5 Keys to Naturally Better Vision- Part II

Written by Martin Sussman


This article is a continuation of “5 Keys to Naturally Better Vision” and contains 5 more easy to follow tips that you can implement in your daily life to have a naturally better vision. You can make these tips your daily habit and enjoy a long healthy vision without having to use any contact lens or undergoing any lasic surgery or other optical complexities.

Key#1 Nourish and Rest Your Eyes

Your eyes are nourished by light, just as your body is nourished by food andrepparttar best nourishment for your eyes in sunlight. To get this important nourishment spend at least 15 minutes a day outdoors –without glasses or contacts – so that your visual system can receive unfiltered sunlight.

The kind of indoor lighting that you use is also important. Dr. John Ott, a pioneer inrepparttar 137098 field of photobiology, developed an indoor light that isrepparttar 137099 most complete substitute for sunlight. It is called Vita-Lite and it easily replaces any standard fluorescent tube. Studies have shown that using Vita-Lite increases see-ability, reduces glare and eyestrain and improves visual acuity.

Your eyes are rested by total darkness. The best way to rest your eyes is to close them and place your cupped palms over your closed eyes. You can palm like this for as little as 30 or 40 seconds any time that your eyes feel tired or strained. When palming, visualize a pleasant scene in your imagination – you'll be surprised at how refreshed you feel when you are done.

Nourishing and resting your eyes can be done atrepparttar 137100 same time in a short exercise that I callrepparttar 137101 Sun Cycle. It's done like this: Close your eyes and facerepparttar 137102 sun (never look atrepparttar 137103 sun with your eyes open!). Letrepparttar 137104 sunlight fall on your closed eyes for 5 to 10seconds. Then palm over your closed eyes and shut out allrepparttar 137105 light for another 5 or 10 seconds. Repeat these two steps at least 10 times, for a total of 3 or 4 minutes.

The Sun Cycle helps to nourish your visual system, exercisesrepparttar 137106 focusing muscles of your eyes and reduces sensitivity to glare.

Key#2 Use an Under-Corrected Prescription

If you wear glasses or contacts, you have probably experiencedrepparttar 137107 all too familiar pattern of needing a stronger and stronger prescription year after year. This is caused by a number of factors but to a large degree it can be prevented by using an under-corrected With an under-corrected prescription, you probably wouldn't be able to readrepparttar 137108 bottom line ofrepparttar 137109 eye chart inrepparttar 137110 doctor's office, maybe only one or two lines aboverepparttar 137111 bottom line, but you would still be able to comfortably see in your day to day life as well as be able to drive safely. An under-corrected prescription encourages your visual system to work withrepparttar 137112 glasses or contacts – and not just passively depend on them – in order to see. If you are also doing eye exercises, then as your vision improves, what was once an under corrected prescription will eventually become too strong as your own vision gets clearer. At this point it's time to get another under-corrected prescription. In this way you are slowly weaning yourself from corrective lenses and your eye sight gets stronger as your glasses get weaker. Not every eye doctor agrees with this philosophy of under correction, so it may take some looking on your part to find one that understands and supports this approach. You can contactrepparttar 137113 Cambridge Institute for Better Vision for help in locating a sympathetic optometrist in your area. Point your web browser to: http://www.program-for-better-vision.com

Dementia: Just What Is It?

Written by Loring A. Windblad


Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos.

Dementia! A term to reckon with. Dementia – a horrible disease, not something we want have ourselves and for which we pity others who do have it. Dementia – demented, frightening, a person with a mental disease that conjures up all sorts of frightening mental images. Evenrepparttar relatively benign, “children’s” book Harry Potter deals with Dementors; beings who suckrepparttar 137065 soul out ofrepparttar 137066 body and twist and warprepparttar 137067 mind till there’s nothing but an empty shell left.

Dementia! My Oxford English Dictionary defines it thusly:

“A mental illness in which there is a loss of reasoning power.” Further: “Dementia prae-cox: schizophrenia.”

A more modern definition probably goes thusly:

“Dementia: A mental condition in which there is a loss of reasoning power.”

So once we look at “dementia” in real terms it no longer seems quite so frightening. But how does it happen, when does it happen, and just who gets it? And lets keep in mind that this is “a condition” and not “a disease” or “mental illness”. As such it could respond to aromatherapy, diet or other medical treatment.

Its onset can berepparttar 137068 result of an injury, as a reaction to a medication of some sort or simplyrepparttar 137069 normal deterioration of old age – which we used to call senility. Hmmmmm – there’s another word worthy of checking out.

Senility: my Oxford English Dictionary defines it thusly:

“Senile: suffering from bodily or mental weakness because of old age. 2: (of illness, etc.) characteristic of elderly people.” Hmmmmmm, they do sound a lot alike, don’t they?

The underlying cause is likely a chemical imbalance inrepparttar 137070 brain which basically has no effect unless and until triggered by an outside influence. That outside influence could be as simple as deterioration from old age, or as traumatic as an unexpected injury, or from an outside and very unrelated cause.

Here’re three examples from my own personal, family observations:

My Aunty Mame: a wonderful woman butrepparttar 137071 older she gotrepparttar 137072 more she seemed to not only forget things butrepparttar 137073 more she seemed to become disoriented to her surroundings. She lived into her 90’s andrepparttar 137074 last few years were frightening to us all. The degeneration of old age.

My sister-in-law: A wonderful woman, mother of three devoted sons, wife torepparttar 137075 same man for more than 60 years, as she got older she needed surgery for some minor conditions andrepparttar 137076 older she gotrepparttar 137077 worse her reaction torepparttar 137078 anesthetic. She would come out of anesthesia and “see things” – pots, dishes, silverware – and try to pick them out ofrepparttar 137079 air and put them where they belonged. She was dumfounded when she couldn’t pick them up – “they’re right there but I can’t get hold of them”! The older she gotrepparttar 137080 worse her reaction to anesthesia. A reaction to a drug or medication.

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