Peripheral training is a critical component to pain reduction, fall prevention, anxiety management and increasing performance.
Studies are showing that peripheral awareness improves balance, movement and pain reduction.
Outside is a perfect place and time to practice peripheral visual training.
Your ability to sense what’s around you has an immediate, direct correlation on what you’re feeling, how you’re moving and also how you respond to different situations.
From fall prevention for elderly to valuable milliseconds for athletes to speed reading for students and reduction in pain and improved performance for everyone – you should incorporate this!
How to practice Peripheral Training
Relax the neck, relax the eyes, pick a focal point as you expand your awareness, and start to note what you see around you. When did the bird “come into frame”? When could you no longer see the car wiz by you? What objects or bits of nature do you pick up? What color are they? When does the object become less blurry and you can make out what it is?
REMEMBER: Don’t move your eyes around! Keep focused on one point and expand your vision to see the rest of the world in your peripherals!
Need more of a reason?
Researchers are specifically looking at peripheral awareness and its impact on Alzheimer’s.
What they’ve found is that the area of the brain that controls this peripheral vision process is one of the first things to deteriorate when people have Alzheimer’s disease, and what we see with Alzheimer’s are people that have cognitive impairment, they move poorly and they fall a lot, and all of those things can be directly correlated to how well you are able to see what’s around you.
Go see the world in a new light!
