Part 11: Results

Signs of Improvement

When you start to see better, it can happen suddenly as you’re consciously practicing the method or doing something else entirely. These “clear flashes”, as they are commonly called, are the common sign of improvement. They may be a flash of better vision or what seems like absolutely perfect vision, lasting for an instant, part of a minute, or much longer. It’s an indication that you’re doing things right. It won’t be obvious at first what you’re doing differently than you were a moment ago. Sometimes it has to do with doing something in particular for several minutes at a time, or just several seconds, or doing something else that you don’t normally do. So when you get clear flashes, just pay attention to what it’s like to see clearer, what sensations you get from your eyes or elsewhere, and what you might have been doing differently in the moments leading up to it. The frequency, duration, and quality of these clear flashes can be a good indication of how well you’re doing.

You might get sensations of eyestrain, which is characterized by a hot, tired, heavy or painful feeling from your eyes. If you don’t feel eyestrain already, you might start to. The reason for this is your brain sometimes suppresses chronic pain. It’s similar to how you might not notice a particular noise until the noise stops or restarts. The sensation can also be from legitimately new or increased eyestrain from misapplying these principles and actually straining your eyes more than you were before. Confusion and mis-steps are to be expected.

You might also feel a light stinging sensation at a very small location on or in the front of your eye, and your eyes may or may not water in reaction to it. I don’t know what this is, but it’s a very common experience to have better vision accompanied by this stinging sensation. It can last through blinks, and in my opinion it doesn’t feel like dry eyes, which is more widespread over the entire cornea. The best thing to do might be to just keep using your eyes in the best way you know how. Closing your eyes in reaction to it immediately every time might not be the best action.

How Long Will it Take?

The most common question is, “How long is it going to take to improve my vision?”

It will take as long it takes you to learn how to see correctly.

In the best-case scenario, where a person understands immediately how to apply the concepts, it should only take a matter of days before his vision is stable. That’s pretty rare, to say the least, and while there are stories of such occurances, it may be virtually impossible for someone who has worn glasses for many years to recover that quickly. But clear flashes are good evidence of the way the visual system seems to be just waiting to be allowed to operate correctly again. More likely you should see some kind of results in the first days and weeks, and then it’s a question of whether it will take more weeks or several months to completely recover. If your vision isn’t continuing to improve after a few weeks, you’re likely doing something wrong that needs to be corrected.

You Have All Day

Your goal should be to change the way you see all day long. So at some point you need to start applying what you’ve learned to how you see all day long. How you use your eyes the majority of the day represents what your dominant habit is, and that’s what determines how well you see. If you don’t use your eyes right all day long, you aren’t fully applying these principles, due maybe to being unconvinced of them or just being complacent with your old way of doing things.

It takes a conscious effort to change, and the change can be very disruptive and time-consuming at first, but once you get used to the modified way of seeing and incorporate it into your habits, everything will be better than ever.

Seeing with Patience

When you’re trying out an exercise, whether it’s for the first time for the thousandth time, give it a moment. There may be a time lag as everything adjusts, and then all of a sudden you see some results.

That’s the way the world works here. If everything we instigated happened instantaneously, it would be a confusing and out of control place where you have to constantly deal with the consequences of your errant thoughts creating inconvenient things.

So when you get a flash of clear vision, don’t attribute it to what you did a split second earlier. You’ll be left wondering what you could have done that somehow you can’t even remember, despite it being just a few seconds ago. The reason that’s so hard to figure out is probably because you’re looking in the wrong place. More likely the cause of your clear flash was something you started a moment before that, and you didn’t take into account the time lag.

Understand also that when you start something and then move on to another thought, what you started continues for a while. So if you were to work on having a more positive attitude, for example, your attitude doesn’t necessarily change just because you start thinking about your planned bike ride this afternoon. It might continue without you knowing it.

You’re in this for the long haul, so any given moment of blurry vision isn’t so important. If you look at the first letter on a line of your eye chart, and it’s blurry, don’t worry about that result. Ignore it and make the right decision anyway. As soon as you look at the first letter, you move onto the second letter. And as soon as you look at the second letter, you again know that you’ll either get paid off or not, so you’ve done everything you can at that point, and you have to just move onto the third letter. And so on down the line, and to the next line, back and forth.

Your vision does not respond well to your asking, “Does this work? Does this work?” and expecting to see the answer right away. Your anxiousness by itself ruins the process. You should be as passive to the results as if on each spot you look at you’re holding out your hands, waiting for a clear detail to drop into them. You aren’t grabbing anything or making any effort to bring the detail into existence for yourself. You’ll get results based on how relaxed your nerves are and how quickly you keep moving to the next point

So just because your vision doesn’t clear up instantaneously, it doesn’t mean you’re doing the wrong thing. Over time the results of clearer vision will come quicker and quicker in response to what you’re doing, because your system is getting used to seeing in the right way.