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This question comes up in this forum at least once a day. So it’s a common problem.

It seems from your question that you are nearsighted or shortsighted or myopic. This means that your eyes are essentially too strong. They are so strong that you can see up close without needing glasses or other help.

To see far away, somehow you need to ‘weaken’ your eyes. A lot of the ‘vision therapy’ notes, and the scam that eye doctors WANT you to need glasses and therefore prescribe glasses that somehow make you even MORE nearsighted is just silly, false, not true…and other words I won’t bother to add.

You might look at it as if had microscop eyes. Other people have telescope eyes.

This is a basic optics explanation…

The Power, or P, of the lens or lens system is equal to 1/d where d is in meters.

If your eyes were too strong and you could see clearly out to a meter in front of you, you would be +1.00 too strong.

If you were focused at a half meter, but not beyond that clearly, you’d be +2.00 too strong.
And they’d give you -2.00 lenses to move that focal point out to distance so you could see clearly far away.

If you were focused at a third of a meter, you’d need a -3.00 lens to compensate,

quarter of a meter or 1/4 of a meter…need a -4.00

1/5 of a meter, need a -5.00 lens to compensate.

Any "exercises" or therapy would make your lens muscles ‘stronger’ which wouldn’t help the optics portion see further away. It’d just make it so that when you needed to see even closer than you already do, you’d have a little more muscle power to bend the lens inside the eye. But far away…no different. You have a close up camera.

Optometrists spend a lot of time in school learning all the different optics solutions to these problems. Ophthalmologists do too, but not as good as the optometrists (in my opinion). The easiest thing you can do is find a good optometrist that will listen to you, Rx the type(s) of glasses or contacts or ? and you’ll be fixed.

As you age, your lenses grow. So your eyes will get stronger, or more nearsighted as you age. This happens to everyone. So every few years you’ll need a new Rx to compensate for the increased power.

If you get LASEK or LASIK and are all perfect, within a year or two or three, you’ll need new Rx because your lens grew a bit.

Squinting just makes it so you use the central light rays that are not deviated too much and the depth of focus is so large you can see ‘clearly’. Using a pinhole would do the same thing.

Carrots won’t help this. They do give a little Vitamin A but so do tomatoes, kale, greens….etc.

ya cant. despite all the BS ads here that say you can. time to visit the optometrist