Improve Your Eyesight Dramatically with a Natural Approach

They are two of your most precious possessions, but chances are, you take your eyes for granted. Most of us do.

Good eyesight plays a crucial role in your mobility and your enjoyment of life so it would certainly make sense to optimize your eyesight as much as possible.

Prevent Blindness America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to vision issues, estimates that 50,000 people lose their sight needlessly every year and that 80 million Americans are at risk of eye diseases that can lead to low vision and even blindness.

Changes in modern society has lead to most people being stuck in front of a computer or watching television for many hours. This is why there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people wearing corrective glasses and contacts. Our eyes are getting lazy but you can turn things around and discover how to improve eyesight naturally.

Certain cultures have a lower incidence of poor eyesight amongst their population. One of these countries is China where children are made to do eye relaxation exercises in the classroom that were devised over 100 years ago by Dr William H Bates. The Bates Method as it's commonly called, has been used world wide for over 100 years with amazing results.
Ways to Improve Your Vision

EYE EXERCISES One of the most critical components to helping improve your vision is to do eye strengthening and relaxation exercising. Exercising your eyes, when you are not straining the muscles in everyday activities, can actually strengthen the muscles in and behind your eye, which will allow your eyes to move more quickly, move in unison, as well as focusing quicker.

Raising and lowering the eyebrows several times in a row, squeezing your eyes shut tightly and rolling your eyes around in all directions, then opening your eyes and doing the same can help exercise these muscles, make them stronger and respond faster (and it feels good too).

One of the most popular exercises in Palming. Palming requires you to sit comfortably and cover your eyes with your hands, make sure you rub your hands together to create some warmth before covering your eyes. 

Ensure there is no light coming through, if you see any traces simply imagine that it is completely dark. Focus on your breathing by taking slow deep breathes. Do this for 3 minutes at a time while you visualize something interesting. 

MORE HELPFUL EYE EXERCISES 

Check out Amazon's selection of books about eye exercises. 

SLEEP It has been proven time and again that people who do not get enough sleep at night can experience reduced and/or blurred vision, focus problems, and tired eyes. Your body heals muscles during delta sleep cycles, which may not even start until you've been asleep for at least four hours, so it's important to get at least 6-8 hours of sleep each day/night in order to heal muscles and that includes the muscles of the eye.

DON'T WEAR GLASSES This may seem counter-productive to good vision, but glasses and contacts actually can make your vision without the glasses or contacts worse. The eye has to adjust to how it sees when wearing corrective lenses, and this trains the eye to be weaker, because the eyes become dependent upon the corrective lenses to do their job.

Now, if you must wear corrective lenses to drive safely or have to wear them to work or read, then by all means do so, but whenever possible, do as much as you can without your corrective lenses, so that your eyes have to work themselves and learn how to let you see on their own, without corrective lenses.

SUNLIGHT Sunlight is important to eye health and vision. In fact, in moderation, sunlight is absolutely essential to human survival, but it also helps promote good eye health too. Of course, you don't ever want to look directly at the sun, but during the light of day, especially at peak sunlight hours, being outside in the sun, you can clearly see that everything looks brighter, more colorful, and sharper.

Limit sun exposure, for obvious health reasons, but try to spend at least a few minutes in the sunlight each day for maximum vision and good eye health, and being outside in the fresh air helps your eyes breathe naturally too.

Sunning Method Try to do this once a day. It requires a sunny day, or a excellent quality desk lamp with an incandescent bulb. The implementation is unadorned. Close your eyes. Look frankly at the sun through your closed eyes. While facing the sun, at a snail’s pace rotate your head from side to side as far as you can. This gets the sunlight on the peripheral thought, and it helps bring more blood circulation to your neck. Do this for 3 to 5 minutes. It is incredible, even on a cold day, how warm the sun feels on your eyes.

LOOK INTO THE DISTANCE Our eyes are not made to be fixated and focused on the same thing for extended periods of time. Naturally they are meant to zip around taking in our surrounding and not fixed on things like reading a book or a computer screen. Take breaks every hour and focus on things in the distance for about 30 seconds. Don't squint or strain simply look at things, overtime your eyes will be forced to become stronger trying to readjust to images outside your current vision levels 

LUTEIN Lutein is a natural plant carotenoid that is deficient in the average American diet. Found in higher concentrations in dark green, leafy vegetables, but can also be purchased as a dietary supplement, lutein has been shown to help with vision and also to help slow the progress of macular degeneration.
Foods Rich in Lutein: raw or lightly cooked kale, collard, brussel sprouts, garden peas, corn, zucchini, romaine lettuce, brussel sprouts, and broccoli.

SPLASH EYES WITH COLD WATER Another simple method recommended for improving eyesight is to splash the eyes with cold water. Do this each morning and right before bed. The cold temperature of the water will cause the capillaries to tighten and the muscles will retract. This will help strengthen and tone the eyes, leaving them feeling refreshed.

 
Improving Eyesight with Food & Herbs
Feeding your eyes is the most important thing you can do to ensure good vision. The foods you eat contribute directly and indirectly to your continuing eye health, or conversely they can contribute to declining vision, eye disease, perhaps even blindness.

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables, herbs, seeds and spices contributes directly by supplying certain vitamins, carotenoids, minerals and essential fatty acids to your eyes. 

Vitamins A, C, E and the B vitamins, zinc, selenium, chromium, magnesium, taurine, lutein, zeaxanthin, and omega-3 fatty acids are just a few of the nutrients which contribute to better vision. 

A diet loaded with saturated fats, processed grains and sugar lacks many of the antioxidants necessary for eye health, which will lead to a buildup of free radicals. It also creates substances that put your eyes at risk, such as arterial plaque, which leads to restricted blood flow through the blood vessels of the eyes.

Foods also contribute indirectly to eye health by doing such things as supplying substances that regulate your blood sugar, high levels of which are directly implicated in diabetes-related eye diseases and can increase your risk of developing glaucoma.
By feeding your eyes the following foods, you'll be providing excellent antioxidant support for your eyes.

VEGETABLES FOR EYE HEALTH 

• Green beans 
• Broccoli
• Brussels sprouts
• Carrots
• Celery
• Chili peppers
• Collards
• Corn
• Dandelion leaves
• Kale
• Leeks
• Leaf lettuce
• Mustard greens
• Peas
• Spinach
• Squash
• Sweet peppers
• Sweet potatoes and yams
• Tomatoes
• Turnip greens

FRUITS FOR EYE HEALTH 

• Acerolas
• Apricots (dried)
• Avocados
• Blueberries and Bilberries
• Cantaloupe
• Guavas
• Kiwis  
• Lemons
• Persimmons

HERBS AND SPICES FOR EYE HEALTH

• Dill
• Oregano
• Parsley
• Turmeric

50 Ways to Love Your Liver

Did you know that the liver affects nearly every physiological process of the body and performs over 500 different chemical functions? And that the liver filters over a liter of blood each minute? 

The liver is amazing organ that we take for granted. I'm sharing a great piece called, "50 Ways to Love Your Liver," by raw foodist Shazzie.

1) Never get jealous. If someone has something you want, then visualize you have either it or something better. You’ll very often get it and then your liver will be happier.

2) Eat your food raw whenever possible, and at least 50% of the time. Max Gerson claims all the C word diseases are a disease of the liver. His answer? Massive raw food abundance, of course.

3) Do castor oil packs. It’s a simple and very effective way to give love to your liver. All you need is castor oil, some old rags and a hottie bottie. You can find detailed instructions on the web.

4) Laugh. It’s a high vibrational technique that changes you on a cellular level, for the better.

5) Juice cleavers (also known as goosegrass or sticky willy). It’s great to resolve liver damage. It’s free in your hedgerows, and is perfect for picking right now. You could even use it as a wild pesto ingredient.

6) Do a gall bladder/liver cleanse. It takes a few days and isn’t recommended by everyone. I’ve done them and benefited greatly, though. I felt like a shiny new person afterwards. Find comprehensive directions on the Internet.

7) Eat garlic and onions. Their sulphur helps detox the liver.

8) Make a weak lemon drink when you wake up. Squeeze one lemon into a litre of warm water. Drink over fifteen minutes, then wait about thirty minutes before eating.

9) Eat beetroot or drink its juice. It helps your liver purify itself and makes your bile thinner. Just don’t freak out when you next go to the toilet. You are not dying, it’s beetroot!

10) Eat cruciferous veggies. They help your liver detox by stimulating enzyme production.

11) Cut down on cooked saturated fats. They don’t help your liver or the rest of your body. 25-30% of westerners have a fatty liver. Yum.

12) Cut down alcohol consumption. Try to drink no more than two days a week, and then be moderate. That means no binge drinking, but you wouldn’t do that would you?

13) Take milk thistle. It’s a great liver supplement, protecting it from damage as well as helping with detox.

14) Less caffeine, please. Check out the herbal coffees that are around. My next door neighbour uses herbal coffee (barley), adds some raw chocolate and a couple of fresh mint leaves from the garden, and then brings me a cup of it, as I’ve got no kitchen at the moment. That’s what friends are for.

15) Take zeolite. One of the most remarkable products ever.

16) Cut down on sugar consumption. If you want to eat something sweet, make sure it’s bound up in a whole food form or have refined sugar very very occasionally. Please don’t give your children sweets, that really is spoiling them.

17) Eat artichokes. They can double your bile production which removes toxins.

18) Eat bitter leaves at or after every meal. They help stimulate bile flow.

19) Eat apples. Their pectin binds onto heavy metals and helps them be excreted. This puts less load on your liver.

20) Eat walnuts. They contain the amino acid arginine, which helps rid the liver of ammonia.

21) Juice the spring thistles that are around at the moment. They’ll do the same job as artichokes and milk thistle.

22) Drink green tea, if it doesn’t make your teeth feel like nails on a blackboard. It contains antioxidants called catechins which prevent build up of liver fat and do something interesting regarding the C word.

23) Stay away from fried foods. Seems obvious but I wanted to write it.

24) Season your food with lemon, apple cider vinegar, onion, garlic etc. Never use table salt, especially if you’re a slug or snail.

25) Stay at a healthy weight. If you are overweight, your liver will be suffering. It can only do so much.

26) Eat more fresh ripe and raw wild or organic foods that haven’t been processed in any way. A high fibre diet keeps the liver healthier.

27) Don’t take paracetamol. If you need a painkiller, there are safer ones around than this liver destroyer. Never give it to a child, either.

28) Take MSM. Half a teaspoon a day for a month, then double it for the rest of your life. It’s liver love at its best.

29) Take enzymes with every meal to help digest your food. Take a break every few weeks, though.

30) Make sure you get all your vitamins and minerals, as a deficiency in some of them can inhibit your liver from detoxing. Take care with your B vitamins, iron, magnesium and sulphate.

31) Stand in a forward bend for a while. It will massage your liver.

32) Dandelion root and leaves are great for the liver. Current spring ones are great in salads or juiced.

33) Try dandelion coffee. It’s good on your liver and tasty, too!

34) Get on your trampoline or rebounder and move your body! Help that liver squeeze toxins out. Play with a child on a trampoline, it makes you laugh and get fit all at once. Now that’s health multi-tasking at its best. Regular aerobic exercise reduces fatty liver of the non-alcoholic variety.

35) If you have any type of hepatitis, look at vitamin C megadosing. Reports state you can cure it before the week’s out. You can find the protocols on the Internet.

36) If you don’t have hepatitis, you can still benefit from taking lots of vitamin C. 5g (5000mg) a day can help flush fat from your liver.

37) Resolve all your emotional issues. If you don’t, your liver will not be at peace. If you want to say something to someone, say it. Or write a letter, read it out loud to yourself and then burn it. Anything left unsaid, or unexpressed will eat you up.

38) Eat lecithin. I recommend about a dessertspoon a day, sprinkled on food or in a smoothie for normal health. Times that by 3-5 if you are using it to emulsify cholesterol (treat gallstones).

39) Avoid all high GI and GL foods, they cause fatty liver and insulin resistance, type two diabetes. No, that’s not what you want, is it? Out with the white rice, potatoes, bread and pasta. In with wholefoods. Well, I’ve only been saying that for 26 years…

40) The liver is our second largest organ, next to the skin. If you don’t keep it squeaky clean your skin will start to show symptoms. Clean out your liver and get special glowy skin as a great side effect.

41) Poo properly so the liver doesn’t get poisoned by a colon that’s not emptied out. Get your feet on a stool so you’re in a good squatting position and stay there until you’ve done the best poo ever.

42) Drink about five litres of water a day, but never more than half a litre in one go.

43) If you are angry, check out liver therapy. It could stop you exploding.

44) If you have arthritis, then your liver is too full. Alkalise yourself, do enemas and forgive everyone. Let it go. Go on, Doxtor’s orders.

45) Do a coffee enema. It smells great, you get a thrill and your bile gets dumped. What a clean out.

46) Love ayurveda. They say that the liver is the seat of the fire in the body. It easily heats up and causes inflammation. Look for special ayurvedic herbs to bring you back into balance.

47) If you eat meat, make it organic. You don’t want all those non-organic toxins being stored and processed in your precious liver.

48) Massage your liver by touching your feet. With reflexology, you have your whole body map at your fingertips. Find the liver reflex points on the outer edge of the right sole. Give it a good old rub whenever you have a minute.

49) Eat coconut oil instead of other fat, where possible. It doesn’t digest in the liver and reduces the strain on it.

50) Make love. If you have someone to make love with. Sometimes the Universe doesn’t give you the partner you want to play with so you just have to ask harder. It will listen and respond in the end. It always does, especially when you really know what you want. Get a clear mind and a clear liver will follow.