Eye Exercises And Eye Relaxation Exercises - How To Start.

Why Eye exercises, why eye relaxation? Opinion of modern medicine is that accomodation (process by which the eye changes optical power to maintain a focus on an object as its distance changes) is done by contraction and relaxation of ciliary muscle which applies pressure on the lens to change it's form, hence refraction angle. But experiments in this area proved that lens is not the main factor in accomodation, for instance experiments with patients where lens have been damaged and removed - they still have ability to focus. The process is working the same way as in a camera - by changing the length of the visual organ. This achieved by extraocular muscles - six muscles that also control the movements of the eye, ability of the lens to focus though has auxiliary function of correction. Thus, eye problems related to anomaly in refraction, like myopia, presbyopia, astigmatism etc., are not related to any organic changes inside the eye or lens, but rather with malfunction of eye muscles which could be cured by strengthening or relaxing certain eye muscles. The conditions for these eye exercises are very simple: ALL EYE EXERCISES to be performed regularly - 4 or 5 times a week. There has to be break for 2-3 days The glasses\contact lenses have to be taken off except when they are REALLY needed You have to be in a good mood before you start doing ANY EYE EXERCISES.

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Simply perform all of the sets of eye exercises in the order of their appearance in the contents of thisNATURAL EYESIGHT IMPROVEMENT tour and already in 2-3 days you will see the effect that I callbinocular effect that shows that your vision is shifting and the process of improving eyesight is started. To find out dos and don'ts of eye exercises read this article.

Eye exercises - Contents

Eye Relaxation Techniques Fixation Eye Exercises Stretching Eye Exercises Strengthen Eye Muscles - Rolling Movements Palming Deep Eye Relaxation Eye Acupressure Boost Energy into Your Eyes and Remove Eye Strain at the same time Dynamic Set Watching the Sun Returning Liveliness to Your Eyes and Stimulating with Sun Power

Eye Relaxation Techniques To Improve Eyesight

A long time ago the eyes of our Great-Great-Grand Parents were able to see all of the objects up to the line of a horizon. Unfortunately, our technological era of tall buildings, high density, TV's and computers have tremendously limited this ability. And our eyes almost lost this greatest way of natural vision relaxation. We do not even notice when our eyes stop moving and we do not even know how to relax them. We think that we are relaxing when we are in front of the TV, but it is an illusion. We just add up the stress to our own precious eyes. This is the most important point in any eye exercising routines. We have to learn how to relax our precious eyes in the environment we live in today. Now, let's introduce a few different techniques of eye relaxation. Practice these simple EYE RELAXATION EXERCISES throughout your work day, while you are stopping at the red light, while you are in an elevator, in a subway, while you are standing in a lineup, during a TV commercial, etc. Never begin your eye training with tired eyes. Perform these relaxation exercises before you start your main set of EYE EXERCISES.

Eye Relaxation Exercises

To watch my video on eye relaxation go to Eyesight Improving Relaxation Eye Exercises video. Eye Relaxation Exercise #1 - the easiest, available even if you sit somewhere on a meeting Close your eyes half way down. You will notice that your upper lids constantly tremble with different amplitude. Concentrate your efforts on stopping this trembling. (Little hint it will be easier to do if you look at further objects).

Slowly close your eyes, like your eyelids are made out of puffy cottony clouds. Think that eyes get extremely comfortable in their position. The place behind your eyes is getting warm and feels how the blood filled with the oxygen flows through your eye sockets.

When you inhale imagine the breezy oxygenized air coming through your nose into the eyes washing each eyes blood vessel. Exhale through the mouth. Breathe this way for one or two minutes and end this exercise with a smile. Eye Relaxation Exercise #2 Imagine two dots on the wall, one is half a meter from the other. Slowly look at one of them, then move your eyesight to another dot, then slowly move your gaze back to the previous dot, etc... Continue doing these movements, imagining that you are a lazy cat that is falling asleep, but still keeps attention on the fly.Soon your eyes will feel that they are heavy, That they are made out of something that is hard to lift..

Please, do not snore if there are other people in the same room. I placed much more Eye Relaxation Techniques throuthout this website, you just need to watch for

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picture in the text. You can find them on Palming page and Eye care page.

Improving Eyesight - Stretching Eye Exercises

In order to perform Stretching Eye Exercises you have to hold a perfect posture. Sit (or stand) straight, chin up, stomach in, chest out and shoulders down. Now you are ready to begin. 1. Holding your head straight look to the most left side and try to keep your eyes in that position. Return your gaze back to look straight in front of you. Blink for a few seconds in order to relax your eyes. Repeat 2-3 times. Blink a few times. 2. Look to the most right side and keep your eyes in that position the same time as you tried in the 1ststretching eye exercise. Repeat 2-3 times. Relax your eyes with blinking. 3. Look up and hold, return the gaze back to the original position, repeat 2-3 times. Follow up with blinking 4. Look down and hold, return the gaze back, repeat 2-3 times. Do not forget about blinking. 5. I hope, you realize that if it is called EYE EXERCISES you need to move your eyes only and not your head! Now turn your head back into the original position (when I was talking about posture, stomach, shoulders, etc ...). Keep up the same posture. Lets continue: look at the right top corner, hold your gaze there. Return it back. Repeat 2-3 times. 6. The next position for the eyes is the right bottom corner. Before you realize where it is you have to recall about blinking! And the right bottom corner will be your right shoulder. Fix your eyes in that direction without moving your head. Hold your eyesight in that pose for a while and look straight ahead again. Repeat 2-3 times and blink. 7. Still trying to keep your head straight, look down to the bottom left at your left shoulder. Try to fixate the eye position there, and then look straight ahead again. Do not forget about blinking. 8. The only unused corner is the upper left one, somewhere above your left temple. Try to concentrate and do exactly the same routine as for all of the other corners. What do I have to repeat once again? Blink-blinkblink! Lets end stretching part of EYE EXERCISES with some fun stuff! Look around yourself and find one object that is small enough in order to pretend that it is a black dot. Start staring at that dot and at the same time turn your head to the right side as much as you can keeping your eyes fixed on that dot. Now slowly move your head to the left side and still keep your attention on the same dot. Lets blink and continue the fun by trying to reach your nose with your chin. Lift it up, up, up! You forgot to keep your eyes fixed on that imaginary dot! Try again, but this time everything has to be done properly. When you

realize, that you can not reach your nose with your chin, try to do that in the backward procedure reach your chin with your nose (do not forget about that dot! Keep your gaze on the dot), bend your head down. There is no strict rules about this eye exercise you can simply move your head in any directions you want to, just keep your gaze on the same dot. End it up with blinking to relax your eyes.

Eye Exercises To Improve Eyesight - Eye Rolling

EYE EXERCISES - Rolling Movements

Make sure that your eyes are warmed up by now (I hope, you performed set of Stretching Eye Exercises). If you did not follow up with the series of blinking after the stretching, please do so.

Now lets draw a horizontal number eight with your eyes.

Try to do that very slowly without cutting any edges. Move your eyes as far to the edges as possible. When you drew about seven horizontal eights, change the direction (e.g. if you were drawing an eight in a clockwise direction at the beginning, then change it on a counterclockwise direction) and draw 7 horisontal eights again. Follow up with blinking to relax your eyes. After that go ahead with drawing a vertical 8 with your eyes (seven times in a clockwise direction and seven times in a counterclockwise direction). Follow up with blinking.

Now close your eyes and repeat this entire math drawing 8 and 8 with closed eyes. Even the blinking part has to be done with closed eyes. By the way, blinking with closed eyes is also considered as EYE EXERCISING RELAXATION TECHNIQUE. The next rolling eye excercise requires a pretty high level of concentration. Please, make sure that you keep your posture straight (chest out, stomach in, etc). Look up and start drawing a circle with your eyes. Try to make the circle as perfect as possible without cutting any angles. Complete 7-8 rounds, then blink for a minute. Then do another set of circular movements in the opposite direction. Follow up with blinking.

After that, repeat circular movements in both directions again but with closed eyes. Blink a few times while your eyes are still closed.

Keep your eyes closed; concentrate all your attention on the eye sockets. Feel the warmth behind your eyes. Now relax bottom eyelids, and then relax your mouth, your ears, upper eyelids, forehead and the crown of your head.

Notice this condition. Remember that By the way, that was another Eye Rexation technique

Eye Exercises To Improve Eyesight - Palming

Palming - Deep Eye Relaxation

There are a few ways to perform "Palming", you just need to choose the one that you will feel the most comfortable with. Palming - The easiest method Remember when you were playing hide and seek when you were a little kid? It was enough to cover the eyes with

your palms and nobody was able to see you! your eyelids with your palms. Palming - A bit more complicated variation,

Just do it exactly the same way as you did in your childhood -

cup your eyes up with your hands and observe the darkness in front of your face. Make sure that you are not touching

but, by yoga, there is a lot of meaning behind the following Palming technique: Warm up your hands - rub your palms against each other or hold them under hot water (not very hot!) running from the tap. Prepare your palms like on the picture. The base of your right pinkie will be on the base of your left pinkie or if it is more comfortable, place your left palm on the top of your right palm making an upside down V with your palms.

Cover up your eyes with the palms. The base of the pinkie fingers will be right on the bridge of your nose. Make sure you are able to breathe through your nose, otherwise adjust the location of your palms and fingers. Now leaving your eyes open, turn to any light (sun, light fixtures, etc.) and check out the position of your palms. If you are able to see the light through any of the holes between your fingers, correct the placement of palms until you get a perfect cover that does not allow any light to get to your eyes. Now you are ready for the true eye rest - deep eye relaxation that will remove all eye strain. Do not concentrate on the eyes or area behind them. Breathe deeply. Focus on your breath; it helps to calm down all of the senses. Feel the warmth coming from palms. Then imagine absolutely black space in front of your eyes. I found out that in the beginning it could be an extremely difficult task to perform. The worse your vision is the more difficult it is to picture absolutely black space. But I was able to trick my mind. I recalled drawing different shapes with a black pencil. For example, I would picture in my mind how I draw a circle and then how I shade it in with the same black pencil. Just go ahead and play with yourself, find what tricks work with your mind. I also tried picturing a starry sky and then I was removing stars one by one with the black clouds. There is also another important point that has to be taken into consideration the head and neck position during

this RELAXATION EYE EXERCISE. Your back and head have to create a straight line during Palming. If you are doing it at work, in front of the computer, place your elbows on the desk, and then place your head into prepared palms. If your head is bent down then move the chair out of the desk and bend in the waist until your back and neck create a straight line. The reason for this is that major blood vessels and your spinal cord must not be curved during ANY EYE RELAXATION EXERCISE. Do not forget about breathing. Improper posture for Palming

Proper posture for Palming

Eye Acupressure

Eye Massage - Acupressure

Lets have a little break and boost some energy into your eye area. The best way will be the Shiatsu method which is also called Acupressure. Shiatsu is Japanese for pressuring by finger. The force of massaging finger is applied to the same dots that are used by Acupuncture. The science of Acupressure goes back many centuries ago. There are different stories about how the method was born. One of them talks about a Chinese soldier that had a stiff shoulder which was very uncomfortable and painful. The doctor in the soldiers village could not help the poor guy with anything. Then this soldier was called to the war and one day when he was fighting in the battle his leg was pierced by an enemys arrow. Our guy bended down to get the arrows tip out of his leg and suddenly noticed that constant pain in the shoulder was gone. I am not too sure if the enemy became an instant friend right away, but when our soldier came back home he told the doctor about his miraculous healing. That is just one of multiple stories that talk about the way how the method was born. The acupuncture is known and used in Japan, China and India from the Stone Age. There are ancient books found that have diagrams of the meridians and acupuncture points located along these meridians. The human body has different systems of circulation built in that either flow internally or socialize with the Universe. For example, the heart pushes blood through arteries and veins to different organs and muscles. We inhale air, use oxygen by our respiratory system, pass it on to our blood, brain, get back the carbon dioxide and pass it to the atmosphere. The meridians are pathways for the energy throughout the body. If there is something wrong with the organ or muscle they pass this information to the meridian responsible for that organ and the meridian is going to signal through certain points on the body. These spots will become painful crying for help. If their screams are noticed well in advance then the illness can be prevented before it is started to affect the body. By simply massaging these screaming dots or inserting the needle it is possible to restore the energy flow and therefore correct proper functioning of the corresponding organ or muscle. I am not suggesting using the needles, because there are too many conditions for their use, but we can simply follow a few shiatsu rules in order to perform a professional massage on ourselves. Use either tip of your middle finger or the knuckle of the same finger. If you use the tip of the finger, make sure that your nails do not cut the skin of the massaged area. Do not bend the finger. Use spiral or circular movements. Do not move your finger (or knuckle) back and force.

Eye Acupressure Points

The first Eye Acupressure Point is located at both sides of the bridge of your nose. Find the spot that reacts with the pain on the finger pressure. Use middle finger tips to press this point.

The next dot is located right underneath the pupils.

Work on it for a minute, using different pressures of your massaging fingers. Then the next points will be your temples.

Again, you have to remember these dots are either painful or feel like there is a hole in the bone (Do not use any other objects for pressure on these dots except your own fingers!) And the last point of pressure (and usually the most painful one) is located in the middle of the eyebrow.

During this little massage session you will find out that your eyesight becomes much better, especially when you press on the dot from both sides of your nose. If you would like you may add two more important points that are also located on the eyebrows.

Improve Eyesight - Strengthen Eye Muscles With Dynamic Eye Exercises

The main position for this exercise is either standing or sitting, but it is important to straighten your back, roll the shoulders down and behind. Move your stomach in and your chest out. While you are standing in the newly learned perfect posture (or sitting) glance quickly to the most left position, then quickly glance to the most right position and return back to the left. Repeat 7-8 times. Keep up the speed. Follow up with blinking. Now eyes movements have to be started form the most right position going to the left. Repeat 7-8 times. Make sure, you are doing absolutely straight lines. Follow up with blinking.

Now roll your eyes up to the sky (or ceiling) and quickly look down to your feet. And up and down and up again. Repeat 7-8 times. Your chin can not move during these types of movements. Now execute this differently begin with checking out your feet first, then look up to the sky. Complete 7-8 straight lines and finish up with blinking.

Make the diagonal moves - begin with the top left corner and look down to the right down corner and then up to

the left upper corner. After repeating it for 7-8 times relax your eyes with blinking. Now repeat in the opposite direction. And again relax your eyes with blinking.

Make different combination right top corner to the left bottom corner in both of the directions. Top it up with blinking.

Roll up your eyes to the upper right corner, and then quickly look down to the right bottom corner and up to the upper right corner again. Repeat 5-7 times and blink-blink-blink-blink. Repeat in the opposite direction from the right bottom corner to the right upper corner and back to the right bottom. It is very important to make lines as straight as possible.

Lets draw the line on the bottom: look at the bottom right corner (your right shoulder), glance over to the bottom left corner (your left shoulder) and back to the bottom right. Repeat a few times and finish up with blinking.

The next line will be on your left side from left bottom corner to the upper left. Proceed with the same technique, finish up with blinking

And the last one is upper line from upper left corner to the upper right corner.

Little tip: I try to make any routines to be interesting. In the case of Dynamic set I use objects that are located around my workplace. For example, for the right bottom corner I would look at the phone that is on my desk. I would use the orchids flowers as left upper corner. Just place different objects around you in the manner that will suit your own purpose and use the locations of these objects. Then change them around one day.

Improve Eyesight - Watching The Sun (Sungazing, Eye Sunning)

Most of us have a perception that sun rays are harmful to our body, that looking directly at the sun can damage our eyes. This is true for most people living in the city, who work inside all day with artificial lighting, exposed to the sun only during vacation or weekend, if you are lucky. And then, of course, getting sunburned. Did you ever notice vacationers on the beach? You can guess who just started vacation - they have distinct bright pink color to their otherwise pale-white skin. If you know people who spend most of their time outside on the sun, you know that they don't have problems like sunburns, they don't wear sunglasses (they don't need them, their eyes get used to sunlight, they don't squint on the bright day) and they have less eye problems. These people don't get skin cancer, their skin, having constant exposure to sun, knows how to protect itself. Human eyes of our ancestors were conditioned to absorb sunlight without harm; we, through sun deficiency, lost that ability to look at the sun without experiencing pain. Sungazing is one of of most powerful exercises to train your eyes and improve eyesight. For some people who practice sungazing it is a spiritual ritual, they meditate and get energy from the Sun. If you have never done it, the best time for sungazing is before sunset or during sunrise in a day when sun is unobstructed by clouds. And you should increase your sessions gradually. It is the same as with sunbathing, exercising or anything else - if you do too much you can harm yourself, but don't be aftraid of the Sun, this is not the mindset with which you do sungazing. Sun brings powerful energy to everything on Earth including humans, this energy can destroy if you are oblivious to it, but it can heal if used properly. So, start with short sessions (described below) about 5-10 minutes and you will notice that you can do it longer and longer. Some people can look at the Sun for an hour or more because they sungaze every day. My husband on the sunny day in winter when the ground is covered with snow and reflects sunlight couldn't open his eyes even slightly, while I was walking beside with my eyes wide open.

Choose, if possible, quet place with clear horizon towards the sunset or sunrise. If you live in the city, go to a ravine or a park and find the best spot. Stand or sit, your spine straight; cover up one of your eyes with your palm and watch the sun without blinking for as long as you can. You have to look right at the center of the sun and try to make the sun fill up the whole horizon in front of you. Relax your eyelids, your face, whole body. Observe the sun until tears are about to come out of your eye and it will be unbearable to continue watching. If it is painful to look at the sun directly start watching the space beside it moving your gaze closer while you progress.

Perform exactly the same procedure with another eye. Try to do it every day, soon you will notice that you don't squint on the sunny day, you don't need sunglasses while driving towards the sun. You will be able to watch sunrise and sunset naturally without sunglasses for a long time. P.S. Same rule applies for sunglasses as for eyeglasses - wear them only when you really need them.