How to Get Out of Your ZOOM Cocoon

When the share market crashed in March 2020, I looked at some share prices on my iPhone. Everything was in red, except one. It stood out in green – which meant its price was going up, not down. 

“What is that stock?!” I wondered. 

A closer look revealed it to be ZOOM.

On March 17th, 2020, ZOOM was at $72.47 per share. Today, barely a year later, one share will cost you $739.78. 

And so began a new era for human eyes.

And a terrible adventure for most.

ZOOM fatigue starts with confusion in your visual cortex. You can understand why if you do this experiment: 

STEP ONE
You need an active ZOOM session for this experiment. Turn your video feed off, so you don’t disturb other participants:

- Take a book and place it over the top of your ZOOM screen activity. 
- Look at the book. Move your Self around while you continue to look at the book. 
- Move both side to side and towards and away from the book just a few inches at a time. 
- Calibrate your movements to reach the threshold of sensing any eye adjustments

NOTE: what activity is happening in the delicate musculature of your eyes as you move?

STEP TWO
Now you’re ready to gather a new set of data about the use of your eyes:

- Remove the book to look at the ZOOM sceen (or LINE, WhatsApp, Messenger etc.)
- Repeat the exact movements you made in Step One above. (this is your control element)

NOTE: what activity is happening in the delicate musculature of your eyes as you move?

STEP THREE
Now you are ready to start a comparative process:

- Figure out a way to easily remove & return the book to blocking the screen
- Now block the screen – see the screen – block the screen – see the screen…
- as you alternate, make the same set of movements (your scientific constant)
- Continue until you can detect any differences or confirm there are none.

NOTE: Describe what you discovered as accurately as you can.

Email the results to me – if you consent to being published in the “Posture Daily Journal” – email your results to me as I am the sole peer reviewer. You know I’m kidding around, right? STILL: Any email received may be published!

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Of course, doing this with a group of people will stimulate you to gather information in ways that you can not imagine now. It is one of the experiments I suggest as part of my contribution to “How to Teach Alexander Online”, which I also think of as “How to Learn Alexander Online”!

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