What to Expect During the Training

Clear Flashes

During your training, you will experience moments or flashes of an image that is sharp, and then it becomes blurry again. This is termed “clear flashes”. When you get a clear flash, be aware that it will not last. Do not be afraid to loose it, as the more you try to hold onto it, the harder it is to keep the clarity. When it comes, take a few deep breathes as you enjoy the clarity. Then close your eyes for a few seconds, feeling the calmness of the deep breathes before opening them again. The clarity may still be there or it may not. Do not pursue it and it will come back again naturally. Learn to relax and trust that your eyes will repeatedly and correctly focus on any object you want to see.

As you continue to practice, the clear flashes will come more often and will last longer. At first, you will see sharper in bright lights, then you will gradually see sharper in low light. Your eyes will focus correctly at certain distances and it will gradually focus correctly at all distances. You will see very clear in the morning after a good night sleep, and as the day goes on, fatigue and old habits creep in and you will see less clearly. Your eyes does not see sharply all the time, but as you continue to practice and learn to relax as you use it, you will be able to see clearly through most of the day.

Jump in Progress

As you do the exercises, there will be a few event that marks a jump in improvement. You may or may not experience the jumps in the same way that I did, but the result you get should be the same. I share my experience so you have an idea of what to expect.

As I was practicing week two’s lesson, something suddenly changed. It felt like something popped. There was no sound, but the change was dramatic enough that it surprised me. Everything seemed brighter. I have always noticed a big different in brightness between having my glasses on and having it off. I reasoned that the glasses concentrate the light so it should look brighter. After the “popping”, there was very little difference in brightness between having the glasses on and having it off.

My eyes felt light and the movements seemed effortless. I never noticed the stiffness in my eye movement until I experienced the “pop”. The double vision and distortion was considerably less. The distance vision was still blurry but the eyes can maintain clarity longer during the clear flashes.

A second jump happened as I was doing the week three’s lesson. I took deep breaths, slowly looking at various points on the buildings and trees when the area around the eyes and between the eyebrows tightened. It felt as if someone was squeezing the area together. I thought I was straining, but I noticed that the back of my head, my neck, and my shoulder were loose and relaxed. I was breathing deeply and I felt completely calm. The squeezing was only around the eye area without any conscious effort from me. The image during the squeezing was sharp. It lasted for about 5 or 10 minutes. Afterwards, I tried to recreate the same sensation in an effort to see the same sharpness but it only created strain at the back of the eyes, back of the head, neck and shoulders. The next day as I did the exercise, I noticed that the image sharpen faster than normal and I can maintain the sharpness longer.

Jumps in progress are exciting times. It is like moving up a level in a video game. We hone our skills in fighting with the enemy and when we master it, we can move on to the next level. It motivates us to continue honing the eye skills because we can level up each time we master a new skill set. It is these burst of improvements that kept me excited to move forward towards my goal. Hopefully, you will experience similar jumps to help keep you motivated until you achieve your goal.

Overcome Eyestrain

Getting a handle on eyestrain is like trying to push a stalled car, it takes a lot of effort to get started but once it begins to move, it becomes easier to keep the momentum. It is difficult to feel the tension in your eye muscles when they have been locked and strained for many years. As you go through the training, the eye muscles get a chance to practice moving back to its rest position, and you will begin to feel the difference between tense eyes and relax eyes. The old habits have been there for so long that you will find it hard to control. At this point, you are still struggling to get the car to move. As you practice, your eyes begin to relax and you will feel and understand this relax sensation. This awareness help you to consciously interrupt the straining habits. At this point, you have managed to get the car moving. The new skills of looking at a small area, shifting, converging, and releasing tension eventually develops into a new habit of seeing and you will gain better control of your straining. Eventually, you are able to tell exactly when our eyes want to tense and you can interrupt it before it starts. This is the time when the car is rolling and you jump into the car, pop the clutch and start it. It takes constant awareness, practice, and endurance to overcoming eyestrain. There is no secret shortcut or trick to learn it, it requires old fashion elbow grease, practice, practice, practice!

Summary

The Wynning Vision Program has mapped the course for vision improvement and highlighted key areas of interest. It is now up to you to takes the necessary steps and persevere until you reach the destination. The first step begins in the next chapter.