Three Easy Eye Exercises

You can enhance your vision by carrying out several eye exercises while you go about your daily business.

Playing games.

There are plenty of games which are restful and helpful to folks with defective vision and others which, because they cause mental-and so eye-tension, are better avoided. Contract bridge is tiring for defective eyes while solitaire does not have the competitive part and keeps the eyes moving.

Such recreations as playing badminton, ping pong or tennis ; throwing darts or quoits; bowling, walking, and skating all keep the eyes in constant movement and therefore are helpful to defective vision. Young children derive the same benefits from spinning tops, playing marbles or jackstraws, bean-bag or ring tossing.

In other words, any game that keeps the eyes shifting helps to dissipate tension and creates better sight.

Go to the movies.

Many folks bitch of the sick effects they experience after looking at motion photographs. This is a consequence of our old enemy, staring. If you fix your gawk on one point of the screen and try to see the complete screen, you may always feel a strain.

If you are to obtain the ordinary use of your eyes, you need to learn eye exercises and shift the focus from point to indicate. Trace the outlines of faces, landscapes, animals, and that kind of thing endeavoring to see only a little area at any one moment, and at the end of the picture you will experience a great sense of liberty in the eyes.

Looking at these quickly changing photos will help to speed up the shifting of the tense eye and the result is a release of tension.

The first few times you go to the movies without glasses will generally be rather trying. If you are myopic, sit close to the screen and follow the above instructions.

As TV comes more and more into general use, there are enlarging beefs of eye discomfort. Undoubtedly this is a consequence of staring and trying to see the entire picture without shifting the eye from point to indicate. If you may view TV as you do the movies, you may dump the difficulty. It is astounding how some easy rules will exterminate so much discomfort.

If it is practicable to do so, it helps to see the same picture several times. If you are myopic, move back row by row as your sight improves; if far-sighted, move slowly closer to the screen. You aren't making an effort to see everything that goes on. Keep relaxed.

Avoid 4 o'clock fatigue.

If you end up getting knackered at this hour, try relaxing for a jiffy. If you are in a public place where this would make you conspicuous, do psychological relaxation, picture your warm palms covering your closed lids.

These three eye exercises will help you have better vision.