Another appointment with my optometerist

Had another appointment with my optometerist on Sat - 1/30/2009. This time the eye pressure was 18/18 same in both eyes. The measurement was done in the evening around 5.00 o'clock. 

My optometerist gave me some good peice of info - With a lot of closework, the eye compensates by tilting blood vessels towards the nasal side. Which is why my optic nerves look kind of funny - normal optic nerves have blood vessels passing in the center. So if I start using my peripheral vision, will the network of blood vessels shift towards the center? How do I use my peripheral vision? 

* Dont do close work (I dont know if this is possible)

* Doing various bates exercises - specially long swing - which seems to make one us pay attention to our periperal vision.