nose breathe. Over our face we can only move three and some rare cases four muscles; they are nostrils, eyebrows, ears and lips. I can esily notice when my face muscles are distorting my field of view, mainly my left side there I use to have a bad bite connection. And, it gets easier to connect internal cheek walls to molars and front lips to front teeth. I guess lips help eyeballs to move!!
Can you tell me more about this. I have an overbite and I swear whenever I extend my lower jaw my eyes get better vision. Is this related? Can you tell me your experience?
you said in your free course in the topic myopia is mental not medical that your eyes are prescribed for -5D but still you saw clearly, so I want to ask that is the clarity is for few time in which you are concentrating yourself and it is 100% all the time . (I am talking about the phase in which you have recovered myopia as you said before) .
Finally after 9 months. Where were you?
It feels like waiting for a John cena return
I was working on a new updated Advanced Journey Guide, taking a few classes on neuro science and being a dad! 😀
@@MyopiaIsMental Glad your back Warren.
@@MyopiaIsMental we need more
Dear Mark , ive got very important query what changes did you bring in your diet. Please do elaborate. Thanks alot for everything you do ✌⚘
Great question! Before I even started working on my vision, I changed my diet. In 2015, I started eating less processed foods. We mostly eat vegetables that we cook ourselves, and meat. I mostly eat fresh produce and meat from the perimeter of the grocery store and stay away from the inner aisles, where you'll find more processed foods. We have a year-round farmer's market near us, and we get seasonally produce as much as we can. I later learned that we were somewhat eating keto, but we don't 100% stick to it. I drink mostly water, sometimes with lemon, but have wine with dinner a few times per week. I've drastically cut sugar and carbs and don't really miss them. I feel the difference immediately whenever I splurge.
@@MyopiaIsMental Thanks alot dear Mark 😊 I am also living on similar lines plus i do eat eye supplements too.
Can you explain tunnel vision in a more simpler way.
When im aware of the peripheral, it engages active focus. When I look at what im looking at, it engages active focus, blur is cleared both ways, maybe your way is faster because you include everything not just central.
Awareness of the peripheral and awareness of movement while looking at something centrally was key in improving my vision faster. If you want to make it even faster, become aware of how the muscles in your eyes and body are moving while you are using your peripheral and central vision!
Notice when you put on your distance glasses, the glasses is emulating two things:
1 - an wide open eye (see people with good vision, their eyes are wide open, rarely do you see a layer of skin covering it) which allows you to receive the full length of light.
2 - spreading light to the side of the sclera (the concave lens also spreads light over the edges of the eyeball).
What many nearsighted people suffer from a permanent tired eyelid, due to lack of adequate rest, nutrient deficit or excessive exposure to lights that burn the eyes (which forces the eye to defend itself which in the long term will cause sensitivity to sunlight)
The semi-closed eyelid prevents the eyes from being adequately nourished by light. Thus, some parts, such as the external sclera, are forced and atrophy causing anomaly in the formation of the cornea.
If you see Bates' Long Swing it basically tries to re-establish that part of the eye that's missing. Perception of the periphery also stimulates this tissue, as does print pushing (the surrounding environment moving along with the book)
Look ar people who reversed their myopia; Mark Warren, Nathan Oxenfeld, David De Angelis.. All of them have more sclera, mainly lateral external sclera size. For example, De Angelis advocates rotation of the head with open eyed while fixating the gaze at a specific target, I think is an exercise to stimulate sclera shape.
The myopic challenge is, when blinking, to keep the eye active, open, interested, excited while breathing normally. That's why factors such as inadequate sleep, a body lacking nutrients (food, parasites, lack of water) or lack of hope can make a person lose focus.
Another thing that myopia do a lot is keep their vision focused towards near (convergence) even when they are in a very open environment. They think they are going to produce central fixation by effort and end up kidnapping the eyes and inventing ways to force vision with eyelids, eyebrows, foreheads, cheeks and everything that will force the eyes. Basically the central fixation is the result of the images that the two eyes receive when they are aligned and receptive.
I know, Bates teachers always advocate relaxation, but sometimes we need some activation 🙏
@@Bernardo-mt8ho I dont wear glasses for distance, im better than 20/20
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@@kkevinj1 Yes, but in another of comment of yours you said you done LASIK. Then, you still have myopic bad habits.
i am doing your tech and bates tech with foundation of endmyopia,
Are you able to completely focus on your work along with awareness of periphery now. Did your work in hand suffer little bit when you started this.
Keeping eyes open reminds me of the tratak tecnique.
Did you ever try it it?.
I did some time back to help me with my focus, but at that time i did not do any test to see if it was helping me.
Thanks for the information.
Hi Mark I've noticed that everytime I do triangulation the object that where I'm focusing my eyes gets blurry. Is it normal??? Thank you for your response 🥰
Hello Mark, I have a question, my problem is regular headaches. Which significantly hinder everyday functioning. A month ago I found out that I have a visual impairment, myopia and astigmatism (right eye -0.5 and cylinder -0.5, left -0.75). Could you give me some advice? What can I do to reduce the pain? I will be very grateful.
You should do more research search about his old channel named as mark Warren , and also about jake stainer
@Marcin, When people start wearing glasses, they often get headaches. When people get higher prescriptions, they often get headaches. When people who have worn glasses for a long time and take them off, they often get headaches. I believe it for two reasons in all of these cases: One glasses and contacts change the natural perspective of how we see and the brain doesn't like it. Sudden changes in the visual field lead to tension in the muscles in head and neck, i.e. you get a headache. I have had all of these cases eventually you get used to the changes and the headache goes away but it does take time. Learning to relax and breath will help and also be aware of where you feel most tense!
@@MyopiaIsMental The headaches started even before I bought my glasses. It's better now since I have them, but I try to avoid them. My vision defect is small. Is it okay to wear glasses as little as possible? Relaxation is a valuable tip. I will follow this advice
Think about what happened in your life when you started getting the headaches and noticing that your vision changed. Were you stressed, reading a lot more, etc. Think about how less stressed you may have been before your vision started to fail. More than likely you'll remember some specific moment when it all started to happen or a series of events when it started to happen. As far as wearing as little as possible. I can't tell you what to do but if it were me, I wouldn't wear a prescription that low unless I absolutely needed them. Also if you have an astigmatism correction, it will only get worse because glasses and contacts lock your eye into there angle of error.
@@MyopiaIsMental I remember perfectly well when it started. The headaches came from my new job, which was very stressful for me. Several other stressful events also emerged during this period. So it was a series of events as you say. I think my case can be viewed as proof that "myopia is mental". What you say gave me a lot to think about. I took your "20/20 Basic Journey" course and I am starting my own adventure in improving my eyesight. Thank you very much
Can ortho K lenses be used while trying to improve the eyesight naturally or the ortho K lenses are not safe
But ive talked to people who have 20/20 vision and they dont say that they see movements and when they do close up they dont notice other objects but if someone is passing or something they are aware of it
I've talked to many people about this, and here's what I've found. People with perfect vision don't always notice movement because their brain has always processed that information correctly! They don't have to think about it or observe because it's always worked correctly for them. As you said, they are more aware if someone is passing or a moving object comes within their field of view. I believe if there was a time when you didn't wear glasses, most people's brains processed this information correctly. However, something traumatic may have occurred that changed the way the brain interprets this peripheral and movement information. The key to rebuilding these neural connections that recognize movement automatically is being consciously aware of it until the automation takes over. Once it becomes a habit, you won't have to think about it!
Mark, JUST discovered you today. Is this information for presbyopia as well? I am 56 and need readers, and also for computers. For long distance, like driving, or when I'm walking in the world, I can get away without glasses. I HATE my glasses.
While I've personally only had experience with myopia, I believe this can work for most vision problems. In fact people who have been farsighted said what I talk about has worked for them. I'm almost 46 and for years, I've been told vision gets worse as you age but I don't think that's the case at all. I think when you stop exercising the muscles of your eyes they get worse as you age. Use it or lose it. It's like you're putting your eyes in a coma and the muscles become atrophied. However it's easy to correct once you become aware of what you're supposed to be doing and do it all the time. My vision, in theory, should be getting worse but it's still improving week by week!
Hi Mark, Does mulitfocal contact lens help in training my eye? Multifocal lens always come with Lo, med, and Hi power for reading. Should I use Hi Power in order to relief the eyes the strain of working on computer?
I personally don't care for multifocal contacts, glasses, or multiple pairs of glasses. Why, because you keep changing the perspective of how you see and the brain does not like these quick changes! It also makes it extremely hard to improve. You may start seeing well without glasses and then you put your glasses or contacts back on and lose all your progress. It's happened to me far too many times and that's when I started wearing my glasses as little as possible. When you change it's like you're telling your brain, I don't trust that I can see, so the brain never fully releases the tension or struggles doing so.
"started seeing things differently" - quite literally.
I was waiting waiting for your video desperately and eventually I got it.
Not blinking cause dry eyes??
In the movement , do you focus on something directly in front and focus on it and notice the background movement, or vice versa?
Focus on something directly in front of you and notice the background movement of objects around you. Notice the movement and the objects without taking your eyes off of what you're focusing on in your central vision!
Focus is not the same as put force into this.
It's more about what Mark just says in this video. It's an awareness, completely awareness.
Bates mentioned about imagination or memory as awareness.
When you are focusing with your imagination, building scenarios, mental worlds or when you recall a mental memory, you are taking excessive energy from your muscles, you are using your nervous system in a different way. Nervous system is connected to muscles.
The weird thing is; living here and now is similar to living in a dream state, in a memory state.
Its more a philosophical thing.
Because we use our mind to build our reality, the whole time.
You can play with this; imagine you are seeing the room from a different angle, a different point of view.
Every time you build possibilities in your mind about your enviroment, its the time you are alive.
Of course, people with myopia tend to build scenarios of things far from them, and total unecessary, most of these scenarios trigger anxiety.
Hey can you please help me with eye floaters?
Is your idea of noticing periphery and seeing everything at the same time contrary to central fixation?
Absolutely not! See everything but know that the center is the sharpest! Seeing everything helps the center be sharper.
Thanks that was reassuring and helpful.
So basically we need to be aware of the problem to fix the problem. Geez who would have known?
It goes beyond that and I think you're missing the point. ruclips.net/video/S0rXN4C-sKY/видео.html
How much money do you want ?
Elongated eye ball or ciliary lockup which one cause myopia??I think elongated eye ball is the real reason myopia .
I believe both. Tension is the enemy in both cases. Too much tension in the ciliary body makes the muscle stiff so now the lens can't move/focus. The lens can become hardened over time from lack of movement. Think about an engine that sits for a long period of time. It can eventually deadlock. As for eye elongation. I don't think the eyes grow long or rather grow at all. I believe the tension caused my the extraocular muscles squish the eyeball to make it long. Think about a round balloon and you use your hand to smash it down. It becomes long. Learn to relieve the tension in both the ciliary and extraocular muscles and you fix both!
@@MyopiaIsMental thank you
Thanks a lot for coming back after long time
Thank you so much ❤️🌷
So I need to be consciously aware of my peripheral vision and notice movement between objects. After a while it will become a habit and it will improve my vision?
Short answer, Yes, but it's not about just being aware of the peripheral although many seem to think that's all I talk about! :-)
@@MyopiaIsMental I think you should write a book and write down everything there
Hey nice to see you again you have been like an angel for me in improving my eye site mark it's all blur when I started 2 years back form -3 D some in both eye and now I can clear almost everything being conscious but I have stuck at a point which I share you many times in mail but didn't reply and that is I can't continue with clear vision I have to think it consciously which I am tired off please help me if you can.. I will be thankfull of you till my last breath of what you have given me in those 3-4 vedios thanks ❤🙏🌹 mark I really appreciate your work man.. Love form 🇮🇳🇮🇳 india
Reprogramming a bad habit takes a lot more effort than learning something new the first time. Think about how babies develop. Around 6-8 months old a baby can learn to roll over, sit up, crawl, start to eat solid food and grasp objects. By 8-14 months they can start to learn to talk, walk, run, fully eat solid food and more. They learn a lot of "new" things in a short period of time and most of this is done by observing how we as adults move. The younger kids are, the easier it is for them to learn multiple language but as we age it's harder because we have the habit of speaking the way we do with our mother tongue. Retraining your brain to learn a new way to see is no different than learning a new language. You have to make yourself consciously aware of how the new language works because you're so set they way your existing language works. It's not easy at first but the more you do it the more it becomes habit. As long as you keep at you'll continue to improve and one day it will all... click!
Okay 👌
Can u plz hlp me how to do these excercise
Thank you sir 🙏
Thanks a lot Mark 🙂
Why were you not posting any video from a long time
I was working on a new updated Advanced Journey Guide, taking a few classes on neuro science and being a dad! 😀
Legend is back!!!!
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It needs to be at least 12 or more characters with a combo of upper and lowercase, numbers and special characters.
@@MyopiaIsMental 12??? That explains the problem
I am fascinated by your channel. Do your techniques work for hypermetropia + astigmatism as well ?
For sure astigmatism. As for hypermetropia, I have no personal experience with it. That being said... I have had people who have contacted me and said they tried what I do, and it worked for them as well. I believe it all comes down to tension. Some can't relax to see far, some can't relax to see close. In theory, it should all be fixed the same.
Mark you say you wore glasses for 30+ years. How old were you when you began ?
Around 7 or 8 years old.
@@MyopiaIsMental this gives me hope
Hey mark just wanna say thank you for all your doing. Secondly, I wanna ask if you would mind touching base on the subject of eye floaters. I currently suffer from them and I’m noticing a lot more people say they do as well especially the younger generation. Would love to hear your perspective on them and if you know of any remedies to help them. The subject is hardly talked about at all. Thank you!
At some point I plan to do a video on this, but a few things about floaters which I use to have:
As your vision improves so will your floaters.
If you change your diet, you can greatly improve your floaters! Go 1 month cutting sugar and carbs and you will notice a big difference in your floaters. I'm not saying go full on keto but, by just eating meat and vegetables while cutting things like bread, pasta and processed food, you'll notice a difference in the floaters. Finally eat within a window (intermittent fasting). For example I mostly eat all my meals between the hours of 12:00pm and 6:30pm. In the morning I only drink tea and water. After the eating window, I mostly drink water. Doing this gets your body to recycle (autophagy) old and damaged proteins which is what floaters are. Dr. Eric Berg on RUclips has several good videos about this. Hope this helps!
I'd like to draw a tech comparison here. This is a video I just watched comparing the cameras of the latest two generations of base-line iPhones: ruclips.net/video/IRnya4qcjOQ/видео.html Interesting thing is, the sensor ("the eye") hasn't changed at all, the only thing that has changed is the chip hence the processing of the raw signal ("the brain"). In the latest generation and with the better chip, pictures come out significantly sharper and with more detail. This is quite similar what we are doing here. We're not changing the sensor alias the eye and its physics. We are working on how the brain processes this signal. Now, a question to me that is still unanswered is this: Are we correcting an imperfect signal coming from the eye (the theory that the eyeballs of myopiatic persons is too long) while processing of a less-than-ideal signal, or are we just teaching our brain to use its full processing capabilities, which for some reason it has failed to develop when we were growing up, just pulling it to the same level where non-myopiatic persons are. We all know how powerful our brains are. Examples of persons with sensory abilities, where in turn their other senses seem to be becoming so much better, shows this most vividly.
Very good and accurate comparison, hence why I say myopia is mental. I've done a lot of neuroscience research and the simple explanation is we must have a sensory input to get muscle output. If the input is not working correctly for whatever reason the muscle output doesn't work. When we bring awareness back to the the sensors involved in the process, the muscles start to reactivate the way they should be. When a person loses a sensory input, the others aren't necessarily getting better, they're compensating for the loss. Many people are moving about today in compensatory muscle patterns and don't even know it!
Sir, I can't understand your accent. I have astigmatism of -2 in left eye. Please write which side I have to tilt my head&eye. Thank you Sir
This won’t help eyesight
hey mark
did you do lense reduction while fixing your vision?
thinking about the 1 to 1.5 diopter reduction that endmyopia promotes
In the beginning I was doing lens reduction, but I soon realized that I could see just fine without my glasses when I relaxed. That told me it's not an issue of my eyes, it's an issue of my mental state and stress levels. I also found that every time I would wear my glasses I would lose the progress I made when I had them off. That's when I stopped wearing my glasses unless I absolutely needed them. I believe everyone is capable of seeing perfectly clearly, within a matter of minutes, no matter what the prescription once they learn how to relax!
@@MyopiaIsMental thanks for the reply, but how exactly does that work if you have elongated eyes from high myopia?