Retinitis Pigmentosa Eye Exercise to Improve Eyesight

This week's blog was inspired by an email from one of our audience members who has Retinitis Pigmentosa and is working hard to improve his eyesight. However, he was unsure on some of the finer details in relation to the main eye exercise to help improve RP, which is the peripheral vision eye exercise.

Those of you who have not seen my blog The Eye Exercise That's Saving My Eyesight and do not know the peripheral vision eye exercise, it is when you individually place three different sized papers between the eyes and wave an object or your hands in the periphery.

This allows the central vision to rest and prevents it from dominating your vision. Your brain then starts picking up the information from the periphery rather than your central vision. Over time, this strengthens the brain's response to the periphery and the 120 million rods cells found in each eye.

It is common for people to want to know how to position their hands when performing the peripheral vision eye exercise and whether they should be seeing the hands or not. For those of you who do not know, Retinitis Pigmentosa is where the rods cells found in the periphery start to lose their strength and in return, the periphery becomes more difficult to access.


Somebody without RP can typically wave their hands next to their ears and still see them, whereas many people with Retinitis Pigmentosa could be waving their hands next to their eyes and not notice.

This is why the question of whether or not someone with RP should wave their hands where they can see them or not is such a good question.

The answer is... we want to work both places. In self healing, we always want to maintain and rest what is strong, but strengthen what is weak. This can be very difficult at times, especially as few of us like to work with what is weak within us. It can be very frustrating at times, but the benefits can be very rewarding.

Waving the hands where you can still see them is important as it maintains the strength of those cells and keeps them active. By working the areas that you cannot see, or as I like say not as clear as other areas, you are strengthening those weaker cells and helping to wake up those cells already dormant.

This may seem pointless at first, as you wave your hands in the periphery without noticing much, however, over time you will start to notice an increased awareness of movement in the periphery. You may also find waving colored paper in the periphery instead of just your hands may also help. In fact, anything that you may think would be easier for you to see can be used.

We recommend people using flashing lights in the dark so that the weaker cells can pick up the light more easily and be strengthened more from there. It would be an interesting self experiment to wave your hands in a particular area where you have difficulty seeing and then go to a dark room and flash a light in the same area to see if you notice it.

Some places you may not notice it, which is where you have more work to do, but other places that you otherwise thought did not exist are in fact still active and waiting to be used. You can find out more about flashing lights in the periphery in my blog post A Free Festival Eye Exercise Tool.

Do not forget that when we say 'exercise the periphery', we also mean both upper and lower periphery. This may mean playing with some of the sizes of the paper so that you can wave around the areas that are not seeing as well as others. As always, I would love to hear your feedback on this post or any of my posts.

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Does Juicing Improve Eyesight?

To get a better understanding of why juicing is so good for our eyesight, we need to look at nutrition as a whole. After many years of studying nutrition, it is clear to me that our body needs ample amounts of natural vitamins and minerals to help sustain its high performance and functions.

This of course can be obtained from a good well balanced diet containing mainly of vegetables and fruits. If you think about the average western diet, our meals consist mainly of meats and carbohydrates, such as potatoes, and only a small portion of vegetables. So why is it so improtant to get plenty of vitamins and minerals? I like to use the analogy of building a house to help with this.

Image you were building a house and had a choice of poor quality material and high quality material. Clearly you would go for the high quality as you want the house to be strong, function well and remain so for as long as possible. Try to think of the body in the same way.

The better the material you are using to make up the body, by this I mean the cells, than the better the overall structure is going to be. This becomes even more important when you want to overcome a condition such as retinitis pigmentosa as you really do need the best materials available on the market.

Understanding this makes it easier to see why juicing would be a benefit because you are taking all those great materials and condensing them into a liquid and a sizable amount that you can consume. As much as I wish I could, it is difficult to eat the same amount of nutrients that you can get from the juice.
Think of it as a boost of natural nutrients which is then being sent around the body to help build, rejuvenate and heal the body. When it comes to juicing for the eyes we should focus on vitamin A.

This vitamin plays an essential role in how eyesight functions and is a key player in changing light into electrical signals that go to the brain to process the image. Caratene, which is what gives carrots their orange colour, is a great natural source of vitamin A. It can also be found in red, orange and yellow vegetables.

Lutein, which can be found in most dark green leafy vegetables, such as kale and spinach, is also essential for the eyes as they produce a yellow pigment in the eye and protects it from UV light.

The yellow area is called the macula, which is why some say getting enough lutein in your diet can help against macular degeneration.

Instead of spending hours searching for which foods are best for eyesight, you will find that in general, green leafy vegetables are best and contain most nutrients for healthy vision. Combine these with carrots, beets and other colorful vegetables for a strong boost of vitamin A and a more desirable taste.

If you want to read more on how my eyesight is improving and tips/advice on how you can improve your eyesight and find out more about eye exercises then head over to: www.envisionselfhealing.com

You can also keep up-to-date on the latest vision improvement information and my updates on: Twitter or Facebook and my Facebook Fan Page

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Happy Healing :-)