Take your posture:
While doing eye exercises, check on your posture. Is your spine erect? Hands on the knees? Body relaxed? Head straight? That is how you should always remain while doing eye exercises. The whole body must be motionless; nothing must move except the eyes.
Raise your eyes and find a small point that you can see clearly without straining, without frowning, without becoming tense and, of course, without moving your head. While doing this exercise look at this point each time you raise your eyes.
Next, lower your eyes to find a small point on the floor which you can see clearly when glancing down. Look at it each time you lower your eyes.
Exercise 1
Move your eyes upwards as far as you can, and then downwards as far as you can. Repeat 4 more times. Blink quickly a few times to relax the eye muscles.
Exercise 2
Now do the same using points to your right and to your left, at eye level. Keep your raised fingers or two pencils on each side as guides and adjust them so that you can see them clearly when moving the eyes to the right and to the left, but without straining. Keeping the finger at eye level, and moving only the eyes, look to the right at your chosen point, then to the left. Repeat four times. Blink several times, and then close your eyes and rest.
Exercise 3
Choose a point you can see from the right corner of your eyes when you lower them, half closing the lids. Look at your chosen point in the right corner up, then to the one in left corner down. Repeat 4 times. Blink several times. Close the eyes and rest. Now do the same exercise in reverse.
Exercise 4
This exercise is called ‘palming’ and is very relaxing to the eyes. It is also most important for preserving the eyesight. Palming also has a beneficial, relaxing effect on your nervous system.
Remain seated on the floor. Draw up your knees, keeping your feet on the floor and slightly apart. Now briskly rub your palms to charge them with electricity and place the cupped palms over your closed eyes. The fingers of the right hand should be crossed over the fingers of the left hand on the forehead. The elbows should rest on your raised knees and the neck should be kept straight. Don’t bend your head. Do the deep breathing while palming your eyes.
Benefits:
These exercises help to do away with eye strain and tension. Your vision will get better and clearer as the ophthalmic, or eye nerves receive a richer supply of blood.
Category: Eyes and eye care
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2 comments:
eye exercises relax the muscles around the eyes so it wouldn't strain as much and affect your eyesight..
Focus on things that are far away, look at things up close (not too long).Just try to look more with your eyes during the day. Exercise them! Stretch them! They will get better just like muscles get stronger. But you have to keep at it.
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