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Active Focus resolves a small amount of [[myopic defocus]]. Doing Active Focus provides the necessary stimulus to reverse the effects of [[myopia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://endmyopia.org/faq-items/what-is-active-focus |title=What is Active Focus |last=Steiner |first=Jake |website=Endmyopia |access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vasudevan |first1=Balamurali |last2=Ciuffreda |first2=Kenneth |date=2009 |title=Accommodative Training to Reduce Nearwork-Induced Transient Myopia |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19786929 |journal=Optometry and Vision Science |volume=86 |issue=11 |pages=1287-1294 |doi=10.1097/OPX.0b013e3181bb44cf |access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref> It is also important in managing eyestrain.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://endmyopia.org/active-focus-links/ |title=Active Focus: The Link List (+ Video Explainer) |last=Steiner |first=Jake |website=Endmyopia |access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref>
Active Focus resolves a small amount of [[myopic defocus]]. Doing Active Focus provides the necessary stimulus to reverse the effects of [[myopia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://endmyopia.org/faq-items/what-is-active-focus |title=What is Active Focus |last=Steiner |first=Jake |website=Endmyopia |access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vasudevan |first1=Balamurali |last2=Ciuffreda |first2=Kenneth |date=2009 |title=Accommodative Training to Reduce Nearwork-Induced Transient Myopia |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19786929 |journal=Optometry and Vision Science |volume=86 |issue=11 |pages=1287-1294 |doi=10.1097/OPX.0b013e3181bb44cf |access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref> It is also important in managing eyestrain.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://endmyopia.org/active-focus-links/ |title=Active Focus: The Link List (+ Video Explainer) |last=Steiner |first=Jake |website=Endmyopia |access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref>


Active Focus attempts to push the distant vision of the eyes slightly further. However, as [[accommodation]] is an involuntary process, achieving Active Focus is not straight forward. While it is easy to move the skeletal muscles of your body, it is not possible to control the [[ciliary muscle]]s in the same way. However, by careful manipulation of the [[blur horizon]], it is possible to encourage the eyes to push slightly harder to achieve focus. This extra push is what Active Focus is about.
Active Focus attempts to push the distant vision of the eyes slightly further. However, as [[accommodation]] is a voluntary process, achieving Active Focus is not straight forward. While it is easy to move the skeletal muscles of your body, it is not possible to control the [[ciliary muscle]]s in the same way. However, by careful manipulation of the [[blur horizon]], it is possible to encourage the eyes to push slightly harder to achieve focus. This extra push is what Active Focus is about.


In order to do this successfully, it is important to introduce appropriate amount of [[blur]] challenge to the eyes. This can be accomplished by the use of [[normalized]] and [[differential]] glasses. As opposed to full correction glasses where everything is always sharp, normalized and differential glasses provide convenient access to a blur horizon. This blur horizon allows for the practice of Active Focus. Again, the blur challenge should not be so much that it is too difficult for the eyes and not so little that it is unnoticeable.
In order to do this successfully, it is important to introduce appropriate amount of [[blur]] challenge to the eyes. This can be accomplished by the use of [[normalized]] and [[differential]] glasses. As opposed to full correction glasses where everything is always sharp, normalized and differential glasses provide convenient access to a blur horizon. This blur horizon allows for the practice of Active Focus. Again, the blur challenge should not be so much that it is too difficult for the eyes and not so little that it is unnoticeable.

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Active Focus lets you break the limitations of the glasses you are wearing. Without AF, blur is static and does not change. With AF, blur becomes malleable and more like a spectrum which you can shift up and down along as you like. You aim for maximum clarity and as little blur as possible.

Active Focus is an essential part of EndMyopia. It can be described as conscious relaxation of the ciliary muscle. It results in clearer vision, and provides stimulus to improve eyesight in the long-term. It's probably the largest stumbling block in beginning to improve your eyesight.

Active Focus tends to elude newcomers who try to find it for the first time. You should expect to spend quite some time to find it yourself. The experienced EndMyopian is likely to tell the newcomer with delight that it works, how it clears up their vision and the long term gains they have made. The newcomer will listen on, maybe intrigued, but still will doubt the existence of it completely, until they experience it for themselves. In that sense, finding Active Focus is a little like taking the red pill.

How it works

Active Focus resolves a small amount of myopic defocus. Doing Active Focus provides the necessary stimulus to reverse the effects of myopia.[1][2] It is also important in managing eyestrain.[3]

Active Focus attempts to push the distant vision of the eyes slightly further. However, as accommodation is a voluntary process, achieving Active Focus is not straight forward. While it is easy to move the skeletal muscles of your body, it is not possible to control the ciliary muscles in the same way. However, by careful manipulation of the blur horizon, it is possible to encourage the eyes to push slightly harder to achieve focus. This extra push is what Active Focus is about.

In order to do this successfully, it is important to introduce appropriate amount of blur challenge to the eyes. This can be accomplished by the use of normalized and differential glasses. As opposed to full correction glasses where everything is always sharp, normalized and differential glasses provide convenient access to a blur horizon. This blur horizon allows for the practice of Active Focus. Again, the blur challenge should not be so much that it is too difficult for the eyes and not so little that it is unnoticeable.

Implementing Active Focus

Practicing Active Focus should not be viewed as an exercise activity. It should be incorporated to your daily lives so that it becomes habitual.[4] With proper use of normalized and differential glasses, opportunities to do Active Focus throughout your day is everywhere. By turning it into a habit, blur challenges are automatically cleared, thus eliminating the need to "put in effort" to improve. Taking frequent breaks from near visual work to do Active Focus is critical in preventing ciliary spasm and the worsening of myopia. With consistent practice of Active Focus, it is estimated that myopia will reverse at a rate of 0.25 diopters every 3 months.

See also

References

  1. Steiner, Jake. "What is Active Focus". Endmyopia. Retrieved 11 June 2020.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.
  2. Vasudevan, Balamurali; Ciuffreda, Kenneth (2009). "Accommodative Training to Reduce Nearwork-Induced Transient Myopia". Optometry and Vision Science. 86 (11): 1287–1294. doi:10.1097/OPX.0b013e3181bb44cf. Retrieved 11 June 2020.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.
  3. Steiner, Jake. "Active Focus: The Link List (+ Video Explainer)". Endmyopia. Retrieved 11 June 2020.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.
  4. Steiner, Jake. "Minimum Daily Active Focus Time? (PRO TOPIC)". YouTube. Retrieved 11 June 2020.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.