Eye Exercises that Help Improve Your Vision!
We have seen in our earlier blogs that homeopathy is the suitable mode of
therapy for a variety of eye troubles. You can see the detailed article here. However, along with the homeopathic
regime, in many of our patients, we suggest different eye exercises that help
them improve their vision while minimizing the trouble.
Please make sure to consult us or your doctor before you start with these
exercises, especially if you have some eye problem; for others who want to
improve their vision, these exercises are quite safe to do regularly. Most
importantly, many of these exercises prevent future eye troubles, if coupled
with appropriate diet and a healthy lifestyle.
Especially today when lot of people suffer from eye strain due to long
hours on the computers, these eye exercises help them retain the normal eye
power while diminishing the effect of that strain. Blurred vision, photophobia,
headaches, excessive blinking, squinting of eyes due to muscular weakness etc
are also helped by these exercises. One should also know that prescribing these
exercises from childhood is very important in order to have a secured vision in
future and also to avoid hoards of eye problems today’s kids are suffering
from.
Benefits of eye exercises-
The regular eye exercises-
1. Strengthen the eye muscles
2. Improve focusing
3. Improve eye movements
4. Eases the stress
5. Improves control over your eye muscles
6. Stimulates the vision center in the brain, which in turn improves
short-distance as well as long-distance vision.
Some Important Eye Exercises-
1. Sit comfortably on the ground or a chair. Using cups of your both palms
close your eyes without inflicting pressure on to the eyeballs for some time.
Now open your eyes inside your palms and blink repeatedly, while holding your
palms in the same position. Now remove the palms and again blink several times.
Again put your palms on the eyes and do the same blinking exercises. Repeat
this cycle 4-5 times. At the end, again place the palms on the eyes and let the
eyes relax behind the closed eyelids.
2. While inhaling and exhaling consciously and deeply, rotate your eyes in
all the directions 4-5 times.
3. Sit straight and try to look with both the eyes at the center of your
eyebrows. Hold for a few seconds and again bring them back to original
position. Repeat for 3-4 times.
4. Now focus on your tip of the nose with both the eyes. Again get them
back to normal position. Repeat 3-4 times.
5. Close your eyes. Now squeeze the eyes tightly shut. Again open them and
relax. Repeat this squeezing and relaxing technique 4-5 times.
6. Close your eyes. Gently touch your eyelids and massage your eyes with
circular movements. Press lightly. Don’t try to press too hard. Make 10 circular movements, first
clockwise then counterclockwise.
7. Trataka- This is one of the very useful yogic technique that we suggest
to many of our patients with various eye complaints. This exercise
not only helps cleanse the eyes but also helps improve concentration and
focusing. Sit straight. Now focus on any small object at a distance of about 2
feet without blinking (Many people suggest to look at a candle or a lamp, which
is fine too). Keep the gaze steady till your eyes begin to water. Now close
your eyes and try to visualize that object mentally. You may put the palms of
your hands on both the eyes too.
8. A variation of Trataka is also suggested as follows- Sit straight. Now
bring your right arm in straight line of your shoulders in front of you and
extend the thumb in thumbs-up position. Now slowly move your arm in a straight
line away from center towards the right side. While doing this, do not move
your neck but follow the thumb with your eyes rotating along with it. Now,
again get the thumb back to the original position while rolling the eyes in
with it. Repeat the entire exercise using left arm and thumb too.
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